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Kim Sung Ryung is the Lovely and Selfish Flower of the Queen in Gorgeous Drama Posters

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 10, 2015 by ockoalaMarch 10, 2015
Underwater scene with four floating characters.

This drama doesn’t look my thing based on the makjang synopsis but I do love the official posters to pieces! So eye-catching, almost like a portrait. A new MBC weekend drama is headed our way and it looks like a sure fire ratings winner since it has all the family angst, betrayal, and potential forgiveness ripe to conquer the weekend … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Kim Sung Ryung, Lee Jong Hyuk, Lee Sung Kyung, Yoon Park

Ji Sung Continues Filming Final Two Episodes of Kill Me Heal Me Despite Losing His Voice

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 9, 2015 by ockoalaMarch 10, 2015
Romantic moments from a Korean drama series.

This is terrible news both for Ji Sung and for the production of Kill Me Heal Me, but there is one amusing angle that I’ll get into later after tackling the serious side first. With KMHM headed into the final week of its broadcast with two episodes remaining, the initially beleaguered production appeared to have overcome huge odds to become … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Ji Sung, Kill Me Heal Me

Kim Soo Hyun Confirms Producer and Completes Cast with Cha Tae Hyun, Gong Hyo Jin, and IU

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 9, 2015 by ockoalaMarch 9, 2015
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It’s going to be hard to top Producer as the biggest K-drama production and casting surprise of 2015 so far now that the final main cast member has confirmed. Kim Soo Hyun played coy for an extra week as to whether he was going to accept the Producer offer and in the end smartly said yes. If all the rumored … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Kim Soo Hyun, Producer

Hilarious Meta-teasers Featuring the Three Leads of Falling for Innocence

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 9, 2015 by ockoalaMarch 9, 2015
Two stylish people posing with playful expressions.

Regardless of how the actual end product turns out, the promos for upcoming jTBC drama Falling for Innocence (Falling for Soon Jung) deserves accolades all its own. I like splitting my critique of drama promos versus what actually airs because the two aren’t necessarily aligned in quality and makes sense viewed separately. Promos are spliced together by conceptual and editing teams … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Falling for Innocence, Jung Kyung Ho, Kim So Yeon, Yoon Hyun Min

Gong Hyo Jin and IU Confirmed as the Two Leading Ladies of Producer

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 8, 2015 by ockoalaMarch 8, 2015
Two women in fashionable dresses, smiling.

It’s a good time as any to try something new in drama land, and I’m even happier the confirmed cast for this experiment include some of my faves. Gong Hyo Jin and IU have just been officially confirmed for the eclectic cast of Producer. KBS is opening up a new time slot on Friday and Saturday nights for this drama, … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Gong Hyo Jin, IU, Producer

Ji Sung’s Popularity Skyrockets in China Even Before Kill Me Heal Me Officially Airs There

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 8, 2015 by ockoalaMarch 8, 2015
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This latest career success couldn’t have happened to a nicer actor, not to mention the accolades are all well-deserved. With Kill Me Heal Me wrapping up next week with the final two episodes, it’s nice to understand the extent of the drama’s popularity in major K-drama markets as well as who is getting all the buzz. That would be Ji … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Ji Sung, Kill Me Heal Me

Kim Hee Sun Unleashes Her Full Angry Mom in First Drama Preview

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 7, 2015 by ockoalaMarch 7, 2015
Dramatic scenes from a Korean drama series.

I’m breathing a sigh of relief that the first preview for upcoming MBC drama Angry Mom hits all the right notes for me. There’s the spitfire titular angry mom played by Kim Hee Sun, the hapless teacher that is Ji Hyun Woo going back to his beta-male side, and the petulant teenage daughter played by Kim Yoo Jung. Those three … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Angry Mom, Ji Hyun Woo, Kim Hee Sun, Kim Yoo Jung

KBS Schedules Vigilante K-drama Masked Prosecutor After Unkind Women

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 7, 2015 by ockoalaMarch 7, 2015
Drama poster featuring a man and six characters.

Looks like KBS is nowhere near done with its week-long drama casting and scheduling news dump. So much activity going on at that network versus the other two makes sense, taking into account KBS adding an extra night of drama programming on Fridays not to mention MBC having fewer dramas to air what with scheduling two long sageuks back-to-back on … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Masked Prosecutor

Drama Script Reading Double Dose: The Girl Who Sees Smells and Splendid Politics

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 6, 2015 by ockoalaMarch 7, 2015
Cast members at a table reading session.

With winter wrapping up, spring-like warm weather is a-coming and so are two new prime time K-dramas. To save me the hassle of doing separate posts on them, MBC‘s upcoming 50-episode long sageuk Splendid Politics (Hwajung) held its first cast script reading on the same week as SBS‘s trendy The Girl Who Sees Smells (formerly known as Sensory Couple but … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Cha Seung Won, Kim Jae Won, Kim So Hyun, Lee Sung Min, Lee Yeon Hee, Namgong Min, Shin Se Kyung, Splendid Politics, The Girl Who Sees Smells, Yoochun, Yoon Jin Seo

KBS Courts Jang Nara as Lee Jin Wook’s Leading Lady in Hello Monster

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 6, 2015 by ockoalaMarch 7, 2015
Two people at a red carpet event.

Whenever I see a picture of smiling Jang Nara it also brings a smile to my face. She may not be an actress I love but she’s always watchable in all her performances. Call it a combination of effortless charm with baby-faced looks in a tasty match. She did two back-to-back MBC dramas last year with Fated to Love You … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Hello Monster, Jang Nara

SBS Lines Up Ha Ji Won as Leading Lady of the K-remake of In Time With You

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 5, 2015 by ockoalaMarch 7, 2015
Woman in elegant floral black dress.

I see what SBS is doing here, releasing the casting news this early just to distract everyone from the disaster that is Hyde, Jekyll, Me. Even worse is doing so via Hyun Bin‘s equally famous and beloved Secret Garden costar Ha Ji Won, almost like rubbing salt on my already open wound. The K-version of the hit Taiwan drama In Time … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Ha Ji Won, In Time With You

Lee Bo Young Sends Cutest Food Truck Message to Hubby Ji Sung’s Kill Me Heal Me Set

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 5, 2015 by ockoalaMarch 7, 2015
Happy couple in wedding attire, outdoors.

These two give me back a little bit of faith in the celebrity marriage, and really in the idea of marriage as support and compromise. Ji Sung has been busy lately, and I mean real busy what with playing 7 different characters in the currently airing Kill Me Heal Me. A live-filmed K-drama is basically 3 months of living on the … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Ji Sung, Kill Me Heal Me, Lee Bo Young

MBC Long Sageuk Splendid Politics Starts Filming with Epic Cast

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 4, 2015 by ockoalaMarch 7, 2015
Three stylish individuals at a public event.

Currently MBC‘s Mon-Tues fusion sageuk Shine or Go Crazy is comfortably leading the ratings for its time slot, but fifty episode long sageuks don’t just materialize out of thin air so all eyes are on followup drama Splendid Politics (Hwajung, or could be called Princess Jungmyung). Usually MBC does its long sageuk earlier in the year but Splendid Politics won’t … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Han Joo Wan, Hwajung, Kim Jae Won, Lee Yeon Hee, Seo Kang Joon, Splendid Politics

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