Haven't seen any of her dramas.....probably she'll be the typical angle in the love square, which is always there in every drama.....

Yeah not a fan either... she was very uninspiring in Paradise Ranch and I can honestly not even remember her from Ghost, and they're the only dramas I've seen her in. So yeah, not her biggest fan, but if it is just an extended cameo, 3-4 episodes, then I'm not adverse to her. Just not, well, for her either.

Good luck to Lee Seunggi, then.

I've seen her in Kim Junsu's Timeless MV along with Choi Siwon, Millionaire's First Love with Hyun Bin and Ghost with So Ji Sub. Pretty girl with straight face. Kinda reminds me of Jo Yoon Hee in Lie to Me. I like her though. Maybe she just need good drama to extend her acting skill.

She's hotter than Suzy. That's all that matters.

Excuse me,but did Suzy's agency already confirmed about her casting in this drama? Just in case i missed it.The last time i checked she's still considering it. I know everyone keep calling this is Seunggi and Suzy's drama but i haven't hear it from JYPE. I love both Seunggi and Suzy.Just doesn't want to get my hopes up...LOL

About Lee Yeon hee,ehh...i hope she's only a cameo. Never a fan of her acting.

*sigh* I hope her role will be an extended cameo like you said because I'm so underwhelmed by this news. Not a fan of her acting. I at least find Suzy likable enough and has comedic sense to be excited about her pairing with Seunggi. Moreover, I seriously hope we can have more great actors and actresses in this drama to help boost Seunggi and Suzy's performance and skills more.

Anyway, I have the same sentiment with comment no.6 up there. I like all of Seunggi's dramas thus far, so that's what keeping me positive about GFB now. Please be good! And I wish everything runs smoothly from here on.

You know, for some reason I prefer Go Ara to her (I saw her in some variety show and she was hilarious). Lee Yeon-hee I always put in the same category as SNSD's Yoona and TVXQ's Yunho ---> absolutely painful to watch.

I like her. Not that she is a great actor or anything but her screen presence is decent and she has a pretty face that appeals to my aesthetic sensibilities (which is why I actually like Kim Tae Hee, Song Seung Hun and So Ji Sob).

I liked Suzy a lot in Architecture 101 (but then again that film was so good that I liked the other three actors whom I normally don't really care for).

But most important is Seung Gi adorableness which trumps any co star as far as this viewer is concerned. I'd watch his show even if his co star is Snooki.

Guess I'm gonna have to avoid this drama then. lee yeon hee is such a bad, uninspiring actress, I can't stand her. I remember reading an article awhile back saying that she couldn't even act well in a CM commercial because the staff and director were all complaining about her performance. she was a huge miscast in Ghost too.

I just finished watching One Fine Day yesterday with Lee Yeon Hee as the 2nd female lead. That drama has a horrible beggining - nothing like the story and feeling that follows. I dropped it at first, then tried again for Gong Yoo and Sung Yu Ri. It was worth it. I'm not sure if Lee Yeon Hee just had a really boring role and that wouldn't be her fault. There are too many uninteresting female characters written who are suffering from diseases, tumors and one-sided love.

So she either dies, or she's a flashback character... like his mom or something. Her role is supposed to be essential to the plot but doesn't seem that big. It doesn't sound like she's the 2nd lead. Hm, some Seunggi fan blogs have more info about the 1st and 2nd female leads, but it's mostly rumors.

i'd rather have her than Suzy. even if both aren't the best out there, at least Lee Yeon Hee is exponentially hotter. xD

Lee yeon hee,, hmm Paradise Ranch is such a terible,,Lee yeon hee hair in PR is annoying me the most,,( bc she is beautiful but what the hair... Ckckck) I better like her role in east of eden and millionaire first love ,, althoug I'm not her fan,, but I like her,, I always thinking that seung gi is more have chemistry with noona (mature woman) than younger female lead,,,hahaha maybe bec he is always so cute in my eyes,but Suzy is likeable I hope they have a great chemistry :)

Suzy or Lee yeon hee or both of them,, I wil watching this for seung gi :)

Oh no! I love LSK, and though I don't hate Suzy, I don't think she is that talented in acting,for me her performance in intro to architecture was below my expectations, I find that movie overrated. Don't hate me for saying this T_T
As for yeon hee, never liked her. I first saw her In East of Eden (which was a wreck on its own), she always has the same boring tone and expression, ans that gets super annoying. I was hoping there would be a better leading lady opposite LSK, he was amazing in K2H, great improvement, so he deserves a more talented leading lady.
Btw the whole half monster/ half human deal is a lot like Inuyasha, except nuyasha was seeking to be full demon, and LSK is seeking to become a complete human heheheheheh me like!

I love Lee Yeon Hee like I love Han Ga In and Yoon Eun Hye, but her acting is just mediocre like theirs as well.

She's lovely.....just need improvement in the acting department

Is that bad that I hope Park Shin Hye will take the lead of this ( since Suzy hasn't confirmed yet) after her "Flower boy next door"?
I think they would be a great couple

I think she guested in Running Man once, in their China special...? If she's that same person, I remember she was always smiling but a bit on the dim/dull side.

Lee Yeon Hee needs to not act or hopefully she's actually been working on her (lack of) skills. Suzy and LYH are far from being talented in acting, but Suzy is charming to watch while LYH is... bleh... so bleh. I used to like LYH because I found her pretty, but every time I have seen her on screen I have been bored by her.

I'm sorry to say this but his description totally sounds like Edward from Twilight. The whole fighting against his nature stuff..

actually i'm looking forward to her than to suzy.
i think suzy's fame is overrated and esp her acting, she hasn't shown me anything that really shows her acting (her in Big) wasn't impressive.
and although i'd admit Yeon hee does act dull sometimes, she looks better as the lead than Suzy.

As if Suzy got that great acting chops too. Sometimes, people were too clouded of their old judgement that they cannot move on. Did anyone saw LYH in Ghost? Well, of all the acting that she did, she was way better in that drama. And this is coming from someone who was never impressed by her. I even thought SJS would overshadow her but he did not. Well, the drama didn't focus on their loveline but on the story itself and I was a contented drama viewer.

Oh come on Ms. Blogger! it's just an 'EXTENDED CAMEO'. So you can hold your horses there and not fret for Ms. Bae's lead status in the drama. Speaking of Suzy, I hope to see her improve greatly in this new drama. She was cute in Big but that drama was just.......*shakes head*

P.S. I'm not a drama/acting/blog expert just a viewer but there are times when I don't agree with the opinions made in the articles here. But heck! I still come here. Why? Because Dramabeans makes good drama recaps.

I like her so much more than Suzy. Ah wel...

OMG I feel very sorry for LSG. Suzy is cute but with very limited acting skill Now coming on board is LYH.She was openingly single out for her poor acting skill in ghost. Why? I was looking forward to LSG new drama. Now I am not sure . Why can't there be a A list actress as the main lead

This is the synopsis that I found on Soompi. I wasn't really interested in this drama before reading this but if this is accurate then I'm definitely going to be checking this drama out.

"A fusion sageuk about the love and trials of a man, Choi Kang Chi 최강치(Lee Seung Gi) who was born a half man and beast with traits similar to a male Gumiho (Nine-tail fox) to a Gumiho father and a human mother (Hwang Shin Ae).
Choi Kang Chi discovers he is half-blooded gumiho/human when he displays his special abilities when he goes after a murderer. Hoping to become a full human being, he went on a humanity journey in search of the way to fulfill his dream/goal while helping people along the way.
As for his love life, Choi Kang Chi falls in love at first with an ambitious Gisaeng, Yoon Seo Hwa 윤서화 (Lee Yeon Hee) whom he had grown up with.But with her burning desires to restore her family status, she and Choi Kang Chi grew further apart due to their differences in their ideals and morals. Meanwhile Park Kyung Hee, the tomboyish daughter of his martial arts teacher began to hold an increasingly special place in his heart although they are always picking on each other over the littlest of things when they go around solving cases.
And just when Kang Chi thought he was going to reach his goal in life, he is forced to face off his greatest enemy, his Gumiho father whom he hasn't seen since he left when he was really young. His Gumiho father who haven't aged, seems to be the mastermind to the horrid crimes he was determined to resolve."

The rumors on Soompi are that the main relationship is going to be between Lee Seung Gi and his father. If this is true then we don't really have to worry about who the leading ladies are because the romance with them will be more like a side story.

if you think about it, lee yeonhee debuted in 2004 and she /still/ can't act. suzy debuted in 2011, and you can clearly see the improvement from dream high --> arch 101. hell, you can see the improvement from the first ep of dream high to the last ep. (not gonna count Big bc her character was so shallowly written from the start)

lee yeonhee is far from ugly, but i don't like how she doesn't seem to open her mouth when she talks. -0-

I like Lee Yeon Hee. I think she has her charm, even if not all her projects were astounding. That one drama with Changmin (can't get myself to remember the name though), it was horrible, but her actiing wasn't bad; she was cute :1

am i only one around here who like Paradise Ranch? I am watching korean dramas since i was 13. It's been 14 years. I always find Paradise ranch a quite good drama without so much hate and birth secret stuff. Changmin and Yeon Hee are cute there. Even i love Joo Sang Wook. It is one of my fav dramas.

I think its confirmed Lee Yeon-hee is only playing the mother of Choi Kang-chi(Seung-gi). Important yet not too much screen-time. I'm looking forward to this drama and hopefully it comes out great!

i think lyh is not that bad. i watched most of her movies and dramas. she did well in billionaire first love but worse in est of eden but got better in Ghost. her acting in My Love with Jung Il Woo also not that bad. I think she is much better and more beautiful than Suzy.

As somebody mentioned above, I'm bit tired to read negative comments toward actresses in this site, and why some people need to compere difference type/age/experience actresses? If they fits in the each roles, then that's fine with me.

In this case, I can easily imagine Lee Yeon Hee makes a great Gisaeng, and Suzy makes a cute tomboy girl who makes fight/action move with LSG. So, for me YES! I'm looking forwards this drama!

....I really like like her in Ghost though..
why so much hate, lol.

One of my friends at school, who is a Korean Exchange Student, said she's known for her bad acting.

That's so sad

Feel really bad that so many are not willing to wait and see how Suzy does in the drama before burying her under so many adverse and some uncalled for comments. Does every drama that one enjoyed or was popular had top actresses. It's unfortunate that she is landed in this storm of disapproval. The drama has not even started. She is only 19. Do wish people give her a chance.

I'm a very hard-to-please person when someone acts
But personally Lee Yeon-hee is one of my favorite actresses.
For some her acting may not be seen as very good but some of the films I've seen her in (Hello, School girl) the way she's presented herself - You actually believe she's a school girl (If you get what I mean :S - She acted it quite realistically) even if to some people the acting it self wasn't seen good. :)

LYH is one of those actresses I can't understand. The sleepy-sad description describes her perfectly. The only role I remember her not being sleepy-sad was in paradise ranch where she completely overacted and made a song seungheon of herself. How does she get all these leading roles when she lacks so much in the skills department? Well I know not all her works are hits but they're substantial roles nonetheless.

Anyway, drama sounds interesting, will be watching for seung gi who improved dramatically in king 2 hearts that i just adore him now.

omg, totally agreed on the lee yeon-hee looking sleepy, sad part... watched ghost and did not like her acting AT ALL. i've seen lots of reviews commenting on how pretty she is, but whatever she did, her character did not feel alive to me.