i hope LSK declines, as much as i like her it'd be better if she could headline a different show. i'm confused about NJH though, i read somewhere else that he was going to be the lead ??

Kim Bok-ju sounds like an inspirational person, why aren't they trying to honour by at least casting good actors? It's not that damn hard to find them. Honestly afraid of what they'd do with the script now.

I think Nam Joo-hyuk is adorably limited in range and I would have given this drama a chance despite him, but Lee Sung-kyung's potential casting is really, really bothering me.

See, I'm a fat person. Not even an athletic fat person, or a fat person who eats organic leafy greens all the time, or whatever else fat people are trying to be to justify their existence in the world nowadays. Just, you know, fat. And when you're a fat person, or even just outside the narrow spectrum of what is considered attractive, you spend your entire life shoveling out background radiation that tells you over and over and over again that grand adventures and sweeping love stories and epic battles and all the other things that make up great stories--well, those aren't for you. That message is as insidious as it is ubiquitous. You start learning when you're tiny and watching Jasmine zip away into the night on a magic carpet; you keep learning that while watching Ariel flip her fins and pose dramatically on picturesque rocks; and that lesson gets reinforced over and over again. These stories are not for you. You learn while watching all kinds of media and reading all kinds of books--American media, Indian media, Korean media. These stories are not for you.

Occasionally, there will be a book or a movie or a show where bodies like yours aren't treated like a joke or like they're repulsive. Suddenly, you think, maybe these stories are for me, after all. Maybe I can stop the exhaustive, draining work of self-affirmation for one Goddamned minute and drop my guard and trust that the ugly girl or the fat girl or whatever girl will not be a punchline. But then casting like this is a thing, and you get reminded. These stories? Not for you. That kind of positive visibility? Not for you. Never, ever for you.

This drama is everything wrong with kdrama and it hasn't even aired yet. Waste an interesting topic as a hook for the usual trendy rom com shenanigans? Check. Reduce a woman's Olympic gold medal-winning skill and athleticism into a female lead's cute little ~quirk? Check. Pick a model to play a champion power lifter and prove to the subject that Korea still hasn't accepted her or her body type, despite her accomplishments? Check. Roll all of this up into a ball of forgettable, inane, lazy storytelling that says nothing about anything, pretty faces and poor acting, and product placement (hey, maybe it'll be athletic equipment this time!), for an end product no one will remember after it's aired? We'll see, but I'm not holding my breath.

Damn. If this writer was making this drama under tvN with the OMG, High School King of Savvy PD attached, we probably would have ended up with a wonderfully-cast ensemble. What a shame.

I've been sticking with "If you have nothing nice to say don't say anything at all" with this drama.

But now I have to say something. What? How? And why does this casting director hate me?

I don't think an encouraging, realistic story based on Jang Mi Ran's life is too much to ask. But if we're going off of the information so far, the creative team seems to think it's downright impossible.

What a shame. It had the potential to be my favorite drama this year. I don't mind the romcom demands. I just wanted an lead actress who looked more like an average woman, not even necessarily a weightlifter. Goodbye to that hope.

All I have to say is what everyone else is saying. What kind of casting choice is Lee Sung-kyung? For one thing, the lead should have a stronger, fuller, toned body. How am I supposed to enjoy this drama if my weightlifter looks like her ribs will snap if I hug her? Doesn't that oppose everything this drama will represent? What is with 2016 and ridiculous casting? The Ahjusshi Drama crisis, the Beautiful Mind crisis, and now this?!

Drama Gods... did I offend you somehow?

Ummm I was on my Instagram and had a sense of dejavu. This insta account called "allkdrama" (followed by about 500k people) has taken this article and posted it verbatim without credit to dramabeans!
https://instagram.com/p/BHWFEV6g46z/
I recently started following this account and I see some other posts also ripped from DB (post on first stills from moonlight drawn by clouds) What the heck!

Did you saw LSK's arms? And they actually want to cast her as a weightlifter? Nope, dramaland. Stop being ridiculous.

So, to those who judged this drama waaay too soon, have you seen it now? WFKBJ is probably one the best dramas ever produced, not just in South Korea, but in the whole world. I mean, seriously. And the cast is perfect, every single one of the cast members!