Well it’s certainly double the good tidings for K-actress Jo Boa. She landed the female lead role in the high profile K-drama Knock Off which will air in 2025 and now she’s also landing a new role in her personal life, that of wife. She’s announced her upcoming marriage to a non-celeb boyfriend this October 2024 in Seoul. Obviously even the dating was not known until now but that’s normal for more low key stars especially actresses who if she is dating a non-celeb usually just announce the relationship at the time of a marriage announcement. Congrats to Jo Boa and wishing her happiness in married life!
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Wonderful news, wishing her all the best! I know many do not think highly of her as an actor, but she will always have my respect for her part in the astonishingly excellent Goodbye to Goodbye, one of my all-time Top 10 KDramas (out of 400 or so)
Congratulations to Jo Boa and her fiance! Happy for her and their families 😊
On a side note, I noticed how many celebrities have been getting married lately–often by surprise (without us knowing they were already in a relationship). It only shows how little we know about what happens in their lives. Nonetheless, I’m glad they can balance their personal and professional lives.
Same, what’s in the water over there so many getting married. Hope more are revealed so it puts an end to obsessive shipping, in this case rip to Jo boah’s previous ships. Atleast she won’t also be shipped here, since KSH’s shows attracts the crazies.
Congratulations, hope she has a happy married life!
She’s honestly rather underrated as an actress because her looks mean she’s shoved into the typical leading lady roles which in kdrama = love interest, but she really shines in roles that aren’t romance – like Goodbye to Goodbye or Military Prosecutor Doberman, or even the part of the gumiho drama where she was playing evil. I think she would do really well as a more antihero type of character but not many of those are available for women, so I have hopes of Knock Off – hope it’s good!
She’s shoved into those roles cause she’s stunning. My strange hero is one my fav dramas and the romance is 10/10. I haven’t like her other romance drama’s cause I don’t care for the ML’s.
Definitely her performance in military prosecutor is excellent one. Her best role so far. Goodbye to goodbye had interesting premise but some parts doesn’t feel that interesting. But still unique story to watch
Aw I’m so happy for her! She’s getting married at the perfect age imo and so many actresses have had amazing careers after getting married. Excited to see her in Knock Off too!
This acually very rare for actresses to get married this young and where she at her top career i really wish other actresses (and actorsà ) to fellow back and dont hold back just cuz they are afraid of losing their fame.
She’s 33, I can think of many female Korean actors who were married by that age.
In the far past yes ,but now I cant think of any popular actress that got married early thirties, except of Park Shin Hye, but PSH had shotgun marriage so…
I don’t think this is rare. Kang So Ra got married at 30 years old, Park Shin Hye in her thirties as well. And to the rest of the world 33 years is not early. Early would mean teenage or early 20s.
I think the Korean mindset has to change with regards to marriage, having babies and careers. I’m really happy to see so many celebrity weddings. I hope that marriage and dating become normalized and the so-called term ‘scandal’ should be reserved for truly negative stuff like adultery or cheating, crimes or misdemeanors.
Congrats to her and I hope she’s has a great married life ahead of her!
Congratulations to Jo Boa and her bridegroom to be. It’s unusual for a lead role Korean actress her age to suddenly announce marriage when she wasn’t even known to be dating.
She is now safe from all the crazy shippers too🤣
It is rare for leading actresses who want to maintain a career.
Park Shin Hye had a shotgun wedding though and she is an exception because she has been popular since childhood. Kang Sora’s career isn’t a good example. She has fallen off the radar and made one drama since she got married.
The only exception I can really think of currently is Lee Bo Young.
there’s also the legend herself, Jun Ji Hyun (married at 31) but yeah, after marriage it seems actresses tend to stop getting offered romance dramas which are the most popular/hottest kind of dramas.
Even LBY hasn’t done a romance drama since IHYV which was right before she married.
Among actresses in their 30s, Park Shin Hye is the only exception so far with Dr Slump, but that’s because she was probably the most popular 90s-born actress at the time of her marriage. Jo Boa anyway shines best in non-romance roles so if she stops getting offered romances she’ll be fine, it’ll actually allow her to do better as an actress in some ways.
@Royal We: Oh yes! How can I forget Jun Ji Hyun? But she is definitely a rare exception.
We’ll see how it impacts JBA because romance dramas are her bread and butter. She is an alright actress but I personally don’t think she is a great one so I would be surprised to see her offered many diverse roles. Then again, I never though Lim Ji Yeon would become an award winning fan favourite after years of being clowned for her wooden acting, plastic surgery, sponsor accusations, alleged bad attitude. It can just take that one role, a competent agency (and great styling lol!) to change the path of an actress/actor.