Kim Nam Gil Takes Home the Daesang at the 2022 SBS Year End Drama Awards as All Major Hit Drama Leads Win Other Prizes

A lot of Year End Awards thunder was stolen thanks to MBC doing theirs the night before and Lee Jong Seok winning the Daesang where he thanked a special someone who turned out to be real life girlfriend IU. Like, that’s drama writing in a K-ent themed drama haha. New Year’s Eve saw SBS which had the most hits hold its Year End Drama Awards and managed to properly apportion out the awards. Kim Nam Gil took home the Daesang, Namgoong Min won a special Director’s Award, and Lee Jun Ki and Seo Hyun Jin took home Top Excellence respectively. Both sets of OTP in A Business Proposal won Best Couple so that was nice.

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K-netizens Discuss the SBS 2022 Year End Drama Daesang as a Two-way Race Between Kim Nam Gil and Namgoong Min with Nods to Lee Jun Ki, Seo Hyun Jin, and Kim Rae Won

It’s tough that of the three public channels in South Korea really only SBS had a good year. With the slate basically done it’s time to look at the contenders for Daesang at the Year End Drama Awards for 2022 … Continue reading

TVing Supernatural Action Thriller Island Releases Compelling Horror Tinged Previews to Up the Interest Level

Now this is what I’m talkin’ about! The new previews for upcoming TVing supernatural with horror tinged K-drama Island released substantive previews that are rollicking good fun. My first thought is that Kim Nam Gil is going back to high … Continue reading

Kim Nam Gil and Sung Joon are Bringing the Intensity in Character Posters for TVing Demon Fighting Drama Island

I judge character dramas on the design, and these look good, but then mostly on whether the actor or actress behind the character is bringing it. It’s half-brung here for the posters of Island, the upcoming supernatural demon fighting in … Continue reading

Supernatural Fantasy K-drama Island Confirmed for December 2022 Airing on TVing with Cast of Kim Nam Gil, Lee Da Hee, Cha Eun Woo, and Sung Joon

So I didn’t hear much about upcoming K-drama Island after the final casting confirmation earlier this year but it’s apparently been filming/filmed and now has a date and network. The drama will air on streaming platform TVing this December 2022. … Continue reading

Three Best Actor Winners Namgoong Min, Lee Jung Jae, and Kim Nam Gil All Get COVID-19 the Same Week Due to Busy Schedules with Awards, Festivals, and Premieres

If anyone says or thinks the pandemic is over I have a news story for you haha. It’s totally not over but the hysteria has died down to living with COVID-19 and this week three bigwigs in K-ent are getting … Continue reading

2022 Seoul International Drama Awards Announces Some K-ent Winners Including Kim Nam Gil, Jeon So Min, Kim Sun Ho, and Jisoo

The Seoul International Drama Awards felt so random when it launched as it combined both K-dramas and foreign television shows from various countries. It’s settled into a routine but still feels like a popularity contest even more than other awards … Continue reading

K-netizens Most Discussed Dream Pairings of Actors and Actresses That Still Haven’t Worked Together Yet on a Drama or Movie

So the order of the GIFs and pictures are in the ranking of how frequently K-netizens discuss wanting these two to work together. I can’t disagree with most dream pairings especially when the perfectly curated GIF delivers all the feels … Continue reading

SBS Criminal Profiler Drama Through the Darkness with Kim Nam Gil Ends Averaging 7.2% Ratings with Rave Reviews from Critics and Audiences

This weekend saw the conclusion of the short but to the heart SBS 12-episode criminal investigative drama Through the Darkness (Those Who Read Hearts of Evil). This was one of the dramas that got its airing bisected by the Winter … Continue reading

Viewers Frustrated with SBS Scheduling Decision to Preempt Kim Nam Gil Weekend Drama Through the Darkness for 3 Weeks to Air Winter Olympics

K-actor Kim Nam Gil definitely owes SBS for giving him his first major male lead role in Bad Guy after he broke out with MBC drama Queen Seondeok. But the network bungled BG a bit by preempting it multiple times … Continue reading