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Lee Jun Ki is set to star in the ganster drama Iljimae. It’s going to be a 20 episode historical drama airing on SBS. This seems more promising because he’s going to be playing a useless gangster by day and a chivalrous robber by night. It’s like Robin Hood. I don’t know why they are calling it a gangster drama when really it’s more like the Korean version of Robin Hood.

So, maybe he won’t be a sissy gangster but that’s what I first though when I heard he was playing another ganster in another drama. Lee Jun Ki is not the kind of man you won’t playing a ganster. I was so excited to start watching Time Between Dog and Wolf but then I saw him in the first scene in some cheesy high-octane car chase and it just didn’t work for me. His manager says that he’s purposefully been picking out “manly” roles after doing The King and the Clown. I find this hilarious. It’s not like he did a Korean version of Brokeback Mountain. Moving on, I find this new drama of his more promising and it doesn’t seem he’ll be so horribly miscast.
Okay, so maybe he WON’T be wearing tights…