Seo Min Jung is pregnant! (She’s reportedly five months along and expecting in the summer.)

The actress was married last August to a Korean-American dentist and has since removed herself from the entertainment sphere, living with her husband in New York. Seo is most well-known for her role as the cute and klutzy teacher on 2007’s very popular family sitcom Unstoppable High Kick, who shared a (sorta) “loveline” with up-and-coming heartthrob Jung Il Woo — whose character was a high school student ten years her junior. (I admit, their “they can’t really go there… can they?” storyline was what kept my interest going in the sitcom.)

Speaking of whom, the other High Kick-ers are all busy with their own careers, particularly the young talents who shot to fame as a result of the series. Checking in with the rest of the cast:

Jung Il Woo recently started his university life and just shot a spread for Vogue Girl’s March issue, sporting his trademark sensitive-pretty-boy image. (I always thought it was interesting how his character was such a rebel, and how it worked despite his pretty looks. Damn he’s got some great skin.) His most recent project was the omnibus (multi-vignette) film My Love, which also starred Lee Yeon Hee and Uhm Tae Woong, among others.

Meanwhile, baby-faced actor Kim Hye Sung, who played Jung Il Woo’s brother in High Kick, now takes on a gay role opposite Lee Hyun Jin in the queer film Boy Meets Boy. Notably, both lead actors have no dialogue and act purely in gestures and looks. The concept worked extremely well in Kim Ki-duk’s 3 Iron; let’s see if it works here.

Park Min Young, who played empty-headed Yumi, recently shot a photo spread showing a newer, more mature (read: sexay) image, and is now being compared with pop group Sugar’s Hwang Jung Eum, who also revealed a new photo spread showing a new, glamorous image. Naturally, whenever two things share even the smallest similarity, netizens will flock to pit one against the other in some kind of pointless manufactured faceoff.

Kim Bum will be playing Song Seung Heon’s younger counterpart in the upcoming MBC drama East of Eden.

And Koyote singer Shinji has a duet on the new album for H-Eugene, an R&B-style ballad called “남이라고” (Calling me a stranger).

Jung Il Woo, Park Min Young, Kim Hye Sung

 
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Recently married actress Seo Minjung, last seen in the very popular sitcom The Unstoppable High Kick, had moved to New York after marrying her gyopo husband in August and retired from acting. She’s back in Korea, though, and hanging with her former High Kick co-stars:

 
The primary reason for her trip to Korea was for knee surgery, but she had time to meet with young heartthrobs and rising actors Jung Il Woo (in yellow) and Kim Hye Sung (baseball cap), who were her affectionately termed troublemaking students on the show.

I know the entertainment industry is small and close-knit by nature. But it’s still nice to see actors who seem to carry on genuine friendships after their work relationships have come to an end. And when said actors are as adorable as these guys (just as long as I don’t look at their birth years, eek!), you’ve gotta thank stars and their cyworlds for documenting all such instances.

Just for good measure, here’s another photo of her back in the High Kick days, with Jung Il Woo and Kim Bum, both of whom are entering university this year:

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Hm, maybe my Spidey sense was tingling with the whole Unstoppable High Kick thing. Apparently it’s being made into a movie! …which I honestly can’t picture, but sure, okay.

Frankly, I can’t imagine forking over ten bucks (or should I say manwon) to see an extended version of the sitcom. Unless they go for something completely different and experimental and racy, and hook up Yunho with his teacher-crush, that is — then I’m there. Possibly twice.

Despite the announcement, it seems nothing’s quite set in stone yet. The director is going into planning with the writers — all five of them! That’s a number unheard-of by Western movie-producing standards — before the obligatory rewrites and fights over credit, that is. Five people co-writing on an initial draft is… interesting.

Furthermore, they’re not sure of the cast’s availability, noting that several of the “adult” actors (grandparent and parent roles) are currently tied up in filming for various projects. (Grandpa’s in the sageuk drama Yi San, and Grandma’s in Ggakdugi aka Radish Kimchee.) Choi Minyong (playing the teacher and uncle) is in a current legal dispute with his management company, and Seo Minjung (teacher and object of teenage Yunho’s affections) has recently married and moved to the States with her gyopo husband. Naturally, they’d like to keep the entire cast intact for the movie, for which they’ve set a target release for sometime next year.

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I’m bored. Bored, bored, bored.

Not only bored, but restless. The only drama that holds my interest these days is Legend, and that’s just barely. It’s not hard to tell that my taste veers to trendy dramas — the fluffier, the better — and I feel the current lack keenly. As I was saying to a friend recently, I can find meaning in the most superficial of trendy dramas — just give me the sugariest cotton-candy drama and I’ll mine the hell out of it looking for depth and thematic resonance. Of course, I do have some standards — I won’t watch just any trendy drama, if it’s just a boring rehash of familiar stuff. But let’s say that if trendy dramas are the television equivalent of chick lit, I’m looking for Bridget Jones, not Shopaholic or Lipstick Jungle or whatever else comes with cheesy pink covers and pictures of high heels and handbags and jewelry. (I am not my accessories closet! … and if only I actually had an accessories closet!)

What does that have to do with The Unstoppable High Kick? Nothing really, except explain just how bored I am and in need of something light and fun, even if it doesn’t aspire to be meaningful. I missed the boat on High Kick when it first aired — daily sitcoms usually air over a hundred episodes, and that’s just too much of a commitment. It finished its run earlier this summer, but AZN has been showing it (unsubtitled), and I’ve let the episodes accumulate on my Tivo, watching them whenever I remember to. I’m somewhere up in the nineties now (there are 167 episodes), although I skipped a bunch in the beginning.

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