K-actor Lee Min Ho‘s military service for the last two years was low key and so has his return the last few months. He didn’t dive right into an acting project and only has started filming for his upcoming high profile 2020 drama The King: Eternal Sovereign costarring Kim Go Eun and penned by ratings queen screenwriter Kim Eun Sook. … Continue reading →
I haven’t followed a Mon-Tues K-drama in months and the wait has been worth it to find a drama worth my commitment again. KBS dropped the youth sageuk The Tale of Nokdu this week and it’s as entertaining and charming as the previews suggested. Leads Jang Dong Yoon and Kim So Hyun are perfectly cast in their respective roles and … Continue reading →
I think context does matter here, both for C-actress Liu Shi Shi herself and the general bounce back of actresses in general after having a baby. Liu Shi Shi was seen at the airport this week and it made the news since it was the first time she was seen in public since having a baby four months ago with … Continue reading →
It’s enlistment time for Lee Hong Ki and better to get that head shaved and basic training done with before winter rolls around and the chill descends. Lee Hong Ki is one of the late to enlist ones but has managed to churn out plenty of music, variety, and acting projects under his belt in recent years so that he’s … Continue reading →
If there is a any fictional reason for a man to go live in a widows village in the Joseon era, the more unbelievable part is that he would pass for a woman simply by disguise. But seeing Jang Dong Yoon in upcoming KBS sageuk The Tale of Nokdu go from warrior to woman had made me believe the impossible, … Continue reading →
Sorry this post is a few months late but I didn’t have the chance to watch it in the Japan theaters and only caught it last week on a long trans-Pacific flight but holy schmoly was it hella entertaining. I’m talking about Kingdom, not the Korean drama with zombies but the Japanese popular shonen manga of the same name adapted … Continue reading →
I’m gradually forgotten K-actor Kang Ji Hwan even existed, seriously making the effort to erase his works and existence so to move on and not feel even slightly ambivalent about his onscreen performance versus real life current criminal incarceration pending trial for sexually assaulting two women while claiming to be so drunk. It helps that he’s not in the news … Continue reading →
I find TW-actress Nikki Hsieh one of the most watchable actresses in the industry across genres. Plus she’s my Da Hua (Big Flower) from the insanely drama crack addictive drama King Flower which is so many years ago but holds a soft spot in my heart for many reasons. Nikki is the one updating so I figure she wants her … Continue reading →
This most is primarily to update that K-actress Gu Hye Sun appears to be fine, after last week she was discharged from the hospital after a two week stay and still going through the life-changing event that is a pending divorce. Her estranged husband Ahn Jae Hyun has officially filed for divorce with the court, necessarily because Gu Hye Sun … Continue reading →
The second week of SBS Fri-Sat night drama Vagabond basically is unchanged from the first week, so I say this because those who like it will continue to do so and those who don’t probably have no reason to start now. Episode 3 ratings are 7.3%, 8.4%, 9.3% and episode 4 took in 6.8%, 8.1%, 10.2%, so this big budget … Continue reading →
I’m not a fan of the black wedding dress alternative look but I am a fan of couple being a natural fit together. That’s my vibe from seeing the new Dazed Korea wedding shoot with K-actor Kim Min Joon and his fiancee Kwon Da Mi, better known to the public as top idol rapper G-Dragon‘s older sister. The two have … Continue reading →
Okay, this sounds like a promising project for Park Shin Hye, if the rumored male lead accepts she should totally do it. K-ent is reporting that Park Shin Hye has been offered the female lead in the cool sounding jTBC sci-fi suspense drama Sisyphus: The Myth. Also in talks is veteran leading man Jo Seung Woo who is heading into … Continue reading →
Joseon-era sageuks are mostly court dramas with all the plotting and one has to go to the earlier Goguryeo, Shilla, Baekjae and even earlier to see the bloodier kingdom warring sagas. Upcoming jTBC sageuk My Country is set in the waning days of the Gorguyeo era and the dawn of Joseon so the outfits are a hybrid of the two … Continue reading →
