Extraordinary Attorney Woo Vaults Over 15% Ratings in Episodes 9-10 as Our Plucky Autistic Young Lawyer Makes New Emotional Breakthroughs

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Next year’s 2023 the Best Actress Baeksang is definitely going through Park Eun Bin for Extraordinary Attorney Woo. She missed out last year after being nominated for The King’s Affection which makes her chance even better this year, plus she has delivered the biggest surprise hit in years that is dominating South Korean watercoolers. The drama took another high jump … Continue reading →

Devastating Giant TV Screen Accident at the Concert of Hong Kong Boy Band Mirror Sends Two Backup Dancers to the Hospital ICU

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This is such a shocking and terribly sad accident and it’s trending all over global news portals. HK 12-member boy bang Mirror was holding a large concert at Hong Kong Coliseum on Friday when during the performance one of the three giant LED screens hanging over the stage suddenly fell and unfortunately struck two backup dancers. One was critically injured … Continue reading →

Jeon Ji Hyun Only Solo Female Star to Make Top South Korean Entertainer Earnings List of 2022 Behind Lim Young Woong and BTS

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The 2022 is more than half over but some things don’t change. I feel like the folks on the top 10 lists in South Korea rarely change and this new aggregation of the top earners for 2022 so far is a collection of the same names. Making the list as the only solo female star is Jeon Ji Hyun at … Continue reading →

Examples of Worst and Most Awkwardly Inserted PPL in K-dramas

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Time for a laugh inducing post, chingus! Other than everyone and their grandmothers and even people who just came out of a coma all eating at Subways for breakfast/lunch/dinner/dream sequences, there are many other examples of egregious PPL (product placement) in K-dramas. A recent set of GIFs and stills helpfully collected it so you can see with your own eyes … Continue reading →

Jacky Heung Cheating Allegations on Bea Hayden Add New Influencer Picture and Texts with Him

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When the C-ent gossip netizens who claimed last week that HK-actor Jacky Heung cheated on his TW-actress wife Bea Hayden during her second pregnancy by taking a girl back to their condo, and further claimed he’s done this many times before, they also threatened to drop more tea because Jacky’s momma bear mother Tiffany Chen went on the offensive claiming … Continue reading →

tvN Mon-Tues Drama Link: Eat, Love, Kill with Yeo Jin Gu and Moon Ga Young Concludes Underwhelming Ratings Run But Appears to Have a Small Ardent Following

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This Tuesday saw the conclusion of Link: Eat, Love, Kill with Yeo Jin Gu and Moon Ga Young in what is best described as an underwhelming run. Ratings started at 3.124% and then went downhill from there with a series low at one point of 1.423% and overall averaging 2.108%. The drama however appears to have a noted ardent following … Continue reading →

C-netizens Marvel at the Beauty of Growning Up Child Actress Huang Yang Dian Tian Who Debuted with Memorable Performance as Young Zhao Li Ying in Hit C-drama Princess Agents

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The actors or actresses who attend prestigious acting colleges like the most prestigious Beijing Film Academy tend to debut later after graduating, though there are the rare ones like grown up child actor Wu Lei who got accepted after he made a name for himself in multiple dramas and now continues to act and study at the same time. And … Continue reading →

Highly Anticipated Netlix J-dorama Adaptation of Classic Shonen Manga Yu Yu Hakusho Releases First Character Stills with Kitamura Takumi

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Well this is either going to be epic or a hot mess, and I’m hoping for epic and think it will actually work out. Thirty years after the release of super popular and beloved shonen manga Yu Yu Hakusho, still readable today and stands the test of time, it’s finally getting a live action adaptation. Netflix will be producing the … Continue reading →

Rom-com Drama Love by Law Releases First Official Stills of Leads Lee Seung Gi and Lee Se Young

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The contrast could not be greater between Lee Seung Gi and Lee Se Young in their upcoming drama Love by Law, versus each other in this drama and versus their characters in their previous drama that they first worked together on A Korean Odyssey (Hwayugi). She’s all grown up, with a good head on her shoulders as a capable lawyer, … Continue reading →

First Official Stills for The Legend of Shen Li with Zhao Li Ying and Lin Geng Xin

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Well one of these two is looking mighty fine, but then again, I’m partial that her to begin with. The first stills are out of the two leads for the upcoming C-drama The Legend of Shen Li adapted from the novel Yu Feng Xing (Traveling with the Phoenix). Zhao Li Ying plays a female general and she looks kickass, love … Continue reading →

Dilraba Dilmarut Dethroned in 2022 C-netizen Poll as Most Beautiful Xinjiang Actress by 24-year Old Newcomer Hani Kyzy

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To dominate for as long as Dilraba Dlimarut has, a good 8 years if you ask me, is quite a feat especially for fickle C-ent. She’s been crowned the most beautiful Xinjiang region female entertainer year after year and it’s not even close for other equally beautiful but just a smidge less popular fellow Xinjiang born actresses Guli Nezha and … Continue reading →

Ha Yoon Kyung to go From Extraordinary Attorney Woo to Filming See You in My 19th Life with Shin Hye Sun and Ahn Bo Hyun

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I love this casting and also love this rising actress getting her big break. K-actress Ha Yoon Kyung is currently the second female lead in ENA drama Extraordinary Attorney Woo and her character is nuanced and complex and also super caring towards everyone’s fave whale-loving autistic lawyer Woo Young Woo. She’s now going to jump into a high profile next … Continue reading →

Crystal Liu and Allen Ren Reportedly Cast in High Profile Period C-drama Chang Ling With the Production Team Behind A Dream of Splendor

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I feel like period C-dramas are once again leveling up, not just putting pretty faces on screen with flashy costumes and special effects, some recent dramas have delivered tightly directed visuals that play a big part in the overall production being so good. This year alone I’ve seen it in A Dream of Splendor and now with Love Like the … Continue reading →