Drama Casting & News
Another young actress’ gender bent
by | June 29, 2008 | 33 Comments

I’ll admit to being skeptical when I heard that the cute, bubbly Moon Geun Young would be dressing as a man in the upcoming period drama The Painter of Wind on SBS, but as with Yoon Eun Hye in Coffee Prince, she’s made the transformation (appearance-wise) more credibly than I would have thought. The drama stars her as a woman who dresses a man to pursue painting (which women couldn’t do in Joseon times), whose mentor is played by Park Shin Yang.

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33 Comments
  1. estelle

    Hmmm she really looks like a boy in that pic.

  2. Jo

    ^agreed

  3. Iranian Espresso

    interesting.
    Thank You.

  4. dooberap

    I couldn’t even recognize her in tat pic.
    I thought it was someone else or a new young actor just debuted.
    WOW,, two thumbs up for MGY!!!
    she’s really good!!!!

  5. Muffin

    She has the look down.

  6. annie

    goodness gracious. she look like my junior high boyfriend.
    and I missed him now….~_~

  7. moo

    her face look like taiwan actor..jimmy lin

  8. JiHwan

    Moon Geun Young is a great actress. I’m confident that she’ll do well. I’m not quite sure what to think about the odd couple though. Park Shin Yang + Moon Geun Young. Who knows, maybe it might work.

  9. shro

    she looks like a man. :)

  10. 10 Pully

    I really thought that was a boy if you didn’t tell me.

  11. 11 Amita

    I would have thought she was a boy too! But I agree with what JiHwan said above, the pairing is not really working for me. The age difference is creeping me out…how are they gonna pull that one off?!

  12. 12 Mics

    Wow! I’m amazed by her transformation. I was skeptical at first when I found out about this drama, but now I’m just wishing for it to be good because I know that MGY is already a good actress.

  13. 13 miss_dian

    I can’t wait to see this! :)

  14. 14 Skangrrl

    Ha! I was just thinking that too! That she looks like Jimmy Lin. Uncanny.

    I like Park Chin Yang but … yeah, the age difference is a bit icky.

  15. 15 anne

    That’s so realistic!
    I’m kinda tired of the the cross dressing funny type so I hope this has a serious tone.

  16. 16 annie

    yeah Jimmy Lin .. the eyes and eyebrows. ^_^

  17. 17 freyja

    omg. Park Shin Yang!

  18. 18 Aimee

    Love moon geun young, love park shin yang… just don’t love them together. I look forward to being wrong tho and hope they can carry it off! I think she’ll do really well as a man tho. She’s already halfway there dressed up like that.

  19. 19 ciao

    oohhh…i needed a second look to make sure she was MGY!

    i hope this is going to be good…

    the leads are good…at least :)

  20. 20 aya

    yeah. she does look like a young man.. but i won’t say much until i watch the series. i just curious how she will speak as a man. MGY has this naturally soft and small voice

  21. 21 jinkzz

    Whoa…is that even MGY? looks like a boy.

  22. 22 deeta

    Oh wow, it took me a while to connect that boyish face to the lovely MGY.

  23. 23 ktv

    Man.. I’m not even kidding. She does look like a man. It took me awhile to realize her face. I am really impressed

  24. 24 whaleatape

    Am I the only one who thinks Moon Geun Young still looks like a girl?

  25. 25 Di

    One could go as far as to say that she looks more boyish than some of the boys in the kpop industry at the moment. But they’re all pretty girly so it’s not really saying all that much to begin with but yeah… *stops rambling*
    I actually kinda wanna watch this show. *sucker for genderbenders* ^___^;

  26. 26 nhetski

    i think he looks like a young guy though the way she was holding the pen and book is still a bit girly .. but good for her for doing a credible change (honestly, i still think YEH’s transformation was more radical as she’s always looked really girly to begin with)..

    but i really like MGY, she made me cry so much in Autumn Tale so hope this is a good drama (the guy seems to be a lot older though)

  27. 27 carrie

    She’s always been a great actress! Can’t wait to see this new drama! I think she will definitely surpass miss eun hye!

  28. 28 tooizzy

    This looks interesting. I hope she can carry it off. :-)

  29. 29 yetti

    Moon Geun Young looks better than that skank Moon bloodgood, omg, what surgical proceedure did she get to look that mixed?

  30. 30 crrabb

    MGY’s dress-up is pretty successful, though I could still see a tiny trace of ‘her’ in the picture above.. Is this the first time PSY is acting in a period drama? I would love to see how that turns out to be.. BUT, not very optimistic about the pairing, crossing my fingers that they won’t turn out to be looking like father-daughter :)

  31. 31 wen

    Whoa.. She look like a pretty boy,neither girly nor boyish..(Also applies toLYW as DM in QSD)
    I Love the way she acting in this painter of the wind as an angelic boy than the darker side of eun jo in cinderella stepsister

    ^.^

  32. 32 @bror

    My opini: she looks like a beautiful man (@_@)

  33. 33 Anonymous

    My opinion: she looks like a beautiful man (@_@)

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