The promos are picking up for upcoming Coupang Play drama Cinderella at 2am. I am fine with noona-dongsaeng romances if the chemistry is there but I have strong reservations with female lead Shin Hyun Bin, not because she can’t act but because she has never shown any romantic or sexual chemistry onscreen in any drama I have watched of hers. … Continue reading →
What perfect timing for jTBC to release its first still of upcoming sports and procedural drama Good Boy. It’s a drama revolving around medal winning retired South Korean Olympians who have become police officers and their intersecting stories. Park Bo Gum is a boxer and Kim So Hyun a sharpshooter so both have the athletic skills in the drama to … Continue reading →
I love a controversial take, it makes for good back and forth discussion. A news article this week in K-ent has a reporter doing a review of post military discharge Park Bo Gum and deemed him a disappointment. The ensemble movie Wonderland got bad reviews and low box office, and now his variety show My Name is Gabriel is also … Continue reading →
So this has to be an upgrade in total from the original leads first in talks for the drama The Price of Confession. It was supposed to star Song Hye Kyo and Han So Hee, and now has leads Jeon Do Yeon and Kim Go Eun in those roles as a woman wrongly accused of murdering her husband and the … Continue reading →
All I can think when I saw the first posters and teasers for the upcoming TVING sageuk drama Queen Woo is that if this was a K-movie it was definitely move into Forbidden Flower and The Concubine territory level of sex/power/fighting. Alas this is but a tightly wound 8-episode sageuk that puts female lead Jeon Jong Seo as the titular … Continue reading →
I was already interested in upcoming tvN rom-come Love Next Door (Korean title Mom’s Best Friend’s Son) when it was announced with Jung Hae In as the male lead in his first rom-com. Everything since has been adding on more reasons to be excited for this drama especially with Jung So Min as the female lead. The character posters are … Continue reading →
The promos are starting for the next tvN Mon-Tues drama No Love No Gain which premieres at the end of August. Starring Shin Mina and Kim Young Dae, it’s the story of a very penny pinching who keeps track of relationships in money saved or spent until she needs to recruit a fake groom to net a promotion at work. … Continue reading →
The casting is moving fast for the K-drama Confidence Man KR, adapted from the popular J-dorama and movie franchise Confidence Man JP. This weekend there is news that veteran Park Hee Soon and the always excellent supporting actor Joo Jong Hyuk has joined the drama cast. This is a quirky drama and a lot of in-drama acting as in the … Continue reading →
A new casting brings together two OG classic SM era K-pop members turned actors with blast from the past feels. Taecyeon and Seohyun are going to star in the K-drama adaptation of the popular webtoon First Night with the Duke, which is set in European period times but for the drama will be set in the Joseon era. The female … Continue reading →
So award winning K-actress Park Eun Bin has been inked for her next drama for some time now but now her male lead has floated to the surface. Cha Eun Woo has been offered the role and his agency says he’s considering but I can’t see how he would pass on this. The drama is called The Wonder Fools (original … Continue reading →
I don’t know how K-actress Park Min Young keeps managing to land promising dramas in recent years where there has been fewer and fewer of them. Earlier this year she delivered the first big K-drama of 2024 with Marry My Husband and then she took a few months off and looks to be coming back soon. She’s been offered the … Continue reading →
A new SBS drama will be adapted from the French Le Mante and uses the same title of Mantis. The leads have now been confirmed as veteran actress Go Hyun Jung and young leading man Jang Dong Yoon, this time playing an estranged mother-son with a very dark history. Go Hyun Jung is a female serial killer incarcerated for killing … Continue reading →
On the same week a software update caused global travel chaos, this news feels like a blip but for us K-drama watchers it’s rather concerning. Cable network tvN and its streaming arm TVING announced this weekend that it has been hacked, the network name was changed to Ripple and the content is a mess on the platforms. Videos of recent … Continue reading →
