So the tax prosecution of C-actress Fan Bing Bing may have been the hammer coming down hard with repaying of owed taxes and then double that amount in penalties and fines, but her case is just the tip of the iceberg. Chinese tax authorities reportedly have started investigating other top stars with the barometer that anyone paid over US $2 … Continue reading →
I think it’s so funny that cable channel ratings have longer decimals than prime time because I’m so tempted to round up to 4% the first episode ratings of 3.996% garnered by tvN Wed-Thurs drama Hundred Million Stars Falling From the Sky. That’s a really decent start on cable and even beat the KBS drama The Ghost Detective which is … Continue reading →
K-movie The Great Battle has won the battle (har har) for the box office in a high profile Chuseok holiday three-way skirmish with two other big star helmed movies. Jo In Sung’s sageuk bloody epic The Great Battle came in first in the South Korean box office, with 4.52 million admissions over a 12 day release period. The other sageuk … Continue reading →
The world is split into dog people and cat people and while I think both types are entitled to their furry love preferences I’m a billion percent a dog person. Or a dog sister/mother for three decades now and I can’t help but stop and coo over a dog on the street and click on every stupid dog meme. That’s … Continue reading →
Welp, it’s officially hammer time in C-ent, or at least I think this should lead to a widespread purge of what is realistically a common occurrence. C-actress Fan Bing Bing has been the subject of intense media coverage for the past 3 months since a tabloid reported on “yin-yang” contracts in C-ent, pointed the finger at her in particular, and … Continue reading →
The most exciting thing at the 2018 Korean Dramas Awards was how utterly lackluster it was. Other than veteran Yoo Dong Geun showing up to accept his Daesang and his weekend drama Marry Me Now winning Best Drama, it was an event where I was struggling to find reason why it existed. It felt like the winners were anyone who … Continue reading →
This is a surprising choice of a K-drama to adapt, mostly because the original is deemed nearly perfect and also because it doesn’t seem to fit with the vibe of the adapting countries drama tastes. China will be remaking acclaimed tvN drama My Ahjusshi into a C-drama tentatively with the same title which is My Uncle in Chinese. The synopsis … Continue reading →
The Mon-Tues time slot has way more interesting dramas than the Wed-Thurs period, at least for the month of October thanks to the premiere of three new dramas that all got good reviews. Leading the prime time networks is SBS new arrival Where Stars Land (Fox Star Bride) with 5.9% and 7.2% in its first episode, way higher than the … Continue reading →
When I heard that K-actress Kang Sora was going to cameo in the jTBC drama adaption of The Beauty Inside, I totally thought she was going to play one of the forms that female lead Seo Hyun Jin changes into. Turns out Kang Sora cameos as herself presenting a Best Actress award to fellow top actress character played by Seo … Continue reading →
It’s been nearly a year since K-actress Kim Tae Hee and her actor-singer husband Rain welcomed their first child, a baby girl in October of 2017. Since then he’s had a drama comeback with jTBC police procedural Sketch and it appears Kim Tae Hee may be following suit soon as she just dropped her first post-baby pictorial with Elle Korea. … Continue reading →
I’ve been watching K-dramas over for over a decade and covering the industry via this blog a little less than that, and I can vouch for how difficult, sanctimonious, and exacting the domestic Korean netizens are even more than when the international viewers start chiming in. If I-netz are not feeling a drama, K-netz have already ripped it to shred … Continue reading →
C-netizens may throw salty on actress Yang Mi‘s recently leaked non-retouched photo shoot pictures but they are really missing the point. Her non-retouched pictures show deeper wrinkles and non-porcelain skin but also show a very beautiful woman. Every single star has their released pictorial pictures photoshopped other than tabloid or media event pictures and Yang Mi is no exception. I … Continue reading →
I feel like I can start copying and pasting from my last two drama award nomination posts since it’s the same few drama names, actors, and actresses making the list. The 2nd annual Seoul Awards assembled by Sports Seoul released the list of nominees at the end of last week and this one gives the Daesang to dramas rather than … Continue reading →
