Zhao Lu Si Sweeps the Top Three of the Most Recent Baidu Poll on Favorite 95-Flower Roles with Yu Shu Xin Making the List Not for Her Most Recent Hit Drama

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This summer of 2022 was really a two-horse race of Love Between Fairy and Devil and Love Like the Galaxy, and it wasn’t for television ratings are both are web dramas but for buzz and cache. My two cents says both dramas are male lead dominant, i.e. it benefitted Dylan Wang and Wu Lei respectively more than the female leads. … Continue reading →

Kim So Hyun and Minhyun Team Up for 2023 K-drama Useless Lies

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Another cute young pairing is coming in 2023 this one with Kim So Hyun and Minhyun, the former taking off with a new agency and the latter leaning in more on his budding acting career. The drama is called Useless Lies and tells of a woman with the ability to tell if someone is lying or not and a man … Continue reading →

tvN Drama Alchemy of Souls: Light and Shadow Releases First Teaser Posters

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I……am heartbroken to see this stuff. It’s like when an author of a novel confuses oneself with the producer of a show. When a story is merely words on a page then it’s fine to change forms, create new identities, as the reader just forms new visions as a reader is required to do. But when it start off solely … Continue reading →

Seolhyun Signs with Agency Ieum Hashtag Joining Jeon Ji Hyun, Seo Ji Hye, and Kim So Hyun

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Sometimes there is too much of a good thing if it’s all the same type of thing, and that’s what agency Ieum Hashtag is shaping up to be. The still relatively new agency added a beautiful young singer-actress this week in Seolhyun, who if she is exclusively going to be an actress will likely go with her full name Kim … Continue reading →

Baek Jin Hee Makes First K-drama Return in 4 Years with KBS Weekend Drama The Real One Has Appeared Opposite Kwak Si Yang

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The title of this drama is so apropos with the casting lol but it’s nevertheless good news to hear. K-actress Baek Jin Hee and underrated K-actor Kwak Si Yang have been cast in the next big KBS weekend drama titled The Real One Has Appeared. It will premiere in April 2023 and by then it would have been four years … Continue reading →

Dating Rumors for Upcoming Period C-drama Chang Feng Du Leads Bai Jing Ting and Song Yi Caught Going Home Together and Also Dining with His Dad

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I love me some good whole C-ent gossip and this one fits the bill to a T! C-drama leads Bai Jing Ting and Song Yi, who just filmed the period drama Chang Feng Du (English title tentatively Destined) together are embroiled in dating rumors. A prominent C-ent gossip blogger outed them are going back home the same residence and even … Continue reading →

Xianxia C-drama Fox Spirit Matchmaker with Yang Mi and Gong Jun Wraps Filming and Releases Official BTS Filming Sneak Peek

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Now that filming has wrapped for the high profile Fox Spirit Matchmaker (the Yue Hong chapter) with Yang Mi and Gong Jun, it’s time to over/under whether this drama will air in 2023 or somehow drag until 2024 to premiere. One never knows these days with SARFT regulations and permitting black holes. The drama released new filming wrap pictures of … Continue reading →

C-drama Lost You Forever Releases New Stills to Celebrate 1 Million Reservations on Tencent Streaming

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Well the interest is definitely there for the upcoming C-drama adaptation of Tong Hua xianxia romance novel Lost You Forever. Unlike the C-drama version of the prequel Once Promised which was soooooo bad and thankfully no one watched it, this one is high profile thanks to Yang Zi as the female lead and a bevy of fast rising male leads … Continue reading →

Production of MBC Drama Gold Spoon Responds to K-netizen Complains About Favoritism with Screen Time

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Okay, this one I can totally chime in on! Today there is a K-news story around viewer complaints on MBC weekend drama Gold Spoon which is actually ending this week. It started off better than expected but then proceeded to tread water with a combination of swap lives/rinse-and-repeat as well as like a bajillion gold spoons all around with multiple … Continue reading →

Filming Kicks Off for jTBC Drama Understanding of Love with Yoo Yeon Seok and Moon Ga Young

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With less than two months left in 2022 the dramas that are starting filming now will be arriving in 2023 and one of them is the jTBC romance drama Understanding of Love. Starring Yoo Yeon Seok, Moon Ga Young, Geum Sae Rok, and Jung Ga Ram, the average height of this leading cast guys and gals combined is insane haha. … Continue reading →

First Look at Kim Dong Wook Channeling Anchor-nim Again in First Stills for KBS Drama Met You By Chance

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After the delayed surprise that was my watching Find Me in Your Memory a good two years late, I decided no more passing up on Kim Dong Wook romance dramas even if the premise doesn’t sound all that interesting off the bat. Sadly You are My Spring was meh but at least I tried to power through it, but his … Continue reading →

Lighter and Princess with Chen Fei Yu and Zhang Jing Yi Opens with 7.2 Douban Ratings and Decent Buzz

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So I’m 10-episodes into newly arrived youth romance C-drama Lighter and Princess adapted from a popular web novel and it’s as good a time to do a first impression now that the initial Douban ratings are out. It’s got a 7.2 ratings and that feels about right to me, 10-episodes in I like the drama but don’t (yet) love it. … Continue reading →

Kim Yoo Jung Tries a New First as Leading Lady in the Spring 2023 Seoul Stage Production of Shakespeare in Love

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It will be a new challenge for K-actress Kim Yoo Jung in the new year 2023 as K-ent is reporting that she’s doing her first stage performance. It’s the stage adaptation of Shakespeare in Love which I’ve not heard about being adapted for the stage but seems quite apropos because, erm, Shakespeare and all heh. This will be Kim Yoo … Continue reading →