Oh me likey! Me likey very very much. What a difference a week and a completely different set of casting OTP makes when it comes to anticipating a drama. Earlier last week the leads of Kill Me Heal Me was going to be Lee Seung Gi (love!) and Lim Ji Yeon (no love!), now this week the drama started filming … Continue reading →
This was such a weird episode of Kyou wa Kaisha Yasumimasu, capped off by the last minute of sheer “WTH just happened now back up ten steps” development. This episode laid bare the little quibbles about this story that really came to the forefront, namely how serious Hanae takes everything in her still early going relationship with Yuto. She’s only … Continue reading →
Oh boy is this uncomfortable to look at. Perhaps the jarring reaction is mostly due to unexpectedly seeing the first movie still from the upcoming Korean-Chinese romance movie After Love starring Park Shi Hoo and Yoon Eun Hye. I was hoping to ease myself into this movie, try to test out the waters to see if I can get over my … Continue reading →
Please don’t let this actually become a fashion trend. A fashion blip maybe, but anything more than an one-off joke attire will mean hurting my eyes for the foreseeable future. Korea’s favorite young CF idol-actress Suzy was in Beijing this past weekend for a fan event with her group Miss A and was attired by the coordi in a top … Continue reading →
I was aware that the popular Hallyu K-pop awards show MAMA (Mnet Asian Music Awards) took place in cosmopolitan glittering Hong Kong last week. It came to my attention when the ratings took a big noticeable dip for Pinocchio, meaning the viewers for that drama skew young and that night the group tuned into the 2014 MAMA’s instead. Nothing wrong … Continue reading →
More K-drama awards are a-coming! Yay, I guess? The 2014 Grimme Awards will be held at the end of this week on Dec 12th to hand out awards to the already announced winners. The Grimme Awards is an industry award hosted and selected by the Korean Film Cinematographers Association, basically the cameramen of South Korea. The Daesang (Grand Prize) for the … Continue reading →
Looks like I unexpectedly hitched myself to the breakout J-dorama hit of the fall season with Kyou wa Kaisha Yasumimasu. It really is a surprise because renzouku doramas have not done well with ratings in Japan in over a decade, if not longer. Even my last J-dorama crack with Rich Man, Poor Woman did mostly low teens to high single … Continue reading →
Right now I’m at the can’t get enough of Pinocchio stage in my drama watching. Sure the day may come that I’ll be weary of this particular OTP, such as when the story drags or the romance fizzles out, but for now it can do no wrong for me and the same goes for leads Lee Jong Seok and Park … Continue reading →
For those bemoaning why so-and-so actor has already gotten drama leading and Kim Woo Bin still hasn’t, I don’t think that criminally hot namja is losing any sleep over it. He’s already the lead in the upcoming Korean heist movie Criminal Designer (formerly known as The Technicians) costarring the underrated Lee Hyun Woo and the always entertaining Go Chang Seok. … Continue reading →
Whoever cast relative unknown Yoon Kyun Sang as Lee Jong Seok‘s hyung in Pinocchio really hit a jackpot. It’s not just their plausible resemblance as brothers, Lee Jong Seok is already very tall but he’s suddenly got two even taller supporting male actors in Pinocchio, both Yoon Kyun Sang and Kim Young Kwang are even taller than him. In the … Continue reading →
I enjoy glossy magazine spreads of my favorite actors and actresses as much as anyone out there. But occasionally the overly posed and manufactured nature of packaged entertainment does numb the soul so it’s much appreciated to come across lovely pictures of the wonderful real side of an actor I like so much. Gong Yoo has been absent from K-dramas … Continue reading →
Wah, kyeopta my boy! Finally. As Kim Soo Hyun finishes up what is his best career year with awards aplenty and the most buzzed about K-drama of the year, I’m just happy that he appears to have emerged unscathed from all the heightened scrutiny. He looked waifish thin to play Do Min Joon in You From Another Star, and months later … Continue reading →
Taiwan’s biggest producer of nicely packaged idol dramas SETTV held a thank you banquet at the Taipei Le Meredien over the weekend, the second successive big celebrity packed event at the fancy hotel after Mark Chao and Gao Yuan Yuan‘s wedding the might before. The network rented out the hotel banquet hall for its first ever sponsor gratitude event, hardly … Continue reading →