Suzy and Lee Jong Seok Wear Couples Outfits in BTS Pic From While You Were Sleeping

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• Lol...but W still a hit drama..and it s wildly populars among kd fans.

  • IKR XD

    You don't expect a 20% from a drama like W unless its by Kim EunSook or her like, the ratings were really good,not to mention the buzz and respone

    I am glad that it got the Houston international award as well!

• Suzy just keep rising these days. Here profil is so high now. She is both a top level singer and now A-list actress

  • What? Suzy is A list actor? Korea has low standard for an acting then. She is popular. She has many fans but the skill of her acting is low and her singing skill is so-so. There is a different between popular and qualified one. Seolhyun, Suzy, Yoona are the same.

    • How about Secret Song Jieun? Been watching secret romance. Chemistry is good between the leads.

  • Lol how cute :)
    A-list actors are the likes of Choi Min-sik, Lee Byung-hun, Park Hae-il etc. and A-list actresses are the likes of Sohn Ye Jin, Kim Hye Soo etc.
    Suzy, Seolhyun and Yoona are all in the same category, which is the bad to mediocre acting depending on the character and project, but immensely popular and overhyped especially by the international kpop fandom full of rabid delulus :)

  • watta joke!! A list actor ! hahahaha you're funny

  • just curious, how she is a top singer? her voice so so, compare her with luna, eunji or alee voice, she's nothing and for acting, we all know how bad she is and now sz A-list actress? JOKE OF THE YEARS.

    • Ailee's voice is really awsome.

  • ' A list actress'???
    You must be joking right.
    She is only C grade singer
    (Honestly I can sing much-much better then her)

  • Suzy cannot sing. Suzy cannot act. She is popular bcoz of her looks... actually her looks is only average imo, but in her country, she is considered "pretty"... I wonder why?

    • its because of glutathione, you know Korean, they are obsessed with white skin, western colonial mentality what else!

• lol W was a hit drama and created a lot of buzz whether you like it or not
  It was no 1 in its time slot even though it was competing with another powerful drama
  But more importantly for a Kdrama with such a different content, the rating is actually good( coz majority prefers dramas more 'mainstream' like Doctors, and so on, with W attracting an younger audience )

  I wonder who is better at manipulating narratives according to their whims, Koala or netizenbuzz?

  • Doctors mainstream? Eh??? I’d say Uncontrollably Fond was mainstream with it’s early 2000s plot. No way teacher-student romance set in a hospital with every week different case is mainstream, at least in Korea. It was like Grey’s Anatomy of Korea. And yes, among online communities and international K-drama fans W was wildly popular. And lol, it ain’t manipulating. It’s true that even if W was winning in it’s time slot 13 % viewer ratings in a year that produced several over 20% rated dramas isn’t exactly too great. But W did well considering it’s more unique concept and characters that aren’t exactly relatable.

  • LOL So Doctors was mainstream? That's why most ifans think it boring but love W?
    It's not hard to accept W isn't a huge rating hit without dragging others, ok?
    W is the kind of drama that should be well received more than Doctors. People anticipated for it since the news came out...

    • Doctors was mainstream in korea. Korea loves medical dramas. Diesnt take a genius to figure out they prefer cheesy romances to scifi and no not dragging just telling the truth. W is a hit whether you agree or not. Any articles on 2016 dramas call it a hit and popular drama

    • Um no doctors started at 12% whereas w at 8% coz mbc did not promote it well, lets not throw random facts .

• wow they look like a twin in the photo, similar smiles and postures

• For me W: 2 world was really good and cool, it was by no shape perfect but it was different, and for that lets give this drama a round of applause. It was a different flavor from all the other dramas at that time. Now this new drama I'm a little nervous stills are not giving me the vibe yet is not making me want to watch or impatience to see it but I will give it a shot when it does air. I really like the writter and PD previous work and LJS specially in Pinocchio, so for these reason I will like or hope that this drama hit the right spot in plot, directing and acting so it can be successful domestically and internationally.

• Seems to me that Koala is comparing almost every drama with KES' ratings standard. KES is in a different league. She could churn out rubbish (The Heirs anyone?) and Koreans will still buy it like a piece of masterpiece crystal crafting.

  I say for last year, the drama aired towards the later half of 2016 and early 2017 seems to enjoy great ratings namely Doctors, Romantic Doctor, Moonlight, Defendant and Chief Kim. So generally, I consider "W" did relatively well and the drama was generating insane buzz for the out-of-the box plot.

  I have partial faith in this drama. Faith in the writer and LJS but skeptical because of Suzy. She is horrible. She could not act. At least, please just settle with supporting roles for now. If her popularity and pretty face is what secured her the lead role in the first place, she should have at least the decency to improve her craft by settling with minor roles before taking up the lead role and let audiences suffer.

• koala didnt like W bcs of HHJ. thats no surprise.

  • Well, she was the dullest part of the whole drama, and I like HHJ so... :)

• In the k drama world the young twenty something chickens are shown holding jobs like doctors, lawyers, reporters, professors, CEO of mnc etc. Looks like they don't need a college degree and experience to shine in their respective fields because they have shiny faces (effect of BB cream lighting etc).
  I'm glad that recently many drams with matured leads got great ratings. Mature people have more stories to be told.
  I'm saying this young twenty something college student and I'm bored as hell of k dramas and their unrelaistic settings and seriously age is a huge issue for me.
  And I even not started about the acting skills

• It's not an official BTS photo released by SBS, it's from an instagram user.

• I'm sure TV station does not want to take a risk casting an unknown actress. Suzy is perfect to ensure early buzz and high rating, subsequent rating will depends on progress story, if it suck it will have a downward trajectory like that snoozefest UF. But in this case the writer has shown that she was capable of bringing engagging storyline, which is a plus point for this drama
  same goes to LJS, who has been shown to have consistent rating successin his earlier drama.