So one of the most high profile K-dramas of 2024 has kicked off production as male lead Kim Woo Bin posted a picture of his character name placard on the table of what appears to be the script reading for the drama Everything Will Come True. It’s written by ratings magnet and probably the most well known screenwriter in K-drama … Continue reading →
So this is a step up in all ways for me and I hope he accepts the role. Yeo Jin Gu is up for the male lead of K-drama Serenade (Saraenaedae) and if that drama title sounds familiar it’s the sageuk that was in talks with Jo Byung Gyu and he ended up not signing on for. It’s a lighter … Continue reading →
Dayum, Park Min Young deserves a you go girl but from all accounts the success of this K-drama is a group effort. tvN Mon-Tues drama Marry My Husband is a bona fide hit and deserves all the accolades as not going are the ratings continuing to go up there is a lot of buzz around it as well. Park Min … Continue reading →
So last week wasn’t just a some K-dramas ending, it was also the premiere of tvN weekend sageuk drama Captivating the King. The drama stars Jo Jung Seok as the King and Shin Se Kyung as the spy captivating him if we take the drama title literally but as cheesy as the title is the drama itself is a classic … Continue reading →
The K-dramas that started before the holidays season are one by one wrapping up and this weekend on jTBC the slice of life seaside drama Welcome to Samdalri ended with the final episode 16 getting a super high 12.399%. It’s definitely on the list of highest rated jTBC dramas of all time now but the weird thing is this drama … Continue reading →
When I first went into My Demon I noticed it’s weak spots and gaps but found the drama as a whole really engaging and worth watching. But as K-dramas are wont to do, as it went along it never got better and the weak parts started to weigh down the show to the point I FF-d the last few episodes … Continue reading →
K-actress Honey Lee had a good week last week with the premiere of her sageuk drama Knight Flower which got solid ratings and good reviews, buoyed by the ratings going up from the first to the second episode. This weekend she’s really off to the races as the third episode on Friday went up yet again and crossed the double … Continue reading →
A great new K-drama is now cast and on deck for 2024 and has a cute punny name as well. It’s called Romance Movie (or Melo Movie) and the female lead has the name Kim Moo Bi and the drama is set in the world of K-movies. The leads are Choi Woo Shik and Park Bo Young with him playing … Continue reading →
K-actress Shin Hye Sun is really going to back-to-back-to-back on K-dramas, not that I am complaining. She did See You in My 19th Life rolling right into Welcome to Samdalri and now has signed on for her next K-drama before Samdalri has ended. The drama is called To My Haeri (literal translation) and is from the screenwriter of Twenty Five, … Continue reading →
I feel like it’s been so long since Song Joong Ki did a romance based drama or movie it almost felt like he wasn’t going back to that era in his career. But now it looks like while he enjoyed the successful genre jumping it looks like he will be doing a melo this year in 2024. He’s in talks … Continue reading →
A new legal drama is coming on SBS in early 2024, the directly titled Good Partner centered around attorneys at a divorce firm. My fave divorce attorney K-drama remains Love and Marriage which feels like multiple lifetimes ago. Good Partner pairs the veteran partner with a pragmatic attitude to divorce law with the younger rookie who remains morally righteous, who … Continue reading →
I remember many times K-netizens claiming to be outraged by a star and wanting to boycott this and that but it almost always ends up being decided on quality. Last year some thought Jo Byung Kyu‘s bullying allegations were never resolved and didn’t want to watch The Uncanny Counter 2, but it turns out the drama ratings never met the … Continue reading →
At least the formal response is swift and will hopefully put this to rest. If not then K-netizens need to decide if they simply want to keep digging into this. A day after Dispatch published an article claiming that investigation into Park Min Young‘s ex-boyfriend Kang and his financial misconduct case revealed that contrary to her earlier claim she did … Continue reading →
