Autumn Arrives in Third Week of Netflix K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines as Kim Sun Ho’s Reportedly Guest Appearance is Revealed to be the Daughter’s Husband

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Oh this is so going to get K-netizens goat up lol, but a bit of controversy of this nature is fine. Two weeks in Netflix K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines continues to rack up views, accolades, and online buzz for a generational story anchored by IU and Park Bo Gum as Jeju countryside kids turned married young adults trying … Continue reading →

Kim Sae Ron’s Family Files Lawsuit Against Youtuber Lee Jin Ho for Defamation and Harassment and Plans to Sue Kim Soo Hyun Unless He Admits to Dating Kim Sae Ron When She was a Minor and Apologizes for the Denial Lies

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When a tourniquet keeps tightening at a point something is going to give and it’s looking more and more like top actor Kim Soo Hyun will not be able to sustain the claim that he dated now deceased actress Kim Sae Ron after she legally became an adult in 2019. Her family has filed a lawsuit against Youtuber Lee Jin … Continue reading →

Zhao Lu Si’s Female Lead Period C-drama Ask Dan Zhu Reportedly Gets Wang Zi Qi as the Male lead

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There remains a lot of potential dramas that claim Zhao Lu Si has been offered the female lead role (usually true) or has accepted (rarely true), but among this current group as she picks her next project it’s looking more and more like it will be period C-drama Ask Dan Zhu (Wen Dan Zhu 问丹朱). It’s from the same novelist … Continue reading →

Disney+ Picks Up K-drama Adaptation of Webtoon Remarried Empress with Shin Mina, Lee Jong Seok, Joo Ji Hoon, and Lee Se Young

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So this is really happening and with this main foursome cast, I never could have fantasy cast this lol. K-ent is reporting that the K-drama adaptation of webtoon Remarried Empress will air on Disney+ and is slated to be a 10-episode drama. Please drop it all at once Disney+ rather than one episode or a few episodes a week, pretty … Continue reading →

Top Fashion Brand Prada Officially Terminates Contract with Kim Soo Hyun as Netizens Note a String of Disaster Asian Star Spokesperson Selections Calling it the Prada Curse

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K-actor Kim Soo Hyun is sitting in 19 brand endorsements, one of the most in K-ent so in the fallout of the allegations that he dated deceased K-actress Kim Sae Ron when she was a minor will of course have fallouts for his CFs. To date, some have quietly removed his pictures from online and posters in stores and a … Continue reading →

tvN Starts Promos for Medical K-drama Resident Playbook with Go Yoon Jung with Release of Poster and First Teaser

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I think the safe best is to soft launch the promos of Resident Playbook and gauge the public appetite for a medical drama. It should be fine seeing as The Trauma Code: Heroes on Call was a big hit, but that drama was about ER type cases but this is more the slice-of-life of a med school student in residency … Continue reading →

TW-star Barbie Hsu Laid to Rest with Husband, Family, and Friends Beside Her on a Pouring Rain Day in Taipei

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Chinese superstition has it that on the day of a funeral if it’s raining out it means even the Heavens and Gods are mourning the passing of a good person, so rainy day funerals are an auspicious sign for the deceased not that it makes anyone feel any better. This Saturday March 15th, the family and friends of top Taiwanese … Continue reading →

C-netizens Overwhelmingly Turn Against Kim Soo Hyun for Dating Underage Kim Sae Ron and C-ent Gossip Columnist Claims Insiders Have Known About the Relationship and He Broke Up with Her the Day Before Her 21st Birthday

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K-actor Kim Soo Hyun isn’t just a top star domestically in South Korea, he’s also a top Hallyu star around almost all of East Asia and Southeast Asia with so many popular K-dramas of his that exported over to those countries for airing. He’s been consistently popular in Mainland China, but C-netizens unlike other groups have nearly immediately and collectively … Continue reading →

Kim Yoo Jung Embodies the Epitome of Balmain Haute Couture at Paris Fashion Show

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Talk about back-to-back fashion homeruns for my girl Kim Yoo Jung. She look fantastic at Incheon airport jetting to Paris for fashion week and then one upped herself actually attending the fashion show for Balmain. From the blunt bangs onward to her dramatic makeup and strong yet fun outfit, the whole look worked so well for me, especially since it’s … Continue reading →

Gold Medalist Releases Official Statement Admitting Kim Soo Hyun Dated Kim Sae Ron But Claims it Happened in 2019 After She was Legally an Adult and Denies Trying to Collect Debt that Contributed to Her Stress

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So the public won’t need to wait until next week as today Kim Soo Hyun and his agency Gold Medalist released its official statement on the allegations Kim Soo Hyun dated Kim Sae Ron when she was still underage. The statement is very long (translations will abound) but here I’ll just do the TL:DR: the statement admitted Kim Soo Hyun … Continue reading →

Garo Sero Institute Posts Another Cozy Picture of Kim Soo Hyun and Kim Sae Ron on Fourth Day of Scandal Reveal and Threatens Three More Even More Scandalous Pictures and Video Depending on His Statement Next Week if He Doesn’t Admit and Apologize

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This is a David v. Goliath battle where even if David is a sleazy tabloid Youtube scandalmonger if this is all true then it’s doing God’s work in revealing the dark underbelly of top Korean star Kim Soo Hyun. Garo Sero Institute responded on this fourth day of the Kim Soo Hyun dated underaged Kim Sae Ron scandal to Gold … Continue reading →

Netflix Four Seasons of Family, Love, and Struggle K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines Premieres to Glowing Reviews, Viewership, and Online Buzz

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This past weekend big budget Netflix exclusive K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines premiered the first four episodes, with three more four episode drops on the subsequent Fridays to come. The theme is love, family, adversity, and life through the four seasons, literally and figuratively. The first poster of leads IU and Park Bo Gum they are school students in … Continue reading →

Kim Soo Hyun’s Agency Gold Medalist Announces that It Will Provide Factual Statement Response to the Current Kim Sae Ron Allegations Next Week

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Hahahaha, OMG I’m dying at the ballsy and shameless response from Gold Medalist on behalf of Kim Soo Hyun. In the face of three days worth of mounting allegations and evidence that he dated now deceased actress Kim Sae Ron when she was still underaged and also contributed to her stress and worries with a debt collection notice after her … Continue reading →