Posts Tagged ‘Dong Yi’

Drama Casting & News
MBC’s Dong Yi off to solid start
by | March 23, 2010 | 34 Comments
Another Monday-Tuesday drama premiered this week, MBC’s historical series Dong Yi. It wasn’t able to top its competitors with its first outing, but its initial 11.4% held its own against SBS’s medical sageuk Jejoongwon (13.2%) and KBS’s comic trendy show Birth of the Rich (15.5%). As is often the case in historical series, Dong Yi... More »


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Bae Soo-bin as a beggar in Dong Yi
by | March 17, 2010 | 29 Comments
I knew Bae Soo-bin would be playing the part of the handsome guard in MBC’s Dong Yi, so I wasn’t expecting to see this side of him; he’s dressed as a beggar in these latest shots, which the actor released on his homepage. These scenes will be featured in the first episode, which airs next... More »


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Dong Yi’s official posters
by | March 9, 2010 | 41 Comments
Speaking of new Monday-Tuesday dramas, here’s a look at another: MBC’s Dong Yi comes out the same day as SBS’s Oh! My Lady, albeit an hour later in the regular prime-time slot. These new posters feature Dong Yi‘s lead actress in the title role, Han Hyo-joo. In reference to her character’s initial status as a... More »


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Han Hyo-joo looks forward to Dong Yi
by | February 21, 2010 | 30 Comments
With the airdate approaching for the historical drama Dong Yi, lead actress Han Hyo-joo has spoken about her feelings playing the lead in such a large production. Her character starts out a water maid in the palace, is selected as concubine, becomes the queen’s faithful confidant, and gives birth to a future king. Han has... More »


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Friend’s Jung Yumi joins cast of Dong Yi
by | February 19, 2010 | 14 Comments
Jung Yumi is the latest addition to MBC’s big historical drama Dong Yi, joining Han Hyo-joo, who plays the titular water-maid-turned-concubine; Ji Jin-hee as king; Lee So-yeon as a scheming, more senior concubine; and Bae Soo-bin playing Daddy Long Legs yet again to Han. This Jung Yumi is the actress from Friend, Our Legend, not... More »


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The cast of Dong Yi gets into character
by | February 4, 2010 | 68 Comments
Here’s our first look at the cast of MBC’s historical series Dong Yi dressed in costume. The drama features Ji Jin-hee as King Suk-jong and Han Hyo-joo as the water maid Dong-yi who turns concubine, then mother to a future king. Lee So-yeon follows her vengeful Angel’s Temptation role as Lady Jang, a higher-ranking concubine... More »


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Park Ha-sun cast as queen in Dong Yi
by | January 16, 2010 | 22 Comments
Historical drama Dong Yi has cast Park Ha-sun to play the role of Queen In-hyun, the second wife of King Suk-jong. Han Hyo-joo plays the lead character Dong-yi, a water maid who later became royal consort and gave birth to a future king; Ji Jin-hee plays King Suk-jong. Queen In-hyun was pushed aside and lost... More »


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Bae Soo-bin added to Dong Yi
by | January 5, 2010 | 50 Comments
Something tells me that Brilliant Legacy fans are gonna flip: Bae Soo-bin will once again be teaming up with Han Hyo-joo in the historical drama Dong Yi. (Then again, as the series has already cast Ji Jin-hee as the king who takes Han’s water maid character as his concubine, this means that Bae Soo-bin once... More »


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Ji Jin-hee and Han Hyo-joo pair up in Dong Yi
by | November 17, 2009 | 40 Comments
Ji Jin-hee, most recently of KBS’s j-drama adaptation The Man Who Can’t Get Married, has been cast to be Han Hyo-joo‘s leading man in the upcoming MBC sageuk drama Dong Yi [동이]. This’ll be the second time Ji teams up with PD Lee Byung-hoon, with whom he first worked in the hugely successful Dae Jang... More »