It looks like the airport scandal impacting Byun Woo Seok will not have a fallout on his haul of new endorsements accumulated these past two months since Lovely Runner became a cult hit in May 2024. There has been no news on any of the new endorsed brands dropping him, and there is news today that he’s added Clinique Skincare … Continue reading →
C-actor Wang Xing Yue has two male lead dramas on deck but after his breakout with The Double he’s landed a big IP new one for his next role. He will be the male lead for C-drama Feng Yu Ling (凤羽令) which is adapted from the novel by writer Fresh Guo Guo which is the precursor novel 仙侠奇缘之杀阡陌to her novel … Continue reading →
I don’t know how K-actress Park Min Young keeps managing to land promising dramas in recent years where there has been fewer and fewer of them. Earlier this year she delivered the first big K-drama of 2024 with Marry My Husband and then she took a few months off and looks to be coming back soon. She’s been offered the … Continue reading →
A new SBS drama will be adapted from the French Le Mante and uses the same title of Mantis. The leads have now been confirmed as veteran actress Go Hyun Jung and young leading man Jang Dong Yoon, this time playing an estranged mother-son with a very dark history. Go Hyun Jung is a female serial killer incarcerated for killing … Continue reading →
It’s a new Chinese title but the same leads for the upcoming C-drama Love Beyond the Grave. It was originally titled 白日提灯 Ba Ri Ti Deng and will now be called 慕胥辞 Mu Xu Ci. The drama will star Dilraba Dilmurat and Chen Fei Yu, both of whom recently finished filming a drama with plenty of time for this to … Continue reading →
The only two characters and stars to emerge unscathed from the hot mess that is Lost You Forever Part 2 has to be Yang Zi and Tan Jian Ci and their characters of Xiao Yao and Xiang Liu. The entire Part 2 run was ruinous for me in terms of adapting the second half of the LYF novel but at … Continue reading →
HK-star Stephen Chow has stopped acting for the last two decades but has become a successful and noted director with a string of hits under his belt. His Shaolin Soccer was one of the biggest box office Asian movies of all time and now will get a sequel or follow up with an all-female soccer cast. It’s a huge deal … Continue reading →
Producer Yu Zheng has been hyping up Lin Jiang Xian (formerly There is a Fox in Hengmen) for months now and I’m not allergic to his dramas on principle but other than The Double I really haven’t seen anything that made me want to watch and this one falls into that latter category as well. The character posters released earlier … Continue reading →
Sometimes when there is a scandal a celeb gets a nickname that is hard to shake even if the scandal blows over. I hope Byun Woo Seok doesn’t get saddled with one that is catchy for this past week’s private security at the airport overstepping their bounds and imposing on other travelers. The matter is still percolating in South Korea … Continue reading →
So C-actor Wu Lei has been veeeeeery picky with his projects, beyond wanting to do more movies rather than dramas, he’d rather enjoy life and all his hobbies than work nonstop. For a child actor turned successful adult actor, this balance is really good for his mental wellbeing but not clear if it’s going to keep him from leveling up … Continue reading →
Well this is not the smartest move if you ask me, but again C-actress Tang Yan‘s fandom hasn’t been known to be the savviest. Her long ago filmed period C-drama A Moment But Forever with Liu Xue Yi is reportedly airing soon, this summer so likely next month in August or early September. Her fandom announced this week that it … Continue reading →
On the same week a software update caused global travel chaos, this news feels like a blip but for us K-drama watchers it’s rather concerning. Cable network tvN and its streaming arm TVING announced this weekend that it has been hacked, the network name was changed to Ripple and the content is a mess on the platforms. Videos of recent … Continue reading →
So the viewers of Lost You Forever Part 1 who fell in love with Xiang Liu played by Tan Jian Ci are only going to love him even more in Part 2, and it’s already happening. Within a week of LYF2 airing, Tan Jian Ci is just behind Yang Zi in the hot buzz chart and reportedly the highest buzz … Continue reading →
