A cute guy and a cute dog, what could be better?

Here are the stills for Jung Il-woo’s (Return of Iljimae) upcoming cameo appearance on the family sitcom High Kick Through the Roof, where he’ll share a romantic storyline with one of its regular cast members, played by singer-actress Hwang Jung-eum. In it, she loses her beloved puppy due to the carelessness of Ji-hoon (Daniel Choi’s character), and searches far and wide to recover him. As a result, we learn that the dog used to belong to Il-woo, and because it misses his former owner, he had run away to Il-woo’s old house to find him.

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It was announced at the start that High Kick Through the Roof, the sitcom sequel to 2006’s very popular Unstoppable High Kick, would feature cameos from the cast members of the original, which is a show to which its young up-and-comers largely owe their current success (they are Jung Il-woo, Kim Bum, Kim Hye-sung, Park Min-young). High Kick Through the Roof featured an appearance from Kim Hye-sung right off the bat in its first episode, and the next cameo falls to Jung Il-woo, who played Kim’s younger brother in Unstoppable.

With this appearance, Jung will play the first love of university student Hwang Jung-eum. Jung was initially scheduled to appear in Episode 31, but that has been pushed back to Episode 35. However, due to the Korean Series (baseball championships), the actual airdate is yet unclear.

A rep from Chorokbaem Media, the series’ production company, said, “Jung Il-woo will shoot his portion in the middle of this week. However, the results of the Korea Series may result in a postponed broadcast so it is difficult to announce when his portion will air.”

High Kick Through the Roof is performing strongly, and although I don’t think it has yet reached the levels of popularity that its predecessor had, there’s still a lot of time for it to pick up steam. I had intended to keep an eye on this show and got very behind, but I caught the first two episodes and found it cute and watchable.

Via No Cut News

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Oh my gosh, this was one of the worst finales I’ve ever seen. I’ve been leaving room for the drama to upswing at the eleventh hour, but now that it’s over I can say with certainty that this is a gross disappointment. I can’t say it’s the worst last episode EVER (because there are many dramas I have never seen finale episodes for, of course), but certainly one of the most disjointed, nonsensical, pointless finales I’ve actually watched. It’s as bad as Witch Amusement for weirdness — but maybe even worse because at least Witch Amusement’s finale was amusing to watch.

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I know, at this point it’s probably more “appropriate” to post a pic of our main couple… but eh, whatever. This one is very cute.

Episode 15 makes me sorry for all of us who were holding out hope for an exciting ending, because this episode was rather boring. Things that should have been heart-tugging lost their pull because they’d already been done before in previous episodes, and I think we’ve had enough of the endless repetition. Although, if you want to play a drinking game, you could probably get pretty far along by taking a shot every time this episode employed a pointless cliche.

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Like the past three (or so) episodes, I think Episode 14 is rife with weird, illogical moments. But unlike the past three episodes, at least this one has a couple of nice, conflict-ridden scenes to make up for it. No, it doesn’t make up for all of the shortcomings, but there were a couple bits of dialogue that were really nice (okay, maybe just one great line) and a burst of emotion. Finally!

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I wish My Fair Lady would go full-on crazy, because even though they’re halfway there already, the drama’s still clinging to the semblance of a conventional trendy series. I think at this point they’d do better to have fun running wild with the nonsense rather than struggling to play it straight. I didn’t think this episode was bad so much as it was puzzling, and the cast probably finds it puzzling as well.

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There have been several discussions on this site about this topic, so I found the following article pretty timely. I both agree and disagree with the points outlined below, but regardless of my personal take on the matter, I’m certain there is enough room for convincing arguments on both sides of the issue…

“Who’s to blame when characters are criticized?”… “Incomprehensible” lead characters, damaged dramas

“I can’t understand my character myself, so how can I act in a way that viewers would sympathize? It’s disappointment upon disappointment.”

This is the confession of Ryu Shi-won, who was thrown into confusion at his incomprehensible character in SBS’s Style, which ended on September 20. With twenty years of acting experience, he found his character’s sudden changes difficult to handle. And it’s not just with Ryu Shi-won. Jung Il-woo, who is currently appearing in KBS’s My Fair Lady, expressed disappointment for similar reasons.

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