Well I know who’s getting the MBC Daesang this year lol. Of course another drama can come along and surpass this but it’s still the biggest rocket out of the gate in 2024. MBC Fri-Sat night sageuk drama Knight Flower with Honey Lee and Lee Jong Won ended this weekend with the final episode getting 18.4% ratings, an extraordinary achievement … Continue reading →
A new C-drama is in early casting stage but it has a pretty name and also potential leads and I like. The drama title is Green Cloud Platform adapted from the same name period romance novel set during a wartime with the leads going from enemies to lovers. The offer is out to Zhao Lu Si to be the female … Continue reading →
So y’all want more melon on this one? So the production of C-drama Love on the Turquoise Land is happy to have confirmed Dilraba Dilmurat and Chen Zhe Yuan for the leads and both stars like the script and their characters. The biggest issue is billing order, it’s either going to be Dilraba first as expected or equal billing between … Continue reading →
New C-drama casting alert and this one seems like a solid pairing for me. The C-novel The Days of Seclusion and Love is getting a drama adaptation and reportedly has confirmed as leads Liu Yu Ning and Tian Xi Wei in that billing order. Liu Yu Ning has been busy filming The Legend of Jewelry with Zhao Lu Si and … Continue reading →
So this is like taking a high prestige K-movie cast and crew and moving it to K-dramas, which is happening more frequently these days. Jung Woo Sung has been confirmed for the drama Made in Korea, with the director Woo Min Ho of Inside Men and The Drug King. The drama is set in the 1970’s and Jung Woo Sung … Continue reading →
So tvN has been very good to viewers anticipating its upcoming K-drama The Queen of Tears as there has been a steady stream of promos since the beginning of February. The latest release shows leads Kim Soo Hyun and Kim Ji Won showing off their good looks through the three stages of a relationship. The first is cheerfully dating with … Continue reading →
So I could totally swear that K-actor Na In Woo was done with his military service already, I guess I thought he was in his 30s and older then he really is. He’s only 29 years old and will be heading to his mandatory military service next month in March 2024. He will first attend a team reward trip to … Continue reading →
So I would never be interested in this K-drama but for the cast and director involved, I love every one of them SO MUCH. The upcoming Netflix drama Chicken Nugget with Ryu Seung Ryong and Ahn Jae Hong premiering on March 15th released the first poster and teaser and I was just basically teleported back to one of my favorite … Continue reading →
So it was western Valentine’s Day this week and with it a bunch of modern romance C-dramas on deck released new posters. One of them was The White Olive Tree which I wasn’t even tracking but now am intrigued solely because it looks like a remake of Descendants of the Sun. But the drama is based on the same name … Continue reading →
So the C-way remains a collective mutual harmony rather and individual win at the expense of others, and C-actor Bai Jing Ting is learning the hard way what it means to be a stand out nail on a board. At this week’s biggest lunar new year television show the CCTV Chunwan program, Bai Jing Ting performed a song along with … Continue reading →
So this drama was part of C-actor Wang Yibo and his career directional turn away from idol fare to more serious dramas and movies in the last three years. The 1920’s era C-drama Golden Journey with him and Li Qin is about a young man who grows disenchanted with the republic front and embraces the inspirational communist ideals and becomes … Continue reading →
So Kim Soo Hyun has romanced a few rich/powerful/famous female lead characters in his most popular dramas and it appears he’s adding another one to his onscreen dating history. Kim Ji Won in Queen of Tears absolutely channels Jeon Ji Hyun in You From Another Star, IU in Producer, and Seo Ye Ji in It’s Okay to Not be Okay. … Continue reading →
So the biggest C-drama to drop this year so far will go to The Legend of Shen Li which is reportedly slated now for an early March 2024 release. When I say biggest I mean highest profile in leads and budget and also breadth of release, The drama will air on China Central Television, Zhejiang TV, Jiangsu TV and also … Continue reading →
