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Joo Ji-hoon and Yoon Eun-hye, (almost) back together again
by | September 1, 2008 | 196 Comments

Goong lovers, take note! Your favorite faux royal couple, Yoon Eun-hye and Joo Ji-hoon, just may be teaming up again in a new drama.

The two former onscreen lovebirds are top picks for the lead couple in MBC’s new Personal Taste [개인의 취향 -- working title]. One rep from the drama side explained that the production company is nearly finished with its casting and contract issues, and put the likelihood of a Yoon-Joo match-up at “very high.”

The plot: A restless girl wants a gay (male) friend, ’cause fag hags are cool. The guy wants a place to live, so he pretends to be gay as they live together.

In an interesting genre pair-up, we have the director of the jokey rom-com Fantasy Couple (Kim Sang-ho) and the writer of the weepie Sad Sonata (Lee Sung-eun) working together.

Okay, first of all, we have several favorite kdrama clichés built right into the premise, including two of my favorites (cheesy but effective!): enforced proximity (the better for falling in looove!) and mistaken/pretend identity (to add angst when the pretender has to unveil his/her true self). This sounds like a hasty potluck of past hits, drawn upon in hopes of re-creating prior successes, like a Coffee Prince meets Fantasy Couple meets Bottom of the Ninth with Two Outs.

Second of all, it sounds AWESOME.

Via Today Korea, Sports Seoul

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196 Comments from the Beanut Gallery
  1. 151 aiza dela torre

    im glad that they come back again!! i love their team-up so much!! they look good together.. im sure it will hit again their ratings.. i love Yoon Eun Hye & Joo Ji Hoon.. here in Philippines..

  2. 152 aiza dela torre

    im so glad that they come back again!! i love their team-up so much!! they look good together.. im sure it will hit again their ratings.. i love Yoon Eun Hye & Joo Ji Hoon.. here in Philippines.. i hope that they will go here in Philippines..

  3. 153 donna rie

    this is my second time to comment this issue but until now there is no new news that this project will happen.,.,.,.,.,.,.,.PLEASE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    THOSE COFFEPRINCE ADDIC,.,.,.,I am sure naman na hindi kayo nakapanood ng GOONG!(princess hours) no!! kasi.,.,.,mga kapuso kayo!!

    well,,,,SORRY NA LANG KAYO!!! kasi mas malakas ang pwersa naming mga JOO JI HOON-YOON EUN-HYE LOVE TEAM FANS!!!!!!!!! OH, ANO SAY NYO!!!

  4. 154 zoolie

    hope it will be publish soon ..
    we’re waiting the good news ..
    dunt let us wait too long okay ??
    hope they’re really in the relationship..
    they’re the best couple .. =)

  5. 155 goongnianz

    its cancelled…

    YEH reject the project…

    and JJH is now in prison…

    i wish i could see them act again.
    i rily love the “ROYAL COUPLE”.

  6. 156 soc

    Hey, JJH was not in prison. The Judge was lenient and just asked him to do a 120 hrs. of community service which he did in a Home for the Elderly. According to a recent news, he reported there 9 to 6 pm daily which ended last August 20’09 and supposed to go to military duty by the end of the year. I just hope somebody will again offer this drama/movie soon before he goes to military service. Please… for the sake of the loyal JJH and YEH fans in Korea and overseas…

  7. 157 mutiara cylfanie

    Great news ! I hope this drama is better than Princess Hours . Good luck YEH-JJH ;)

  8. 158 eul

    whats the title????

  9. 159 eul

    ju ji hoon..GO GO GO

  10. 160 minnie

    Minnie again here in SPAIN,i really love YEH very much, coz she’s adorable. Thanking GOD first after recieving such award is a blessed person. SHE’S a very talented lady, it’s good to hear they have a comeback drama wait JJH, please make this comeback possible because we love this pair, we almost watch goong repeatedly were addicted to it, PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEE? see you both, stop those bad habits JI HUN, be clean we know youre a good guy. GOOD LUCK TO BOTH OF YOU;

  11. 161 Anonymous

    they are cute couple

  12. 162 Anonymous

    i wish theres another show to of them

    togethere

  13. 163 Phimmasone

    I help see them acting again part 2

  14. 164 Bebs

    i think its a very nice story..teaming them again is sumting to look forward to. I’m really a fan of yoon eun hye……i like to see her do different roles coz i know she can do it perfectly well and always suprise her fans the way she acts.
    My sister in law, anf friends are your fan here in the philippine YOON EUN HYE more power and we hope to see you do something worhtwhile….

  15. 165 kerein

    IT WOULD BE GREAT!

    i hope if it happens we could see it here in the PHILIPPINES

    AND, IS JOO JI HOON REALLY USING DRUGS??

    WHAT WILL HAPPEN??

  16. 166 bebsy (philippines)

    i hope this drama will be coming very soon now..i love to see them again together…..i think all of YEH really have this chemistry with her leading men….i like her very much….

  17. 167 cham

    …great!!!i love them!!!

  18. 168 may narca

    wow sounds sosososososo greaat so excited……………abangan niyo ito mga bayyyy

  19. 169 mylene

    hi to u yoon eun hye and joo ji hoon i wish u have more movies to have god bless to you pls reply me ………………

  20. 170 EdeN

    is Joo Ji-hoon’s birhtdate MAy 16, 1982.??? really????

  21. 171 HAJ

    I don’t think it’s right to use the term fag, but it seems like you only say out of joke instead of actual offensive use.

  22. 172 trixelee

    i ove yeh and ji hoonbut its really sad that joo ji hoon’s career is now down..after involving on a drug scandal..

  23. 173 marvic

    oh my god…..when i read this i’m so shock………… that joo ji hoon and eun yun hye have a coming new movie in this 2010….. go’go’go’……..SARANGHAE Joo Ji Hoon and Eun Yun Hye…

  24. 174 maj

    As far As I Know THis will not be pursue
    My latest Update about this news is
    Lee Min HO and Son Ye Jin are the final main cast to be chose
    To be the leading Charcters of this newest korean drama series
    Personal Taste

    I Am Also one of the fans all over the world of Yoon Eun-hye and Joo Ji-hoon
    that’s why I am very sad to hear about this latest news
    but Lee Min Ho also deserves The role
    I am satisfied that Lee Min Ho is the One who chose For The Role
    because The reunite Of the Goong Main characters FAiled
    Yoon Eun-hye and Joo Ji-hoon are The first Choice To Be the Main characters But Because Of Some Problem And issues it did not Go through

  25. 175 paradise

    hi guys, Im paradise and I live in iran. goong princess hours DRAMA is verry papular in iran and all teenager love this film. and i love joo ji hoon and yoon eun hye. ji hoon is so hand some!

  26. 176 nhandaemo

    its too bad they dont act together in personal preference…
    im sure ji hoon will be a great male lead…

  27. 177 cherry Dinn

    ..i realy love princess hours…i always watching it ni my dvd….hindi nakakasawa…love it,,,…….i live you royal couple

  28. 178 cherry Dinn

    i hope there is part 2 of princess hours with the royal couple….hehehe,,…annyonhi kyeseyo….saranghe…..

  29. 179 cherry Dinn

    …i hope there new movie will be shown in abs-cbn…….i cant wait,….

  30. 180 anna

    COOL!:)
    this would be totally awesome…i can’t wait to see them together again…
    yoon eun hye and jo ji hoon has a great chemistry onscreen, im pretty sure this new drama would be a huge success….

  31. 181 sandriangem

    I hope they will make another drama together.

  32. 182 NEGIN

    Hello
    i`m iranian .ilove u .
    you are lovely
    i can`t speak. bye
    ohohohohooh

  33. 183 Anonymous

    wish that joo ji hoon and yoon eun hye will be together for the new project..i really love the story of “princess hours” or goong…and also the official sound track i really love it. :)

  34. 184 Anonymous

    the chemistry love team of joo ji-hoon and yoon eun-hye are very effective…hope they will have new project like “princess hours” story….up to now im still watching the dvd copy of mine of princess hours…

  35. 185 Ann Royce

    what is the title?
    i cant wait to saw a new movie….

  36. 186 chris

    aaaaww.. so they were supposed to be the main characters of personal taste? aaaaww. i love that drama. it would’ve been better if they really were the main characters.. but i like min ho and ye jin too. it’s just that i love this couple.. ^-^

  37. 187 e..scyah

    hello……………………..i love joon ji-ho and yoon eun hye.ecpecualy in princess huour…………i hope will can couple.muah..muah

  38. 188 dea

    the best tlaga ever!!!!!!!gusto q tlaga ung team-up nyo sana pupunta kau sa philippines….

  39. 189 hello

    lol… and to think that this drama would come back 2 years later with lee minho and son yejin…

    i miss joo ji hoon, even with all that’s happened… can’t wait for his comeback!!

  40. 190 Jillklos

    yesssssssssssssss111 I CAN’T WAITTTTTTTTTT THIS DRAMA I LOVE YOOH EUN HYEEEEEEEEEE…SHE IS MY NUMBER ONE ACTRESS MUAHHHHHHHHHHH ,,,HEY GUYSSSS JUST BE PATIENT OK PLEASE NO BAD COMMENTS…….

  41. 191 Jillklos

    THIS MESSAGE TO DONNA RIE, YOU’RE NOT THE ONLY ONE SPECIALLY I AM ALSO FILIPINA BUT I LIVE HERE IN THE US IT DOESN’T MEAN THAT YOUR THE ONLY FAN..OF COURSE NOT
    SO STOP ACTING LIKE YOU KNOW THEM …I KNOW THEM BETTER THAN U…

  42. 192 kimchie

    i really love their pairing ..i wish they would end up together in real ( like a couple having their own baby blah blah ) .. :)

    i wish there’s a part 2 ,part3 ,part4 and so on of princess hours .. aja !!! more power to u both ..

  43. 193 naturalme

    I Hope with your pair up ( Joo Ji Hoon and Yoon Eun Hye) :) ;) :) :)
    We really love “Princess Hours” I Hope with Your another Drama :)

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