Grah, freaking July feels like a slog made worse than the usual dog days of summer by COVID-19 ennui and the never ending stay at home as much as you can self-preservation game plan. For the entirety of its 5-week run so far, tvN drama It’s Okay to Not be Okay and male lead Kim Soo Hyun has topped the … Continue reading →
Normally Heo Jun Ho plays the uber baddie and Go Soo is the straight man hero lead type but for upcoming OCN supernatural drama Missing: The Other Side both take on a different onscreen persona. Go Soo is a swindler who ends up at mysterious Duon Village where the deceased spirits from unnatural deaths reside and Heo Jun Ho has … Continue reading →
There has been countless low key wedding announcements and also divorces in the last 5 months of COVID-19. Nothing like a pandemic and corresponding quarantine to shed new light of the benefits, or perils, of matrimony. The latest to announce a change in status is TW-singer Wilber Pan, posting on his SNS this week that he was already married after … Continue reading →
K-actor Ji Chang Wook is ditching the goofy of Backstreet Rookie for a more mature modern vibe in his next drama. K-ent is reporting that he’s going to star in the short form Kakao M drama City Couple Way of Love opposite Kim Ji Won. The drama will be in short 25-minute episodes for a total of 12-episodes and streaming … Continue reading →
One of my faves is back and its fitting that he’s taking over for another fave going away. Eider released the first CF stills for its upcoming Fall 2020 ad campaign featuring Kim Woo Bin and Han So Hee. Long time spokesperson Park Bo Gum is also in the campaign but it’ll likely be his last as he’s heading to … Continue reading →
Hoo boy was there was lot to unpack and digest in episode 12 of It’s Okay to Not be Okay. The signs where there all along that Moon Young’s mom may (1) not be dead, and (2) may be more evil than simply an emotional child abuser. The possibility that she may be the butterfly killer of Kang Tae and … Continue reading →
The last time I watched a K-drama with a zombie in it, she totally stole my heart with her plight. It was Lee Se Young‘s character in Hwayugi (A Korean Odyssey) and she was really the beating heart of that drama for me despite her not having a beating heart. Choi Jin Hyuk will give it a shot next playing … Continue reading →
Not to be confused with last year’s rom-com tvN drama Her Private Life, the upcoming jTBC thriller Private Life released script reading stills this week as the drama is starting promotions to take over the Wed-Thurs time slot after Was It Love. Starring Go Kyung Pyo as his first military discharge return project along with Seohyun, Kim Hyo Jin, and … Continue reading →
You can only get progress and catharsis from what is stagnant and seemingly hopeless, and episode 11 of It’s Okay to Not be Okay delivered tons of incredibly satisfying forward momentum without any of the usual K-drama tropes. Kang Tae and Moon Young’s breakup was as short as it should be considering how it solved no problems and allowed Sang … Continue reading →
There are three reasons to check out upcoming SBS drama Do You Like Brahms? Music, male lead Kim Min Jae, and female lead Park Eun Bin. The soul stirring notes from his piano and her violin along with their equally bright beautiful smiles promises a sweet aspiring tale of two music department college students finding camaraderie and romance together. The … Continue reading →
I think K-star Suzy has had a really smooth ride as a star in a cutthroat and relentless industry. She debuted at 16 years old and is now on the cusp of turning 26 this October, and what has transpired in the last 10 years is one of unmitigated success. The worst thing she has to deal with is valid … Continue reading →
It’s going to be telling of your age/generation if you thought upcoming MBC romance When I was Most Beautiful straight up copied a scene from Ghost. Now I’m humming Unchained Melody again, damn you pottery wheel skinskip! I then checked the synopsis and learned that leading lady Im Soo Hyang is a potter, i.e. a pottery artist. Of course she’s … Continue reading →
Okay, by the time this article posts the entire thing may be back up and running, at which point we can all talk about the Great Soompi Forum Outage of 2020 which lasted all of 48 hours. But this time everything seems off and the outage again has gone one for over 2 days so I’m not sure if Soompi … Continue reading →
