Han Ye-ri adorably upset at best friend Kim Ji-suk in new stills for My Unfamiliar Family
by tineybeanie
I want to be Han Ye-ri (Nokdu Flower) in My Unfamiliar Family because I would have Kim Ji-suk (When the Camellia Blooms) as my smexy best guy friend. As previously reported, My Unfamiliar Family tackles the topic of difficult relationships that can sour from misunderstandings and walking different paths of life. It will showcase an ordinary family whose members have grown distant from each other over time, and how some acquaintances feel closer to them than family because of common perspectives and time spent together.
At the heart of this family is Han Ye-ri who plays the considerate second daughter. She works at a publishing company, and has a positive attitude about everything. Kim Ji-suk is her best friend of more than a decade, and they’re shown in various stills interacting with each other. Despite his free-spirited, independent ways, he’s a realist at heart. He gave up his dream of becoming a photographer to pursue the more financially stable path of starting a media company. He often gives Han Ye-ri’s character realistic advice about her problems and secrets.
Chu Ja-hyun (Arthdal Chronicles) and Han Ye-ri play a pair of bickering sisters. Their vastly different personalities and communication styles make any little issue ripe for an argument. In contrast to Han Ye-ri’s warm concern and transparency, her older sister Chu Ja-hyun is a cold perfectionist with a strong sense of pride that makes her close-mouthed. She graduated from a top university and spent years as a patent attorney before getting married to a doctor. Shin Jae-ha (VIP) plays their younger brother, often caught in the middle, receiving the ire of both his older sisters. Due to his maknae status, he’s lived by his noonchi (emotional perceptiveness) to help improve the mood in any situation.
Monday-Tuesday tvN drama My Unfamiliar Family, directed by Kwon Young-il (Search Query: WWW) and written by Kim Eun-jung (The Man Living in Our House), will begin airing on June 1.
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1 marina
May 5, 2020 at 10:55 AM
Han Ye-ri and Kim Ji-suk? I’m f in!
I hope they don’t fall in love! My BFF is a boy and we have been friends for seven years! I adore him.. We know each other better than anyone else in our lives and I do need to see a drama about pure friendship between a man n a woman!
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javinne
May 6, 2020 at 1:35 AM
Me too!-I agree, I would love simply to watch a drama where the main relationship is a friendship between male and female without a loveline. Why it cannot be possible???? It is in real life
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Victorian23
June 2, 2020 at 6:48 AM
Chief Kim is one.
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javinne
June 2, 2020 at 9:22 AM
Ohh, true! And i have heard the forest of secrets is also like that... haven't watched it yet.
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2 Eazal
May 5, 2020 at 10:56 AM
I like the premise of this, and I would really love that there would be no love line between HYR and KJS. It would be really different.
And I like the director. Just today I was thinking about how refreshing was Search Query: WWWregarding female roles...
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3 mmmmm
May 5, 2020 at 11:40 AM
I’m in for the leads. Moreover, the description of KJS’s character is just like my best male friend. We’ve been friends for like 23 years??? He knows me more than I know myself and is always realistic and gives practical advice.
He’s married now and his wife is my junior. Love to see something along those lines.
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4 miss h
May 5, 2020 at 11:58 AM
I'm really looking forward to this one. I love Han Ye-ri.
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5 zzthorn
May 5, 2020 at 3:04 PM
The first time I saw Kim Ji Suk was in a 2010 drama called Slave Hunters where he played a very young, careless Joseon ladies man who was in a group of slave hunters. He played his part beautifully and I've tried to watch any drama in which he played one of the characters since then. I hope this drama will be available on one of the sites I am able to watch. I'm looking forward to it.
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PakalanaPikake
May 5, 2020 at 5:30 PM
@zzthorn,
Are you me? CHUNO was my introduction to Kim Ji-suk, too, and I loved him to bits as randy rookie bounty hunter Wang-son. I was a basket case when he was being stalked by assassin Hwang Cheol-woong (Lee Jong-hyeok, currently giving me CHUNO flashbacks in GOOD CASTING). The loyal partnership between Dae-gil, "General" Choi, and Wang-son -- along with the epic swordfights -- marks CHUNO as one of my all-time favorite sageuks. I only watched sageuks for the first few years of my Kdrama addiction, so I haven't seen many of KJS's contemporary shows. I loved his character Jin-sang, Mr. Rooftop Party himself, in OH HAE-YOUNG AGAIN -- his latter-day incarnation of Wang-son as a commitment-phobic attorney. He and Ye Ji-won as his best friend's noona were hilarious and heartbreaking together. He conveyed a deeply-buried hurt from his father's tomcatting around that added an extra dollop of poignancy to the proceedings. KJS played another invisibly damaged and vulnerable dude in TOP STAR YOO BAEK. His scandal-triggered banishment to a remote island without internet access was a hoot that turned into a tale of acceptance and healing (and more than a bit of agita for romantic rival Lee Sang-yeob as Ma-dol Oppa, who is ML in GOOD CASTING, and will hopefully get the girl this time, if she wants to be gotten).
KJS was fabulous as Yeonsangun in REBEL: THIEF WHO STOLE THE PEOPLE. He portrayed the tyrant sympathetically, which was something I'd never expected to see, let alone be able to buy into, but I did. (Then Lee Dong-gun did it again in another excellent characterization in SEVEN DAY QUEEN a few months later. But KJS did it first.) I loved him in WHEN THE CAMELLIA BLOOMS, too. Even though Kang Jong-ryeol was an image-conscious jerk to Dong-baek when he was younger, her own baggage was just as damaging to their partnership. I got the biggest kick out of the baseball player's budding relationship with his surprise son Pil-gu.
From one KJS fangirl Beanie to another, fingers crossed that you'll have easy access to MY UNFAMILIAR FAMILY. Hwaiting! ;-)
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zzthorn
May 5, 2020 at 5:46 PM
Oh my, @pakalanapikake looks like I missed a few Kim Ji Suk dramas. I'll have to watch the ones I missed. Nice to know another Beanie out there has been following the career of KJS and being a fan even though KJS is seldom the guy that gets the girl. He's still a lot of fun to watch along the way!
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PakalanaPikake
May 5, 2020 at 11:02 PM
@zzthorn,
I've actually seen several more KJS productions, but his characters didn't leave as much of an impression because I was too busy ogling the MLs: MAN OF THE VINEYARD w/ Oh Man-seok; PERSONAL TASTE w/ Lee Min-ho; ANGEL EYES w/ Lee Sang-yoon; 20TH CENTURY BOY AND GIRL; IRISH UPPERCUT.
My two main resources for keeping tabs on actors and their filmographies, as well as movies and dramas:
1. AsianWiki
http://asianwiki.com/Kim_Ji-Suk
Includes mugshots of cast, which I need to keep track of characters; besides traditional dramas, includes films and their casts, and "over the top" streaming productions.
2. DramaWiki
https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Kim_Ji_Suk
Focuses on dramas, not movies, so film roles are more cursory; often has more complete info on cameos and special appearances, webdramas and other newfangled productions, etc., but no mugshots of roles. Provides character charts.
I hope this helps you sniff out any other Kim Ji-suk vehicles you might have missed. Enjoy! ;-)
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Flightey Gazelles
May 6, 2020 at 8:07 AM
"But KJS did it first" LOL!
I've always liked him. I first saw him in Personal Taste with LMH where he was a sniveling, cheating mess. I couldn't stand his guts. Then I watched him is Sassy Go Go and loved him as the teacher. He has a way of infusing warmth into his characters and he manages to make them so sympathetic that if he's playing a terrible character, you can't help to not stay mad at him for long( like it was for me in Personal Taste, never expected it).
it's so hard for me to picture him as the psycho tyrant. This is a reminder that I'm yet to watch Rebel.
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PakalanaPikake
May 7, 2020 at 11:05 PM
@Flightey Gazelles,
Good to see you!
Seriously, two dramas with Yeonsangun, the most reviled tyrant in Korean history, airing within a couple of months of each other was a bit much to take. SEVEN DAY QUEEN in particular was a real tearjerker, but I knew that going in. I was toast by the time it ended. It was a testimonial to both actors who portrayed the historical figure that they succeeded in humanizing him so effectively and memorably. Kim Ji-suk and Lee Dong-gun turned in two of the top performances of the year, IMHO.
Whereas LDG's portrayal was more aggressive and focused on his rivalry towards his younger half-brother, IIRC, KJS's put more emphasis on his lifelong fear in the wake of his mother's dethronement and execution. She apparently had anger management and/or mental issues of her own, so it may have been implied that he got a raw deal in the heredity sweepstakes. He's hyperaware that he is surrounded by enemies at court, too. He cannot even give his grandmother(?) a proper Buddhist memorial ceremony because of court politics, so when power-hungry gisaeng Jang Nok-soo arrives at court and privately performs the requisite sacred dance for granny, he realizes that there is at least one performing artist who understands him. He would have been happier as a music and theater critic in another life. If you think of him as a sensitive artiste who should not be swimming with the sharks, it might be easier to imagine KJS as Yeonsangun. He is also being manipulated by various parties at court, and may not actually be as psycho as he has historically been portrayed... at least not until he goes off the deep end.
In PERSONAL TASTE, did KJS's character out Ryoo Seung-ryong's gallery director character, or was that someone else? Or was he from a rival architectural firm that low balls a bid to ruin LMH's firm? -- Whatever it was he did, I agree with you that he gives his characters a warm appeal. His character in OH HAE-YOUNG AGAIN screws up royally, but everyone involved ultimately forgives him, and I gave him a pass, too, when he mans up and tries to rectify the situation. I haven't seen SASSY GO GO, but I think I'll have to get around to it. (Interestingly, in real life, he is qualified to teach German.)
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Flightey Gazelles
May 28, 2020 at 10:32 AM
sorry for the late reply @PakalanaPikake.
This is coming after I went off and watched Rebel from beginning to the end, plus recaps and comments. WOW. What an intense, emotional ride. I loved everyone in it. Chae Soo Bin, Honey Lee, Kim Ji Suk, Kim Sang Joon( who I thought would always be 'Bad Daddy' to me, made me love his lovable, mischievous, smart and determined role as the loving father), the actor who plays Gil Hyun, and my introduction to Yoon Kyung San as Gil Dong.
I first saw the actor playing Mori in Jealousy Incarnate as Gong Hyo Jin's grumpy junior brother. It amazed me how believable he was as the tortured warrior, Mori. He was so quick with his movement and looked like he really could fight.
I got so emotional at the end of Rebel. It was a long journey that was worth it, every step of the way!
6 PakalanaPikake
May 5, 2020 at 6:23 PM
Thank you for the progress report on MY UNFAMILIAR FAMILY, @tineybeanie. I'm looking forward to this drama, and am thrilled that Shin Dong-wook (any news on his character?) and Kim Tae-hoon are in it along with Kim Ji-suk. Plus the excellent Jung Jin-young.
Han Ye-ri was fabulous in NOKDU FLOWER. I also enjoyed her performance as a narcoleptic in her second film, the low-key ONE STEP MORE TO THE SEA (2009), with Park Ji-young (Queen YooShouldn'taHadKids) and her future son, Wang Yo (Hong Jong-hyun), from MOON LOVERS, and the excellent Kim Young-jae (lawyer Hee-jae's hyung the judge in HYENA).
Cranky unni/noona may be a cold fish because she's the eldest. It's a thankless job to be the role model for younger siblings -- as well as guinea pig for Mom and Dad to develop their parenting skills. Been there, done that. ;-)
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7 Selena
May 5, 2020 at 7:01 PM
Korean drama scriptwriter love to write cheerful FL, huh. That's always a sign of bad writing - 2D characters are not likable.
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8 larelle79
May 5, 2020 at 9:17 PM
So starting a media company is more financially stable than being a photographer. Huh?
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PakalanaPikake
May 5, 2020 at 11:12 PM
Hmmm. Good question. It's probably more profitable than running an independent bookstore out in the boonies. Goodnight! ;-)
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larelle79
May 6, 2020 at 5:44 AM
🤔😊😊😊😊😊😂
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9 neener ~ Inside the Magic Shop ~
May 6, 2020 at 1:07 AM
Ooooohhh I'm definitely in! With the PD from WWW, guess we're about to see a lot of back lights? >.<
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10 javinne
May 6, 2020 at 1:32 AM
I really really love Kim Ji suk... that's my only reason to watch this show🙋
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Zora
May 8, 2020 at 11:14 AM
I love him too! I think he’s very versatile. He can be a villain but he can also play funny and charming leading roles ❤️❤️❤️
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11 Kurama
May 6, 2020 at 2:08 AM
It sounds like a week-end familial drama without the 40 filler episodes between the beginning and the end!
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12 Flightey Gazelles
May 6, 2020 at 8:45 AM
I'm very interested in the premise as I'm on a Jealousy Incarnate rewatch, so I'm in the mood of exploring everyday relationship dynamics; familial, friendship, romantic etc. Plus I've only caught Han Ye Ri in Age Of Youth and I want to see her in something cute.
I'm going to go against the general sentiment and say I reeeeeeaally want a romantic pairing between Kim Ji Suk and Han Ye Ri( I may change my mind when the drama begins). I haven't really watched a friends-to-lovers drama. I'm not opposed to this one being my first
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14 liar song #PuppyNotPuppyLeeJaeWookIsBack
May 8, 2020 at 3:40 AM
I want this drama to be really good for my girl, Han Ye-ri.
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15 Rumi~
May 11, 2020 at 6:27 AM
Is this a mini series or a family drama? Whatever the case I'm in. If not in its at least going to my ptw 😂
I swear I have a everest size pile of stuff in my PTW.
I like the 2 actor guys even if I don't have an impression of the ladies. It sounds like a promising premise.
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