We’ve seen the cast of upcoming Wednesday-Thursday drama Hero posing separately (Kim Min-jung, Lee Junki, Eom Ki-joon), and now they pose together as three newspapermen and one police officer.

The new cast promo photos feature, from left to right, Eom Ki-joon (Job Well Done), Baek Yoon-shik (Jeon Woo Chi), Lee Junki (Iljimae), and Kim Min-jung (Strike Love). The one below also includes actress Shin Joo-ah (Hey Hey Hey 2).

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Another of the year’s highly anticipated dramas is nearing its premiere date: Lee Junki’s MBC drama Hero [히어로], which features the star as a hot-blooded reporter. On October 8, new stills were released of Lee Junki in action on the set, which follows a previously released still of second lead Eom Ki-joon (below), who plays a rival reporter.

In the new images, Lee’s reporter character arrives at his first day of work at a small-time newspaper. Lee Junki said, “The director, writer, and all the actors and crew are going into filming doing our best. Please look forward to the liveliness and passion of the drama, as well as a side of my personality I haven’t shown before in other projects, as I play a reporter with cheerfulness and enthusiasm.”

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Actor Eom Ki-joon — adorable in Job Well Done and a charming bastard in The World They Live In — has been added to the new MBC drama Hero, aka the Lee Junki vehicle also starring Han Ji-min.

The drama features all three as reporters, with Lee Junki’s character recklessly rushing in to help others and Han Ji-min’s being passionate about the world’s injustices. Eom is “cool-headed and cold-hearted” as an “elite” politics reporter who is also the son of the head of a large corporation but keeps his family history hidden. Behind his clean, calm façade the character harbors a mean streak, making him a complete 180 from his recent Job Well Done character.

Eom Ki-joon has certainly shown he can do both nice and mean equally convincingly, and make both extremes entertaining. And funny. A smart addition to the cast, I’m thinking.

Hero will air on Wednesdays and Thursdays following U-Know Yunho and Go Ara’s soccer drama Heading to the Ground, and begins filming in September.

Via Star News

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There are a couple of new dramas on the block, although I don’t know if either of them will make a splash. Both come from MBC, who’s probably sweating bullets now that East of Eden has left the building, and taken with it its high-profile stars, its twisty storylines, its onscreen and offscreen drama — and oh yeah, its consistently solid ratings.

The first of the new shows to air is the Chae Rim vehicle Good Job, Good Job [잘했군 잘했어], which kicked off this weekend. Next will be Monday and Tuesday’s new offering, Queen of Housewives [내조의 여왕].

The reason I think both MBC dramas have a steep uphill climb ahead of them isn’t because they’re both sure to suck. Rather, both look cheerfully good-natured; too bad this is the age of the “makjang drama” — those over-the-top dramas we love to hate but watch anyway (or 욕하면서 보는 드라마).

(No really, it’s practically becoming a genre in and of itself. Evil characters, birth secrets, terminal illnesses, over-the-top violence, convoluted love geometry — this is the era of all of ‘em.)

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If you, like me, thought that Eom Ki-joon as a bastard-y, womanizing drama director was the best part about The World They Live In and his storyline with Seo Hyo-rim the most interesting, you may be interested to see them together again in MBC’s new weekend drama, Good Job, Good Job [잘했군 잘했어] (working title).

Although they shared a romantic storyline in World, however, they’ll be romantically paired with other actors here — Eom will be linked with Goong S’s Queen in her first post-divorce comeback, Myung Se-bin, while Seo is matched up with their World co-star Daniel Choi.

The new drama will take the timeslot currently showing Moon Sori’s Golden Age of My Life, and premieres in March. Eom, meanwhile, is up for a Baeksang award for his World role in the new actor category.

Via Star News

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Wow, that’s kind of fast — only three weeks into the drama and already a Baeksang nomination.

Both Kim Bum and Lee Min-ho of KBS’s Boys Before Flowers are up for the 45th Baeksang Arts Awards in the same category (new actor). (Kim Bum’s nomination, however, comes for his four-episode turn playing young Dong-chul in MBC’s East of Eden.) They’re also nominated in the popularity award category.

As much as I like Lee Min-ho’s portrayal of Jun-pyo, I think Kim Bum’s performance in East of Eden was more award-worthy — but they’ve got pretty good competition: Eom Ki-joon (The World They Live In), Lee Sang-woo (First Wives Club), and Jung Kyeo-woon (Women in the Sun).

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All right, we’ve seen MBC’s Acting Awards (met with much criticism) and SBS’s awards, so now we close out the broadcast station awards with the 2008 KBS Acting Awards.

No real surprise (or controversy) for KBS’s Daesang, awarded to veteran actress Kim Hye-ja for her role in the popular series Mom’s Dead Upset. Personally, I don’t know that Kim was outstanding in that drama specifically, but there’s no doubt she’s built up an impressive, long-running career and therefore this was probably more of an opportunity to give her a lifetime-achievement-ish Daesang.

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