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Zhao Jin Mai’s Team Marketing Her as the Next Song Zu Er Taking Advantage of Opening in Market for the Gamine Headstrong Female Lead

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 7, 2024 by ockoalaJuly 7, 2024
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There’s a reason when a star or a project succeeds it’s is either called the successor to a prior such success or future stars and projects will be compared to it. For stars especially a successful one is boxed in with an image – for actresses it’s the haughty queen, quirky hipster, cool girl, sweet girl-next-door, etc. and the same … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Song Zu Er, Zhao Jin Mai

tvN Schedules Rom-com Drama Love Next Door with Jung Hae In and Jung So Min for August 17th Premiere

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 6, 2024 by ockoalaJuly 6, 2024
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Woo hoo, we have a confirmed date people! The currently filming tvN romance drama Love Next Door (Mom’s Best Friend’s Son) has a date with viewers next month on August 17th. The drama starring Jung Hae In and Jung So Min is one of the most anticipated for me since it’s the first time Jung Hae In has done a … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Jung Hae In, Jung So Min, Love Next Door

Tencent Releases New Character Stills for Lost You Forever Part 2 that Expand on the Original Stills From Part 1 Ahead of July 8th Premiere

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 6, 2024 by ockoalaJuly 6, 2024
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My relationship with Lost You Forever will always remain the first and most memorable love, what with how much I lived and breathed the novel during the years of translation. Three whole books people! Which sadly is only going to become a 60 episode drama, with Part 1 airing last summer with 39 episodes and Part 2 reportedly only have … Continue reading →

Posted in TW & C dramas | Tagged Dai Lu Wa, Deng Wei, Lost You Forever, Tan Jian Ci, Wang Hong Yi, Yang Zi, Zhang Wan Yi

Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Love in Pavilion Seeking Year End 2024 Release Despite Chapter 1 Red Moon Pact Flopping

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 6, 2024 by ockoalaJuly 6, 2024
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So being the middle chapter of a three part trilogy is like being the middle child, burdened by the accomplishments or lack thereof from the eldest and still has a younger sibling that can deliver if you don’t. Fox Spirit Matchmaker series launched with the highly anticipated Red Moon Pact with Yang Mi and Gong Jun which flopped hard and … Continue reading →

Posted in TW & C dramas | Tagged Fox Spirit Matchmaker, Love in Pavilion

Director Guo Jing Ming Announces Two New C-dramas Both Starring His Protege Tian Jia Rui as Male Lead

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 5, 2024 by ockoalaAugust 1, 2024
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So it’s good that I kinda liked Tian Jia Rui the first time I watched him as a supporting male lead in C-drama My Journey to You because he’s about to be everywhere thanks to director Guo Jing Ming. He’s going to be in Fangs of Fortune and this week Guo Jing Ming announced two new C-dramas which one is … Continue reading →

Posted in TW & C dramas | Tagged Tian Jia Rui

Zhao Jin Mai and Zhang Ling He in Fastest OTP Reunion Ever as Both are Cast in C-drama Our Generation the Modern Romance Adaptation of Novel Cherry Amber

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 5, 2024 by ockoalaJuly 5, 2024
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Well The Princess Royal fans (me included!) are in for a treat as C-ent is all but confirming that Zhao Jin Mai and Zhang Ling He are teaming up for a round two. Or round three, since their TPR characters are already on their own round two haha. They have been cast in the C-drama Our Generation adapted from the … Continue reading →

Posted in TW & C dramas | Tagged Cherry Amber, Zhang Ling He, Zhao Jin Mai

Ji Chang Wook and D.O. Sign on for Revenge K-drama Sculptured City

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 5, 2024 by ockoalaJuly 4, 2024
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So this drama and casting was first announced late in 2023 but with the latest announcement from CJ ENM it appears to be definitely in the works. Ji Chang Wook and D.O. (Do Kyung Soo) will be starring in Sculptured City in a twisted revenge tale. It’s about an ordinary man who has his life manipulated into a hell and … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged D.O., Ji Chang Wook, Sculptured City

Byun Woo Seok Joins Go Yoon Jung as the New Faces of NB Bank in South Korea

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 4, 2024 by ockoalaJuly 4, 2024
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For a very specialized bank that originated for the agricultural sector, NH Bank (Nonghyub Bank) is a surprising hypebeast when it comes to selecting spokespersons. Earlier this year after Han So Hee got into a love train scandal with Ryu Jun Yeon and Hyeri, she lost a few endorsements and one of them was NB Bank. The Bank ended its endorsement deal with … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Byun Woo Seok

Kim Hye Yoon Continues Her Happy Girl Summer of 2024 Jetting Out of Airport for Another Event

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 4, 2024 by ockoalaJuly 4, 2024
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K-actress Kim Hye Yoon is definitely living her best Happy Girl Summer as opposed to the meme of the Hot Girl Summer that comes around every such season. She has been spotted many times in June already flying out for events overseas including the cast and crew reward vacation for Lovely Runner. Every time she’s at the airport she just … Continue reading →

Posted in My Loves | Tagged Kim Hye Yoon

Lee Do Hyun Back on the Small Screen in Sweet Home 3 During His Military Enlistment and Netizens Marvel at His Range Having Filmed It Along with The Good Bad Mother and Exhuma at the Same Time

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 4, 2024 by ockoalaJuly 3, 2024
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The first Sweet Home was a hit for Netflix at the beginning of the platform’s rise in produced K-dramas but sadly Sweet Home 2 was a bloated mess so now the returning Sweet Home 3 just feels anticlimactic. If there is a reason to check out SH3 airing on July 19th it’s the return of Lee Do Hyun and his … Continue reading →

Posted in My Loves | Tagged Lee Do Hyun

Zhao Jin Mai and Zhang Ling He Bring Their Visual Cuteness from Period Drama The Princess Royal to Modern Pictorial

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 3, 2024 by ockoalaJuly 3, 2024
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So the end of The Double nicely dovetailed for me right into the start of The Princess Royal. It’s not the same vibes or addictiveness though, TPR is slower and less makjang in that thrilling way TD delivered beat after beat of getting a satisfying revenge payoff, but instead lets a second chance marriage and romance develop in lovely beats. … Continue reading →

Posted in TW & C dramas | Tagged The Princess Royal, Zhang Ling He, Zhao Jin Mai

Shin Se Kyung Leaves EDAM After 3 Years and Will Look for New Agency

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 3, 2024 by ockoalaJuly 7, 2024
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When K-actress Shin Se Kyung changed agency for the first time, it was three years ago when she left Namoo Actors for EDAM and that was a huge deal since she was with Namoo Actors for 19 years thanks to her child star entree into the industry. This week it was announced that she’s parted ways with EDAM and will … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Shin Se Kyung

New Stills of the Six Leads of Lost You Forever Part 2 Feels Like No Time Has Passed Getting Back into the Mood of the Drama

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 3, 2024 by ockoalaJuly 3, 2024

I’m a nostalgist and also have developed patience with age, the year long wait between Lost You Forever Part 1 and now the coming Part 2 was frustrating when it happened but now feels like a shrug of no big deal. The drama is returning next week and Tencent released the first batch of official lead stills showing Yang Zi, … Continue reading →

Posted in TW & C dramas | Tagged Deng Wei, Lost You Forever, Tan Jian Ci, Wang Hong Yi, Yang Zi, Zhang Wan Yi

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