Why Older Actresses Are Often Cast With Younger Actors In Korean Dramas

He was born on Sunday, May 16, Is Ju Ji-hoon married or single, and who is he dating now? Ju Ji-hoon is single.

Ga In and Joo Ji Hoon have been dating for about a year, but during the interview he said that they don’t actually talk about work all that much.

Korean TV dramas often cast actresses who are older in real life than their leading men. Take the case of the drama Hyena, which s tars actress Kim Hye-soo and actor Ju Ji-hoon as a pair of attorneys locked in a love-hate relationship. The subject of their age disparity is never raised in the drama plot. Mary Ainslie is an associate professor of media and communications at the University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China, and author of the paper Korean soft masculinity vs.

Malay hegemony: Malaysian masculinity and Hallyu fandom. According to Ainslie, casting beyond age-stereotypes is a side effect of the Korean pop culture wave known as the Hallyu.