Kim Hyun Joong is the lead in It Started with a Kiss! Flist weeps while I rejoice.
Hallo there, Naoki!
According to allkpop (where I lifted this deeply intellectual picture from, as well), Kim Hyun Joong has been signed on to play the male lead in the Korean remake of It Started with a Kiss.
I am sure most of my flist is now groaning in horror. I bet as soon as this news will get posted on dramabeans, the thread will turn into a bashfest extreme.
But I don't care because my big reaction is YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! Ji Hoo sunbae finally gets the girl!
I think KHJ is gorgeous and despite widespread complaints about his acting in Boys Over Flowers, I thought he did just fine. By the end of that drama trainwreck, his was the only character (other then the secondary OTP) I did not want to murder - I certainly ended up loathing the leads.
So, mock me! I don't care for I am ecstatic!
This is about the only way they could have gotten me to watch that, knowing how much I love the tw-version, unless they signed up Kim Bum or Jung Il Woo (both of whom are, let's face it, too good for a fluffy romcom as done by incompetent Group 8).
ETA: Dramabeans has just posted the news and the lamentations have began. LOLOLOLOL. Seriously people, why would you want Lee Min Ho or Im Ju Hwan in this? Why? This drama will likely be silly fluffy crack at best, and I think either LMH or IJH should do something genuinely good. Especially LMH who, after BOF and PT, both horrible, is skating on some thin ice with me - it's getting to the point that even though I think he's very good, I am wary of anything he is in because I know it will be a disaster.