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Upcoming MBC Sageuk A King Loves Releases Unappealing and Awkward Official Drama Posters

Good drama lordy are these two of the worst sageuk posters I’ve seen in a good long while, almost so bad as to be a parody. Now I just feel sad for A King Loves leads Im Shi Wan, Yoona, and Hong Jong Hyun, with poor Yoona being told to look serious and melancholy but coming across in the posters like a cry for help to get out of this likely disaster. Over on KBS there’s currently airing love triangle sageuk also involving a king, and somehow all the promos for Seven Days Queen have been beautifully presented. The top one looks like a sageuk version of a 90’s Calvin Klein ad, but instead of being shot in a basement with barely clad teens you have overly flowered and arrayed nobility all in a funk. And the other poster with just Yoona and Im Shi Wan doesn’t deliver an iota of potential romance despite the stalwart back hug position, these two look so mismatched I may switch my watch reason less for hoping it’ll be good and more for wanting it to be so bad it’s kinda fun.

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  • Seven Days Queen has set my bar for all potential future Sageuk involving​ love triangles extremely high. Also, Lee Dong Gun is Killing it as the maniac, delusional, tyrant king by scaring me and breaking my heart simultaneously. MBC on

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      MBC on the other hand is currently winning slot with terribly written Sageuk. This will probably win in ratings. But if posters are any indication, I don't have high hopes for any of the 3 actors and their chemistry. Yoona being the weakest link. Still, good luck and hopefully the drama can prove my intuition wrong.

      • Ruler is doing well only because of the combination of Yoo Seung Ho-Kim So Hyun. The drama is a mess! Ugh!

        These posters are quite horrid with excessive photoshop but for Siwan's sake I hope this is actually a good drama. I've always found Goreyo to be more interesting than Joseon.

    • So agree with you. Lee Dong Gun breaks my heart in every episode. I just don't have enough words of how good he is. And it kills me too that the ratings keep on dropping despite how amazing the drama is - from the storyline, directing, acting and the magnificent wardrobe, setting and cinematography.

    • Seven days queen. My current drama addict. And the last episode full of roller coaster emotions

  • I'm kinda sad because Song Jina is actually the main writer of A King Loves and I just want to hype this drama up. However, how can I do it when the posters are indeed unappealing and awkward? Lol

    • Song Ji Na is one of the few writers that I like because she is versatile but tbh, she does not has great track record when comes to sageuk. If "The Legend" and "Faith" is any indicator, I don't dare to put high hope on this one, coupled some more with the less stellar leads.

  • I think this is making a fuss about nothing, posters have no relation to the quality of a drama.

    Ruler had really nice posters but turned out really underwhelming, while Rebel had hasty photoshop posters and turned out great. I would rather look at the teasers to see what it's like. That said, I'm apprehensive about this drama.

  • Yoona is bland. She is gorgeous to look on photos but acting she is meh, tad better than Suzy. Seven day queen is a good drama. Three leads are amazing.

  • The back hug poster is the worse of the two I must say. Yoona looks horribly blank next to the anguish (?) look on Im Shi Wan's face.

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