Kim Ji-suk coaches the cheer squad for Sassy, Go Go

by javabeans

A high school drama’s gotta have teachers, and KBS’s Sassy, Go Go has lined up their faculty with the casting of Kim Ji-suk (Unkind Women), In Kyo-jin (Birth of a Beauty, Gu-am Heo Jun), and Lee Mi-do (Mr. Baek, Mi-rae’s Choice) as teachers, and Park Hae-mi (A Daughter Just Like You, School 2013) as the principal.

Kim Ji-suk plays an alum of the high school where he’s now a contract teacher (as in, not permanently tenured), who talks gruffly to his troublemaker kids but has a warm heart. When he was at the school, he was part of the Baek Ho club, which is the cheer team mostly composed of the elite, spec-conscious kids with academic ambitions. The club has seen better days, though, and Kim Ji-suk will be assigned as the teacher in charge; the club is forced to merge with the dance club early on, kicking off the conflict between the school elites and misfits.

In Kyo-jin plays a teacher who gets caught up in an “unusual relationship” with Kim Ji-suk, though we aren’t told how. He’ll be a flattery king who’s the right-hand man to the principal, which makes me think he’ll be in conflict with Kim — antagonistic, perhaps, or maybe just annoying. Annoying would be fun.

Lee Mi-do, on the other hand, will help Kim Ji-sung in running Baek Ho and was herself once a cheerleader, even winning a world championship back in her heyday. Park Hae-mi is back in the principal’s role after playing one in School 2013, which reminds me that she does a good job taking characters who might be difficult to like on paper and making them at least relatable — her decisions in School were often at odds with with I wanted for our kids, but you understood why it was important for her to enforce the rules in principle.

As a fun bit of additional trivia, the cast members have a number of prior connections from other projects, such as Kim Ji-suk and Lee Mi-do acting together in their last drama, Unkind Women. Kim also did a drama with Park Hae-mi, though I don’t recall that their characters interacted much in Personal Taste, where she played Lee Min-ho’s mother and he was Lee Min-ho’s rival. And then, Kim also worked with In Kyo-jin in I Need Romance 2012, where Kim was the second lead love interest and In was linked romantically to a secondary character. Basically, it’s all two degrees of Kim Ji-suk here.

With students and teachers now set, Sassy, Go Go ought to be heading into shoots soon — it premieres in under a month, airing its first episode on Monday, October 5.

Via Osen

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