I’ll confess Han Ji Min‘s name was not high on my personal list for Hyun Bin‘s leading lady in the upcoming high profile SBS drama Hyde, Jekyll, and I, but at the end of the day if she’s cast then I’m cool with it. The morning in Korea is starting off with hot headline news on A-list actress Han Ji Min in talks to reunite with Hyun Bin for the upcoming split personality rom-com. I swear that just sounds all sorts of wrong to have split personality anywhere near rom or com but if Noh Hee Kyung can elicit laughter and wring tears out of me in the mental health drama It’s Okay, It’s Love then I supposed K-dramas are starting to pair up disparate elements and potentially making it work.
Han Ji Min and Hyun Bin worked together on his last movie the sageuk thriller The Fatal Encounter (The King’s Wrath), but they played political adversaries rather than romantic interests. He was the King and she was his power hungry scheming step-momma Dowager Queen. I’ve enjoyed certain Han Ji Min dramas in the past such as Resurrection and Rooftop Prince, while others fell flat for me like Capital Scandal, Cain and Abel, and Padam Padam. She does have an enviable laundry list of leading men and if she confirms this drama then her streak will continue because Binnie is as hot as commodity as it gets in the K-acting world.
Despite being okay with it if she confirms, since I don’t hate her and sometimes she can be quite charming, I’m not sure her and Binnie are a particularly great fit as bickering romantic leads. I’m probably in the minority (though the majority among my K-drama friends) in finding the normally chemistry-laden Ha Ji Won mostly not in sync with Binnie in Secret Garden and whatever chemistry they had didn’t work for me.
Han Ji Min is giving me premonitions of Ha Ji Won’s pairing with Binnie and maybe it’s their similar petite and strong-willed personas that lends to the feeling of deja vu. That, and also Binnie playing a man suffering from mental illness which is what his character Kim Joo Won in SG dealt with after a fateful elevator accident. Hopefully the casting will be confirmed soon so I can start tentatively warming myself up to their coupling.
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Well, at least they're going to bring the pretty. But yes, I would have loved Moon Chae Won for this.
What?! They are both such gorgeous people. I think i'm going to love this pairing.
They look so awkward in the third photo haha! Hope this drama works out :) Love Han Ji Min in Rooftop Prince!
That particular scene requires them to be awkward... No wonder korean netizens wants to be paired again to a drama.
I like han ji min so I'm ok with this, hopefully they have surprisingly great chemistry (I never thought ha jiwon and hyun bin will have chemistry but they are so so so cute in secret garden that I shipped them for so long )
Well, they certainly look good together. I would still prefer Son Ye Jin or Moon Chae Won, but that's just personal preference :').
I didn't like the Ha Ji Won/Hyun Bin pairing either - I think they did have chemistry, I just hated the way the romance was written in that drama.
I have always liked Han Ji Min since her supporting role in Jewels of the Palace. Love her in Rooftop Prince and Resurrection. Whilst the theme of split personality does not interest me, I will still give this a try if it is Hyun Bin and Ji Min.
Yay! Please let her confirm this role :)
I am okay with Son Ye Jin or Han Ji Min taking this role. But I would prefer HJM just because I felt I was robbed of them being a couple in The King's Wrath, and this more than totally makes up for it.
HJM? I was really expecting SYJ to be courted since she refused Face Reader's drama adaptation. Maybe she'll be in KES's new one then.
I hope Hyun Bin has chemistry with HJM if she's finalized. It doesn't have to be the epicness that is HJW-HB or SHK-HB, but I hope its good enough because I somehow just don't picture them together (?) Its weird.
I really like Han Ji Min!!! I thinks she's good at rom-coms. And she's so beautiful, well I think she's really beautiful. She kinda looks like Rachel McAdams, doesn't she? And I personally don't like Moon Chae Won. Good actress, pretty girl, but somehow her enchants doesn't reach me.
Anyway the project sounds interesting and I desperetaly want Hyun Bin in a rom-com.
Ms. Ockoala i am with you with every words. I don't feel the chemistry between hyun bin and ha ji won though I don't hate them nor the drama. I've enjoyed it but never tempted to watch it again.
Ha ji min is also not my fav one, though I don't mind with the pairing. She still needs to work on her acting skills to be more natural then to look overly exaggerated in pouring her emotions (but then is not only her with that problems but still we love korean dramas hahaha).
But I will wait for the recap, it is too early to decide whether the plot, the casts, the writer (s) or the director determine whether this drama is good or not. Hoping for a surprise twist.