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The Cast of It’s Okay Not be Okay Get Ready to Say Goodbye with Final 2 Episodes This Weekend

A Koala's Playground Posted on August 7, 2020 by ockoalaAugust 7, 2020
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It’s finale weekend for weekend drama It’s Okay to Not be Okay, and it’s been a fantastic ride even with the rather unorthodox turn in last weekend’s episodes. Since it’s live streamed on Netflix I watch it on TV rather than my computer and oftentimes Mr. Koala and the Koala Teens wander by and watch a few minutes and ask … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Its Okay to Not be Okay, Kim Soo Hyun, Oh Jung Se, Seo Ye Ji

Jeon Do Yeon and Ryu Jun Yeol Return to Television with K-drama Disqualified From Being Human

A Koala's Playground Posted on August 6, 2020 by ockoalaAugust 7, 2020
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Well this is certainly big casting news. On the heels on earlier reporting that top movie actress Jeon Do Yeon is coming back to the small screen soon, now she’s got a leading man and he’s quite the quirky charmer. Ryu Jun Yeol is in talks to join the award winning Jeon Do Yeon in the upcoming drama Disqualified From … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Disqualified From Being Human, Jeon Do Yeon, Ryu jun Yeol

Flower of Evil Goes From Good to Great Starting in Episode 3 as Ratings Go Back Up to 3.116%

A Koala's Playground Posted on August 6, 2020 by ockoalaAugust 6, 2020
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This past weekend I caught up on Flower of Evil, and all that kissing and making out between the OTP aside, the first 2 episodes were merely good. A lot of stage setting and hints but we don’t get to form an emotional connection right off the bat with the characters. Lee Jun Ki‘s Hee Sung is too “acting evil” … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Flower of Evil, Lee Jun Ki, Moon Chae Won, Seo Hyun Woo

jTBC Fri-Sat Drama Number of Cases with Ong Seung Woo and Shin Ye Eun Release New Stills of the Main Young Cast

A Koala's Playground Posted on August 6, 2020 by ockoalaAugust 5, 2020
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I was really impressed with the young male leads of last year’s cult hit drama Extraordinary You, mainly because I had zero expectations. I’m going into upcoming jTBC drama Number of Cases (Probability) the same way with respect to male lead Ong Seung Woo, he’s so rising profile these days being a Wanna One member and later pursuing his main … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Number of Cases, Ong Seung Woo, PO

Choi Jin Hyuk is a Fashion Blind Zombie Detective in First Stills with Leading Lady Park Joo Hyun

A Koala's Playground Posted on August 5, 2020 by ockoalaAugust 4, 2020
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I love the South Korean predilection for smushing two unlikely things together and calling it a drama topic. We have Vampire Prosecutor and Vampire Idol and now Zombie Detective. Starring Choi Jin Hyuk and Park Joo Hyun, this has to be a super silly drama but it also could be unintentionally funny by trying to be silly, I don’t know … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Choi Jin Hyuk, Park Joo Hyun, Zombie Detective

Yoon Shi Yoon and Kyung Soo Jin Exchange the Tense Darkness of OCN Drama Train for Cheery Marie Claire Korea Pictorial

A Koala's Playground Posted on August 4, 2020 by ockoalaAugust 4, 2020
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Thanks to the addicting and well-drafted parallel worlds thriller drama Train, I’m over my Kyung Soo Jin allergy and reinvigorated with my Yoon Shi Yoon love. The drama is tightly compacted in its mythology about the parallel worlds and probably falls apart in wider focus but it does so well in picking a central focus with Yoon Shi Yoon’s Do … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Kyung Soo Jin, Train, Yoon Shi Yoon

Sky Castle Young Costars Kim Bora and Jo Byung Kyu Breakup After Dating for a Year

A Koala's Playground Posted on August 3, 2020 by ockoalaAugust 2, 2020
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A slow start to the dog days of August got something unexpected with a breakup news. Dating former drama costars Kim Bora and Jo Byung Kyu confirmed via their agencies that the couple has broken up. They young actor and actress met working on the hit cable drama Sky Castle and started dating shortly thereafter. Netizen sentiment was super calm … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Breakup, Dating, Jo Byung Kyu, Kim Bora, Sky Castle

Mommy Dearest is Back in Episode 14 of It’s Okay to Not be Okay as Viewers Riveted to the Tension with Ratings of 5.403% and 5.947%

A Koala's Playground Posted on August 2, 2020 by ockoalaAugust 2, 2020
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This was a rough episode of It’s Okay to Not be Okay to watch, probably as dark as it gets with both the narrative and the title fairy tale written by Moon Young of The Hand, The Monkfish,. There is usually some levity in each episode, and a sense of hopefulness, but episode 14 was the hammer dropping of both … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Its Okay to Not be Okay, Kim Soo Hyun, Oh Jung Se, Seo Ye Ji

Second Official Poster for When I Was Most Beautiful with Im Soo Hyang, Ha Suk Jin, and Ji Soo Now Switches Favor of One Brother Over the Other

A Koala's Playground Posted on August 2, 2020 by ockoalaAugust 1, 2020
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Hhhmmm, interesting of the production for upcoming melodrama When I Was Most Beautiful to keep viewers on their toes over which brother leading lady Im Soo Hyang will end up with. From the first poster she’s all Ghost pottery making with Ha Suk Jin‘s older brother while poor lovelorn younger brother Ji Soo sits on the stairs as the lurking … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Ha Suk Jin, Im Soo Hyung, Ji Soo, When I Was the Most Beautiful

tvN Goes Back to English Title of Record of Youth for New K-drama with Park Bo Gum and Park So Dam and Releases First Official Poster

A Koala's Playground Posted on August 2, 2020 by ockoalaAugust 1, 2020
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I’m so happy tvN is restoring the English title for upcoming youth modeling-acting drama back to Record of Youth which is the literal translation of the Korean title and not the bland The Moment which further sucked because there are tons of movies and dramas out there called The Moment already. If this drama captures the youth dreams and lives … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Byun Woo Seok, Park Bo Gum, Park So Dam, Record of Youth

Episode 13 of It’s Okay to Not be Okay is the Inevitable Calm Before the Storm With a Twist and Ratings of 4.974% and 5.696%

A Koala's Playground Posted on August 1, 2020 by ockoalaAugust 1, 2020
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tvN Sat-Sun drama It’s Okay to Not be Okay is both about psychiatry and fairy tales, or really how fairy tales is an encapsulation and discussion about mention and emotional issues. Each episode is named about a fairy tale, most are from Western tales with a few taken from Moon Young’s stories that she’s written. Episode 13 is the first … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Its Okay to Not be Okay, Kim Soo Hyun, Seo Ye Ji

Lee Yu Ri Tells Lies of Lies to Become the Stepmother to Her Own Daughter in New Channel A Drama with Yeon Jung Hoon

A Koala's Playground Posted on August 1, 2020 by ockoalaJuly 31, 2020
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My takeaways from the posters, stills, and synopsis for upcoming Channel A melodrama Lie of Lies is that it’s like a prison sentence in and of itself to marry into a chaebol family and lies beget more lies. K-actress Lee Yu Ri turns to the dark side for her own flesh and blood in Lies of Lies, playing a mother … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Im Joo Eun, Lee Yu Ri, Lies of Lies, Yeon Jung Hoon

NU-EST AND Wanna One Member Minhyun Turns Actor in jTBC Drama Live On with Jung Da Bin

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 31, 2020 by ockoalaAugust 1, 2020
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There’s always a handful of youth romance K-dramas every year and the ones that interest me either come from the casting of leads I like or from positive word of mouth after the drama airs. I’m interested in upcoming jTBC romance Live On with Minhyun (Hwang Min Hyun) of the boy group NU-EST and also Wanna One acting opposite grown … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Jung Da Bin, Minhyun

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