I love her so much, she's a brilliant actress but I wish they would cast her in dramas with actors around her age. There's plenty of young actors for all of three kim actresses but they keep getting cast with older guys:/

However, I will say that her and Taecyeon were cute in their drama ( they also had about a 10 year age gap) and I know she has the maturity and acting skills to play someone in their 20s. I probably shouldn't say anything about the pairing since she'll be a legal adult when this is filmed and they may match well. I'll just keep my fingers crossed I guess. I just hope the writer and PD is good because the premise seems kind of bland.

Nah.

I think the casting director chose the wrong 'Kim' maybe we should send a petition 🤔

I really love them as actors separately, but I don't like this age gap. Besides, if they are going to age her up, they can just simply offer it to actresses in Doo-joon's age group. I hope she decline this one.

Love them both and the story sounds promising. But even the character screams 'old' in every way. I think there are still many actress who is mature enough and can totally rock the role, not that I'm not sure of kim so hyun capability of rocking the role... but her time to get that kind of character will surely come someday, slow it down juseyo...

Ugh no!!!!! What's with all these wtf castings?!

Kim Seo Hyun, Kim Yo Jung and Yeo Jin Go they're an amazing young actors but they're always get casted either with much older actors/actress or get roles not for thier age, i love the three but they're so young for the roles they're offering for them and they look their ages they don't have a mature looks.
It's not like the industry doesn't have actor/actress with a proper age for the characters, why don't they cast actress in her med to late twenties the character description implies this range of age, i can think of many actresses that more age suitable and talented like Kim Sul Gi, Nam Ji Hyun, Park Bo Young...(the list is long)

Even my love for KSH can't make me turn a blind eye, she's not even 20, she's so young for the role.

The age gap is a bit iffy since Kim So Hyun is just barely an adult. It feels awkward when old men keep on getting paired with young girls in their 20s and under.

Yikes!! Another paint by numbers, formulaic rom com.

Given the premise is saying nothing more than a stock plot with stock characters in a standard workplace setting, this drama will depend a lot on the quality of writing and acting.

Actors (directors, writers etc) need to make a living too, I guess...

If she is going to act as 20 y.o girl who is a rookie writer, I'm fine with it. 10 years age gap isn't a big issue for me tbh. If it is up to me, I'll send these talented child actors like Kim So-hyun, Kim Yoo-jung, Yeo Jin-gu etc to stay in chungmuro for a while and back to kdramaland after some years (maybe military service for YJG). There are not many roles / drama which suitable with their age, they had played enough as high school students, and not many college drama around as well.

Baby. Don't grow up too fast juseyo. T.T

If she does accept this, my only wish is that she doesn't turn out to be a typical candy. Please, be a character like Yoon Jiho. T.T

It would be better if the BTLIOF writer-director combo would work on this as well. The director is already close to both Sohyun and Doojoon because he also directed Let's Fight Ghost and Let's Eat. Or is this too much to ask? T.T

I'm a fan for both actors/actress so i'll support them no matter what...If some fans are against their pairing in this kdrama project..well..that would be their problem! They should make their own kdrama & cast their own actors/actress. Directors/Producers/Screen Writers knows much better than us audience/fans, WHO AM I TO JUDGE!...

I think they're both good actors (and I liked the romance in Let's fight ghost) so I believe they can pull it off.

I already had a hard time with her and Taec in Ghost tbh
and now with YDJ? As a writer with 5 years experiences while looking like that? Nah

I've said it a thousand times and I will look like a broken record, but I will continue to defend that cruel point that happens to women in the entertainment industry and that ends up influencing society in general.
The age difference isn’t so big, I agree with that. But does it have a need in the story to the actors to have this age difference?
Yes, the story will be about it, it needs for the story continues, It will be big part of the show. So ok, I’m good with that.
No, story has no need to put actors with such a big age difference. And so why put it? Why put an 18-year-old woman to act romantically with a 28-year-old man. Is she the best actress in the world? Doesn’t have an actress of the same age who can play that role?
There are thousands of actresses at the age same as her who has her talent and beauty.
She is 18, she should not be doing romantic roles with a guy 10 years older. She should be playing teenage roles. That’s simple and logical.

This is not the first case that the age of difference is so grotesque. This week premiered Two Cops. The difference between the actors is 14 years.

Again, the problem here is the industry putting such older men with young women. For example the hollywood industry that I know a little more. Women over the age of 30 are no longer able to play romantic roles with 50-year-old men. And people can’t see how aggressive it is for women, not just for those who work in industry, but for women in today's society.

Miscast all around! I love both actors.They are both brilliant! But they could cast her with a younger actor, or cast him with an older, more age appropriate actress. The age gap in Let’s Fight Ghost really bugged me, and after the first kiss scene, I couldn’t overcome my dislike of the otherwise very good drama, that I dropped the entire show.

She’s just legal. If they paired her with an actor in his early twenties, I would have no problem watching this drama.

:( me too. Can't Koreans ever be attracted to anyone in their own age group? I was excited to see him...not so much now.

Kim So-hyun is one of my favorites, so I'll *start* anything she's in. Whether I *finish* or not depends mostly on the writer & PD. I drop a lot of shows, but I can't recall any that I dropped because of age gap or bad male lead.

[flame suit on] Age gaps don't bother me as much as they bother many of you. After all, us old guys have to support each other, right? And if the actress is pretty enough, she's the one I'll be paying attention to, like "What? There was a guy in that scene too?"

In terms of pairings with large age gaps, for me, nothing will be as disturbing as the one that happened for "Mirror Of the Witch".... Kim Sae Ron is literally half of Yoon Shi Yoon's age, give or take 1-2 years T.T

...did all the actresses Doojoon's age go to the army as well? 😒

I have more problems with the characters than the age gap.... I feel like they should be switched, that the female character should be actually older (as an experienced writer who can deal with difficult guests) than the male character (inflexible and childish).

Noooo 😕 I like her. I really do.....but not in this drama. I just can't buy into her romance in 'grown up' roles because she still has a baby face imo.

Three problems for me:

1. I'm tired of literal teenagers being cast in romantic roles opposite adults. Let them be teenagers please. There's plenty of time for adult roles.

2. KSH seems too young for the role period. I'm seeing at least 25 in my head and even that seems too young.

3. I really wish they'd give more twenty-something actresses a chance. They cast KSH because she's well known. How else are lesser known actresses supposed to catch a break? And if they're really aging KSH up it just further pushes home the point that in the industry, it's the younger the better when it comes to actresses.

I really love them separately. I know they'll probably create an amazing chemistry but I still think that the age gap is too far. I can see why they chose to cast Sohyun, but casting an actress who's closer to Doojoon's age will be better.

The storyline seems so nice though! I'm not exactly a fan of a super optimistic heroine (many dramas fail to make it believable), but if it's Sohyun then I'm sure it'll turn out well.

And man, I love Doojoon. I guess I'll watch this regardless of the age gap.

If Kim Sae ron and Yoon Shi yoon can star together in a drama then I don't see any issue with Kim So hyun and Yoon doo joon..

Hope she decline. Personally I want KSH and KYJ to do more dramas that tell stories around their real age. They still have years ahead and they could play older characters later. Youth doesn't come twice after all

No, please, just no. I love these two, but what is it with mainstream media's need to cast young actresses with far older actors? I don't have an issue with age gaps, but it feels like whenever its a younger guy and older woman, it's a 'noona romance', and so much attention is brought to it, whilst when it's a younger woman and older guy, it's just a 'romance'. Kim So Hyun is legally an adult, so it's not like there's a massive squick factor here (although that's creepily never been an issue either) but I can't help but feel like there is are sexist undertones to casting choices like this that are nothing new. Le sigh.

There are two competing issues in my mind. 1) They are acting. The drama is not real. The characters are fictional. 2) The people who are acting are real. The two actors have real bodies, real lives. So we have the conflict between the fictional world of the drama and the lives of real people acting in those fictional worlds. The issue is whether we, the viewers, can suspend our disbelief. It appears that some cannot suspend their disbelief when the age differences are so large, and also cannot envision such a young looking actress having the poise and wisdom of a person who would in reality be much older.

Another interesting point, IRL the minimum age for dating a partner is the ”half your age plus seven” rule. This rule is based on “international age”, not Korean age. Let’s do the math with Kim So-Hyun and Yoon Doo-Joon. KSH is 18 and YDJ is 28. So, is KSH too young for YDJ? Here’s the math for YDJ—Half his age: 28/2 = 14, then add 7 means 14+7 = 21. So, the minimum acceptable age according to the rule is three years greater than KSH’s actual age. This might be another reason why there is such a strong reaction to the age difference—the violation of socially acceptable standards, at least in developed countries.

Super late comment but as a fan of hers I hope she takes something else as her comeback project