While the China-South Korea THAAD detente affect K-ent viewers mostly with oppa not being as accessible, there is likely going to be a huge economic loss for South Korea this year alone. The South Korean GDP is around 1.5 trillion and the Chinese ban and boycott of South Korean consumables and goods has been calculated by pundits to hit the … Continue reading →
This sounds like a potentially fun new K-movie in the works, even if the casting keeps with the current trend of pairing together an established critically acclaimed veteran with a popular young thing still learning the acting ropes. Girl’s Day‘s Hyeri is making her big screen debut in a splashy way with the sageuk supernatural comedy movie Water Monster (Mulgae). … Continue reading →
The magic of pictures is the ability to elicit an emotion without saying a word. In that sense the third and latest picture from newly married K-ent couple Rain and Kim Tae Hee‘s first pictorial together says a all the positive emotions needed to showcase their love. While the pictorial for Bazaar Korea is titled Ordinary Couple which we know … Continue reading →
The husband to wife drama handover is about to happen next week as Ji Sung‘s top rated Defendant passes the Mon-Tues baton to wife Lee Bo Young‘s own legal thriller Whisper. The two visited each other on their respective drama sets and it’s the sweetest thing ever, but for Ji Sung looking so exhausted after three months of filming I … Continue reading →
This may have the legs to become a once every two years thing and I don’t have a problem with that at all. KBS has confirmed the scheduling of a new entry in the School drama franchise, airing this summer starting in July on the Mon-Tues time slot. School 2017 is the latest arrival following Who Are You: School 2015 … Continue reading →
There is definitely a beauty at last week’s Swarovski event promoting the new live action Disney movie Beauty and the Beast, all that’s missing is a beastly man to pair with Park Shin Hye to complete the tableau. Park Shin Hye has been the face of Swarovski jewelry in Korea for a few years now, a very suitable collaboration since … Continue reading →
C-actress Zhao Wei celebrated her 41st birthday this week and graces the cover and pages of high fashion Chinese magazine Style Wind. Unlike her other top C-actresses like Zhou Xun and Fan Bing Bing, Zhao Wei years ago branched out into directing and producing, not to mention her vast savvy stock and real estate investments hence she doesn’t do as … Continue reading →
This is a sad situation all around, whether one roots for the left behind wife or the couple in love, someone’s getting hurt and likely all three. That’s why love triangles are only good for generation tension in dramas, in real life it feels like everyone loses. Still married director Hong Sang Soo has openly declared his love for actress … Continue reading →
I don’t know who to thank for this photoshoot, whether for brand Epigram or because the model is Gong Yoo who can do no wrong. All I know is that I am swooning and more swooning over this pictorial of Gong Yoo being, well, himself in all his boyish casual glory. For daily menswear brand Epigram, Gong Yoo has morphed … Continue reading →
Congrats are in order yet again for winning surprise hit jTBC drama Strong Woman Do Bong Soon – this weekend’s episode 8 inched close to breaking 10% ratings and also became the highest rated drama episode in jTBC network history. Sweet! I love this drama to pieces and so does the domestic Korean audience, giving Saturday’s episode 8 an 2.769% … Continue reading →
Low key lovebirds Rain and Kim Tae Hee continue to delight me with their happy together ways, starting with tying the knot earlier this year in a sparsely attended church wedding with close family and friends after dating quietly for three years. They went on a honeymoon and appeared before the media together at the airport, and now they have … Continue reading →
Being a manga fan since the dawn of my consciousness means that I will never get too old to not be excited with a live action adaptation, especially when Japan does it and goes all in. Recent years have seen successful adaptation of Rurouni Kenshin and the widely panned adaptation of Attack on Titan, so the two extremes will forever … Continue reading →
Things have come to a close for now with the court case involving disgraced Korean idol-actor Park Yoochun stemming from allegations of rape and solicitation of prostitution. The court case was dismissed this week due to lack of sufficient evidence, which must be a relief to Yoochun as these were serious allegations. The facts of the scandal and court case … Continue reading →
