"It sort of looks like nobody’s slept in a month and stumbled onto an Addams Family set"

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I literally laughed out loud when I read this. Ha!

What's with jcw face? I don't know if he looks young or what but it's a little different from healer and he looked the same in his c drama. The posters are very underwhelming and give somewhat GMB vibes. I still think the story holds a lot of resemblance to yong pal. I do like strong female characters but not those who end up killing everybody and totally take over the male lead. It's a surprise how switching the gender does not bother me that much.

This might be down to the fact that I literally just finished Age of Youth, but Ji Chang-wook in this poster looks a LOT like Ye-eun's douchey boyfriend and I cannot unsee it.

I'm not exactly pro-Photoshop, but the least the guy could do was remove the bags under everyone's eyes.

The texture looks horrible, too. It's like they went to Sears to get their photos done in front of that generic black curtain that has questionable stains all over it. I know their budget is better than that.

Looking forward to this one! I'm a sucker for bodyguard romances. They are such a pretty pair (lead couple).

Im probably the only one who liked the posters, yes it could have been better, but I felt like they left the imperfections behind intentionally. I love the darkness, I love JCW's depressing face in here, making him vulnerable and yoona's fragility too. It brings out depth to their characters. I find it symbolic how the gun is pointed towards SYA too..

Are they warning us ? That ," You'll all end up this way, we have a sleepless ride ready for you! Be prepared for THE K2"

It's bad enough that actors often look more and more tired during their dramarun, now they look tired before it even airs and in the posters even where photoshop is a very real and convenient possibility? Yikes. It always annoys me when they look tired, because it makes me feel like flying to South Korea and yelling at whatever company or agency that they're not doing a good enough job keeping my precious (which will of course be spoken in Gollum voice) healthy lol. They seriously need at least an actors' guild if not a union. Go, go, go!

I dislike photoshop in so many ways, but drama posters where everyone looks like more or less undead is not good. Please, please, PLEASE photoshop away when it comes to panda eyes.

"And yet with all that protecting going on, it’s a wonder nothing is safe."
This made me LOL like crazy, thanks for providing my daily dose of laughter!

There are many more new stills of the characters from the poster photoshoot and I hope you can update more pics in the article.

Very excited for this drama!

I'd have Panda Eyes too if I was (1) trying to run away from my employer's thugs hired to take me out because I knew too much about their operations; (2) trying to stay awake and constantly alert while being on the run from said thugs; (3) trying to stay on my toes because one never knows when an order would come down from on high and must be carried out ASAP; (4) trying hard to search for an open workout room in order to stay all buff n' stuff whilst on the run from said hired thugs; or (5) trying desperately to find an all-night men's wear shop to stock up on white dress shirts since I just ripped the last one off my buff n' stuff body.

Oh wait... I may have just described a typical day at my law firm. Never mind. Carry on.

Why does it look like Yoona was photoshopped into that first poster with JCW?
You can kinda see places where her body was erased LOL (someone was probably on caffeine, finishing this up at the last second...)

Not to mention, their skin tones mismatching is really...weird? XD their makeup artists did a really bad job. Either way, probably the most uninteresting posters I've ever seen from kdramaland... (and from you, TvN?) :(

Yoona's hands are legitimately freaking me out in that top poster. Resembles more of a skeleton's hand than a healthy woman in her 20s.

They literally all posed in front of an ashy black piece of cloth, then someone added the text and left it at that. It looks drab and unpolished. Their expressions make it work a little better than it should. Then again, Yong Pal had very captivating posters, but the drama itself was meh, so maybe the reverse will be the case here?

Legit question though, does his K2 codename have anything to do with Mount K2 aka second highest mountain in the world? Some symbolism at play here? Probably not though.

Geez, that first poster makes it seem like this drama is about a man suffering from a terminal illness and a woman stuck with him who has accepted that he is going to croak at the end of the 16 episodes. Dear poster makers, please do not ruin my Ji Chang-wook. Oh who am I kidding, nothing could ruin him for me, but that's a pretty bad poster

OooOOOoooo how gritty and dark will this show turn out?? I don't mind some horror elements but I'm afraid the editor had an offday. I hope the next crop of stills and teasers will be of JCW in his soldier days! Imagination is running wild here, don't let me down drama...

I want to be excited about this because Ji Chang Wook, but he quite literally is the only reason and I'm not sure that's reason enough.

Okay it might sound really weird as i feel i am the only one seeing these similarities but i have to say this- So i said it in my last comment on another post about The k2 that how the writer have same fetish about the lonely hospital cell traped female character and now he drops the eyebags on us! Dude like are you serious? I remember how Joo won naturally had eyebags throughout the show and here we have makeup eyebags! Those sleepless nights and eyebags made the show a runaway hit and earned him a Daesang award so probably the writer is trying to use the the same tactics as Yong pal here? Just a thought btw!

Tired, haggard with eye bags??? That's how I ended up looking since I started watching kdramas!

This series may be the Korean version of Swiss Army Man, in which Daniel Radcliffe plays a corpse for the entire film, or maybe Weekend With Bernie, in which Terry Kyser plays a dead guy the two heroes have to keep carting around all through the film.

In this case, Ji Chang Wook has discovered that Yoon Ah, as the VIP daughter, was anorexic and starved herself to death. Hilarity ensues as he has to carry her bony carcass around like a ventriloquist's dummy for a dozen epidodes. Looking forward to him singing his versions of Gee and Lionheart at a Kaeoke bar while waving Yoona's hands around.

These look so terrible but maybe I'm just that excited that it doesn't bother me. I just want JCW back in a kdrama. The fact that I think him and Yoona looks great together is just bonus.

Well those posters are terrible and the PS done was sloppy. I do a bit of PS for academic work and it seems to me that they sloppily erased some portions of Yoona's arm. It's not clear to see if that's indeed the case or it's probably her clothes because the posters are low quality resolution.

As posters go, this is pretty sombre. Theres nothing but focus on their stoic, sad or serious expression. Im still really looking forward to sep 23.

Does anyone else think that Yoon-ah looks just a little bit like the Japanese actress, Matsushima Nanako, in the very first pic?

In fact, doesn't the first pic kinda resemble the poster for hit J-drama series "Koori No Sekai," featuring Nanako and Takenouchi Yutaka in relatively the same seated position against a dark background??

I agree the pic quality is poor, and I love the "Sherwin Williams white paint" comment above...but it kinda looks intriguing, esp. cos of the resemblance the poster has with one of my favorite J-doramas from the 1990s.

Does anyone know how many episodes K2 is supposed to be? It starts end of September, and Goblin (or rather The Lonely, Shining Goblin, ugh) is supposed to air after it but in December? That seems like a long time. So how long is K2?! I am super excited for Ji Chang Wook and would love a super long drama with him, don't get me wrong. But I have been waiting a lot longer for Gong Yoo's comeback, well good comeback that is. That other drama *cough* Big *cough* doesn't count.

So, the writer went from sleeping beauty to sleepless beauty?

In the top poster the background is so dark that their legs blend together and I can't tell who is wearing the skirt and how they are sitting like that.

Am I the only one excited to see Song Yoon Ah is in the front of the poster? I mean her role could be more important than Yoona. It is actually good if once in a while we get to see main lead do not share the love interest. I love to see Yoona in this kind of role as well. If the production really wanted her to do this drama, so there must be something in herself that is special for the role.

Sharing the latest BTS (17 minutes!!!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sBz3z3_dhY

The show is looking promising!

The show has not even started yet and I am hearing a lot of complaints already. Be it about the posters, or the leads, or the action scenes. Geez, keep your expectations low then. I am just happy JCW is giving us a drama before he enlists,

I am so proud of this guy trying to do most of his stunts, as much as he can. Watch the latest trailers and the behind the scenes guys, it looks good to me..

The poster of JCW and Yoona looks good . The rest look acceptable, not that great like what I expected. As long as the drama is good, I don't care if the poster looks ugly. LOL
TvN really tries to promote hard for this drama. There are many BTS videos released recently.