The casting carousel continues for this drama it appears. K-actor Lee Jae Wook will not be the male lead after all in upcoming 2021 rom-com K-drama Dal Li and Gamja Tang. He was offered the role opposite Park Gyu Young who is currently not confirmed either so this may end up with two totally different stars. Lee Jae Wook’s name … Continue reading →
I get angsty when it goes too long without a new Kim Soo Hyun update, lol I have no idea how I got through his two years away in military service. He came back with the well received It’s Okay to Not be Okay but it wasn’t the runaway ratings hits that he garnered in the pre-military days. He was … Continue reading →
Korean entertainment online news journal Dispatch News Group has made of a name for itself thanks to breaking celebrity dating news the most and frequently on New Year’s Day to make it almost like an annual thing to wonder which unlikely or surprise couple will get outed. This week an anonymous K-ent reporter shared the background of celeb dating reporting … Continue reading →
I confess to skipping the last installment of the KBS drama School franchise, namely School 2017. Four years ago I looked at the cast and didn’t know anyone and thought it was a bunch of randos so passed. Now I’m ready to find time for a watch thanks to the incredible success of the cast in the intervening years, and … Continue reading →
Okay, this is funny and super harmless in the long run so totally worth blogging about. Whomever is in charge of online media at Netflix needs Korean lessons or at least better Googling comprehension skills. Upcoming Netflix drama Love Alarm 2 got male lead Song Kang mixed up with Song Kang Ho, he of award winning fame and movies including … Continue reading →
When I read this article this week I hoped that the reporter knew there was a crazy underbelly that likes to pit these two against each other when really the majority loves having double the talent and styles in K-ent young leading ladies. Sports Seoul newspaper released an article this week discussing the return of child turned adult actresses Kim … Continue reading →
The two-part (so far) fantasy K-movies Along With the Gods broke box office records and is among my personal faves for how well it adapted the expansive source manhwa into a thrilling big screen romp. The director’s next film is confirmed to be The Moon, trading fantasy for sci-fi and feels a bit like Gravity. The male leads are D.O. … Continue reading →
The Secret Royal Inspector (or Royal Secret Agent) is retiring with fanfare as the KBS Mon-Tues drama wrapped up this week to a really admirable ratings run. It started off the usual low 5.0% and ended with the final episode 16 having both segments in double digits with 10.2% and 14.0%. Overall the drama headlined by L (Kim Myung Soo), … Continue reading →
My hot and heavy swooning over Ro Woon‘s performance and character in jTBC drama Sunbae Please Don’t Put on That Lipstick (She Would Never Know) has cooled which is good because that was all hormones talking and the most recent batch of episodes I can focus on the plot. It’s actually not as wack as I thought it would go, … Continue reading →
Upcoming tvN drama Mouse is certainly marching in a no-nonsense way into its early March premiere, with none of the shiny glitzy promos and an overwhelming sense of dread. The first drama poster was pretty plain featuring male leads Lee Seung Gi and Lee Hee Joon staring at something with a police gaze and now the individual posters take the … Continue reading →
It’s a two-fer for K-actor Kang Ha Neul in dramas this year, and who knows he may even do more! The award winning actor has picked his next leading man role and has signed on for legal thriller Insider as Kim Yo Han who works at the legal research center. He’s cruelly betrayed by his bestie classmate and sets off … Continue reading →
Gosh what a lovely teaser preview, so simple yet so impactful. tvN released the first peek at upcoming March 2021 K-drama Navillera, based on the same name webtoon which was also adapted earlier into a stage show already. It tells the story of a retired postal worker played in the drama by Park In Hwan who gave up his dream … Continue reading →
Super Bowl weekend is normally quiet in box office premieres in the US during the pre-COVID era and the only movie to drop is smaller budget counterprogramming. With theaters mostly still closed in many countries around the world, movie premieres have been either with lower box office expectation and haul or moving to streaming premieres. Korean sci-fi movie Space Sweepers … Continue reading →
