So this is like taking a high prestige K-movie cast and crew and moving it to K-dramas, which is happening more frequently these days. Jung Woo Sung has been confirmed for the drama Made in Korea, with the director Woo Min Ho of Inside Men and The Drug King. The drama is set in the 1970’s and Jung Woo Sung will be playing a tenacious upright prosecutor. Hyun Bin is also in talks for the drama as a male lead and if he accepts he will reunite with both the director and Jung Woo Sung from their most recent project together the movie Harbin coming out sometime this year in 2024.
What a good duo!
Jung Woo-Sung was really good in Tell Me That You Love Me. His scenes with Kim Ji-Hyun were my favorite ones.
Jung woo sung! What a manly guy. Loved him in The Good, the bad and the weird. One of my fav movie.
Always remember his awesomeness in the Running Man episodes too.
Mine too. What a fun movie with 3 great actors. JWS was so debonair , the great SKH always a treat to watch and LBH as a sexy hit man wearing eyeliner.
JWS is great in A Moment To Remember with SYJ. She was only a teenager and already such a good actor. The OST was great too.
World class actors and directors coming out of SK in the last two decades.
Yes, such a fun and thrilling movie and always a great rewatch. Have rewatched it many times. I don’t know if SK have many western movies but this one is definitely a gem.
Chase scenes were just fantastic! Also loved LBH in this role. Ah those guys in their younger days!
I loved him in some lesser known films as well, like Daisy(2006), Sad Movie(2005) and Musa the Warrior(2001). He has a wonderful filmography.
Not familiar with SK movie veterans. But checking his past dramas, I found they {perhaps except for one) did not have any impressive ratings. Movie stars don’t necessarily deliver interesting dramas. Two to three hour acting doesn’t necessarily translate to a stellar performance in a series running 12+ hour long. I’m not critical of this actor since I knew nothing about him. But why do Asian drama fans always assume movie stars have more superior acting skills? Just saying.
It’s because movie actors generally do have better acting skills. They out-act top drama stars ninety-nine percent of the time, which is especially obvious whenever big kdrama actors try to make the shift over to films and have to share scenes with these veterans. On the other hand, when these veterans move over to dramas, like LBH’s Mr Sunshine or CSW’s Stranger, they tend to blow everyone out of the water with their performance. Most of these veterans themselves started out in dramas and “graduated” to films, so a lot of them already had the huge ridiculously high rated shows early on in their careers.
JWS has done maybe 3 actual dramas and has stuck to films for most of his career, which is understandable because they pay more for lesser work and have better scripts and direction (and bcs the guy is as A list as it gets in k-ent). One of these dramas was the iconic Asphalt Man way back in 1995 starring him and LBH which helped him break out. He did his next proper drama over a decade later called Athena in 2010 which had high-ish ratings but was a hot mess story wise lol. His next one was Padam Padam for jtbc which is a cable channel and the ratings were considered pretty good for 2011 (Its only relatively recently that cable channels started having these high ratings, they used to be stuck to around 1 pc in the past).
Over the past few years kdramas have made a lot of strides towards capturing some of the “prestige” of films. Its good to see these actors return to the small screen due to better scripts and OTT hype. JWS’s latest drama TMTYLM had viewership ratings on the “lower” side ig, but to be fair, it aired on a pretty small cable channel which has had only one “big” drama to date; Extraordinary Attorney Woo. TMTYLM also simultaneously aired on D+ & is a masterpiece imo. It’s slow but really melancholic and heartwarming and has a great message. It wasn’t trying to be ratings bait in the first place since JWS aired it on ENA. He’s been wanting to make this drama for yeeeears and finally got the time to do it. I highly recommend it.