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Liu Shi Shi Looks the Part of a Classic Wuxia Lady Warrior in Stills From A Journey to Love

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 16, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 14, 2022
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There are new stills of female lead C-actress Liu Shi Shi in the upcoming wuxia drama A Journey to Love and I’m just so excited for this drama. It’s a wuxia and not xianxia drama so no immortals and power surges and reincarnation and it’s exactly what I want from Liu Shi Shi, to go back to classic wuxia where … Continue reading →

Posted in TW & C dramas | Tagged A Journey to Love, Liu Shi Shi

K-drama Useless Lies Confirms Main Cast Trio of Kim So Hyun, Minhyun, and Seo Ji Hoon

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 16, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 16, 2022
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Okay, this drama just got wayyyy interesting, though the execution could be wasted. The drama Useless Lies has confirmed the main three leads of Kim So Hyun, Minhyun, and also Seo Ji Hoon, the perpetual second male lead. I like him actually, he is solid onscreen but doesn’t sizzle in the way male leads need to be to get the … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Kim So Hyun, Minhyun, Seo Ji Hoon

Hyun Bin Ratchets Up into Zaddy in First Movie The Point Men After Welcoming Baby with Son Ye Jin

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 15, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 15, 2022
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Hahaha, I feel so shallow that my only interest in this movie is to witness firsthand how insanely how and scruffy Hyun Bin looks. It’s his first scruffy looking role since over a decade ago in The Snow Queen but that was tortured soul emo scruffy and for The Point Men he’s reluctant action hero scruffy. The movie fictionizes the … Continue reading →

Posted in Musings | Tagged Hyun Bin, The Point Men

Kim Jung Hyun Cosplays Period Grim Reaper and Modern Day Doctor in First Stills for K-drama Season of Kok Du

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 15, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 16, 2022
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It’s nice to see Kim Jung Hyun back on the small screen and whatever happens with audience reaction to him after his Time bad behavior scandal in early 2021 it’s up to him to have the ability to deal with. On a drama note, Season of Kok Du sounds so interesting to be but of course execution and chemistry is … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Kim Jung Hyun, Season of Kkok Du

SBS Kicks Off Promos for January 2023 K-drama Payback with Lee Seon Kyun and Moon Chae Won

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 15, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 15, 2022
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I want to just finish up the 2022 remainder of the year on slow-mo mode since there is so much I want to treasure but alas time is speeding into 2023 and the promo circuit is starting for upcoming K-dramas premiering in the new year. There is SBS legal and financial crimes drama Payback (Korean title Law Money) starring Lee … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Law Money, Lee Seon Kyun, Moon Chae Won, Payback

MBC 2022 Year End Drama Daesang Candidates All Former Winners in So Ji Sub, Lee Jong Seok, and Park Hae Jin

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 14, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 14, 2022
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Well this is definitely slim pickings at MBC this year for the Year End Drama Awards, but what else is new. This year even the contenders for the Daesang are retreads, in the sense that it’s three male leads who have all won MBC Daesangs in the past. So Ji Sub for Doctor Lawyer, then there is Lee Jong Seok … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Lee Jong Seok, Park Hae Jin, So Ji Sub

K-netizens Wonder if Reborn Rich Will Join the Pantheon of Event K-dramas in the Last Five Years Kicked Off by Sky Castle

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 14, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 14, 2022
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High ratings usually means buzz but it takes an extraordinary set of circumstances to become a breakout so-called Event K-drama. That’s been the trend in recent years after the overall ratings decrease across the board in K-drama viewing with audiences going online rather than surrounding the television as a family in the evenings. K-ent is watching closely whether jTBC weekend … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Penthouse, Reborn Rich, Sky Castle, Squid Game, The World of the Married

iQiyi Announces December 15th Premiere of Xianxia Drama Song of the Moon with Zhang Bin Bin and Xu Lu

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 14, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 13, 2022
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There will be one more xianxia C-drama to arrive before year end, maybe another one but for viewers will have a new one to munch on heading into the holiday stretch. iQiyi announced earlier this week the premiere of later in the week on December 15th the xianxia romance Song of the Moon with Zhang Bin Bin (VIn Zhang) and … Continue reading →

Posted in Musings | Tagged Song of the Moon, Xu Lu, Zhang Bin Bin

Park Eun Bin Receives Female Lead Offer for Pinocchio and While You Were Sleeping Screenwriter’s Next K-drama Desert Island Diva

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 13, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 13, 2022
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Screenwriter Park Hye Ryun is one of my can’t miss ones when it comes to her K-dramas, the good bits always outweigh the stuff that doesn’t work and she’s also constantly changing up her genres and stories. Starting from I Hear Your Voice to Pinocchio to While You Were Sleeping then Start-up, I’ve enjoyed all those dramas and now she’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Musings | Tagged Desert Island Diva, Park Eun Bin

She and Her Perfect Husband with Yang Mi and Xu Kai Drops 12-episodes and Wraps Up Middling Run with Dumbass Arc and Ending

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 13, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 13, 2022
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There is a saying that “marriage is not child’s play” and after two contract marriage dramas in a row I feel burnt out by this ridiculous but seemingly ripe for drama mining trope. There was K-drama Love in Contract and now C-drama She and Her Perfect Husband also had the contract marriage that was legally married fakeness taken to a … Continue reading →

Posted in TW & C dramas | Tagged She and Her Perfect Husband, Xu Kai, Yang Mi

Lee Bo Young Becomes a Top Ad Marketing President in jTBC January 2023 Drama Agency

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 13, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 11, 2022
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The first poster and teaser is here for Agency, the lucky drama taking over the currently red hot jTBC weekend time slot after Reborn Rich wraps its run. I say lucky but the network is also lucky that it’s a Lee Bo Young drama, in here one on-one off switch with husband Ji Sung it’s her time to be back … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Agency, Lee Bo Young

Yoo Yeon Seok, Moon Ga Young, Jung Ga Ram, and Geum Sae Rok Complicate Attraction in Teaser for jTBC Wed-Thurs Drama The Interest of Love

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 12, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 13, 2022
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I was initially just idly curious about this drama with the casting and it’s adaptation from a source novel with good reviews. But seeing the previews my interest has ratcheted it, it feels mature and restrained with some sexy sneaking through, all in the messy complication of adult attraction. jTBC is readying the next Wed-Thurs drama The Interest of Love … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Geum Sae Rok, Jung Ga Ram, Moon Ga Young, The Interest in Love, Yoo Yeon Seok

Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow Episode 2 Rises to 7.743% as the Narrative Shows Hand on the Resurrected Bu Yeon’s True Form and Writes the Central Conundrum Back to the Story

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 12, 2022 by ockoalaDecember 12, 2022
Two characters in a dramatic setting.

Man, watching the second episode of Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow was alternating between these two are cute and headdesking. It’s clear the Hong Sisters had a concept (soul switching! In sageuk fantasy times!) and then wrote the story around it, hence the complete and utter moral quandries they gloss over in attempts to give the female lead a … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Alchemy of Souls, Go Yoon Jung, Lee Jae Wook

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