The new arrival in the Wed-Thurs time slot is tvN time-traveling or do-over drama Knowing Wife (Familiar Life) with Ji Sung and Han Ji Min, and the two veteran leads with a spotty drama ratings track record managed to debut with very solid ratings for cable. Knowing Wife premiered with 4.680% and then rose to 5.535% in episode 2. Leading … Continue reading →
Ooooh me likey, me likey very much! The first teaser trailer is out for tvN sageuk drama Dear Husband of 100 Days (Hundred Days Husband or 100 Days My Prince) and it looks so cute and pretty thanks to the palpable chemistry of leads D.O. (Do Kyung Soo) and Nam Ji Hyun. Both are very good at generating charisma onscreen, … Continue reading →
If all Won Bin does now is be a CF model, there is nothing wrong with it other than a fans opinion he’s wasting all that acting talent. But then he is also so so good as a CF model as evidenced by these simple yet striking pictures for menswear brand Olzen. He doesn’t have to do much other than … Continue reading →
All I can say is that Why Secretary Kim drama costars Park Seo Joon and Park Min Young‘s denial of last week’s dating gossip has a chance to backfire spectacularly on them if they turn out to have really been dating and lied directly about it. With news breaking after the drama wrapped last week that the two have been … Continue reading →
K-actress Lee Min Jung has a suitably melancholy vibe for her latest fall 2018 fashion pictorial in 1st Look magazine. Her next drama is scheduled to be a reunion with her Sly and Single Again (Cunning Single Woman) costar Joo Sang Wook for the weekend melodrama Fate and Fury, a very apt name for the very definition of Korean drama … Continue reading →
It’s her birthday and I don’t think Kim Sae Ron will be crying even if she wanted to. The youngest of the three Kim child actresses dominating the last decade of K-dramas and movies turned 18 on July 31st, with a 2000 birth year following in the footsteps of oldest Kim So Hyun born in June of 1999 and then … Continue reading →
Screenwriter Kang Eun Kyung has finally melded her 2018 bipolar drama switcheroos into one drama with a now confirmed cast. Her upcoming SBS drama will be called Fox Star Bride but the story will be about people working at Incheon Airport. First she announced Fox Star as a healing romance, then decided to do a slice-of-life workplace drama called People … Continue reading →
Those worried that a favorite K-actress will sign on to be disgraced but angling for a comeback idol-actor Kim Hyun Joong‘s next leading lady can breath a sigh of relief. The female lead has been cast for his upcoming KBS W cable network drama When Time Stopped and honestly the name didn’t ring a bell at all until I saw … Continue reading →
It’s unfortunate that the PD of upcoming KBS drama Lovely Horribly had to make such an inappropriate and insensitive comment during filming because learning about it adds another layer of pall over the proceedings. The drama marks Park Shi Hoo‘s first return to prime time drama land since the 2011 drama The Princess’s Man, with his later drama Cheondamdong Alice … Continue reading →
Four weeks into the airing of screenwriter Kim Eun Sook‘s latest drama opus Mr. Sunshine and she can rest easy knowing that her reputation as a ratings gravy train continues. The drama premiered on tvN with 8.852% ratings which was higher than Goblin’s first episode, and has gone up in ratings every single episode with the latest episode 8 breaking … Continue reading →
The great K-ent baby boom of 2017 is over but a married couple that got pregnant at the tail end of that year has welcomed their new arrival this week. Joo Sang Wook and Cha Ye Ryun are the proud parents to a baby girl, with daddy Joo Sang Wook posted an SNS update showing him holding her tiny little … Continue reading →
The list is subjective of course but I’m always curious to see if the populace views beauty how I may perceive it. The 2018 list of 30 Top Korean Beauties of All Time and I foresee debate over the top 2 position, from whether either lady deserves to be there and whether their ranking should be switched. The number 1 … Continue reading →
