The lack of a new or current acting project for K-actress Song Hye Kyo, and her impending marriage to former drama costar and now fiancee Song Joong Ki, makes the K-media have little to report on her other than the latest on dits. It’s benign and not terribly banal since she’s been in the industry for two decades since her … Continue reading →
Love is memorialized in a celebrity couples pictorial for newlywed acting couple Lee Dong Gun and Jo Yoon Hee, a rite of passage for all Korean star couples when both are famous. It’s likely just a coincidence that the couple made their first major appearance together last week at a fashion brand store event and now this pictorial lands in … Continue reading →
Fashion is subject and I totally accept others liking outfits I find fugly and vice-versa, but what interests me more is dissecting why something works for me or doesn’t. Its similar to the qualitative commentary over acting performances which is rarely uniform in feedback. Recently I thoroughly lulz-ed over Park Min Young‘s 90’s crossed with 70’s slit and cutout polyester … Continue reading →
Ji Chang Wook continues to be super charming as he winds down the last days before enlisting in the military for his mandatory service. This weekend he posted pictures of himself with buzz cut shaved head, and I’m sure it feels way weird to suddenly have all this lightness on top not to mention the cool breeze. He actually looks … Continue reading →
I appreciate that Chinese entertainment has the production scale to tackle period dramas and movies and make it look plausible. That doesn’t solve the problem of bad scripts and uneven directing but the set pieces and scale size are there so there is always the hope of making a good drama that also doesn’t cut corners on visuals. Upcoming fantasy … Continue reading →
People say a woman glows in love, and that finding the right person makes good things flow from that in life. If that’s true then Taiwanese actress Alice Ke is walking proof because girl is on fire! Her acting career has been on a roll for the last few years and hit new highs last year with the Golden Bell … Continue reading →
Hoo boy, this is so not the news update I wanted to hear on an idol-actor that I’m actually aware of who he is. Onew of the boy group SHINee has been accused of sexual harassment and the case is currently pending police investigation. Like his group mate Minho who I only know because he keeps acting in dramas and … Continue reading →
What a bummer for the cast and crew of newly arrived but likely DOA Wed-Thurs KBS drama Manhole (Wonderland’s Feel or Feels So Good). Episode 1 premiered with an anemic 3.1% AGB nationwide ratings but episode 2 managed to fall from even that low bar dropping to 2.8%. Ouch and kinda not a surprise, I figured this type of trendy … Continue reading →
A happy newlywed couple and expectant parents is double the joy to behold and such was the case this week when acting couple Lee Dong Gun and Jo Yoon Hee made an appearance at the Damiani store event in Seoul. They wore matching elegant black going out attire along with an increasingly similar face or what is known as husband-wife … Continue reading →
Daddyhood suits TW-actor Mike He, as does a perfectly tailored suit and posing for the cameras. He’s always been the charming type with a slight veneer of smarm that never crosses over the line, like the too cool boyfriend who is self-aware but toes the line on being too full of himself. Earlier this year Mike announced that he was … Continue reading →
Darker and serious themed dramas seem to be the ones getting good reviews this year so hopefully OCN has the right execution and cast lined up for its upcoming grim reaper soul swap drama Black. Taking over from Save Me (and followed by Bad Guys 2), Black tells the story of a grim reaper cast off from heaven played by … Continue reading →
Another expectant K-actress joins the baby watching queue, which at this point is basically going to pop out a baby a month come this fall. So far there’s Kim Tae Hee, Jeon Ji Hyun, Hwang Jung Eum, So Yi Hyun, Jo Yoon Hee, Lee Shi Young, and I’m sure there is a few I’ve left off. This beautifully expectant group is now … Continue reading →
The ratings are in for the full run of Goblin in Taiwanese network television and audiences them have slurped up this different and tasty treat in record breaking numbers. The drama has become the highest rated K-drama aired on television in Taiwan, averaging 2.27% for its entire run, with the final episode hitting 5.5%. The remainder of the top rated … Continue reading →
