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Park Shin Hye Announces Jan 2022 Wedding to Longtime Boyfriend Choi Tae Joon and Shares the Couple is Expecting a Baby

A Koala's Playground Posted on November 22, 2021 by ockoalaNovember 22, 2021
Two portraits of young adults smiling.

OMO OMO OMO what a super soaker of an announcement! K-actress Park Shin Hye is getting married AND going to be a mom soon! I am so so happy for her, it’s like watching my own daughter get married is how it feels since I’ve watched her since she was a kid debuting in Stairway to Heaven and in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Baby, Choi Tae Joon, Dating, Married, Park Shin Hye, Wedding

KBS Sageuk The King’s Affection Hits 10% Ratings in Episode 13 as the Dramatic Rise Continues

A Koala's Playground Posted on November 22, 2021 by ockoalaNovember 22, 2021
Scenes from a historical drama series.

My mom has a pet peeve where she thinks one must always be low key, do not be flashy or get caught up in superficial outer trappings, the true value is within. I think it’s the right mentality but needn’t be as extreme as she’s always harping on. For the recent batch of K-dramas that have premiered in the last … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Park Eun Bin, Ro Woon, The King's Affection, Yeonmo

Kim Min Jae and Kim Hyang Gi Considering Mental Health Sageuk Drama Joseon Psychiatrist Yoo Se Poong

A Koala's Playground Posted on November 22, 2021 by ockoalaNovember 22, 2021
Smiling young man and woman in portraits.

The castings are starting to really get underway for the 2022 dramas now that its November already, and a new one on the horizon has an interesting concept. Joseon Psychiatrist Yoo Se Poong deals with the practice of psychiatry but during the Joseon era which has not been done before with plenty of medical dramas set in the Joseon era. … Continue reading →

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KBS Releases Two More Awkwardly Posed Posters for Thinking of the Moon When the Flowers Bloom with Yoo Seung Ho and Hyeri

A Koala's Playground Posted on November 22, 2021 by ockoalaNovember 21, 2021
Historical drama characters in traditional clothing.

You’re killing me Smalls! But then again, it could be that KBS just makes craptastic drama posters but great end product. Recent case in point being Dali and the Cocky Prince, though that drama did create lovely painting homage character posters so not all bad. We’re now 0-3 with the drama posters for Thinking of the Moon When the Flowers … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Hyeri, Thinking of the Moon When the Flower Blooms, Yoo Seung Ho

New Netflix Produced K-drama Hellbound Premieres to #1 on Worldwide Top 10 Viewing Stats But with Mixed Reviews

A Koala's Playground Posted on November 21, 2021 by ockoalaNovember 21, 2021
"Characters facing supernatural forces in Hellbound."

Streaming platform Netflix continues to pace out its produced K-drama drops, the schedule it basically one drama a month, with Squid Game in September creating the biggest K-drama buzz of all time with the worldwide audiences followed by a good reception for My Name in October. November was this past Friday’s release of Hellbound (To Hell), the supernatural and religious … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Hellbound

Netflix Japan Daily Top 10 Dominated by K-dramas Led by The King’s Affection and Squid Game

A Koala's Playground Posted on November 21, 2021 by ockoalaNovember 21, 2021
Netflix top 10 shows in Japan, November 2021.

Every few years K-drama will get super popular in Japan, the trend starting with the granddaddy of them all Winter Sonata and continuing most recently into Crash Landing on You, with plenty in between. But those standalone hits did not seem indicative that K-dramas were fully mainstream there which makes sense since J-doramas are still being churned out in droves. … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Crash Landing on You, Itaewon Class, My Name, Squid Game, The King's Affection

Famous Chinese, Taiwanese and Korean Stars Smack Faces as Look-a-likes

A Koala's Playground Posted on November 21, 2021 by ockoalaNovember 20, 2021

There are probably a whole lot more look-a-like female stars among the Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese contingent that I follow but I was really pressed to prepare this post when I saw the picture of C-actress Zhao Li Ying opposite the never-aging wonder K-actress Jang Nara. Never thought of them as lookalikes but once you see it then you can’t … Continue reading →

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Idol Turned Serious Actor Junho Draws Mad K-netizen Praise for His Sageuk Acting, Diction, and Onscreen Presence in The Red Sleeve Cuff

A Koala's Playground Posted on November 20, 2021 by ockoalaNovember 20, 2021
Historical drama scenes featuring a male character.

Okay, for anyone wondering how well Junho is doing in MBC sageuk court drama and romance The Red Sleeve Cuff, just go watch yourself. Because he’s just phenomenal, as good as a young actor can hope to achieve in a serious sageuk setting. He holds his own against the veteran heavyweights, he generates young energy as the prince, and he … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Junho, The Red Sleeve Cuff

Shin Dong Wook Makes a Cameo in Now, We are Breaking Up as Song Hye Kyo’s Ex-boyfriend and Jang Ki Yong’s Older Brother

A Koala's Playground Posted on November 20, 2021 by ockoalaNovember 20, 2021
Romantic scenes from a Korean drama series.

Man, family reunions are going to be hella awkward. SBS drama Now, We are Breaking Up plucked one of the familiar tropes of K-drama romantic destiny/complication and used it this week, and no it’s not the first love or met at childhood one. This one was used in My Lovely Girl and a few other dramas and it’s the “dated … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Jang Ki Yong, Now We Are Breaking Up, Shin Dong Wook, Song Hye Kyo

New Teaser for jTBC Period Drama Snowdrop Elicits Criticism of Female Lead Jisoo’s Dialogue Reading and Schizo Narrative Tonal Shift

A Koala's Playground Posted on November 20, 2021 by ockoalaNovember 20, 2021
Romantic scene from the drama "Snowdrop."

Okay, setting aside any individual critiques, this is just an awfully cut trailer for a drama. It makes me actively not want to watch it because it’s just so poorly done. Upcoming jTBC romance period drama Snowdrop got tons of criticism for maybe distorting history and even a petition that it never air, which was absurd to lob a complaint … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Jisoo, Jung Hae In, Snowdrop

Ratings Tighten as Episode 3 of SBS Romance Now, We are Breaking Up Gets 7.3% With MBC Sageuk The Red Sleeve Cuff Going Up to 7.0%

A Koala's Playground Posted on November 19, 2021 by ockoalaNovember 20, 2021
Two people under rain, one holding an umbrella.

This is such a great time to be a K-drama viewer with so many actually decent to good dramas out there to watch across various genres. The Fri-Sat battle between same day premiered dramas Now, We are Breaking Up on SBS and The Red Sleeve Cuff on MBC tightened in the second week and one went down and the other … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Jang Ki Yong, Junho, Lee Se Young, Now We Are Breaking Up, Song Hye Kyo, The Red Sleeve Cuff

tvN Teacher-Student Romance Melancholia Drops to 1% Rating Range by Episode 4 as K-viewers Find the Story Discomforting and Dated

A Koala's Playground Posted on November 19, 2021 by ockoalaNovember 19, 2021
Students in classroom, focused on studies.

Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, they just had to pick this real life relationship to turn into a K-drama. I’m talking about the production for tvN drama Melancholia saying that it was based on French President Macron and his wife and everyone knows how they met, how old they were at that … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Im Soo Jung, Lee Do Hyun, Melancholia

Lee Min Ho Returns to Huntington Beach for the US Filming Locale of Heirs Nearly Ten Years Later

A Koala's Playground Posted on November 19, 2021 by ockoalaNovember 18, 2021
Person walking near beachside restaurant.

It’s a nice walk down memory land for me as a K-drama viewer and for actor Lee Min Ho as well, as last week he posted on his SNS pictures of him at a very easily recognizable place if you watched all his dramas. He was in front of Duke’s on the beach and of course that meant he was … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Lee Min Ho

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