This week I’ve been watching Baker King Kim Tak Gu and I have been blown away by how great the youngest actors have been in this drama. I started watching this because Yoon Shi Yoon stars in it and I like him as an actor. He doesn’t appear until later in the series as the grown up version of Tak Gu and I thought that I would dread watching the show until he arrived; boy was I ever wrong.  By episode 3 I had almost forgotten about him because the actor, who played young Tak Gu, Oh Jae Moo, had stolen the show.

Whenever he would laugh, I found myself laughing along with him because it sounded so pure and innocent. When he was sent to live with his father and half brothers and sisters, I cried along with him (yes I cry during kdramas, doesn’t everyone). His brother Ma Jun was HORRIBLE to him and I found myself rolling my eyes and baring my teeth whenever he would come on screen. I actually had to remind myself that this was just a tv show and he was just a child because I was ready to fly through the screen and slap this child.

We often gush about how well actors and actresses like Lee Min Ho and Park Min Young are in a drama but rarely if ever do I see anything on the children of k-dramas. These young actors and actresses seem to have it a bit harder than their adult counter parts because they have to balance filming with schoolwork. Many of them have been acting since before they were ten.

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