lol um... "genius coffee skills" xD

so like city-hunter-epic-gun-holding-style except the secret weapon is... COFFEE! kekeke

I couldn't make it through Rough Play but I don't think Lee Joon's acting was really the reason, so I'll give him a chance. This sounds like one of those I'll watch it if there's nothing I'm more interested in at the same time kinds of plots though

Jtunecamp didn't confirm it yet..

Oh what a surprise more "GEEEENIUS" male leads in drama land. I know there's always some of those floating around in dramas and movies but there seems to be way more than usual for upcoming projects this year. Is it the theme of 2014?

Genius Barista+ Mudrder thriller? ROFL.

Ah my sides *wipes tears*. What other geniuses can you come up with kdramaland? Genius bakers, doctors, pianists, computer game maker, potter, computer hackers, and um, yes, geniuses. Not that I don't mind them, but the genre pairing on some...

I hope there comes a day when I get to see a fusion rom-com sageuk with a genius cobbler somewhere in there. Ha.

haha, I was wondering if Javabeans would use geeeenius again, but you all in the comments beat her to it!

Lee Joon as a genius barista? That's a very random thing to be a genius in.
Then again, couldn't help but LOL at this casting after seeing Joon in MBlaq's Sesame Player... there's that episode where he basically had to 'announce' that he was stupid as a punishment. XD

Or Genius Forklift Operator. In My Love From Another Warehouse

Wow.
Setting the bar for genius keeps getting lower and lower.

The next level down? Genius stall-cleaner.
:)

WOW! This latte is perfect! The temperature is so precise, and the ratio of milk to espresso is phenomenal! And did he make the shape of a teddy bear in the foam? This barista is a GENIUS!

This is the only explanation I can come up with.

hahahah.....genius barista?? ohhhkayy......super sleuth at a coffee house....??

Every time I see him it reminds me of the runningman episode of kpop stars vs. Runningman. Especially while playing volleyball on the trampoline. ?

Iris 2 as a whole was annoying (turning Im Soo Hwang's badass character into what) but when Joon started killing people and was the double agent that was enjoyable enough lol

lol, at least the usual "genius" roles in dramas seem somewhat logical... i'm not even sure what to make of a genius barista.

if he really has a 150 IQ, why is he a barista??? though i guess it is a suspiciously good place to eavesdrop and collect information (which he apparently remembers perfectly)? i don't even know

totally agree with you JB =). i think he should be described as a genius who work as a barista, not a genius barista. Unless he could concoct delicious coffee based on his customers personality. Now, that is a genius barista =).

I think his character with photographic memory will be the one who would connect the comics clues to the reality ones. Exciting!!! A barista who loves reading manhwa thriller =)

...and i hope his character will bring light moments or the comic relief. I don't like him serious and dark with heavy eyeliners

It's not quite the same thing but...
(SPOILER ALERT if you haven't watched the end of God's Quiz season 3 but plan on doing so)
...I can't remember his name, but that psychopath genius in the last couple of episodes seems a bit like this (besides the fact that he was the "bad guy"): barista/coffee shop owner who is also a flower boy but whose real identity is a genius scientist/researcher/psychopath doing experiments on real people...sounds really dumb I know but the character was actually really awesome and yet very chilling. One of my favourite kdrama villains ever. So if I consider the genius barista/photographic memory character that Lee Joon will supposedly be portraying, it doesn't sound so far fetched. A barista is a great disguise for collecting a lot of information on people.

Isn't he Go Kyung-pyo, the bestie in flower boy next door? first time i saw him in God Quiz 3, that when i first saw him. He was scary, that's why i had a hard time connecting him as the bestie in FBND, where he's so funny =)

Slightly off topic: with all these drama characters must be a "genius" something??

JOOOON! i wish he will be in proper drama. he was gooood in rough play but well the genre of the movie wasn't that appropriate. can't wait to see him act <3

I puzzled over who Lee Joon was. I am not a MBLAQ fan, and I couldn't place where I had seen him. He sort of looks like a cross between Lee Woo-Bin and Lee Joon-ki. Then I goggled ... he was the younger version of Rain in Ninja Assassin.

T.T who makes the synopsis for dramas?? the geeniusss thing is annoying me... cant they just say hes a barista with a good memory? lol anyways... I hope he isnt just a barista and his character makessense...

I rarely drink coffee. One geeeeeeeeeenius tea brewer over here, please! I'd like my tea not too hot, not too cold, not too thick and not too thin. It has to be juuuuuuuuuust right, thank you very much.

I'm going to guess that he's a genius barista because a coffee brand/shop is going to be one of the commercial sponsors of the drama. Kind of like in "Pretty Man/Bel Ami", where the only place in all of Seoul for the leads to go and have heavy conversations over untouched lattes is Cafe Droptop in Myeongdong.

Looking forward to seeing this! I was looking forward to Lee Joon (another site said he confirmed, but I guess it's not true...yet [hopefully]) but it's real life stuff! I always get excited about crime dramas that include real stories. They're usually interesting.

LOL I wonder why he's doing these coppy stuff. He should just do romcom.

Please please please be better than "Rough Play!" It started out interesting but was really bad and completely pointless :( It was definitely one of the worst Korean movies that I have seen recently--I don't think it had anything to do with his acting...just the story itself was horrible :(

How about actually watching the movie Rough Play? Even if you don't like the story line his acting was really good. I would venture to say, outstanding.