It’s a quiet entertainment week in K-ent with Chuseok (Mid-Autumn Festival) where families gather and there’s a few days of national vacation. Some dramas are on hiatus but I haven’t been following any of the midweek ones so it hasn’t interrupted my watch schedule. Into this quiet lull K-actor Lee Min Ho dropped three pictures of himself that his fans … Continue reading →
Better late than never when it comes to more Hotel Del Luna goodies. I think I was thirsty for a compelling and interesting K-drama for so long that I liked Hotel more than it probably deserves qualitatively. Ultimately the central romance felt less opposite sex than familial love but that’s what the drama naturally progressed to. The highly teased cameo … Continue reading →
Holy shit someone should have given me warning for this reunion because imma almost collapsed from joy and shock. Kim Heechul is the host of  KBS2’s variety show Some-Vival 1+1 and this week even he was surprised and thrilled to see as a guest his former Super Junior member Kim Ki Bum. Heechul and Kibum were probably the most famous … Continue reading →
Someone on the Netflix Asia team deserves a raise for smartly and oddly pairing up two very similar entertainment stars from different countries for a new show. Jasper Liu from Taiwan and Lee Seung Gi from South Korea have embarked on a travelogue show called Together airing this fall on Netflix Asia with their first stop being Indonesia. It’s part … Continue reading →
There’s a new look for a Joseon sageuk female lead and it’s circa the 1980’s with bangs and a slightly curved bob. Kim So Hyun lops off her long hair in rebellion in her character teaser preview for The Tale of Nokdu, a change from her gender norm much like male lead Jang Dong Yoon cross-dresses as a widowed woman … Continue reading →
I’m appreciating the direction the casting for the upcoming K-drama remake of Que Sera Sera is going after original leads Eric and Jung Yumi turned down reprising their own roles a decade later. Their colleagues of their own generation would naturally be compared to them, so how better to use truly fresh faces. Rising actor Wi Ha Joon is in … Continue reading →
We’ve got two warrior male leads so it’s fitting that the jTBC sageuk My Country is crafting the leading lady as a scholar type. Seolhyun’s teaser for My Country dropped this week and she’s set against the same all black back drop as male leads Yang Se Jong and Woo Do Hwan in their teasers, but while they were wielding swords … Continue reading →
It’s officially fall which means the New York Fashion week is in full swing. Snapped by attendees and Vogue Magazine is K-actress Song Hye Kyo, who has been keeping steady with her acting and endorsement career with no blip after her high profile divorce with Song Joong Ki earlier in the summer. Of course it’s now old news especially with … Continue reading →
In the few years that Suzy and Lee Seung Gi have matured since their first collaboration in sageuk Gu Family Book, and moving their characters up a few hundred years to modern times, some things never change. In the latest Suzy-centric teaser for upcoming SBS action thriller Vagabond, she still reads her dialogue so flat and it’s distracting against the … Continue reading →
K-actor Kim Jae Wook isn’t a diamond in the rough, he’s just a diamond as chiseled and deserving of limelight. He was all James Dean-esque at Incheon Airport earlier this week flying to Taipei and days later he’s suited to perfection at the Tiffany event in front of his adoring fans snapping away on their phones. Having him rep a … Continue reading →
I guess the overseas filming portion in Switzerland of tvN drama Crash Landed Love is done because male lead Hyun Bin attended an Omega event in Seoul this week. Binnie was wearing all black with a black suit and undershirt but he doesn’t look like a douche or a villain, just uber casual and sleek. Maybe I’m just biased but … Continue reading →
The casting is underway for the SBS medical drama Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim 2 and another name thrown in the mix is Lee Sung Kyung for the female lead. If she accepts it will be her second time playing doctor (har har) after Doctors in 2016. Her role would be a second year heart surgeon who grew up as a … Continue reading →
If one didn’t know that upcoming tvN drama Vagabond was an action thriller then the visually loud drama posters will hammer that point home. There are guns, guns, and more guns, and also lots of angry and intense stares. Well, male lead Lee Seung Gi is delivering the intensity for sure with plenty of anger fueling his quest for truth … Continue reading →
