Filming Halted on Five K-dramas Due to COVID-19 Outbreak: Men are Men, Private Life, Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol, Run On, and More Than Friends

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I feel like this new COVID-19 outbreak in South Korea could have 100% been prevented as the country did such a good job in February-April in containing the first wave. Alas the relaxation of restrictions and the crazies pushing for normalcy have come to roost as the nation is hitting new daily highs in infections. A few K-dramas, some currently … Continue reading →

Song Joong Ki and Kim Tae Ri Bring Their Best Swashbuckle to the Press Conference for Sci-fi Movie Space Sweepers

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Earlier this summer the Korean box office was semi-revived thanks to loosening social gathering restrictions, movie theaters could open but just block off every other seat. A handful of summer movies then premiered and did well enough in these circumstances, such as Alive, Peninsula, and Steel Rain 2. Sci-fi movie Space Sweepers (Spaceship Victory) was supposed to premiere but pushed … Continue reading →

jTBC Drama Run On Filming with Two Sets of Drama Couples Im Shi Wan with Shin Se Kyung and Kang Tae Oh Paired with Sooyoung

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Cable network jTBC hit a grand slam home run this year with The World of the Marriage but the magic didn’t continue with successor drama Graceful Friends. The weekend time slot feels like the new Wed-Thurs prime time days, where the competition is at, and I won’t be surprised if the network schedules currently filming K-drama Run On for that … Continue reading →

Park Bo Gum, Park So Dam, and Byun Woo Seok Work Hard at Modeling and Makeup in New Stills for Record of Youth

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It’s now the back end of August so the clock is ticking for Park Bo Gum to enlist in the military but also means we’re getting closer to the premiere of tvN drama Record of Youth. The drama released new stills this week showing the leads hard at work in the modeling and makeup artist roles. Park Bo Gum is … Continue reading →

Kang Ji Hwan Appeals Sentence for Sexual Assault Conviction and New Video and Text Message Evidence Casts Doubts on the Two Victims’ Statement of Events

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This is a really odd turn of events and since I covered K-actor Kang Ji Hwan‘s allegations and later conviction for sexual assault last year it’s only fitting to write about new information in the case. Last year in 2019 Kang Ji Hwan was accused by two women of sexual assault, alleging he got drunk and molested and locked them … Continue reading →

Lee Jun Ki is Beautifully Tortured in tvN Drama Flower of Evil Delivering Yet Another Gripping Character

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Lee Jun Ki fans all have their “moment” story, and there is quite a diverse array of his K-dramas which have hooked a casual viewer into a convert. Mine is of course the still perfect and very re-watchable Time Between Dog and Wolf, one of his first K-dramas though I watched it a few years after it came out. It’s … Continue reading →

Inadvertently Awkward Hand Position Makes for Hilarious 18 Again Poster as Drama Drops More Previews and Stills

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The official poster for jTBC drama 18 Again elicits so many thoughts from me, the main one being WHERE THE HECK is Yoon Sang Hyun’s hand trying to grab?!? Did the photoshopper not realize that he’s literally going from Kim Ha Neul‘s crotch area ahahaha. Then I fell into envy that Kim Ha Neul is so gorgeous and lithe that … Continue reading →

Kim Hee Sun and Joo Won Travel Through Time in Sci-fi Fri-Sat SBS K-drama Alice

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This is the year of time-travel and/or parallel universes, it has been done before in K-dramas but seems lumped together this year with Train, 365: Repeat the Year, The King: Eternal Monarch, and now Alice. This past weekend felt a little empty because the normally bustling with viewer commentary SBS Fri-Sat time slot was empty after Backstreet Rookie ended the … Continue reading →

Zhao Li Ying Reportedly Axes Her Stylist Team After Wearing Same Outfits After Angelababy Did

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Change isn’t a bad thing and wearing the same outfit as a female celebrity is a dime a dozen but some coincidences could be one too many. C-actress Zhao Li Ying is swinging back to her acting career full blast after getting married in 2018 and having a baby in 2019, and one of the changes to come may be … Continue reading →

Kang Sora Announces August 29th Wedding to Non-celeb Boyfriend

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Well this news came totally out of the blue. K-actress Kang Sora is getting married! Her agency released the news this week that the 30 year old actress will be tying the knot at the end of the month, August 29th to be exact. The wedding has been pared down to family and friends in a simple affair due to … Continue reading →

Ro Woon and Won Jin Ah Start Filming jTBC Drama Sunbae, Please Don’t Put on That Lipstick

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I haven’t read the source material but I am wondering whether the title is literal and what the male lead has against the titular liptsick. Script reading has taken place and filming commenced for upcoming jTBC drama adaptation of manhwa Sunbae, Please Don’t Put on That Lipstick. Initially Jang Dong Yoon was offered the male lead but he picked horror … Continue reading →

Train Thrills with Two Times the Yoon Shi Yoon Intensity and Ends with a Neato Twist in the Parallel Worlds Concept

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It’s finale weekend and I’m going to be sad there is no more Train to board next weekend. The OCN drama ended with a sweet and to the point 12-episodes of tightly written narrative, the sci-fi parallel worlds bit never really made sense beyond being a conceit since the story was so small in scale. Like all parallel worlds it … Continue reading →

Cha Eun Woo, Moon Ga Young, and Hwang In Yeop Confirmed for K-drama Adaptation of Webtoon True Beauty

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If there was a pitch perfect casting of manga/manhwa/webtoon character to real live actor/actress then True Beauty (Goddess as Descended) wins the prize off the bat. The drama adaptation of the same name webtoon is heading into production and the leads are confirmed as Cha Eun Woo, Moon Ga Young, and rising newcomer Hwang In Yeob. To say each looks … Continue reading →