Category Archives: K-dramas

Lee Sung Kyung and Kim Young Dae are Opposites Bicker and Fall in Love in First Teaser for tvN Entertainment Industry Drama Shooting Star

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Wow, this drama actually looks good! Or maybe just the teaser looks good, but it looks enough that I’m suddenly sitting up and fully taking note of upcoming tvN Sat-Sun drama Shooting Star. It’s set in the entertainment industry but takes the caper approach rather than the more drab and minutiae take of Record of Youth. There is hijinks galore … Continue reading →

Suzy in Talks for Netflix K-drama The Girl Downstairs Adapted from Popular Webtoon About an Idol and a College Student Romance

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Is Suzy just playing herself here, heh! If so then there is plenty to look forward to for sure. Suzy is in talks for the Netflix drama The Girl Downstairs, which is adapted from a popular Naver webtoon titled Lee Du Na. The titular Lee Du Na is the center spot of an idol group who suddenly retires and started … Continue reading →

The OTP Get Closer Through Fake Dating in Episode 4 of A Business Proposal as Ratings Rise Again to 8.7%

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SBS Mon-Tues drama A Business Proposal remains my candy corn of choice, so much sugar but oh so fun to ingest. Episode 4 continued the ratings rise albeit a smaller amount up to 8.7% which makes me excited and hopeful this rom-com will be one of the rare to break 10%. But then I realized that it’s only a 12-episode … Continue reading →

A Business Proposal Keeps Increasing in Ratings to 8.1% in Episode 3 as the Storyline Maintains the Sweet Comedic Touch

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Well lookee here, the worst dramas turned out to be the best drama, and this is now Dali and the Cocky Prince part deux in terms of low expectations and unexpectedly awesome product. Last week’s premiere of A Business Proposal on SBS was a breath of fresh air, a true rom-com with all the cute quirks that played up a … Continue reading →

First Look at Netflix Drama The Sound of Magic with Ji Chang Wook, Hwang In Yeop, and Choi Sung Eun

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The 2022 line up of Netflix K-dramas hasn’t gotten as much attention and buzz compared to the 2021 reveal that was a good ten-deep in big name productions, but then again all that traction from last year will benefit this year even better than pre-airing buzz. One of the dramas on deck is The Sound of Magic (Annarasumanara) which was … Continue reading →

Twenty Five, Twenty One Breaks the 10% Ratings Mark in Episode 8 as Forecasting Love and Weather Does its Usual Swing Up from Saturday Ratings

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The return of the on Olympic hiatus weekend K-dramas slowed the ratings increase for the two new arrivals Forecasting Love and Weather and Twenty Five, Twenty One but now two weekends in it’s clear these two will be set as hit and bigger hit under its belt. Twenty Five, Twenty One broke the 10% ratings mark this Sunday with episode … Continue reading →

Jung Hae In Signs on as Second Male Lead to Join Kang Ha Neul and Son Ye Jin in K-drama Tree Dies on Their Feet

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Holy hot cakes this is absolutely the wildest casting of 2022, and maybe of the last few years. When have I ever seen a male lead reunite with his female lead but then as the second male lead. Like, whut? K-ent is reporting that Jung Hae In will be joining the cast of K-drama Tree Dies on Their Feet, but … Continue reading →

First Poster and Script Reading Stills for Upcoming Lee Jun Ki Second Chance Legal Drama Again My Life

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Clearly the Lee Jun Ki drama suffering streak will continue onwards with his next drama Again My Life. The observation is that Lee Jun Ki portrays angst and suffering so beautifully onscreen that he’s ALWAYS being made to fall into pits of despair in whatever drama plot or genre he’s in. In Again My Life, he’s a prosecutor who gets … Continue reading →

The OTP of Forecasting Love and Weather Continue Having Mature and Thoughtful Conversations and Start Cohabitating as Episode 7 Ratings Come in at 6.448%

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Everyone has a different amount of appetite in a meal and I’ve decided my weekends are only able to juggle one drama. I can do more than one drama per week but for a given time slot right now I’m maxed out mentally. So that means putting Twenty Five, Twenty One on wait to binge (I was planning to start … Continue reading →

Yoon Park Tests Positive for COVID-19, Heads into Quarantine But Has Completed All His Filming for jTBC Drama Forecasting Love and Weather

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I’ve never liked actor Yoon Park, but more accurately I’ve never liked any character he’s played and that’s influenced how I associate with him, e.g. smarmy asshole types. But then he’s doing such a great job of being exactly that in Forecasting Love and Weather, but with more vulnerability and weakness and also great subtle comedic timing. He’s definitely a … Continue reading →

K-netizens Think Upcoming Hong Sisters Fantasy Sageuk Drama Return is a Hot Mess After Leading Lady Swap to Jung So Min and Demotion of Oh My Girl’s Arin from Second Female Lead Down to 8th Spot

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Two decades of K-drama watching and a still keen memory tells me that a hot mess drama casting/production isn’t always indicative of a bad drama to come, buuuuuuut it does tend to turn out that way with only a handful able to overcome a messy start. The upcoming Hong Sisters new drama Return (Returning Soul) had a leading lady switch … Continue reading →

Leading Ladies Lee Se Hee of Young Lady and Gentleman and Kim Ji Eun of Upcoming Drama Again My Life Test Positive for COVID-19, Filming Paused on Dramas

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Another drama related shut down in K-ent related to its still swarming spread of COVID-19 in South Korea. Lee Se Hee of KBS hit weekend drama Young Lady and Gentlemen just tested positive and is in self-quarantine. Filming has been paused and no news on whether this will impact episode airing dates but the drama is on the back end … Continue reading →

K-platform Watcha Produced BL Drama Semantic Error Keeps Going Up in Streaming Viewer Count and K-ent Takes Notice of the Genre Edging into Mainstream

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The last five years has seen C-dramas turn BL novels (danmei) into adaptations (dangai) that soften the same-sex romance into bromance for mainstream television airing, with a few streaming C-dramas that hew to the original BL storyline directly. That was halted late last year as part of the government crackdown on cultural excess and deviation which was hard for what … Continue reading →