DO IT!

Was what I was going to comment but whoa that writer-director team up. I'm all in! Been waiting for a sageuk to watch these days. Hope they both sign up.

Oooh! It feels like a recipe for disappointment to get too attached to the idea of this particular casting with this particular plot, but I want it sooo much! I feel like someone is probably going to turn the offer down, but I'm keeping all my fingers crossed for this.

OMO! I wish these two fine actors sign on! I've always been a fan of them both!

Sounds amazing! This is a must-check-out if it happens. That's an interesting plot already and I love what this team of writer-actor(s)-director could do with it.

I trust the writers on this but I hope this is not another love war between siblings. Talking bout the female lead, there are few saeguk fairies out there I hope they get a good one.

A sageuk directed by the Six Flying Dragons director has to be a masterpiece. With Jo Jung-suk and Yoon Shi-yoon potentially on the team, I'm so hyped.

Oohh... Jo Jung-seok is going to play an antihero character? Please do it, oppa. I'm so used to him playing likeable and swoony male lead in dramas that it'll be interesting to see him bringing that tense and dark vibes he exudes in his movies.

YASSS The writing/directing team sounds epic so if it's all go I'm definitely tuning in!

.......................... I've suddenly forgotten how to breathe

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Sorry, JJS being in something makes me non-verbal.
But why does it have to be a damn sageuk?

The half-brothers feuding in a sageuk reminds me of "Queen of Seven Days". I'm hoping Yoon Shi Yoon will turn this down because I want him to star opposite Park Bo Young in "Abyss".

Asdfhjklgfsayaaaaa this is good news! @marcusnyc20 @pakalanapikake
- Yoon Shi Yoon and Jo Jung Seok. Check.
- PD & Writer. Check. Check!
- Interesting historical scenario. Check.

I liked Yoon Shi Yoon in Grand Prince though I think he does better in modern dramas. However, I can see him as a dainty nobleman who comes back from Japan dressed in modern clothes... oh wait, that sounds familiar.... Hee-Sung!! 😭

Jo Jung Seok as a villains in a saguek?!?! YAS!

Thanks for this exciting casting news on UGEUMCHI, @tipsymocha! You made my day. The prospect of a full-blown saguek warms the cockels of my heart. You had me at the pedigree of the production team: PD Shin Kyung-soo of TREE WITH DEEP ROOTS and SIX FLYING DRAGONS, and screenwriter Jung Hyun-min of JUNG DO-JEON. Sell my clothes, I'm going to heaven. ;-)

Having watched MR. SUNSHINE, it will be interesting to see how the Donghak Peasant Rebellion fits into the scheme of things. Maybe I still have REBEL:THIEF WHO STOLE THE PEOPLE on the brain. I can imagine the possibility of an eventual meeting of the minds between the two brothers. Younger bro could come to recognize how the system is rigged against half-yangban despite the official lip service to meritocracy. He could turn into Gil-hyun to his hyung's latter-day Hong Gil-dong. Even if he doesn't, there were already enough traitors in high places willing to sell out Joseon's sovereignty for personal gain that an honest civil servant would have despaired.

I'll have to check out Jo Jung-seok in the films THE FACE READER and FATAL ENCOUNTER as I have yet to see him in sageuks. Must rectify that oversight pronto. I can only imagine that he will do a terrific job in this role. Perhaps we'll be graced with a sympathetic characterization of an antihero a la Lee Dong-gun's Yeonsangun in SEVEN DAY QUEEN, or along the line of Kim Ji-suk's equally nuanced take on the same historical figure in REBEL.

Yoon Si-yoon did well in MIRROR OF THE WITCH / SECRET HEALER. In GRAND PRINCE, he extinguished his happy-go-lucky charisma and hinted at a dark side that he managed to keep in check in order to survive at court before he was double-crossed. Just because he starts out as a privileged scholar is no guarantee that he remains one, or that he doesn't chuck his halo along the way. It would be epic to see him play against type as well as Jo Jung-seok. I bet the two of them will have a blast in these roles.

I can't wait to hear about the rest of the cast. Is it too much to hope for Jang Hyuk to grace it with his presence?

Accept it please both of you ☺ but i do hope theres no love war for the same lady and put more emphasis on the half-sibling relationship~

That the PD of the outstanding dramas Tree With Deep Roots and Six Flying Dragons is at the helm of this new project certainly causes confidence and interest. Also liking the possible casting of the two leads.

PLS BE EPIC

This is a good sign. What is even better is to find out that Jeong Do Jeon is finally subbed, (4 year wait), off to watch.

I don't even need to read the plot description - I would watch anything for Yoon Shi-yoon. Why do you think I loved Grand Prince so much?? 😍

I'm just gonna have to die and go to heaven! Writer Jung Hyun-min wrote one of the best conventional sageuk!!!! I have been praying for a sageuk from him since JUNG DO-JEON ended which was a feast for history fans.
If anyone knows politics well, past and present it would be writer Jung. Intriguing on screen and not repetitive and boring.
Thank you drama gods!!! Icing on the cake is the casting of Jo Jung-seok. He is my fave chameleon actor beside Jeong Bo-seok.

@juniper I hope you'll be back too!

Jo Jung Seok is the only reason I need to watch it :p

YES PLEASE! 🙏🙏

all i can say is please let this happen! i love saeguks and i love both those actors! please teach us more history! what a long wait ahead but so worth the wait if it goes down like this.

OOF this hits all my favorite tropes. Broken bromances, antiheroes, and class conflict, here we come

I WANT! Mainly because Jo Jung Seok was such a great brother in My Annoying Brother. These two would have great chemistry

Hope they both sign, cause I bet this drama will be epic!!!...
I just wish that they made the younger brother the evil one... hahhahaha I kinda like to see Yoon Shi Yoon with that kind of role.. where I get to despise him because he's doing his acting job too well... also, can we please just leave the ROMANCE part, just pure brotherly rivalry and politics?? I've had enough of brothers fighting to win the affection of the female lead.. to cliche please...The writer and the director are a PLUS FACTOR... This will be on my Top 3 k-drama in 2019!