A new year and a new agency beginning for K-actor Song Joong Ki, who is probably relieved to put the tumultuous 2019 behind him. He didn’t renew his contract with longtime agency Blossom Entertainment last month and this weekend a new startup agency called History D&C announced that Song Joong Ki had signed with them. The agency is by veteran … Continue reading →
Another 2020 K-drama has confirmed the lead cast and it sounds so much like hit movie Introduction to Architecture. Yoo ji Tae and Lee Bo Young are signed on for upcoming drama The Most Beautiful Moment in Life with youngsters Jinyoung and Jeon So Ni playing their college-age versions. The drama is about first loves who reunite twenty years later … Continue reading →
When I first saw the just released drama posters for upcoming tvN bittersweet family drama Hi Bye Mama! it just felt like woah such a HUGE face of leading lady Kim Tae Hee. Don’t get me wrong, she’s radiant and so beautiful after getting married and having two kids since her last drama Yongpal in 2015. It’s just that the … Continue reading →
I think K-actress Kim Tae Hee is living such a winning life and hopefully picked the right drama for her post-baby comeback. She had baby #2 with husband Rain last year and is ready to go back to work with tvN drama Hi Bye Mama lucking out with a great costar in Lee Kyu Hyung. She plays a devoted mom … Continue reading →
Man, tvN is either trolling me or genuinely want to do its darndest to make the best drama possible. The network announced that it will skip a weekend of airing new episodes of Crash Landing on You, next weekend January 4th it will not air episodes 7 and 8 which will instead air the following weekend of the 11th. The … Continue reading →
Okay, the netizen pundits got two out of three right so that’s not bad. The Big Three network year end Drama Awards took place last night for MBC and tonight on the 31st for both SBS and KBS. I’ll do a separate post on the fashion and attendees which were pretty packed this year but on the top award winning … Continue reading →
Gong Hyo Jin is on a much deserved promotional tour after finishing the successful KBS drama When the Camellia Blooms, first with this lovely Elle Korea spread. Mark my words, she’s getting the Daesang at the KBS Drama Awards and will be her first drama awards Daesang after winning plenty of Top Excellence and Excellence Actress awards for dramas including … Continue reading →
This is likely the last celeb wedding of 2019 and it’s quite a lovely way to cap off what has been a down year in K-ent. Actor Lee Wan married pro golfer Lee Bo Mi in a sweet and traditional Catholic ceremony in Seoul this week, after Christmas but before New Year during the height of holiday season. K-ent was … Continue reading →
I’m in K-drama heaven right now with two weekend dramas capturing all my attention so I’m not as anxiously awaiting the upcoming releases. The first 2020 new K-drama arrives next Monday on January 6th, the second season of SBS medical hit Romantic Teacher, Doctor Kim 2. With Han Suk Kyu returning as the sage mentor, this time he teachers youngsters … Continue reading →
It’s week three of tvN drama Crash Landing on You and I am sooooooo happy that this year neither Christmas nor New Year’s lands on the weekend where this drama would be preempt for holiday programming. I don’t think I can survive a preemption because I’m barely surviving the weekly wait now. The third week episodes continue rising in ratings, … Continue reading →
The tripling of ratings in three weeks is something to write about. SBS Fri-Sat drama Hot Stove League premiered on December 13th with a super low 3.3% AGB nationwide ratings. It’s since only gone up and the most recent episode hot 10.1%, that’s so amazing nowadays. Starring Namgong Min and Park Eun Bin, the drama is a feel good underdog … Continue reading →
The Itaewon neighborhood connotes youth and energy in Seoul and the upcoming jTBC drama Itaewon Class combines dreams and revenge into one story. Park Seo Joon plays a restaurant entrepreneur aiming to take down the rival restaurant chain run by a former bully classmate’s father. He’s a juvenile released convict so clearly has an uphill battle to climb and supporting … Continue reading →
Man, was Nirvana in Fire really that long ago? It’s one of the best dramas from any country I’ve ever watched and remains vivid in my mind and heart of what epic storytelling paired with excellent acting and directing can produce. Then teen actor Wu Lei was just a kid, squarely a gawky teen playing a gawky teen role that … Continue reading →
