Chae Jung-ahn to challenge Kim Tae-hee in Yong-pal

9 June 11, 2015June 11, 2015

by javabeans

SBS drama Yong-pal has secured its leads in Joo-won and Kim Tae-hee and is now turning to its supporting cast, starting with Chae Jung-ahn (A New Leaf, Prime Minister and I), who is in final talks to join the project.

Yong-pal centers around a talented doctor (Joo-won) who struggled to put himself through medical school and made it to residency, showing impressive skills as a surgeon in emergency care, but is burdened with a constant pressing need for more money because of a sick sister needing expensive dialysis treatments. Willing to do whatever it takes to earn extra cash, he takes on the shadowy role of visiting doctor to the uber-rich. Thus he makes house calls to people who can’t go to the hospital or call an ambulance for whatever (shady) reason, and in the process witnesses all sorts of crazy makjang lives among his clientele.

Kim Tae-hee plays a chaebol heiress, and Chae Jung-ahn’s proposed role is of her sister-in-law, having married Kim’s older brother. The two are described as being in conflict with one another, which brings to my mind the drama that it’s following, Mask, where there’s also a chaebol sister-in-law relationship that’s fraught with tension, jealousy, and spite. (Okay, maybe most of that is on one side, but still: conflict galore!) I know Chae more from her pleasanter roles, but I can totally see her slapping on her bitchface and channeling her meaner side, stirring up trouble and getting in Kim Tae-hee’s way. Let’s hope Kim Tae-hee can dish it right back.

Yong-pal follows Mask as SBS’s next Wednesday-Thursday drama and permieres in August.

Via IS Plus

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Tags: Chae Jung-ahn, Kim Tae-hee

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1 mary

June 11, 2015 at 2:52 PM

I last remember her from WAML. Or is it PMAI? She can do both evil+annoying and awesome woman roles. :D

Anyway, I saw "shady clients" and wished that they'd have Joowon "visit" other drama characters to treat them. For funsies.

Like a scene where Paksa has Cutie Soo's wounds stitched in an Abandoned Warehouse™.

Or Park Jung-hwan asking for more pain meds (but Jo Kang-jae bribes Yongpal not to give it, to stay canon).

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2 Ryanlee

June 11, 2015 at 3:16 PM

I like her acting. Yong Pal fighting. Only two month later, i will look forward yong pal

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3 agoodheart

June 11, 2015 at 3:18 PM

I love her ever since Coffee Prince! Hope to see her in this!

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anabear

June 12, 2015 at 8:44 PM

didn't know she was the girl in Coffee Prince. I thought she was just a newbie actress in Master's Sun.

anyway, I think I'll stay tuned on this one. :)

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anabear

June 12, 2015 at 8:48 PM

oh no, I mistook her for Kim Yoo-ri. @_@ my bad.

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4 Canuckgirl

June 11, 2015 at 5:00 PM

God, I want her to play a different role! She's a good actress, but always plays these damn roles

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5 Mrs.Song Joong Ki

June 11, 2015 at 7:45 PM

Lol so everyone he visit it's like the Family from heard it through the grapevine ?

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6 SS

June 11, 2015 at 8:26 PM

I liked Chae Jung-ahn in A New Leaf, she made me root for her character although I didn't expect to.

This drama has much potential to be awesome, I sure hope the writer will deliver the goods. We can have all kinds of characters like gangsters, politicians, national sportsman, pop idols, the rich and famous etc. And if the chaebol heiress story is weaved expertly into these, it could provide a run up to a good climax.