One Dollar Lawyer Breaks 15% Ratings with Episode 8 as Lee Chung Ah Guest Stars and Fans Clamor for a Future Third Time Pairing with Namgoong Min

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There weren’t a lot of people that watched tvN drama Awaken (Night and Day) but I was hella hooked thanks to the initially very intriguing sci-fi plus procedural mystery. Then it was the Namgoong Min and Lee Chung Ah show as the two riffed off one another and build this simmering incredible chemistry that works as police partners and as … Continue reading →

Screenwriter Im Sung Han of the Crazy Makjang Dramas Gets Upset at K-reporters for Misreporting Her Next Drama Fairy Durian as the Romance of a Mother-in-law and Her Daughter-in-law

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Lololol I love this news story because there is so much meta especially when one knows the drama writing background of screenwriter Im Sung Han. She’s the writer of hit dramas Love ft. Marriage & Divorce, Princess Aurora, New Tales of Gisaeng, The Jewel Family and many more dramas that always throws the characters into the deep end of the … Continue reading →

Gong Hyo Jin Shares Subtle Shots From Her Wedding to Kevin Oh Including Three Wedding Dresses and Interesting Wedding Bouquet

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It’s a big wedding year for K-ent with four A-list wedding from the same generation of acting stars, two to each other heh – first Son Ye Jin and Hyun Bin, then Namgoong Min to Jin Ah Reum, and now Gong Hyo Jin with Kevin Oh. It’s all billed as private friends and family wedding affairs but pictures leak and … Continue reading →

Elle Korea Showcases Top K-stars Gong Yoo, Kim Go Eun, Park Seo Joon, Lee Sung Kyung, Jennie, and G-Dragon for the 30th Anniversary Celebration

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It’s the 30th anniversary next month in November 2022 for Elle Korea and it feels like a later entry for the magazine into South Korea than expected. It started sharing and influencing fashion in the early 90’s but missed the fast growth transition years of the 80’s. But in the intervening three decades South Korea is now not just a … Continue reading →

Nam Joo Hyuk to Enlist for Military Service in December 2022 After Disney+ K-drama Vigilante Finishes Filming in November

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Oh what a difference a scandal makes, if he had enlisted in April 2022 there would have been such a groundswell of nostalgia and well-wishes but now it just feels like crickets. K-actor Nam Joo Hyuk will be heading off for his mandatory military service in December 2022 by year end as confirmed by his agency. He’s enlisting late as … Continue reading →

Bai Lu and Dylan Wang Reportedly to Pair Up in Modern Rom-com C-drama Love in Camp with Filming to Start by Year End 2022

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The Accidental Love has turned into Love as Camp and either way it’s still the same two stars initially rumored to star. Bai Lu and Dylan Wang will reportedly start filming the modern C-drama Love in Camp (以爱为营 Yi Ai Wei Ying), initially called Accidental Love. It’s a rom-com with a CEO and a goofy woman falling for each other … Continue reading →

tvN Has Another Hit with New Sat-Sun Sageuk The Queen’s Umbrella with Kim Hye Soo Debuting 5th Highest in Network History and Second Episode Breaking 9%

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tvN has been doing so well in the Sat-Sun time slot since the first drama of 2022 with Twenty Five, Twenty One leading to Our Blues then Alchemy of Souls followed by Little Women and now it’s got sageuk The Queen’s Umbrella. The serious with a comedic bent sageuk starring Kim Hye Soo as the titular queen putting all her … Continue reading →

Kim Go Eun Holds 10th Anniversary Fan Meeting with Guests Ahn Bo Hyun and Jinyoung and Video Greetings From Lee Min Ho and Gong Yoo

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Since time flies anyways one would hope to be as productive and prolific as K-actress Kim Go Eun, who celebrated her 10th debut anniversary on October 15h in Seoul with a fan meeting. She has done SO MUCH in a decade, starting with movies and venturing into dramas, with a few hiccups but never an instance where I thought she … Continue reading →

More Pictures From Gong Hyo Jin and Kevin Oh’s New York Wedding Showcase Classic Touches Thrown In

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K-actress Gong Hyo Jin and singer Kevin Oh got married last week in New York and while it was a private friends/family affair some pictures have been shared. I love that we see glimpses and not the couple in the usual wedding poses. The above is the newlyweds in a soft hand held moment with their wedding rings and his/her … Continue reading →

jTBC Unveils First Poster and Teaser for Revenge Drama Reborn Rich with Song Joong Ki, Lee Sung Min, and Shin Hyun Bin

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Okay, this is totally giving me Giant feels with the fantasy reborn twist. The first teaser is out for jTBC drama Reborn Rich (The Chaebol’s Youngest Son) adapted from a novel and starring Song Joong Ki as the titular male lead servant to a chaebol family who dies at the hand of a chaebol’s horrible youngest son and wakes up … Continue reading →

Xiao Zhan, Dylan Wang, and Crystal Liu Top the 2022 Actor During Drama Airing Baidu Search Rankings

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Baidu published the top 10 actor search numbers during the airing of a drama this weekend and it’s showing how often an actor or actress was searched for during the run of his/her drama. The requirement is the search has to be the name of the actor or actress and not the character name from the drama. Topping the list … Continue reading →

All Fixed! – Shin Sung Rok, Lee Kyu Hyung, and Kang Pil Seok Lead the Rotating Leads for the December 2022 K-musical Production of Sweeney Todd

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For the holiday season I would pick a less macabre black comedy musical to stage than Sweeney Todd but from the first promo stills it definitely looks gorgeously presented and attired. Seoul will be host to a new production of the popular dark musical with three sets of rotating male and female leads. Shin Sung Rok, Lee Kyu Hyung, and … Continue reading →

C-drama Thousand Years for You Wraps Run with 6.3 Ratings on Douban and Complaints About Ending and In-fighting Between Fandom of Leads Allen Ren and Li Qin

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The real life shenanigans around this C-drama is better than anything seen on the reel screen, the drama is just THAT BAD. Fantasy period romance Thousand Years for You is a dog of first order, so bad from beginning to the very end in an order of magnitude that makes me want to headdesk nonstop. The drama started with a … Continue reading →