[New Update] PD Lee Byung-hoon & Korean Star Starring first reading Dong Yi's Script.

[New Update] PD Lee Byung-hoon & Korean Star Starring first reading Dong Yi's Script.
05.02.2010 / Original : http://twssg.blogspot.com/ Roytavan : Author


This’ll be the second time Ji teams up with PD Lee Byung-hoon, with whom he first worked in the hugely successful Dae Jang Geum. PD Lee also directed several other hit sageuk series such as Heo Jun and Yi San.

MBC “Dong Yi” is marked as the sageuk version of CSI, recently published their first pictures of the main cast, Ji Jin Hee, Han Hyo Joo, Bae Soo Bin and Lee So Yeon.

The four of them gathered for the photoshoot, each wearing pretty hanboks/traditional Korean costumes. If last year, MBC produced “East of Eden” for their 48th anniversary drama, this year they came up with “Dong Yi” as the 49th year anniversary drama.



Han Hyo Joo revealed that it was her first time wearing hanbok for a drama promotion. She has been working diligently to live up to her character, Sook Bin, who is a water maid who becomes the king’s concubine.



She’ll have a triangle love story with Ji Jin Hee, as the King Sook Jong and also Bae Soo Bin who is playing as the angelic, protective figure to Dong Yi – similar to his character,



Park Jun Sae in “Brilliant Legacy” – also opposite of Han Hyo Joo. (I’m getting very tired of this kind of character! hmph~).Lee So Yeon, who was just finished with her drama “Angel’s Temptation” will be playing yet another mean, antagonist character, Lady Jang who is responsible of all the chaos in the palace with King Sook Jong’s 2nd queen (played by Park Ha Sun), Queen In Hyun.



You may have seen Park Ha Sun in a historical drama before as she starred in SBS “King & I”, but I remember her vaguely as the fiancee from “The Accidental Couple” (remember her?).



And as for Ji Jin Hee, this is his comeback sageuk drama after “Dae Jang Geum” (he looks great in sageuk.) Other actor I’m excited about is Jung Jin Young – it’s always a treat to see him on screen.Ji Jin-hee, most recently of KBS’s j-drama adaptation The Man Who Can’t Get Married, has been cast to be Han Hyo-joo’s leading man in the upcoming MBC sageuk drama Dong Yi [동이].



Ji Jin-hee will play Joseon-era King Suk-jong, portraying both the leadership skills of the king as well as the pure heart and affection of the man. Han Hyo-joo is to play Sook-bin, a water maid who becomes the king’s concubine and bears him a son, a future Joseon king.



Han has been playing more mature roles as she transitions from rookie actress to leading lady, but this is still a pretty wide age gap — 16 years, as Han is 22 and Ji is 38. I tend to find age gaps less of an issue with sageuk dramas, so I’m keeping my mind open for the pairing, although the thought of Han taking on another sageuk makes me nervous. (She’s improved a lot in her short career, but I don’t think sageuk is her thing, and I thought her turn in Iljimae was one of her weaker performances.) Of course, as we know, his role in Dae Jang Geum makes Ji no stranger to the historical epic.

Dong-yi will air next March on MBC.