"Everyone here is way too famous for this to have bombed quite so badly"
Moo Myung / DogBird / Sun Woo Rang (Park Seo-Joon)
Keeps nearly dying. Never actually does.
In one sentence
Our hero of ambiguous origin, epic destiny and truly remarkable facial bone structure.
In other words
Skills include
Being brave and noble
Being a good bro
Passing out at inopportune moments
Catching drunk girls when they fall over
Kim Ji-dwi / King Jinheung (Park Hyung-Sik)
Can’t talk to girls
In one sentence
He of the slight Oedipus complex
In other words
He's weird. He's been living incognito while mummy looks after running the kingdom, and now he's back to take the throne, in a circuituous way.
Skills include
Inexplicably being good at fighting
Making non-creepy things seem creepy
Eye smiles
Kim Ah-ro (Go A-ra)
Tells porn stories
In one sentence
Female lead who's smarter than all the boys
In other words
Maligned because of her low-born mother, she's minding her business making a buck when it all kicks off.
Skills include
Telling vaguely erotic stories for a living
Always managing to make it home when drunk
Impossibly small waist
Kim Soo-ho (Choi Min-ho)
Bang bang bang.
In one sentence
The cheeky one
In other words
The Hwarang recruit who understood the assignment.
Skills include
Rocking sassy bangs.
Wearing earrings
Hating Ban-ryu
Park Ban-ryu (Do Ji-han)
Cheer up love, it might never happen
In one sentence
The Hwarang recruit that takes things a little too seriously.
In other words
Ban-ryu has big old daddy issues, and isn't afraid to externalise them.
Skills include
Forehead
Hating Soo-ho
Suk Han-sung (Kim Taehyung)
*squealing*
In one sentence
The cute one from BTS
In other words
He’s full-tilt into the 'cute maknae' role, which spells inevitable tragedy.
Skills include
Aegyo
Kim Wi-hwa (Sung Dong-Il)
This man is exhausted
In one sentence
The long-suffering father figure to all the Hwarangs
In other words
Doing the 'I'll make a man out of you' thing with 90% less enthusiasm and 400% more clothing.
Skills include
Teaching life lessons