Sneak Peek at Kang Ji Hwan in Early Production of The Great Doctor

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• first :) love him

• Thanks for the update Captain Koala, been lurking here silently....thirsty for more of our OTP's updates........kekeke :P

  He really looks Great/Hot in sageuk!!!!!

• why is there a hospital scene? is this kinda reincarnation or like Return of Iljimae with present time scenes at the start they go to old sageuk time?

  Anyway, i love the powers!!!! Hope the producers will realize how popular KJH right now and will let him continue the kdrama. Also, i want a different leading lady too. But why look far? Can't it be YEH again? why not, right? (^-^)

• nooo.... if he ever does sageuk... i'll only be watching it when i turn 80.... thats too long a wait.... (sorry. its one genre of kdrama that i really can't find myself willing to sit through) .... ...

  (weird but the screen caps... no sizzle....no feel....)

• hello! this is my Nth time visiting our "playground" hihi (just like mi-dramacrazy) LURKING silently hehe

  Thanks! Thanks! Ms KOALA!

  Actually, i'm not yet DONE reading the latest news of our COUPLE of the DECADE :) hehehe

• hahahaha... so cute.... but i love him in lie to me..... super handsome..... BE MINE KANG JI HWAN......hehehehhe

• I was happy when Lee Junki was cast, but I'm going to lie I was positively ecstatic when KJH took his place. I remember seeing stills with KJH and Philip Lee and man, the hotness was insane!

  Word, KJH looks wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better in Faith than he ever did in HGD.

  Btw, am I the only one who thinks PL is way hotter in sageuk garb? I think Legend ruined me because when I see him in modern clothes and although I can rationally tell he's hot, I just don't go OHMYGUH*FANS SELF* which I do when he's wearing sageuk garb. Omg the armor thingy? laskjdlsdhfgksdhfg

  Nah, please don't pull a Poseidon. I'd rather see KJH and PL in this. I agree about the leading lady, though (a change would be most welcome) but I wouldn't choose Han Ga-in. She's not a strong actress, imho and I'm afraid a sageuk will crush her.

  • i totally agree with you. Philip is way way hotter in sageuk drama. I hope i will get to see him again in action. Faith please happen already!!!

  • PL - snippet of that in Secret Garden no? I liked what I saw. hehe. :) :) (still wont watch sageduk.... mm. but throw PL in ... might consider. He can be dark prince.)

  • Ga In sucked donkey in Super Rookie (was cute tho) and Witch Amusement. But she completely changed my opinion of her acting ability in Bad Guy. She out-prettied BOTH Kim Nam Gil and Kim Jae Wook (that is almost impossible to do), and IMO delivered a more nuanced performance than either of them.

    Her hubby Yeon Jung Hoon couldn't act his way out of a paper bag in East of Eden (still better than my Heon oppa tho), but what I heard was that he really stepped up in Jejoonwon. I think marriage did them both good, and Ga In may be due for a sageuk.

    Look, as much as I hated Dong Yi and think Han Hyo Joo is just a very green actress still, she nevertheless keeps pushing herself. Ergo, Ga In needs to do a sageuk.

    Anyhoo, I prefer Ji Hwan in Faith over Jun Ki as well (age thing, plus Jun Ki seems to think he can over-act like a mountain goat is chasing him when he's in a sageuk).

    As for P.Lee - yeah, sageuk does him good. Actually, sageuk does everyone good. 49 Days would have sunk if 5 out of its 6 main cast wasn't all sageuk veterans.

    I think Ji Hwan's next drama needs to be a sageuk. He hasn't challenged himself in Yeouido since HGD. Rough Cut was a great Chungmuro project, but going face-to-face with Ji Sub it can't be helped, Ji Sub got the meatier role and delivered the hardhitting performance.

    • I agree. Man, Ji Sub was so perfect. KJH, as much as I adore him and his performance in Rough Cut, I couldn't help being bothered with how squeaky/annoying his voice was at times when right up against So Ji Sub. I know he can pull of more gravity in his voice -- just listen to him go Ah Jung-ah all day and ask who would want to break up with Oppa? But yeah... it was something I noticed.

      I'm excited for his August project though! Have they chosen all the leads/leading lady for that?

    • Oh I agree. Han Ga-in was in awesome shape in Bad Guy, pity the drama was what it was. Your theory about sageuks is interesting. Still, if I were a director, I'd probably think twice before casting her in one, but hey, maybe Bad guy wasn't a fluke. *crosses fingers*

      OMG she was SO wooden in Super Rookie! Even Oh Ji-ho wasn't exactly a wonderful actor back then, delivered a performance that, compared to Han Ga-in's, could have won him an Oscar.

      I skipped East of Eden and I trust your judgment on Yeon Jung-hoon in it, but in Jejoongwon he was awesome! I also quite liked him Daddy Long legs, but maybe I wasn't too subjective while watching that movie: the tears may have clouded my vision and my judgment.

      Well, great! Now I'll be thinking of KJH in a sageuk until he gets cast in one. Why do you have these ideas? I have things to do, you know? :p I can't waste half of my day daydreaming of KJH!

    • If you ever want to have a good laugh, watch EoE for all 50 episodes. I swear you will be in stitches. It was a competition to see who could act the WORST.

      Song Seung Heon + Lee Yeon Hee + Dennis Oh + Yeon Jung Hoon. The one person who could act, Lee Da Hae, ending up walking a dog for 3 minutes an episodes by the 30s. She finally said "fuck this" and left.

      Only Han Ji Hye came out smelling likes roses, and she was actually the third female lead who ended up with the absolute most screen time.

      EoE = gave me 6 months of live watching headdesking experience. I still remember belleza and her long discussions about it.

    • I skipped EoE thanks to Belleza. It was on my to-watch list, mostly for SSH, but after reading her reactions, I didn't think I could stomach it.

      OMG, do you remember Lee Da-hae's antis? Poor woman! She got so much grief for leaving EoE!

      Re: the story about the dog. You're kidding me now. Aren't you?

    • I can write 50 pages on the shit going on in EoE, onscreen and BTS. Yes, LDH was walking a dog for about 3 episodes straight, 3 minutes, maybe 5 tops, per episode. She was the female lead!!!

      I would have left and given the entire production the middle finger on my way out if I were her. There is changes for the sake of narrative, but the narrative was supposed to be her and SSH and needed to be to actually make sense for me. This mess I completely blame on SSH. Even though I still love him, he was an ass on the set. *is still bitter*

      By the end, LDH looked like a zoned out zombie for her scenes because she literally had no clue why she was still on the show if she had nothing to do.

      Yes, LDH could have done what Uhm-Force did on QSD and sucked it up when Bidam took over in the second half. But he was still a major character and got battle and political screentime even if Deokman went with Bidam. But in EoE, LDH had no storyline left. Her anti's are so fierce, I really feel so bad for her.

    • What exactly did SSH do on the set? I think I blocked it all out! I only remember DB taken over by LDH's antis and that was so sad to see. I'll never understand antis tbh.

      UTW is sooo wonderful! Such a charming dork, not to mention a good actor. I watched Doctor Champ only for him and...well, it's not like Doctor Champ was that great imho.

• Couldn't picture him as anybody else beside HyunKiJoon!

  • @ amber... yap I think LTM ruined how I look at KJH now. I only see him as hyun ki joon too

    • ditto

  • :)

  • i feel the same way =)

• YEH is in China right now. Is KJH still in Korea?

  • @ teddy what is she doing there?

    • Filming a cell phone CF

    • She's back to long-red-locks:
      http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lnpktg2ju21qdncvh.jpg

    • She tweeted pictures today... and if I can properly translate her last long tweet, either SHE or the people she's working with are "having fond memories of Korea" while in China.

      lolz. someone needs to translate it properly. i hope she means she's still dreaming of KJH

• He looks damn good here and I should say he looks way thinner and younger than he did in early stages of LTM. I guess it should have been a real hard time for him when he was banned. But thankfully he kept younger and younger during the production of LTM and actually looked twentysomething in the last episode. Look what bliss of love can do to you!

  • @onetruepepper....TRUE! TRUE! TRUE! Age doesn't MATTER!! Go go go our dear Ji-hwan!!!