Category Archives: K-dramas

Classic Scenes From Lost You Forever Become New Valentine’s Day Posters for C-drama Starring Yang Zi, Zhang Wan Yi, Deng Wei, and Tan Jian Ci

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A bunch of finished filming in early 2022 C-dramas rounded the corner into 2023 and still haven’t aired yet so I’m not too hopeful to see the C-drama adaptation of Lost You Forever airing anytime soon since it finished filming late last year. So getting periodic treats is good enough and for Valentine’s Day this week the production released four … Continue reading →

The Glory Breakout Male Star Jung Sung Il Gets His Spotlight in Arena Magazine March 2023 Pictorial

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I love the breakout moments for underrated stars especially when it’s so organic and undeniable. There have been plenty over the years and the latest to join this special group is K-actor Jung Sung Il who ostensibly was like maybe the third or fourth male lead in Netflix revenge drama The Glory but projected so much thrumming charisma that the … Continue reading →

Lee Bo Young and Lee Moo Saeng Cast for TVING Drama Hyde a Remake of BBC Series

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K-actress Lee Bo Young and her husband actor Ji Sung have basically switched off dramas during their nearly ten year long marriage, when he does one she’s on hiatus with their kids and vice-versa. She’s currently slaying the ratings in jTBC weekend drama Agency but it appears she’s going to keep the momentum as she’s signed on for TVING drama … Continue reading →

K-drama Remake of Goong Confirmed to Head into Production in 2024, K-netizens List Ten Actors and Actresses for the Leads with Lee Do Hyun and Kim Yoo Jung Trending Highest

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The K-drama remake of Goong (Princess Hours) which has been discussed for a new years now is for sure a go this year, with confirmed production in 2024. Perhaps it’s not a remake but another adaptation of the source manhwa itself so there definitely is room to do something unique rather than a beat-for-beat but updated for this current gen … Continue reading →

MBC Fri-Sat Fantasy Drama Kokdu: Season of Deity with Kim Jung Hyun and Im Soo Hyang Drops to Low 1.9% Ratings by Episode 6

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Full disclosure, I watched the first episode of Kokdu: Season of Deity three weeks ago and HATED it. Like, I went in with optimistic expectations and was supremely underwhelmed by the set up and put off by the bad editing. So if the drama got better I wasn’t around to see it but the ratings have definitely taken an road … Continue reading →

Crash Course in Romance Episodes 9-10 Put on a Lesson in Wonderfully Decent People Thoughtfully Working Through Feelings and Frustrations as Ratings Roar to 13.501%

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The audience love for Crash Course in Romance continues and the more I watch the more the things I love about it outweigh the few that I don’t. There was emotional breakthroughs for both leads, candid conversations, and even a drunken kiss that felt so sweetly orchestrated, this rom-com is doing wonders for reminding viewers that not all K-drama romance … Continue reading →

Honey Lee Pairs Up with Fast Rising Young Actor Lee Jong Won for Sageuk Rom-com Flower that Blooms at Night

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Well this is an mighty strange casting pair but who knows, stranger things have worked. A new sageuk drama is being prepped titled Flower that Blooms at Night and late last year was reported to be starring Honey Lee in her first acting project after having a baby. Now her male lead has been cast with young rising actor Lee … Continue reading →

jTBC Drama The Interest of Love Headdesks its Way into An Ending That Stays True to the Entire Frustrating Story

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OMG, it’s been a LOOOOOONG time since I remember watching a K-drama as headdesk frustrating as this one. The Interest of Love wasn’t bad per se, it was just a story with four awful leads acting like they were emotionally blind and walking into walls and each other the entire time when everyone could just open their eyes like normal … Continue reading →

K-netizens Discuss the Complex Collapse of Once Hit Drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal in that Only One of the Leads is Scandal Free

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I thought Sungkyunkwan Scandal was basically un-re-watchable after the Park Yoochun toilet scandal, and even more so with his drug arrest and myriad additional subsequent scandals after. But now K-netizens are saying its unfathomable levels of un-re-watchable with only one remaining non-scandal ridden star among the four leads namely Song Joong Ki. With Yoo Ah In‘s propofol investigation and Park … Continue reading →

Jang Ki Yong in Talks for Fantasy K-drama Though Not a Hero as First Project Post Military Discharge

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I felt like K-actor Jang Ki Yong hasn’t been gone for military enlistment for that long but that’s due to him having a drama air months after he enlisted, namely Now, We are Breaking Up. That one was a raging snoozer but I did enjoy the one before My Roommate is a Gumiho. Maybe fantasy is his genre so this … Continue reading →

K-netizens So Happy to Learn that Prolific Supporting Actress Lee Bong Ryun Most Recently in Crash Course in Romance is Married to Scene-stealing Supporting Actor Lee Gyu Hoe

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Fans of K-dramas must recognize these two on sight but I’m ashamed to admit, myself included, that most don’t know their names. We do now! K-netizens are chattering about the recent discovery that supporting leads Lee Bong Ryun and Lee Gyu Hoe are married in real life. Lee Bong Ryun is most recently in Crash Course in Romance as the … Continue reading →

Song Hye Kyo is Ready to Take Her Revenge to the Destructive End in Posters and Preview for Part 2 of Netflix Drama The Glory

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Anticipation and making her enemies wait for what she has in store is part of the torture of unknown revenge that Song Hye Kyo is dishing out as her character in Netflix drama The Glory. Perhaps that is why the drama was split into two parts, because unlike multi season shows where there is an end of sorts splitting this … Continue reading →

First Poster and Teaser for KBS Period Young Romance Drama Oasis with Jang Dong Yoon, Seok In Ah, and Choo Yeong Woo

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Period set in the 1980’s youth dramas are pretty trendy in the last few years there was Youth of May and Snowdrop and coming up on KBS Mon-Tues will be Oasis. I expect conflict in the form of political protest transgressions and someone going to jail, and lo and behold in the preview that’s exactly what’s shown. Nothing wrong with … Continue reading →