2021 Year of the Youth Sageuks with Grown Up Child Actresses Kim So Hyun, Park Eun Bin, and Kim Yoo Jung Fails So Much Talent with Lee Se Young on Deck for the Final at Bat

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• Random but I sometimes wish for a sageuk spin-off of Goblin centered around Kim So Hyun and Kim Min Jae ?

  • Yes to this. They had so much chemistry even in that little screentime. But rather than a sageuk I would like a modern college drama.

  • Oooh this would be brilliant! The chemistry would be fire!

  • KSH-KMJ need to get their own drama stat! The stole the show in Goblin!

• At least KYJ and KSH did well in the acting department despite the plot failing.

  Park Eun Bin was completely out-acted by her childhood counterpart. And while I still watch the drama, I could not help but uttering out "I still don't like this heroine as an adult". Partly how the character was written and partly PEB's acting which made it worse.

  • disagree. ksh peb did well. kyj not. overdramatic acting

• So hyun is so pretty.

  • Seriously her mature beauty in River was a joy to watch. She has always had the most mature look out of all her counterparts but she really started to come into her own with River. She owned that role and it would have been impossible for any other actress her generation to pull of what she did. Truly the best actress of her generation.

  • Indeed. I'm not an avid fan, but she has beautiful features and my, such a small face she has, I'm actually jealous lol. I've always thought that Korean actresses look the best in sageuks (with a few exceptions), and it's certainly the case with KSH. she does have a regal and mature beauty

• KSH and PEB have at least tried to challenge themselves to different and interesting characters that reverse the gender stereotypes. It is shocking though how that one child actress out acted the entire adult cast of TKA. Even PEB pales in comparison to her.

• Kim So Hyun has definitely had the best acting out of all the ones mentioned till now possibly because of how badass her character was the entire time. Park Run Bin is super cool too but just too tiny especially when her male leads are so so tall. It's the first time I'm not enjoying the height gap.

  • KSH is the only one of her contemporaries who is up for a Daesang this year so not surprised. Her acting is flawless as always.

• Park Eun Bin is great in King's Affection and the drama is good for now. It's a good adaptation of a manhwa. I think she has a great chemistry with Rowoon.

  Red Sky was great when they focused on painting but after the demon plot took too much place in the plot and lost its interest. The couple was boring because not well developped.

  River's plot was badly written. But I really liked the fact they chose this area. KSH was better in the role of the Queen than her own role, maybe because the Queen was more interesting.

  The Red Sleeve will be a real sageuk, based on a true story. They won't be able to take too many liberties. I don't really like Junho's looks as King, he looks so pale...

  I don't think it's fair to compare with old sageuks. People don't have the patience to watch a 50 episodes drama anymore. For The King's Affection, there were 2 episodes with the young actors and there were already people complaining about it...

  • I don't think Koala's comparison is about the length. But more about the quality of those sageuks which enabled those actresses to shine in iconic roles.

    • I know she didn't talk about the length but longer story gave more depth to the characters... It's why these young actors could shine, because they were in a lot of episodes as young counterpart.

  • Get the the older actresses back in saeguks. The young ones are terrible this year.

    • Yes to that. Also -- back in the day, kings in sageuk were cast with character actors. Junho is a very sharp actor but what's a guy with his looks doing playing a Chosun king?

    • That sounds like an overstatement. I don't think these young actresses are terrible in any way. It is more of a script problem. I don't think older actresses could have made those writing work.

    • I have to politely disagree with you here. None of them were terrible, it's the writing that's the problem, hence the inconsistent ratings of both RWTMR and LOTRS. KSH even got a Baeksang nomination and a KBA best actress award for RWTMR. And as Koala said, KYJ made LOTRS at least watchable. I've only seen some of TKA, not my cup of tea so I don't think I'll finish it, but from what I've seen, PEB wasn't bad at all. I think it's more the fault of the declining quality of sageuks these days, even the great Lee Young Ae found herself in a mediocre sageuk just recently (Saimdang Light's Diary), so it's not the fault of these talented young actresses.
      It's just my opinion though, it's okay if you disagree.

• So where is update on Kim Seon Ho scandal?

  • Save Koala's blushes please, she probably wants to lie low after running down KSH earlier based on his ex's unsubstantiated allegations. Her last update was Dispatch's first exposé where she painstakingly filtered out the minority pro-CYA comments, painting a false picture of netizen sentiments. Since then, things have only gotten worse for CYA and K-netizens have completely turned on her. Won't be easy for Koala to admit that she was totally fooled into making a fool of herself, all for the sake of milking a "scandal" to earn more clicks.

    • I never knew reporting on a story was milking a scandal for the drama of it. No one had all the facts at the the time (including yourself) and with the way scandals have been happening recently, KSH was just another drop in the puddle, so calling out Koala for information she didn't have at the time is short-sighted of you.

      And honestly, if Koala never updates about KSH's status I'd be fine because I'm tired of hearing about him. It's weird to me how all the new information about KSH's gf paints her in a bad light but never directly refutes a lot of the statements. Yeah she may be a crap person but I'd bet money he is a little crappy as well.

      Dispatch is the tabloids of S.K. so I'm taking everything they push out with a huge lump of salt. We don't truly know the dynamics of the relationships.

    • Dispatch didn't hack into their phones for the second expose. It was CYA's friends who presented the screenshots to Dispatch to publish. CYA sent those intimate screenshots to her friends to boast about her r/ship with KSH. She violated the basic trust & courtesy of their relationship first. Even her own friends couldn't stand CYA slandering KSH's character other than the abortion decision which was a mutual decision for both of them to end the pregnancy. KSH is responsible for that decision yes but he is not the monster she made him out to be. She was caught drinking and flirting with other men in a noraebang while in a relationship when a youtuber was doing an expose on a celeb in the same room with her. The fact that SK advertisers reinstate his ads & retaining his movie role in ST speak volumes.

    • koala post seaweed story 10 pages long but quiet now. where r all moronic feminists now? ksh topic trending in korea herald biggest english online news in korea.

  • I loled too when seeing post about jirisan's rating dropped that had 89replies that mostly mocking, and enjoying the downfall, and the post about it's rating jumped back again that only had 19 replies lol. People here surely really enjoy hating, mocking and badmouthing something. Remember Kim Yoo Jung's post?

  • I had waited to see evidence and whoa never expected her own brother n her own friends provided evidence that refuted the accusation. Have read enough from unbias site, it just feel so good.

  • Ksh is still a gaslighting pos since the abortion scandal was proven true. The ex also being a pos does not somehow exonerate him. Stop caping for that clown already

    • LOL u clown yourself LOL

• Park Eun bin range is crazy good...also really loving her in King Affection
  Kim Yoojung acting is good and is super pretty but that can't save bad drama with meh character lul
  Lee Se Young def has that royalty aura for historical drama but sometimes her acting bored me. I don't know why they casted Junho as a king tho he look so damn modern LOL

• Which one is bad? The scripts or the actresses?

  For example, if those script like Red Sky or River was given to older/seasons actress, (including the refilming from start and whatnot) will it be better than current actress?

  • KYJ is a pretty darn good actor and I don't know if giving it to an older actor would produce a stark difference. The screenplay for the show was pretty poor and I think KYJ did a good job with it. I won't comment on AHS and his character.

    And also to add on, the KYJ and YJG (plus all the younger actors) in Moon Embraces the Sun outshone the older actors unfortunately performances. People can convince me otherwise but I think KYJ was the salvage of this piece

• I enjoyed Bossam. Rest I couldn't finish. I think River Where the Moon Rises would have worked a lot better if the unfortunate fiasco involving Jisoo didn't happen.