My feelings about KBS Wed-Thurs drama When the Camellia Blooms is ambivalent hence the lack of posts on it. K-viewers are really enjoying it outright and ratings have gone one way up since it premiered with the most recent episode reaching 16.9%, the first for a prime time drama this year. I think the drama is very well written, with … Continue reading →
It’s back to work for every one in K-ent this week and headed overseas was two stars who happened to attend the same event but don’t seem to have crossed paths. Kim Soo Hyun and Park Min Young were both at the DPC Skincare brand event in Shanghai, him in all black with a beaming smile doing his best Do … Continue reading →
The trend of sue netizens over baseless and/or defamatory rumor spreading has spread to China as well, as this week C-actress Liu Shi Shi won a civil lawsuit against a netizen who spread a pretty awful rumor about her. In April of 2018, a post online said that Liu Shi Shi cheated, got caught, and is carrying another man’s child. … Continue reading →
KBS drama The Tale of Nokdu is seriously way better than it projected on the premise alone and I was good with a silly and fun cross-dressing tale. Now we have double palace and royal family male descendants intrigue and feelings so strong and bursting forth Kim So Hyun‘s Dong Joo feels the need to physically get herself away from … Continue reading →
The attrition in K-drama viewers may have led production companies to dig deep into the original well of Hallyu addiction to find something to bring them back. How else to explain upcoming tvN drama Crash Landing on You (or Crash Landed Love) where the female lead parachutes onto the male lead and love ensues, because wasn’t that Successful Story of … Continue reading →
It’s been over 20 years since Jeon Ji Hyun debuted but she still makes everything she does seem fresh and captivating. This fall Marie Claire Korea jewelry pictorial is supposed to be about the baubles but it’s really all eyes on her. She poses so alive whether it’s an eyebrow arch, an extra stare in her eye, the way her … Continue reading →
I love chocolate and I know this upcoming K-drama Chocolate is exactly my taste bud. It stars two of my faves Ha Ji Won and Yoon Kye Sang, in a sure to be warm and weepy romance drama, penned by one of my favorite screenwriters Lee Kyung Hee. Sure I dislike half of what she wrote but the other half … Continue reading →
The premise of MBC drama People With Flaws is solely predicated on the acting and chemistry. It’s basically opposites attract and insert profession/situation/coincidence to bring them together. I don’t know how the mixture of Ahn Jae Hyun and Oh Yeon Seo will turn out but he underacts and she overacts so maybe together they will be just right. I’m more … Continue reading →
The scheduled press conference for K-drama Catch the Ghost was postponed due to ill tidings in K-ent and a sad passing so the drama held its press conference today hours before the drama premiered as the new Mon-Tues tvN offering. Starring Moon Geun Young and Kim Sun Ho as partner subway cops investigating a larger conspiracy but solving daily transit … Continue reading →
Congrats to the dark horse hit drama of 2019, small cable network MBN‘s unexpected surprise Graceful Family ended it’s record setting run last week with 8.5% ratings. If you want to know how impressive that is the highest rating for cable network tvN‘s highly promoted and most expensive drama ever produced Arthdal Chronicles was 7.705% and tvN’s real hit drama … Continue reading →
The K-movie adaptation of hit feminist novel 1982 Born Kim Ji Young opens next week in Korea and all eyes are on whether mainstream audiences will embrace it and whether the fringe right will successfully stifle a story that highlights all the minor and micro injustices Korean women have faced culturally. The movie is 100% about Jung Yumi‘s Kim Ji … Continue reading →
There is a reason that summer Hollywood movies are called popcorn flicks, it’s brainless fun and the emphasis is on FUN. tvN action drama Vagabond has been no fun so far, earlier on it had to be serious and sad because an entire plane full of passengers including a bunch of kids died because of a greedy government and corporate … Continue reading →
The last major entertainment activity that Sulli participated in prior to her untimely passing was doing a cameo for her very good friend IU‘s summer supernatural drama Hotel Del Luna. That will remain Sulli’s departing work and I’m so happy she got to do it in support of IU and also spend time together. IU’s name hasn’t been publicly in … Continue reading →
