Sungkyunkwan Scandal Screenwriter’s New Drama Dr. Frankenstein Confirmed for June Airdate on KBS

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• So glad Kim Soo hyun is not in the running for this. I mean, there's PLENTY of potential in split-personality dramas, but with two of them airing at the same time, it's more than enough for 2015. (For me at least)

  • I agree!! I hope Mr. KSH will grab the descendants of the Sun..

• Good lord. We really need more variety in kdramaland...

  Lol, I bet KSH is offered every role going. I sort of think he might do Descendants of the Sun instead. Kim Eun Sook likes her male leads with star power. Although maybe he's too young for the part, idk.

  • Yeah, I think producers make an exception for him and let him play much older than his actual age even if he doesn't look the part. That's why I don't think that the role being offered to Kim Soo Hyun means that the actor eventually cast will be one of the '87 crowd. Even an '82er is pushing it.

  • Song Joong Ki has more than enough star power to lead KES's drama. And hr will be out this May, Sep drama is a perfect schedule for him if he wants to work right away.

  • Star power and dimples. Mustn't forget the dimples. She must have a fetish for dimples, almost all of her leading men have them.

• I personally think the drama team will be more sensible and up the age groups of the actors involved. I hate seeing actors this young being cast for roles that require years and years of training (CT surgeon) or experience on the job (the female lead is a police captain).

  • Exactly my thoughts. That trend of casting 20-year olds to play doctors and other highly qualified professionals is absolutely ridiculous. Take Sung Joon for example. The kid is in his early twenties and barely even looks his age but he is playing a doctor for a second time in less than a year. Does anyone honesly think it looks believable? Because I certainly don't.

    • For real. Let the guy play his age for pete's sake, he's not fooling anybody!

    • IKR!!! Totally ridiculous!!!.. I'm 24 and still in med skl, by the time i graduate, do my internship and then complete my residency, that would put me in my early 30's and I'm supposed to believe this 24yr old dude who like you said barely even looks his age, is supposedly a "doctor". And IU as a cop is just ludicrous.

• This is silly...

• WTF, Korea, WTF??? Should I join in on the mentally ill "trend" and rip apart my shirt while howling at the sky?

  I don't understand why Korean pop culture insist on derivative herd mentality. As soon as any trend hits, it's copied/recycled/appropriated to death. What's next? A vampire genius doctor with schizophrenia, who time-travels to the ice age and falls in love with a club-holding fur-wearing cave woman? Kdramas will take something and beat you in the face until you're bloodied and missing teeth.

  Also, this mentally ill thing. No. Just no.

  I know pop culture in general likes to romanticize illness (you know, in that A Walk to Remember/TFIOS sort of way ...so *tragic*), and Kdramas has a track record of pinning romances against the grand angst of Sudden Cancer in the Last Episodes.

  And now this mentally ill thing in kdramas. WTF. East Asian societies are SO intolerant of mental illnesses in reality, even 'common' ones like depression/ocd/bipolarity. Korea has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. But then writers and producers turn around and appropriate mental illness as a kdrama novelty plot device. "Omomo get it? He's INTERESTING! He has 7 different people inside him! Love is pain, ladies! Accept your man for who he is, beast and angel! Heal him!" These dramas fundamentally misrepresent mental illnesses, and is seriously disrespectful. (lol, in kdrama-land these days, being a sociopath = parlor trick)

  Mental illness is not a joke. People who suffer from these disorders live in a prison constructed by their own neurochemistry. People who care for those with mental disorders often go through an ordeal akin to hell on earth. I know first hand there's no romance in loving someone with a mental illness; it isn't beautiful or tragic or healing.

  I know Korean dramas are all about separation from reality, but this is going too far.

  • I love your rant Lulu. Absolutely spot on. I also think that the mental illness plot device is being recycled until it a new trend emerges. That's why I've the metal illness drams are on hold but Binnie's dimples are hard to resist.

  • LOL @ your comment!
    Maybe after MBC and SBS, KBS decided they need to have their own DID drama. After all it seems like the only mental illness which can fit into the RomCom genre.
    Do all these writers go to a retreat and decide on the flavor of the year or something?

    • IKR!!! Totally ridiculous!!!..I'm 24 and still in med skl,by the time I graduate, do my internship and then complete my residency,that would put me in my early 30's and I'm supposed to believe this 24yr old dude who like u said barely even looks his age is supposedly a "doctor". And IU as a cop is just ludicrous.

    • Oops sawry, that was meant for sour grapes.

  • But there are kdramas that actually portray the reality of mental illnesses though, like It's Okay That's Love. That's the only kdrama that doesn't romanticize it because the writer intended for the audience to be well informed about it.

• hopefully they will not cast actors in their twenties. And IU as Police Officer?If she's indeed being courted..She might look like a highschool girl wearing a police uniform for a costume party..

  • Agree. They should cast someone either tall or voluptuous. I think Kang So Ra would be a better choice.

    • Omg that would be great!

    • Omg! I could totally see her in a police officer role but not the police captain role, they'd need to cast someone older for that.

• As someone who grew up in a household of a college psychology professor, I can't recall how many British/American/Japanese Psychiatric films I had watched with my dad. Unless it's as refreshingly hilarious as Kill Me Heal Me, all the aired Korean psychiatric dramas sort of feel like copycats of those classics. I'm kinda tired of this frenzy K drama trend. Can't K drama producers come up with more mentally normal projects to work on? All this on screen insanity has been enough for me.

• Lel, KBS is still forging ahead with another mental illness drama? Aren't they concern about viewer fatigue.

  I also like to add Jang Guen Suk in the running. The boy seriously needs a good role to remind people that he's actually a good actor. As for considering wispy IU as a cop? Er, have they gone cuckoo?

• Ms Koala, if you see this please could you tell me who the rumored leads for Descendants of the Sun are??? I have been soooo curious ever since the drama was announced but there's been absolutely no news about the cast. I would love to know the rumored leads. Thank you

  • I would also like to know? How about u make a new article blog for that one @Koala??

  • i read some people write that they heard rumour in DC that the actor is A list actor, his last project is big success n he make comeback with musical, n they guess it's Joo jin mo
    when i first read news about descendant of the sun,i read that they choose actor on 30's, i guess it's right, i pray it's true i will really like it

• Hmm ... should I see it as a sign of people's desire to really know who they are?