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85 September 10, 2012September 10, 2012

Moon/Sun’s child stars reunite in new drama

by javabeans

This boy is going to be so beautiful when he grows up. Sigh. I mean, he’s already most of the way there, but 15-year-old Yeo Jin-gu still has a bit of growing up to do, as we noonas and ajummas should probably keep in mind for the near future. (Fifteen!)

Anyway. Yeo Jin-gu has been cast in a new drama, which is great news; he was probably the surprise star of his last drama, The Moon That Embraces the Sun, since he did such a lovely job grounding the character in his teenage ardor and heartbreak. (It helps that he exited the drama early enough to avoid the frustrating back-and-forth-and-back-again that characterized his character in later years.) He’ll be teaming up with his Moon/Sun co-star Kim So-hyun, who was most recently seen in the short-and-sweet tween drama Ma Boy.

The drama is an MBC Wednesday-Thursday melodrama called I Miss You, and it’s about a man and woman who are first loves (of course), whose love story is likened to a round of “hide and seek.”

So while these two kids may have been a mismatched pairing in Moon/Sun—seriously, she was the lonely wife whose dark energy was so strong that he basically had a heart attack anytime he tried to consummate the union—they’ll be on the right side of Fate this time around as the main pairing. By which I mean: They’ll have a lot of pain and heartbreak, but at least this time it’ll be worth it?

Yeo Jin-gu plays a character who seems reserved and taciturn, but that’s covering up his hurt and lonely spirit. He meets and falls in love with our heroine, played by Kim So-hyun, and that painful first love stays with him as an adult.

Hm. As much as the first-love thing makes groan, I see the appeal in the idea of a love that just keeps missing its timing; it’s the very cornerstone of Answer Me, 1997, for instance, which handles it masterfully and with lots of pathos and humor. The premise also reminds me of Will It Snow For Christmas, which I enjoyed even with all the grown-up angst.

Plus, the writer and director have a solid track record of dramas that infuse their stories with a lot of heart, even when things get heavy, so I’ll say my interest in I Miss You is tentatively positive. PD Lee Jae-dong directed the lightly funny Can’t Lose and the heartwarming Thank You, while writer Moon Hee-jung wrote two successful weekend family shows, Can You Hear My Heart and Smile You.

I Miss You hasn’t yet confirmed the adults who’ll take over the story from Yeo Jin-gu and Kim So-hyun, but I’ll bet we hear something soon. It replaces Arang and the Magistrate for an October premiere.

Via My Daily

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Tags: Kim So-hyun, Yeo Jin-gu

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51 win0

September 13, 2012 at 1:29 AM

First noticed in Giant. I said to myself that he will be a heartthrob when he gets a little bit older. He is a good actor and has beautiful smile.

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52 Steamy Bun

September 13, 2012 at 7:52 AM

"This boy is going to be so beautiful when he grows up. Sigh." Seriously! I'm just grateful I'm still firmly in noona territory and not an ajumma (yet) so I don't have to feel like too much of a creeper. :D

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53 Barbara Starks

September 13, 2012 at 4:55 PM

The thing about Yeo Jin-gu is that he pretty but not in a girly way, he beautiful but in a manly way. If he keep that weight and don’t become to skinny, that dark complexion and continue with that height he will be a killer and I will become a cougar!

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54 mia

September 16, 2012 at 12:16 PM

I know they're still teens but I want to see a drama with Yeo Jin Goo and Kim Yoo Jung as the leads. They're such strong actors and honestly after what they pulled off in TMTETS, I think they could be paired up again in their own drama and get solid ratings. I mean to actually watch a drama with younger actors in the role and not want the adult leads to take over when they were the reason you started watching the drama in the first place is saying something. These two actors have a body of work that actors older than them could only wish they had. And with the amount of years they have in the industry, they're actually the seniors of more than a few adult actors in the industry. They've seriously paid their dues and it would be nice to hear that the next time they have a project they actually have an actual lead role rather than the younger version of that lead role.