Lee Min Ho Returns to Huntington Beach for the US Filming Locale of Heirs Nearly Ten Years Later

It’s a nice walk down memory land for me as a K-drama viewer and for actor Lee Min Ho as well, as last week he posted on his SNS pictures of him at a very easily recognizable place if you watched all his dramas. He was in front of Duke’s on the beach and of course that meant he was back in Huntington Beach, CA that was the location shoot for the US portion of 2013 K-drama Heirs. I have a super soft spot for Heirs because it was half stupid and half addicting and 100% harmless. It offended none of my good drama sensibilities in acting, directing, or script because it was self-aware and also assembled what will go on to be the top young actors and actresses of the current gen for the last decade. Lee Min Ho also gave his last hurrah as a rich high school student Kim Tan in this drama so it felt like a bookend to Gu Jun Pyo in Boys Before Flowers. I still rewatch Heirs from time to time, forwarding only to the entertaining bits, almost all of which include Kim Woo Bin in the scene lol.