So Ji-sub confirms crime drama Ghost

75 March 12, 2012March 12, 2012

by javabeans

The new drama Ghost is a go for So Ji-sub, which brings him back to television after two years away. It’s no surprise that he’s once again playing an intense character in a dramatic thriller, since that’s his bread and butter (Road No. 1, Only You, Rough Cut, I’m Sorry I Love You, What Happened In Bali…); what I’d really love is to see him give his furrowed brows a rest and laugh up a storm in a comedy. Hasn’t he earned the laughs after all those tortured romances and tragic deaths?

In Ghost, So Ji-sub stars as a cold detective in a cyber crimes investigation unit. It’s not a fantasy drama but the setting is described as “a cyber world different from the world we live in” — one where cyber investigators find out people’s secrets that are hidden in their ultramodern techie gadgets, “solving puzzles with suspense and thrills.”

So’s character, Kim Woo-hyun, is the son to a high-ranking official of the police department, and has progressed with top marks through academy, training, and now as an elite officer himself. He’s got a strong sense of duty, a perfectionist attitude toward his work, and is one of his department’s top brains. His leadership skills are excellent but also believes that harboring friendships can be detrimental to his work. Naturally, the one person who can open his hart is someone with whom he has “a conflicting fate,” a former friend and rival. So… basically he’s the police version of Park Shin-yang genius coroner counterpart from Sign, which was the PD’s last drama.

Still no word on why this drama is called Ghost. Are there traces of ghosts in his case? Or maybe our perfect asshole of a hero (’cause he sounds a little like an asshole, let’s be honest) is haunted by the memory of his rival? You’d think that in a drama that sounds like such a standard, run-of-the-mill procedural (cold guy + smart brain + crimes to solve) you would lead with the unique angle.

Ghost will be a Wednesday-Thursday drama that premieres in May.

Via TV Daily

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1 craziluver

March 12, 2012 at 8:24 PM

doesn't matter if its typical procedural crime drama as long as its So Ji Sub!!
I gladly agree with you, this guy needs to find a good laugh comedy, I have not seen him in any comedy drama.

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alexe

March 13, 2012 at 4:20 AM

Yes as long as it's JSB ...

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2 Nadia

March 12, 2012 at 8:30 PM

Maybe the villain is hard to detect(or see) like ghost.
I'll watch it bec. i loved Sign last year.

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3 HeadsNo2

March 12, 2012 at 8:33 PM

I'm waiting for the police procedural/medical drama where the lead is a good, well-rounded, warmhearted guy. Are nice detectives just not dramatic enough?

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diorama

March 12, 2012 at 9:17 PM

I know, right? Plus, the 'bad' image is really just a sham, because the guy always has noble redeeming qualities.
If he's an asshole, make him a real asshole, not a fakeout. Give him some really nasty qualities like selfishness or greed. Or else make him a well-rounded and complex good-hearted individual - if you're a good writer, you can make tons of conflict out of ordinary people.

I guess this is why nothing really will top White Tower, in my opinion.

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kbap

March 12, 2012 at 9:44 PM

Haha, make him like House - selfish and cold, and yunno, a real jerk. And sarcastic. Not one that still looks after his buddies when they're in trouble. Those qualities that redeem them are kind of irking me. Wait - you said he was an ass - why isn't he being one? I expected one, and you gave me a inner softy? Yeah, I'm probably that one customer you've seen in stores arguing about having coffee that has a two pinches of sugar, not just one. HAHA. But yeah, I kind of want a nice-guy badass (not ass-y) hero. Please?

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Ani

March 13, 2012 at 12:57 AM

Can we just get a Korean Gibbs please? Hell, a Korean NCIS with an Abby, Tony, Ziva, McGhee, Ducky and a Palmer to boot? Throw in a Leon Vance while you're at it.

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seattlebabe

March 15, 2012 at 3:08 PM

I agree with you WT is one drama that had put so much pressure on my chest -I could literally find it difficult to breathe. The tension is so much and the acting so intense .

I hope Ghost comes close to it , but then it will make JS 's brows dig its furrows deeper. Is it just his facial expression regardless of the scene ? LOL . Well he has to learn to relax that, as that will follow him for the rest of his life (wrinkles will be there ). Oh well ,Botox can help and for males they say that will give him character not ageing signs.

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4 gerimis

March 12, 2012 at 8:36 PM

that expression of him in the pic is the same as mine when i'm reading this post..no kidding..
erm...cyber crime ....weird.. its my dream to be in a cyber crime department...maybe i'm in or maybe i'm not

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5 jomo143

March 12, 2012 at 8:37 PM

Ahh! I will prolly not watch this!
They say "ghost" a lot, it seems when someone is mysteriously good at something.

Maybe equal to our "whisperer," which has gone from making sense with "Horse whisperer" to not making sense with "bra whisperer"

I mean, who talks to lingerie?
I expect YY will answer that.

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Javabeans

March 12, 2012 at 8:41 PM

They usually use a different for a person with keen skills, 귀신 (gwi-shin). This title, 유령 (yoo-ryung), means a phantasm/specter, which makes me expect the woo-ee-ooOOooo kind of ghost. I think. Maybe. Who knows.

They should've just called it Cyber and been done with it, based on how many times they used that word in the press release, I swears.

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jomo143

March 12, 2012 at 8:49 PM

OK, so I went from "Ah, I get it now."
to LOL at woo-ee-wooOOoo to
"What's that song with that in it?"

I give you:
Morris Day & The Time " Jungle Love "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFl_QKkLxXc

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Mama J

March 13, 2012 at 5:05 AM

What time is it?!!!!

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YY

March 13, 2012 at 12:14 AM

I thought SJS was going to get shot in the head and die one ep into the drama, and come back as a vengeful ghost who keeps showering and showering frantically in an attempt to come back to life. Hey, Jomo, SSH probably talks to his towel all the time, saying things like, "Looking good down there, old man" Or "Hang in there, chingu." Or "Aigoo, chincha!" giving it a friendly slap when it slips.

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jomo143

March 13, 2012 at 8:32 AM

Hang...splurt...in...coffee...there?!

“Aigoo, chincha!”

I think you are on to something, YY. Maybe "little SSH's" name IS "Chincha!" THAT's why he says it all the time!

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6 Cynthia

March 12, 2012 at 8:40 PM

Omg. Not this again.
I'm still laughing from the last SJS post.
:)

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Cynthia

March 12, 2012 at 8:50 PM

Oh, and I think I know what's up with the title 'Ghost' (only cause I just finished a book penned by the FBI's most wanted cyber computer-cracking genius).

Ghost (in the Wire) is a term used for said genius able to infiltrate top level programs, firewalls, etc., and doesn't leave any traces of him being there. (Which will be a total anathema to So Ji-sub's ego once he figures out the plot.)

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diorama

March 12, 2012 at 9:19 PM

"Which will be a total anathema to So Ji-Sub's ego" *Snort* LOL. Yeah, crouching at computer is not exactly the type of flamboyant abs-flashing action SJS enjoys.

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YY

March 13, 2012 at 12:32 AM

Winning scene from "Broody Ghost": SJS stares vacantly at the computer for 10 secs, snarls, "I work best when I'm topless!", rips his shirt into shreds, and then sinks sullenly into a crouch at the computer.

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Mama J

March 13, 2012 at 7:27 AM

And his hair looks great the whole time.

harukogirl

March 12, 2012 at 9:29 PM

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the word came up in the hacking jdrama "bloody monday" too - that's what I thought when I heard the title

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YY

March 13, 2012 at 12:20 AM

They'll probably want to take him out because he stumbles upon some secret that involves the top guys and he'll become a fugitive who forces some girl to help him and they'll both keep running, only stopping occasionally at some motel for him to shower and show us his abs.

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Mama J

March 13, 2012 at 5:06 AM

I plan to limit my comments to how much I like his haircut.

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jomo143

March 13, 2012 at 8:36 AM

I plan to insert this tangen:

Does anyone else think of Christopher Walken when you see his "Fate made me do it?" DB banner (by tae) where he is wearing a trench coat?

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Mama J

March 13, 2012 at 8:45 AM

YES

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Cynthia

March 13, 2012 at 10:19 AM

IDK - when I think "Christopher Walken" I think of
a.) The skeevy "Continental" of SNL
b.) COWBELL!!
:)

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jomo143

March 13, 2012 at 10:40 AM

b.) Of which more is needed!

Mama J

March 13, 2012 at 11:38 AM

b.) Do you think SJS can play the cowbell?

7 Kiara

March 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM

I'm so sick of him in serious roles. Try something different please.

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lenrasoon

March 12, 2012 at 8:55 PM

mte i'm starting to think that So Ji Sub only knows how to play one type of character.

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NewKDramaAddict

March 13, 2012 at 7:42 PM

Yes but SJS plays the serious character roles so well! I still love him but yes, after seeing earlier Rom-Com with Jang Hyuk, maybe he has earlier works that were Rom-Com.

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MiMi

March 12, 2012 at 9:16 PM

I know! I just watched Always/Only You with Han Hyo Joo and it was good but I really wished at the end that he would pick something more fun and funny. I'm sure he'd be good at it, especially since he can cry really well.

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aya

March 12, 2012 at 9:18 PM

AGREED!!! i want to see him SOOOOOOO bad in a Rom-Com. pair him up with Kim Sun Ah and I'm there .

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Jini Neutron

March 12, 2012 at 9:48 PM

Agree with this one.
A rom-com for the man, she needs a good laugh from his emotionally draining roles.

Park Jin-hee, Kim Sun-ah, Gong Hyo-jin or Kim Jung-eun for his leading lady will be awesome, coz this women are brilliant in this genre.

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Ani

March 12, 2012 at 9:46 PM

I can't even be sick of him in serious roles because I've never even watched any one of his dramas/movies. Why? Because the first kdrama my mother decided to make me watch was Stairway to Heaven (Choi Jiwoo & Kwon Sangwoo) and it pretty much ruined me off of any overly dramatic kdrama. If there is ever a kdrama to NOT use to open the gateway to kdramaland, or ANY dramaland, it's that one. Amnesia, cancer, incest (does it count if it's between step siblings?), evil stepmother and evil-er stepsister, and the whole "I give my eyes to you so you can see again" thing. GAH!

But this I will give a shot as long as the ending is NOTHING like what I heard the Sign ending was.

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aya

March 12, 2012 at 10:31 PM

Don't get me started on SIGN, thank the Lord i stop half way tat ending wad BS. a "Sacrifice" like his was not needed, there most be another way to catch the evil doers

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Ani

March 14, 2012 at 7:42 PM

I take it back. I did watch one Drama of his. I saw some of a Thousand Years of Love and all I could think was "Why does this guy always look like he's just waking up?" Heh. I.... hated the ending of that drama too. Gr.

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Carinne

March 13, 2012 at 5:57 AM

Well, he did a rom-com in film back in 2009, called Sophie's Revenge.

He probably needs an outlet to vent out all the press meetings and photo journals stress he's been stacking and piling on top of his office desk.

I wouldn't be surprised if this show hits close to home for him, like journalism espionage. Someone is out to crack down his magazine label and hacking off his Apple hard drive. LOL!

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Mama J

March 13, 2012 at 7:29 AM

I loved that movie. Mostly because it introduced me to Peter Ho...but So Ji Sub's hair looked great, too.

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Jossy

March 13, 2012 at 4:36 PM

I was about to mention that film!
I only watched it because I love me some Peter Ho and Zhang Ziyi, I was pleasantly surprised to see SJS in that film too. I thought he couldn't go wrong with this, but he played such a wishy-washy character that all I saw was brood,brood,regret,brood. I still loves him :) and that film.

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NewKDramaAddict

March 13, 2012 at 7:44 PM

I forgot about Sophie's Revenge but he wasn't in it much!

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8 ililaa

March 12, 2012 at 9:18 PM

So Ji Sub is good looking and but he sucks at playing almost every character he takes on.

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harukogirl

March 12, 2012 at 9:31 PM

See.... (ducks in advance) I never thought he was even cute.

*please don't kill me, anyone*

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NewKDramaAddict

March 13, 2012 at 7:45 PM

Them's fighting words :-D

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9 Toya

March 12, 2012 at 9:58 PM

From the description given above it makes it sound like the police version of Ghost in the Shell's Section 9.

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Arhazivory

March 12, 2012 at 11:57 PM

Exactly what I was thinking. The name doesn't sound off to me because when I think cyper space alternate world, I think Ghost in the Shell.

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10 Linh

March 12, 2012 at 10:41 PM

Yes. Why can't he just be in a simple rom-com for once and also, get the girl at the end? Such a simple wish, is it too much to ask?

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skelly

March 22, 2012 at 6:48 PM

Well, he was in a rom-com where he got the girl, "Now We Are Dating" in 2002, with Chae Rim as his girl. But was he happy? Nope. He moped his way through that one, too, and waffled about whether he could/should have the girl and treated her horribly (and Chae Rim was so cute! And perky!). I am so over his indecisive gloom, I never mind it when he gets done in in the end - I think I would do it, too, if I had to deal with that face all the time. He's like Eeyore.

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11 Geneva

March 12, 2012 at 10:54 PM

I'd be more interested were he literally haunted by the ghost of his rival, not just the memory. *snort* How's that for crime scene hijinks? Or if the ghosts of the victims helped him solve the crimes... via interwebz? Ghosts can send emails. According to several horror movies I've seen.

In other news, I've had about enough of the "cold" surgeon/detective/chaebol character. Not every successful professional in the world is a raging asshole. <.<

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12 Mini Roo

March 12, 2012 at 11:13 PM

oooo, a futuristic, technological crime world. interesting~

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13 Niki

March 12, 2012 at 11:20 PM

Hmm...strangely Ghost in the Shell comes to mind.

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14 anna

March 12, 2012 at 11:36 PM

Woo! Crime shows! I love it already. I wish the lead has more of a Sherlock Holmes-like quality. I enjoy an asshole if he can actually make that likable.

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15 evebay39

March 12, 2012 at 11:49 PM

Ditto to The WIre comment above, I'd guess it's a reference to 'ghost in the machine' - which, if you ignore the original psych gubbins, is again a common reference around hacking and cyber crime. It seems a very English title for the show.

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16 john

March 13, 2012 at 4:01 AM

Are there any Korean or Asian film noir / Sam Spade type detective shows or movies?

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jomo143

March 13, 2012 at 8:50 AM

I'd watch that.

There was a film I saw recently that felt like those - where the lady isn't what she seems and the truth is always one alley beating and one bottle of whiskey away...
I cannot think of the title for the life me right now...

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jomo143

March 13, 2012 at 10:43 AM

Ten, with Joo Sang Wook, is noir-like.

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Mama J

March 13, 2012 at 11:39 AM

and I am LOVING it.

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17 antonia

March 13, 2012 at 5:07 AM

yayyyyyyy
i can't tell how excited i am... cause the drama seems good and interesting and cause it's SJS!!!!!! i really can't wait for this, just don't kill him and i'll be forever happy <3333333
seriously best news ever!!!!

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18 Mama J

March 13, 2012 at 5:08 AM

His hair looks really good in this one.

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Cynthia

March 13, 2012 at 7:58 AM

[snerk]

I bow down to your iron will.

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19 ilovekpopwg

March 13, 2012 at 5:16 AM

is he a good actor and its this drama that shin min ah was going to be in

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20 cherkell

March 13, 2012 at 5:23 AM

Bring in Yoo Seung Ho as the child version of SJS's character, have the (purported) ghost chant "UuuunnnnAAAAHHHH" instead, and I will die a thousand happy deaths. :)

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Mystisith

March 13, 2012 at 6:05 AM

LOL! I see i'm not the only one shaking the web to get new jobs for my boys. Poor YSH... Not sure this would help his career. Unless...
Unah's soul trapped in the web. Having to to find a solution in order not to be killed stupidly in that *bleep* end of a past life. See: fusion sageuk, time travel, cyberworld...
With his medical skills, he helps saving the life of a hacker's daughter, and fall in love with her (time continuum rupture). Everyone gets killed to send him back to his era.
Second chance at not screwing the love and meaning of his life...
I'd better stop here, i'm not sure my influence will be good either. Let's stay good supportive and disciplined fans.

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21 jen

March 13, 2012 at 6:08 AM

I just hope Lee Yeon Hee doesn't get the female lead. She is just horrible at acting. Case in Point: everything she's been in.

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22 Cam

March 13, 2012 at 8:45 AM

Whooo! I am glad that SO JI SUB confirmed his new crime drama ~ YAY! \^o^/ I will be looking forward to this! Ah, I've noticed that some people (from comments) desire to see SO JI SUB would be act so funny in an romance-comedy dramas, of course. Also, I've watched that movie "Sophie's Revenge" but it was great and fun, hehe! I am sure that SO JI SUB probably have his "first-time" movie w/ genre (romance-comedy), yups! I really would like to see him with my top favorite actress KIM SUN AH in a romance-comedy drama sooooomeday ~ *crossing fingers* ^_^

FIGHTINGGGG SO JI SUB ! ! ! !

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23 Nheony

March 13, 2012 at 9:14 AM

Okay JB I will get all geeky and just share a hunch here. I think maybe they are playing with the technological term "GHOST" which is an acronym for "General Hardware-Oriented System Transfer". It's a software that copies data from hard disks and generally used for backing up or cloning drives.

So cyber investigators, peoples secrets hidden in tech gadgets... kinda fits the bill.

I'm hoping this will be an interesting ride.

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24 arinkorin

March 13, 2012 at 10:04 AM

Read a news that Lee Yeon Hee was offered the female lead role for this one.

If she accepts the offer, means that it will be the 2nd time that they will be working together! I do agree that LYH has still got to improve on her acting skill, but I kind of like seeing them together in U-Turn, too bad that it was too short though.

We'll see. Can't wait for the rest of the casts to be announced too!

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belleza

March 14, 2012 at 1:11 AM

Come to think of it, wasn't LYH a GHOST in U-Turn?!?

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25 fab

March 13, 2012 at 1:10 PM

He was in a rom(com, not sure)-drama with Chae Rim back in 2002...

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antonia

March 13, 2012 at 7:14 PM

i just finished it!!!! the drama's name is "We are dating now" and SJS was so cute and dorky in it i just love it!!!
though i must say i get a little frustrated with chae rim by the end of the drama

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belleza

March 14, 2012 at 1:25 AM

There's 1000 Years of Love, where So Ji Sup plays a shifty con who was once a great Baekche general and now sails knock-off clothes to bar hostesses.

This is the greatest sageuk in the history of Belleza's mind. Thrill to Sung Yu Ri (who believably a Baekche princess who uhhh has a scene where she misses the toilet) intones the greatest line in the history of K-drama: "die Shilla pig! I will boil all their livers in a boiling vat of water!" Even This Mishil would cower to Sung Yu Ri.

Nah, seriously, So Ji Sup started out in comedies. He was in that sitcom with Chae Rim and Kim Sun Ah. And he was kinda a goofball in Law Firm.

Even accounting for Glass Slippers, So Ji Sup didn't turn into, well, the DMX (aka "I feel is pain -- I fell is rain!") of K-drama until Bali.