I’m not quite sure if this is the most prudent casting decision but it certainly makes for popcorn watching from the sidelines fun potential. KBS has cast Go Hyun Jung to join confirmed leading man Park Shin Yang for the upcoming second season of Neighborhood Lawyer Jo Deul Ho. I figured the original drama’s leading lady Kang Sora had moved on and wasn’t coming back to a drama centered around the male lead but it’s curious that KBS would cast the most drama-filming scandal plagued leading lady since Han Ye Seul ran off to the US during the filming of Spy Myung Wol. Who can forgot Go Hyun Jung’s physical fight with her PD on the SBS police drama Return which led to her getting fired and replaced with then very pregnant actress Park Jin Hee taking over. Park Shin Yang himself has had his share of onset drama drama in the past so this will be interesting to see two notably temperamental and hot-headed leads working together. Continue reading
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It was a surprise to see new episodes of SBS Wed-Thurs drama Return airing this week, what with last week’s epic onset fallout with the PD and leading lady Go Hyun Jung getting into a tiff and then SBS firing … Continue reading

I’m relieved that the forward direction of beleaguered SBS Wed-Thurs drama Return is finally decided. Whatever the full truth is between the beef that led to the blowup altercation on the set with the PD and lead actress Go Hyun … Continue reading

The she says/SBS says back-and-forth has been raging one for two days now with respect to the debacle on the set of Wed-Thurs K-drama Return with the departure of leading lady Go Hyun Jung. But the show must go on … Continue reading

Oh my lord does the situation on the set of SBS Wed-Thurs ratings leading drama Return appear to be a veritable shit show, pardon my language. The drama hit 15% ratings already and is the first sign of a prime … Continue reading

K-drama screenwriter Noh Hee Kyung has won me back to her good graces completely after It’s Okay, It’s Love, not that I ever grew fully disenchanted with her but IOIL did make me love her 100% again. Her few dramas … Continue reading
Just the mere thought that I get to see Lee Seung Gi and Ha Ji Won at the same place, attending the year end MBC Drama Awards, makes me giddy with excitement. It’s been a year and a half since … Continue reading
When Korea gets on a thematic rampage, it usually takes a good year to get it out of their system. Who can forget the year with the sports drama theme, or when time-traveling heroes and heroines for de rigueur? I … Continue reading