2 Ju Ji-hoon blockbuster K-dramas rejected by popular actors

2 Ju Ji-hoon hit K-dramas rejected by popular actors

Arpita Sarkar

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Ju Ji-hoon's K-dramas

Ju Ji-hoon is one of the most popular K-drama actors. Not many know that some of his K-dramas were rejected by several popular actors. Take a look! 

Kingdom

Kingdom (Netflix)

Song Joong-ki turned down the role of Crown Prince Lee Chang in the Netflix series Kingdom. Ju Ji-hoon was cast in the role instead.

Hyena

Hyena (Netflix)

Lee Min-ho rejected the role of Ju Ji-hoon's character in the Netflix legal drama Hyena. The show also stars Kim Hye-soo.

Ju Ji-hoon's debut K-drama

Ju Ji-hoon's first drama was Handspan. He started his career as a model in 2003, appearing in several commercial brands. 

Ju Ji-hoon in Light Shop

Ju Ji-hoon plays a mysterious light shop owner in the 2024 South Korean series Light Shop. The series is based on a webtoon of the same name by Kang Full. 

Light Shop plot (JioHotstar)

It tells the story of a group of strangers, each grappling with a traumatic past event, who are mysteriously drawn to a peculiar light shop located in a dark alleyway.

Ju Ji-Hoon in The Trauma Code

In the Netflix medical drama The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call, Ju Ji-hoon plays Baek Kang-hyuk, a genius battlefield surgeon who leads a struggling trauma team.

The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call

According to recent reports, The Trauma Code has indeed surpassed Squid Game in terms of viewership on Netflix.