This Saturday we’ll see if tvN drama Start-Up flies high or flails, I’m of course hoping for the former because I’ve loved all the dramas from screenwriter Park Hye Ryung. Leads Suzy, Nam Joo Hyuk, Kim Sun Ho, and Kang Hana attended the press conference and I wished their coordinating outfits were brighter and more cheerful as this drama is … Continue reading →
I hope everyone had a great mid-Autumn festival on October 1 (Chuseok in Korea and Zhong Qiu Jie for in Chinese-speaking countries), quite late this year but it’s been the weirded year ever so keep on surprising me. A lot of dramas and shows are postponed from Wednesday onward on what would have been Asian Thanksgiving but due to COVID-19 … Continue reading →
I’m so dating myself to immediately make the connection with paper dolls when I saw these new character stills for tvN drama Start-Up. Each lead is posed and around them are items connected with their likes/jobs/backgrounds. Totally paper dolls, like we cut then out and the cut the items out and then connect it to their hands or change their … Continue reading →
Man, I can’t believe I’m going to have to say I like the first drama poster better because comparison and context does make a difference. Upcoming tvN drama Start-Up continues to putter along in promos, it’s like the production is goading me into bottom of the barrel expectations just so it can jump out and yell SURPRISE! when the drama … Continue reading →
The best I can say for the first official drama poster for tvN drama Start-Up is that at least all four leads Nam Joo Hyuk, Suzy, Kim Sun Ho, and Kang Hana are posing together rather than this being a bad photoshop. Beyond that it’s just soooooo uninteresting, from their outfitst to their poses to the godawful post-it and file … Continue reading →
Looks like the gumiho is back in the spotlight for the current drama cycle. Another gumiho themed K-drama has finished casting and will be on deck in early 2021 hopefully. Falling Cohabitation (Terrifying Cohabitation) is adapted from the same name webtoon and talks about a girl who swallows a male gumiho’s magical orb and they have to live together. Jang … Continue reading →
This teaser is too short to fully excite or deflate but used as a glimpse of the four leads it does the job proficiently. Upcoming tvN drama Start-Up focuses on the lives and loves of the young South Koreans chasing their own start up tech dreams in their version of Silicon Valley. Nam Joo Hyuk is a wunderkind with his … Continue reading →
Get ready for some geek talk with venture capital thrown in for good measure. Upcoming tvN drama Start-Up (formerly Sandbox) with Suzy, Nam Joo Hyuk, and Kim Sun Ho has bee filming since the spring and is confirmed this week for a premiere date in October 2020. The drama will take over the Sat-Sun time slot after Secret Forest 2 … Continue reading →
The K-drama formerly known as Sandbox has a new name and two new cast members. K-actress Kang Hana is joining the drama and earlier actor Kim Sun Ho also signed on. They round out the cast with already confirmed leads Suzy and Nam Joo Hyuk, and the drama in question has the new name of Startup, which is much clearer … Continue reading →
There’s a nice pop of color coordination and it’s weird not to be between the OTP. Even then the lead couple look very visually compatible at the press conference of the next tvN Wed-Thurs drama Knowing Wife (Familiar Wife), taking over next week from the ratings leading predecessor Why Secretary Kim. Ji Sung went with a grey plaid suit which … Continue reading →
Looks like all it took was a K-drama adapted from a popular Chinese source novel for the rumored Chinese entertainment ban on K-ent to be lifted. The K-version of Bu Bu Jing Xin (Startling With Each Step) has just set a new record for highest per episode price sold to China for online broadcast – each episode sold for US … Continue reading →
Lest we forgot it’s just OTP romance and/or princes in the upcoming K-drama adaptation of Bu Bu Jing Xin, the production is officially introducing the last piece of the cast pie in the supporting female cast and one funny man in Kim Sung Kyun whatever weird explorer/investor fella he’s playing. All of the supporting actresses from the C-version of BBJX … Continue reading →
It’s a two-fer this week with two new looks at the sprawling cast of Korean adaptation of Bu Bu Jing Xin (Startling with each Step). I loved seeing Nam Joo Hyuk in character as the renaissance Prince 13th, with good hair and a refined demeanor. Now comes Ji Soo playing the brash young 14th Prince, the role that launched C-actor … Continue reading →
