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TW-supermodel Lin Chi Ling Announces Arrival of Baby Boy with Husband Japanese Singer Akira

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 31, 2022 by ockoalaJanuary 31, 2022
"Couple in wedding attire and baby holding hands."

A little oxtail baby has arrived straddling both TW-ent and J-ent and it was legit a total surprise even in the tabloid heavy ways in those news cycles. On lunar new year’s eve 2021 right before the arrival of the year of the tiger and everyone was bidding farewell to the year of the ox, Taiwanese supermodel (and sometimes actress) … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Akira, Baby, Lin Chi Ling

The Japan-ification of K-drama Posters Manages to Rom-com Everything with an Unhealthy Love of Pink and Hearts

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 31, 2022 by ockoalaJanuary 30, 2022
Collection of Asian drama cover images.

This is such an entertaining side-by-side study and makes me appreciate more that at least K-dramas try to reign in themselves when designing drama posters. Since Winter Sonata twenty years ago hit the shores of Japan and planted itself firmly in the watching oeuvre of the Japanese audience, K-dramas have been exported there regularly and with great success from time-to-time. … Continue reading →

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TW-actress Ady An’s Millionaire Businessman Husband Reported Arrested by Macau Police on Allegations of Illegal Gambling and Money Laundering

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 30, 2022 by ockoalaJanuary 31, 2022
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It’s not a good new year for TW-actress Ady An as the news cycle has hit her in a negative way. This weekend all the Chinese-speaking newspapers are reporting that Ady’s 49-year old non-celeb rich businessman husband Levo Chen (Chen Rong Lian) was arrested by the Macau police along with another business man on allegations of illegal gambling and money … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Ady An

K-actress Uhm Ji Won Shares Celebration of Good Friend Park Shin Hye’s Pregnancy and May Have Revealed the Gender of the Baby

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 30, 2022 by ockoalaJanuary 30, 2022
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I don’t think this is a huge faux pas but it definitely let the cat out of the bag. This weekend K-actress Uhm Ji Won shared a V-log of her and another friend celebrating Park Shin Hye‘s pregnancy, probably an early baby shower of sorts. Park Shin Hye is clearly surprised and super happy, she’s just been radiating joy for … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Park Shin Hye

Seungri Files Successful Appeal of Drug Sentence and Gets it Cut in Half Down to One and Half Years

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 30, 2022 by ockoalaJanuary 29, 2022
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If there is one fallen celeb I want to yeet himself right off the celeb stage it would be Big Bang‘s Seungri. Alas while he may never have a famous career again I can see him returning to all the dirty money he made over years and continuing to make more dough behind the scenes in private endeavors, so that’s … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Seungri

Lee Jung Jae Shares Cute Pics Hanging Out with Hoobae Cutie Lee Min Ho

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 29, 2022 by ockoalaJanuary 29, 2022
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The post-Squid Game craze in the US around movie actor Lee Jung Jae has finally died down after the holidays and I’m glad because it was so weird to see US reporters hyping him when he’s been a TOP STAR in Korea for two decades. I’m glad he got the chance at Western audience popularity and it’ll be interesting to … Continue reading →

Posted in My Loves | Tagged Lee Jung Jae, Lee Min Ho

Netflix High School Zombie K-drama All of Us are Dead Premieres to Mixed Reviews, Strong First Impression But Falters After

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 29, 2022 by ockoalaJanuary 29, 2022
Four students in school uniforms, diverse expressions.

This is the last Netflix K-drama to air from that huge batch announced at the beginning of 2021, most of which went on to global viewership exposure with Squid Game being the most famous. All of Us are Dead is a high school setting zombie K-drama with a relatively unknown/rising young cast adapted from the same name webtoon. It dropped … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged All of Us Are Dead, Park Solomon, Yoon Chan Young

Kim Jung Hyun to Make Acting Return in 2022 with Indie Movie Secret

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 29, 2022 by ockoalaJanuary 29, 2022
Stylish young man in black jacket portrait.

If Seo Ye Ji can make an acting return no reason for Kim Jung Hyun not to try. They both can still stumble if the K-netizens aren’t ready for it but might as well bull head your way through if an acting career remains the end goal. Kim Jung Hyun has changed agencies finally after last year when he tried … Continue reading →

Posted in Films | Tagged Kim Jung Hyun

jTBC Drama Snowdrop Ends This Weekend and So Does My Regular Date with Jung Hae In’s Biceps and Emotive Eyes

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 28, 2022 by ockoalaJanuary 28, 2022
Young man holding an AK-47 rifle.

It’s kinda ironic that after all that hullabaloo around jTBC Sat-Sun drama Snowdrop it will likely end with a whimper and a sigh. No one protesting and not much people watching left. It’s okay though, the ardent fans can still cheer on their Jisoo and the casual fans hopefully get a satisfying ending for those who like the story. I’ve … Continue reading →

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

Production Company of Arthdal Chronicles Licenses IP to Produce Video Game and Manhwa and Still Considering Filming Season 2 of Drama

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 28, 2022 by ockoalaJanuary 27, 2022
Dramatic poster featuring multiple characters and themes.

Wow, I haven’t heard this drama mentioned in quite some time and honestly I feel like every single actor and actress involved has moved on completely by now. K-ent is reporting that the production company behind fantasy sageuk Arthdal Chronicles has licensed the IP to produce a video game and also a manhwa story. It belies the question on who … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Arthdal Chronicles, Song Joong Ki

Park Shin Hye and Choi Tae Joon Radiate Happiness in Every Pore in Two Officially Released Pictures at Their Wedding Ceremony

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 28, 2022 by ockoalaJanuary 28, 2022
Couple in elegant wedding attire holding hands.

Oh gosh this is so so lovely. I think any viewer who thinks that sometimes Park Shin Hye doesn’t express believable love onscreen with certain leading men can rest assured that it’s not on her, because she absolutely is in love with her husband actor Choi Tae Joon with what we see in these two pictures. Same goes for him, … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Choi Tae Joon, Married, Park Shin Hye, Wedding

C-stars Huang Xiaoming and Angelababy Announce Divorce in the Least Surprising Celeb Relationship Update of the New Decade

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 27, 2022 by ockoalaJanuary 27, 2022
Couple enjoying an event together, smiling.

Sure we’re only two years into the new decade that the the (not) Roaring Twenties, more like the Pandemic Twenties in this century versus the last century, and so far the least surprising celeb couple’s relationship news came today when married C-actors Huang Xiaoming and Angelababy announced their divorce. There was an official press release and simultaneous posting on their … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Angelababy, Huang Xiaoming

Apple TV Drama Pachinko with Youn Yuh Jung, Lee Min Ho, Jin Ha, and Anna Sawai Gets March 25, 2022 Release Date and First Batch of Promos Drop

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 27, 2022 by ockoalaJanuary 27, 2022
A man in a white suit stands on a dock.

So this show is not being billed as a K-drama in the traditional sense, upcoming Apple TV drama Pachinko is based on a New York Times bestselling novel by a Korean-American writer with a story starting in post-war Korea and then moving to Japan and the US following four generations of a Korean family. I would say the Japan setting … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Lee Min Ho, Pachinko, Youn Yuh Jung

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