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The Success of The Story of Park’s Marriage Contract Leads K-netizens to Marvel at Lee Se Young’s Acting Talent and Drama Picking Skills Wondering What is Her Career Making Role to Date

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So yeah, Lee Se Young is a queen, if not one already then a queen in waiting because she is so underrated as one of the success stories of the child stars turns adult actors in K-ent. It probably happened because she’s right behind Moon Geun Young, same gen with Park Eun Bin, and then had the child star Kim … Continue reading →

My Demon Continues to Deliver Classic Hallyu Youth and Fantasy Balanced Rom-com Cuteness Past the Midway Point of Airing

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The weekend K-dramas continue to deliver for me, but it’s the lower ratings ones that have me hooked. SBS Fri-Sat drama My Demon is really as simple as they come and works because of it. Take two gorgeous age-compatible leads in Kim Yoo Jung and Song Kang and surround them with a manufactured reason to spend time together resulting in … Continue reading →

Production Company of The Prisoner of Beauty Considering Changing the Title of the Drama Followed by a Sudden Release

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Take this with a grain of salt but I also think it’s more likely than not. A new development in finished period C-drama The Prisoner of Beauty is that the production company is thinking of changing the title along with earlier rumors that it’s prepping for a sudden air drop release. I don’t think it’s a wild possibility as for … Continue reading →

Zhao Lu Si Criticized for Overly Girly Voice in The Last Immortal and Resurrects Netizens Complains About Yu Shi Xin Doing the Same in Many Dramas

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So the two ladies can make this an actual concept haha, lean into girls! Sadly it’s a pretty polarizing flavor, and I don’t mean love it or hate it its more like accept it or hate it. The only people I can imagine loving an actress with an excessive girly (aegyo in Korean or in Chinese it’s called pinched voice) … Continue reading →

K-actor Jo Byung Gyu Requests Second Health Exam for Impending Military Service and Wants Active Duty

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I feel like K-actor Jo Byung Gyu was thisclose to a breakout after The Uncanny Counter but whatever is the truth about his alleged bullying scandal the fallout is the reality has has to face. His two year break and then less than buzzy return with The Uncanny Counter 2 just shows that stars have to strike when the iron … Continue reading →

Chen Fei Yu and Wang Ying Lu Start Filming C-drama Adapted From Novel Offering Salted Fish to Master

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So my first response was “who is this” to the female lead but when I read the promos it kinda makes sense what the production is going for. Filming has commenced for xianxia C-drama Offering Fish (Xian Yu based on the novel Offering Salted Fish to Master) and will star Chen Fei Yu (Arthur Chen) and Wang Ying Lu as … Continue reading →

Lovely Farewell to HK-actress Kathy Chow as Her Final Pictorial Photographed Last Month in November is Posthumously Released

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Perhaps it’s so many stars passing in recent years, I feel like since COVID-19 started it has been a nonstop barrage of passing celebs in HK and Asian entertainment. Or maybe it’s the normal amount but just seems like a lot to take in with life harder than usual. 2023 will hopefully end with the unexpected passing of HK-actress Kathy … Continue reading →

Modern Family and Romance C-drama Story of Joy with Yang Zi and Xu Kai Release First Poster and Teaser

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So I saw all the hullaballoo around this drama filming at the Shanghai Bund earlier this year, quite a romantic scene atop a double decker bus. The drama is Story of Joy and stars Yang Zi and Xu Kai but really an entire supporting cast of veterans and youngsters playing a whole family dynamic. The drama is centered around the … Continue reading →

C-actress He Lan Dou Becomes the Breakout Star Among the Supporting Cast of Hit Drama A Journey to Love

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So the leads of A Journey to Love are getting plenty of deserved buzz all their own, Liu Yu Ning as Ning Yuan Zhou trending a bit higher than Liu Shi Shi as Ren Ru Yi. But the drama is doing well also because of the strong supporting cast and well developed side characters, when I saw the first promo … Continue reading →

Producer of Cheng Yi’s Next Drama Hero Legends Incur Fans Ire When He Shares the Trailer for Dylan Wang’s New Drama Guardian’s of the Dafeng

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So this beef goes back to earlier this year during the filming of period C-drama Hero Legends starring Cheng Yi. Apparently the production started filming before getting the first approval from the authorities which is a big no no and reportedly the production was shut down and fined after being reported to the authorities. Cheng Yi fans claim it’s Dylan … Continue reading →

Dilraba Dilmurat in Talks for Period C-drama Love Beyond the Grave Which Likely Will Film Before Her Life-slipping Revenge Drama and May Star Chen Fei Yu

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So a pre-production xianxa C-drama Love Beyond the Grave (Chinese title 白日提灯 or Carrying a Lantern in Daytime) is accelerating its prep and in in talks with Dilraba Dilmurat as the top billed female lead. Because her revenge life-skipping multiple male leads C-drama is taking so hard to confirm the male leads, if she accepts this one it will start … Continue reading →

Yu Zheng Doesn’t Understand Why His New Fave Rookie Zhao Qing Didn’t Become the Next Bai Lu and Is Desperately Trying to Re-position Her for Another Shot Later

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Watching C-drama producer and top shelf slimeball Yu Zheng work is like watching the Big Bad in a Bond movie so openly plotting and then wondering why the grand plan didn’t work out. This fall’s period C-drama Scent of Time starring Zhou Ye and Wang Xing Yue didn’t do much for either lead’s buzz or career but was supposed to … Continue reading →

First Look at Honey Lee and Lee Jong Won Together in New Stills for Sageuk Drama Night Blooming Flower

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I was going to give Night Blooming Flower and its sageuk noona-dongsaeng romance the benefit of the doubt but looking at the first stills of leads Honey Lee and Lee Jong Won together just make me go “aw nah, pass.” I’m not saying the actual onscreen drama they won’t have chemistry, just that from stills alone I’m getting single older … Continue reading →