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It occurred to me that a few people who might be interested in this may not have seen it yet, and so I bring you the trailer for the Korean adaptation of Antique Bakery. I am told by those who know such things that it's actually much gayer than the manga. (Which, actually, is kind of interesting. With Korean dramas, you usually have to interpret a hug as kissing, and a few pecks as a makeout session. But the movies? Not so conservative... At all.)

Anyway, trailer:

I have to say, even though I'm not very interested in the movie, the trailer is addictively cute (I think it's the music) the food pr0n looks amazing, and that's the first time I've ever thought Joo Ji Hoon looked attractive at all. (Yes, I know, heresy, but I've never understood why he's so popular.) ~~The Very Very Gay baker is cuter, though.~~ If nothing else, it looks much more entertaining than the Japanese adaptation. How anything with Fujiki Naohito and Abe Hiroshi managed to be dull is something I'll never understand.

Meanwhile, I'm thinking of starting a drinking game for anytime someone says Yoon Eun Hye should have been cast as Makino in the Korean Hana Yori Dango. Seriously, did she even audition? And, frankly, I can't picture her in the role. I like her, but in 24 episodes of Goong and 4 of Vineyard Man, I've seen her stand up for herself exactly once. For about 7 seconds, and then it was back to the cutesy protesting. Still, I have 12 episodes of Vineyard Man and all of Coffee Prince to watch, so my opinion could change. If nothing else, Vineyard Man is already a vast improvement over Goong.

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YEH's character in Coffee Prince is much stronger than her character in Goong, so I think she could play a character like Makino well. But, she's a bad fit for this incarnation if simply because she's too old to play Makino. The guys they cast are babies. She'd look like she was in the university-edition and the rest of them were still playing it as high schoolers.

I haven't seen anything the girl who's actually been cast in the show has been in, but I'm just happy this thing seems to be moving forward again, so I'd have been pretty psyched for just about anyone.

I am apparently alone in thinking that the girl they cast looks cute and young enough that acting and makeup could make her pass for being young enough.

Oh, I was talking about YEH being too old. And then I saw that she and GHS are the same age (see below), but yeah, she looks young in her wiki photo, and just by nature of my not already having watched GHS play an adult in two dramas, it's much easier for me to see her as a teenager than it would for me with YEH.

Oh, no, I read it that way, I'm just really annoyed right now because the reaction to the casting for all the guys has been "well, I don't know, but let's give them a chance" but everyone is being hypercritical of her. I'm especially confused and annoyed by the old/matronly/etc comments because IMO, she looks younger than Barbie Hsu did in MG. (And, honestly, I didn't think much of Barbie's acting there-though she was much better than the guys-and everyone swears by her.)

Can you point me to the complainy posts? (other than my own). I am curious because the reaction on d-addicts is nonexistent, the reaction on hanadan comm is like 'OK, we have no idea who she is' and reaction on soompi is mixed.

I want to read more people's reactions.

We do disagree on most heroines though, but I adored Barbie in MG. Liked her better than Inoue Mao, actually, and I liked Mao.

Aaah...I have probably 80 people who watch dramas and have seen about 6 posts, all of which are old/matronly/so-and-so-is-better. I don't remember the exact names and I think some were f-locked.

In complete honesty, I'm too annoyed bythe subject right now to hunt them down.

ETA: Should mention that I'm also very annoyed right now by the entire dayshift of my department not bothering to do various things and thus general bad mood.

Aaaand now I see they're the same age, so never mind. I still maintain that it would be hard for me to accept YEH as a high schooler again, but who knows if GHS could convincingly do it.