Squeeeeee, a same gen idol-actor combo that sounds so perfect paired up now! K-ent is reporting that Junho and Yoona are cast in a rom-com K-drama together, probably one of those SM-JYP stan pairings from a decade ago but who cares that’s its taken this long to happen as long as it’s happening. He’s in 2PM and she’s of course a SNSD center and we’ve got both doing so well in dramas and movies and generally meeting onscreen at this current career pinnacle. The drama is called King the Land and the name refers to the coveted VIP room at the King Hotel where Junho is the capable chaebol heir turned company President and where Yoona works as a cheerful hotel employee. Sure this sounds like sooooooo basic in terms of a K-drama rom-com plot but if these two accepted I’m guessing there is either layers or it sounds like a fun harmless romp for them as a change of pace. It’s from the production company behind The Red Sleeve Cuff with the script from the screenwriter of All of Us are Dead.
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While this does sound interesting, I am a bit confused about the "SM stan pairing" part since Junho is from 2PM, who were under JYP. SNSD and 2PM did have a lot of CFs and matchups in the past tho (who can forget Taecyeon and Jessica's dating) so this will be a good drama coupling for sure.
SNSD is from SM.
2PM and Miss A (Suzy) are from JYP.
Also it is Nikhun & Jessica dating.
Sorry It was Nikhun & Tiffany
But 'We got married'with Victoria happened & things became Complicated
Thrilled with the Junho part but did it hafta hafta hafta be Yoona? Guess it's a glass half-full situation. Sigh.
Same. I know she is so-loved by many viewers.. but I just find her performances bland in K2 and The King Loves.
Me too. Nothing about her excites me. Blah acting, blah visuals. And she's got one of those goody goody faces that just grates on the nerves.
Ditto with the very bland Visual. I read a comment before that she looks like Olive Oyl from Popeye’s and everytime I see Yoona I’m immediately reminded of her.
for me, K2 is one of Yoona best performances. so if you find her bland there, her acting might be just not your style it means you do expect the worst.
Have you watched the movie EXIT? Yoona is good in it. Not really her fan. But if you want to trash her acting, you better watch more of her recent works instead of referring to her older performances. People improve with time you know!
Sure, Kelly. You're “not really her fan.” Yet you're so butt-hurt by someone's opinion about her (which they're entitled to, btw) that you just had to defend her. ?
And missjb, no one really takes you seriously on this site so... take a hike, girl.
That's how i feel too!!
Kelly,
I feel like it’s a bit ridiculous to tell someone they need to continue watching a performer they DON’T ENJOY in their future work… just so they can comment on that specific past performance. Where’s the logic in that?
Taste varies- some people dislike Shin Se Kyung but I like her fine. I’d never tell them they are wrong about something that’s essentially just a personal opinion.
Yoona’s acting (to me) is skim milk- flavorless and without any weight. Give me Kim Seul Gi as a main lead any day.
The blandest ones of them. Even the stepmother is better than her. And basically many people are criticizing Yoona's role in K2
So darn excited for this!!!
I've been hoping they'd do a drama since their senorita performance but didn't expect one so soon!!!!
Junho as a chaebol I can't wait ♥
Hopefully it's only 12 episodes ala-Business Proposal so that it doesn't get draggy. Excited to check this out.
I'm not sure about the writer... didn't really like All of us are dead and rom com's are difficult to write well...
But if nothing else, at least we'll have hours upon hours of two gorgeous people to ogle at lol
I'm looking forward to seeing Junho in a comedy as male lead. He was brilliant in Chief Kim and always brings out the best in his co-star
Writer Chun Sung-il also did the Level 7 Civil Servant drama with Joo Won, which was execrable.
Like that, the story doesn't look interesting. Of course, the ML is the chaebol and the FL is the employee...
The acting, the directing, the chemistry will be the factors to make it a good romcom or not.
From a career standpoint I think this is a great choice by Junho. He's in the right age to do a hallyu-bait romcom. He has all the time afterwards to take on gritty or deep roles like TRS and JBL after he's (hopefully) cemented his popularity even further in SK and secured an international kdrama fanbase. While his intl idol fans intersect somewhat with general kdrama fans, they are still a small group. I am rooting for this drama and hoping it gets picked up by Netflix.
“Hallyu bait” is a good way to term this. Exactly what I thought when I saw the genre and casting but I didn’t know the right term.
An actors script choices says a lot about their career aspirations.
Yup! He needs to strike while the iron is hot and build on his career momentum to launch himself to the international scale. Popularity is an unreliable thing but a dedicated fanbase, especially a hallyu one, helps massively in maintaining longevity.
And who knows, maybe the script is actually good? We've seen how not all screenwriters with successful previous dramas have managed to duplicate their success in recent productions. The writer might surprise us.
Junho is always ambitious to begin with.
If I look at him, I am strangely reminded of Naruto, that's why I want to root for him.
He hinted his desire to go to Cannes at Radio star. That's why I thought he would choose movies , but that kind of project may not come to him yet.
He probably have the ambition to go to Oscar or Cannes since Cold Eyes or after his experience in Toronto Film Festival.
He said he has written a song for it, which is the song Nobody Else which was initially released by 2pm in 2015.
The plot sounds dumb, but romcoms don’t succeed on strength of plot. Both leads are popular so that should be a good start.
Now that I've watched Lee Junho's previous works, I am sure there is more to this story. Considering all the best scripts were passed to him after TRS I believe he chose his next project veeerryyy wisely and he does have an eye for great albeit not always "popular" projects. Obviously by this step he is widening his audience especially the International one. I'm excited honestly and will watch it for his acting alone because I fell in love with it in The Red Sleeve.
Or maybe the chance to kiss, sorry I mean, act with Yoona no matter how basic the drama plot, was too good to pass up. From what I've heard, all the 2PM blokes allegedly have a huge crush on her. Beats me why, though. She's blander than cardboard.
Business Proposal was very basic as well and the main lead acting was horrible but it was still popular. Sometimes a light and cliche plot is what people want. I loved The Red Sleeve and its now my all time favourite but would I rather watch something like it anytime soon? No it was heavy, I want something light as well but with good acting and that's what this drama is. And its not nice to assume things of people. Maybe he did have a crush on Yoona but that was like what 14 years ago?! The man is 32 years old, he's probably already dating someone else for all we know. This is small minded thinking.
rom coms r the popular genre nowadays. maybe both lee jun ho and lee se young r emotionally exhausted with red sleeve, thats why they r taking roms coms as their next projects. funny thing is that they r both paired with each others exes (junho-yoona) and (seunggi-seyoung)
I'm sorry, but I didn't know lee se young is junho's ex? They're dating? That's news to me.