The first season of SBS medical drama Romantic Teacher, Doctor Kim premiered with 9.5% AGB nationwide ratings and ended with over 27% in its final episode. It’s one of the rare prime time successes in recent years so not a surprise the network decided on a season 2. What was weird was how long it took but I guess the … Continue reading →
It’ll be a new decade baby for K-actor Jo Jung Seok and his singer wife Gummy! Congrats to the couple as they announced they are expecting their first child, due sometime in August 2020. Jo Jung Seok is basically have a best life moment in 2019 with the critically acclaimed K-drama Nokdu Flower and the even bigger hit the disaster … Continue reading →
I feel like my articles about K-actress Han Ye Seul can simply be summed up with “do you like it?”. The actress has been on a tear with changing up her image in the last year, getting quite a few new tattoos along with dressing in more street and edgy looks. Nothing wrong with that other than one’s personal preference … Continue reading →
This is a really big casting win for young actor Park Seo Joon and IU. He was cast earlier and now she’s also confirmed for the upcoming movie Dream by the hit making director of 2019’s highest grossing South Korean film Extreme Jobs which is also the second highest grossing Korean movie of all time. I watched that movie on … Continue reading →
What a terrible news to start off the new year, and my condolences to the family. TW-actor Ming Dao‘s older brother was discovered over the weekend dead, committing suicide by hanging from a tree beside a popular temple in the outskirts of Taipei. Nearby the police found the bodies of a woman and ten year old boy, later confirmed to … Continue reading →
Korean stars who marry non-celeb spouses tend to protect their privacy and not reveal their faces, unless said spouses were publicly known in other ways. That means weddings are shot by the media with just the star solo, and in releasing ceremony and reception pictures there has to be judicious cropping of the non-celeb spouses. Sometimes it looks weird but … Continue reading →
I love top star cameos in dramas. It’s super fast, no skin off anyone’s back, makes fans happy, and earns plenty of karma and kudos. There’s going to be a huge cameo coming up in hit cable drama Crash Landing on You with Hyun Bin and Son Ye Jin, already headlining two A-list stars. Fellow A-lister Kim Soo Hyun will … Continue reading →
I can’t muster up much interest in this story but of course there will be the first “scandal” to start the new year. TW-actor Mike He is all over the island tabloids on this first day of January 2020 after being caught on December 14th late at night coming out of a KTV with fellow actor Michael Zhang and an … Continue reading →
A new year and a new agency beginning for K-actor Song Joong Ki, who is probably relieved to put the tumultuous 2019 behind him. He didn’t renew his contract with longtime agency Blossom Entertainment last month and this weekend a new startup agency called History D&C announced that Song Joong Ki had signed with them. The agency is by veteran … Continue reading →
Another 2020 K-drama has confirmed the lead cast and it sounds so much like hit movie Introduction to Architecture. Yoo ji Tae and Lee Bo Young are signed on for upcoming drama The Most Beautiful Moment in Life with youngsters Jinyoung and Jeon So Ni playing their college-age versions. The drama is about first loves who reunite twenty years later … Continue reading →
Okay this is a super weird maybe dating story but it’s even funnier because this January 1, 2020 didn’t come with super shocking dating news so this may make up for it. This weekend Park Bo Young is fending off dating rumors with her and veteran actor Park Hee Won. She’s 29 and he’s 48 and genuinely old enough to … Continue reading →
When I first saw the just released drama posters for upcoming tvN bittersweet family drama Hi Bye Mama! it just felt like woah such a HUGE face of leading lady Kim Tae Hee. Don’t get me wrong, she’s radiant and so beautiful after getting married and having two kids since her last drama Yongpal in 2015. It’s just that the … Continue reading →
While K-ent had a dating confirmation, J-ent went a different direction with the first big star news of 2020. Top selling solo idol singer Ayumi Hamasaki posted a personal note on her official fan site first wishing her fans a happy new year and then revealing that she’s actually a mom! The 41-year old songstress shared that she had a … Continue reading →
