omg! he's going back to his maru days? i miss that sweet smile of his

100% checking this out. He looks adorable and I'm okay with Minah on-screen.

Aww the posters are cute and bright. :)

Namgoong Min looks so smiley and friendly. Have never seen him look this sweet before, lol.

Also Bogum in Reply 1988, there were a couple moments when I got I Remember You flashbacks. It felt super weird, seeing as Taek is one of the the nicest characters ever.

It is weird to me how the really really really bad villains usually end up being super sweet hearts in real life. I watch something, I hate them with every single cell in my body, then I find out there are actual saints. Cue: Loki in Thor. Even the guy who gave me the UBER creeps in My love from another star and Liar game, and then they turn out to be softies XD
And then you have the super adorable guys, who you just wanna give all your love to. And they turn out to be asshats. Cue: Kim Young Kwang of D-day and Pinocchio. (The heartbreak was real with this one)
You really really reallyyyyyyyyyyy cannot judge a person from their character. I know we do it a lot... I know I do.

Never been a Namgoong Min fan, but idk it's something about that bowl cut that I should hate in theory that I always end up liking........

Lol, these posters are so cute. I just realized I actually came to know Namgoong Min in his more antagonistic role in Can You Hear My Heart? so yes, I would say he is good at playing the knife rather than the butter knife. But, he was also a hoot in that short drama Unemployed Romance—who could forget the infamous rice cooker scene where he gives it a hug and praises it's hard work?—so I'm loving this and gonna watch the heck out of this show, I think.

I am also loving his homebody couture!

Yeah i don't know how will i see him in a nice dude too, it's my first time seeing him play a nice dude i liked his psychotic characters specially in Remember

I like those actors that can play nice and baddie characters that make me remember about them.

I'm totally all in for this. Partly because I want to see him pull off a character that's nice and good from the beginning to the end, no hiccups (looking at you Can You Hear My Heart), and partly because yippee! He's not a chaebol. Hahaha. I'm totally feeling his scruffy look in the trailers and the posters, even the bowl cut. If that's the price to pay for him not playing as a Chaebol, I shall willing take it :).

Apart from the age factor, Namgoong Min and Park Bo Gum do seem to be going for a similar career arc. They started off with playing nice, sweet characters. Then they played career defining roles of psychopaths, which left us shivering but still asking for more. (Although Bo Gum's Min was a better psychopath because he was willing to change- eventually)

Now Bo Gummie played the adorable Taekie and Nam Goong Min is up to play this cute character. Oh and the meanwhile we have seen them in variety shows, showing their adorable real- selves (hopefully).

I really hope this show is as successful for him as Reply 1988 was for Bo Gum.

He seems pretty happy for someone who has been sent to jail for a crime he didn't commit. I hope he and the girl who's "warm-hearted with no prospects" (that made me laugh so hard the previous post) stay happy...these rom-com characters are highly unpredictable; they start off real bundles of joy, and end up miserable and depressed Debbie Downers with faces longer than the Han River.

#nope

Nam Gyu Man is still in my head T.T And I'm trying to put my mind off of Kwon Jae Hee a year later T.....T

I'm totally buying it, because to me, Namgoong Min's smile totally transforms his face, it's so disarmingly goofy (slightly Laurel and Hardy, actually). He's also such a talented actor that I have confidence in his ability to I sell any character he takes on. I loved his portrayal of the wounded and complicated Maru in CYHMV, whose healing was so trnsformative as to be awe inspiring. Definitely looking forward to this, and hoping rom-coms like this will minister much needed rain to the long drama dry spell I've been experiencing for months.

After reading some of the comments and how people are saying it's interesting that the actors who tend to play these villainous roles end up being great people in real life, has me thinking. Because they tend to play these villainous roles do they have to try extra hard to seem like good people in real life? When you see a show with a hero you tend to project that heroism on the actual actor themselves. The same when a person is type-cast as a villain. I've read articles where actors who typically play villains will have people come up and swear or throw stuff at them, like that's who they are in real life. So to counter that do they have to be extra diligent to show they are good people in real life compared to your actors who always play heroes?

" if Namgoong Min can smile without seeming murderous, and act happy without somehow convincing you he’ll snap and become a raging, amoral lunatic at first provocation?"

For me, he already proved this on We Got Married!!! I remember watching it and desperately hoping he'd get the chance to star in a more comedic and romantic role eventually. He really surprised me.

He was even super cute and charming when his "wife" on WGM cameo'd on Secret Hotel. I felt like I was suddenly watching a different drama that I never knew I wanted.

I've only seen Namgoong Min in I Need Romance 3 and My Secret Hotel, and he was a very similar character there--a guy who seemed to genuinely like the heroine, but had other priorities he put above her (although I didn't finish Hotel, so I don't know what happened there), so I have trouble believing in him being overwhelmed or swayed by feelings of affection. However, these screens of him in a hoodie go a long way toward making him more accessible, and made me realize he's usually always impeccably dressed.

I'm in. I can still see him stomping and shattering his computer like a certified lunatic -

OMG I have to totally agree! I only remember seeing NGM as the villain, like in The Girl Who Sees Smells and My Secret Hotel. But I still like him, and extremely excited and curious to see a happy friendly looking NGM.