"DAE JANG GEUM" was the first Hallyu epic sageuk and was watched globally in over 60 countries. It became a gateway drama for many overseas fans in the early 2000s. I have fond memories of watching DJG with my mother as a kid. She owns two sets of DVDs - one for safekeeping and the other for lending to family and friends.
MBC has been trying to get a sequel since two decades ago but fell through. My mom is going to be happy to hear this news; as for me, I can't make up my mind.😂 I hope they still cast Kim So-hyun as Jang Geum's daughter. She was 14 then, but hopefully, they'll make it work.

The return of Dae Jang Geum? BRING IT ON! This is so exciting! Hoping that Ji Jin-Hee will also return!

Thinking about Dae Jang Geum 2 makes me fantasize about the other shows that could have sequels for their 20th anniversaries. Full House? My Girl? Sam Soon the Sequel with Sam Soon and Sam Shik as parents of teenage kids in today’s Seoul?

A second season twenty years later! That is going to be serious pressure for all concerned. How can they match the rose coloured version the audience remembers of the first season and their imagined post credit lives of the characters.

The one I am most excited about is A Killer Paradox. I hope it is good!

I remember watching dae jang geum with my two sisters and we started crying at the end of ep 1 or 2 ( I don't remember exactly) when her mother died, so my mother got angry and shut off the TV
All 3 of us cried so much and we were just kids so my mother got sad
But you know she became the show's number 1 fan after a couple of episodes kkkk

1) I didn't watch the first one but I like the idea that the actress is taking her role 20 years after!

2) I didn't like the first season, it was one of the many streaming platform dramas that uses violence to sell a story without developping the characters and the story. The main actresses Park Ji-hoo and Jo Yi-hyun were not very good. PKH was bland in Little Women too but JYH was good in The Matchmakers so I trust her. Roh Yoon-seo is really good, so it's a good addition to the cast. I didn't like L.U.C.A. – The Beginning, the ML was so creepy.

5) I'm sorry but the palm of the scene with an actress and a younger actor with an umbrella goes to Song Yoon-A and Ji Chang-Wook in The K2.

I'm really surprised that Lee Young-ae would want to do anything connected with DJG. That was a perfect artistic team effort. Who would want to taint it by doing a mediocre spinoff? With today's writers and directors, mediocre is what I'd expect.

What a good time to be a thriller fan!

PYRAMID GAME webtoon was downright increadible. Super lookibg foward to this.

WONDERFUL WORLD is on my to watch list. I am lookibg foward to a relationship between different-gendered leads that isn't love, infatuation, or familial connection.

KILLER PARADOX looks fun. Admittingly my least anticipited show on this but still, very fun.

1. I have... conflicted feelings on this. I have such fond memories of the original Dae Jang Geum; its one of those seminal sageuks that got me into Korean historical dramas in the first place. But I currently have painfully bad sequelitis as a result of bad hollywood sequels and unwanted kdrama second seasons. As much as a part of me wants to jump in joy at seeing Lee Young-ae taking up her most iconic performance again, I am deeply skeptical of this drama's ability to recapture the lightning in a bottle feeling the OG has.

2. Might seem hypocritical to look forward to this when I just said I hated kdrama second seasons, but I loved the ensemble of the first season and adore Roh Yoon-seo. I think she'd be a great addition to the cast.

3. Synopsis feels like someone watched Boys over Flowers and got really fixated on the F4 locker card bullying thing.

4. It's a pretty poster, for sure, but I really, really hope there's no romance here. Not even as a small side-plot.

5. I hope this rises above the typical Netflix release and is actually good and memorable. It'd be a disaster to waste a cast this good.