Lee Sang-woo and Kim So-eun join Horse Healer
by girlfriday
Now that the leads of upcoming sageuk The Horse Healer have been confirmed, supporting actors are lining up to sign on the dotted line. Lee Sang-woo (Feast of the Gods, Thousand Day Promise), aka Best Oppa Ever, has now confirmed that he will play the the other leg of the Jo Seung-woo / Lee Yo-won love triangle. Oppa, why must you always play the guy who doesn’t get the girl and breaks my heaaaaaart?
This will be Lee Sang-woo’s first sageuk, and he’ll be playing Lee Sung-ha, described as a beautiful and intelligent man. So far so good. And also kind of obvious. But the hero played by Jo Seung-woo (the titular horse healer who goes on to become a royal physician) has a tragic backstory, of course — his father’s wrongful death. And Lee Sang-woo will play the son of the man who killed Jo Seung-woo’s father. So, pretty much your-father-killed-my-father rivals, even before they meet the girl. Then they both fall in love with Lee Yo-won and things get even more dicey.
Joining Lee Sang-woo in second lead land is Kim So-eun (Happy Ending), playing a princess who falls in love with Jo Seung-woo’s character. She’s described as feisty and used to getting her own way, which I guess is no surprise for a princess. She’s known for throwing tantrums to get whatever she wants, but I’m thinking she’ll have to throw a pretty big one to get Jo Seung-woo.
The 50-episode drama produced by the writer-director pair behind Dong Yi and Yi San will air on Mondays and Tuesdays, and premieres in September on MBC.
Via TV Report
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1 danna
June 28, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Lee Sang Woo may never get the girls but he did get the guys or at least one super cute Song Chang Ui and for that I am forever jealous
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danna
June 28, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Also why do sageuk second leads and lead men always have so much daddy revenge drama.... cant writers come up with something more,original.....and Kim So Eun sweetie why do you always pick thing I dont want to see but sm forced to fot you????
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bebu
June 28, 2012 at 7:27 PM
I don't think Kim So Eun is from SM entertainment.
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danna
June 28, 2012 at 8:41 PM
LOL....actually I mistyped....I meant to say "I don;t want to see but amforced to
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bsmm
June 28, 2012 at 7:59 PM
kim so eun is managed by fantagio (formerly known as N.O.A. entertainment).
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mary
June 28, 2012 at 11:33 AM
Wait -- how did he get Song Chang Ui? Where?
*abuses google search*
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mary
June 28, 2012 at 11:37 AM
Hahaha it led me right back to dramabeans!
http://www.dramabeans.com/2010/10/life-is-beautiful-cuts-out-gay-vows-angers-writer/
Good lord, look at those comments! Let me get a bowl of popcorn first...
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Mystisith
June 28, 2012 at 12:23 PM
Thanks for the highlight. I'm reading this at the moment and wow! So many loving people. So much road ahead...
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danna
June 28, 2012 at 8:43 PM
He was part of an adorable gay couple in Life is Beautiful
here's a great review by thundie: http://thundiesprattle.com/2011/01/28/life-is-beautiful/
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anna
June 28, 2012 at 1:56 PM
Didn't he get the girl in Feast of Gods? Funny enough I was rooting for the other lead before I stopped watching.
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stars4u
June 29, 2012 at 10:01 PM
Lee Sang Woo... I was so happy to see him get the girl in Feast of the Gods, he finally scored one girl (as far as his dramas that I've watched).
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Rovi
June 29, 2012 at 11:27 PM
Hey he did get the girl in "First Wives' Club", tho, and that's the reason my mom fell in love with him...
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2 momosan
June 28, 2012 at 10:21 AM
*SPOILERS!!
He got the girl in Feast of the Gods! Which is like the tree in the forest - if you get the girl in a show no one watched, does it make a sound?
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Mystisith
June 28, 2012 at 10:31 AM
According to the ratings, a lot of people watched it. At least in SK: http://www.koreandrama.org/?p=13898
It's just than the show was mostly for foodies: The men and the script were secondary. Also, food on dramas is made to be devoured, you don't talk about it. :)
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momosan
June 28, 2012 at 10:37 AM
Glad I wasn't the only one watching! And he was very very handsome in it, but that show and Fermentation Family have serious serious food porn. FF more so, I was all for making lotus root kimchi after that particular episode of FF.
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WM
June 28, 2012 at 12:09 PM
Oh, heaven help me, I watched both and you are bringing on the flashbacks, especially with FF. The kimchi...the fish...the rice balls...the soups...the wine...the kimchi...and more kimchi...I'm salivating! lol
BTW, I loved both shows, though in all fairness I liked Fermentation Family just a bit more.
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gaeinalee
June 28, 2012 at 6:48 PM
Glad to think that I'm not alone as well. Those 2 dramas had affected me badly, it ruins my diet... Food porn is the worst, eh?? ^^
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Ani
June 28, 2012 at 7:15 PM
Did someone say Fermentation Family?
#ForeverAFermentationFamilyFan
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kdfan
June 28, 2012 at 6:40 PM
Love LSW so much in FOTG! Sexiest chef ever!
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jomo143
June 28, 2012 at 10:31 AM
NOT SPOILERS
He is massively sexy, and I LOVE HIM forever because of LIB.
For all of FotG, I watched and sighed and ogled and stared openmouthed at the beauty that is LSW.
Every second he was on screen I held my breath. Pretty sure if were day, the sun shone brighter, and if it were night, the moon glowed bigger.
The camera people were also in love with him.
I swear some of the shots, the operator forgot there were other actors on screen, as I did.
In one of my favorite "I can't believe this is sexy - it shouldn't be sexy!" scenes was an over the shoulder shot of him eating ramen. They only showed his shoulders, neck and part of his face, but it filled the whole screen.
Then as the series wound down, wardrobe stepped it up and put him in black. I was slaughtered by LSW in Black, and there was always a little peak of his clavicle.
Oy vay. I will watch this because of him. He should totally get the girl in whatever he is in, except when he gets Song Chang Ui.
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Bio
June 28, 2012 at 10:36 AM
YES TO ALL.
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jomo143
June 28, 2012 at 1:37 PM
Why so sexy, LSW?
http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z392/Jomo143/Lookie/lswramen.jpg
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loveyoumomo
June 28, 2012 at 3:05 PM
One of the best comments I have had the pleasure to read here on dramabeans since I started following the blog in '07 :)
LSW's handsomeness/beauty is truly indescribable. I just hope he goes on to pick greater dramas/movies in the nearer future so that I can ogle at him on big screen :)
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Bio
June 28, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Excuse me, but I watched FOTG. Fought voraciously for my OTP (LSW/SYR) mostly in the drama's soompi thread where all the rabid JSW fans blindly (and stupidly) shipped JSW's character to SYR's.
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jomo143
June 28, 2012 at 10:55 AM
Speaking of FotG on soompi -
I have never seen shipping wars get THAT bloody.
HOLY SMOKES!
I weighed in early, but then decided to just silently witness that massacre.
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Kyla
June 28, 2012 at 11:32 AM
You made me laughed.
Actually, I'm one of those who actively participate in that bloody shipping war. I was a LSW/SYR shipper, glad we won.
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jomo143
June 28, 2012 at 12:18 PM
Do you think in FotG case, the writers followed what the fans seemed to want, or do you think it was decided early on?
I was all for JSW at the beginning, but when LSW started to have more screen time, I completely abandoned ship.
Kyla
June 28, 2012 at 12:52 PM
@jomo.
I'm not sure about it because when I first watched FOTG, I firmly believed that LSW is really the main lead because his character is well-defined compared to LSW's. But maybe, the poll voting results cemented the LSW/SYR pairing.
momosan
June 28, 2012 at 4:29 PM
JOMO! How is it we never yakked about FotG, eh? Seriously unless they were involved in the shipping war (I ran far far away from that) people were totally mum about it. I was in it for the food, to be perfectly honest.
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danna
June 28, 2012 at 11:26 AM
HAHAHA!
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Barbara Starks
October 12, 2013 at 12:56 PM
LOL, in the 100 plus drama Don't Hesitate he got the girl....Which is like the tree in the forest – if you get the girl in a show that everyone hope would die, does it make a sound?
I don't know about a tree, FOTG or DH but like Bruno Mars, if this man got me I would make sound like a Gorilla
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3 halaure
June 28, 2012 at 10:26 AM
Kim So-eun, why do you pick projects that I have no interest in watching? Argh. I want to love you so much, but you're not letting me! 50 episodes is just too much to ask. I still remember A Thousand Kisses.
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bd
June 28, 2012 at 11:06 AM
If you haven't seen it yet, watch Kim So-eun in "He/The Man Who Can't Marry" - an excellent romcom starring Ji Jin hee (no cliche-filled storyline, no one-dimensional stereotypical characters).
Quality script and acting all around.
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Mama J
June 28, 2012 at 11:14 AM
She was adorable in the midst of a cast of adorables in that. I loved all of them very much.
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danna
June 28, 2012 at 11:28 AM
I second The Man Who Can't get Married...she's also good in the early half of The Iron Empress/Queen Chun Chu, in which she played a younger Chae Si Ra
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bd
June 28, 2012 at 9:14 PM
Yeah, I stopped watching "The Iron Empress" once the adult Chun Chu took over (that actress was so annoyingly good as the villainess in "The Emperor of the Sea", but she didn't quite fit the part of Chun Chu).
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kopytko
June 28, 2012 at 12:02 PM
Can't blame the girl... who doesn't like a steady income? Obviously it's better to have a job for 50 episodes than 16... Financially at least ;)
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ck1Oz
June 28, 2012 at 3:46 PM
I watched As the wind blows for her.Was it 168 episodes and I didn't even like the main guy.I am an extremely happy Horse Healer fan here.I love all 4 main leads.
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rumpelstiltskin
June 30, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Yeah, she has so much potential but her projects sucks since after the man who can't marry. I hope this one will be great.
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4 camay
June 28, 2012 at 10:34 AM
kim so eun is IN so im IN :)
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5 putihlilac
June 28, 2012 at 11:16 AM
i love him in feast of the God...he so damned sexy..kekeke
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6 Mel
June 28, 2012 at 11:25 AM
He's such a doll and so is she!!! They are great in whatever they are in, bad scripts usually do them in... Can't wait this is a great cast.
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7 Kyla
June 28, 2012 at 11:36 AM
I liked LSW in Feast of the Gods and I'm really waiting for his new drama but I don't know if I will watch this. It's very clear that he's only a second lead so that means he'll be heartbroken in this drama and I don't think I can take it.
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8 sam
June 28, 2012 at 12:09 PM
LSW better get Kim So Eun!!
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anna
June 28, 2012 at 2:00 PM
He won't. You know how in sageuk, everyone is blindly devoted to their one true love ...forever, even when it's one-sided. I bet Jo Seung-woo and Lee Yo-won's characters also meet each other as children.
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j3di
June 28, 2012 at 7:41 PM
I'M ALSO AGREE WITH YOU!!!!
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j3di
June 28, 2012 at 7:48 PM
LSW BETTER GET KSE!!!
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bsmm
June 28, 2012 at 8:02 PM
i don't think it's gonna happen. i agree with anna, such premise seems to be the trend in saeguks and i think that it has been established that kse and lsw will both experience one-sided love. if there were a chance for both of them to get together, it should have been mentioned.
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9 birdscout
June 28, 2012 at 2:08 PM
LSW was also wonderful and as handsome as always (note his well-defined biceps in a short-sleeved shirt!) in the first drama I ever saw him in, 9E2O. He has a beautiful voice, too. :)
I like all the leads announced in this drama. I think this sageuk is on my to-watch list.
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10 fhifhsfa
June 28, 2012 at 2:16 PM
awww, I want LSW to get KSE. Two pretties together.
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MeNyMoNy
June 28, 2012 at 2:59 PM
No, LSW better get LYW. That pair already sounded so irresistible even before I see anything from the drama.
Though, turns out they met each other already at some gathering:
http://no3.upanh.com/b6.s1.d4/7caa63a10caf3bf89ddc3901d49081bc_46632773.b.jpg
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karen
June 28, 2012 at 3:21 PM
OMO where was that? Y'know, Jo Seung-woo is wonderful actor and all but the little voice in my heart already starting to whisper that I might ship Lee Yo-won with Lee Sang-woo, not just b'coz they'll look good together but of their characters relationship. Best friend-turned-step siblings-one sided then forbidden feeling. All that angsy-ness that might happen, OMO I squeal!
And did U know them 3 leads are all same age born in 1980? hmmm... fascinating tidbit.
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11 Shawnee
June 28, 2012 at 2:19 PM
Yes, Lee Sang Woo!!!!
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12 Yoori
June 28, 2012 at 3:01 PM
I can't wait for the day LSW plays the lead and get the GIRL (Forget FoG!), I think he's quite underrated; he's tall, handsome, has charm, screen presence and is a good actor ... can't wait for his time to shine! Until then, guess we'll continue on with the BEST OPPA EVER title for him .....
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mita
June 28, 2012 at 5:50 PM
He's the lead guy in Don't Hesitate and he also gets the girl there.
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13 Lise
June 28, 2012 at 3:05 PM
aah...i've seen him get the girl twice!
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14 Daisy
June 28, 2012 at 4:18 PM
Man Kim so eun is doing projects after projects! A thousand kisses to the Secret angel to Happy ending and now this! I hope she doesn't overwork herself =\
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15 Katherine
June 28, 2012 at 4:18 PM
How strange I just finished watch Music & Lyrics episode that Kim So Eun was apart of with 2PM's Junho and they created a song for Feast of God's, what a coincidence. Always been a KSE fan so I'll definitely be paying attention to this although I do wish she'll star in a drama soon where she is the lead actress.
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16 Steamy Bun
June 28, 2012 at 5:22 PM
I'm actually kind of excited for this. Jo Seung Woo is my first love (at least as far as Korean actors go) and I have really been missing him. Plus Lee Sang-woo is fiiiine!! And I like KSE and LYW as well. Sounds like it could be the male version of Jewel in the Palace. :D
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17 wanderlust
June 28, 2012 at 5:38 PM
WHY OPPA WHY. STOP SIGNING UP FOR 2ND LEADS YOU DESERVE MOARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.
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18 Alexwalksin
June 28, 2012 at 6:08 PM
Its ok, honey. At least you're the leading man in my life and i am the woman in yours! XD
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19 malta
June 28, 2012 at 6:21 PM
♥
Favorite among favorites. He has an awesome smile. Good to know he has a new drama lined up after FotG.
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20 wanderlust
June 28, 2012 at 7:18 PM
no seriously, I really think he's graduated to leading man material by now, I don't know why he's content to play the second lead all the time. Wait just beg the writer to swap him out with Jo Seung Woo and have him be the second lead :)
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21 magicbang
June 28, 2012 at 8:21 PM
im tottaly in love with him on beautiful life ... even im not gay
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22 lilly
June 28, 2012 at 9:31 PM
kim so eun can be the lead now. i think it's time for her time but why she's always act the second lead.
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23 athena
June 28, 2012 at 10:39 PM
I watch over and over FOTG just to see LSW over and over again..I want to see in this up coming drama which of the guys have chemistry with LYW or KSE chemistry with the main lead..so waiting impatientl for this drama.
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24 LSW forever
June 28, 2012 at 11:22 PM
Me too!!!! I've watched and still watching FOTG just to see LSW over and over and over again.
BTW, LSW and JSW share the same birthday month and one day apart, 12 and 13 February.
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25 odetojoy
June 28, 2012 at 11:40 PM
LSW forever!
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26 Elllen
June 29, 2012 at 2:46 AM
Yay! Lee Sang woo! Can't wait. Love him. I enjoyed Feast of the Gods with his superb performance and the ending was satisfying cuz he's the winner.
Kim So Eon> Love her too. Very talented. She wrote the lyrics for The feast of the GOds OST with 2pm Junho who composed the music.
I admire all the leads of Horse Healer so really looking forward...Lee Sang Woo!
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27 Belle
June 29, 2012 at 5:12 AM
KIM SO EUN!!
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28 rumpelstiltskin
June 29, 2012 at 5:14 AM
Sageuk is not really my genre! But what the hell, Lee Yo Won + Kim So Eun in a drama? Woah. I'll definitely give this a shot!!
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29 rjyuggy
June 29, 2012 at 7:31 AM
this cast just sealed the deal for me. I will definitely watch this! Next line up of dramas is strong so far.
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30 drama fan
June 29, 2012 at 8:28 AM
Wow Lee Sang Woo.....why why second lead?
I love LYW and KSE....sorry dont know much about
Jo....
50 episodes !!!! OK will watch because of Lee Sang Woo
anticipating myself to skip many scenes...
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31 camay
June 29, 2012 at 10:07 AM
kim so eun is heart
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32 0316
June 30, 2012 at 4:55 AM
lee sang woo and kim so eun, i really had a bad day today the moment i woke up but after reading this it made my day, two of my favorite people and actors together in a drama!! although they are not a couple here it's still fine, cause i still can see kyung-soo in sang woo and ga eul in so eun!! haha looking forward for this drama exciting!!
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33 Hope
July 1, 2012 at 8:16 AM
Wow,so much love for LSK. I haven't watched him in any of the shows mentioned. I'm actually excited to see JSW because I loved him in "The Classic " which I rewatched while Love Rain was airing. I prefer "The Classic"to Love Rain both for the story, the acting and the actors.
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34 hillah
July 1, 2012 at 7:21 PM
i'm waiting for the love triangle of JSW-LYW-LSW
hmm.. but looking at the journey of LYW-LSW relationship, i think i will be a broken heart for the second lead love..
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35 kira
July 3, 2012 at 2:41 AM
hmf...kim so eun's not needed in this drama ...she's still an amateur...eeeeshhh
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Uca
July 3, 2012 at 9:47 PM
lol watch your mouth
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36 thekors
July 3, 2012 at 5:17 PM
Heard that Jo Bo A (from SUFBB) is also confirmed for this drama? And I'm not sure whether it's in place of Kim So Eun, or merely another addition.
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37 Leonor
July 17, 2012 at 7:32 PM
Kim So Eun......voy a esperar impaciente el estreno de este drama....
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38 LSW Fan
July 19, 2012 at 1:26 AM
I love LSW since i seen him at Life is Beautifull n Dont Hesitate ..The great actor , Handsome and sexy....ooh I cannot Wait to see him in future Drama ....Fighting Oppa ..Good Luck....
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39 girlatsea
September 2, 2012 at 9:23 AM
LEE SANG-WOO OPPA T___T
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