Yearly Archives: 2023

Netflix Mic Drops First Stills for 2023 K-dramas Including High Profile Gyeongseong Creature, Lee Doo Na!, Remake of Someday or One Day, Sweet Home 2, and Many More

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Holy drama gods is this a veritable buffet of goodies for the eyes. I won’t even go into details on each drama because enough has been written on the casting and storylines already. Netflix Korea went into turbo mode today with the drop of drama stills for basically every single drama airing in 2023 on the streaming platform, half are … Continue reading →

Park Eun Bin and Kim Min Ha Attend the US Critic’s Choice Awards and Pachinko Wins Best Foreign Language Series

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Two Korean shows were nominated among the ten television series in the Best Foreign Language Series category at last night’s Critic’s Choice Awards held in Los Angeles. Most of the attention was on the movie side as it’s getting close to Oscar nominations but for the television side we saw two lovely ladies in attendance from K-ent. Park Eun Bin … Continue reading →

jTBC Hit Drama Reborn Rich is Credited with Spike in December Subscriptions to Netflix, TVING, and Disney+

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I thought Reborn Rich would be a foundational boulder type of drama lasting through the ages but it seems after the polarizing last episode its taking on the ephemeral nature of most hits after the curtain falls. But it still left records such as second highest cable drama of all time and now due to the spliced up way the … Continue reading →

C-drama The Legend of Shen Li Reuniting Zhao Li Ying and Lin Geng Xin Hits 1 Million Reservations on Tecent Streaming

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The It’s been six years since hit drama Princess Agents and this year 2023 will see the reunion of the two leads in the fantasy period drama The Legend of Shen Li (Yu Feng Xing or Accompanying the Phoenix). The drama finished filming towards the end of last year and no word on airing date but the early interest is … Continue reading →

Kim Yoo Jung Glows Up in More Mature Look in BTS Stills for Skincare CF

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It’s a new year and K-actress Kim Yoo Jung will be back in the small screen in 2023 in one role though it’s a cameo of sorts. She’s in the K-drama Sweet and Spicy Chicken as the female lead but she’s turned into a literal piece of sweet and spicy chicken and needs to be turned back so spends the … Continue reading →

Jo Seung Woo Stars in the 2023 Korean Revival of The Phantom of the Opera But the Promos are Missing One Crucial Element

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Musical The Phantom of the Opera was my entry into the world of stage where it’s been a lifelong love affair. The score and songs remain excellent to this day but once I got older I realized how sus the entire story was haha. Everyone loved the Phantom over lame Raoul but honestly the former was basically groomer/kidnapper. Anyhoo, the … Continue reading →

New tvN Sat-Sun Rom-com Crash Course in Romance with Jeon Do Yeon and Jung Kyung Ho Start Off with 4.044% Ratings

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With the ending of Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow the tvN Sat-Sun time slot is going for a light hearted modern rom-com to change up the pace. Taking over is Crash Course in Romance which I legit just forgot about as the casting was perplexing to me from the onset. Starring Jeon Do Yeon and Jung Kyung Ho, she’s … Continue reading →

Taecyeon and Won Ji An in Talks for Fantasy Romance KBS K-drama My Heart is Beating

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Awwww, this sounds like a cute, kooky, and totally fantasy K-drama romance to boot. KBS is planning the K-drama My Heart is Beating which like the title suggests is the romance between a half-vampire and a human. Sounds like a reverse My Roommate is a Gumiho in that the half vampire played by Taecyeon desperately wants to be human and … Continue reading →

Park So Dam and Seo In Guk in Talks for Reincarnation K-drama TVING Death’s Game

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A new K-drama being kicked off, the live action adaptation of webtoon Death’s Game. The lead offers are out to Seo In Guk and Park So Dam so a legit great cast pairing and hopefully they accept as filming is scheduled to start in February. The source webtoon is about a man defeated in work and romance who kills himself … Continue reading →

C-netizens Notice Bea Hayden Has Stopped Following Husband Jacky Heung on Weibo as the Couple Has Not Been Seen Together in Six Months Since His Cheating Scandal

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Marriages are hard and/or complicated but some just seem like a really long shot to work. Netizens have never seem HK-actor Jacky Heung and TW-actress Bea Hayden‘s union as probable to go the long run due to his past scandals (cheating, drugs) and being a total momma’s boy with rich entertainment honcho parents that coddle his every whim and his … Continue reading →

Kim Ok Bin and Yoo Teo Play Against Type as Classic Bickering Romantic Leads in First Preview Netflix Drama Love to Hate You

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Sooooooo this looks like either an epic fail or a wildly unexpected surprise. Netflix just dropped the first preview for rom-com K-drama Love to Hate You and I’m just perplexed my entire way through it. Each beat is plucked from all previous antagonist to lovers rom-com capers from contract dating to opposites attract but it’s the starring of Yoo Teo … Continue reading →

Song Hye Kyo Goes for Sexy and Elegant in February 2023 Edition of Elle Korea

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K-drama The Glory is about the comeback revenge of the female lead played by Song Hye Kyo but it could stand in for her own comeback revenge as well, on the critics and netizens who thought she didn’t have it in her (ever or now). I just feel like the entire performance is a quiet scream of “I’m back, bitches!” … Continue reading →

K-movie Adaptation of Award Winning C-film Soulmate with Kim Da Mi, Jeon So Nee, and Byun Woo Seok Prepares to Schedule Premiere Date

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It’s a bit odd that such a high profile C-movie getting a K-version adaptation just went into production and off the radar. In 2020 it was announced that Soulmate (Qi Yue Yu An Sheng) was getting a K-adaptation starring Kim Da Mi, Jeon So Nee, and Byun Woo Seok. The original was a huge hit in box office and raking … Continue reading →