There is an upcoming sageuk coming in April that I’m planning to watch but not wildly excited about (yet). SBS will premiere The Haunted Palace (Gwigong) on April 18th in the Fri-Sat time slot and it has a fantasy/supernatural element in it. Male lead Yook Sung Jae gets possessed by an Imoogi, a Korean fantasy dragon/serpant/giant snake creature in folklore … Continue reading →
The great reception for Han Ji Min in her last romance K-drama makes sense that her next pick will also be the same genre. She earlier signed on for K-drama Efficient Dating of Single Men and Women (Efficient Dating of Singles) and this week it’s announced that her male lead will be Park Sung Hoon. It took me a moment … Continue reading →
This xianxia drama was only filmed in late 2023 but it feels more old school than that, probably because it just looks mid budget and overall like someone tried to copy and paste hit xianxia dramas but the result comes across as cobbled together. Of course the previews could be wrong and the upcoming A Moment But Forever turns out … Continue reading →
So the slow burn rise in buzz and views for period C-drama The Glory may just match the pace and storytelling of the actual drama itself. Tencent premiered The Glory starring Chen Du Ling and Xin Yun Lai last week and it’s methodically building up a stronger and stronger showing and in the most recent sign hit 28,000 heat index … Continue reading →
The great start to 2025 for Park Bo Gum hopefully will continue into the summer now that it’s basically confirmed his next drama the jTBC sports and police show Good Boy will be airing soon. The Naver page for the drama just updated to a May 31st premiere which means this will be a summer show to follow along with. … Continue reading →
This sounds so potentially awesome with both the cast and the story outline it’s like why hasn’t K-drama land thought of this before? Lol, it did but that was the modern take with Secret Garden, the soul swap hit drama about a chaebol and stunt woman, and now we will be getting the KBS sageuk version with Dear Bandit, the … Continue reading →
The lawsuits are definitely flying in the Kim Soo Hyun scandal where he is alleged to have dated actress Kim Sae Ron when she was 15 years old and still a minor. This new one is now the third lawsuit, the first was Kim Sae Ron‘s family against Youtuber Lee Jin Ho, then came Kim Soo Hyun’s agency Gold Medalist … Continue reading →
The Han Dynasty has so much great real life pathos and love/loss/war to mine for drama land and it sucks that novelist Tong Hua‘s fictional takes with Da Mo Yao (Ballad of the Desert) and Yun Zhong Ge (Song in the Clouds) got massacred in the drama adaptations thanks to wildly unsuitable casting for many of the roles and poor … Continue reading →
If I didn’t see the captions underneath his pictures I legit would not have guessed this was the same person. HK-star Jacky Heung (Xiang Zuo 向佐) the OG nepo baby and only child born to HK-ent’s super power couple actor Charles Heung and his wife Tiffany Chen best known as Heung Tai, has undergone a visual transformation to his looks … Continue reading →
The making of C-drama Rebirth the sequel to Princess Agents 2 has taken 8 years start production but now it feels like the long wait was for timing to be right. It allowed the casting of original child actress Huang Yang Tian Tian in the lead role and pair her with younger aged down Li Yun Rui. When both were … Continue reading →
I’m not a fan of the Bulgari Serpenti collection but seeing it worn beautifully by K-actress Kim Ji Won has made me do a second thought on maybe adding a Viper bracelet to my stack. She’s been with Bulgari as few years as a brand ambassador and this past week she was spotted at the airport jetting to Hong Kong … Continue reading →
This is so sweet and wonderful to see, old coworkers still friends and together again in support. Park Bo Gum is doing double duty this March as an actor with his Netflix K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines and also hosting a new variety stage show The Seasons: Park Bo Gum’s Cantabile. Nearly all his leading cast costars from the … Continue reading →
April is tax season here in the US but every month is a possible audit and owed taxes season for anyone especially for the higher earners. Statistics show that high earners are way more likely to be regularly audited and in South Korea it seems to be opens season on entertainers. So far in a month we heard of Honey … Continue reading →
