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Period C-drama Love and Crown with Allen Ren and Peng Xiao Ran Manages to Deliver an Even More Absurd and Ridiculous Ending When Viewers Were Already Expecting to be Bad

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C-drama Love and Crown feels like if a group of middle schoolers played Mad Libs and then made a drama out of it. Reportedly the script was written/rewritten/unwritten as filming went along and it certainly delivered on that foundation. The ending this week, which I along with any viewer watching expected to be bad, actually outdid itself on just how … Continue reading →

Kim So Hyun and Choo Young Woo Confirmed for 2026 ENA Cable Network K-drama Love Doctor

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This is an interesting set up and backdrop for a K-drama healing romance. Cable network ENA has confirmed the 2026 K-drama Love Doctor with leads Kim So Hyun and Choo Young Woo and since it’s so late in the year my guess is the drama will arrive spring or summer of next year. The leads were in discussion last month … Continue reading →

First Look at Chen Du Ling and Zhou Yi Ran in Youku Period Revenge and Romance C-drama Chu Qiao

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I’ve grown warmer and warmer to C-actress Chen Du Ling since her unexpected and well-deserved hit with The Glory earlier this year. She was already getting female lead roles but that drama moved her up to top billing in female character centric dramas with the right male lead actors cast. After The Glory finished airing she was cast in the … Continue reading →

Nam Ji Hyun and Moon Sang Min Bring Warm Energy in Drama Stills for Soul Swap Sageuk To My Beloved Thief

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The timing feels like the star aligned for the viewers so else an extra dose of pressure for the second the perform. I’m talking about how currently airing soul swapping romance sageuk MBC K-drama Moon River will end by month end and arriving after with just a week break is the next soul swapping romance sageuk KBS K-drama To My … Continue reading →

Period C-drama Love and Crown with Allen Ren and Peng Xiao Ran Opens with Anemic 4.8 Douban Ratings as it Limps Towards Finale

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I would love to take poll and find out when other viewers dropped Love and Crown. I dropped at episode 22 and when I checked back this week I realized it has 35-episodes total and I wonder if others have the fortitude and tenacity to watch it all. I was genuinely worried about brain damage so had to quit but … Continue reading →

J-pop Icon Ayumi Hamasaki Performs Entire Concert to Empty Stadium After Chinese Government Cancels it Due to Political Beef with Japan

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Since she is already Japan’s biggest pop star for three decades running its hard to give her more accolades and props and yet she still impresses in her professionalism and perseverance. J-pop idol Ayumi Hamasaki made lemonade out of lemons this weekend after the Shanghai leg of her tour was cancelled the day before the event. She ended up performing … Continue reading →

tvN Fall Weekend Drama Typhoon Family with Junho and Kim Min Ha Wraps Well-received Run with Chance to Hit Double Digit Ratings

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I totally missed the entirety of the run of tvN weekend drama Typhoon Family, which started in mid-October and this Sunday aired the final episode. It was a combination of being super busy every weekend in October and also that while I like male lead Junho I am so unmotivated to watch anything with Kim Min Ha. She’s touted as … Continue reading →

Top J-pop Star Ayumi Hamasaki’s Shanghai Concert Abruptly Cancelled Last Minute as China-Japan Political Spat Worsens

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I can see not scheduling or postponing further out events but to cancel a big concert the day before the event is really bad political PR. But I guess the Chinese government doesn’t care as this Saturday’s big J-pop concert in Shanghai but top star Ayumi Hamasaki was abruptly cancelled the day before the event. Her side is not commenting … Continue reading →

Tiffany Ann Hsu and Roy Qiu Celebrate their Marriage with Elegant and Star-studded Wedding in Taipei

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This is Thanksgiving week in the US but around the world it’s just the last week of November and a good time as any to have a fun celebratory wedding. TW-stars Roy Qiu and Tiffany Ann Hsu held their wedding celebration this Friday at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Taipei, three years after legally getting married and a few months … Continue reading →

iQiyi Wuxia C-drama Immortalis with Hou Ming Hao and Zhang Wen Xin Starts Filming and Releases Teaser Posters

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Even though it’s nearing year end but C-drama land still has projects kicking off filming. If all goes well a drama that starts now could conceivably wrap by lunar new year in a few months when everything shuts down for a minimum of two weeks. Wuxia C-drama Immortalis (Bi Xue Chan 碧血蟬) has started filming and the production went ahead … Continue reading →

Park Eun Bin and Yang Se Jong Confirmed for 2026 tvN Fantasy Romance Drama Chilling Romance Adapted From 2011 K-movie

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K-actress Park Eun Bin continues to challenge herself by playing all sorts of diverse characters and her new one will take her both into chaebol land and into fantasy territory. The K-drama Chilling Romance has confirmed her as the lead and she will be playing a chaebol heiress who also has the unfortunate ability to see ghosts. Yang Se Jong … Continue reading →

Mystery Hunting Modern C-drama Love on the Turquoise Land with Dilraba Dilmurat and Chen Xing Xu Released by Tencent

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So my brain was clearly still addled by the after effects of watching too much Love and Crown because I missed the premiere last weekend of Tencent C-drama Love on the Turquoise Land. Starring Dilraba Dilmurat and Chen Xing Xu, this is a modern drama that seems like a tomb raider crossed with Chinese ancient mystery plot, with a side … Continue reading →

Joo Ji Hoon and Ha Ji Won to Headline Cable Network ENA 2026 K-drama Climax Set in the World of Law, Money, and Power

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A 2026 K-drama has finalized the main cast and it’s an amalgamation of familiar faces in what sounds like a very frequent topic, i.e. politics, the law, and money and power in South Korea. Cable network ENA has confirmed the leads for the K-drama Climax and it’s a five-some of known stars. Joo Ji Hoon and Ha Ji Won are … Continue reading →