Jin-Bum couple in the Woman Who Still Wants to Marry
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Aww. I’ll admit that when 20-year-old Kim Bum was first cast to play 32-year-old Park Jin-hee‘s boyfriend in the upcoming Woman Who Still Wants To Marry, I wasn’t sure how this would play out. She’s gorgeous and youthful, but Kim Bum — well, he’s practically a baby, right? But seeing the latest stills from the drama, I’m starting to think they make a really cute couple…
Their real-life age difference is preserved In the MBC drama, which stars Park as a television reporter and Kim as a genius musician in an indie band. Kim expressed his own reservations about the romantic storyline, saying, “To be honest, the older-woman-younger-man romance is a part that really concerned me. I’m sure that my co-star Park Jin-hee felt the same way. I even wondered whether we would be able to act as people really in love. However, as filming began and I started working with Park Jin-hee, I had the thought that thanks to [her character] Lee Shin-young the cold winter would feel warmer, and my worries went away.”
Kim had also hesitated to take the role after filming two dramas last year, which kept him incredibly busy (those would be Boys Before Flowers and Dream). Taking this role meant not getting much time off, but he met with the writer and director, “and I felt something warming in my heart. I think it’s my good fortune to have joined the team of The Woman Who Still Wants To Marry.”
In order to prepare for his role, Kim Bum has been busily learning how to play the guitar. He described his character as: “Ha Min-jae is a songwriter, vocalist, and guitarist as well as his band’s leader. Whenever I don’t have filming, I’m learning how to play the guitar.”
The drama replaces Hero in two weeks on Wednesdays and Thursdays.
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51 gia
January 8, 2010 at 7:26 PM
hey,
is it the girl look young or a guy look old... a 12-year gap, not really
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52 popcorn
January 8, 2010 at 7:31 PM
I don't like his hair. It looks like my hair except ... I'm a girl. Lol, the guy looks gorgeous either way. The age difference is bothering me a bit ... 12 years? +_+" ... I can tolerate at most 6 but 12 is double that. ACK!
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53 anna m
January 8, 2010 at 7:41 PM
I'm watching this because it's sounds interesting and well, it's Park Jin hee.
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54 dee
January 8, 2010 at 7:43 PM
i like Park Jin Hee ever since Money War and I also like Kim Bum but I don't like love story whose character's age are decade(s) apart especially if men is the older one but if the chemistry is great ...why not? On this drama I feel the actor will be on the great part (and wishing!)
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55 Kaitlyn
January 8, 2010 at 8:15 PM
I also agree with #42 :)
Also, Kim Bum looks very nice. I love his hairstyle now. Park Jin Hee is pretty too. I can't wait for this to start airing.
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56 epyc
January 8, 2010 at 9:12 PM
Kim Bum and Park Jin Hee do look good together!
Any fans here over the noona love in Creating Destinty?
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57 travp16
January 9, 2010 at 12:05 AM
I just hate his hair...ug.
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58 littletoygun
January 9, 2010 at 12:42 AM
they look good together, waiting...
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59 belleza
January 9, 2010 at 3:46 AM
@epyc,
"Any fans here over the noona love in Creating Destinty?"
Yup. That's what kept me watching the show until the recent adoption arc.
Also it's done pretty accurately. There's this one shot where they look at a reflection in a dark window. It's kinda sweet . . . but it also shows them as they are. He's this really cute guy with great clothes, great job, and a great smile. And she's a single mom who's not really in any way glamorized or caricatured. He's smiling, and his eyes say "I love you." She's not, and her eyes says "Gawd, I look so old next to you." In real life, the actor's about 24 years old, and she's 38 years old. So you have a 14 year gap, which looks like a 14 year gap.
And that isn't to say a potential romance is "good" or "bad." It just "is." Park Jin Hee is very popular with guys pretty much from 25-40. If "Woman Who Still Want to Marry" was starring Eugene, Kim Bum would be giddy like a SES fan.
(BTW, Kim Jung Nan's one of my favorite daily drama actresses. She and Lee Pil Mo were the only reason why I stayed with Creating Destiny, and their story arc was, again, a noona love story, albeit one only 5-6 years apart. Also, she tends to play single moms or female characters who get really screwed over by guys. Which I guess kinda reflects her real life. She and SIG were in love with 4-5 years, but his mom would not accept her as his wife. And, so, they could never be. When he got married to his wife, her name came up a lot.)
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60 sugarpunch
January 9, 2010 at 5:24 AM
just have one thing to say... I think Kim Bum and Park jin Hee look compatible. The age difference can be seen but it doesn't feel weird:) looking forward to this drama!
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61 fionnula
January 9, 2010 at 6:39 AM
They look so good together. Actually I think this is the first time that I've thought that Kim Bum doesn't look like he's 17 years old. I think I'll definitely be watching this.
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62 ernie
January 9, 2010 at 7:04 AM
Oh my giddy goshness. :) He's amazingly good looking. And yes, they actually look like they might pull it off. x]
I'll prob be watching this- I'm also a fan of Park Jin Hee and so this is a double whammy for me:)
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63 Emma
January 9, 2010 at 8:05 AM
Well said Elizabeth (#42). I totally agree. I particularly liked the bit about Eros and the lovelessness of a world where humans can no longer be affected, overwhelmed by, or delight in, what does not conform to their preconceptions. Such a world will be wholly predictable and conformistic....quelle horreur!!!
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64 jaloobalee
January 9, 2010 at 11:08 AM
I also concur with belleza@59 on the subject of Kim Jung Nam. While I refuse to blame any of the players for the shortcomings suffered by the "script that went astray" that made a mess of a promising story (You Are My Destiny, among others), the scenes featuring KJN and the "Ban family" remained engaging and worth viewing right up until the end. It is often the "grownups" that carry many of these dramas for me. I don't think that there has been a Korean drama yet that didn't have something or someone (Lee Yoon Ji in Heading to the Ground...) to retain my interest. Acting talent like Ms. Kim's and Lee Pil Mo's are always enough for to keep my grip on the sides of even a sinking lifeboat.
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65 gailt
January 9, 2010 at 12:50 PM
with that hairstyle, kim bum reminds me of lee min ki. isn't LMK's character in Dal Ja Spring, noona-killer as well?
this comment section is very entertaining. thank you for making me giggle, samsooki, belleza,djes...
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66 Andromytta
January 9, 2010 at 8:15 PM
Oh, my...Bummie is looking GOOD!!! I will most DEFINITELY be watching this!
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67 epyc
January 9, 2010 at 8:35 PM
@ belleza
Thanks for the info on Kim Jung Nam. She has a sad face that draws me in, especially now knowing her sad affair with SIG. Dramas do reflect real life and isn't her/SIG's fate known to us as a drama cliche?
I too love that glass reflection shot in Creating Destiny. Their pairing has a couple compatibility rarely found in other noona loves. Together with the little girl Jin Joo - a lovely nucleus family in the making! Wonder what will eventually unfold for them although I don't really hate the real father. Oh, the adoption arc. Do we really need it??
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68 belleza
January 10, 2010 at 5:29 AM
Woman Who Still Wants to Marry. Looks like the new Queens of Housewives. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS2WbSviJIw
"Oh, the adoption arc. Do we really need it??"
One thing I appreciated of Creating Destiny is that the main couple gets together pretty early and through actual dating they fall in love. No over-the-top comedy scenes, no big weepy bits. They're so normal and their chemistry is warm and comforting. In other words, we've up to this point kinda enjoyed Eun Sung as living a normal, happy life kinda like our own. And then this happens pretty late in the show.
The adoption stuff actually has been done pretty well. After all, Eun Sung has a happy, very loving family, her late mom is close to her heart, and she had a great future. Until last week, it never crossed her mind, and though she did miss her adopted mom, she was secure about her memory. It's a unique twist -- the presence of the birth mother threatens to damage her happy, well-meaning life. She may lose her fiancee, and she will continue to be looked down in Korean society. She may start questioning her own nurtured personality. And so on.
It can create a compelling dilemma -- that your normal, happy life is suddenly taken away from you. Because we didn't see this coming either, we feel her pain and her anxiety as part of our own shock over the plot twist.
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69
January 10, 2010 at 10:13 PM
I have never really thought the Kim Bum was that cute, but in the first picture he is adorable! I'm completely in love with his new hair style. I'm not one to watch dramas unless I'm really bored but this one seems really sweet! I'll diffidently check this one out. :)
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70 mina
January 10, 2010 at 10:24 PM
i love younger man-older woman stories! i hope it'll be great!
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71 Paris
January 12, 2010 at 4:14 AM
Unimaginably PERFECT jawline.
Awh! (Not the Edison-Gillian's "awh".)
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72 mskmouse
January 12, 2010 at 4:54 AM
reminds me of Dal Ja's Spring!
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73 cutie
January 30, 2010 at 7:18 PM
he is so cute its making my heart melt
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74 othmaan
February 4, 2010 at 4:32 AM
whenever love comes, age difference vanishes away
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75 othmaan
February 9, 2010 at 2:06 AM
we should look at the feelings for each n not the age difference because feelings n love make relationship rather than age
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76 patricia mae
June 11, 2010 at 9:48 PM
hey guys where can i watch this drama? please help
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