Yeah, I don't doubt his detractors will certainly criticize him for an "early" comeback when he's supposedly still enlisted. Bashers are illogical like that.

as for seeing those who passed on this drama, WHOA! but, one man's trash is another's treasure. He did good in Pride & Prejudice, no matter how dragging that drama was. (his bromance with Lee Tae Hwan was amazing to boot!)

So now we are on neuro-surgeon wave... So this drama will compete with Kim Rae-Won's drama that is scheduled to come out in June...

I also agree with you, girlfriday, that he needs to be mindful so as not to tarnish his image....

The production company for Beautiful Mind just denied any reports of Choi Jin Hyuk being considered for the role. It looks like someone is lying but to be honest it doesn't look very good for the production company. How awkward.

Well, I just don't want to see him in a controversy later on.

I agree that while I would like to see choi jin hyuk back in the small screen, i think it is still a little too early for him to do so since he is technically supposed to be serving in the army right now. I am not against it, but I know knetz will definitely have a lot to say about this. This drama will either make or break his acting career. I don't know, but let's hope it is not the latter.

What is it with these medical dramas this year LOL.

I hope CJH and his agency are not serious. Serving in the army is a huge deal in Korea, and even though he has a valid reason for early discharge, doing dramas while he supposed be enlisted or recovering from his knee injury is a bad idea.

Meh.

Why draw fire on someone on someone? If he is legally entitled to earn a living let him be.

This may attract another useless controversy. The CITT may have also started from here in series of drama recaps criticising BIH and then boommm fans reacted negatively. I feel sorry fo SKJ after that.

I hope it will not happen to CJH this time.

I am curious how successful this drama will be in comparison to other medical dramas that are going air this summer. The plot sounds ridiculous, but I'm curious..

As for the male lead, he's a great actor but he should not act this year. While many of us are logical human beings, we know most knetz are not. He is going to receive a lot of heat for this.

A genius neurosurgeon with frontal lobe lesion who suffers from neurological symptoms.... tell me why this person became a doctor and not a psychopath like hannibal lecter?

DON'T DO IT!!

Korean population are inrelentless and unforgiving when it comes to mandatory military service. They remember everything and forgive nothing. Legitimate reason or not, they are unforgiving. He should just lay low until his would be 2 years are up and then pursue his work and such.

I don't care how good a drama may be. Say no till your would be time is up!

I really miss him...

Yeah, he need to keep quite for a while maybe like after his supposed military services end. I forgot which actors that go out earlier due to injury and he stayed out of limelight like 2-3 years more before make his comeback.

Even singer that doing performance during his military break also got bashed.

I agree that he needs to stay out of the public eye for at least another year after his supposed military service ends. Making a comeback after his supposed service ends is still not good enough for knetz. No matter how innocent you are, knetz will always find some way to bash celebrities.

He has been good in Fated To Love You..I'm happy that he is coming... Fighting!! :)

Why are we assuming there will be a controversy though? Won Bin's discharged early for the same reason and he worked right away and no one said a thing. Most of the reactions to CJH getting offered the role has either been positive on Korean Internet, and if there are negative reactions it's because the drama already had a string of actors refuse it, not because of CJH military issues.

Just curious - would he get bashed if he did ads/commercials or is it just dramas that might raise people's ire? I wonder because if he was in the army I assume he gets a paycheck. If he is legitimately out (for whatever reason), is he just supposed to not earn any money until his military time is up? Seems unreasonable to me not to work once he's healed unless the army is still paying him.

He is working too early and too busy for someone discharged earlier. If he was this capable of working he could have been transferred to some other form of public work