Wild Romance is collecting a nice group of actors, and now Im Joo-eun joins the crew, which already includes Lee Dong-wook (Scent of a Woman) and Lee Shi-young (Poseidon) as the leads.
Oh Man-seok (Everybody Cha Cha Cha) and Hwang Sun-hee (City Hunter) are two others, playing a married couple: Oh is the uptight baseball player, and Hwang is his graceful, charming wife.
Im Joo-eun first caught everyone’s eye as the high school girl with haunting visions in the horror-thriller drama Hon. She had a bit of buzz as a budding It Girl, but I think that momentum stalled a bit when her drama did; What’s Up has only recently begun its run on cable station MBN, but it’s been months since that show wrapped shoots after looking like it might not air at all.
In Wild Romance, Im plays Dong-ah, an unemployed bookworm who’s been friends with heroine Eun-jae (Lee Shi-young) since their high school days. Dong-ah possesses a “peculiar worldview” — no clues yet as to just what makes it so odd — and has a character that shows an interesting gravitas and lightness at the same time. She sounds just like the quirky kind of character I’d expect of this writer (who penned White Christmas, Mixed-Up Investigative Agency, and Alone In Love).
Wild Romance is one of dramas in the upcoming January clusterfuck of premieres that I’m particularly interested in, mainly because of writer Park Yeon-seon but also because I’m intrigued by the description of the drama as a showcase for a lot of interesting characters, each living out their own lives. No doubt there’ll be a central story, but I anticipate little tangents that skew off (and hopefully tie back into the main plot) to show us a multifaceted world.
The drama premieres on KBS on January 4, which is the same day that MBC unveils its fusion sageuk Moon That Embraces The Sun and SBS launches Take Care of Us, Captain. Which’ll you be watching?
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I shall be watching moon embracing the sun and also checking this one out! Yay for new dramas! Bring it 2012
Well I am working on Wild Romance but wild horses won’t drag me away from Moon embracing the sun aka sunmoonrainbowManeofGlory whatever you call it
i love her in what’s up! and she looks like park shin hye, ne?
Yes, she is! She’s a bit look like Park Shin Hye, that’s why, I watched her in her drama “What’s Up”, yups.
probably all of them, haha
I like her!
She’s creepily tantalizing in Hon, making me lose hours of sleep for a few days O_O
I read in AKP Jessica from SNSD is also casted in here, as Lee Dong Wook’s first love.
http://www.allkpop.com/2011/12/snsds-jessica-offered-a-role-in-kbss-wild-romance
Okay, so untill we have all SNSD girls launched in good dramas, they won’t stop. Now I get it.
(Samdong-ah~+IljimaeSchedulerChwa) × Mane of Glory > Wookie’s shower scene
Agree with your math.
Moon and Romance, I’m going to be watching. I may take a peek at Capitan, but I’m just not a fan of GHS.
I would totally agree with you about staying away from Captain if it weren’t for this guy:
http://tinyurl.com/6s22mxc
He makes me want to look at him.
Jomo knows pretty.
moon embraces the sun! I’m addicted to sageuk dramas now hehe plus han ga in is there so definitely gonna watch it
I have a lot of affection for her. She’s extremely likable to me, and I don’t even know why. Then again, liking someone really doesn’t need a why ^^ Im Joo-eun has tons of charisma and I adore her, so I think I’ll check this drama out for her. The other actors are great too (well, not a fan of Lee Dong-wook’s), but it’s her I really connect with. Otherwise I’d have watched it at a later date, I think.
This’ll probably be what to watch to calm down from the crack that Moon Embracing The Sun hopefully wil be : )
ha..ha.. i will try to follow all this 3 drama……can’t wait anymore…
moon imbrace the sun off course.. cannot resist jung il woo and kim soo hyun in the same drama ^_^
anyone feel like she looks like Gu Hye Sun? loved her in what’s up!
Another one for Moon Embraces the Sun. If anyone is recapping Wild Romance I might read through that and see if it catches my interested. I like Im Joo-eun in What’s Up so far (the only thing I have seen her in) but I like Kim Soo-huyn more!
Woooaahh……THREE dramas ~ ~ ??? O_o Aigoo, I don’t know what to do if I can watch these dramas while I am still in college…..(crossing fingers) I hope I might have time, of course. If not, I’d be disappointed that I don’t have time to watch and fall behind…..I will see what happens.
Ah, I really like Im Joo Eun from What’s Up & she’s coool, keke! (thumb-up) I will be looking forward to this because of Lee Dong Wook.
MoonSun for the actors, this for the writer, & captain for the rubbernecking factor.
Both MoonSun & Wild Romance!
MoonSunYum for me – because I’m all about the pretty and the romance, and Wild Romance because I like this girl and have recently discovered Oh Man Seok. Take Care of Me Captain holds no appeal thus far.
I think I’ll be watching Moon That Embraces The Sun and this one. Can we just skip the holidays and get right to these dramas? I have never been less excited for the holidays in my entire life. I must be getting old.
I think I’m going to start What’s Up. And I want to watch White Christmas. Does anyone know where I can watch it in high quality? Should I just download it?
all the 3 dramas! bring it on!
Moon Embrace the sun…. one kdrama…..
I’m tired of Gu Hye Sun. I thought I might like her in the musical but she just irks me. So its between Moon and Wild Romance.
MoonSunFlowerHotBros ofcourse! I can not wait for that! Sigh- wish the song ‘blades of glory’ was actually called ‘manes of glory’ and was the theme song for this drama. I will be trying out wild romance too though!
I really like Im Joo Eun and to be honest only watched Hon because I liked her.
I love her in What’s Up. Oh Man-seok is in that show too, so I guess this will be their second drama together.
Wild Romance is starting to look really good!
I was already interested in Wild Romance because of the writer, but that interest shot way up with the casting of Im Joo Eun. I loved her in Hon. She radiates a different kind of energy than other actresses her age group.
Definitely checking out The Moon That Embraces the Sun and Wild Romance. And then picking the more interesting out of the two.
All 3 dramas sound promising. The trailers for Take Care of us, Captain are really great, cinematography is amazing. The Moon That Embraces the Sun seem to have 2 good male leads. Wild Romance- seem to be the most cliched .Will check out all 3 and pick the one I like best. After Princess Man and Tree with Deep Roots ( they are both great!), I am a little tired of sageuks. Captain might be refreshing. We’ll see…
i’ll definitely be watching this! why?
- it got Oh ‘the Man’-Seok! i luv him in ‘man of the vineyard’ (my whole family luv this, including my i-dont-watch-kdrama brother.ha) and everything else i manage to catch him in.
- Lee shi young. she’s adorable and annoying in that ‘birth of the rich’ drama and i like her as the host for entertainment weekly in KBS world.
- Lee Dong wook! feel in luv when i watched ‘La Dolce Vita’.
- Im Joo-eun is good in What’s Up. so gonna watchout for her.
- we got KBS world on our TV at home, so no need for to d/load and take up more space in my pc. :p
Definitely watching moon embraces the sun! Hee.
My Hon girl! She’s so awesome sauce in my opinion. We need to see her more and more.
Umm…… clusterfuck? LOLLOLLOL sorry the word just jumped out at me hahahaha
Anyways I heard L from the kpop group Infinite is also starring in Wild Romance.
Tip offffff!
I think Moon has me most interested because it will be the BEST THING I WILL HAVE EVER SEEN later on.
We get more JIW.
We get KSH.
We get beads attached to hats.
We get princely commanding voices.
We get Minho and little Dong-su, for a little while.
We get a shaman lady.
With WR, we get LDW with a mustache. That seems like it wouldn’t be good, but it actually is. Lee Shi Young is funny, I think, but I am not sold on them as a couple yet. Mostly because of their hair from the stills they released. They have matching hair now.
As far as Captain, we get the Dong Yi guy, who is a big PLUS, and the actress who people have such polarizing opinions on. She’s like that glass – It’s either half full or she’s the actress people want to throw a glass AT.
omg I got my casting news mixed up earlier. lol SNSD’s Jessica not Infinite’s L.
she got offered LOL
I was mixing up this and Shut Up Flower Boy Band lmaoo
oh man-seok is also in what’s up! and totally loving him in there. will check this out.
cos i’m currently liking oh man-seok and im joo-eun in what’s up 
I’m looking forward to Wild Romance, the teaser trailer looks strangely appealing? Maybe with more of an emphasis on the ‘strange’ but the leads sure are enticing
I haven’t watched anything from Park Yun Sun except for “Attack On The Pin-Up Boy” and if that’s anything to go by it should definitely be quirky?
I really want to see History of a Salary Man. It’s like what if Quentin Tarantino did a kdrama?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCwEf1Bf7b0
Wow I fell in love with her character in What’ Up and I see her again in Wild Romance! Coincidence how her and Oh Man Seok are both in What’ Up (though they’re probably not going to become a couple in the show, I do love how they’re characters connect and how Oh Doo Ri confesses her love for Oh Man Seok’s character) and now they’re both in Wild Romance. Oh Man Seok and Im Joo Eun both became two actors that I admire now because of What’s Up! Hope to see more of BOTH of them!
i like her so much she’s so adorable