Wouldn’t Kang Min Hyuk look adorable in a Superman costume? I only suggest this because from the look of things in Heirs, he might have just come to the rescue of a highly anticipated K-drama that has been releasing a succession of pretty on picture but dead with emotion stills. The first pictures are out of Kang Min Hyuk and Park Shin Hye having a lollipop date at the Universal City Walk and I’m totally smiling from the cuteness. For starters this is the first two of the main cast that can convincingly pass for high schoolers – they both have baby faces and age-wise Park Shin Hye is still in her early twenties. Their characters are junior high classmates that reconnect by chance when both visit LA for various reasons. Looks like Kang Min Hyuk’s character doesn’t let this opportunity pass him by and manages to hang out with his crush and tour the city at the same time. He’s a smart go-getter, that one. Whatever tangible expression of chemistry has been all the talk around here, I feel it between them in these stills. It’s a friendly chaste chemistry, but they are engaging each other and animated. While I get the critique from some drama viewers who find Park Shin Hye a tad cold when it comes to engaging her male leads for romantic scenes, I’ve always been ambivalent about it. I see it at times, but it’s not for the lack of acting ability rather it’s more like she has never fallen for a guy in real life so that unconscious need to angle towards him and draw closer isn’t deep in her bones that she can tap into anytime the camera rolls for a romantic scene.
As an actress, this tiny bit of lacking in her emotional arsenal worked perfectly for her in Flower Boy Next Door because her character could feel and love but couldn’t express it well due to past trauma. I almost want to introduce Park Shin Hye to her dream man and have her go have a heartbreaking love affair with him in real life and then see her come back and do a drama. I think acting is a skill at expression but the underlying emotions to be expressed stem from what the actor has experienced before. Need a sad scene, scrounge up a very sad memory. Need to laugh, remember something funny. The disconnect with many bad actors is they lack the skills at expressing feelings they do have. Park Shin Hye I feel has the skills but when it comes to passionate romance in particular (the heart thumping, I want to kiss you silly, let’s stay in bed for a week kind), I’ve not seen that fire from deep within her. She does well with angst forbidden love like in Tree of Life or with innocent school yard romances. But I’m still waiting for her to fursplode the screen with her passion. I love her and think having room for improvement is always a good thing. She’s come a long way since being a child star and I’m fairly confident she’ll get there one day. Whether it ends up being with Lee Min Ho in Heirs, I’ll have to wait and see. At least I know she’ll have a cute buddy in Kang Min Hyuk’s character to be friends with in the drama.
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Thank you for another update! Yesterday, there was a discussion going on about CJH not wearing any socks, as seen on the stills. Is it just me or is KMH not wearing any socks either, in the last picture?
they might be wearing these super low cut socks that when worn with sneakers, it seems like one is not wearing any socks at all.
these are similar in style/cut to those nylon foot stockings worn for high heel shoes except made with the usual material for running /sports socks.
[wearing one right now… hahahaha…]
Aww..they look cute..
I think why some stills work and some don't with respect to Heirs is maybe because the scenes require that kind of emotion with the respective actors.
Example..here they are enjoying hanging out and so cheerful vibes are coming out...same way...Lee min ho and Park shin hye stills were showcasing a different scenario.
*squeal* Minhyuk is the cutest
he's like a puppy,so adorable that you just want to cuddle him
I was all about the cute...until I was distracted by his pants, which appear short, and lack of socks...in sneakers...ewww
(perking up) Did someone say socks? I've got socks! I wouldn't mind sharing some that I have left over from giving to Choi Jin Hyuk. Minhyuk is completely adorable, and I would even buy cutsey socks for him to wear with that outfit (superman socks , anyone?).
ROFL, every time socks are mentioned I expect a funny comment from you. Last comment you made I was just laughing but refrained from commenting but I can't help it this time. Besides SK actors/actresses did you see the locals sans socks with shoes. Are you going back to SK for your graduate educ again?
Lollipop Couple <3 I love both
Kang Min hyuk's character seem to resemble his real personality. So cute!
Btw, is koalas-playground.com an affiliate website of koalasplayground.com? Do they have the same owner/blogger? I've been seeing it on search engines recently.
made me check it out. i think it's a copycat site. and since koala unnie doesn't really follow kpop so much (as some post were), i think it's mostly using the popularity of her blog to get site traffic. :( plus you'll notice most of its tabs are in french!
I thought so too, though I thought Ockoala made that site so her followers would still be able to read her posts even if Google blocks this site. It has the same caption too.
I've never heard about the site until now. It's not me but the site appears to be taking my posts in addition to the similar name. What a douchey thing to do.
And it's pretty updated, too. It takes everything from this site, even the images. What a thief. I probably should just bookmark this site so that con site won't get search hits.
Is it possible to block this site from infringing on yours Koala?
They even have hits stats running so they can monitor how many site hits they get. Not an issue if they are legitimately running/writing their own blog, but it's absurd when they are pirating it from other sites. It looks like they steal from other bloggers as well.
Minhyuk is not the cheerful and playful type in real life. He is the reserved one, strict one. He himself actually thinks that he has a boring personality.
IMO bcuz generally we like her we try hard to find excuses for her lack to express emotions.Some times we blame her lead man,some times we 'll blame her inexperience in some subjects(example fall in love). Maybe is that the reason but maybe plain and simple she is not able to do it.I am thinking all the other actors -especially kid actors-do they had a previous experience before playing a particular role?
Just my opinion though.
The socks thing I believe is a fashion statement in Korea cuz I see all of them with out socks.LOL.I remember JKH appearance in Cruel City 's pres conference with No socks .
"press conference"
That is one pretty pretty boy... whooooo!!
Her lack of ability to express those type of emotions are merely excuses.
Kim Yoo Jung and Kim So-hyun can perfectly portray those emotions and they've never been in a romantic relationship before and neither have fallen in love yet either. If you are a good actress like these 2 young ladies, you should be able to portray any type of emotions.
Hahahaha r u kidding me ??? Those child actresses prob watched stairway to heaven thousands of tyms to learn frm park shinhye . AND park shin hye z charac in stairway to heaven was sooo loved so much thts y child actresses r in trend .