Anti-wedding hijinks for Mirae’s Choice
by girlfriday
If there’s anything Mirae’s Choice (Future Choice) wins, it’s the This Premise Is New (And Maybe Crazy) Award. We’ve got a heroine (Yoon Eun-hye) battling her future time-traveling ajumma self (Choi Myung-gil), who wants to stop her at all costs from marrying the man she loves. What I want to know is, what the heck is wrong with future hubby Lee Dong-gun that requires such drastic measures? And are divorces not possible in 2043?
A second teaser reveals a little more about the characters and continues to be light rom-com fun. Mirae is an aspiring TV variety writer, but is used to rejection. One day her thirty-years-later future self shows up as a chic and bossy ajumma who declares that she’ll introduce her to a great man — not-her-husband Jung Yong-hwa, a secret chaebol masquerading as a VJ at the station he’ll own someday. (Below he’s pictured with Go Doo-shim, who plays his network CEO grandmother.)
Lee Dong-gun on the other hand, is a rather puffed-up news anchor whose name means “god.” No wonder he thinks he’s god’s gift to man. (Though that still doesn’t explain the Star Wars get-up in the stills, which hilariously came with no explanation. Closet fanboy?) I love that he’s introduced in the teaser as Mirae’s Husband (= Future Husband). We’re gonna get a LOT of mileage out of this one pun, aren’t we?
Yoon Eun-hye will naturally fall for him because duh, she married him the first time, only Future Mirae (lol) will stop at nothing to put the brakes on that budding romance because she knows that Jung Yong-hwa is the better choice. And they do seem to fit the Darcy vs. Daddy Long Legs hero types to a tee. As advertised, I think it will be a happy dilemma indeed. Yay for a new rom-com on the horizon.
Mirae’s Choice premieres October 14, following Good Doctor.
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1 Lois
October 4, 2013 at 1:07 PM
Can't wait to watch this!!! YEH, my all time favorite actress.
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May147
October 4, 2013 at 5:11 PM
Yes. She is one Of the better actresses. Didn't really love her in PK ( bc I hate characters like her) but I loved her even more after watching old Kim Jong Kook and YEH videos.
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lano
October 4, 2013 at 5:48 PM
That's Jung So Min, not YEH in Playful Kiss
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addylovesbwood
October 5, 2013 at 8:37 AM
loool. i used to confuse those two too. yoon eun hye, jung so min and park shin hye all looked alike to me
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Jonna
October 5, 2013 at 6:07 PM
Seriously... ,They (producers) deliberately did intended to create "the next Yoon Eun Hye" in the early career of both actresses because of some similarities of their look with Yoon Eun Hye. and I hate it..
PSH was casted in Goong S, the spin-off of Yoon Eun Hye's Goong/Princess Hours. JSM is the female lead of Playful Kiss, which got the same director with Goong, and the same tone of drama (you know, the teddy bear closing, highschool girl clumsy and bubbly character and all)
2 Hipployta
October 4, 2013 at 1:08 PM
Future Mirae is fierce though...LOL
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opheliadrowning
October 4, 2013 at 1:47 PM
Is Future Mirae the mom from "I Summon You Gold" or is she also played by the same actress in makeup.
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DramaDevourer
October 4, 2013 at 2:24 PM
The I Summon You Gold mother.
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3 pogo 🍉
October 4, 2013 at 1:24 PM
I like the other title for the show better - Marry Him If You Dare. Much more evocative of the premise, and master's Sun kind of owned the name-of-protagonist punning so thoroughly this year that any drama that comes after it and attempts to do the same, will just seem like a weaksauce imitator. Which this drama does not deserve.
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okitokki
October 4, 2013 at 1:41 PM
Master's Sun is hardly the first drama to use a main character's name in the title as a pun.
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pogo 🍉
October 4, 2013 at 2:25 PM
It's the first in 2013, and it isn't so much about the name pun as the specific form it takes - [protagonist's name]'s [other protagonist].
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bibapr57
October 4, 2013 at 9:28 PM
well, while I loved Master's Sun and the pun, Future Choice is not about name + name is about stating the main theme of the drama.
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Mila
October 5, 2013 at 2:48 AM
And there's also "Hopes for dating" which uses the two main protagonists' names~ Hope (Ki Dae) being the boy's and Dating (Yon Ae) being the girl's. I thought that was a pretty good one! -though I didn't like the drama itself-
addy
October 7, 2013 at 10:35 PM
other 2013 dramas with character names in title: You're the Best, Lee Soon Shin (최고다이순신); Jang Ok Jung: live by love (장옥정사랑에살다); my daughter seo-yeong (내딸서영이); kings family(왕가네식구들, somewhat punny, even); Cheer up! Mr.Kim (힘내요미스터김); Ad Genius Lee Tae Baek (광고천재이태백); Jeon Woo Chi (전우치); Princess Aurora (오로라공주); Oh Ja Ryong is coming (오자룡이간다); Emperor's Daughter Soo Baek Hyang (제왕의딸수백향); Gu Am Heo Jun(구암허준)..
and this is just SBS/KBS/MBC dramas. So, no. Not the first of 2013.
if it's the format you take issue with, "future choice" only has one character's name in the title; no character is named 선택 (choice).
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Rovi
October 5, 2013 at 6:39 AM
I think that will be used in KBS World, since international broadcasts usually use alternative titles, sometimes for the worse. Like:
-"Shark" became "Don't Look Back: The Legend of Orpheus". I was like WTF with the fuckingly LONG title.
-"Mandate of Heaven" became "The Fugitive of Joseon", which is a bit okay since its full title was a combo of both to begin with.
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You're the Best Doormat, Banshee"You're the Best, Lee Soon-shin" was reduced to only "You're the Best", to spare the foreigners from being tongue-tied in Korean names (as is the case of my mother)-"Sword and Flower" was transformed into "Blade and Petal", which I think was because the original name is too extreme in context.
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4 bahar
October 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM
I can't wait... I can't get over the ahjumma hair as well^^
people say it will change quickly and it is apart of the story but I haven't seen any pics of YEH without that hair yet so ı guess it won't go away for a few episodes at least
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sixtyeightmonkey
October 4, 2013 at 4:51 PM
I definitely won't groan when they roll out the makeover trope in this one!
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Roggy
October 4, 2013 at 7:47 PM
The awkward moment when your ahjumma self has better hair than your 20something self....
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gg
October 4, 2013 at 7:58 PM
LOL how apt!
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bibapr57
October 4, 2013 at 9:29 PM
thanks!!! Exactly what i was thinking... Like, we get that she is scatterbrained and rejected a lot, but PLEASE REMOVE THAT AHJUMMA HAIR NOW!
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5 Angélina Eang
October 4, 2013 at 1:25 PM
Excited for the drama because it looks gooood but not excited by Jung Yonghwa's acting skills and just by looking at the stills and watching at the trailer, he always has that "expressionless/stoic" face which makes me want to punch him.
Maybe he has improved but I am kind of annoyed to have to say it because heck, a drama is a real production and even if you have to practice to improve, you should at least be good/decent when you act as one of leads. But maybe that's just me.
Anyway, I watched Changing Partners and gosh', Lee Dong Gun is hella fine.
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Nicole
October 4, 2013 at 1:33 PM
Everyone in that movie was hella fine! I so loved the UJH/LDG pairing. Han Chae-young was pretty, too, love her.
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Angélina Eang
October 4, 2013 at 2:16 PM
Oh My God I know ! When they were fighting at this kind of restaurant/bar/boxing thing or whatever, it was just soo good.
SPOILER SPOILER
I didn't quite understand the ending though. Did the couple switch or ?? Well, at least, it was a good thing that both of these couples didn't have any children because the situation would have been much much ...
Anyway, my favorite scene gotta be when both wives fell in the water and that their lovers came to rescue them. Everyone was in awe and shock when they saw them XD.
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addictedtoyou
October 4, 2013 at 2:32 PM
He isn't even doing that bad in the teasers released so far and was totally adorable in the BTS. Poor boy, can't even get a break from prejudice. I wonder if he'll ever get some objectivity from people who's just so prejudiced about idol-actors even if he shows improvement.
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ck1Oz
October 4, 2013 at 3:00 PM
Hey I am objective. Objectively he is lovely and personable in the BTS and when he is in interviews. And I like him enough to buy CN Blues CDs.
However when he he acts- and I've watched both his previous drams vs the WGM stint. Plus the trailers and posters.
Now tell me objectively that his expressions on his face don't look wooden? It frustrates me like anything that he can't seem to emote when the PD say acting mode on. Gah.
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addictedtoyou
October 4, 2013 at 4:28 PM
Sure you know the premise of his scenes and what emotions he's supposed to exude so you can tell he's not showing any emotions. Wait 'til the drama airs, shall we? 2 weeks isn't that long.
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ilikemangos
October 4, 2013 at 3:30 PM
This guy looks alot more expressive in BTS. Sadly he is one those people who can't translate that to the screen.
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Kiara
October 5, 2013 at 5:28 AM
Agreed.
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charlie
October 6, 2013 at 9:25 PM
agreed... i hope he's not shin woo again from 'you are beautiful'
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buzzy
October 8, 2013 at 6:13 PM
totally agree!! his expression it's kinda annoying..same all the way
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Angélina Eang
October 4, 2013 at 3:55 PM
It's funny that you say I'm prejudiced against idol actors because I'm the complete opposite.
I used to defend them so much and I still do but when you have someone like him who may but doesn't look like he is interested in acting, it's very annoying.
And as I said before, when you act as one of leads, the least you can do is be decent but you are right, I should wait the result by watching the drama and I will because I anticipate it but if in this drama, he doesn't show any glimpse of improvement, I hope some people and when I say it, I mean most of his fans will stop saying that he works hard and he will improve because it's going to be his third drama and if it wasn't for his popularity/selling hallyu power or whatever, there is no way he could have landed this role so no, I'm not against idol turned actors. I am against people bad at acting.
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zisel
October 5, 2013 at 1:38 AM
Funny that people keep saying he is bad at acting. I find he acts fine for the roles he was given in the last 2 dramas. If I can feel the emotions of the characters in the drama that he is portraying then to me I think he has done well enough. I for one am happy that this coming drama appears to have a better storyline than the other two (finally). I think people has a lot more expectations of him because he is known to be talented in many areas and somehow many feel the need to find fault just to make others look better/or to make him look bad. I totally disagree that his acting is static & I hope people can give more constructive feedback. Certainly he needs to work hard to improve his acting (even the veteran actors still continuously hone their skills) which I am sure he will. Importantly, he gets to work with veteran actors/actresses & I am sure he will learn as he gets more demanding role(s). He is only into his 3rd drama & like any actor, he will hone his skills with every acting role. There is really no need to bash him or any other actor/actresses ... before the drama even starts its run.
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Midori
October 4, 2013 at 5:24 PM
People are not prejudiced against idol actors. There are some really good ones (Kim Min Jong & Yoon Kye Sang) and there are decent ones who keep improving (Choi Si Won). Jung Yong Hwa has remained static in his acting. I like him as a singer and as a personality but his acting needs work.
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norah
October 4, 2013 at 6:00 PM
If yonghwa's acting improved it would be great but if not I guess he is not the right one that you have to blame and bash on;cause as you mentioned before that it is a huge production with capable writer and director. If he was chosen by them to make use of his popularity abroad ,so they deserve the results of their choice of the cast .even if he acted badly and they accepted that I wouldn't blame him It doesn't seem like they chose him against their will.
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maldita
October 4, 2013 at 10:57 PM
Kim Minjong and Yoon Kyesang, I think, have proven their worth and are so past the "idol actor" tag.
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Kiara
October 5, 2013 at 5:39 AM
Agreed with your comment on Kim Min Jong & Yoon Kye Sang. Choi Si Won had me at The Legend of Hyang Dan. He was so charming and natural I think he should do more sageuk.
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bookscoffee
October 4, 2013 at 6:03 PM
Yeah it's just you... lol kidding:)
I don't know, I used to make fun of him nonstop in his last two dramas (and I've found him charming as hell on variety shows etc.) but I can already see a real difference in the few teasers released. Who knows, I think he'll be much better in this.
I think it helps that he's finally getting away from PSH and acting with some different girls. YEH is a queen.
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Mia
October 5, 2013 at 6:38 AM
I'm also glad that Yonghwa has the chance to work with new actresses. I hope he's improved because he's in the big leagues now. He really has the chance to learn a lot. If he did HEIRS, it would've been his third eye candy teen drama; he wouldn't have been able to build his skills with that cast at all since they're all still growing themselves. In FUTURE CHOICE, Yonghwa gets to work with not just YEH but Han Chae-ah as well. Both would definitely help him improve.
Yonghwa working with YEH was just a dream that I only hoped would happen years later with his skills vastly improved. Can't believe it's happening now. I love dramas where the lead kisses both her love interests and I'm really hoping Yonghwa and YEH get a sizzling kiss scene (that bed scene isn't helping matters). Yonghwa hasn't had a REAL kiss scene yet and no K-drama actress does them better than YEH. Great opportunity in this drama for him to learn from the master.
Just hope Yonghwa loosens up and brings all the charm that he has in real life to his character. Some of the stills give me hope that he's not playing Shin 3.0.
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bibapr57
October 4, 2013 at 9:31 PM
to Me, it's funny because the real Jung Yong Hwa is dynamic and has range, but when he acts he get's stuck on the non-emotional thing.. Which kills me to no end! Let's hope it gets better!
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Molly
October 5, 2013 at 12:18 AM
No, CutiieAngiie, that's not just you. He should stick to music and variety shows.
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Jo
October 6, 2013 at 11:14 AM
“expressionless/stoic” face which makes me want to punch him.
LOOOOOOOOOL
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charlie
October 6, 2013 at 9:27 PM
same here
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6 Rashell
October 4, 2013 at 1:26 PM
This looks like it could be adorable. PLEASE live up to your potential drama!
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7 Aly
October 4, 2013 at 1:29 PM
This drama looks exactly like the female version of this short Jdrama: "Juunen Saki mo Kimi ni Koishite" (I'll Still Love You In 10 Years)
Except in the Jdrama it's the Future Husband who goes back in time to warn off Past Wife so they won't get married.
I hope the Kdrama version ends up more interesting than the Jdrama one.
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8 Nicole
October 4, 2013 at 1:31 PM
I'm actually interested in this drama for everyone in it except for Yoon Eun-hye, who I've never been drawn to for some strange inexplicable reason to the point where I have purposely stayed away from her past dramas despite liking her costars (Goong, Coffee Prince)...I dunno why. Everyone's recommended me those dramas a million times over.
Perhaps this will be the first YEH vehicle I'll get behind. :)
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Mimi
October 4, 2013 at 8:05 PM
:) I'm like you ! ... for some reason I stay away from her dramas too, even if the story sounds "just my type" I don't go beyond 2 episodes ... I'm going to try this one :) let's hope it is like you said "the first YEH vehicle I’ll get behind" ...
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Molly
October 5, 2013 at 12:21 AM
I understand how you feel. I have the same syndrome with Moon Chae Won and Go Hye Sun.
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YL
October 5, 2013 at 4:00 AM
Me too, Molly! And I can't get behind YEH either. I guess different actors just appeal to different people.
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9 ryoko
October 4, 2013 at 1:32 PM
For once teaser stills have left me with a burning question: Why is Lee Dong Gun wearing a Star War's costume? Pfft. Okay Show, you've got me. Hurry up and air so that I can find out.
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10 Mystisith
October 4, 2013 at 1:55 PM
Jung Yong-hwa and Lee Dong-gun look so much alike. Maybe it's in fact the same guy? The younger version of the wanabee husband has also travelled in time to help his older self getting married...
Or I'm just being paranoid. ^^
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Toto
October 4, 2013 at 2:10 PM
I know was just about to say this lol !! hehe maybe wannabe husband will travel as well :D
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Mystisith
October 4, 2013 at 2:16 PM
Poor girl hesitating between the 2 when it's in fact the same guy. Mwahahaha...
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Yoliz
October 4, 2013 at 3:41 PM
Now that is a drama I'd love to watch! LOL
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Hairpin
October 4, 2013 at 5:11 PM
I got it: Lee Dong-gun's character is the future version of Yong-hwa's character who went back in time to help his younger self capture Eun-hye's character's heart, but inadvertently got her to fall for him (future self) instead. So after many years of marriage, he finally tells his wife that she could have had the younger, just-as-hot version of him had she married Yong-hwa's character instead. So Myung-gil's character goes back in time to fix this so that her husband is hotter for even longer, the classy ahjumma that she is.
;D
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bookscoffee
October 4, 2013 at 6:04 PM
That makes my head hurt and I LOVE IT
mary
October 4, 2013 at 7:49 PM
OMG I love this. I love you guys (girls?)
*sigh* sometimes I wish the beanut gallery can crowdsource a kdrama...
(Then I look at the Song Seung Hoon posts and realize we'll end up with a 20-episode one where the male lead whips off his shirt in every scene.)
Laura
October 5, 2013 at 12:11 AM
hahaha, that would be interesting indeed :D
Gom
October 4, 2013 at 5:24 PM
THIS THIS THIS. This is exactly what I was thinking!
Maybe LDG and JYH is one and the same. There has to be a reason why the drama got two guys who will pass as real life brothers! I mean, look at them!
Though I don't how that will work in the long run and why, but doesn't it sound fun and interesting to have them be the same guy.
Ah, I'm excited for this! I don't care about JYH's stoic face. I like him enough as a person to ignore that. And LDG! OMG. Why is he still so cute? How is that possible?
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11 Toto
October 4, 2013 at 2:05 PM
can't wait for this!! Always up for a time travel!
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12 monologue
October 4, 2013 at 2:05 PM
gdi I am NOT used to her hair yet lol. Probably it doesn't help that I just finished Coffee Prince.
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13 tebz10
October 4, 2013 at 2:06 PM
Is there an explanation for her ajumma hair as well?
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Mystisith
October 4, 2013 at 2:26 PM
Yes. She's a poor K Drama heroine. :)
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topper
October 4, 2013 at 4:51 PM
We got a winner. Exactly.
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Anonymous
October 4, 2013 at 5:09 PM
She's a poor, hardworking heroine. (The hardworking is essential).
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messi
October 4, 2013 at 6:42 PM
But Park Shin-hye have good hair in Heirs and she's hardworking-poor kdrama heroine too.
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Mystisith
October 4, 2013 at 6:52 PM
Well, some writers know how to subvert cliches and use new points of view...
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bibapr57
October 4, 2013 at 9:40 PM
oh hun, the kdrama world has it's variety of choices when it comes to stereo types and cliché's... Such is life!
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kumi
October 5, 2013 at 8:36 AM
It has something to do with difference of Mirae's character in the present and future. They look diametrically opposed.
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14 Tata
October 4, 2013 at 2:25 PM
Every time I see something new about is drama I get more excited. Can't wait to watch it...
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15 imzadi
October 4, 2013 at 2:32 PM
What I do like about here hair: I don't think it's supposed make as believe, that it's looks good on her, like some other shows did. There are some like "Incarnation of Money", where I simply couldnt't get over her Spaceballs hair helmet.
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16 Quiet Thought
October 4, 2013 at 2:50 PM
Pretty haircut. I hope she doesn't change it soon.
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Molly
October 5, 2013 at 12:26 AM
Great someone makes sense LOL (pretty common here where I live) I was born with that look of hair and I'm proud of it..
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17 Juby
October 4, 2013 at 3:05 PM
This looks like a really fun rom-com ^^ I can't wait to see Yoon Eun Hye back to her ''roots''. The last part in the trailer where she sings and dances already cracks me up :D
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18 kimheami
October 4, 2013 at 3:11 PM
UGH!! Can't wait for this to start now that Master's Sun is over. must get more romantic comedy!!!!! MOARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!
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19 kimheami
October 4, 2013 at 3:13 PM
Also, I have missed Lee Dong Gun sooo much! And lets be honest, Yoon Eun Hye does romantic comedy's a bit frumpy and a lot of quirky with an ample dash of sass, sooo well. Can't wait for this!!!
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20 Noelle
October 4, 2013 at 3:24 PM
Dude's I am loving the Star Wars getup. It's giving me Nerdglaze! LOL
Can't wait for this!
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21 ilikemangos
October 4, 2013 at 3:33 PM
Dang, mi rae ends up looking FIERCE as she gets older.
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ladida
October 4, 2013 at 7:54 PM
I know, and I LOVE IT.
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22 jomo143
October 4, 2013 at 3:42 PM
So this is the Bizarro Operation Proposal.
I am interested in HOW Future Mirae comes back to the present, and how she goes back to the future?
Maybe Darth Vader had something to do with it?
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23 daletavs
October 4, 2013 at 3:54 PM
Hmmm.. Lee Dong-gun kinda looks like Jung Yong-hwa and vice versa. hahaha. Anyways, I'm so excited for this one. :)
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24 DespicableC
October 4, 2013 at 4:26 PM
This drama looks cute and fun. I'm excited for this, especially since heirs doesn't look all that interesting. I watched a Korean movie on Netflix called Project Makeover that is pretty similar to this drama's concept. In the movie though, the woman goes back to get her teenage self to date her nerdy friend who's in love with her instead of the one who ends up dumping her later in life. Hopefully the drama lives up to the preview cuteness.
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25 crazedlu
October 4, 2013 at 4:36 PM
hrm. interest peaked. i have never truly enjoyed any of yoon eunhye's projects, so i hope this one will do it for me.
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