Hyun Bin.. yum! yum!

hyun bin is hot! i am looking forward to this drama, even though i have not seen the original yet

definitely something to look out for :)

June-July is looking like uber kdrama months! This, Partners, Triple....yippee! Cannot wait! :) Should pull out my unwatched 'Friends' VCD before this starts.

of all the dramas coming out soon, this one tops my watch list :)

Gotta rewatch Ireland in anticipation of this.
Woot, woot! :D

Can't wait
I like Hyun Bin and Kim Min Joon acting

@ hjkomo, word!

Spoiler loaded MV fr the official OST, there r scenes in it that look EXACTLY like the movie, esp the part when they first saw THE girl.

http://tieba.baidu.com/%D0%FE%B1%F2/shipin/play/3e2f6d4d3f0f8f0639bffd40/

Now....now...where's Samsooki? :P

Well, I saw the MV. It seems like a love story? 2 guys fall for the same girl?
Haven't seen the movie... but which character does HB play? Is is Jang Dong Gun?

Hyun Bin! *steals*

mmmm..... I watched the mv..... seems interesting..., am not hyped though. we'll see....

am not sure i like Hyun Bin's hairdo (i like it better in The World They Live In).... but then he does look like a mob gangster with that haircut....

might check this series.... ^-^

@RIPGAL "Now….now…where’s Samsooki? "
^-^ probably getting a haircut.....

hyunbin speaking busan saturi? kyehehehe

I doubt ( or hope not plzzzz *crossfingerstoes*) the story will be plain love story btn 2 guys 1 girl *yawn*. the movie focused on the brotherhood/gangsters and Pusan.. it's just an mv focusing on the story of Dong Soo (HB).

It'll be interesting to see how it fairs rating-wise....I bet all of the target audience would've seen the movie with scenes vividly burnt in their brains, it won't be ladened with plot twists that will wow us off our seats, just a well done, good quality old school drama, I guess.

HB said couple lines here, I just know it doesn't sound like his usual self, can't judge how good he nailed the accent.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvpT-7HPBL4

Oh, I'm so looking forward to this! I hope it proves to be as addictive as Story of A Man has been... I really need a new kdrama addiction now that the latter has ended *sobs*

Oh please, do we really need another love triangle with gangsters throw in between? I don't mind love triangle as much, but it just irks me when brothers/best friends are after the same woman; it ruins everything. Most of the time, it ends in tragedy. Boo.

I prefer if it just focus more on their brotherhood.

Yap they’ve been in Ireland before and as always Hyun Bin oozed with sex appeal more than Kim Min-joo. The only thing that make it easier to accept Strike Love farewell in the air is that its another Hyun Bin series. I don’t know much about the original kdrama FRIEND and I’m crossing my fingers for this one coz as always I love Hyun Bin.

haha, in Ireland KMJ was the main character and years later, HB is the lead.
i cant wait to see this drama!

I admit, I'm a little slow. I'm stilll working on an american fusion between the hair from binnie as samshiki and the scruffy no-gel poof from snow queen han tae woong, and so this newest look from my binnie leaves me feeling a bit rushed. Its only been a few weeks or months since my awesome styling from Annie of Suki Salon (Palisades Park, NJ) and so I am not ready.to switch it up again...

But wow, they look good right? Im excited again - all I need now is a kick-butt ost.

And ill be watching this series, I think. We are setting up our home system to work through an extra laptop, and while the sound is stereo, I don't think it matters so much for this particular series.

Can my binnie pull off a busan or kyung sang do accent? I'm actually a little worried. If he can't do It properly then all the eye candy in the world won't distract korean viewers' ears. Please do a good job...

This is going to be a must-see...

Ireland is my favorite k-drama ever....so you bet I'm super excited about this reunion! ^_^

These two guys have great chemistry with one another. I really enjoyed their scenes together in Ireland.

Hyun Bin's last drama didn't do so well. I hope this will perform well ratings-wise. Hyun Bin is definitely one of my favorite Korean actors.

@ hjkomo
"Gotta rewatch Ireland in anticipation of this."

hjkomo you are a stronger woman than me. I wanted to pull my eyeballs out while watching Ireland. The only saving grace was the very good acting from the cast. I also liked the fact it was offbeat but the pace is what I would politely call "trying". I also don't dig the possible sister/brother love angle. It was novel in winter sonata but by the time I watched it in Ireland and again in several other dramas I was starting to think the korean writers had some sexual taboo fixation to keep harping on the same strange theme.

@samsookie
"Annie of Suki Salon (Palisades Park, NJ)"

haha. I know where that is and I actually know the haircutter. I go all the way to NJ to get my haircut if you believe that when I visit relatives in NJ but I don't go to suku . Do you actually tell her you want your haircut like binnie? That is too funny.

Man, I gotta say, this is why I love korean dramas.

It's the passion!

Note for the guys out there: when you look at a woman, you have to burn holes with your laser beam eyes, and then shed a single tear without sniffling or having your nostrils flare in and out like a diaphragm.

I watched the two MVs linked in the posts above, and I have to say I am even more excited now. My head might explode if the drama is as good as I am now imagining it will be. Can you imagine if this is as good as I hope it will be? After every episode, living and dying in the same hour, not breathing correctly or adequately, a box of tissues on one side, a bottle of chamisool soju on the other.....

@22 nycgrl -

"@samsookie
“Annie of Suki Salon (Palisades Park, NJ)”

haha. I know where that is and I actually know the haircutter. I go all the way to NJ to get my haircut if you believe that when I visit relatives in NJ but I don’t go to suku . Do you actually tell her you want your haircut like binnie? That is too funny."

LOL! It's so funny that you know of 숙희미용실! How do you know Annie?

Annie rocks! Ever since I started watching k-dramas, I let my hair grow and grow and so I had grown out my hair for like 5-6 months, and so it was long enough to be styled in any number of different ways. My wife then told Annie that I loved k-dramas and so Annie knew exactly what to do. LOL.

But if I told her I wanted to look like a mixture of Hyun Bin from Snow Queen and Hyun Bin from Kim Sam Soon, I think Annie might have died of laughter and I would have died of embarrassment. MNIKSS was 4 years ago and SQ was 2 years ago... I'm so behind!

@Samsookie
"But if I told her I wanted to look like a mixture of Hyun Bin from Snow Queen and Hyun Bin from Kim Sam Soon, I think Annie might have died of laughter and I would have died of embarrassment. MNIKSS was 4 years ago and SQ was 2 years ago… I’m so behind"

That is why I was laughing to myself. Not only would you be so behind in terms of k-fob style but additionally she would also think you have a huge man-crush on hyunbin---which of course you do.

Annie cuts my brother's hair. So I don't know her but I know of her. My husband goes to this place called luz in edgewater. His hair always looks good. The haircutter there just gives him the latest korean haircut but I have forbidden the pama!!

JB yes Hyunbin looks way younger.

@Samsookie
That is why I was laughing to myself. Not only would you be so behind in terms of k-fob style but additionally she would also think you have a huge man-crush on hyunbin---which of course you do.

Annie cuts my brother's hair. So I don't know her but I know of her. My husband goes to this place called luz in edgewater. His hair always looks good. The haircutter there just gives him the latest korean haircut but I have forbidden the pama!!

JB yes Hyunbin looks way younger. the casting is a bit off.

@10, kitty

"Hyun Bin! *steals*"

Ooh, can I drive the getaway car?

Sorry Samsooki, but DAMN, he is hot. Between this article and some smokin' pics that I stumbled across on Viikii yesterday...I can't help myself.

LOVED the first pic!!!! I love Hyun Bin!!!! can't hardly wait to see him in this series, I didn't like The world they live in...

And what about Seo Do-Yeong??? wasn't he supposed to be there too?...my other boyfriend! aaahhh I'll watch this even if it's bad jajaja

If Hyun Bin is reading this im pretty sure he's about to get a restraining order against you guys:P

I've been following this drama for a while, Im still unsure if I'm going to watch this tho since June has enough drama's as it is, don't know yet. And yeah Ireland was very good, the ending was just plain bad tho.

hmm, i've never seen this before. what's it about?

^ pardon the double post up above. There was a slight glitch in the system. I was told it didn't post because the system thought I already posted etc etc etc but it did. JB please feel to delete.

@30 loveydovey -

This drama is a mini-series remake of a 2001 movie called "Friend." I think it is going to be 20 episodes.

What is interesting about this particular remake is that they filmed all the material in advance, and may have very little room to maneuver once it starts to air. If ratings go up or down or if people like certain aspects but not others, they may not have much ability to change the direction of the story lines or the characters.

The movie, and the drama, is about 4 friends from the industrial port city of Busan (B-4? LOL). The four friends names are:

lead - Dong-Soo (my Binnie)
lead - Joon-seok (Kim Min Joon)
Sang-Taek (Suh Do Young)
Joong Ho (Lee Si Un)

Binnie and Min Joon are the two main characters, and the early part of the series revolves around their high school years in the 1970's, and then what happens after they graduate, and the downward arcs of the two leads as they struggle and fight to live their lives in the 1980's.

if you want to know more about the series, you can find and watch the 2001 movie; however, I would anticipate that there will be very important structural and storyline differences between the movie and the series, obviously, so it won't likely be a one-for-one importation.

^structural maybe, but I think ppl were buzzing about how some scenes seen in the MVs out r exactly like the movie, down to the truck and fishes in THAT last scene of Dong-Soo.

It was quite a while since I've seen the movie, and I thought I don't rem much, but there were scenes that r exact replica. I bet that's what the PD is going after, the nostalgia. Though it's just couple minutes, but I must say HB's Dong Soo is not what I rem fr JDG's version. And I wonder if this is by design that DS may not be exactly the same fr the movie (or binnie's fault...) I've to see more of KMJ.

I'm rewatching only scenes of these 2 fr Ireland. I watched Ireland as a BL drama just to keep myself going. I do agree with nycgirl, the plot/pace is very 'trying'.

and me fangirling: ALL the guys (ok except one or 2 oddballs) r so super hot down to the unknowns. And they r going to be fighting and I saw binnie naked...boxing...um...

the snapshots look so nostalgic. im sure the drama is going to be a beautiful series, but at the same time, this kind of drama always leaves me feeling a bit sad and empty afterwards

@hjkomo

See you on the Friend thread very soon! Let's hope we're not disappointed! KMJ is looking very good...LOL ;)

Don't get me wrong I like both actors, but am I the only one who thinks they look a little too old for their characters??

i'm soo excited!! two of my favorite guys in one drama! :D

thanks samsookie! =]