Kim Yoo Jung, Yoon Kyun Sang and Cast Attend Drama Wrap Party for Clean with Passion For Now

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• The worst couple I've seen in K-drama land. Literally zero chemistry at all.
  YKS doesn't suit rom-coms. He don't have the heart-fluttering feel.

  • I have the same opinion. They are just not a good pairing and nothing sizzling....for a rom com to work, the most important is the chemistry of the couple. In this instance, he looks more like her uncle. And you are right, male leads in rom-com needs to give the audience the fluttering feeling but YKS was unable to do that. The plot is already meh, but the pairing makes it even more difficult to overcome when visually, they are not compatible. It would have worked with a good, younger actor, like the original actor it was offered to.

  • I agree. No amount of good acting can overcome the visual gap between these two. Male lead didn't do a good job of managing himself.

  • Everyone agrees that it was a shit drama with shit chemistry. Visuals matter in a romcom and neither of them had the right fit for their roles. They both looked either too young or too old.

    • oh no!

• Honestly the drama was harmless to me, not good, not bad, just a whole lotta meh. I don't regret watching it but I probably won't re-watch it. Part of it is because Yoo Jung and Kyun Sang have a friend chemistry and not a passionate chemistry, so the "passionate" scenes or when they have to be lovey dovey felt really forced as in you can tell they are acting. Part of it is because Kyun Sang is starting to look his age while Yoo Jung looks incredibly young. It isn't helped either by the fact that the story doesn't have a lot of depth or plot and the writing is pretty mediocre. This is more obvious to me because I was watching Children of Nobody (which is going up there as one of my favorite dramas even though it was dark) and Strange Hero at the same time which has a lot better writing. I do think Yoo Jung had a lot better chemistry with Song Jae Rim which may have been helped by the fact that they have worked together in the past. I think Jae Rim was spot on as Dr. Choi. I hope he gets more main lead roles in the future because he is quite good.

  • I agree with you. The writing is meh. The dialogues in this drama isn't powerful enough to make me impressed with the drama. And also, this drama doesn't build my passion to watch the next episodes. Some other dramas make me want to binge-watching (watch more than 1 episode per day) but this drama... it is even hard to watch one episode of this drama.

• It was a yay for me. But mostly because it's fluffy and gave me good feels during a week full of work. It's not rocking it out of the park but it was sweet.

  I think Kim Yoo Jung and Yoon Kyun Sang did a great job to portray their characters. And I don't see why the scenes were awkward. They were extremely professional. So there is that.

  Personally I'm still not happy about the trend to cast young actresses with much older actors but again KYJ and YKS were professional enough to make it work.

  Overall I think if someone wants to enjoy a short drama and isn't interested in layers when it comes to the plot: check it out.

  • At first, i was quite bothered because of the obvious age gap. It seemed a bit awkward to look at. But, as i continued watching it, this drama really caught me??. All The actors were very good portraying their characters.
    I was very very satisfied with the romantic scenes?? and also with the drama... In fact, this made me cry a lot.. iloveit!!! ????
    Good job!!

    • I forgot to mention that the kissing scenes here were very hot??
      (one of the hottest among ive ever seen on kdrama..haha)
      At the same time, those cute moments were really very cute!??
      It's really fun to watch..???

• I don't agree about the chenmistry! Their kissing scenes were very natural, cute and hot in the same time. The BTS scenes showed they were very confortable with each other. I'm so happy that AYS didn't take the role because YKS is really great in the comedy and emotional part. Everybody judged before to watch and it's sad because they're great together. I don't think taht SJR has a better chemistry with KYJ, his character didn't exist nin the original story and I'm not sure it was usefull for the drama. The age gap doesn't bother, KYJ looks as an young adult and she's pretty convincing. I like they don't have to be careful for the romantic scenes, they feel very natural not like in Radio Romance.

  I really like this drama, it's a good romcom. The actor are really great and it's funny.

  • LOL you got to be kidding. Radio Romance is a gazillion times better than this mess with passion.

    *the main female lead in radio romance doesn’t violate the main male lead.

    *natural romance? Their romance illogically started because she had no dignity and kissed the main male lead.

    • I was talking about the acting not about the story. I didn't like Radio Romance, the story was not better at all.

      All the time main actor forcely kisses the main actress, nobody talk about violate but in the opposite, it's a crime? People are so funny.

      Natural romance, again I was talking about the acting. I don't understand why she wouldn't have no dignity because she kissed the main lead. I found his reaction pretty funny. But their feeling are more than that but to undertand you need to watch all the drama not only some episodes.

      Kim Soo Hyun was not ready to play in a role like Radio Romance and you could see they were very careful in the way they filmed the romance scenes and that the main actor did all the work.

    • Kim Sohyun and Kim Yoojung were of the same age when they filmed both dramas. But KBS and/or Radio Romance team was alot more considerate not letting Kim Sohyun film sexually explicit scenes and exploiting her lol.

    • Kim So Hyun was far more convincing in her chemistry with Yoon Do Joon without making her look like a porn star by having overly erotic kisses and weird camera angles that sexualized her. Radio Romance had a more meaningful storyline as well but your views are clearly biased.

    • TY for the clarification.

      The main male lead has a phobia, a mental health problem, so for her to disregard that, is a big no no.

      So what? That doesn’t justify her action, which is an assault, just because male leads do so in other dramas.

      I watched the entire series.

      Both Kim so Hyun and Kim Yoo- jung should not be playing in roles that make them way older and have like huge age gaps with male leads because they both are still young.
      It’s not about natural acting, its about the sinister side of the entertainment world, taking advantage of young actors.

    • RR was a natural romance from start to end without throwing in weird scenes. The kiss scenes in RR trended among teens for being heart fluttering and Insitz had an entire article about it. The kiss scenes in this drama trended for looking like sexual assault and just being plain gross.

  • Your comment is clearly stab a KSH but just be known Radio Romance was far more popular than CWNP even from the start and made it on to the CPI for 3 out of its 8 weeks while CWNP never did. In addition RR articles always trended in the top 5 and if you read nay of the translated netizen comments they were always positive and praised the chemistry. There were no comments talking about miscast from korean netizens unlike CWNMP. You can try and defend it if you want but this drama was doomed from the start and the ratings plus comments form netizens proved it.

    • @Zany Yes you’re right and good on you for advocating for RR and KSH. No qualms from me in that department.

    • Agree!

• I just watched this drama until ep 2 (not my cup of tea). But wondering what the problem of this drama, the rating just hit 1%.

  • The ratings were about 3% but they postponed several times because of football matches. It never helps ratings to postpone episodes, the last ratings were 1.9%.

  • The ratings were always poor and people just watched for lack of anything else but on Pann and all you can see they hated the drama and the chemistry from the start. Mama Fairy which was pulling in low numbers before this premiered started to pull in much higher ratings that means they already lost their audience even before the pre-emptions. It really has been the worst drama since Manhole.

  • Bad chemistry, bad acting, bad writing you pick. Ahn Hyo Seob saved himself a bullet by stepping down. The boy is smart.

    • It’s not that he was smart but he was already tied to a different drama.

    • Correct!

• Everyone looks so
  Tired at the wrap up party according to the photos :/ too bad their hard work couldn’t save this mess of a drama.
  It’s like the writer combed through every cliche kdrama known to existence and picked out the most cliche scene from each cheesy drama and then weave them all together and had the nerve to say that it’s an original product.

  It doesn’t really matter if we thought YSK is miscast or not because it’s going to be a poor drama no matter who the main male lead is.

  It’s TVN first rating bomb in a long time, even for cable, the ratings in the latter episodes is abysmal.

  I’m so disappointed that I wasted my time watching this. Hopefully kyj chooses a drama on par with moonlight next time.

  • Not tvN. This drama is under JTBC.

    • You are right. JTBC.

  • Moonlight's success was largely because of park bo gum even if suzy did that drama it would still have pulled off the same ratings.

    • No it wouldn’t have pulled out the same ratings if Suzy was cast in LITM how can you make such a statement? KYJ was pivotal in her role as eunuch Sam Nom and everyone involved acknowledged her left right and centre.

    • Whatever and stop changing your user name. Be succinct in your delivery of your opinion and not lazy in criticising KYJ fans because that’s a cop out.

    • I have to disagree.

      Kim Yoo Jung was a strong key to moonlight success. Park bo gum was indeed amazing.

      I just wished that the writer made her character more useful in the second half of the drama because she was so clever in the beginning.

    • Its true, in moonlight they deleted many scene of her, and just focus more in PBG's part

    • @pleasedude-Editing is pivotal to the dramas storyline ensuring the continuity flows and the narrative is clear so PBG character was highlighted more due to the very cause of him pining for his lost love so yes it makes sense in the 2nd half he would have more screentime. It doesn’t lessen KYJ character at all. Were you bean counting how many times he appeared in the episode because it seems that way.

    • @ginger crunch of course its still make sense of the story, but that bodyguard guy supposuly fallin love with raon too, but that part got cut, the same with jinyoung part. because viewer love PBG more than anyone else in the story. They give him so many parts, kinda pity him, he need to carry this drama alone, but he got all popularity, so yeah he did well. And kim yoojung got lucky actually.

    • @pleasedude - Geez that's cool you have firsthand access to the production script knowing the storyline and how PBG managed to score more scenes per se and that you obviously were not following the story to conclusion rather you were drawing your own theories and that was a good thing that KYJ had less screentime that's mindblowing stuff! Oh is that why in the award speeches PBG paid tribute to KYJ calling her 'sunbaemin'? Don't try and slaughter a good thing where there is nothing to slaughter except your ego. Oh and 5000 people lined up for their LITM fan meeting in Seoul and only 200 were the lucky ones chosen to get actual signings. BoYoo couple were a OTP and whilst I followed the drama too it was very much PBG AND KYJ ACTING who made that reality seem very real. Sorry but you can't discount that no matter how hard you try so please dude.

  • The plot itself was bad plus the casting. Everyone said this drama would do poorly but the fans stay blind till the end. What to do.

    • My reply to you is above XOXO.

    • Don't call us - the fans are blind. For us this drama is nice to watch.

      You know, some people love roses, some people love jasmines. It's all about taste.

• I tried so hard to stay focused and persevere but alas another parked drama waiting for a rainy day. Same happened with Radio Romance. It wasn’t the cast or story it was my lack of patience and not wanting to see the train wreck of a love triangle unfold between KYJ and the second lead SJR. So my love for KYJ and loyalty got shunted sideways but to compensate I watched Love in the Moonlight and PBG for the 3rd time. Happy ❤️

  • I know what you mean . I too have a weak spot for SJR . Second lead syndrome for life :(

• I also feel that YKS is not suitable for this role. I thought throughout the whole 16 eps, he gave out awfully awkward smiles. I don't think he's a bad actor, just not cut out for rom com.

• To each their own. For me this drama is pure entertainment. Enjoy the fluffy lovey dovey and don't think too hard about the story. I love the main couple and think their chemistry is so sweet and natural. A new discoveries of KYJ in real romcom and YKS talent in comedy. I have been always eagerly waiting for each episode, and always check the BTS snippets. Love their off screen interactions, either main couple or the whole production team. Very good spirit. Looking forward to last episode and I hope it will have a happy ending.

  • I so agree with you, Molly. Chemistry was palpable (on and off cam). First time I was moved and almost convinced that they were a real couple though I know this may not be the case. That only means one thing, good acting for main leads. That’s my barometer. Been watching Kdramas for so long now and have never shipped actors, and this is the first time I wanted to rewatch one and had been rewatching on downtimes of my life. Of course, all dramas have the usual formula for commercial value. Name one, which didn’t have cliche and cheesy lines. None. One way or another there’s always that scene or line. I enjoyed CWPFN and I recommend it. No biases since I have never been a die hard fan of any K actor. Oh and it made me watch all YKS past dramas. He’s very good and delivered the character. As for KYJ, no question she’s a pro.

• It's hard to find a good romcom lately and most of then began great ant went to ... a rom com should be wrapped in 12 ep. Chemistry is subjective and there is diferent kind of it. I read that Jo Bo ah is in talks for a new one with Park Hae Jin, Go Jun Hee with Eric,... I'm always on the boat for a new rom com even if it's without YOON EUN HYE . See ,i began watching Romance is a bonus book and until now i like it even if it's not with Yoon EUN HYE !