U missed my point. I am not against older actors. As a matter of fact, I count Jang Dong-gun, Ahn Sung-ki (did i spell it correctly), Hwang Jung-min and Lee Byung-hun as good actors.

I stand corrected on the ” antis’ point.

Cruel Love was the drama that introduced me to KSW. I’ve never watched STH and I don’t think I will. And I am struggling to get thru Cinderella Man because the plot is weak and there is zero chemistry between his character and Yoona
The draw for me was the Dongdaemun setting and KSW. I’ll try to finish it . By the end of this year. hahaha

Like some of you, I agree he could have done better with his choices. Maybe, he will be in with a chance for IRIS 2. It is big scale enough and suits his image, his management company will approve because it is a pan Asian project with wide reach.

I can hear LBH fans getting up in arms…..

belleza and doris ng pinas,
your comments gave me goosebumps. im also a kwon sang woo fan. i liked him since stairway to heaven. i believe he one great actor..

@doris ng pinas, yeah, he will always be our one and only CHOLO!!!!!

its so boring no coment

And Mr. KSW, you do have enough credit for us to remember you…

I am amaze that how many comments about CM and KSW…if I am him I would be very happy…like or dislike, he is in our thoughts, enough so that we spent time to express them. Mr. KSW, not too worried…you can’t win us all…this is a real world . Though I want to thank for your efforts, keep up your passion for acting…you will be back again because if you are good, you are good.

Excuse me, fraulein, but what does age have to do with whether a drama is popular or not? Jang Dong Gun is OLDER than Kwon Sang Woo but he manages to draw in hordes of people. Song Seung Heon is the SAME AGE as KWS and yet his drama “EOE” managed to stay within the high 20% viewership. Aside from blaming script writers, wouldn’t you say part of its demise is that perhaps he chose the wrong drama to participate in? I mean, the age difference between Yoona and KSW CANNOT be missed. And just because people don’t like “Bad Love” doesn’t make them “antis”. Just as YOU have a valid reason for liking the drama, others have just as a valid reason NOT to like it.

It’s interesting that aside from “Stairway to Heaven”, NONE of his movies OR dramas fared well after that. And this was BEFORE he got married. He’s prone to saying the wrong things at the wrong time and perhaps part of the reason why viewers are disenchanted with him has less to do with his “marriage” than with his lips. He’s offended a lot of people, whether intentional or not, and so has his wife. KSW was recently on the MBC variety show “The Knee Guru” and he’s said that he was “misunderstood” when he said certain things and people took it the wrong way. And his BFF friend SSH came by, worried again that KSW might say something else that would offend people. You’d think that if your own best friend is worried about you saying the wrong things, he’d THINK a little more before he speaks?

As omo stated here:
“…My take is that his real life personality is way, way bigger than his reel life characters. I do respect him as an actor. But that arrogance and cockiness is peeping through any character that he plays and my respect for him as an actor is slowly waning…”

This is one of the reasons why KSW is not as popular. Instead of worrying about how he can IMPROVE as an actor, he has the nerve to blame other people for the low ratings and box office numbers. Heck, if he wants to give SNSD MP3s (because we all know they can’t afford one, right? And everyone else in Korea who are breaking their backs working in the fields from sun up to sun down are wealthy as heck) why not go the whole way and tell viewers that he’ll buy an MP3 player for EVERY PERSON WHO has a ratings box in their home! That’s a shoo-in for increasing viewer ratings, wouldn’t it? I have not seen KSW improve as an actor at all over the years and the time where he’s relying on his “hot body” to do a lot of the acting for him has passed. As someone said, there are ever a growing number of young male actors jostling for that top spot as the main leading actor and if KSW is to compete with them, he needs to make sure that HIS OWN acting is better than anyone else’s FIRST: When that happens, people will most likely acknowledge him for the work he’s doing, REGARDLESS of whether he’s married or not.

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