KBS drama Mary Stayed Out All Night, set to air next month, will be Jang Geun-seok‘s fifth time playing a musician. Most of those previous instances featured him as the leader in a band, and this time’s no different: He plays Mu-gyul, the free-spirited lead singer of a Hongdae indie band.
(Those other roles were: a rock band singer in Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do, a rock band singer in The Happy Life, an idol band singer in You’re Beautiful, and a talented trumpeter in Beethoven Virus. I might be more worried about Jang being typecast if he were a mediocre actor, but he’s shown a good amount of range despite his still-tender years (he’s 23), whether he’s portraying youthful innocence, hauteur, boyishness, or criminal tendencies.)
The scene pictured here was filmed in the Seoul district of Hongdae, and in the drama takes place on November 8 — the show’s actual premiere date. Pictured is the band that takes its name from its leader, Totally Mu-gyul (완전무결). I guess I can see why they’d take that name if he is the creative engine of the team (a la Dave Matthews Band or Jang Ki-ha and the Faces), but I wonder how the other dudes feel about that. The others are: Ri-no on second guitar (played by Kim Min-kyu), Yo-han on bass (Geum Ho-seok), and Reo (Leo?) on drums (Park Chul-hyun).
Jang said about performing in front of fans, “Opening up the filming set to the public before the drama premieres isn’t an easy thing. But the producers discussed it in meetings and decided to film it with the fans in order to make the scene feel more vivid. Filming is going so well and the fans cheered us on so enthusiastically that I’m happy. I’m still worked up right now. I truly give my thanks to all the fans.”
The songs sung by the Totally Mu-gyul band will be on the drama’s OST; perhaps they’ll rival the A.N.Jell fervor of You’re Beautiful fame?
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i can’t wait for this drama…
Jang Geun Seok Jjang!!
Yeah, me too. He is the cutest in this planet. Guess he still will be playing skinny rocker. Skinny tight black pants… Long hair, thick eyerliner… Indie rocker is always rough and sexy totally opposite boy group like DBSK. Ohhhh this rocker thing kind of sexy. With his rough voice, I am definately going to do him… Cant’s wait.
i’ve been waiting for your recap,…all day long tnz….
Looking pretty darn good, if I do say so myself
JGS is so handsome!
Now that PK is finished, I’m really looking forward to this one!
Omo omo omo!! BIG NEWS!!!
Thank you!!! I can’t wait for this drama to air this November!
It has been a packed year full of interesting dramas since the summer started!! (at least for me)
I hope this becomes epic, DAEBAK!!
JGS, I love you.. pretty face and all.
I can’t wait to hear the new songs, I’ve always enjoyed JGS’s voice.
My heart melts when I hear him sing Sinatra’s Fly Me to the Moon.
Been humming it all day now.
I saw JGS at the Westin Chosen in Seoul (we were both waiting for the valet to bring our cars – he drove a very modest Samsung) and he did absolutely nothing for me in person….but on screen, the kid definitely has charisma!
you saw him?? wow…
CRAP! I was just staying there 2 weeks ago. Damn.
and you didn’t run over and talk to him? double wow! You are probably considered the best fan ever: the kind that doesn’t attack people or hide in hotel room bathrooms. Not that I’ve ever done anything of the sort. . .
uhhh….samsung makes cars too O________O ?!
I’m jealous…I wish I could have seen him in person!
wow!
really? i want to see him too xD
Wow! Another chance to see JGS’ pretty face and weird outfits.
I wish he’d gain weight again like in Beethoven Virus. His character Tae-kyung was better in YB but physically he looked real fine as Kang Gun-woo in BV.
I totally agree! He was so hot in BV. He’s such a good looking guy, but his fashion sense – ack!
his stylist’s fashion sense is the “ack” one
i can’t say anything about his style. i don’t know what he’s trying to look like. but he still looks cute. damn. i envy his face. Dx
i’m getting all these deja vu vibes…this feels so unreal
What a beautiful woman. XD;
I’m sorry, it was too easy. >.>
I really hope this drama doesn’t disappoint me, because it looks so cute. <3
ditto. i am praying to the Drama Gods for this drama NOT to suck (like *ahem, Cinderella’s Sister)
I’m still angry about CS. So much talent! So much potential! So much suckage! ㅠㅠ
tx for the laugh
waaaahh! fan scream fan scream fan scream.. I am anticipating the new songs he’ll be recording.. a different feel than YB… though it’s his 5th time to play a musician, he plays each character differently… and he is just soo good every single time
My fave character is still HTK, but I have yet to find out what kind of charm does KMG has!
i love him…but the hair, another story T_T
I like him better with a buzz cut like in Beethoven Virus.
i like his look from baby and me
totally agree with both!
I really love him but his hair style…
I haven’t seen that one. I’ll check it out!
yay! he was soooooo yummylicious in baby and me!
I agree, in that movie, I started to be a fan of him ^__^
lol
Where in heaven’s name is news on Kimi wa Petto?
even though I am loving this look and concept. I also shall be devotedly watching this, but I want that movie in the worst possible way.
this movie will be shooting around March 2011!!!!
I have to wait till spring to see him acting like a cute pet getting dressed, walked and washed…waiting was never my strong suit, but seriously without this drama I might get severely flustered at that news.
I had almost forgotten about it until you mentioned it. I can’t wait for this movie. I read the manga some time ago, seen some of the J-drama with MatsuJun.
I can’t wait to see him as dancer.
ah, thanks for the news! I’ve been scouring the web looking for info on it since dramabeans mentioned it once, and then never again…
” About JKS Movie ‘You’re My pet’ the producer said the filming will started on March 2011,and some scenes will be taken in Japan. ” i got this news on “i love Jang geun suk” facebook page.
really? so late? I thought he was dieting for it earlier this year!!!!
YES TO THIS! EXCITEDDDD
I’m appealing to Java Beans at this early…please, do a recap for Mary Stayed Out all Night. That would be a great Christmas present. Please please…!
haha. are you kidding? Even if dramabeans didn’t want to do it, I’m pretty sure girlfriday would jump at it. Maybe they could share? We all know they’ll both be watching it.
can’t wait! (even though he DOES like like a girl)
Oppa!!! Saranghae!!
Can’t wait for this drama… New addiction!!! xD
holy shoot!!!!! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so happy to see this
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I was so drawn by the drama’s premise [up until that mv] that I forgot to question his singing ability. Can he sing?
yes, he CAN! watch his previous works, You’re Beautiful being the most recent.
Oh yes he CAN!! No doubt about that!
I still have songs from You’re Beautiful stuck in my head.. I’m guessing you haven’t watched that,, YOU SHOULD =)
I tried to watch that drama and could not get through episode 1 for some reason…it looked cute with the bumbling nun and statues but I was bored.
I thought every body love YAB, hee
When it comes about kdrama, try to watch more than one episode. For me sometime need 4 episodes of kdrama series to start liking it, but sometime just 1st episode it is already engaging. If after 4-5 episode, I still can’t connect, it means that’s just it, not my type of drama. Maybe I still can manage to finish watching it but in loooooong period, I hate dropping series in middle of the way, and not knowing the ending. And sometime, I did cheat: trying to see how it end with reading recaps in dramabeans. hee
haha,,just try to keep watch it to see hwang tae kyung’s smile honey,,,it’s soooo cute,,, and his personality will makes u love him…(or hate him^^)
I think his voice isnot good yet…just decent, his voice is very RAW.. he can’t control his voice yet… but overall his singing ability is decent
His main job isn’t a singer. right? so it’s quite okay for an actor who sing
i wont say he’s phenomenal…he cant seem to control his voice at certain notes but it nevertheless sounds beautiful
It is not that bad, but not that good either, it is manly sexy
I can accept that he sings in public or a consideration he could have made an album, cause I have heard some trying-so-damn-hard-to-be-a-singer actors who have voice much worst than him. With decent but acceptable voice and THAT cutie face, JGS surely can sell an album. But That Hair Heh
I agree with that. When you compare him and his fellow band mates in YAB, he definitely doesn’t stand out. Hong Ki has an absolutely great voice!
hopefully MSOAN would turn out to be the crack drama of the year. the previous MV and stills don’t look too promising for me, and based on the scans of the manwha i have checked thus far, the story is a bit lame..? but i have faith in JGS. if he chose this project then there must be something good in it.
and yay for that concert pic! definitely no trace of JGS’ previous characters in there.
…it must be the hair, though.
hmm…I don’t know if the manwha will be any indication though. The Goong manwha and the drama? Phew! There’s a couple polar opposites in directing/writing style!
I’ll have to look up this MV you guys are talking about. Can someone post a link?
I think the band name “Totally Mu-gyul” (완전무결) is a play on words since 완전무결 means “absolute perfection” and Jang Geun Seok’s character is named Mu-gyul.
that’s a cute play on words! Like with Personal Taste…
though does that imply that JGS will be a stiff conceited guy again this time?
thanks, i was wondering about the meaning =)
i can’t say anything…..he’s so damn cute….^^
I can’t wait!!!
I really miss JGS as HTK-the most awesome character in Kdrama.
lol. YES! though his little pout/snarl was so endearingly over the top! And his outfits…
You know, the guy deserves mad props for getting so many fans by acting HTK. If you think about it, neither his hair nor his clothes nor his snarl were even remotely attractive. And yet here we all are fangirl screaming and signing up for the ICOMYM club because of him… (I still love the idea of that club. It makes me giggle when I think of it)
What does ICOMYM stand for?
ICOMYM = Inappropriate Crushes On Much Younger Men. ^^ The noonas and ajummas created it, obviously.
So I’m in
wakakakaka..love this term!
hahaha i’m definitely in!!
my husband is 5 years old younger than me… and even so, i’m absolutely in luuuvv with (korean) actors 10-15 years younger… how inappropriate is that! *whoops, did i just revealed my age? hope not*
can’t wait to see JGS in this!!
random but i’ve been reading the manhwa on daum [which is pretty decent both story wise and art wise] and the name of the band was strawberry corpse. i usually wouldn’t be so uptight about the change in name but the name plays a pretty big part in mary’s initial view of mugyul, how they end up meeting for the first time and the first conflict that ensues between the two. so this makes me wonder just how closely they plan on following the actual manhwa…
hmmm…im going to have to try not to compare the two. FML for deciding to read the manhwa.
haha. I read the Goong manwha after I watched the show, and it wasn’t too bad. The art looked pretty weird after the beauty of Fruits Basket, though.
Fruits Basket has officially set a ridiculously high standard on any other comic I read now. My mentality is “If Furuba could tie the lives of 14 characters together perfectly in 23 volumes, you better be able to tie 2 freakin characters together in that amount of time!!!”
I no longer have patience for long mangas. Plus mangas/manwhas are translated so much slower than dramas are subbed! It can take them months to get a single 32 page chapter out sometimes. And the pages are 90% pictures!
(well, faster than recent dramas on viikii, anyway)
whoah…this makes me more excited! love his voice, his acting…i don’t mind the hair, doesn’t matter if he’s much beautiful than girls like me – my noona fan-girling love for Sukkie grows stronger everyday
can’t wait for MSOAN!
i’m REALLY looking forward to this drama. I LOVE Jang Geun Suk and his voice …. and since the OST will have his songs, i already know that i’m buying it whenever it comes out!
OMG OMG!! he looks soo cute.. cant wait//
Just once, ONCE, I would like to see JGS dressed up as a male. You know, the kind with testosterone? He can totally rock the guy-liner, but the hair? Honey, you make a great guy, but a god-awful girl. Anyone else think his stylist is sabotaging his look on purpose because she wants to keep him to herself? lol
i was going “No, no, no, NO.. ” and then ended up laughing instead. Yuh, maybe i’d do the same if i was his stylist!
I know! We must stalk this stylist, lol.
But I think he looked good in his “Toucholic” MV. The right balance of manly and trendy.
haha! no let’s just stalk JGS himself;D
me i like his BV look the best. though my mother tells me he doesn’t look much like a celebrity with the short hair. (i’m thinking she got used to seeing him in YAB that she was taken aback when i showed her Sukkie pics from BV days..) hah, my mother is a Sukkie fangirl as well..
wooww..this is really something! Mom n daughter become a fan with this guy? what the name of the club again?
Yes! But quietly, of course, so it doesn’t seem extremely awkward when we just happen to save him from a bunch of crazy fans. Not that we’re like that…
His look in BV and the “Toucholic” MV are pretty similar. I think he looks a lot younger and more childish in BV, though. His hair is shorter and his face looks rounder. (He has it gelled beautifully in the MV) It could just be because he _was_ younger and chubbier back then…
He dressed normally in The Happy Life and Beethoven Virus.
I know the fervor is a lot on Jang Geun-sook, but is it weird for me (a girl by the way) to be in this for Moon? Okay, I admit, Moon AND that sexy-yet-too-femininely-pretty-for-my-taste-sometimes Kim Jae-wook. *sigh* I like Jeun Geun-sook but I fell in love with Moon’s acting abilities (and this coming from someone who doesn’t know the first thing on how to tell if someone is a good actor or not) and can’t wait to see her put her skills to use once more.
as someone who also has trouble discerning a bad actor from a stiff character, I know what you mean. My friend and I looked at each other and went “Waffle Sunki and JGS in the same drama? Are they waiting for us to spontaneously combust????”
The casting is so spectacular, everyone’s excited for every actor. But you can’t help but spazz over JGS here
Can you imagine the spazzing that’ll happen once the recaps start coming up?
Imagine? I think I can already hear the ear-piercing squeals from around the world. XD
I think the stylists are sabotaging every upcoming drama, vide: Secret Garden.
Hm, that’s a lovely lady among t-shirt wearing musicians on stage… It must be the hair.
he’s totally hot
i love his sexy, manly voice so much. The hair and the clothes are absolutely fabulous
I know JGS would once again, hands down, no contention, nail down his character in this drama. I can’t get over it still, I mean his HTK character in YAB. And this one,too? Again, it will be an epic!
haha… jang geun suk… i hope he will impress me so much and that his role in mary will make me forget his hwang tae kyung.. that would be quite a feat.
and everytime i see him, i can’t help but think skinny.. pretty, but skinny.
DITTO! He’s way too skinny.. I feel bad for him…
Yeah, I just want to feed him! He needs some good down-home cookin’. I would totally follow him around like a mama, trying to make him eat!
Aside from that, I love him as an actor, but he’s so not my type!
he’s just way too pretty….and i can’t wait for nov8!
though some of us were afraid of JGS being typecast in a singer role but…… I LIKE IT BEST when he’s playing that kind of role coz it would mean another song to be stored in my cp and to be played over and over again….I just love everything about him especially his voice when he is singing…..
yeah. we’re all suckers when it comes to JGS. what else hasn’t he done yet? church choir member? ;D
yeah. The reason I love him in the singer roles is:
a) he’s never the same type of singer twice
b) he can actually SING, and
c) he won’t friggen come out with a friggen album so the only time he has new songs is when he friggen acts. (Can you tell I want him to come out with an album eventually?)
My Prince Charming is here. Weeeh..
I beg you November, don’t let me wait this much. ;D
Nah, I’ll wait for yours first, JB. Thanks.
i love him no matter what role he plays but i hope to see him playing other roles
i totally admired his acting in Itaewon Homicide…and Hong Gil Dong ^^
Oh he is SO the second coming of Shin Sung-woo!
Except Mike He looks more like SSW, but JGS is definitely SSW, in spirit. So many similarities.
akdlasjdlaksjd can’t wait for this. Can’t wait. I know shouldn’t do this for I know that getting my hopes up can only lead to disappointment, but, boy, if I’m counting on MSoaN to get my rom-com fix. I really hope it’ll be cute and funny.
Exactly Sere.You took the words out of my mouth.I literally stumbled upon YAB and it turned out to be SPECTACULAR, keeping me on an adrenaline high everyday it was airing(and in between)!!I WANT That again!!and i’m hoping MSOAN will do that 4 me!!
But soo afraid 2 hope in case i jinx it…
And YES he does look a lil bit too girly with The Hair..BUT it’s JGS PPL!!!He’ll MAKE us grow into it and like it!!Oh GOD can’t wait 4 nov to come!!!
PS:- i want him to be a BADass rocker guy in this…not just conceited and arrogant..but a lil bit aggressive too..lolol..mental images…
Excited.
I want to be back as a drama addict again. I think this will suffice.
He is cute.that is.I hope he will act really different role from You’re beautiful.(no guyliner pls!!I hate it…)
really? I actually like the guyliner on him. It makes his eyes look very lion/cheetah-ish
he looks awesome!!!
I’m so excited for this drama! I can’t wait for it to start
I actually like this outfit more than the promo outfit. I can’t wait to hear the band (Totally Mu-gyul), so curious to what their sound will be like. I wish I was in the audience.
He is definitely one of my fave Korean actors but I’m not crazy about the hair.
Still, this drama is a must-watch for me.
jang geun seok so cool in the performances,i like it….
Is it just me, or is he wearing a skirt?
no, it is not just you
not just the hair but the skirt??
I think He is wearing Harem Pants
Jang Geun-seok
i adore him
Eagerly looking forward to this series. Have always been scared of dramas with too much hype. But MGIAG had the same hype surrounding it too..
And well it turned out to be reeeaalllyy good(except may be the last couple of episodes but who cares abt messy endings). So I am keeping my fingers crossed about this one. I am banking on JGS and Moon completely. If they chose the script, there must be something really good in it.
And JGS oppa is the only actor who can pull off this pretty but manly look. He looks amazing. May be the hair, no never mind, I like his entire package
oppa!!! he’s so dreamy… cant w8 for November!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cant wait for this to start….now please….