A popular post this week shows us just how important the visuals are to a drama, what may be taken for granted beyond the big three of acting, script, and directing. The four separate scenes from the drama The Red Sleeve Cuff show the work that goes in from the MBC DI team to adjust the color and gradation of … Continue reading →
Wow, talk about a stellar combo all around! New casting news midweek to shake up the joint as tvN announced that it has cast Ji Sung in a drama scheduled for 2022 that once again stretches his versatility. The drama is called Adamas and Ji Sung will be playing twin brothers searching for the hidden secret into their dad’s murder … Continue reading →
I don’t know who will win a fight next year with the K-dramas super docs, the Ghost Doctor that is Rain or the Doctor Lawyer that is So Ji Sub. The Ghost Doctor will be arriving first in January 2022 and the first promos are here, with the three leads all in their natural environs at the hospital. There is … Continue reading →
The 2021 Asia Artist Awards was held last week and it gave out 7 Daesangs so that tells you the rigor of the voting body lol. It’s always been a popularity and hype contest which is fine, there is definitely a niche for ceremonies that is all about getting fan faves together. A few of mine won and attended which … Continue reading →
Okay, I cover so many dramas so I often forget right off the bat the channel its airing on until after it airs, if I write about it enough then of course it’s ingrained. So I legit thought just premiered Mon-Tues drama Our Beloved Summer (That Year, We) with Choi Woo Shik and Kim Da Mi aired on tvN and … Continue reading →
A kind and generous heart paired with a beautiful visuals is reason enough to watch Shin Se Kyung‘s Youtube channel. The actress has been running her own YT channel since 2018 and this year in 2021 she continued her annual act of donating all her channel earnings to charity. She donates to an organization that helps low income families as … Continue reading →
I may have beloved baes among K-actors and K-actresses but even then I have to be in the mood for their projects whether it’s genres I like or not. Kim Soo Hyun is back to start December with his thriller murder mystery and legal wrangling drama One Ordinary Day based on the BBC series Criminal Justice. It premiered last week … Continue reading →
The first gen K-pop stars are in their forties, the second gen in their thirties, of course everyone that some of us still remember as fresh faced idols are now husbands, wives, and parents. Joining that crowd is Big Bang‘s Taeyang, who has someone remained untouched by the scandals of his other group members. He got married 4 years ago … Continue reading →
This is certainly great news to start the week. K-ent has a new drama pairing lined up with Yeo Jin Gu and Moon Gao Young, the two now being confirmed for the upcoming K-drama Link. It will be announced shortly but the two have been connected to the project for a few months now. This project late last year was … Continue reading →
Okay, I am ALL CAUGHT UP on SBS Fri-Sat drama Now, We are Breaking Up and boy do I have thoughts! That’s good because a drama that makes me feel an opinion whatever it is makes me remember it in the long run. I still remember Blood just as vividly as I do Goblin in completely different ways haha. I … Continue reading →
Now this is much better! The latest preview dropped for jTBC drama Snowdrop as it starts the two week countdown to premiere day on December 18th. Instead of the cheesy OTP focused earlier previews that made Jung Hae In look like a princely school boy and Jisoo a lovestruck dim school girl, there’s an actual plot with this preview and … Continue reading →
I think Kim Go Eun will be Yumi for me for the near future, especially with her going back for season 2 of Yumi’s Cells. She deservingly got praise many years ago for bringing the female lead in Cheese in the Trap to life but the drama was so problematic it doesn’t stand the test of time. If season 2 … Continue reading →
When a K-drama bisects a year during its airing period it does create potential for year end network award gaps. Case in point Secret Royal Inspector, the KBS sageuk that started airing in December 2020 and finished in early February 2021. The drama was low rated per usual for KBS dramas when it started airing at 5.0% but slowly went … Continue reading →
