Sageuk Lover

I agree so much on your opinions (even though the actresses in the article are not necessarily my faves). I especially agree that good acting can be very subjective.

Totally. Though, I believe she was good in Innocent Man, I felt like there was not one, but two female leads there (because of almost equal screentime to Park Shi Yeon). I sometimes get annoyed when people say MCW is not a great actress based on what they've seen in Innocent Man or Good Doctor. But they dont watch sageuks, they haven't seen this one. In this one, you can never doubt she was a great actress (most especially the way she cried when one of the guards/sageuk police struck Kim Seung Yoo to the ground.

Many people shipped her with SJK before his DOTS era. As we all know, SJK was married and divorced. After his divorced, he got a lot of hate from his ex wife fans. I'm sure MCW will get hate too if she gets paired with SJK again because people will assume things (based on what happened on SJK's life, I just dont want to be specific here).

Thanks for bringing them up, I just noticed that Chun Ho Jin was nominated in Baeksang, but not in APAN. I just hope you're right. But I'm already prepared, even if MCW gets nominated it's unlikely she'll get the award. (I'm just so sad that she's underrated). I read some reviews that some people don't like the female lead even if they like LJG performance. And I stand by my opinion that the leading lady from the other recently finished popular show will get more awards, since she's been getting awards in the recent months already (not that I don't think she's talented, I just really want MCW to get recognized too, especially after 4-5 years of forgettable dramas). So I'm just gonna hope LJG at leastgets baeksang award since he so deserves it.
Anyway, I hope I'm wrong and that MCW gets nominated (and have the faintest hope that she WILL WIN baeksang). Thanks :)

Also Iljimae. But the 2 guys are unaware they are half brothers.

Yups. Especially Epsiode 19

Because it's a whole different, unique genre and people are not ready for it.

I think they are considered oldies by new kdrama fans. For me, the oldies are the ones that came out before Boys Over Flowers.

Anyone can be paired with her, but please not Song Joong Ki (even if I like him as an actor) or Hyun Bin if we don't want her to be bashed by another actresss's fans (you know who I'm referring to).

It's incredibly hard to root for it to be honest, competition is tough and there are a lot of more popular shows. So unless you got high ratings like CLOY or DOTS or Mr Sunshine, I'm not sure if we would get anything at all. It's so sad as a MCW fan but I am accepting it already.
I'm actually expecting the leading lady from the other popular show in the recent few months to get all the awards that I want MCW to get. I still have faint hope that LJG will get at least nominated somewhere, and I just hope that MCW fans would not bring it against him if he's nominated and she's not.

the romance is really great, please try again. It's an interesting story. The leads have great chemistry (for me they surpass every other couple in kdramas chemistry),

If you want to see more Moon Chae Won acting, here are some suggestions:
1. Princess Man (2011) - this is a sageuk, but this has a lot of good reviews (not like DOTS good reviews, the story is really good). Romeo and Juliet love story but with of course some additional twists. If you want to see Moon Chae Won's outstanding acting, this is the drama you should see first (since some people who watched Innocent Man think MCW is not as outstanding there as Song Joong Ki) . She and the male lead here also have great chemistry, just like this one.
2. Innocent Man (2012) - most MCW fans would suggest this one. It's a melodrama and this stars Song Joong Ki (of DOTS). You'll get a newfound appreciation on him. I am not one of their shippers, but MCW and SJK also have great chemistry here, that many people shipped them when their drama came out in 2012.
3. Painter of the Wind (2008) - also a sageuk, might not be for everyone. MCW is only a supporting character but her role is interesting, she's a gisaeng (female entertaine) who falls in love with a woman pretending to be a man. They even won best couple award. Also this drama gave the lead actress a Daesang (highest award) at 21 years old (this rarely happens if ever).
4. Good Doctor (2013), War of the Arrows (2011 movie) - haven't seen both, but both are still great to try at least. Good Doctor even had a remake in the US while War of the Arrows is the highest grossing movie in Korea in 2011 (this movie gave MCW lots of awards).
For Lee Joon Gi: I've only seen Iljimae clips (but his performance there is really good), you might want to try watching clips from youtube first. The other works of him often suggested are: Moon Lovers, Lawless Lawyer, King and the Clown, Two Weeks, and Arang and the Magistrate.

This show is badly robbed at APAN. It's so freaking unfair. As a Moon Chae Won fan, I'm not expecting her to win anyway (because I noticed that the shows that got hallyu recorgnition are the ones most awarded). But I'm really surprised Lee Joon Gi wasn't even nominated at APAN. Please, I really need them to win their awards. And I also want them to win best couple, as this is Chae Won's best chemistry of all her costars (and her chemistry with other costars are also good, considering she and some of her other costars won best couple).

Song Joong Ki is the male lead

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I just want her to pair with Lee Tae Ri (they really had good chemistry in Moon Embracing the Sun and especially their 2010 underrated drama Grudge the Revolt of Gumiho)

There is no need to make her and Kim So Hyun rivals, both are capable great actresses. I just wish the two of them (along with Nam Ji Hyun, Seo Shin, Shim Eun Kyung, and other former kid actors) will get way more good roles and popularity than kpop idols trying to act. They are really great actresses, they are my faves in their generation just like how Moon Chae Won and Moon Geun Young are my faves for theirs.

Really, really impossible but I wish she and actor Lee Tae Ri will reunite and have a historical romance drama together similar to The Princess Man

This is Moon Chae Won's drama magnum opus, not Innocent Man (even if I'm SJK fan).

I wish more people would watch the older historical dramas like Queen Seon Deok.