The first K-dramas to promulgate the Hallyu trend were the seasons dramas, namely Winter Sonata which was actually the second in the series with the first being Autumn in My Heart, then WS, followed by Summer Scent and then Spring Waltz. It was story secondary to the seasonal theme and backdrop but the visuals when combined properly with the right … Continue reading →
Famed K-drama screenwriter Kim Eun Sook may be the most consistently successful ratings hit and buzz queen, but a few other screenwriters have notched their own success. K-netizens this week are discussing screenwriter Park Hae Young thanks to her current critically acclaimed by jTBC drama My Liberation Notes (Liberation Diary). She’s not a prolific screenwriter and has done only 5 … Continue reading →
A new dynamic duo is pairing up but won’t arrive until early 2018, a date that isn’t that far away since we’re headed into the fourth quarter of 2017 already. tvN has announced that the PD of Signal and Misaeng will be working with the screenwriter of Another Oh Hae Young for an early 2018 premiering drama tentatively titled My … Continue reading →
The nominations are out for the 53rd annual Baeksang Arts Awards, to be held on May 3rd in Seoul. Leading the pack on the television side of the nominations is last year’s runaway cable drama hit Goblin: The Lonely and Shining God – netting Best Drama, Best Actor for Gong Yoo, Best Actress for Kim Go Eun, Best Screenplay for … Continue reading →
Another poll result has hit the internet waves and this one feels like the readers had their hands on the pulse the entire time. Online newspaper Chosun Daily which despite it’s name is a Chinese publication covering all news in Korea, ran a readers poll for the past month from middle of December through middle of January that asked for … Continue reading →
This is the oddest poll ever even in the world of K-ent where anything can become the subject of a poll. With Christmas around the corner, typically polls are about which star the average Joe or Jane wants to spend the holidays with, but this poll takes it one step further to ask which drama character. Forget the star which … Continue reading →
If I needed another reason to watch upcoming tvN Mon-Tues romantic comedy Oh Hae Young Again (Another Miss Oh), and I don’t since I love all three leads, then this new piece of info makes me ecstatic and the drama can’t miss now. I just saw that the drama is being written by screenwriter Park Hae Young who wrote jTBC … Continue reading →
Blogging has become so the norm for me that when I heard both female leads are named Oh Hae Young in the upcoming tvN drama Another Oh Hae Young, I immediately fretted over how to recap such a drama (if I was inclined to) and be able to refer to the two female characters when they share the exact same … Continue reading →
