Yoona Confirmed to Romance Lee Bum Soo in Prime Minister and I

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• omg NO!! this is gonna be gross ... PLZ no kiss scene .

• Aiyooo. sheesh. I dont like her either. Cant we get junhyung to play the housekeeper? PEOPLE, i am kidding :).

  • Ahahaha! Made me spit out my coffee.

    • Well, he said he would come back to acting if it will be a challenging role!! He he

• There's nothing gross about it per se but Yoona has such a little kid vibe... I'm still going to check it out for Lee Bum Soo.

  • totally agree with rina. though i've seen half of Time Slip Dr. Jin, I still associate LBS with On Air, with Park Yong Ha.

    i would like to think of this more as a modernized Sound of Music — a nanny who fell in love with the man of the house.

    btw, i would go with ms koala's optimism that this series may be the vehicle to "transform Yoona into a decent actress." Nice thought…

• I have no problems with the set-up...if we can have noona romances, why not younger woman-a bit older man ones....but only if the actors are good....like Sooyoung and Lee Jong Hyuk, who had amazing chemistry in Dating Agency Cyrano....

  hopefully Yoon-ah has improved in terms of acting....

  • Great point - older man/younger woman relationships are fairly common in real life compared to older woman/younger man relationships. I don't see why people should be disgusted.

    • exactly!

      even im not a fan of Yoona but i really do hope she could learn acting from her sunbae.. but this is SM's drama.. well.. goodluck!

  • Which is exactly why they should have cast Sooyoung. She fits the bill perfectly, SNSD, SM Idol, etc.

    I'm so peeved right now.

    • Oh Right... they even have Jung So-min. WTH SM?

  • Me too, the older man younger woman is a lot more common that noona-dongsaeng romances and I am definitely okay with lee Bum soo as the older guy in the equation, just not yoona as the other side of coin. It's painful to watch her go to acting beyond her range.

    I was actually a fan of her with You are my destiny, her as sebak was acceptable and was like an endearing friend I wanted to cheer on sort of way. And back then I was had just started my korean drama fetish so only have a few dramas under my belt thus I was not yet introduced to actors who can breathe life and soul to a character. But now i want more than eye candy, I need more in my dramas than just a plucky likeable character. She definitely is not one of actress I think that you want to pair of the charismatic Lee Bum Soo. Lee Bum Soo will eat her alive.
    Am okay with her in high school teen drama, I think she can pull that off. I just don't think this one can be that acting drama she can pull off.

    I get she is like the FACE of SNSD, but do we have to be subjected to limited range of emotion with her acting. Among the SNSD members, I can definitely say that SooYoung has the best acting props and I think she can still improve based from the progress she has made from drama to another. She was good in Third Hospital and was better in Cyrano dating agency. After her dramas, I wished sooyoung to focus on acting rather than be a sidelined member of SNSD. That's how much I saw much progress in her. Though I still don't know if she can act with Lee Bum SOo though.... ?__?
    But even then, if SMEnt needed to shove all their talents down our throat with another SNSD member, why not have SooYoung?

    Aisshh, I really don't get this?
    They had acquired the SM C&C and have real actor under their belt, why not have those take these role. I mean they have JUNG SO MIN who is by far and high waters can act around YOONA.

    But as koala mentioned, maybe BumSoo can pull an actress out of Yoona. I hope and wish that would be, for BumSoo's sake.

• Sigh
  I wish SM had kept their grubby hands in K-pop idol land.
  I can probably think of at least half a dozen actresses I would prefer in this role.
  I hate that SM has the clout to strong arm their idols into major roles opposite actors that I really enjoy. It's like being forced to eat twinkies with top grade sushi.

  • LOL, so true! Totally agree. I can now only write this off as a lost cause, watch something else, and hole that in turns of ratings Empress Ki becomes a National Drama.

• Empress ki and ha ji won in that fighter dress ...bursting charisma ...whereas yoona . :( yoona does best wat she shd do .being an idol .she is good visual great at dancing .good in variety . As an actress may b she doesnt hav tht actress face . I cant realy expres .she has a doll like face but lacks tht look of an actress that sucks u in her charactr ....in short she is idol material not actress one

• I don't mind the age gap, but I think the pairing is a bit off.

• I'm more disappointed by Lee Bum Soo whose recent picks have been far from decent whether its Dr Jin or Iris 2.... and now this show which doesn't sound that promising even by itself (even if we took Yoona out of the picture)...he could and should be doing far more interesting stuff....and ofc sm would cast Yoona...if it wasn't her it would be another one of their starlets with little to no talent like Lee Yeon Hee or Go Ara

• SM C&C just acquired some nice young talent, couldn't they have used one of their actual skilled actresses? Oh wait this is SM and these dramas aren't meant to show talent but serve as promotional vehicles for their non existent SM trained talent (Sooyoung might be an exception). That said this set up on paper doesn't bother me since it happens all of the time in real life and definitely in recent years in Korean ent marriages. Its just that Lee Bum Soo and Yoona are so poorly matched in terms of acting ability that I just don't see this working. If they casted a young actress that could measure up to Lee Bum Soo is acting ability and charisma this would actually work since the main female lead would be able to go toe to toe with the male lead but its going to be a definite stretch to believe that lee bum soo falls for wet blanket yoona in a romantic sense.

• The age gap doesn't bother me (I'd be quite ok with this if the girl they cast was Sooyoung), but the difference in skill level.....that does. And I say this as someone who thought Yoona was pretty good in Love Rain.

  (never understood the fuss around her as a SNSD member, though - unless idol appeal is based solely on variety show performance or something. The girl can't sing, looks like an electrocuted praying mantis when she's doing a dance move requiring any fluidity, and isn't the all-natural beauty her fans paint her as).

  • You can say what ever you wan about Yoona but she is a great dance, sharpest and most fluid in her group tbh. I don`t know what video of Yoona did you saw or you maybe confused her with Tiffany or Jessica but, she has great dancing skills.