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K-netizens Also Trending on the C-netizen Critique of How Epic and Unintentionally Awful Fantasy C-drama Mirror: Twin Cities Is

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 5, 2022 by ockoalaMarch 5, 2022
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Man, this drama is so bad it can’t even me hate-watched or cringe-watched or basically just watched. And it’s with my C-ent cutie pie Li Yi Feng but either he was lobotomized while filming it or he really is that bad of an actor, all I know is this has started C-drama in 2022 year of the Tiger off on … Continue reading →

Posted in TW & C dramas | Tagged Li Yi Feng, Mirror Twin Cities

Yoon Park Tests Positive for COVID-19, Heads into Quarantine But Has Completed All His Filming for jTBC Drama Forecasting Love and Weather

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 5, 2022 by ockoalaMarch 5, 2022
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I’ve never liked actor Yoon Park, but more accurately I’ve never liked any character he’s played and that’s influenced how I associate with him, e.g. smarmy asshole types. But then he’s doing such a great job of being exactly that in Forecasting Love and Weather, but with more vulnerability and weakness and also great subtle comedic timing. He’s definitely a … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Forecasting Love and Weather, Yoon Park

K-netizens Think Upcoming Hong Sisters Fantasy Sageuk Drama Return is a Hot Mess After Leading Lady Swap to Jung So Min and Demotion of Oh My Girl’s Arin from Second Female Lead Down to 8th Spot

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 4, 2022 by ockoalaMarch 7, 2022
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Two decades of K-drama watching and a still keen memory tells me that a hot mess drama casting/production isn’t always indicative of a bad drama to come, buuuuuuut it does tend to turn out that way with only a handful able to overcome a messy start. The upcoming Hong Sisters new drama Return (Returning Soul) had a leading lady switch … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Arin, Jung So Min, Lee Jae Wook, Return

Leading Ladies Lee Se Hee of Young Lady and Gentleman and Kim Ji Eun of Upcoming Drama Again My Life Test Positive for COVID-19, Filming Paused on Dramas

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 4, 2022 by ockoalaMarch 4, 2022
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Another drama related shut down in K-ent related to its still swarming spread of COVID-19 in South Korea. Lee Se Hee of KBS hit weekend drama Young Lady and Gentlemen just tested positive and is in self-quarantine. Filming has been paused and no news on whether this will impact episode airing dates but the drama is on the back end … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Kim Ji Eun, Lee Se Hee

Song Joong Ki Dons Versatile Fashion Looks in March 2022 Vogue Hong Kong Pictorial

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 4, 2022 by ockoalaMarch 5, 2022
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March is a nice season changing month, fully one foot in spring but still has the waning chill of winter. For pictorials the fashion world is fully into spring though and this Vogue Hong Kong March 2022 spread with K-actor Song Joong Ki gathers a great wardrobe that works for both seasons. Song Joong Ki is an actor that when … Continue reading →

Posted in My Loves | Tagged Song Joong Ki

K-netizen Posts About Seo Ye Ji and Her Parent’s Selfish Behavior as Neighbors Living in the Same Villa Complex, Her Side Explains an Apology was Delivered and the Parents Have Moved Out Now

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 3, 2022 by ockoalaMarch 3, 2022
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Well this came out of nowhere, or at least I thought the negative news associated with K-actress Seo Ye Ji was all in the past. This week K-ent reported on a post of a resident of a villa complex who claimed that Seo Ye Ji’s parents and herself were really rude neighbors. The post said Seo Ye Ji’s parents put … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Seo Ye Ji

Lee Jong Seok and Yoona’s Upcoming tvN Legal Drama Big Mouse to Stream Exclusively on Disney+

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 3, 2022 by ockoalaMarch 2, 2022
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*Grabby hands* When is this drama going to air?! K-actor Lee Jong Seok is one of my faves and he was in military service from 2019-2021 but came out last year and still hasn’t been seen yet on the big or small screen. He did pick his projects which just haven’t aired yet but hopefully the drama comes first with … Continue reading →

Posted in Musings | Tagged Big Mouse, Kim Joo Hun, Kwak Dong Yeon, Lee Jong Seok, Ok Ja Yeon, Yoona

K-platform Watcha Produced BL Drama Semantic Error Keeps Going Up in Streaming Viewer Count and K-ent Takes Notice of the Genre Edging into Mainstream

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 3, 2022 by ockoalaMarch 3, 2022
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The last five years has seen C-dramas turn BL novels (danmei) into adaptations (dangai) that soften the same-sex romance into bromance for mainstream television airing, with a few streaming C-dramas that hew to the original BL storyline directly. That was halted late last year as part of the government crackdown on cultural excess and deviation which was hard for what … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Park Jae Chan, Park Seo Ham, Semantic Error

jTBC Drama Thirty Nine Surprisingly Drops 2% in Ratings Down to 5.573% in Third Week’s Episode 5

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 2, 2022 by ockoalaMarch 3, 2022
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So I haven’t started on jTBC Wed-Thurs drama Thirty Nine yet still, not because I don’t want to watch just have too much on my plate between Forecasting Love and Weather, Twenty Five, Twenty One, and now A Business Proposal. I also still need to binge All of Us are Dead and Juvenile Justice. But back to Thirty Nine, it … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Jeon Mi Do, Son Ye Jin, Thirty Nine

Kim Tae Ri Tests Positive for COVID-19, Filming Halted on tvN Drama Twenty Five, Twenty One Until She Finishes Quarantine

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 2, 2022 by ockoalaMarch 2, 2022
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At this rate I think the majority of K-ent stars are going to get COVID-19, I barely even cover the stars who have gotten it in the last few months since the Omicron spike starting in November but it’s just nonstop the news about testing positive. Today it’s K-actress Kim Tae Ri, who is reportedly doing fine and just in … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged KIm Tae Ri, Twenty Five Twenty One

Divorce Rumors Hit Both Liu Shi Shi and Tang Yan on Heel of C-actress Divorces with Angelababy, Yang Mi, and Zhao Li Ying

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 2, 2022 by ockoalaMarch 1, 2022
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Sometimes I feel that relationships can doom itself, if there are just too many naysayers and also a constant stream of feedback from the outside world. It needn’t be only for famous people, even relatives and friends can talk a relationship to a self-fulfilling demise. The recent years’ spate of C-ent divorces has netizens and C-ent paying extra attention to … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Liu Shi Shi, Luo Jin, Nicky Wu, Tang Yan

SBS Mon-Tues Romance Drama A Business Proposal with Ahn Hyo Seob and Kim Se Jung Premieres to Ratings of 4.9%, 6.5%

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 1, 2022 by ockoalaMarch 1, 2022
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The new Mon-Tues SBS drama A Business Proposal (Office Blind Date) arrived this week and its reception was as expected the same degree as the drama hewed close to the webtoon its adapted from. The first episode got 4.9% AGB nationwide ratings and the second episode went up to 6.5%. Since this is airing on SBS the ratings are not … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged A Business Proposal, Ahn Hyo Seob, Kim Min Kyu, Kim Se Jung, Seol In Ah

K-ent Reporter Explains the Criticism of Ryu Jun Yeol’s Real Estate Speculation Profit is Due to the Massive Leverage and Also Contravening the Public Image that He Didn’t Care About Monetary Trappings

A Koala's Playground Posted on March 1, 2022 by ockoalaFebruary 28, 2022
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A really good article came out this week explaining in detail why K-netizens are criticizing K-actor Ryu Jun Yeol and why that criticism is valid despite him doing nothing illegal. Last week it was revealed that Ryu Jun Yeol’s personal company with his mom as the managing director bought a house in Seoul with a 90% mortgage and then rebuilt … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Ryu jun Yeol

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