I'm sorry but with male leads like those guys, who gives a crap about the ladies?! The unfortunate thing is that the ladies, it seems, will be the focus, but really, who cares? Is there a way we can make them both drink poison half way through and just make the rest of the drama about Yoo Ah In and Jae Hee? YUM!

Jae-hee! *squeal*

Ok back to your regular programming.

I like how a 2 year difference blows up into 6. That's drama math for you. Anywhoo, I was thinking about this drama earlier and I just don't get how this 'reimagining' works unless they start shifting historical blame. I can kind of see why China's SARFT rules are so strict about historical dramas (not saying I agree with censorship - far from it) being accurate to source material.

Team In-Hyun if I ever get around to watching this.

I loved Lee So Yeon's interpretation of Hang Hee Bin in Dong Yi.

just really excited for Kim Tae Hee as lead♥
i love that girl and I'd say she got some meat as a wicked woman too since she did so well in (Stairway to Heaven).
anyways idk about Yoo Ah In and Jae Hee, but i am keeping things in positive light and wishing the best for this drama.
wish time would come quicker since i really want to see this drama now!

And just like that another drama to watch. Yoo Ah In and Jae Hee? WOW! I don't even care about the ladies or the story. I'm watching purely for the eye candy. Anything else is a bonus.

So this is where the "This-is-going-to-have-Bu Bu Jing Xin-feel" is coming from..

So basically, Jae-hee is playing someone similiar to 8th prince, and I suppose Yoo Ah-in is going to be our 4th prince? Huh..

I'm just excited for the two main male leads!! Not so much for Kim tae hee, sorry.

I'm rooting for the girls to do well because the story is more about them. I like both characters, total opposite of each other in every way.
Although I'm not a fan of KTH I hope that she will own it.

i like kim tae hee! i know she's not the best actress out there but i still find her very engaging, except in stairway to heaven where her eyes scared me off the drama... hahaha

i am gonna check out this drama for her, and for hong soo hyun, if she joins.

Kim Tae Hee is 32?!

...speechless.

Why is Jae Hee always second lead? Can't he win the girl once? Color of Woman doesn't count because that storyline was just crazy. GAH. But I'm excited regardless :D

love the cast, yahoo.... looks like fun, I hope it's not too much melodrama... thank you.. YAI, JH, KTH!!!!

yay for JAE HEE :D :D

Jae Hee? Okay, I'm in :)

Jae Hee is pretty handsome in hanbok. It's the first time I see him in that clothes.
What happens in dramaland anyway? I think it's full of ambitious woman and daddy long leg alike guy who's able to sacrifice anything recently. I miss those light hearted drama like Full House or Oh My Lady. :D

Btw I like Ji Hyun Woo on the header of this blog. Thank you dramabeans for the eyecandy. :)

Wow, what a promising cast, I just hope that the writing will be good too! Looking forward to the drama!

ooohhhh I'm excited for this. I'll watch for Jae Hee :D :D

JAEHEE SHOULD BE THE LEAD!!!

I'm watching this solely because Yoo Ah-in is in it. Love him in saeguk's, what can I say? but if it starts tanking I'm abandoning ship. Don't want another Fashion King happening.

Also I'm cool with minimal clothes.On the guys. Specifically Ah-in. Y'know for fashion reasons...don't look at me that way.

JAE HEE FOR LEAD!!!!!

Gah! What to do! I was obsessed with Jae Hee since My Delightful Girl, then with Yoo Ah In since SKKS! O_O

Yoo Ah In! JaeHee! can't wait for it!

Please Jae Hee just get a role for the lead!

So excited for the two male leads. Can't wait to watch. Love Jae Hee and Yoo Ah In.

Actually, IDGAF on who's the leading man, but props up for snagging Jae Hee, whom I've missed a ton since DGCH. He's my first-ever actor bias

If Jae Hee is Ok-jeong's first love, it would've been nicer if he was a yangban plus a Prince. XD legitimate or illegitemate it may be... Princely line on his bloodline. XD now that's more like it.
Though how can one be a Daddy Long Legs figure if she's the King's woman first and foremost? Agree, "...either really ballsy, have a death wish, or incredibly stupid"

My Geol-oh feels~~~! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~!!! If Queen Inhyeon is Hong Soo-hyun, HURRRAH~!!! Maybe we'd get to see a feisty and bitchy(?) Queen, judging from her previous roles in TPM & LTM. And the fact that she basically was all bitchy with Moon Chae-won's Yi Se-ryeong but loosened up around Jeong Jong (Lee Min-woo). XD

"Historically, Ok-jeong had such influence over the king that she was able to get him to cast aside his wife and make her his queen"
Might I add, this was because Ok-jeong (and her people the Southern Faction, of which FYI in SKKScandal Kim Yoon-hee/shik's family were part of it) wanted her son (and Sukjong's firtborn-son) to be the Crown Prince since it was public the Queen had no sons; which led to the Gapsul Hwanguk of which the Western Faction suffered mostly, along with Song Shi-yeol and the Queen's Yeoheung Min clan, reinterpreted SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MANY TIMES it's already a given that drama-land has a fetish for Jang Hee-bin. The most recent was in QI'sM.

"...though karma came around and bit her in the ass with another reversal later down the line."
Rumor was Ok-jeong hired a shaman and voodoo doll'd her with arrows, therefore Inhyeon's mysterious death (tho I dunno where the poison part comes in).

Ok-jeong was older than Sukjong? Damn...XP

Joseon-era fashion-designing and cosmetic-producing. Leave that to Gu Yong-ha. XD I'd imagine Kim Tae-hee might watch the disaster that was FK, and maybe Cinderella Man. Maybe she'd be selling knockoffs. XD Or maybe they'd do something like in "Faith", where Eun-hee made soap. XD

For more info on who played Jang Hee-bin in the past, here's a good start: http://blutom.tistory.com/16 and Jang Hee-bin's Korean wiki article
1) Kim Ji-mi - "Jang Hee-bin" (film, 1961)
2) Nam Jeong-im - "Temptress Jang Hee-bin" (Im Kwon-taek film, 1968)
3) Yoon Yeo-jeong - MBC Weekly/Daily? Drama "Jang Hee-bin" (1971)
4) Lee Mi-sook - MBC Drama "Lives of Women" ep.1 "Jang Hee-bin" (1982)
5) Jeon In-hwa - MBC Epic "The 500 Years of the Joseon Dynasty" ep.8 "Queen Inhyeon" (1987-1988)
6) Jeong Seon-gyeong - SBS Daeha Sageuk "Jang Hee-bin" (1995)
7) Kim Hye-soo - KBS Special Production "Jang Hee-bin" (2002-2003) -> my most favorite. Hope KBS World would replay this one instead of Kim Tak-gu. Grrr~!
8) Lee Jae-eun - KBS HDTV 문학관 "서러워라 잊혀진다는 것은" (2005)
9) Lee So-yeon - MBC's 49th anniversary Special Production "Dong-yi" (2010)
10) Choi Woo-ri & (not too technically) Park Yeong-ri - TVN Drama "Queen Inhyeon's Man" (2012)

That makes Kim Tae-hee the 11th (12th if you're too nitpicky and include the actress in QI'sM) actress. She is beautiful, but maybe it's her killer glare in STH.

BTW, since this is Jang Hee-bin we're talking about, shouldn't we also be worrying about who's gonna be:
-Queen Myeongseong (Sukjong's mom)
-Queen Jangryeol (Sukjong's grandma, and Ok-jeong's employer)
-Prince Dongpyeong (Sukjong's cuz and the reason why Ok-jeong entered the palace)
-Ok-Jeong's feeble, mentally incapacitated, and sterile son Yi GakGyeongjong (FYI Gwak Jeong-wook played Gyeongjong in 2003)
-Choi sook-bin, and her son Yeongjo???

i dont understand why people dont like KTH. she is one of the famous korean acrtress. and seriously who can always stay pretty like her. she had very long resume.

in the opposite, yoo ah in is a new comer. and i fed up to see his face, especially after watching him in fashion king.

and too bad, jae hee is again become the second lead. donno what happen to the cast

Let's be realistic: Jae Hee wanted to keep his marriage secret cause he knew he would lose opportunities for male lead parts once the fact would be established. I think it's pretty silly myself: Credibility as an actor doesn't depend on your marital status (except if your wife is a jealous insecure woman cough*JDG*cough). I certainly won't stop fantasizing upon an attractive man cause he is married. Netizens... Whatever.

How cruel is that?! To show me Jae Hee first, tell me that he's going to star in a drama and add the BUT. Namely it's going to be a sageuk (not for me, sadly), with KTH as the main actress (not my cup of tea either) and let her play a fashion designer (I guess I am developing an allergy to designers).
Jae Hee is one of my favourites (3 Iron, need I say more?) and I can endure a lot to see him (like 1 Mom 3 Dads) but THAT is simply too much. *goes away to cry and curse*

Right, when will they begin shooting? And will HSH play the role of Queen Inhyeon for real? I'm dying to see the costumes anyway, since the plot and cast seems to be very convincing for a sageuk costumes spree<3 with the YAI factor, I'm not really pinned for KTH in this drama, she's pretty fabulous but I've been always on Queen Inhyeon's side all this time... :|

I feel as though she will go bad, but the king will save her this time and not sentence her to her death. I hope they make her into the good character that stays with the King.