Let's try to manifest a world where some of the biggest Korean actresses were cast in major full-length GL kdramas.
COP + CRIMINAL
Esom (Because This Is My First Life) and Lee Da-hee (Search: WWW) play partners and besties, who both fall for their respective suspects for a crime spree against the patriarchy. (Think: Evening the pay gap at a major company; exposing scandals of sexist politicians; and chemically castrating sex offenders). Esom's love interest is Park Eun-bin (Extraordinary Attorney Woo), and Da-hee's love interest is Seo Yea-ji (It's Okay to Not Be Okay). It's a romantic crime thriller.
FRIENDS to LOVERS
Seol In-ah (Business Proposal) plays a new-money rich girl who hires a former old-money rich girl, played by Yoo In-na (Touch Your Heart), to be her personal assistant out of pity, but pretends she doesn't know her backstory. And Yoo helps Seol navigate rich society. Their conflict is that Seol's family bankrupted Yoo's family, and is getting the life Yoo was supposed to have, including the fiancee, the job, and the house. It's a sweet romantic comedy.
BOSS + EMPLOYEE
Kim Ji-won (Fight My Way) starts a job at a family law firm and works hard to get one of the partners, played by Son Ye-jin (Crash Landing on You), to be her mentor, but only because she wants her job. She starts off as a frenemie before Ye-Jin's hard edges rub off, and Ji-won develops a crush. Their obstacles are that Ye-Jin is married and in the closet, and Ji-won might be too ambitious to let go of her goals. It's a slow-burn romantic legal drama.
COOL GIRL + DORK
Park Shin-hye (Heirs & Pinocchio) plays a cold fashion house designer who hires an unlikely candidate to be her muse, played by Moon Ga-young (True Beauty). And what starts off as a toxic relationship blooms into a supportive one. Park Bo-young (Strong Girl Bong-soon) plays her head of design, who befriends Ga-young's bestie-turned-manager, played by Kim Seul-gi (Oh My Ghostess). They're the softer side couple. It's a romantic workplace dramedy.
FRIENDS to ENEMIES to LOVERS
Seo Hyun-jin (Why Her?) and Gong Hyo-jin (When the Camellia Blooms) were friends in college, but they had a falling out after a misunderstanding about a guy. They have a tense reunion as adults when Hyo-jin is setting up her nuptials at the wedding hall Hyun-jin manages. It's a slowburn romantic drama.
ONE-SIDED OBSESSION
Shin Min-a (Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha) plays the wife of a very powerful and abusive man and Hwang Jung-eum (She Was Pretty) plays the maid who is secretly in love with her and helps her escape. They go to Jung-eum's hometown where everyone assumes she's bringing her girlfriend home for the first time, because she didn't have the heart to tell them she got dumped after running away to be with her. Min-a decides to pretend to be the woman to pay her back, and they fall in love. The conflict being when Jung-eum's ex, played by Park Min-young (What's Wrong with Secretary Kim), returns to get her back.
After polling our community, we were able to produce this list:
Loona... Cho Ha-seul , Wong Kahei ; Vivi , Jeong Jin-sol , Kim Jung-eun ; Kim Lip , Jeon Hee-jin , Kim Hyun-jin , Park Chae-won ; Go Won , Choi Ye-rim ; Choerry , Son Hye-ju , Im Yeo-jin
Vixx... Cha Hak Yeon ; N , Jung Taek Woon ; Leo , Lee Jae Hwan ; Ken , Han Sang Hyuk
Dreamcatcher... Kim Min Ji ; JiU , Kim Bo Ra ; SuA , Lee Si Yeon , Han Dong , Kim Yoo Hyeon , Lee Yu Bin ; Dami , Lee Ga Hyeon
BTS... Kim Nam Joon ; RM , Kim Seok Jin ; Jin , Min Yoon Gi ; Suga , Jung Ho Seok ; J-Hope , Park Ji Min
Mamamoo... Kim Yong Sun ; Solar , Moon Byul-Yi ; Moonbyul , Jung Whee In ; Wheein , Ahn Hye Jin ; Hwasa
Girls’ Generation / SNSD... Kim Tae Yeon , Lee Soon Kyu ; Sunny , Stephanie Young Hwang ; Tiffany Young , Kim Hyo Yeon , Kwon Yu Ri , Choi Soo Young , Im Yoon-A , Seo Joo Hyun ; Seohyun
Soloists... Kim Hyo-jung ; Hyolyn , Lee Chae-rin ; CL , Kim Hanbin ; B.I. , Bang Yongguk , Jessica Ho ; Jessi
BTOB... Seo Eun Kwang , Lee Min Hyuk , Lee Chang Sub , Lim Hyun Sik , Peniel Dong Shin ; Peniel , Yook Sung Jae
iKon... Song Yunhyeong ; Song , Kim Donghyuk ; DK , Koo Junhoe ; June , Jung Chanwoo
Winner... Kang Seung Yoon ; Yoon , Kim Jin Woo ; Jinu , Lee Seung Hoon ; Hoony , Song Min Ho ; Mino
Kard... Kim Tae Hyung ; J.Seph , Matthew Kim ; BM , Jeon So Min , Jeon Ji Woo
GOT7... Lim Jae Beom ; Jay B , Mark Yi En Tuan ; Mark , Wang Jackson , Park Jin Young , Choi Young Jae , Kunpimook Bhuwakul Bambam ; BamBam , Kim Yu Gyeom
The epicenter of Kang Ha-neul's sudden free agency rumor is the neglected agency's homepage?
Recently, a rumor that 'actor Kang Ha-neul has joined the FA' quickly spread throughout the industry. As a result of the confirmation, it was an exaggerated story that was not true. First of all, TH Company is a company founded by Kang Ha-neul himself in 2019. What kind of trade did you leave behind your company? What about the 10 other actors who came in after seeing him?
Kang Ha-neul created TH Company four years ago with manager Kim Mo, who has been working hand-to-hand since Hwang Jung-min's Sam Company days, and made him the representative. However, since last year, we have often clashed over the selection of works, and it seems that this has spread to rumors of FA through rumors of discord. Although it is not known in detail, at least two of them are still in good health as CEOs of the same company and affiliated actors.
If so, why did this kind of nonsense happen? On January 8, an entertainment official said, "Kang Ha-neul's box office performance has not been good for the past 2-3 years, so the theory of responsibility came to the fore, and rumors began to spread between the two." The representative of a PR agency also hinted, “I heard that the relationship between Kang Ha-neul and the CEO is not the same as before.”
After the establishment of the company, Kang Ha-neul appeared in 6 films in total. Drama 'River Where the Moon Rises' (10.0%) 'Insider' (3.4%) 'Curtain Call' (5.7%) and movie 'Rain and Your Story' (400,000 people) 'Happy New Year' (230,000 people) ' Pirates 2' (1.33 million). It is true that all of them received disappointing grades except for ‘Dalte River’.
In particular, "Insider" was such a disgrace to Kang Ha-neul that JTBC removed the Wednesday-Thursday drama slot due to low ratings. To make matters worse, the movie “Pirate 2,” co-starring with Han Hyo-joo, ended poorly compared to the spectacular score (8.66 million) of the first episode. Compared to 'When the Camellia Blooms' (23.8%), which caused a syndrome in Chungcheong Province police Yong-shik in 2019, all of them were painful results that did not live up to the name of Kang Ha-neul.
An official is keeping an eye on the official homepage of Kang Ha-neul's company, which has stopped updating. Five actresses, including Hwang Woo-seul-hye and Jung So-min, are not visible at all, and even representative actor Kang Ha-neul's recent drama is listed as 'When the Camellia Blooms'. It is better to get rid of the homepage, and it is a level of neglect that goes beyond negligence in management.
Nowadays, with YouTube and Instagram all the rage, you might ask, “Who watches the homepage?” If it's not about assortment, you have to regularly post new news and photos carefully for your fans, and if you don't want to do that, it's better to close the door yourself.
If the broken windows are left unattended, the owner and manager will judge that they do not have much affection for the building, and countless stones will eventually fly to the other windows as well. If you replace it with a new one quickly, you can protect the precious body without getting suspicious. This is the broken window rule adopted by many companies.
when i first watched Drinking Solo back in 2016, i was all about the noryangjin boys (whom i still love) but after rewatching it this year i realized i did not appreciate these two enough back then. i love them
“Darn you! I wasn't happy at all. As I witnessed all the people who were hurt by them, I learned one life lesson. Those who are amazingly handsome know that they are. There are no exceptions.”