Yang Se Jong Reportedly Offered Male Lead in Fox Bride Star Opposite Park Shin Hye

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• I can see him becoming the next it-actor if this drama is a hit. His rise to fame has been really rapid.

  But usually when an agency said they didn't receive the offer, it means the actor is just used for noise marketing. Like Park Shinhye vs Im Soojung for Chicago Typewriter.
  The production team is probably trying to get a bigger name actor.

• he will be the next actor that PSH help get more fan outside of korean.
  he better take the offer before some Ahjussi does.

• Classic Hallyu days? Is there such a thing? Dramas like Winter Sonata have stars who were not Hallyu big shots before the drama. My Girl has literally newbie actors in it though with Lee Joon Gi who had few weeks of Hallyu stardom back then but that was not because of the drama but of the movie The King and the Clown. My Name is Kim Sam Soom which I knew Kim Sun Ah was not very popular yet and Hyun Bin was totally a newbie.

  Good thing Park Shin Hye is stepping up. I am looking forward to this one. Looks like a promising pairing.

• i'd watch it for sure.

• I don’t think we will ever get the classic Hallyu days where both leads match well in acting and visuals. Nowadays we are going to get the internationally popular actor/actress leading the less popular ones, I presume this does help the less popular actor/actress into the next Hallyu wave.

• Park shin Hye and gong yoo

  • Yaaas i wish that too

• I doubt if there will ever be a next Hallyu wave... K-dramas are no longer as popular nowadays in Japan & China. No recent k-drama could stir up the hype that they hoped for.... China now has big drama productions & own actor/actress. BTW - has PSH ever confirmed for this drama yet?

  • When I wrote next Hallyu wave I meant popularity in terms of the actor/actress themselves. YSJ has the potential to be the next LMH, KSH, PBG.

    • K-media is already naming him the next Park Bogum lol.
      Too bad Temperature of Love sort of ruined his momentum.

    • I feel like YSJ is just a bubble. He’s decent but nothing special. He looks a little like Yoon Shi Yoon. Decent looking, but not mind-blowingly handsome like Jung Woo Sung or even distinctively charming like Gong Yoo. He has a long way to go...

    • @prettyautumn We find it out after 5 years if YSJ is just a bubble. Gong Yoo didn’t make it big after 4 years since his acting debut. While YSJ is barely 2 years since his first acting project.

      I don’t know about PBG because he somewhat disappeared in acting arena for 2 years now. PBG is more like the next Jo In Sung. They look very similar and even their mannerism. He is somewhat following JIS too by not doing acting projects too often. They are more like CF celebs like Song Hye Kyo.

    • @kissfm lol the real cf celebs are Won Bin, Lee Na Young, Kim Tae Hee, Han Ga In etc...shk had a project in 2016 (dots)..also she did movies but they weren't popular like train to busan..it's not like she didn't do projects and only did cfs...

      waiting for a good project is better than doing a bad project and harm their career..look at hyun bin..he is a good actor but after hyde-jekyll knetz gave him so much flak..gong yoo even said after 'big' he was scared of dramas...bcuz of this I hope park bogum, park shinhye waits for a good project

    • @kdramalover Is Won Bi still a CF celeb? I doubt it though. I think he is into business now and real estate, not CF. He may still have few but I doubt if he relies his livelihood on it.

      Gong Yoo invested his time in movies. He did average one acting project a year including one movie which was not a box office hit. Actors lose their careers if they stop acting. Actors don’t have a cystal ball to predict if a certain project becomes a hit so they choose projects according to what they think could shape them to be the actor they want for themselves for long term. Look at Jang Hyuk. Did one bad rated drama destroyed his career? He just keep on going. Gong Yoo did an interview recently. He said he received many offers after Goblin but he wanted to take some time off. By the time, he was ready, offers were not ready.

    • Nowadays its really hard to see actors like Ji Sung and Jang Hyuk who consistently works on projects even though they might have bad projects and labeled as "flop" from time to time. I agree that no project is guaranteed to be a hit anymore except for maybe KES's dramas.
      PSH's agency expected Doctors to flop but it did so well. KMHM was rejected by several big name actors but it ended up being successful. The longer they wait, the anticipation builds, and the more pressure it gives to them.

    • recently (2018february) won bin was in a bed cf (the brand name is cherish, search on youtube) netizenbuzz translated an article about it...yes they don't have supernatural powers to see if a project will fail or not. but they have to be careful. bcuz k-ent is a ruthless place and if they have a bad/failed project, public and pds will be biased against them..also they will get offered less 'high profile' and diverse drama/movie roles...actors don't lose their careers if they wait for a project...they lose their careers if they pick wrong projects consistently, if they can't act properly, if they harm someone..
      for example: jang geun suk, #metoo actors

      also top stars don't do cfs in order to put food on their tables..all of them have real estates..they do it for their image and also they don't want to be forgotten by the public

    • Ironically there are good dramas that don’t rate well in Korea. Actor performance dictates the number of offers not rating.

      I would take Jang Hyuk for example. From Beautiful Mind which was cut by two episodes due to low rating .. very low in fact with 2% in a free-view tv channel but instead of stopping, in just less than a year he did Voice, then Money Flower and then just recently he signed up for another project. That how actor should be.

    • ahhh 'beautiful mind' dont remind me that.. Im still so angry how that drama had low ratings

  • They are still selling well on Japan though limited to cable channels but that is matter. The point is, they are still selling. But only few actora have built stable market in Japan. With China, they have their own now plus the on going conflict. China is always been unstable market. Even many foreign companies have left the country on their own, e.g. car manufacturers which are now pre-dominantly in Thailand now or clothing which are now in Bangladesh, India, Vietnam or even slowly growing in Indonesia.

    • there are lots of Koreans and Chinese residing in Japan, and for them to watch k-dramas, they have to subscribe to cable channels. From what I observe, young Japanese don't watch K-dramas anymore...

• So, will it be a noona-romance drama then?

• Hyun Bin to Yang Sejong is a very huge jump in terms of age. How old is the male character supposed to be?

• Thats karmatic justice right there for berating Hyun Bin.Too bad Koala sis, maybe next time for star power couple drama. If PSH's kfans had the same opinion as her ifans.His publicity team(Hyun Bin)could have seen the feedback in k-fans community pages.Then I can see why HB dropped this.Her fans wanted a younger actor.they will get what they wanted just not who they wanted if this dude confirms.Some(quite a valid opinion) wanted her to be the main draw to the drama, like to be the bigger name.Again if he confirms, this could be the perfect opportunity for PSH to show her clout.

  If her hallyu fame indeed is potent like her fans claim it is.And can she still secure good ratings with a rising actor?This will be where she can show her experience and acting strength.By the way, has she even confirmed this yet or they are also using her name for noise marketing?

  • Her K-fans are more sane, trust me. Besides, HB's status is much higher than her in Korea.
    PSH's intl fans are a need breed of annoying. They are looking down on every single actor. PSH might be more popular but honestly, YSJ out-acted her with his performance in Duel, even though he only did okay-ish in TOL.
    We'll see who will eventually land the lead role in this drama.

  • PSH’s international fans, mainly the obsessed shipper fans from YAB/heartstrings days are annoying af and delusional. Her kfans are most likely adults who have stuck with her since her child actress days. HB is a senoir and they’d never be disrespectful in Korea about Hyun Bin. I think HB chose that Alhambra drama because it’s tvn and it’s different. Besides, PSH is doing that variety show so another reason to not take a SBS healing drama

  • I know she must have sane international fans too.Its not fair to generalise a whole fandom.Just that the immature ones are too outspoken and overshadow the sane ones.I really dont understand their obsession with young actors(Especially Park Seo Joon, Park Bo Gum and Yoo Seung Ho).On one hand they say PSH has helped or boosted these young actors' fame(her previous co stars).On the other hand, they get all riled up if she is in a project with older actors..saying the reason she is famous is because she worked with hallyu oppas..so what is the truth?

    Even a variety show(which is not a dating show,) where she is going to work with Na PD and SJS, all they are whining about is that SJS is an "ahjusshi".I mean what country could an actress save in her past life to land that kind of opportunity on TVN too?I feel like the people hindering PSH's growth as an actress are not her antis but her own fans.

    • Hmm what I have observed, those fans who are mature, are the quiet ones and they actually much prefer if she acted with established seniors because they want her to develop as an actress. Of course they don’t mind a younger co-star like Yoo Seung Ho, as long as the actor is good. That’s what I call real fans. Those immature delulu fans, who called senior actors like Kim Rae Won all the time with names like ’oldie' or ’ahjusshi’, and claim to be fans ’'since YAB days’’, they don’t really care about PSH as an actress at all. They only want to ship her with a hot young flowerboy hallyu star LOL. 
      Another thing is, if you look at the comments on her IG by these loud and immature ’’fans’’ (really, just go and look, especially her agency IG salt_ent), you will see how pathetic and delusional some of her loud fans are. They are never pleased with her. Now that she is dating, they are calling her boyfriend ’nugu’ and that she deserves better, just because he isn't a hallyu star like Lee Min Hoo. They are also displeased because he is younger by a year. So what is the truth? What do her fan really want from her? I think her fans just want to ship her with their bias oppa and they want her to play different variations of Go Mi Nam and Cha Eun Sang forever lol
      Some of her k-fans probably are lunatic too, overprotective.. don’t want her to act in this or that.. meaning she will never develop as an actress unless she starts to make bold moves an think about only her own career and her dignity as an actress rather than pleasing her lunatic fans. Sure, she will lose some of them, some of them will be disappointed and leave, but it’s better that way because those were not real fans to begin with. Those who are her real fans, they’re quiet and don’t go on internet fights