TW-actress Barbie Hsu and Chinese Businessman Husband Wang Xiaofei Jointly Announce Divorce Capping Off Year Long Marital Trouble Rumors

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Normally divorces with famous people have fans speculating with the usual cheating on the top of the rumor mill. With the case of TW-actress Barbie Hsu (Da S) and her tangentially famous on his own Chinese businessman husband Wang Xiaofei, best described as a male socialite in the rich Beijing circles, it feels like cultural, political, and socio-economic greater elements … Continue reading →

The Winsome Four Main Leads of Our Beloved Summer Continue to Showcase Warm Charisma in New Drama and Character Posters

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Typically K-dramas with a strong weather/seasonal bent air during the same period, most recently Hometown Cha Cha Cha who brought the summer seaside vibe aired premiered in August and of course When the Weather is Fine premiered in February before the winter thaw and segued into April when the leads and the weather warmed into spring. That’s why it’s a … Continue reading →

Park Shin Hye Announces Jan 2022 Wedding to Longtime Boyfriend Choi Tae Joon and Shares the Couple is Expecting a Baby

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OMO OMO OMO what a super soaker of an announcement! K-actress Park Shin Hye is getting married AND going to be a mom soon! I am so so happy for her, it’s like watching my own daughter get married is how it feels since I’ve watched her since she was a kid debuting in Stairway to Heaven and in the … Continue reading →

KBS Sageuk The King’s Affection Hits 10% Ratings in Episode 13 as the Dramatic Rise Continues

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My mom has a pet peeve where she thinks one must always be low key, do not be flashy or get caught up in superficial outer trappings, the true value is within. I think it’s the right mentality but needn’t be as extreme as she’s always harping on. For the recent batch of K-dramas that have premiered in the last … Continue reading →

Kim Min Jae and Kim Hyang Gi Considering Mental Health Sageuk Drama Joseon Psychiatrist Yoo Se Poong

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The castings are starting to really get underway for the 2022 dramas now that its November already, and a new one on the horizon has an interesting concept. Joseon Psychiatrist Yoo Se Poong deals with the practice of psychiatry but during the Joseon era which has not been done before with plenty of medical dramas set in the Joseon era. … Continue reading →

KBS Releases Two More Awkwardly Posed Posters for Thinking of the Moon When the Flowers Bloom with Yoo Seung Ho and Hyeri

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You’re killing me Smalls! But then again, it could be that KBS just makes craptastic drama posters but great end product. Recent case in point being Dali and the Cocky Prince, though that drama did create lovely painting homage character posters so not all bad. We’re now 0-3 with the drama posters for Thinking of the Moon When the Flowers … Continue reading →

New Netflix Produced K-drama Hellbound Premieres to #1 on Worldwide Top 10 Viewing Stats But with Mixed Reviews

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Streaming platform Netflix continues to pace out its produced K-drama drops, the schedule it basically one drama a month, with Squid Game in September creating the biggest K-drama buzz of all time with the worldwide audiences followed by a good reception for My Name in October. November was this past Friday’s release of Hellbound (To Hell), the supernatural and religious … Continue reading →

Netflix Japan Daily Top 10 Dominated by K-dramas Led by The King’s Affection and Squid Game

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Every few years K-drama will get super popular in Japan, the trend starting with the granddaddy of them all Winter Sonata and continuing most recently into Crash Landing on You, with plenty in between. But those standalone hits did not seem indicative that K-dramas were fully mainstream there which makes sense since J-doramas are still being churned out in droves. … Continue reading →

Famous Chinese, Taiwanese and Korean Stars Smack Faces as Look-a-likes

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There are probably a whole lot more look-a-like female stars among the Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese contingent that I follow but I was really pressed to prepare this post when I saw the picture of C-actress Zhao Li Ying opposite the never-aging wonder K-actress Jang Nara. Never thought of them as lookalikes but once you see it then you can’t … Continue reading →

Idol Turned Serious Actor Junho Draws Mad K-netizen Praise for His Sageuk Acting, Diction, and Onscreen Presence in The Red Sleeve Cuff

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Okay, for anyone wondering how well Junho is doing in MBC sageuk court drama and romance The Red Sleeve Cuff, just go watch yourself. Because he’s just phenomenal, as good as a young actor can hope to achieve in a serious sageuk setting. He holds his own against the veteran heavyweights, he generates young energy as the prince, and he … Continue reading →

Shin Dong Wook Makes a Cameo in Now, We are Breaking Up as Song Hye Kyo’s Ex-boyfriend and Jang Ki Yong’s Older Brother

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Man, family reunions are going to be hella awkward. SBS drama Now, We are Breaking Up plucked one of the familiar tropes of K-drama romantic destiny/complication and used it this week, and no it’s not the first love or met at childhood one. This one was used in My Lovely Girl and a few other dramas and it’s the “dated … Continue reading →

New Teaser for jTBC Period Drama Snowdrop Elicits Criticism of Female Lead Jisoo’s Dialogue Reading and Schizo Narrative Tonal Shift

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Okay, setting aside any individual critiques, this is just an awfully cut trailer for a drama. It makes me actively not want to watch it because it’s just so poorly done. Upcoming jTBC romance period drama Snowdrop got tons of criticism for maybe distorting history and even a petition that it never air, which was absurd to lob a complaint … Continue reading →

Ratings Tighten as Episode 3 of SBS Romance Now, We are Breaking Up Gets 7.3% With MBC Sageuk The Red Sleeve Cuff Going Up to 7.0%

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This is such a great time to be a K-drama viewer with so many actually decent to good dramas out there to watch across various genres. The Fri-Sat battle between same day premiered dramas Now, We are Breaking Up on SBS and The Red Sleeve Cuff on MBC tightened in the second week and one went down and the other … Continue reading →