Jung Yong Hwa Confirmed to Rival Lee Min Ho for Park Shin Hye in Heirs

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• I seriously have a feeling that Park Shin Hye is dating Jung Yong Hwa. I used to ship her with Jang Keun Suj but there are too much tell-tell signs that they are indeed dating. Two young lovers always love the idea of being glued together.

  And PSH is one lucky girl who always been sandwiched by pretty boys and goodness, they boys sure love her company. I believe she sure has ways with boys. . I am looking for her

  • don't think they are dating or anything ,how yongwha talked about her(see her as friend from same gender) and about the rumors show there are no chance to be more than friends.. work with eachother 3 times don't mean anything work is work , she work with jgs for years ,and about lee min ho she is so luck to be with him .

    • oh please, he is lucky to act with her as well. It's an upgrade from his previous partners LOL
      JGS is def a downgrade for her now though

• I love this cast.... :)

  Can't wait for the drama....

• i read somewhere that this drama will have individual love lines for all pairs(possibly 4). So Yong-hwa will not be vying with Lee
  Min Ho for PSH's heart.

• If they cast Park Min-young now, there will be Wars between the shippers from their previous dramas :-):-)

  • Probably not gonna happen Park Min Young has moved onto leading roles unless this script attracts her enough.

• Park shin hye tried out for the role of Jan Di too! But she lost out to Goo Hye Sun. Weird how this all works out

  • Yes, it's very hard to tell in the beginning (what to speak of before the beginning) with what cast a drama will look the best. Surprises happen every now and then. That's why I better not say anything at this point. But I'm tuning myself to a positive wave. I want to like this drama, and so, I wouldn't mind even a 108th pairing of Shin Hye and Yong Hwa, if that's what they themselves want.

  • She would have made a better Jan Di, without the over-acting.

    • Other actresses would have made better Jan Di than Goo Hye Sun (I hope I spelled correctly). Man, GHS's so stiffed. I used to think Yoon Eun Hye is the perfect Jan Di. I enjoyed BOF for Kim So Eun and Kim Bum interactions.

• This is gonna be hard for me. The high-school setting anyways. I love the cast and even more love the idea of 4 different love stories going on.
  I just cannot buy any of these actors as high school anymore. They've all moved on and it's just too hard to see them at that age. I'm bummed. A college campus would have been much more enjoyable...at least for me.

  • Yep. And if they include a teacher-student romance, I'm totally out. That stuff is just so off-putting to me... probably because I know so many teenage boys and the thought of a grown woman being interested in them is legit mind boggling.

    • It will be especially creepy if the person with a crush on a teacher is Jonghwa, because he just did that in Heartstrings. Granted, that was the best "acting" he did in that terrible show, but still...just more horribleness. And I agree with Rina - in real life, only a sociopath adult would be interested in a teenage boy.

• Koala, I share your concerns about this show. Based on what we know so far, my annoyances are:
  - LMH, I feel like I've been punked. We were supposed to believe him as an adult, in Personal Preference, City Hunter (where he was supposed to be old enough and smart enough to have an advanced degree from MIT) and most epically Faith, where he was supposed to be a thirty-ish battle-hardened general. I tried really hard, and for most shows (couldn't do it with Faith) I believed he was there, I was going along with his trajectory as an actor. But now he goes back to high school - whut? So we aren't an adult after all, we are running back to your comfort zone?
  - PSH. I am tired of her roles, I am tired of her because she just keeps playing the same sorts of young ladies with the same expressions over and over again. I can tell she works hard, she seems like a very nice person but she puts me to sleep because I can't see any fire in her. She has zero sexual chemistry and physical contact is always so stiff and awkward for her that it makes me uncomfortable to watch her. She seems stuck in some sort of 16-year-old limbo, and so the thought of her playing a high schooler yet again just gives me the creeps.
  - Jonghwa. Sigh. He can't act. Is he trying the same sort of role over and over until he gets it right? I am embarrassed to be a kdrama watcher, because obviously the producers think we are incredibly stupid, stupid enough to watch the same tripe THREE TIMES THROUGH just because he's from CNBlue squeeee and he is so 'cuuteeee.'
  - Ordinarily I could just laugh off this horrendous casting and take everyone's advice - 'If you don't like it, just go watch something else.' But City Hall is one of my all-time favorite dramas, and even though I had issues with SG and hated AGD I keep hoping she will knock another one out of the park. I can't ignore this approaching train wreck, even though I am embarrassed by the casting and the premise, because I keep hoping for more from this writer. Sigh.

  Sorry for the rant, so far this drama is nothing but disappointments for me.

  • Are you me? Except I'm not at all a fan of Lee Min Ho.

  • Pretty much agree with your (and Koala's) concerns.

    The going-back-to-play-high-schoolers-after-adult-roles doesn't bother me so much outright though – I do think that really good actors can pull this off, as long as they look youngish enough. Tsumabuki Satoshi (at age 30!) did manage that for me in Ai to Makoto, that said that was a film of extremes so it might have been easier to pull that off in such a work).

    Some people seem to have faith in the writer, but I haven't watched any drama by her so I can't even put my hopes there.

  • "– PSH. I am tired of her roles, I am tired of her because she just keeps playing the same sorts of young ladies with the same expressions over and over again. I can tell she works hard, she seems like a very nice person but she puts me to sleep because I can’t see any fire in her. She has zero sexual chemistry and physical contact is always so stiff and awkward for her that it makes me uncomfortable to watch her. She seems stuck in some sort of 16-year-old limbo, and so the thought of her playing a high schooler yet again just gives me the creeps."

    I thought I was the only one. She's pretty & she's hardworking enough that she might improve but so far she don't appeal to ME. I hope she'll change my mind with this drama.

  • I am really curious, who is actor/actress that you think CAN ACT and have good chemistry?

    • Wow, lots really, but I'll just confine myself to ones who might be believed as high schoolers. I thought the casting for White Christmas, SUFBB and School 2013 was well done. Woo Bin and Sung Joon are some of my favorites, I think they've got the chemistry thing nailed. Ladies are harder, but I like Kim So Hyun and Kim Yoo Jung.

  • Lee Min Ho's case is similiar with Shun Oguri (1982)
    SO in Hana Yori Dango; LMH in HYD
    SO in Hanakimi (as high school student); LMH in Heirs (probably, because we still don't have official synopsis)

    Another example, from korea we have:
    -Jung Il woo (1987) in Flower Boy Ramyun Shop (2011)
    -Seo In Gook (1987) & Shin So Yool (1987) in Reply 1997 (2012)
    -Cha Tae Hyun (1976) & Song Hye Kyo (1982) in K-movie My Girl & I (2005)
    From Japan, we have:
    -Yamapi (1985), he acted as swindlers in Kurosagi (2006), then he back again to high school drama in Proposal daisakusen (2007)
    -Tomoya Nagase (1978), he acted as collector debt in Tiger & Dragon (2005), then he acted as student in high school at My Boss My Hero (2006)
    etc....

    Actors/actress work under the director who advises them on how to portray the characters. To bring the character to life, they change their voices, dialects, facial expressions and other traits. So, i don't have any problem with LMH or PSH act as student again.. that is the challenge as actor, to be a student when you're not

    • the jdramas you mentioned don't really count tho. In PD, Yamapi was playing a character that goes back and forth in time (so he was also playing an adult character), while Nagase was playing an older student.

  • I mean Park Shin Hye is so stupid, you go from rejecting a role in `Sword and Flower` a drama that has a female character in the center of the story, that is challenging and grown up , so you would play a high school girl in badly written drama and totally regress your career? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

    And now i hear Yoona is gonna get the lead in `Sword and Flower`! I mean i cant stop laughing , this is ridiculous! Park Shin Hye missed on the amazing role so other less talented actress would get it for what? So she would get to make out with Yonghwa again?

    I seriously hope Yoona will pull a miracle and have an amazing performance in SAF , and steal the `it young actress` thunder from Park Shin Hye , so she would realize what dumb decision she made!

    • Lol okay. Why don't you just not watch this drama if you really don't like it. Oh and yoona is a shitty actor. Period.

    • I think park shin hye made the right choice. The sword and the flower was a bomb and I loved the heirs. She is a good actress and can change from a laughing face to a crying face in an instant. How many actresses can achieve that. Stop picking on her. She is a very very excellent actress.

  • aside you comments.. just don't watch the drama.. period..

• In the U.S older actress and actor are able to play high school student for the hit show Glee . than why not these korean actor and actress be able to play high school student ?????? come on people, Excellent actors are able to make you see beyond pass that.

  • According to my teenage daughter, teenagers think it is a big fat joke that adults are acting as Glee teenagers, that adult audiences like and believe in these adults acting as teenagers, and that the adults-acting-as-teenagers think they are cool and are acting out 'real' teenagers. According to my teenage kids, very few shows get it right; the stories don't ring true, and the actors are too poised and self-assured and, well, adult.

    • All I hear is " my teenager daughter".
      If the acting is believable, than that's why their actors. Actors are to convince people and to be able to make audience see it.

  • The difference is these actors (especially Lee Min Ho) have been playing nothing but late 20s / mid 30s lead characters for the past couple years. His last high school role was BOF so its a bit ridiculous and a step back for his career to go back to a high school role. PSH has been playing high schoolers for YEARS and finally stepped out of that with FBND. Yonghwa simply can't act, but he has only played high schoolers since he started acting so its a bit redundant.

    • But their actors. Actors are to adapt to any role if they can pull off the part.

    • PSH has been playing highschooler for year???? What? I am a big fan of her and what have I missed? LOL. The last time she wore uniform was in 2007 ( goong S) I believe, and a bit of the flashback in FBND. Please don't stretch the fact. YB doesn't relate school and HS was in college. She hasn't wore uniform for ages

• The pairing better be PSH n Jung yong hwa...dont like LMH, never liked him and never gonna like him :/ (yeah i hate him! :P) Actually none of the 3 r my fav ...bt as a pair PSH n JYH look cute together!

• I'm kinda worried about LMH and PSH's chemistry. I just don't feel it. But I'll reserve my judgment until this drama comes out.