[2nd Edit: Both Da S and Wang Xiaofei have updated their blogs and confirmed the engagement!] Hot off the press: It is basically all but confirmed that Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu (Da S) is engaged to her newest boyfriend, mainland Chinese uber-rich businessman Wang Xiaofei, who is five years younger. They started dating 20 days ago.
Continue reading →This week I’ve been playing two K-drama OST songs interchangeably, setting the mood for my writing and chilling. Baek Ji Young‘s Do Not Forget from the IRIS OST, and Park Hyo Shin‘s I Love You (yeah, not the most creative title ever, I know) from the upcoming Athena: Goddess of War OST.
Continue reading →The first BTS photo is out of the crew filming Playful Kiss! Heh, that picture above is clearly NOT it, but (1) I love that picture of Ha Ni, and (2) I always hide BTS or spoiler information after the jump. 🙂
Continue reading →KBS has elected to go all alliteration on us. The official English title for the drama formerly known as Mary Stayed Out All Night (which is still the Korean title) is Marry Me, Mary! (complete with the exclamation point). I was debating whether to refer to it as Mary or MSOAN, and now I’ve got to contend with calling it MMM … Continue reading →
I’m now all caught up on That Love Comes, which wasn’t very hard to do since only four episodes have been released so far. It’s slated to be a twelve episode drama, and at thirty-minutes each, this is really a light and airy little cream puff of a love story. Everyone, and I mean everyone, has been talking about the … Continue reading →
Some PKissers have been wondering when this longing and wistfulness for Playful Kiss will end. There is no cure from moving on from a drama-addiction, other than time and distance. It will take longer for some than for others, but the best way is to admit that you will be able to move on rather than fixating on the present … Continue reading →
Joe Cheng was invited to represent Taiwan at the G20 Let’s Go Concert in Seoul this past weekend. It was a star-packed affair, with the Korean performers including Rain, BoA, Beast, et. al., plus a host of fabulous singers from various other Asian countries. Of all the singers in Taiwan, they invited Joe. Let that sink in for a minute. … Continue reading →
Filming for Athena: Goddess of War has been steadily ongoing for the last few months, perhaps taking brief breaks in between country-hopping so that its stars can come back to Korea and promote their movies. And in the case of the ailing Cha Seung Won, seek medical attention.
Continue reading →The second teaser trailer for Mary Stayed Out All Night is out! It’s got some overlap with the first trailer in terms of footage used, but this time the background music is the song from the MV trailer that was released a few weeks ago.
Continue reading →I feel like a bipolar Koala what with two new dramas simultaneously dropping goodies on me daily. Today comes the third trailer for Secret Garden, which is also its longest in length.
Continue reading →KBS released both the character descriptions and the written preview for epsiode one for the upcoming Mary Stayed Out All Night. Finally, we’re given a glimpse at how this whole two fake marriages thing happened, as well as the possible love quadrangle going on here.
Continue reading →While we’re most familiar with newbie actress Jung So Min from her turn as Oh Ha Ni in Playful Kiss, we can safely agree this girl has got “it”. You know, that indefinable aura that separates the aspiring wannabes with the genuine real deals.
Continue reading →These adorable snapshots come to us courtesy of the wrap party for Playful Kiss. You gotta have a wrap party, even if the drama continues on with the 9 Youtube episodes.
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