This is sweet (and yay for overseas fans, yet again): in anticipation of Hero’s broadcast premiere tomorrow, overseas fans have shown their support for lead actor Lee Junki in the form of 30,000 origami cranes.

The fan gifts arrived on November 17 at Hero’s Seoul filming location in a truckload containing fifteen boxes. Lee Junki had been taking a brief break from filming at the time of arrival, and hearing that they’d come from his overseas fans, he opened the boxes himself to confirm the sight.

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MBC released another trailer for the upcoming Hero this week, so there are now two separate preview videos for the comedy-action series. The good news is, despite the numerous problems plaguing the production, I think the footage looks pretty smooth, and the newest cast member, Yoon So-yi, seems to be fine in her role even though she had about a year less preparation time than its star, Lee Junki. If I’d seen the trailers not knowing of the backstory with its leading actress(es), I wouldn’t think it was of any lesser quality than normal.

The bad news is… I think the drama itself looks kinda awful, actually. But you be the judge.

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I wonder if this is something new, because I can’t quite picture Kim Min-jung’s tough, bowl-cut-wearing female cop character in quite the same light as her replacement, Yoon So-yi. In these latest stills from Hero, Yoon shows off girl group KARA’s “Booty Dance” [엉덩이춤] as her cop character poses as a backup dancer.

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After only being selected this week to replace the lead actress of Hero, actress Yoon So-yi jumped into filming for the drama the very next day (the 5th), shooting her first action scene on the 6th.

In the scene shown in the stills below, Yoon’s character (Joo Jae-in) jumps in to save the nephews of Lee Junki’s reporter character when they are nearly kidnapped by private loan sharks — they’d borrowed money but their sister had failed to make the repayment. Yoon shows off a variety of action moves and kicks; bystanders who stopped to watch the filming gave her a round of applause.

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After lead actress Kim Min-jung dropped out and Yoon So-yi was brought in to replace her, MBC’s upcoming Wednesday-Thursday drama Hero only had a week till its premiere to reshoot with its new lead, making for an impossible undertaking. Thankfully, broadcaster MBC has decided to go ahead and delay the launch of the show by a week: it will now premiere on November 18.

A source with the production said, “We’d tried hard to make the premiere as scheduled for November 11, but inevitably the broadcast has been pushed back a week. With Yoon So-yi coming in to replace Kim Min-jung, filming is currently going in full force.”

A source from MBC said, “Even though the female lead has changed several times, Lee Junki and the other cast members have not been shaken by it and have quietly worked on their own acting, which has given MBC and the producers encouragement. In particular, Lee Junki, who has been preparing for the past year for Hero, has become absorbed in his acting without being thrown into confusion over the female lead changing twice, focusing on the team and bolstering support.”

I’m of two minds about this: (1) Thank goodness! and (2) MBC, if you’re going to postpone it a week anyway, why not do yourself a favor and make it two? Surely the production needs the time more than you do.

Via E Daily

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