Lol, I'm not sure that having the premise remain intact is actually a silver lining. Because really, beyond this casting joke SBS has been pulling, my biggest issue is the adaptation in itself. Joseon version of a classic with more media play than any drama I can think of for a very long time? Count me out.

A drama could be made about the production of this drama with kim joo hyun as the female lead!

Seriously, i can understand why they want OYS (pretty, popular...) but why do they want Kim Yoon Hye ? she is pratically in the same level as Kim Joo Hyun.

Honestly Kim Joo Hyun > Kim Yoon Hye.

I vote for King of Dramas 2 over this. I want to see how Anthony Kim would've handled this entire debacle.

i would love to be have been a fly on the walls of the people who were responsible for all of this! i wonder what happened. maybe kim joo-hyun was selected and then they saw that she couldn't deliver? but then filming hasn't even started.

i feel like to some degree, joo won must be feeling insulted too. isn't he a big enough star for the network to depend on? it's not like he's infamous for foot acting or anything either—he's a solid actor.

if anything, kim joo-hyun should quit the show. the debacle has garnered enough media attention so that the next project she nabs will get her some attention... it's not all a loss. at least this way she can salvage her pride.

oof i don't see any reason why oh yeon-seo should do this either, if she truly was misled into it. can't be any good for her career, and it's not like she's in a desperate place in her career either.

The drama production team is indeed a mother of evil !!! The dramas casting is so noisy and all, Only wacth her on Heartstrings/You've fallen me, and fbnd, and her role is not something or else.

Not a fan of Saeguk dramas, since 2004 the time when i watch my very first dramas till now, The saeguk dramas that i'v been watching so far Is jewel in the palace, the great queen seondeok, Dongyi, Jang ok jung, Sungkyunwan skandals, the moon that embraces the sun, Gu family book and The three musketeers.

Since its jowon last drama before enlist, I prever a modern drama, jowon and Oh yeon seo will be a great pairing! and i think Lee jungshin is not good enough for being a Second lead male and acting opposite Jowon, Jungshin isn't that popular, yet his acting is average, i doubt he can carry the show unlike Yonghwa and Minhyuk did.

Honestly the description of the second lead sounds horrible, I hope Kim Yoon-hye doesn't take the role.

Well this just gets worse and worse. I shouldn't be surprised since Joo Won has done anything I liked since Gaksital. This sounds like a total train wreck.

Joo Won has disappointed me in so many level already. I hated cantabile and when he decided to become a rapist in a chinese movie and later to star in a chinese drama, I became an ex fan. But still I keep myself updated about his casting news because I know he is a good actor...and now this mess. Just too bad!