I don't know how beanies feel about his acting because I'm an unreliable judge for that criteria but, Yeon Woo Jin. Sigh. Thirty Nine, I Wanna Hear Your Song and the trainwreck that was Introverted Boss/My Shy Boss....I just want a really good drama for him.

Doom at your Service is the first that comes to mind. It started off well and the premise showed promise but damn if it didn't end up being a complete waste of talent.

I'd say Arthdal Chronicles still wins as the biggest overall waste of talent (acting, writing and directing) that I've seen. Bad Guy (with the exception of Han Ga In) also had a remarkably talented cast for such a terrible show.

I feel this many times. Starting from my bias Lee Jongsuk, i wonder why did he pick Doctor Stranger back then? Even though it was (what i believe) his best performance, still couldn't save the drama. It was bad!

Then Lee Jinwook. I don't remember how many of his dramas i have watched that are bad. I only remember 2. Goodbye Mr Black is the one i remember the most. It's soooo bad i don't want to explain more
And there is The Time We Were Not In Love which also isn't good. Such a shame cos i think he's a good actor.

Then there's Ji Changwook that i know for sure everyone knows
I might add more cos i don't remember them all

The first thing that came to mind was Park Bo-gum in Record of Youth - the plot was not so good and there was no chemistry in the OTP (although she's another famous name). Just don't get me started on Encounter ...

Sisyphus: Cho Seung-woo 🤯
Thirty Nine: Sohn Ye-jin, Yeon Woojin 😤
Big: GongYoo 🤕
Hyde Jekyll, Me: Hyunbin 👀
Arthadal: Song Joongki 🙈

I'm waiting who will first mention Forest...
*turning on the popcorn machine*

Some big productions were pretty disapointing :

- Arthdal Chronicles
- Vagabond
- Sisyphus : The Myth
- The King : Monarch of Eternal
- Encounter
- Jirisan

Otherwise :
- Metling Solftly
- Dr. Jin
- Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol
- Forest
- Hyde Jekyll, Me
- 39
- Record of Youth
- Alice

Nana and Lee Minki In Oh! Master. Lee Minki especially

Jung Kyung-ho in Hospital Playlist during the music segments or when they are together as a whole. A good number of times he barely got a word in, especially when they are weighing pressing matters.

Chu Ja-hyun in Green Mothers Club. While she was strongly written, it seemed like they didn't know what to do with her.

Yeon Woojin, Kang Malgeum and Kim Ji-hyun in Thirty Nine.

Yoon Se-ah in The Road Tragedy of One.

That's all I can recall for now.

Park Bo-young in everything after Strong Girl Do Bong Soon.

Ji Chang Wook in almost everything after healer *cries*

Lee Jin-wook's entire career except for Voice and Nine.

Cho Seung-woo - it takes a special type of awful to completely waste the talents of an actor who is adept and experienced in Film, Television and Musical Theater yet somehow the writer and director of Sisyphus succeeded in doing it, bravo!!

Yoo Seungho always comes to mind when "good actor bad drama" are mentioned. Also, Joowon. Boys are so good at acting yet so bad at picking script 🤦🏻‍♀️

Aaand many might disagree with me, but personally, I think Scarlet Heart is a big let down. And the recent Doom at Your Service too.

Shin Dong-wook - Dae Jang Geum Is Watching
Jeon Do-yeon - Lost/Human Disqualification (my honorable mention goes to: PD (and film director) Hur Jin-ho who sometimes had a bad directing because of flop as a resulted mediocre, poor rating)
Kim Ji-seok and Jung So-min - Monthly Magazine Home
Cho Seung-woo and Park Shin-hye - Sisyphus: The Myth
Won Jin-ah and Rowoon - She Would Never Know
Kim Hee-sun - Room No. 9
Lee Sang-yoon and Lee Sung-kyung - About Time

Do movies count? I’ve always wondered why Junho would pick Homme Fatale

Yoo Ah-in and Lee Je-hoon are the best actors of their generation, yet they both starred in the disaster that was Fashion King.

1. As a Moon Chae Won unnie fan, I can feel this topic in my bones. Mama Fairy and the Woodcutter is so freaking bad I could cry but I watched it completly because I dropped her other shows (Goodbye Mr Black and Criminal Minds) in episode 1.

Innocent Man and Shinning Inheritance are classics but they're also... not great (even if Chaeki couple was iconic).

2. Everyone loves Ji Sung and his dramas always get good ratings, but -except for Protect the Boss and The Devil Judge- I've never liked them. I always feel like his acting goes to waste.

I would split bad dramas happening to good actors (keyword being good, bc there are many bad dramas that happen to bad actors) into 2 categories: 1) drama looks good on paper, and 2) drama looks bad on paper. With 1), you understand why the actor signed on; with 2) you're questioning if the actor was blackmailed into signing on or was drunk when they signed on.

Jirisan belongs to category #1. The writer has a great track record , the director has a good track record, and the premise of the story sounded interesting. It was unexpected how none of those things came together.

Arthdal might belong to category #1, though personally I would've broken my agreement as soon as I saw the costumes.

Sisyphus belongs to category #2. Till this day, I am baffled how Cho Seungwoo of all people got roped into this. Did he not read the script or notice that his costar is Park Shinhye? If Korea ever had Actors Roundtable, I want someone to ask him how he agreed to this show.

Almost everything lee jun ki has ever done.
Please don’t hate me 🙈

Record of Youth: With talent as Park Bo-gum and Park So-dam this drama was offensively bland. They had little to no chemistry together.
Sisyphus the myth: Less said about this drama is better. The drama might have sounded better on paper but execution was a total disaster. It was waste of time, money and talent.
Doom: The drama never got its world building and mythology right and talented cast could not fill up the plot-holes.
Monthly Magazine Home: It made characters played by two immensely likable actors unlikeable.
Mine: It had few moments but it two female leads deserved awesome script and not run-of the mill cheabol drama.
Melancholia: They never should have added romance. It was wrong before and it was wrong even after the time jump. The male lead never respected boundaries of female lead.
Oh Master: I am sure the actors never had the full script, even they had half the episode script they would have never accepted this awful drama.
Pirates: It’s a movie that I decided to drop after first fifteen minutes. That’s a record for me.

Oh Master! - Lee Min Ki is one of my most favourite Korean actors. And that was supposed to be a rom-com with fun premise on paper. I like the actress too! That was one of the worst shows I have ever seen (and I am saying this in spite of surviving(?) that horrible end of Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol)

I'm going with Lee Do-Hyun in Melancholia. I can see why he signed on--math genius with a troubled family life and questionable attachment to his teacher/mentor is a pretty juicy role--but this drama was overwrought, cringey, and the special kind of ridiculous that happens when you can tell the writer and director took the unintentionally funny material very, very seriously.

Waiting anxiously for his next project to wipe away my memory of this one.

Apart from Healer, I suppose we can mention all the dramas from Wookie, although I was OK with suspicious partner 😅

Jung So min and Kim Ji suk in monthly home magazine... a total waste.

Shin Min ah in tomorrow with you.

Jung Hae in and Sin Ye jin in Pretty Noona, of course 😠😕😠

Last but not least: Go Ah ra and Lee Jae wook in Do do do sol sol la la sol

Warm and Cozy - I generally like Yoo Yeon Seok but that drama is SUCH hard work. I’m still surprised I managed to finish it.

the picture noted at the top of this article is from JIRISAN- which had a whole host of top-notch actors all of whose talents were wasted.

SHY BOSS and DDSSLLS were two more examples.

I agreed with a lot of titles mentioned by other beanies. Though personally, I have to go with Lee Kyu-hyung in Doctor John. For all his penchant for unusual character, I still couldn't figure out why he decided to say yes for this script, especially after all his previous spectacular choices.

Too lol ltd remember older dramas, this is in no way a comprehensive list of all the bad ones happening to good actors but these come to mind when I think of the most recent disasters:

1. Arthdal Chronicles
2. Jirisan
3. Hyde Jekyll, Me
4. Oh my master
5. Soundtrack

These are by far the worst ones when I think of the biggest stars/incredible actors with the worst dramas ever, whether a bad scrip, story, direction or execution 😒🤡

by bad dramas happening to good actors, I think of the actors' roles in that bad drama and whether that role added something positive to their breadth of roles or acting skills or fame or ratings or relationships/friendships.

The drama that came to mind was Criminal Minds which made both Moon Chae Won and Lee Jun ki appear bland. I think the only actor whose acting improved in my eyes from that drama was Im Soo Hyang's cameo as the serial killer.

I didn't finish scarlet heart. It was a bummer for IU especially since her acting was very O_O in it. But Kang Haneul and Lee Junki seemed to have shone in it.

Hwarang. Park Hyung-shik shone, while Park Seo Joon and Go Ara appeared regressed. Still, I think this drama introduced PHS, PSJ, and V to each other, and they still hang out to this day. So it wasn't a complete waste.

Risky Romance. no one benefited from that. Poor Lee Shi-young and Ji Hyun-woo. Hope they got paid lots for it.

Yes to that picture! I love Jun Ji-hyun and just couldn't get into Jirisan.

I've already expressed much dismay and disdain for Alhambra, and Jirisan. I'm going to add 2 shows, that I liked until halfway through and then turned on me. THE ITEM. Everything I ever wanted to see... a little creepy; inanimate objects that gained power through a traumatic event (ala The Lost Room), evil insanely rich people, and one guy trying to save his industrious niece in the upside down. I could even forgive the useless 30 minute piecemeal episodes. About halfway through, the writing took a turn for the worse. The actors tried so hard.

Speaking of actors trying to infuse credibility into an overworked and dead script... This brings me to THE GAME: TOWARD ZERO. First few episodes were great, and then... it became a different show. I so want Lim Juhwan to be in a good show; he's so good, but no one gives him anything to do. His co-stars weren't better off, and I was rooting for the bad guy most of the time because, let's face it, Lim Juhwan was the better actor (sorry Taecyeon). I was hopeful with The Game.

I dunno, I may rewatch both, but they left such a sour taste. At first, I did like them, so maybe I can forgive and forget...

Bad dramas that happened to good actors:

1. Sisyphus/ Sisymess: agree with all the comments above, the less it’s talked about the better. We might trick the universe and ourselves into believing that it had never actually axisted.

2. Along the same lines with the above show we have …gimme a sec I can’t even remember the show’s name now.. Alice: such a waste of everything. It was a strange show with a strange script (a romance between the ML and a woman who looks exactly like his mother???? 🤮) And I sat through all the eps because of my love for the actor. *smdh*

3. Soundtrack1: I like HSH and I think she’s a charming and talented actress. However, her acting was so bland, the same as everything in the show, even in the first 10 mins of the show and I couldn’t continue watching it. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced watching such a bland show like that my entire life. Some shows were bad, some were good, but reaching that level of blandness requires a special type of talent. Yes the show succeeded in doing it, wow.

Actors that continue to choose bad projects:

1. Ji Chang-wook: no explanation is needed, period.

Almost all Park Bo Young drama. I have no idea why she always choose the worst script? such a talent girl, but so unlucky choosing project.

Woori the Virgin, My Secret Romance, Now we are breaking up, Melancholia, I'll go to you when the weather is warm, how to be thirty, angel eyes, blade man, Devilish joy...