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Episode 12 of Record of Youth Has Slight Ratings Drop to 7.798% as Hye Joon and Jung Ah Grow Farther Apart and She Spends More Time With Hae Hyo

A Koala's Playground Posted on October 13, 2020 by ockoalaOctober 13, 2020
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I don’t have second male lead syndrome in Record of Youth but episode 12 totally made me ship Hae Hyo and Jung Ah at the end of the episode. It helps that Byun Woo Seok finally broke out and emoted to the screen and the sexual tension was so thick you can slice it with a spoon in the last … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Byun Woo Seok, Park Bo Gum, Park So Dam, Record of Youth

Nam Joo Hyuk, Suzy, Kim Sun Ho, and Kang Hana Attend Press Conference for tvN Drama Start-Up

A Koala's Playground Posted on October 13, 2020 by ockoalaOctober 13, 2020
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This Saturday we’ll see if tvN drama Start-Up flies high or flails, I’m of course hoping for the former because I’ve loved all the dramas from screenwriter Park Hye Ryung. Leads Suzy, Nam Joo Hyuk, Kim Sun Ho, and Kang Hana attended the press conference and I wished their coordinating outfits were brighter and more cheerful as this drama is … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Kang Hana, Kim Sun Ho, Nam Joo Hyuk, Start Up, Suzy

Ji Soo Offered Male Lead in Sageuk Moon Rising Over the River Opposite Kim So Hyun in a Page Turner Reunion

A Koala's Playground Posted on October 13, 2020 by ockoalaOctober 12, 2020
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This has so much potential to be awesome or awesomely trainwreck. Man, I love me some rough angry boy Ji Soo but he was so so sooooo bad in Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo which convinced me he should stay far far away from sageuks. But now he’s coming back and playing his 8th brother Kang Ha Neul’s son lololol, … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Ji Soo, Kim So Hyun, Moon Rising Over the River

Record of Youth Has Slight Ratings Increase to 8.262% for Episode 11 as Hye Joon Experiences the Dark Side of Fame

A Koala's Playground Posted on October 12, 2020 by ockoalaOctober 12, 2020
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Okay, this is the first episode I “felt” emotionally connected to Hye Joon and Jung Ah’s sweeter than cotton candy healthy romance in Record of Youth. Yes they are so thoughtful towards each other but it had been so boring since the very beginning. But this episode I really see why Jung Ah has her own agency in life and … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Park Bo Gum, Park So Dam, Record of Youth

Kim Sae Ron Drops Out of KBS Drama Dear M and is Quickly Replaced with Rising Teen Actress Noh Jeong Eui

A Koala's Playground Posted on October 12, 2020 by ockoalaOctober 11, 2020
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Not sure what happened behind the scenes but it certainly makes for a newsy Monday morning in the Seoul entertainment papers. K-actress Kim Sae Ron has abruptly dropped out of the drama Dear M reportedly due to a difference in opinion with the direction. She was reprising her character in the drama which is a spinoff of the drama Love … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Dear M, Kim Sae Ron, Noh Jeong Eui

Penthouse Drops Unintentionally Hilarious Character Posters of Leads Posing Like Fascimile of Rich People

A Koala's Playground Posted on October 12, 2020 by ockoalaOctober 11, 2020
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I feel like SBS drama Penthouse spent all its money on the salaries of so many big name stars and just hired a college kid to do the promotional materials. It’s so bad it’s….good? The trio of female leads Kim So Yeon, Lee Ji Ah, and Eugene are doing their best The Princess, The Bitch, and The Social Climber poses … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Bong Tae Gyu, Eom Ki Joon, Kim So Yeon, Lee Ji Ah, Penthouse, Shin Eun Kyung

K-drama True Beauty Holds Script Reading With Leads Cha Eun Woo, Moon Ga Young, and Hwang In Yeop

A Koala's Playground Posted on October 11, 2020 by ockoalaOctober 11, 2020
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It’s filming kick off time for upcoming tvN drama True Beauty, adapted from the webtoon called The Goddess Descends which supposedly has a problematic premise about beauty and shallowness and whatnot. Moon Ga Young plays the titular beauty who is an ordinary average girl who learns crack makeup skills and becomes a goddess level beauty to the outside world. The … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Cha Eun Woo, Hwang In Yeop, Moon Ga Young, True Beauty

Joo Won Trades His Cop Casual From Alice for Dreamy Sensitive Look in New Pictorial

A Koala's Playground Posted on October 11, 2020 by ockoalaOctober 11, 2020
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I’m still on the fence on whether the best thing about SBS fantasy time travel drama Alice is Joo Won or second male lead Kwak Shi Yang. It’s not a diss on Joo Won because he’s been incredibly on point in that drama since the very beginning but his character feels so reactive where his time traveler daddy is all … Continue reading →

Posted in My Loves | Tagged Joo Won

Namgong Min, Seolhyun, Lee Chung Ah Lead Script Reading for tvN Drama Awaken

A Koala's Playground Posted on October 11, 2020 by ockoalaOctober 10, 2020
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tvN’s final Mon-Tues drama of 2020 is ready to start filming and the time slot is going to go from aspirational Record of Youth to medical miracle heartwarming Birthcare Center to dark procedural Awaken (Night and Day). The leads of Awaken held their script reading earlier this month led by Namgong Min, Seolhyun, Lee Chung Ah, and Yoon Sun Woo. … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Awaken, Lee Chung Ah, Lee Sin Young, Namgong Min, Night and Day, Seolhyun, Yoon Sun Woo

SBS Fri-Sat Drama Alice Gets Back on Track Ditching the Fauxcest Insinuation and Delivering Reveals on Time Traveling Conspiracy

A Koala's Playground Posted on October 10, 2020 by ockoalaOctober 10, 2020
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Those hesitant on SBS Fri-Sat sci-fi drama Alice can safely get back on the train now. The drama is not going to awful route of making leads Joo Won and Kim Hee Sun in any universe romantically inclined towards each other. She’s his mother in one universe and basically she’s like a mom/older sister to him in every universe is … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Alice

Kim Soo Hyun Posts New SNS Picture and Netizens Swoon Over His Small Face and Other Top Actors With Such Facial Proportions

A Koala's Playground Posted on October 10, 2020 by ockoalaOctober 9, 2020
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Until I watched K-dramas I never realized an entire population would be captivated by a physical trait known as “small face”. Like, what? Years later it’s clear that having a small face remains frequently used in netizen comments and even reporters writing about dramas and movies, that a particular lead is very handsome with his proportions and small face. This … Continue reading →

Posted in My Loves | Tagged Joo Won, Kang Dong Won, Kim Soo Hyun, Park Bo Gum, Park Hyung Sik, Park Seo Joon

Lee Joon Hyuk and Kim Ok Bin Confirmed for Upcoming OCN Thriller K-drama Dark Hole

A Koala's Playground Posted on October 10, 2020 by ockoalaOctober 9, 2020
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Wow, awesome cast and fantastic sounding creepy premise! OCN has confirmed for early 2021 the thriller K-drama Dark Hole and signed up as leads Lee Joon Hyuk and Kim Ok Bin. I’m sure there will be zero romance and I’m totally cool with it since these two will bring intensity and the right seriousness for this story. The drama is … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Dark Hole, Kim Ok Bin, Lee Joon Hyuk

Yoo In Na Romances Both Eric and Im Joo Hwan in New Posters and Stills for The Spies Who Loved Me

A Koala's Playground Posted on October 9, 2020 by ockoalaOctober 8, 2020
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The upcoming MBC drama The Spies Who Loved Me is totally going to put us in leading lady Yoo In Na‘s shoes as she navigates from spy ex-husband Eric and spy current-husband Im Joo Hwan. This is like the K-drama version of Spy v. Spy and may the best smexy secret agent win, though all signs point to Eric. It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Eric, Im Joo Hwan, The Spies Who Loved Me, Yoo In Na

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