Shin Hye Sun Continues to Challenge Herself with Interesting Roles as She Signs on Next Drama Playing a Woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder

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K-actress Shin Hye Sun is really going to back-to-back-to-back on K-dramas, not that I am complaining. She did See You in My 19th Life rolling right into Welcome to Samdalri and now has signed on for her next K-drama before Samdalri has ended. The drama is called To My Haeri (literal translation) and is from the screenwriter of Twenty Five, … Continue reading →

New K-pop Couple Alert as Hyuna and Yong Jun Hyung Self Announce Dating Relationship

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So no one can accuse K-pop star Hyuna of moving on too fast after the end of a long relationship. The songstress dated fellow K-pop-er E’Dawn (or just Dawn now) for 6 years before the couple announced their break up last year in December of 2022. Now to kick off the new year in 2024, Hyuna has debuted a new … Continue reading →

Song Joong Ki Offered Male Lead Role in Romance K-drama My Youth

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I feel like it’s been so long since Song Joong Ki did a romance based drama or movie it almost felt like he wasn’t going back to that era in his career. But now it looks like while he enjoyed the successful genre jumping it looks like he will be doing a melo this year in 2024. He’s in talks … Continue reading →

Xu Kai and Yu Shu Xin Go on Memory Loss Adventure in New Poster and Preview for Chinese Paladin 6 Drama Sword and Fairy Premiering Jan 18th

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So this drama synopsis may seem wonky off the bat calling leads Xu Kai and Yu Shu Xin of Sword and Fairy, the Chinese Paladin 6 adaptation, as siblings but it’s not cuz they are actually blood related. The story kicks off when both awaken at the same time in some random town with no memories and set off on … Continue reading →

SBS Confirms New Legal Drama Good Partner with Jang Nara and Nam Ji Hyun

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A new legal drama is coming on SBS in early 2024, the directly titled Good Partner centered around attorneys at a divorce firm. My fave divorce attorney K-drama remains Love and Marriage which feels like multiple lifetimes ago. Good Partner pairs the veteran partner with a pragmatic attitude to divorce law with the younger rookie who remains morally righteous, who … Continue reading →

Chinese Paladin 4 Titled Sword and Fairy 4 with Ju Jing Yi and Chen Zhe Yuan Air Drops Today January 17th

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So those of us on a C- or K-drama lull starting this new year in 2024 get ready for dramas galore to drop now and through lunar new year. The first to arrive is the adaptation of the Chinese Paladin 4 video game and the drama is titled Sword and Fairy 4 and stars Ju Jing Yi and Chen Zhe … Continue reading →

tvN Mon-Tues Drama Marry My Husband Stays High in 7% Ratings Despite Dispatch Article on Park Min Young

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I remember many times K-netizens claiming to be outraged by a star and wanting to boycott this and that but it almost always ends up being decided on quality. Last year some thought Jo Byung Kyu‘s bullying allegations were never resolved and didn’t want to watch The Uncanny Counter 2, but it turns out the drama ratings never met the … Continue reading →

Producer Yu Zheng Rips C-actress Zhu Xu Dan for Dropping Out His Drama Right Before Filming After She Gets a Female Lead Role

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So while one is technically right the other one seems more on the moral high ground, and unfortunately it’s the normally bad one. C-drama producer Yu Zheng this week announced his new drama Perfect Match which has a four actress four actor pairing in what is described as a cute period romance comedy. The two main female leads were supposed … Continue reading →

Park Min Young’s Agency Releases Statement Refuting Dispatch’s Article and She Posts on SNS that She is Sick of It All and Will Persevere for Her Fans

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At least the formal response is swift and will hopefully put this to rest. If not then K-netizens need to decide if they simply want to keep digging into this. A day after Dispatch published an article claiming that investigation into Park Min Young‘s ex-boyfriend Kang and his financial misconduct case revealed that contrary to her earlier claim she did … Continue reading →

Chinese Paladin 6 Sword and Fairy with Xu Kai and Yu Shu Xin May Drop This Month in January Beating CP4 to Air

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So the Chinese Paladin dramas are based on the same name RPG games so each series is its own story line. The original CP and then CP3 are classics, and there is CP4 with Chen Zhe Yuan and Ju Jing Yi longed completed and yet to air and more recently filmed CP6 called Sword and Fairy with Xu Kai and … Continue reading →

C-ent Tabloid Captures Nicky Wu and Liu Shi Shi Together with Son Starting Off 2024 Deflecting Usual Rumors of Impending Divorce

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So it’s been a consistent rumor since around 2022 that married couple Nicky Wu and Liu Shi Shi will get divorced. It’s pretty much the same stuff around different priorities in career/family and disagreement about where their son would be education (Taiwan v. Mainland China). The most recent rumor is that it will be announced in 2025 after the couple … Continue reading →

C-actor Hu Ge Reportedly Pleased with the Solid Success of Blossoms Shanghai and Intends to Keep Being Picky with His Projects

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C-actor Hu Ge has another hit on his hands with the C-drama Blossoms Shanghai directed by HK auteur Wong Kar Wai. This is probably his most high profile C-drama in nearly a decade since his career elevating critically acclaimed hit Nirvana in Fire. He’s been so picky with dramas and movies and rightly so, reportedly he only went against his … Continue reading →

Production Indecisiveness Around Top Billing for Chinese Paladin 4 is a Self-created Problem and May End Up Suddenly Air Dropping Drama with Zero Promos

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There are so many finished C-dramas with actual problems, like in jail mail leads, a topic that is banned by the C-government, and a cast member under investigation for tax evasion. So Chinese Paladin 4 not airing yet is the funniest shiz because it’s solely self-created by the production and network in signing a contract two years ago with Ju … Continue reading →