OMG!!!! So eggzited!!! I looovvee Nodame, like from the manga to the anime and to the live action series!!! Can't wait!!!

Joo Won has a very anime-esque face, and his body is also anime proportion so if all fails, it will be nice to look at :))

Joo Won and Shim Eun Kyung? Definitely count me on! Both are very good actors!

*happy dance*

I wish they won't destroy the japanese version I love this drama seriously the music everything The Shim Eun Kyung will have hard job with the character more than Joo Won in my opinion bcz her character Nodame is more complex .

OMFG YES!! A 100000000% YES on Shim Eun-kyung casting! She'll make an amazing Nodame. I love her since Sunny.

I have nothing to say just feelingso happy to see my dream land cheobel husband Joo won again in kdrama land LOL xD ..I don't know anything about this drama so I can't judge anything right now...so as other people mentioned here I hope the remake will be as goood as the original and a big success ....so everyone could be happy

ive seen so many dramas but ive ever seen her, nevertheless i trust u beanies and i will give her a chance obviously. but they really cant mess this drama up . like seriously ( i mean the plot not and execution not the actors)

I have nothing to say just feelingso happy to see my dream land cheobel husband Joo won again in kdrama land LOL xD ..I don’t know anything about this drama so I can’t judge anything right now…so as other people mentioned here I hope the remake will be as goood as the original and a big success ….so everyone could be happy

As much as I love Joo Won, I may give this drama a miss coz musical theme is not really my cup of tea. But I wish him the all best.

i will not put my expectations high in this remake, i love SEK and i love Nodame Cantabile, but just thinking about how big jdoramas and kdramas differ in drama style make me worried.. -__-

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

Heck yeah!!! I loved the J-version. I hope the two get together. They will be perfect. I can picture them now.

so gyaaabooo.... will be translated to omooo right? i hope not.....GYAABOO is a trademark for Megumi-chan. And i wonder who will play Milk-sensie....

I hope this drama will not disappoint. I hope this drama will be as good as the japanese version by not eliminating ridiculous. Because i really liked the japanese version. And hopefully not as bad as the previous korean version 'Hanakimi'
I too look foward to acting Joo Won to be silly still like chiaki senpai

Wow Joo Won and Shim Eun Kyung? They are solid leads. I don't know about how the drama will be executed, but their acting will be top-notch for sure.

Thank the drama gods for Shim Eun Kyung's casting!
I agree with everyone that I wouldn't want to see this get redone if they're not going to do justice to the story and overall ~flavor~ of the story. And wouldn't want her to waste her time in dramaland if it's not going to be worth it.

The first young actor that comes to mind for Chiaki is Jang Geun Seuk. Joo Won would be interesting, I liked him in Gaksital but this is a completely different sort of drama.

Yeessss i agre....Joo Won and Shim Eun Kyung will be perfect.....

She looks quite mature in that picture. she'd be so great for the role! She

OH MY GOSH THIS PAIR PLEASE SAY YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES

I don't know why people keep forgetting that Joo Won was pretty funny in Ojakyo Brothers and was also the best onscreen rom com paring with Uee. Being the straight man with oddballs hanging around him will work perfectly in Nodame.

omg sooo loving it... i could totally picturing Shim Eun Kyung as Nodame.. and her character in real life is quite quirks as well.. hope she'll take this role..
as for JW, for me he's a great actor, i think he'll do fine as Chiaki.. but yeah, we'll see...

I kind of don't want Joo Won in this adaptation because adaptations rarely do well, and I really want Joo Won to do well. I don't want him to do another 7th Level Civil Servant.

Oh this is awesome. I liked the anime and the Jdrama, but they were both a little over-the-top campy/slapstick for me, and Kdramas tend to be more on the grounded side in that respect even when they're comedies. So if this is good it could end up being the better adaptation for my taste~

I may be one of the FEW here who is not buying this remake, and not buying Joo Won as Chiaki Senpai. And I'm sooooooo alarmed by some of us here commenting about how this version will be more Korean and less the Japanese original (norebang, birth secrets etc just to name a few above).

Yes, I'm from Japan, so pardon me when my perspective is VERY different from many of you here.

While it is good for an adaption to steer away from the original and do something creative with its own culture, Nodame Cantabile is not one of them! A lot of the emotions, musical music taste, characters' personalities ARE very Japanese and stem from Japanese culture/way of life/social behaviour. That is all part of the wonderful original manga called Nodame Cantabile. I simply cannot imagine the world of Nodama to be different from the original (yes, same for Boys Over Flowers! Can never understand or see the allure of the Korean version!). Since BOF is kinda "surreal" (rich boys with the poorest gal, huh), I can still tolerate remakes coz this is not REAL. But Nodame is different. Classical music is real. The toughness of pursuing music your entire life is real. Geniuses get stuck not being able to achieve is real in the classical music world.

I like Joo Won, but I don't buy him as Chiaki Senpai. Most classically trained people has this aura of quiet gentleness, clean and high-class looks, as well as a charisma who stands out among muggles. Joo Won is gorgeous, but to me he doesn't have the classic high-class aura. His eyes are wild and sexy, not gentle and deep.

Just my 2 cents worth.

I'm glad IU is not the female lead. I have a feeling that this drama is total mess. And IU's role in pretty man and nodame are quite similar. I wanted her to take different challenging role and not the remake of drama. Shin eung kyung is also quite good actress. I loved her in sunny but I think she is too young to be paired with mature looking joo won

Why don't they cast Noh Min Woo to be Chiaki senpai? He is musical genius so underrated because of his accentric behaviour and overly goodlooking. I think he's such an amazing musician and good actor if you happened to watch him in Rock Rock Rock

I support any and all remakes of Nodame Cantabile; especially those involving Joo Won. All I can say to this drama is: "Go weird and intense musical passion or GO HOME"

Nodame Cantabile is perfection. This remake is a disaster awaiting to happen.

Shim Eun Kyung is good. But how about other candidates?

In my opinion, Lee Si Young might fit the role of Nodame well too, based on how she acted her character Yoo Eun Jae in Wild Romance :) She was "crazy" in it and what I like the most about her is that she wasn't trying to look pretty when acting like some actresses do.

The second actress I have in mind is Kim Seul Gi (she played the webtoon manger in Flower Boy Next Door. She's awesome too! Just perfect for Nodame's role :)

I don't think korean version can beat the japan one. Especially group 8 make this remake drama. All of their remake dramas are flop like ttby, playfull kiss, and bof. They ruin the story but adding such many unimportant scene. And also i think nobody can beat the perfectness of ueno juri in portraying nodame character which is almost a hundred percent similar with the manga. Also for tamaki hiroshi also portraying chiaki senpai very good eventhough not as perfect as ueno juri. But still awesome combo. Also i'm curious with Stresemann character, who will portraying this character in korean version because naoto takenaka did a brilliant job in portraying this character. Omg as the big fans of nodame i still can't see the korean character in joo won n shim eun kyung. I just hope they don't ruin this drama by adding the other scene which is unimportant like korean drama usually have.

JOO WON SHIM EUN KYUNG ^^

While I have no problem with the pairing, I'm still worried of how this show would turn out like. Ueno Juri really nailed her character in the original Nodame, and I dont think anyone could do better than her. And yes, I do love Shim Eun Kyung but she seems a little too young for Joo Won. But I think I'll give this a try.

I can't understand why some of you hating on Joo won ..if you don't like his acting then don't watch the drama ...nobody will force you to watch him ? I believe that he'll do a wonderful job because he has the talents and I hope that this drama will be as great as the original one..I've just started to watch the j-version and it looks great !(^__^)

I just don't want this to happen. I know Joo Won is a great actor but as Chiaki, I'm not sure. I don't know the girl at all so no comment other than she doesn't look the part. I can only cross my fingers because the Japanese version was wonderful. I only wish the movies were more fast pace, but Asian movies, especially Japanese ones can be slow. All the best but I will be one more upset person if they screw it up. As for IU playing the part, I think not. If she does one more quriky part, she may be stuck there for life.

But Chiaki in a sense was a chaebol *evil laugh*
*cue for dramatic music from chaebol xD*

I'm still on the fence about this. That being said, she seems like a good fit. Nodame's casting was the one I was most worried about.

I guess I have to take it on faith that whoever is taking this on has a good sense of the original work and will be able to translate it well without destroying any of the good stuff.

Please be good!!!

Looking for a female lead?! No problem! I volunteer myself! Let me play the part of Nodame!