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 →
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 →
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 →
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 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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Well the abrupt cancellation of the premiere of modern C-drama She and Her Perfect Husband mere two days prior to the scheduled release has C-netizens abuzz with why. The first reason is that it’s just days before the October 16th kickoff of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, a huge deal, and many shows and programs have … Continue reading →
True to form, Gong Hyo Jin and Kevin Oh‘s wedding this week in New York remained a private close friends and family affair and neither star shared direct updates online prior to the wedding. Gong Hyo Jin did post a glimpse of her legs ensconced in wedding dress gauzy material and a pair of worn out running shoes and red … Continue reading →
