TW-actor Blue Lan Confirms Split with Actress Wife Jade Chou After Rumors the Two Filed for Divorce After 9 Years

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I’ve probably covered two cycles of East Asian entertainment with how long I’ve blogged so there is dating, breakups, marriages, kids, divorces, re-marriages, and deaths in various combinations. Of course in recent years also add scandals leading to cancellation. Anyhoo, TW-ent reported last week that married stars Blue Lan and Jade Chou were recently spotted at the government registrars office … Continue reading →

Kim Nam Gil Adorable in Reaction at Incheon Airport Seeing Media and Fans Sending Him Off for Fan Meeting

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K-actor Kim Nam Gil is one of those lucky for viewers accidents, a supporting actor who didn’t appear to be on leading man trajectory when he first started, the second male lead who rockets to fame phenomenon really gave the world a genuine acting talent. He also has a humble and goofy real life personality which was on display this … Continue reading →

Son Ye Jin Makes First Post Baby Public Appearance Attending Valentino Fashion Show in Paris

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New mommy life can be both heartwarming and exceedingly cloistered. It’s hard to strike the balance between nesting and also easing back into a semblance of pre-baby life. K-actress Son Ye Jin welcomed her first child with husband Hyun Bin at the end of 2022 and this week she made her first public appearance attending the Valentino show in Paris. … Continue reading →

See You in My 19th Life Ends with Major Twist in Episode 7 Adding Much Needed Twisted Romance Pathos to Narrative

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Well, if this isn’t the womp womp this drama desperately needed for the OTP segment to actually have mature depth. See You in My 19th Life has set up the leads as he’s still nursing his dead first love who was her 18th incarnation and she’s back in this 19th life to basically keep living her 18th life as his … Continue reading →

Ro Woon and Jo Boa Kick Off Filming for jTBC Fantasy Romance Drama Destined with You

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A fantasy romance K-drama is headed our way in late summer 2023 and the first script reading stills are out for Destined with You starring Ro Woon and Jo Boa. Airing on jTBC Wed-Thurs time slot, Jo Boa plays a normal government employee who becomes the owner of an old wooden chest with the key to lifting of curse on … Continue reading →

Young Romance Drama Hidden Love with Chen Zhe Yuan and Zhao Lu Si Wrap Short and Sweet 25-episode Run

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C-drama Hidden Love kicked off the summer C-drama season and just wrapped it’s 25-episode run this week on Youku. Aside from early controversy around the female lead being too young for the male lead when she was played by a child actress developing the crush, the drama starring Zhao Lu Si and Chen Zhe Yuan got going when the two … Continue reading →

Period C-drama Legend of Anle with Dilraba Dilmurat and Gong Jun to Premiere on July 8th

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The liuliangs are heating up the 2023 hot C-drama summer with first Xiao Zhan‘s The Longest Promise, then Yang Yang with Fireworks of My Heart, and now tomorrow we get Legend of Anle with Dilraba Dilmurat opposite Gong Jun. We just need Lost You Forever with Yang Zi (airing soon) to send the online search engines, water armies, and antis … Continue reading →

Namgoong Min and Ahn Eun Jin Find Love in War Torn Joseon Chaos in First Teaser for MBC Sageuk My Dearest

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I still remember the heyday of the 2000s when MBC sageuks were the sageuks to rule them all. Sadly the long form slow burn and more accurate to history sageuks were replaced by more youth romance and fusion sageuks but it appears MBC is going back to the original formula for the upcoming K-drama My Dearest (Lovers). Starring Namgoong Min … Continue reading →

BL-novel Adapted C-drama Justice in the Dark is Removed from Streaming Months After the Just Premiered Drama Stopped Releasing New Episodes After Episode 8

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The C-ent sudden generosity to awarding airing permits for C-dramas left and right will still not help any in limbo dramas adapted from BL-novels. The detective drama Justice in the Dark with Zhang Xin Cheng and Fu Xing Bo aired early this year and only 8-episodes were released before the drama stopped releasing new episodes. But the released episodes could … Continue reading →

Kim So Hyun Rocks the Bangs in New Stills for tvN Thriller Romance Useless Lies

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tvN has been releasing promos for Useless Lies since early June when the drama isn’t even airing until the end of July but I’m not complaining, it’s definitely on my must watch list. The production released new stills this week with female lead Kim So Hyun and all I can see are her blunt bangs and how good she looks … Continue reading →

Yang Zi is Ready for Her Cool Girl Summer Vibe in Madame Figaro July 2023 Edition Pictorial

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The sudden torrent of airing C-dramas to kick off this summer 2023 doesn’t mean much since it’s all been bad to passable so far but there are plenty still on the burner. One of them is the C-drama adaptation of Tong Hua novel Lost You Forever with Yang Zi as the female lead in a true female centric story. The … Continue reading →

Hunan TV Broadcasts Medical Relief and Romance Drama Fireworks of My Heart with Yang Yang and Wang Chu Ran

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So the recent tidal wave of C-drama releases have all been on streaming networks but the first big terrestrial broadcast is here with Hunan TV airing Fireworks of My Heart (My Fireworks on Earth) starting July 5th. It’s streaming on Hunan TV’s own Mango TV online platform but for the international release it’s going on iQiyi so this is a … Continue reading →

Hong Kong Born Superstar Coco Lee Passes Away at 48 Years Old After Taking Own Life

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What a shocking news to wake up to and it just brings me back exactly 20 years in 2003 when news broke about Leslie Cheung’s passing. Hong born and America raised singer superstar Coco Lee (Lee Wen) has passed away as confirmed by her two older sisters in an official announcement. She was 48-years old and took her own life … Continue reading →