The success of Taxi Driver 2, even higher than the original season, has given Lee Je Hoon another leveling up in his already successful leading man career and he’s next taking his talents back to prime time television with a nostalgic favorite. He’s confirmed for MBC drama Chief Inspector 1963 which of course is set in 1963 about the main … Continue reading →
The gumiho brothers and another gumiho femme fatale are going to wreak havoc, or restore order maybe, back in 1938 era Korea (not North and South yet) and as much as I was sorely letdown by season 1 I’m like a dog to a bone and curious enough to check out season 2 Tale of Gumiho: 1938. It helps that … Continue reading →
The second season of The Uncanny Counter is coming with the really wordy title The Uncanny Counter 2: Counter Punch. It was the highest rated series on smaller cable network OCN and for the second season will move to the biggest cable network tvN which has confirmed broadcast for the second half of 2023. The news was met with split … Continue reading →
Oh man this sounds potentially amazingly entertaining. A new K-drama is coming that will make K-actress Choi Ji Woo‘s return to acting after a few year’s hiatus post marriage and having a baby, though she had a few cameos. The drama is called Double Spy and will costar Kim Myung Min, with the two playing ex-lovers who join forces to … Continue reading →
I thought maybe Ask the Stars would air in 2023 but it’s looking like 2024, and hopefully not as long as 2025. The drama production confirmed this week that it wrapped filming on April 12th and I was floored because I swear this drama has been filming since forever and I thought it wrapped already. So it took a good … Continue reading →
A fresh new sageuk and pairing popped up today to help over the midweek hump. K-ent is reporting that Lee Jae Wook and Jo Boa are in talks to lead a new sageuk drama titled Swallowing Gold (literal) adapted from the same name novel. Lee Jae Wook is the son of a rich merchant wife who disappears as a child … Continue reading →
Oh this is a great cameo and I wish both young leads from the first season would do the cameo together. Yoo Yeon Seok will be returning to the hospital with a cameo in the upcoming Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim 3, reprising his role from the first season. No word on Seo Hyun Jin but I just love when both … Continue reading →
SBS has hit the bid and announced a third season of Taxi Driver (Model Taxi) on the heel of the ending of season 2 this Saturday. Breaking 20% on a prime time network drama is no small feat in this day and age and the structure of this drama with individual cases lends well to the season format. I’m so … Continue reading →
It’s a fantastic ending for SBS Fri-Sat drama Taxi Driver 2 (Model Taxi 2) which took a solid and decently rated first season and upped the success quotient for the second go-around. The final episode brought in 21% ratings which puts it on the highest rating for any prime time drama in 2023, a nice continuation of the recent successes … Continue reading →
So the last three months I flew a lot to and from Asia and those long haul trans-Pacific flights were perfect for catching up on movies I’ve been waiting to watch because I’m too lazy to go to the theater. One movie that I have been meaning to watch as Alienoid Part 1 and it was the perfect plane movie, … Continue reading →
tvN has put the big budget big production K-drama The Queen of Tears on its 2023 schedule formally, squeezing it in at the end of the year in December 2023. The drama was already anticipated coming from screenwriter Park Ji Eun of Crash Landing on You, Legend of the Blue Sea, and You From Another Star, then it got even … Continue reading →
Since I didn’t finish Taxi Driver (Model Taxi) despite liking the first few episodes (just lost track of it), the second season which premiered this past February was not a series I tracked. But for SBS, the decision to greenlight Taxi Driver 2 has paid off as the ratings for this season has surpassed the original with an episode high … Continue reading →
Well this is certainly a get for the Hong Sisters if this actor does indeed confirm for their next K-drama. Son Seok Gu is in talks for romance drama Can This Love be Translated, which is the next Hong Sisters drama and takes them back to pure romance land away from their previous three dramas which all had fantasy elements … Continue reading →
