K-ent Reports on K-actress Shin Ye Eun’s Ignominious Three-peat of Super Low Rated Dramas

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• Wasn't she also recently declared the new 'IT' girl snapping up major endorsements left, right and centre? Her drama ratings don't necessarily reflect her high demand but she is in demand. The younger audience likes her.

• She's not a bad actress but she did poor choices in dramas.

  In He Is Psychometric, the story of the second FL and ML was more interesting, their characters too, when the FL and ML weren't so interesting.

  The plot of Welcome was totally a disaster... It never worked.

  And for More Than Friends, it was the worst ML I watched since a long time. The FL was so boring with her indecisiveness. The second male lead was the only normal character.

  • I wonder how much drama choice she actually gets. Kdramas love to cast the same 30+ actresses (along with idols who do 1 - 2 drama roles just for giggles) for all the meaty roles whereas young actors get much more opportunity to shine. It seems so unfair!

    • I don't agree. She was lucky to be the lead in her 3 dramas. A lot of actors must be supporting cast first, then second lead and finally main lead.

      She's very young too. She can take her time in a play in theatre or wait for a better script.

      She's from JYPE too. It's not a small agency.

• All her male lead is the bad one

• I think it's nasty to come up with such article, as if placing the blame on her when in fact, the biggest blame should fall on the writing and execution.

  I hope she has a strong mental health. Can't the writer be considerate enough to at least thought of the possibility over how this nasty article can cause damaging impact on her mentally?

• lmao she's always paired with unpopular, mediocre male leads, poor girl

  • But her Psychometric co star, Got7 Jinyoung got popular award at Asian Artist Award... lmao... thus here you are, saying he's unpopular.

    But she's not suzy tho, she wont get an A list actor to be paired with. JYP wants her to be the 2nd suzy but get her popular, real popular actor. She'll do well later.

  • Ong Seongwu got a Baeksang Award Best Male New Actor nomination and won Best Male New Actor in AAA last year after his first drama At Eighteen. He got favorable reviews on his acting in At Eighteen and the ratings also averaged more than 3%.

• She's 22 - chill! This industry is desperate for young actresses. I root for them by default because heaven knows that the quality of roles is just not there and they also don't have the legions of female drama watchers salivating over the latest jail bait for support.

• I feel bad for actors who get slammed when it is totally not their fault. The ratings for He’s Psychometric can be attributed to the fact that it was her first drama, no huge stars to bring in the ratings but her acting was quite serviceable there. Didn’t watch the Welcome, but that’s a poor choice of a drama on her part. I wouldn’t watch a movie about cats let alone a drama series. More than Friends had a promising plot and was geared to be relatively successful, I even fell in love with the first six episodes but it was ruined by a Sh!tty script and the plot was awful. She’s probably being singled out because she premiered as a lead actress, didn’t start out as a supporting actress and work her way up like so many others did. When you’re in the lead role, you get blamed for everything whether it’s your fault or not, conversely, you get praised if the drama’s doing well, whether you deserve it or not. My advice is for her to choose an ensemble drama next, with more experienced lead actresses/actors so the spotlight isn’t on her. The danger of articles like these is that she may end up stuck in supporting roles after such a promising beginning.

• sister of suzy. same acting.

• To be fair to her, name me one young actor or actress that is able to carry a drama on their own (so without a veteran)? K-entertainment has been all about preferential treatment lately and they put inexperienced actors/ shit idols in highly-coveted roles. But normally they pair the newbie/idol up with a star. So for example, they would put Seolhyun with a person such as Namgoong Min or L with Shin Hye-sun. So the odds of flopping becomes much smaller. Shin Ye-eun, on the other hand, does not have a "support" of a star. Instead she is supposed to carry the drama on her back. But she is nothing special, so the low ratings are expected.

  • I can only think Kim So Hyun of someone who make a drama popular even without popular or veteran stars around her. In other words, she is capable of carrying a drama.

    • They’re not comparable though. Kim So Hyun was a child actress with an established fan base due to her solid acting skills over the years. Same deal with Kim Yoo Jung, Kim Sae Ron and a number of former child actresses who grew up under the spot light. They paid their dues and worked their way up to lead actress status. In contrast, Shin Ye Eun is a newbie, rookie actress. She’s charming and talented; but talent can only go so far in the Entertainment Industry. She needs the backing of solid, more established seniors for her dramas to make good ratings.

• More than Friends is just not a good drama. Good premise but the pretty actors are stuck with insufferable characters. She's not great in it, but neither is anyone else.