Lee Dong Wook....My Girl, Scent of a Woman, Hotel King...what's next?

As soon as I heard that one of the Korean big broadcasting station is filming a new drama with Lee Dong Wook, my eyes lit up. Wow! Another drama by one of my favorite K-actors. I must say Lee Dong Wook is one of the most handsome & visually attractive actors in South Korea. From the first time I saw him in the drama 'Loving You' where he played as the late Park Yong Ha's younger brother alongside with Eugene, he has somehow caught my attention. Then he blew into high fame as a main lead in 'My Girl' as the Hotel's CEO, Seol Kong Chan when he meets Yu Rin (Lee Da Hae) and his playboy childhood friend, Seo Jung Woo (Lee Jun Ki). My Girl drama was one of the dramas where I've watched several times without boredom. Lee Da Hae portrays the bubbly Yu Rin so well and cracks everyone into laughter and tears.

Though some of Lee Dong Wook's dramas were kind of a flop, nevertheless he proved everyone wrong when he took up the variety host 'Strong Heart' with veteran comedian Shin Dong Yup. Fresh from military service, he was funny as ever and started filming the drama 'Scent of a Woman' with lead actress Kim Sun Ah. He plays Kang Ji Wook- a CEO's son of a Tour Agency, has the looks, drives a Ferrari, lives in Pyeongchang-dong (one of the elite areas)- what more can we ask? Ah.... *Swoons*

In 2014, Lee Dong Wook picked the drama 'Hotel King' and it was the 2nd time he collaborated with actress, Lee Da Hae. A very dark and moving story of a young boy, Hyun Woo who was deserted by his parents and brought up in the slums of US. Then his biological father seek him out and raised him to be a revengeful person to take over a Hotel in Korea. Lee Dong Wook did his best to play as a painful character and wow viewers with his acting abilities. Meanwhile he was selected to in another variety program "Room Mate" alongside with some actors, singers and models living together in a big house. In fact he did his first ever Sageuk drama 'Mandate of Heaven' with actress Song Ji Hyo and it was a moving drama as well. Lately Lee Dong Wook has taken up another drama called 'Iron Man'...no...not the Marvel Comics hero. First thing that came to my though- Robert Downing Jr as IRON Man? Ha ha! No...No! It's just another title. However the main actress is the poorly deflated acting skills Shin Se Kyung. Of all actresses, I don't understand how she was picked as a main lead. This young lady indeed has no acting skills and no expression. All the dramas she has done apart from Deep Tree Roots (with Jang Hyuk & Han Suk Kyu), she was a total disaster. She has dragged down almost all her main actors in the dramas such as Fashion King with Yoo Ah In and When a Man Loves with Song Seung Hun. I gave up on Fashion King and stopped watching When a Man Loves when she was such a failure. I hope Lee Dong Wook will pull through this drama with such a lifeless actress... otherwise it will be a disaster to his career. Keeping fingers crossed and good luck to him...