Romance Town’s Sung Yuri goes back to high school
by javabeans
Sung Yuri may be 30 years old, but she jumps back about a decade in these stills, dressed in a high school uniform to play the teenage version of her Soon-geum character in Romance Town. I’d say she looks fine as a student…if only the boy cast as her classmate didn’t look like he hasn’t even hit puberty yet. Seriously? He looks like he’s half her age. (He probably IS — he just shouldn’t look it.)
From the stills, it looks like Soon-geum wasn’t exactly the most conscientious student in her youth. She’s described as a bright, lively personality, so I’m expecting a bit of attitude (not the bad kind, just the outspoken kind) and a maybe a dash of bravado.
The KBS drama recently began filming and is now in the thick of shoots. In addition the main cast of Sung Yuri and Min Hyo-rin as maids, and Jung Kyeo-woon and Kim Min-joon as chaebols, the drama has filled out its supporting roles as well:
Im Ye-jin will play Sung Yuri’s mother, and she’s a familiar face you’ll probably recognize from playing mom to other young stars like Yoon Eun-hye (in Goong), Gu Hye-sun (in Boys Before Flowers) and Kim Tae-hee (in My Princess). She’ll have a bickering relationship with her daughter
Im Ye-jin, Yang Jung-ah, Park Ji-young
Another addition to the cast is actress Yang Jung-ah (The Man Who Can’t Get Married), who’ll play Soon-geum’s sharp, cutting employer; she’s the second wife to a rich man who traded up from his middle-aged first wife for a younger trophy with sleek good looks and expensive designer taste.
Then there’s Park Ji-young (The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry), who plays a “glamorous maid” (meaning: voluptuous, sexy) whose ex-husband took her son away following their divorce. She now works as the domestic help to make ends meet, and falls in love with her employer, played by Lee Jung-gil (Athena’s president). It’s not a sordid affair, though, since she’ll have a “reversal of fate” thanks to her romance. Aw, I love stuff like this — it’s kind of obvious emotional manipulation, but when the discarded and unappreciated first wife finds a better man who happens to be even richer and more generous than her first dastardly husband, I’m totally there, rooting her on.
Romance Town premieres on May 11.
Via Chosun
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1 aPam
April 12, 2011 at 4:58 AM
omg its amazing how young she looks.
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2 chichi
April 12, 2011 at 5:08 AM
She's still cute....RT full of good supporting casts...can't wait to watch it on KBSWorld ^.^
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3 angelyurihuynh
April 12, 2011 at 5:36 AM
hot yuri. She so cute & pretty. can't wait drama
saranghae <3
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4 elayne
April 12, 2011 at 5:45 AM
tq jb.
Oh my the school teacher ! he was in goong holding the cane and the actress look like yoon eun hye,
can't camouflage her maturity in a high school uniform most probably the filming was done at a high school.
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5 sareni
April 12, 2011 at 5:46 AM
In my opinion ,she looks great !!!
look at the guys in the drama '49days ....they all look fake in high school uniform !!! specially kang .....
i can’t wait till may .........
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danna
April 12, 2011 at 10:12 AM
i cant help snickering everytime I see Kang in uniform
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GrandmaFran
April 12, 2011 at 3:35 PM
LOL i know it's hilarious how absurd he looks pretending to be a teenage still in puberty haha
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6 chingu
April 12, 2011 at 6:15 AM
She looks like Yoon Eunhye
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7 Ichigo
April 12, 2011 at 6:32 AM
Can not WAIT for this drama. Yuri is looking as beautiful as always...
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8 come2noona
April 12, 2011 at 6:35 AM
The more I read about Maids/"Romance Town", the more interested I get. I am looking forward to it!
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9 hahaha
April 12, 2011 at 7:21 AM
Sorry..Sung Yuri is a pretty girl. But this is just is..hahahahhahahhaha..She doesn't look right. She's never been known as one of the younger than her girls. Pretty, yes!!
Then again I thought Choi Jiwoo looked absolutely ridiculous in Winter Sonata, so maybe it'll still work. I think the closest thing to looking alright as a high school student for someone over 25 years old was Yoon Eun Hye in her latest movie. She looked surprisingly good as a high school student in that movie.
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hahaha
April 12, 2011 at 7:23 AM
I also think Jang Nara could long okay in school outfit too.
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10 Fasiris Fay
April 12, 2011 at 8:01 AM
I actually think she looks kind of old and tired in the first picture >_< Not old as in, omg she's 30! way but more like in trying to make her look young they went the other way, because in regularly pictures of her, I can't tell she's 30.
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11 guini
April 12, 2011 at 8:21 AM
...this people never get old...just in numbers....
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12 sandy80
April 12, 2011 at 9:58 AM
I am around the same age also with a baby face and I can still look a teen if I want to just bangs and a pony tail with a mini skirt but she has those around the mouth lines that teens does not have
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13 Ani
April 12, 2011 at 10:00 AM
Hey, it's that Mister with the famous line "What does your father do for a living?". HAHAHA. He's a teacher again. I love shows that have flashbacks to school. They're so much fun. I'm getting excited for this drama even more now.
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Alvina
April 13, 2011 at 9:12 AM
omg haha. I caught that too. He's always playing some kind of teacher :P
He's super funny too; apparently, he takes dance lessons on his free time because he cant find himself a wife XD
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14 purexorange
April 12, 2011 at 10:31 AM
really? I always found she looks old...
she can't pull off the high school look well
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JD
April 12, 2011 at 4:56 PM
That' what I thought. Sung Yuri lost that youthful look she sports in Hong Gil Dong, in my opinion. Maybe it's the hair.
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15 joZD
April 12, 2011 at 1:30 PM
am I the only one who thinks she looks too old to be a high school student?
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jessie
April 12, 2011 at 8:46 PM
I thought the same too. You have a friend dear, don't worry. This news is so exaggerated.
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16 Ashley
April 12, 2011 at 1:38 PM
Aam I the only one that thinks that Yang Jung Ah sorta looks like a female version of Song Seung Hun?
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GrandmaFran
April 12, 2011 at 3:38 PM
ahh i totally see it! how freaky.
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17 Ashley
April 12, 2011 at 1:39 PM
She even has the head tilt!
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18 phjfever
April 12, 2011 at 1:46 PM
i agree with JB that boy in the b/ground looks like he's only 15 the most, :) they shld have someone there closer to her age at least? is this another drama she's in or am i confusing this with the housekeeper which they're still scouting for a title?
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19 lovepark
April 12, 2011 at 2:30 PM
Sung Yuri does look young, but man, that boy in the background does look like her nephew or something, definately not a peer.
The funniest adult wearing a high school uniform that I've seen has to be Lee Byung Joon in the sitcom Elephant. He is suppose to be an old man and isn't playing a younger man by wearing the uniform (he's just re-entering high school as an adult) but he looked absolutely ridiculous. Plus, he has such a unique voice that contrasts him and the uniform even more.
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20 doug
April 12, 2011 at 3:01 PM
To me, Park Ji Young will always be 'Chang Nok Soo'-she was awesomely beautiful in that 1995 drama.
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21 whatis
April 12, 2011 at 3:29 PM
yea gotta say... she looks great for her age... but then the kid in back of her brings us back to reality... ahah!
I will most definitely look forward to this! Yippee!
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22 jyyjc
April 12, 2011 at 3:42 PM
wow I've always thought sung yuri was quite a baby face but compared to that actual highschooler behind her, she can barely pass for a being a highschooler.
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23 ar_arguably romantic
April 12, 2011 at 4:58 PM
it's sort of weird seeing her dressed up as a high school student - yes, she looks young, but I remember when she really was just high school age and was in the girl group fin.K.L.
love the hoodie under the high school uniform jacket look!
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24 jubilantia
April 12, 2011 at 5:21 PM
How gorgeous is Park Ji-young? It sounds a little like her character from The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry.
I don't know, she just has this really quiet, understated elegance about her.
I WANT TO BE HER WHEN I GROW UP, although as a purposely-fashion-ignorant scientist, that is probably not going to happen.
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25 Kath
April 12, 2011 at 10:11 PM
She kind of reminds me of Kim So Eun here for some reason. Agreed she does pull of the high school student look but the boy in the background does her no favors LOL.
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26 شیوا صبری
April 22, 2011 at 1:30 AM
سلام خوشوقتم وای خدای من این پسره چقدر خوشکله اما دوست شدن باهاش یکم موشکله بیا با
دوست باشیم سارانهه
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27 hesthia
May 12, 2011 at 1:24 AM
I've been waiting for this!!!
yuri so pretty!!
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