[Announcement: The virus attack has been vanquished successfully! You can access my site through any search engine referral or RSS feeder again. Hooray!] Ji Sung was one of the first Korean actors I got to know when I started watching K-dramas years ago, so it’s pretty nice to see him suddenly get a surge of new fans recently because of … Continue reading →
I love my Ji Hwan in any incarnation, be it his clean cut chaebol president in Lie to Me, or now his edgy fashion gunslinger look for L’Officiel Hommes. Kang Ji Hwan is currently preparing for his movie Tomorrow’s News to begin filming, so it’s nice to see him busy with endorsements during the downtime. I love how he owns … Continue reading →
Ji Sung’s unfortunate hairstyle in Protect the Boss is just that – unfortunate. What’s worse is that it’s completely unnecessary. Does that hairstyle actually enhance his character’s unique personality traits? Of course not. Ji Sung is owning the role of Cha Ji Heon by his performance skills alone, and actually doing a battle to make sure his broccoli hair doesn’t … Continue reading →
I’d be lying if I said I liked love triangles in dramas. A good love triangle is very hard to do, which requires forcing the viewer to have a hard time picking between two equally viable choices. So most dramas with love triangles end up being a lopsided three legged stool. I have no clue if Protect the Boss has … Continue reading →
Leave it to LMHMG (see glossary for definition) to be the one to screw with my vacation schedule and drop a K-ent bombshell. Lee Min Ho and Park Min Young, having just starred in the well-received City Hunter, has just confirmed they are dating. On one hand, I am thrilled for them. Beyond thrilled actually, I am totally and completely … Continue reading →
What’s a North Korean spy going to do when she’s torn between duty and love? I really wish I didn’t board the good ship Choi Ryu because it would be deliciously juicy to angst over a Hallyu star who put his career on the line for a nobody only to discover she’s been scheming him since the very beginning. And … Continue reading →
One of the things I love about Protect the Boss (and there are too many things to list) is that the characters all react to situations in such honest ways. What drives some drama narrative is when characters deny or repress their feelings so we can have the requisite misunderstandings and plot can get dragged out. In PTB, people cry, … Continue reading →
After holding a dedication ceremony at the beginning of August in Kaifeng (the capital of China during the Song dynasty), the production of Saving General Yang finally got a non-gimpy leading man (Ekin Cheng stepping in for the injured Louis Koo) and can continue on its merry way to bring Koala her man-candy-epic movie. The production held a press conference … Continue reading →
This is Koala’s left hand posting. Her right hand is still on vacation and refuses to participate. But both her left and right eye happily viewed this preview for episode 12 of Spy Myung Wol and was mildly amused. Looks like all the hubhub has finally died down outside of the drama, while the story itself appears to have taken … Continue reading →
Most dramas tend to be middle-of-the-road fare – you watch and then you forget about it. But sometimes even those dramas yield things that are memorable in other ways, it stays with you for a good long while. Today’s recess time discussion is this: has there been anything in a certain drama that you covet? It can range from something … Continue reading →
I won’t be around to check out episode 1 of the upcoming Office Girls with Roy Qiu, Alice Ke, James Wen, and Tia Li, which is the drama that will be taking over Drunken to Love You’s spot on Sundays on TTV. But I wouldn’t be posting about it if I didn’t really enjoy all the previews that I’ve seen. … Continue reading →
Gong Hyo Jin and Cha Seung Won are probably the two most high-fashion couture actor/models in Korean entertainment. Long, leggy, lithe, with non-conventionally pretty but rather striking features, if fashion week in Paris needed two Korean actors, they would be the ones I’d send. September’s issue of Harper’s Bazaar Korea reunites them for the first time after their hit rom-com … Continue reading →
When Koala’s on holiday, the Playground might seem awfully quiet. But it needn’t be that way, as so many drama mates from around the world have congregated here and ought to be more than capable of stirring up some fun to pass the time. As the Captain, I am here to inaugurate a new category of posts henceforth called “Recess”. … Continue reading →