Zhang Jing Yi and Chen Xing Xu From the Fall in Love Promo Debacle Remains Cautionary Tale for Producers on Stars Dating During Filming and Fall Out After

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So the producers of upcoming modern romance C-drama Our Generation (Cherry Amber) are happy that netizens responded positively to last week’s leak of Zhao Jin Mai and Zhang Ling He re-teaming for the drama after their The Princess Royal go-around. What’s good is that they have chemistry onscreen, get along well in real life to make promos cute and believable, … Continue reading →

A Blood Splattered Reckoning is Coming as Lost You Forever Part 2 Gears Up for Premiere with Intense New Stills

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I feel like everything I read and translated in Lost You Forever the novel came to life in Part 1 and now is poised to do the same in Part 2. It helps that the drama was filming in one swoop as it was never intended to be a two part-er initially. The novel is split into three books with … Continue reading →

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

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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 →

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

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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 →

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

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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 →

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

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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 →

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

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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 →

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

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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 →

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

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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 →

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

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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 →

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

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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 →

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

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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 →

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

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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 →