It’s such a shame that my first acting experience watching rising young actor Yang Se Jong was in the SBS drama Temperature of Love. I’m going to blame screenwriter Ha Myung Hee for tainting my impression of him negatively, when by all accounts for those who watched him earlier in the cable drama Duel he did an incredible and credible … Continue reading →
The blending of East and West styles is beautifully demonstrated with yet another winning fashion confection from a Chinese actress. Crystal Liu recently unveiled a lovely dress for a pictorial, a flared silhouette with a boat neck top and cap sleeves in a high low hem, in a soft yellow-ish color used as the background for brush painted leaves pattern. … Continue reading →
Every year there are winners and losers in ratings and box office choices for entertainment stars, and the ebbs and flows of a long career means there are plenty of ups and downs for each. 2017 is undoubtedly a great year for K-actress Lee Wo Yon, she picked a critically acclaimed and ratings hit drama with Baumdong Revenge Club (Avengers … Continue reading →
Korea’s cadre of amazing child drama and movie actors and actresses are a testament against the culture’s predilection for one-size-fits-all plastic surgery. All the child actresses have grown up in front of the camera with each and every looking exactly the same in features as they have aged from child to young teens and finally young adult. Growing up doesn’t … Continue reading →
2017 was a quiet year acting project-wise for K-actress Park Shin Hye, other than a cameo appearance in SBS drama Temperature of Love I didn’t see her onscreen. The young and scrappy days are long behind her when she worked nonstop, she can afford to be selective and I’m looking forward to what she will pick in 2018 especially on … Continue reading →
At this point I think it’s quite possible that Suzy‘s entertainment career is teflon in South Korea. She keeps landing on most popular star lists year after year despite not having a critically acclaimed performance or hit drama and movie in some time. She even had a public relationship with Lee Min Ho and recently broke up and neither has … Continue reading →
Seeing the Yoo Ah In cameo in Descendants of the Sun last year had me an a-ha moment which helped me connection a similarity that was eluding me. I just realized that DotS cutie pie Kim Min Seok who plays gangster turned soldier recruit Ki Bum resembles Yoo Ah In, a rounder face for sure but the lips and aura are very … Continue reading →
Fall is heading towards a close but it’s not too late for a softly lit warm and cozy pictorial with K-actress Han Ji Min. This year she didn’t have a K-drama but she was in the news as potential female leads for multiple K-dramas all of which she eventually turned down including Suspicious Partner with Ji Chang Wook and the … Continue reading →
Winter is a lot of things but one thing I always associate winter and South Korea are down parkas. The country is either obsessed with down parks or the retailers think the shoppers are because there are so many sportswear and even casual wear brands that full down want to parka the entire populace. So in the span of one … Continue reading →
I don’t recall ever seeing different gender stars wear the exact same outfit at a fashion event, and the first it happens both look great! It must be their star power, that of Shin Mina and Ha Jung Woo attending the Cartier winter launch in Seoul and wearing identical all black outfit underneath the same camel color coat with slight … Continue reading →
It’s pretty fun to see a pictorial from a few months ago suddenly align in perfect synergy with the latest big casting news. C-actress Crystal Liu‘s casting in the live-action Disney movie Mulan had made the news all around the world in a way that her star power in China for the last decade and a half has been limited … Continue reading →
I’m so not ready for the 80’s to come back from a fashion standpoint, unless it’s in the context of nostalgia TV shows like Stranger Things. So when I see an oversized red leather coat on C-actress Liu Shi Shi at at recent fashion event for couture brand Tod’s, I’ll blame the brand for making the outfit since she’s clearly … Continue reading →
Magazine fashion pictorials are almost always taking a famous person and just posing them with the occasional location shoot throwing in famous backdrops. Bazaar China just dropped a jaw-dropping photoshoot with C-actress Zhang Tian Ai that counts are the exception to the norm, delivering a uniquely styled shoot transforming her into a modern take on the Tang Dynasty beauty. Zhang … Continue reading →
