Well this is a totally unexpected announcement but happy news to share for sure. Korea has another acting couple marriage coming, with stars Minah (Bang Min Ah), who is an actress but also a member for former girl group Girl’s Day, and actor On Joo Wan announcing their impending wedding. The couple met on the set of 2016 rom-com drama … Continue reading →
I loved Why Secretary Kim but legit do not even remember this scene this is how random and minor it is. The drama starred Park Seo Joon as an uptight and controlled CEO with a very emotionally scarring backstory and aired to great popularity back in 2018. In the drama his character goes to a popular soy sauce raw crab … Continue reading →
Add another success to the already incredibly successful run of period revenge C-drama Legend of Zang Hai. The drama premiered in May and went on to dominate the month during its entire run across all the major buzz and viewership metrics. It’s male lead Xiao Zhan‘s biggest hit since his breakthrough with The Untamed and he carried the entire drama. … Continue reading →
The baseball themed K-dramas have traditionally done well with the biggest critical and commercial hit in recent years being Hot Stove League of course. Fans have asked for a second season of HSL but that’s not happening. What is happening is a new baseball themed K-drama Your Ground that is in the news this week with an offer out to … Continue reading →
So this is the same thing that happened to C-actor Deng Wei in recent two years, that he went over a year without being on a filming set. He ended up breaking the drought earlier this year as he got cast and started filming Days of Seclusion and Love, so now the same concern has been moved over to fellow … Continue reading →
So I love the dark as hell drama title Mary Kills People and also love amazing as heck female lead Lee Bo Young. But I have rarely been this triggered by a godawful hairstyle in a drama as whatever unholy in her eyes frizzy shit is on her head in these first stills. Yes, she plays a very good doctor … Continue reading →
The cast of tvN K-drama Miss Undercover Boss has been finalized but the drama won’t arrive until early 2026. That sounds far but not really since we’re now officially in the second half of 2025 already. The leads will be Park Shin Hye as the titular miss undercover boss with a reunion with her Flower Boy Next Door third male … Continue reading →
Congrats to Bai Lu for coming out of xianxia C-drama Feud smelling like roses. The drama was polarizing in reviews and audience feeling towards it and was widely accused of watering its buzz online. But organically there was plenty of chatter that I could see so while it may not be as big of a hit as fans of the … Continue reading →
Cable network tvN started off 2025 with a giant turkey that was mega budget sci-fi drama When the Stars Gossip, but has now found redemption with what is being called the best reviewed terrestrial K-drama of this year so far midway through. When Life Gives You Tangerines was the critical and audience fave banger on streaming platform Netflix but now … Continue reading →
So Song Kang being in the military has totally been out of sight out of mind for me. He was ubiquitous in drama after drama for the three years prior to enlisting and most of them with Netflix, garnering him the nickname of Netflix’s Son. He was always serviceable for me but I agree that he’s not a strong actor, … Continue reading →
Top C-actress Dilraba Dilmurat has been in the news a lot for the will she-won’t she big decision whether to renew her contract with her long time agency Jaywalk or head for new pastures. She has three completed C-dramas under Jaywalk on deck, Sword Rose which is the one longest on the shelf, the most recently completed Love Beyond the … Continue reading →
A new big budget high profile C-drama has kicked off filming and it’s the Tencent and iQiyi joint production of Overdo (Chinese title 这一秒过火 Zhe Yi Miao Guo Huo or This Second Overheat). It’s a Republic era period drama adapted from a popular romance novel by writer Fei Wo Si Cun and will star Zhang Ling He and Wang Chu … Continue reading →
It’s the end of Squid Game, or is it? You’ll have to watch to find out as Squid Game 3 premiered this Friday on Netflix to wrap up the internationally popular K-drama. SG3 is really part 2 to Squid Game 2 rather than a standalone season, and the 6-month gap between the two may have played a part in how … Continue reading →
