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107 May 22, 2012May 25, 2012

Arang and the Magistrate’s first script read

by girlfriday

It’s definitely been a chock-full drama year so far and there’s a glut of premieres about to hit at any moment, but one of the shows that’s farther off in the distance has been holding my interest for months now: the ghost fantasy-fusion romance drama Arang and the Magistrate, due out later in the summer. Now that the cast has been finalized, the production has officially begun. Here they are, gathered for the first table read to kick things off.

Shin Mina plays Arang the wronged ghost, formerly the young daughter of the local magistrate who gets brutally attacked and left for dead. (In the original legend it’s doubly horrible because she’s attacked in an attempted rape, and then when she goes missing, they label her as shameful, assuming she ran away with a man out of wedlock. I mean, can you blame a girl for getting her revenge on?) She haunts every new magistrate who comes to town, until Lee Jun-ki shows up for the post one day, and the two fall in love. Talk about your obstacles.

Yeon Woo-jin (Ojakkyo Brothers) plays the villain, and Yoo Seung-ho (Operation Proposal) is doing a guest stint as the King of Heaven, a whimsical ruler who gives the lovers an important clue in their quest to right the wrongs in Arang’s murder. Hwang Bora (Love Rain) plays Arang’s shaman sidekick, Kwon Oh-jung (The Duo) is the magistrate’s servant and stalwart bodyguard, and Han Jung-soo (Poseidon) a guardian angel who serves the King of the Underworld.

It sounds like a really interesting world with a dense mythology, a classic whodunit murder mystery, and an epic love story between the living and the dead — all great things, if they can deliver. And I just love that the heroine will be a vengeance ghost. You get those baddies with your haunty ways.

Arang and the Magistrate will follow I Do, I Do on MBC.

Via Sports Hankook

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51 Patricia

May 25, 2012 at 12:32 AM

After scrolling through the comments, I've seen a lot of comments about "TBDW" Haha, I'd also like to say that Drama was seriously.....good. It was just wow! Lee Joon Gi was exceptional in that.
Really looking forward to his comeback drama!

Oh and also..... *reads* Yoo Seung Ho will also be starring in this drama? :OOOOOOOOO Oh my haha! Great!
Lee Joon Gi and...Yoo Seung Ho! Two of my favorites! More of a reason to watch this drama!

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52 Jess

May 25, 2012 at 3:32 AM

Pretty sure you guys mean Yoo Seung-Ho judging by the pic you've got up!

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cookie128

May 27, 2012 at 12:01 PM

well, our boy is not famous enough to get writers put his name is the correct form...sign...

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53 JoonGirl

June 13, 2012 at 8:01 AM

How long is July 25th??? Why still there arent any stills and photos on the set or posters or whatever, i am so eager and itching to know something new about it, ahhhhhhh....

LJG is beyond superb actor, not only in TBWAD he played more than one role in one body, in iljimae too... he can be yongi, iljimae, and gyeom, and you wont find any difficulties to know which one is yongi, gyeom, and iljimae or Lee soo Hyun and kay, he can be all of them perfectly!!! and each of them are all different one another! and he was perfect in action even in his first movie called hotel Venus♥

Sorry if I am so in to LJG, keke, but why July 25 is too long???