Bromance, OCN, spy-action... usually I'd dive head first in this kind of dramas but my answer for everything Park Shi-ew related is still the same : no.

This is one less drama to look forward to. Yay.

Sounds interesting. I'll give the first few episodes a chance. I'm all for a good storyline and acting.

I can dislike the impression of an actor's personal life that I have - and it can only be an impression - and still enjoy a show if it is otherwise a show that I would like.

My only time not being able to do this, so far, are when we are watching people we know are having emotional/psychological/mental breakdowns in their real lives. I find that very uncomfortable. It's visible to us, and to think that we could just continue on like nothing is happening is distasteful and disturbing. Think Charlie Sheen, for a recent example. I don't want to help others profit off someone's personal spectacle.

Lee So Hyuk!! Gosh, should I watch this?? ><
I was a huge huge fan of PSH, so I was horribly disappointed (and heartbroken) by what happened..
I don't think I can watch this, at least for now :(

... I really want to watch this drama because of LSH and JSH and by the look of it, it looks and sounds like something I could totally enjoy, OCN always seems to deliver drama that I enjoy fully. But then, like many, I don't think I can watch PSH in this at all. I might just check out the recap on here when it start.

how can that cocker spaniel like creature peeking through the door with the messy hair be the vicious Shakespearean vampire?
I... need time to adjust. Um...well, spaniels can bite too.

I was never a fan of Lee Soo-hyuk, he always felt too stiff and boring in the roles he played. But after watching Scholar Who Walks The Night I have a different view on him. I think he did an excellent job as the evil vampire and hope his future roles will be as enjoyable as that one.

Why PSH of all actors?
Why PD-nim?

Although nobody is perfect and nobody can say he-she has never made mistakes, an act like the one that PSH did cannot, in my honest opinion, be categorised as a mistake because he was well aware of what he did (taking advantage of a drunk girl), and he jolly well knew what he did which was why he settled out of court and went to China to hide for a while.

His actions speak of his character - how he sees and treats women. As a woman, I cannot in good conscience, condone, forgive or forget men who views women in that light.

So it's interesting to note, but not in a good way, how some people, namely the PD-nims of this drama, are so willing to take him as the lead no less, so soon after the whole mess he was involved in, which never absolved him of any wrongdoing, what with the out-of-court (or better known as a ticket-out-of-jail) settlement.

Perhaps the PD-nims are men and so are more willing to forgive the wrongdoing of a fellow male? Shame on them.

I am in no way saying that PSH cannot or should not be forgiven because ultimately God Is The Ultimate Judge, Jury and Executioner BUT to get him as the male lead when the memory of the whole debacle he was involved in is still very fresh and raw and with the hair-standing-on-end-super-creepy kind of feeling that so many viewers are still feeling, it is in bad taste. Real bad taste.

He committed a crime but got away scot-free. Period. There can be no doubt about that. Because he took advantage of a drunk girl.
And because he has the money, he escaped judgement.
How can anyone with a sane mind just brush that aside so easily? How?

Would the PD-nims be as forgiving if what PSH did was done to their daughter or sister or mother, I wonder?

*shudders* *shivers*

And if anyone were to ask how much longer must he hide before people can forgive him, this is my response :

If he has a sister or daughter and a man were to do to his sister or daughter what he did to the drunk girl he took advantage of, would he EVER be able to forgive that man? Would he?

Does he think what he did can be so easily forgiven?

In fact, has he ever, in the past 2 years, ever admitted to himself that what he did was wrong? Has he? And that he should own up to his wrongdoing instead of hiding it?

If PSH cannot answer any of those questions, then do not waste time asking how much longer he needs to hide for people to forgive him.

This sounds great and it really sounds like a great role for Lee Soo Hyuk whom I'm sure will rock it, but like everyone else I really don't want to watch Park Shi Hoo. Maybe, I will give it a go but I won't be able to shake how uncomfortable I feel every time Park is on screen, for real.

Argh, used to adore Park Shi-Hoo so much which is why I the disappointment and the anger was high.
Skipping on this, I honestly can't look at him.

It is a well-known fact that in prisons around the world, rapists and paedophiles are the most badly-treated prisoners even by their fellow prison-mates. Why? Because such crimes are so heinous that even other prisoners abhor/loathe them and so the perpetrators/convicted criminals are treated as such.

Even worse that how murderers are treated. By fellow prisoners no less.

And yet we have people outside the prisons who are so willing to forgive and forget such crimes and criminals. *shudders*

Park Shi Ho will never regain his popularity as an actor again. I think the production company and network are taking a huge risk trying to bring him back. Dramas with fairly popular actors fail in the ratings all the time. Having said that, I'm glad they are taking a risk on him. Rape is no small matter but plenty of Korean celebrities have had their careers interrupted and/or hindered over some pretty petty things. Since he was never convicted of the crime and the woman chose to drop the charges then he's very lucky to be getting a second chance.

Why did Park Si-hoo have to stage his comeback with a Kwak Jung-hwan drama? Aaaargh so conflicted right now...

I also feel conflicted about this - on the one hand, there is still not enough hard evidence to call him a rapist and convict him - but on the other hand, there is the fact that he was having sex with a drunk girl he barely knew.
And he was a lot more sober than her so that certainly makes him a major asshole because even if she did give him consent it was under the influence of alcohol.

Does anyone know if he is also the romantic lead of Neighborhood Hero? That would be even harder to stomach - I mean even the shower shot above feels wrong because those kind of scenes are mostly targeted at a female audience - which, eww, who can still think of him as sexy?

It looks like Lee Soo-hyuk's character will be like Carpenter Kim, this makes me so happy cause I like him best when he's being normal. Actually, I like him every time. I don't mind watching Park Shi-hoo, I'm not being heartless or anything. I just find it easy to separate character from actor. Just like I'm seriously adoring Kim Young-kwang as Lee Hae-sung in spite of his alleged real-life jerkiness.

Sounds great. Will watch for Park Shi-hoo. Great actor, glad he's back.

Guys, are we still gonna talk about PSH case again and again and again? Is this site the place to give your 2 cents about the man and his crime? If you don't want to watch this drama ok that's your right. I'm no fan of him and I don't condone what he did but I find it boring and childish to reaffirm your distaste for PSH everytime there's news about him.

Will watch this just for the sake of seeing scruffy, not-polished-till-glossy-just-one-of-the-regular-guy Lee Soo Hyuk, yaay!

Yep, I'm gonna pass on this one. PSH is very smart with his role-picking, a neighborhood hero and retired spy, who will have a lot of people cheering for him. No better comeback-role to tout for the public's love again.

I was very disappointed to hear about his scandal and since so many people had so many opinions I decided to thoroughly read up on it, including the released text messages and such. (Translated, not in Korean.) I went through the timeline point by point and I think I understand what happened. I think he genuinely was interested in her and did not think he was doing anything untoward. Yes it would have been better to wait for her to be totally sober but it was about 2 am and he'd been drinking too so he didn't exercise the best judgement.

I would definitely encourage anyone who is only informed by the various comments here to fire up Google and read the whole thing for themselves because some of the comments I've read about the situation were oversimplifications of the events or flat out inaccurate.