Well this is an interesting pairing, setting aside the age difference at least I can see potential chemistry between them. K-ent is reporting that Lee Jung Jae and Lim Ji Yeon has been offered the leads in the K-drama Petty Romance, which from the title clearly establishes its genre. Lee Jung Jae plays a very popular typecast as a detective actor who desperately wants to change his image by starring in a romance drama. Lim Ji Yeon is a former hard hitting political beat reporter demoted to covering the entertainment section of the news. I can already smell the meet cute and taste the bickering to come. The drama is from the PD of Good Partner and the screenwriter of Doctor Cha.
I’m against!
Lol, who cares
Big 👎🏻 for me. I personally will be passing on this one despite the fact that I think she’s a phenomenal actress. The age difference is 15 years but he looks like he could be her dad in this picture.
typo… 18 years age difference.
I support. They are both grown ups.
LJJ saw his bestfriend in an age gap romance so he also cast himself in one and got an even younger co-star from among their agency’s actress line up. Kidding aside the PD and writer are quite good.
I haven’t seen lee jungjae in romance so a bit curious how it will do. As for lim jiyeon, she is suitable for romance from what I’ve seen in drama high society. Hope it’s gonna be good
she was super duper good as candy character. The pairing with PHS was such a good combo and saved the drama for me at least.
These old men hate to act opposite women their actual age. The 18 year age gap is gross. There are so many very talented, beautiful actresses in their 40s and 50s who would make great leading ladies here. Im Ji Yeon is only 34! LJJ isn’t even a well-preserved middle-aged man. He is about to turn 52 and looks even older
I wonder how much choice Im Ji Yeon even had since he owns her agency so she can hardly say no if she would rather not have an onscreen romance with her boss who is old enough to be her father🤮
Gosh, why are you trying hard to make him look like a pervert and Lim Ji Yeon as his victim?? There are a lot of dramas with reverse age gap, I’m sure you know it. Noona romance is well known genre in Korea, the biggest age gap was 26 years in noona romance, and yet you acting like it’s only men thing in Korea, filming with actresses younger than them.
I really can’t understand why people can’t criticise actors for professional things, instead you decide to speculate about their personalities and “how much choice LJY has”. As if you know both of them. There a lot of actresses and actors with age gaps filmed together without one of them being more powerful than other. As being in his agency means being in hostage and he’s some kind of evil man with devil plan.
His girlfriend is 45 yo and she’s one of the most powerful and rich women in Korea, if you think about him as about pathetic man loving way younger and less powerful women. Not to say you talking like that not because of some personal information about him, but just because of the casting news.
And some of drama couples with big age gaps managed to look good together and “not gross”.
Lee Jae Wook did it with Lee Da Hee in WWW drama, when he was 19 yo, and she was 34 yo. Very big age gap, and yet they made second lead couple syndrome and were pretty popular.
Pairings not about age gaps, this is about script, chemistry and acting skills.
Don’t bring your personal opinion about age gaps to call others “gross” and perverts.
It’s hard for me to imagine them as a couple, but their age gap and acting skills even makes me wonder how their pairing will look.
Writer and PD look promising and I love comedies. “Typecast detective actor” character also look interesting, so I’m anticipating to that drama.
i would love to see her reunited with PHS, cuz they were so good in High Society. They were the only reason I watched the whole drama. The leads were annoying.
Age gap aside, I honestly don’t really think it would work. But who knows.
This is so gross! I agree that he looks more like her dad. Who was able to thought of such pairing goes beyond me? Ugh…and a romcom at that
The age gap is giving me ick. Also, LJJ is kinda shady, so double ick. Sorry, LJY, I love you as an actress, but I’m going to have to skip this one.
Ugh, again people here turn on drama queen because of age gaps. How long are you going babysit actors? She’s 34 yo, this is not a grooming in any way you can imagine, to call it a gross.
If they will date in a drama, it will be due to character’s own will, not because her character was seduced or forced in such romance.
I’m pretty sure you know other dramas with big age gaps, and that some of this couples managed to look good together despite age gaps controversies. There are even Han So Hee and Park Hee Soon example in My name. They didn’t have romance plotline, they were 26 yo and 50 yo actors, and yet managed to look so good together, to bring such chemistry, deep and history, they made popular second male lead syndrome, despite Ahn Bo Hyun being pretty good male lead. Pairings not about age gaps, this is about how writer will write these characters, how actors will play it and what kind of chemistry they will portray together. There are examples of that, I named two of them here.
And still every time, on every casting news, acting all surprised and shocked.
not sure why your so riled up about some internet strangers opinions on age gaps. hope you know people are allowed to have different opinions and values than you. she’s my sis’ age and my parents had her when they were 19. he’s basically my dad’s age. not everybody wants to watch a drama where the female lead is dating someone that looks like their dad.
Almost the same age gap as Kim Taeri and Lee Byunghun in Mr Sunshine. Idk I guess this is less disturbing (for lack of a better term) because Lim Jiyeon is a bit older now than Taeri was back then. Maybe it’s gonna come down to how well the writing can sell them as a couple because visuals-wise the age gap it’s hard not to look at them together and think it’s a middle age man going through a midlife crisis by dating someone who is almost 20 yrs younger. Like it or not, Lee Jungjae is almost 52 and looks his age.