One of the best parts of Goblin is the bromance, it’s not overrated to me and actually quite underplayed considering how much Kim Eun Sook could have milked both the onscreen narrative and the offscreen chemistry of male leads Gong Yoo and Lee Dong Wook. It did overshadow the standard romance but when something works so marvelously it doesn’t need … Continue reading →
It’s a match made in high fashion heaven for W Korea magazine to bring together top Korea stars and real life close friends Yoo Ah In and Song Hye Kyo for a pictorial. Both are at the top of their game and peak popularity, and one of the few very public guy-girl platonic friendships in K-ent. Yoo Ah In just … Continue reading →
Some transformations make me sit up and pause and that’s the category K-actress Lee Tae Im falls under when she unveiled a brand new her at the VIP movie premiere of Lucid Dream starring Go Soo and Seol Kyung Goo. Lee Tae Im is one of those Korean entertainers I recognize on sight, with supporting roles in dramas and regular appearances … Continue reading →
A good actor can overcome physical constraints and make the audience buy character traits that visually seem incongruous with certain looks. Lee Hyun Woo may be 24 years old but he can easily pass for early teens even and such baby-faced looks is a limitation he’s going to have to counter for the foreseeable future as he can only play … Continue reading →
This is an impressive one-two punch now confirmed for upcoming tvN drama Chicago Typewriter, two Blue Dragon and Baeksang winners playing the leads with a script by screenwriter Jin Soo Wan who wrote Kill Me Heal Me and The Moon Embraces the Sun. Yoo Ah In and Im Soo Jung are onboard for the drama along with Go Kyung Pyo … Continue reading →
The Lee Min Ho heading to the military soon fan service continues and now includes a final musical farewell. He will be releasing his third mini album called “Always”, three years since he did “Song For You” and prior to that “My Everything”. Lee Min Ho is releasing this as a gift to his fans which is a really savvy … Continue reading →
Waaaaaaaaa, this is the best J-dorama casting news for nostalgia fans, and highly promising news for those wanting a dorama rom-com. Twelve years after their hit dorama collaboration in Nobuta wo Produce, Yamashita Tomohisa and Kamenashi Kazuya is reuniting for a spring romance on NTV called Boku, Unmei no Hito desu (I, Am Your Destined One or I, Am Your … Continue reading →
I’ll hold my opinion until the drama arrives, despite the seemingly improbably odds that this ambitious project can succeed. Upcoming tvN drama adaption of popular manhwa Bride of the Water God now has a bride to go along with the already cast water god. Shin Se Kyung will likely be donning the leading lady mantle, taking the role originally offered … Continue reading →
There’s truly sad news to report today from K-ent as veteran actress and everyone’s favorite drama grandmother Kim Ji Young succumbed to cancer after a two year battle. Her family announced the passing at the age of 78 after an acting career that started in 1965. Even if international fans never knew her name she must be face that everyone … Continue reading →
Leave it to the eternally style forward Gong Hyo Jin to once again surprise me in a way that straddles the line being impressed and confused. She did the SBS drama Incarnation of Jealousy last year in 2016 and is starting off 2017 with the upcoming movie A Single Rider costarring Lee Byung Hun and Sohee. The K-box office has … Continue reading →
This is the oddest accolade to write about because absent context it would appear all of Korea should be heralding a win on the global stage. K-actress Kim Min Hee just took home the Best Actress Award at the Berlin Film Festival for the movie On the Beach at Night Alone, directed by critically acclaimed director Hong Sang Soo as … Continue reading →
The transition of tvN Fri-Sat drama from the record breaking ratings and buzz of Goblin into the quiet romance of Tomorrow With You has revealed the audience feedback three weeks in. I’ve been busy marathoning another drama so Tomorrow With You remains on my to watch list but I haven’t checked it out yet so it’s surprising to hear that … Continue reading →
There seems to be noticeable maturing with Kim Soo Hyun that I’ve not seen in the past few years when he seems to be stuck preternaturally in that young man on the cusp of full maturity handsomeness. He seemed too young as the alien professor in You From Another Star and the perfect casting for the newbie producer in Producers, … Continue reading →
