K-Drama Spring 2014 Leading Lady Casting: Go Ara, Kang Sora, Jin Se Yeon, and Lee Da Hae

View Comments

• It's only my fav Yoon Eun Hye who is missing in action in the Spring's leading ladies. None of these leading ladies are exciting to me.

  • yeh also not exciting to me.

    • Meeh too, I wanna know what is her next comming project.

• I think I might be one of the few ppl (if any!) who thought Ara wasn't that "great" in Answer Me 1994.

  Excited to hear about Lee Dong Wook and Lee Da Hae reuniting! Wonder if they still have the same chemistry from My Girl days.

  • I mean, not to say she hasn't improved, b/c she definitely did... it's just yeah lol. & I have nothing against her - she's gorgeous.

    • Lee Da Hae ... Is she the one with the orange blouse? ( picture next to him)

    • @?????????? Nope, that Gong Hyun Joo. Lee Da Hae is the one wearing floral pants in the photo above.

  • but I didn't identify leed da hae for a moment there. did she get a new face????

  • I'm with you there, Go Ara definitely improved HUGELY in AM1994 and was quite good, but she definitely came off a little 'look at the pretty girl acting ugly, I'm going to SHOW YOU how ugly I can look!' in her role, especially early on.

    Stacking both Answer Me shows against each other, I'd say Eunji was the more natural heroine and better actress, she needs to be getting more offers for leads too.

    • You took the words right out of my mouth, pog.

      I also agree with you on Eunji - she was delightfully charming in her role. :)

• Loved loved Go Ara in AM1994. She displayed a full range of emotions that was required of her character and more. How she wore her heart on her sleeve, not just character-wise, but acting wise, just made her that much more endearing to me after AM1994 wrapped up. Everytime she was glee with emotions, I felt a young woman falling in love for the first time. She got better and better with each episode. You can tell she's finally caught a break with her performance in AM1994 with all the love she received, along with the rest of the cast. She still cries everytime she thinks of AM1994 and she certainly (along with Do hee) cried once filming wrapped since they've all become family. I'm so happy for her, she really came into this role with tenacity and determination to rid of her "pretty face only" image. This is why, no matter who she chose in the end, she was pitch perfect as na jung.

  • I agreed. I watched Answer 1994 with zero expectation and hear many good things about the male lead, samchenpo and yoo jin but my fav will be Go Ara's character and her fabolous and excellent acting.

    • agreeee! :D

  • Oh god Ara was so great. She wasn't acting as Najung, she WAS Najung. To me, it's an amazing transformation in terms of acting skills on her part because it's not like she was pretty good before AM1994, she was pretty bad at acting. But now, wow. I look forward to seeing more of her in dramas.

• I'm really excited for Lee Jeong Suk/Park Hae Jin collab, because that drama is going to be chock-full of delicious eye candy. Also, I'm excited for Hotel King because of the My Girl reunion. Who does not love that drama??~ *reminisce

  But Go Ara? I'm still not a huge fan of her yet, but I hope she does well!

• GO ARA and SEUNG GI yes yes yes yess and yes. so much gooder and better and some more than park min young !!!

  she was pure goodness in 1994 and should be one of the top actresses . go ara is perfect to play the lead with two top star's and this is a huge break for a cable actress. seung gi and go ara both easy going and passioante and they will have the best chemistry . hope they will act their heart out. since it's seung gi's last drama and cha seung won's comeback drama.

  oh lol seung gi and the 3 sm beauties must be fate. yoona and go ara said to be close friends .

• I read somewhere that LSG and CSW are still considering the role...have they confirmed?

  • No they haven't. They're still in final negotiations along with Go Ara but judging by the media reports, confirmation (or rejection) should be around the corner.

• Kang Sora!!! I'm Sunny die hard fan.And liked her in Ugly Alert too.

  • High 5!!! I love Kang Sora too!!!
    Now waiting for Doctor Stranger ^^

• It's not only you my dear I also found her to be men in answer me 1994. But I am excited for Lee Da Hee' casting.

• Ok the thing with Go Ara is that shes still bland, YES Reply 1994 was awesome and Go Ara was good but was she AMAZING? Personally no. The type of character she played I think was quite easy and many other could have done it. I've read a lot of people saying she showed a lot of emotions... but I did see it, what I saw was her co-actors showing off emotions that hit the spot and Go Ara riding off it. Don't get me wrong, I think she decent and with the lack of strong leading ladies, Go Ara will definitely will the fame gained from R1994 to the fullest.

  Not too Keen on Kang Sora and Lee Da Hae has lost her touch for me.

  • I agree. Actually, there are two crying scenes of GAR in Reply 1994 where her acting truly shines, while for the rest of the drama, she is overshadowed by other character. I do blame it partially on the writer, though, as she seemed to focus more on the male leads (emotion wise)of the love triangle and give them more ground to cover. GAR's character was supposed to be the female lead, but I felt as if she was simply reduced to "the bride" , and I believe some of her emotions were forced to stay ambiguous for the sake of the husband game (referring to Najung's stares)

    But I have to give GAR credits for shedding off her usual pretty image to join R'94. "Amazing" or not, she did appear to be fresh and unique on screen as Najung and manages to gather the most positive review amount since her acting debut. However, not all scripts are going to be written well like R'94, and not all characters are going to be "different" like Najung. So it is up to GAR now to show whether she is capable of breathing life into any K-drama character and maintains if not expands the public interest.

    • Hum, wait what? Her stares told us everything we should know. [spoilers ahead!!] It was clear she was in love with Trash from episode 2 until the very end. It was all in her eyes, it showed love when she was with T, and when she was with chilbong she showed ''whatever'' expression. There is nothing ambiguous here lol were you a chilbong shipper ?

      Plus not everyone can play the character Go ara played without not being annoying or appearing forced.

    • Personally, her stares didn't cut it for me... At times, I couldn't really, I guess, connect, to the emotion she was trying to portray. I honestly felt that sometimes, her eyes were too distracting (she can't help it though that her eyes are so gorgeous. *O*) But, I felt that when she was happy, it came across when she was happy.

• I don't really understand why so many people are raving about Go Ara after AM 1994. She certainly wasn't bad and yes, in some scenes she was spot on. I applaud her for dropping her 'pretty girl' image and fully immersing herself in her character. But acting alongside Jung Woo, Yoo Yeon Seok and Sung Dong Il she was as bland as bland gets.

  • I agree so much with this. It would be obtuse of me to deny that she put her everything into that role, and that for moments, it showed. But most of the time she was painfully one note, and her acting fell under the "Spunky cute heroine" category. She wasn't awful, just passable.

    Some of this has to do with the ridiculous focus on the "Husband Game" though, that prevented her from knowing the real motivations and feelings behind her character. So, for a limited actress like her, being in the dark criminally killed her chance to shine.

  • I think she did well within the confines of her character - all the actors you listed had more to work with than her writing-wise. For me, Najung unfortunately had no real development or even any other storyline outside of the dreaded love triangle. Jung Woo in particular has a ton of natural talent, so the fact that she held her own against him (imo) is definitely praiseworthy. I definitely don't think she gave a bland performance. Besides, I don't really see any raving about her performance aside from the fact that many have noted her improvement. Compared to Jung Woo and YYS she hasn't been praised that much.