Scruffy look, jackass face and facial hair

I must confess that I never found Lee Dong Wook pretty. But him in this drama is literally the reason I made this list. Scruffy look, jackass face and facial hair. That's it. That's what made him sooo attractive to me. He was an asshole but Lee Shi Young's character was smart enough to put him in his place and they even fistfighted.

And then his ex came back and he shaved and I fell out of love for the show (not just that obviously, but it was part of the tonal shift that made me love it less).

Jang Hyuk often wears a mustache in sageuks and is used to playing unhinged characters, but Daegil? Daegil was on another level. He was a total screw up. He hunted runaway slaves. He was street smart, he was desperate and obsessively in love. But especially he was a hell of a fighter.

I loved this drama so much, and Cho Seung Woo's character as a messed up ex-cop turned private detective played a big part in that. Again who knew a mustache would make him attractive to me?

Again, I never found Lee Je Hoon particularly attractive. But give him a mullet, a punk attitude, make him wear tank tops and despite all that make him slowly get attached to his nephew and I'm a goner.

Of course I usually find Lee Jun Ho attractive. But Kang Doo. Kang Doo has, again, scruffy hair, and is covered by scars most of the time and he's so messed up and he knows it. And well at this point his character is tailor made for me.

I think I was in the minority finding Jung Il Woo attractive in his costume in the first part of the drama. But I don't know, just like Daegil in Chuno above, he looked messed up. He was a thug and he looked and acted like it. And then, just like in Wild Romance, the costume fell off and he returned to being more main-lead-acceptable, which is, in a sageuk, a yanbang in a hanbok.

This one is for Byun Yo Han, because while he was super fine in Ex-girlfriend club, watching him here as a scruffy commoner and incredible swordsman, I'm still not over it. His fight scenes were so well choreographed and he just looked so cool with a sword.

I'm mean I've always found Yoo Seung Ho pretty, and he's a kid here, but the bad boy look looked great on him. I have a soft spot for this exact character archetype anyway (and still never grown out of it apparently): the high school bad boy with a poor background and a complicated family situation who acts brashly and throws things and starts fights because he doesn't know how to express himself otherwise

See God of Study above, because Sung Joon's character is made of the same trope as Yoo Seung Ho's. The rings, the clothes! And his perm! You find it totally ridiculous in episode 1, and by the time Ji Hyuk is crying over the loss of his friend, well it's over for you.