Kim Ji Won Offered Female Lead Opposite Song Joong Ki in Sageuk Drama Asadal

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• Yeah! will be great to watch her acting again... accept both if time allows. Have not seen her in a saguek before :-)

• Finally, there is some development. I already thought they eould delay this drama likr forever. Please Joong Ki make a decision already. If Kim Ji Won accept both project, there is a chance Asadal will start shooting very late. Which will drive me crazy.

  • It is not like he is not making a decision. It boils down now on who’s going to fund the project and the tv channel that picks up this drama otherwise if negotiation falls through we would be seeing another project being rejected.

    But coming from the team of Tree With Deep Roots and Six Flying Dragon which were hit dramas, I think things would go fine. Song Joong Ki and Kim Ji Won looks like a good pair too. Must be a hard for Kim Ji Won to make a decision in case she can only have either drama. Though I thought it’s no brainer, this Saguek sounds is more interesting and something she hasn’t done before.

    • There has been reports that it's going to be pre-produced by tvN.

      I like Kim Ji-won but I'm not so excited about the lack of sageuk experience.

    • @MistyEyed, hopefully, he take decision abit too long is a sign he is already planning to accept this project. I'll will be dissapoint if he decline. It's not easy to find his replacement.

    • @the other Kiara - her last acting project, the Detective K movie, was a sageuk. Her acting seems to have been decently received there even if the movie itself wasn't. I've also seen comments saying her speech is very clear, which is an essential skill for convincing sageuk acting (even good actors who can emote well often fail at this). So it might not be as much of a risk as you think.

    • She can accept both. The one with LJS is scheduled to air this year while the other one is for next year. Hence her company stated she can accept both if she wants to.

• I think SJK is 90% likely to accept. Its a big-budget drama and almost guarantee to succeed based on the production team's track record. Unless he decides to do a movie but I don't think so. Dramas are more likely to keep you in the limelight which means more CFs.

  KJW is 100% going to accept. Its a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her and will firmly establish her status as a top leading lady. If she can do both, it would be ideal but if she were to accept one, it would no doubt be Asadal. Apart from Lee Jongsuk's popularity, the other drama has some questionable points.

• Finally KJW getting some of the recognition & fame she deserves. This is shaping up to be a good year for her; getting offers opposite big names like SJK & LJS.

  I would like to see her in both but she seems a bit conservative with her projects. I don’t see her doing both (sadly) but can definitely see her doing Asadal. Perhaps she’s waiting for SJK to lock in as lead before she confirms? I think the male lead matters but the production team is a huge selling point in of itself already. She should go for it.

  • Exactly! I always felt she was under-rated. She is gorgeous and talented and I always wondered what kept her from getting her due. Things finally seem to be looking up for her and I think she deserves a lot more.

• I have mixed feelings toward this.I am happy for Kim Ji Won.She is getting the high quality offers that she deserves.I may not be a huge fan of SJK but I still think he is a talented actor who shouldnt waste his most productive and marketable years coasting on cfs when he is pretty good at acting.He doesnt need to act for money or fame anymore.Just for the love of telling good stories through acting .

  The production team(PD+writer)is also solid.However, here is my misgiving.If they are setting them up for a loveline.I do feel like they would have pretty but sibling kind of chemistry rather than the heart palpating chemistry.On the other hand, I think she would have
  crackling chemistry with Lee Jong Suk but that offer has a terribly weak production team behind it.Another thing, I hope Song Song shippers excercise maturity and not kill the hype for this drama by comparing her to Song Hye Kyo or whatever if this goes through.But this one has more pros than cons.So lets just wait and see.

  • My thoughts are with you. I'm thinking if there's a loveline and it's critical to make or break the story for Asadal, it will be hard to ship them to get everyone onboard. Just in case Shin Se Kyung comes in the equation because she was in both dramas (also SJK in Tree with Deep Roots), it seems more workable.

    She's totally shippable with Lee Jong Suk. Hmmmm.

    I just hope to have SJK back in drama world. Missing him.

  • I don't know, I think they could have the real heart-fluttering chemistry because till date, I've never seen a Kim Ji Won project where she didn't have it with her male lead (other than Gapdong where it was deliberate because she was playing a high schooler infatuated with a much older guy who didn't reciprocate...but she still had a spark with Lee Joon).

    I would 100 percent prefer she took this over the LJS drama if she had to choose, the writers alone should be enough of a difference. The acclaim and success she'll pick up if she pulls off a sageuk role is no small thing.

• wow I did not see it coming. I actually wanted SJK and KJW to act tgether again after DDOTS since i quiet liked their chemistry. Look like Asadal is a historical drama so there may not be loveline at all which is fine with me, just it's not really my genre. On other hand, while I really like to see KJW and LJS pairing up again, the writer/PD is questionable, argh i'm gonna be greedy, can't she do both? TT

  • Yeah same here. I liked her with LJS in High Kick 3 but please god their reunion should not be with that writer/PD....Asadal sounds like a much better project even without Song Joong Ki possibly headlining.

• I'm worried about this drama if female lead is shin se kyung or oh yeon seo. But if kim ji won get role it's good to see myung ju and yo shin jin again. Only 10 month since sjk announce married but like forever waiting him comeback. And I think shk will take more cf than comeback drama anytime soon.

• I can’t see the chemistry. Hopefully KJW really steps up with her acting too because SJK had great synergy with SH and it’s hard to beat that.

  • *SHK

• i'm so glad that kim ji won has been elevated to lead role status
  she is so much better than actresses like park shin hye and han hyo joo

  • Looks like KJW fans are delusional. Well, I kinda already knew that they’d be trashing the previous co-stars of the actors she might be working with now but I’m surprised that you didn’t add Song Hye Kyo to that list. Scared of songsong shippers?

    • You're such a fake lol. Just the other month you were trashing PSH saying you were a jiwon fan just to bring hate to jiwon. Lmaooo get a life.

  • As i expected from KJW fans; still trashing PSH even after 5 yrs. Initially i didn't want to say this but just let me haha. Come back again when your fav is nominated for Baeksang awards for best tv actress. I didn't ask her to win, just a nomination will do. Everyone but kjw got nomination for FMY (oops what's wrong with the judges that she's not even qualified to be nominated). While PSH is not the best, she was nominated twice for pinocchio and doctors. It'll be much much better if you and your friends supporting her without the need to drag/trash other actresses. Ah! it must be insecurity issues

    • Looking forward to the fanwar. Reminds me of the childish stuff from tumblr/dramabeans/twitter. Pretty big blogs getting into fights and saying some pretty rough stuff they're so hard trying to deny now, all because of that shit drama Heirs :)

    • To be fair, best actress this year are stars stud - kim nam joo, kim sun a, kim hee sun, lee bo young - shin hye sun has a 40% drama.

    • I seriously think some people owe PSH an apology. She got tone of hate for heirs (especially from KJW's fans) just bc she followed the script. her only wrong doing was taking the role thats all.

    • To be honest, I dont find KJW a good actress,I watched Fight for my way for PSJ but I stop in episode 5-6 because her acting was so cringe it is not natural, I find her comedic timing off, also PSJ, I dont see the chemistry...but these are all subjective and I don't hate her, I just think that she needs more,not bad but not also that good.We will see if this time she can convince me.

  • Why do you have to tread on other actresses to elevate yours? There are plenty of actresses and acting idols out there. KJW is finally being elevated because SHK, JJH and KTH are all married and moving on.

  • No matter how big ifans of kjw think she is in Korea she is not considered on psh level according to Korean. Why do y'all hate on psh tho did she steal a role from kjw

    • Not at all. PSH barely even does dramas after The Heirs. But I did saw a KJW fan saying KJW rejected Doctors so the offer went to PSH. Like, really? How can someone just tell blatant lies like this lmao.

    • @Aize, do you mean that kimw**binseyebrows shit blog ? That person claimed too that KJW was offered Doctors first and because they have a big following, people believe in that person easily. I laughed my ass off to that claim ’cause what I remember, that writer was offering that role to PSH for months before she accepted. I think that that blogger started bandwagon hating on PSH and making her followers join the bandwagon hate too because of couple of shippers who hated on Heirs Rachel. These tumblr people then spread on NB, BD and twitter I think. (And I’m talking about pure hate, not even valid, constructive criticism which I tend to give)
      Well, that blog thinks Lee Soo Hyuk is an acting virtuoso and spent years hating on certain actors Lee Jong Suk and now is hard trying to deny that shit now that their bias KJW got an offer with LJS. Well, I don’t like LJS mainly because of his fans who kept shitting on Han Hyo Joo during W but at least I’m honest about it lol.

    • Yeah that blog and her friends are nonsense. They hate PSH for getting recognition from Heirs and their bias Kim Jiwon getting none. Yeah, like how is it PSH's fault lmao? She got hated so much during the show, so I'm happy she at least got something out of it. From what I know, some of them are still keeping tabs on PSH lmao.
      I didn't know she hated LJS as well. She and LJS's fans can rip each other's throats if both their bias accepts the project xD From what I know, KJW fans have been hoping for eternity that she is paired with Woobin and Bogum. Sad for them its not coming true anytime soon.

    • I think the two actresses that i-fans shit on the most (PSH and Suzy) are the most acknowledged in their age group. KJW is not even on the list. entertain.naver.com/read?oid=382&aid=0000577361

  • I think Kim Jiwon fans should think of beating Suzy before shitting on top actresses like Park Shinhye and Han Hyojoo. She's not even being mentioned in the top actresses in their 20s list. Ironically, PSH and Suzy whom they and other ifans like to shit on, are the most acknowledged in Korea. entertain.naver.com/read?oid=382&aid=0000577361

    • Oops I commented twice because my comment couldn't get through. But yeah you get my drift.

  • Ummm Park Shin Hye and Han Hyo Joo are not the actresses you should be coming for if you want to talk about lack of talent.

    • No honey you should talk about lack of scripts that show their acting they aren't lacking but suffering from bad scripts .

  • The Dogs start barking hahaha haters is the haters I don't understand why are you bringing both actresses to here to feed your hatred toward them or just to make yourself someone rather than nobody

• I don't think kjw face fits historical drama tbh