Two Korean shows were nominated among the ten television series in the Best Foreign Language Series category at last night’s Critic’s Choice Awards held in Los Angeles. Most of the attention was on the movie side as it’s getting close … Continue reading
Category Archives: Awards
Some viewers were perplexed why already female lead status young actress Kim Hye Yoon would take a second female lead role in jTBC drama Snowdrop but I always thought she was aiming to keep challenging herself first and foremost. She’s … Continue reading
A lot of Year End Awards thunder was stolen thanks to MBC doing theirs the night before and Lee Jong Seok winning the Daesang where he thanked a special someone who turned out to be real life girlfriend IU. Like, … Continue reading
It’s tough that of the three public channels in South Korea really only SBS had a good year. With the slate basically done it’s time to look at the contenders for Daesang at the Year End Drama Awards for 2022 … Continue reading
This Friday evening in Seoul was the Grand Bell Awards (Daejong Awards) which only covers the movie industry. It’s highly prestigious but most readers here are K-drama centered so may not have watched or followed the K-movie circuit this year, … Continue reading
So I noticed the 2022 Weibo TV and Internet Video Summit solely for the onstage pairing of Chen Fei Yu (Arthur Chen) and Dylan Wang, two sizzling in popularity young actors who happened to play the same character in Ever … Continue reading
Okay, those of you who are Ever Night fans this may just set your panties on fire. It kinda did for me and I didn’t even watch it haha. Goes to show both male leads Chen Fei Yu (Arthur Chen) … Continue reading
The awards sweeping juggernaut that is K-movie Decision to Leave continues to domination, taking home Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Park Hae Il and Best Actress for Tang Wei at this Friday’s 2022 Blue Dragon Awards in … Continue reading
This isn’t quite a notable award but it is an award lol and definitely confirms the popularity of C-drama Love Like the Galaxy overseas. This weekend the Chinese American TV Festival, an off shoot of the more established Chinese American … Continue reading
The dueling Mama-sans were out leading the red carpet charge at the 2022 Golden Bell Awards in Taipei this weekend, with the TW-drama Light the Night with the most nominations with 11 and leads Ruby Lin and Cheryl Yang taking … Continue reading
Well who do we have here! How come no one told me baby boy L is back from the army! I swear he just enlisted and then checked and he left February 2021 and came back in late August 2022 … Continue reading
Soooooo many memes work with this running joke about how poorly (selected) the South Korean stars look at red carpet events ranging from awards to festivals. It’s like they go out of their way to be beyond boring or intentionally … Continue reading
I think this has to be the tail end of the Squid Game hype and attention, and boy did it last exactly an entire year. When I saw the nominations for the 2022 Emmy Awards included Squid Game it felt … Continue reading