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K-ent Reporter Derides KBS for Scheduling 4-Hour Long 2022 Year End Drama Awards When It Has No Hits Despite a Sterling Assemblage of Top Stars

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 18, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 16, 2022
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Well someone at a newspaper wants to get on the bad side of KBS, or perhaps frankly no one cares since KBS has really hit a new low. Normally the network falls behind SBS and MBC in hit dramas in recent years but still has some just not as many. This year in 2022 it literally HAS NONE. Like, not … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Bloody Heart, Cafe Minamdang, Curtain Call, If You Wish Upon Me, It's Beautiful Now, Jinxed at First, Love All Play, Moonshine, The Law Cafe, Three Bold Siblings

Reborn Rich Hits New Ratings High of 22.456% in Episode 13 as the Story Loses the Magnetic Grandpa and Heads into Final Stretch

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 17, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 17, 2022
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jTBC weekend drama Reborn Rich continues to redefine certain aspects of K-dramas, from its fast-paced plot development to dropping three episodes a week so next week is actually the finale already. Can’t believe it, me too! Every weekend the drama has hit new ratings high and this weekend is no exception, Saturday’s episode 13 22.456% but is still a ways … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Lee Sung Min, Reborn Rich, Song Joong Ki

Viewers Thrilled that Reborn Rich Breakouts Aunt and Uncle-in-law and Cousin and His Wife to Hold AMA Next Week

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 17, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 17, 2022
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Wowowow talk about fan service! Next week two sets of the breakout stars of Reborn Rich will be taking their onscreen chemistry and charm directly to the viewers with an AMA (ask me anything) question-and-answer session. There will be Kim Shin Rok as the aunty and only daughter and Kim Do Hyun playing her doting husband and now Mayor of … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Kim Do Hyun, Kim Nam Hee, Kim Shin Rok, Park Ji Hyun, Reborn Rich

K-drama Useless Lies Confirms Main Cast Trio of Kim So Hyun, Minhyun, and Seo Ji Hoon

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 16, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 16, 2022
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Okay, this drama just got wayyyy interesting, though the execution could be wasted. The drama Useless Lies has confirmed the main three leads of Kim So Hyun, Minhyun, and also Seo Ji Hoon, the perpetual second male lead. I like him actually, he is solid onscreen but doesn’t sizzle in the way male leads need to be to get the … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Kim So Hyun, Minhyun, Seo Ji Hoon

Kim Jung Hyun Cosplays Period Grim Reaper and Modern Day Doctor in First Stills for K-drama Season of Kok Du

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 15, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 16, 2022
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It’s nice to see Kim Jung Hyun back on the small screen and whatever happens with audience reaction to him after his Time bad behavior scandal in early 2021 it’s up to him to have the ability to deal with. On a drama note, Season of Kok Du sounds so interesting to be but of course execution and chemistry is … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Kim Jung Hyun, Season of Kkok Du

SBS Kicks Off Promos for January 2023 K-drama Payback with Lee Seon Kyun and Moon Chae Won

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 15, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 15, 2022
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I want to just finish up the 2022 remainder of the year on slow-mo mode since there is so much I want to treasure but alas time is speeding into 2023 and the promo circuit is starting for upcoming K-dramas premiering in the new year. There is SBS legal and financial crimes drama Payback (Korean title Law Money) starring Lee … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Law Money, Lee Seon Kyun, Moon Chae Won, Payback

MBC 2022 Year End Drama Daesang Candidates All Former Winners in So Ji Sub, Lee Jong Seok, and Park Hae Jin

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 14, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 14, 2022
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Well this is definitely slim pickings at MBC this year for the Year End Drama Awards, but what else is new. This year even the contenders for the Daesang are retreads, in the sense that it’s three male leads who have all won MBC Daesangs in the past. So Ji Sub for Doctor Lawyer, then there is Lee Jong Seok … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Lee Jong Seok, Park Hae Jin, So Ji Sub

K-netizens Wonder if Reborn Rich Will Join the Pantheon of Event K-dramas in the Last Five Years Kicked Off by Sky Castle

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 14, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 14, 2022
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High ratings usually means buzz but it takes an extraordinary set of circumstances to become a breakout so-called Event K-drama. That’s been the trend in recent years after the overall ratings decrease across the board in K-drama viewing with audiences going online rather than surrounding the television as a family in the evenings. K-ent is watching closely whether jTBC weekend … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Penthouse, Reborn Rich, Sky Castle, Squid Game, The World of the Married

Lee Bo Young Becomes a Top Ad Marketing President in jTBC January 2023 Drama Agency

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 13, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 11, 2022
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The first poster and teaser is here for Agency, the lucky drama taking over the currently red hot jTBC weekend time slot after Reborn Rich wraps its run. I say lucky but the network is also lucky that it’s a Lee Bo Young drama, in here one on-one off switch with husband Ji Sung it’s her time to be back … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Agency, Lee Bo Young

Yoo Yeon Seok, Moon Ga Young, Jung Ga Ram, and Geum Sae Rok Complicate Attraction in Teaser for jTBC Wed-Thurs Drama The Interest of Love

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 12, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 13, 2022
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I was initially just idly curious about this drama with the casting and it’s adaptation from a source novel with good reviews. But seeing the previews my interest has ratcheted it, it feels mature and restrained with some sexy sneaking through, all in the messy complication of adult attraction. jTBC is readying the next Wed-Thurs drama The Interest of Love … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Geum Sae Rok, Jung Ga Ram, Moon Ga Young, The Interest in Love, Yoo Yeon Seok

Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow Episode 2 Rises to 7.743% as the Narrative Shows Hand on the Resurrected Bu Yeon’s True Form and Writes the Central Conundrum Back to the Story

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 12, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 12, 2022
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Man, watching the second episode of Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow was alternating between these two are cute and headdesking. It’s clear the Hong Sisters had a concept (soul switching! In sageuk fantasy times!) and then wrote the story around it, hence the complete and utter moral quandries they gloss over in attempts to give the female lead a … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Alchemy of Souls, Go Yoon Jung, Lee Jae Wook

Viewer Disconnect and Annoyance with the Loveline Between Song Joong Ki and Shin Hyun Bin in Reborn Reaches Crescendo as Romance Starts in Episode 10

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 11, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 12, 2022
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jTBC weekend drama Reborn Rich is still doing banger ratings, this Friday and Saturday’s episode 9 and 10 dropped from last week’s high of 19% but the story continues to deliver the great plotting plus payoff. Plus the ending of episode 10 will definitely bring in viewers for Sunday’s episode 11. But this post is about the “romance” in this … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Reborn Rich, Shin Hyun Bin, Song Joong Ki

Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow Returns as Season 2 with Swapped Premise of Bu Yeon Now in Naksu’s Physical Body and First Episode Ratings of 6.719%

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 10, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 10, 2022
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So…..despite all all the self-warning and repeated burning from summer tvN drama Alchemy of Souls, I did come back at least for the first episode of season 2 called Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow. The female lead switched from Jung So Min‘s Jin Bu Yeon physical form with Naksu’s soul to Go Yoon Jung so I figured she’s playing … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Alchemy of Souls, Go Yoon Jung, Lee Jae Wook

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