K-actress Park Bo Young packs a lot of talent and charisma into her petite frame, and also packs a lot of successful projects under her belt without a big quantity output. She’s confirmed her first TV drama in nearly two years with the tvN fantasy tale called Abyss, with a high ratings bar to match her last successful drama Strong … Continue reading →
The Wed-Thurs time slot for the next month officially belongs to tvN drama Knowing Wife (Familiar Wife). The cable drama hit 7.259% ratings in episode 6, higher than the averaged half episode ratings of the prime time competitors Your Honor (Dear Judge) on SBS, the melodrama Time on MBC, and the family drama Your House Helper on KBS, with those … Continue reading →
Happy news out of Taiwan – petite and spunky actress Ivy Chen has confirmed the swirling rumors of the past month that she was pregnant and expecting a baby. She is indeed, and on top of that planning an upcoming wedding to her boyfriend of one year and now baby daddy Director Xu Fu Xiang. He’s most famous for directing … Continue reading →
The casting carousel has brought together a pairing that I am most pleased with, and timing in this case definitely changed my opinion. K-ent is reporting that rising young actor Ahn Hyo Seob will join Kim So Hyun in the upcoming webtoon adapted drama Love Alarm, based on a future world where young folks find love using a phone app … Continue reading →
Oh this drama is going to hurt so good and imma going to keep asking for more sweet pain. The first stills are out for K-drama remake of J-dorama A Million Stars Falling From the Star (The Smile Has Left Your Eyes). It’s call Hundred Million Stars From the Sky and stars Seo In Guk and Jung So Min in … Continue reading →
After the random negative news about a K-actress dying that wasn’t true, now comes the palate cleanser of happy and true news about a favorite acting couple of mine. K-ent is reporting that Ji Sung and Lee Bo Young are expecting their second child! Woohoo, so so happy for this low key and truly successful married pair of top actor … Continue reading →
I feel like Ji Chang Wook and Kang Ha Neul are having a complete blast serving their military enlistment. It’s by happenstance that the two popular actors and also musical veterans are serving in the army around the same time because they keep getting to showcase their singing chops together and looking mighty fine doing so. This time they get … Continue reading →
It’s great to see K-actress Han Ye Seul out and about at an official entertainment event for a Skincare brand. It’s been three months since her botched lipoma surgery resulted in severe scarring on an awful gaping wound. There’s nothing the standards of reconstructive surgery can’t fix in South Korea but her job depends on her looks and any external … Continue reading →
The late summer 2018 Mon-Tues time slot has a new arrival but it’s an already airing drama that has shown legs this week. KBS premiered horror romance Lovely Horribly to ratings in the single digits of around 4% for the episodes 1-4 combined on both nights. I’m not ready to dive into SBS drama Thirty But Seventeen due to the … Continue reading →
Unlike dating rumors where denials could be to mask the truth still, this is one rumor that is real true or false. K-ent was gripped by a fast spreading rumor and report that actress Kim Ah Joong died, being found dead in her Gangnam apartment. Her agency released an immediate response that the rumors were false and Kim Ah Joong … Continue reading →
I’m going to call Song Hye Kyo the Queen of KBS from now on, and it’s even more impressive that she’s achieved this level of one-two kill 16 years apart. KBS ran its own poll recently polling 1000 random viewers on their favorite KBS drama of all time. Coming in first is Descendants of the Sun with Song Joong Ki … Continue reading →
This time I’m convinced that current It-actor Park Seo Joon knows exactly what he’s doing (wearing) and is trolling the heck out of K-media and netizens. In that case fine by me and I’m thoroughly amused at how in character he is on his way back to South Korea leaving Incheon airport. We’re talking black loose button down opened to … Continue reading →
I expected this sequel to be announced earlier but better now than never. The director of the box office hit Korean zombie movie Train to Busan has announced that a sequel is in the works, not called Train to Busan 2 though. The title is tentatively Peninsula, which reveals that the infection has spread through the entire Korean peninsula, which … Continue reading →
