KBS has officially won the ratings for 2017 thanks to the incredible throwback success of My Golden Life on the weekends, and the stage will be set for the followup drama which has been confirmed as Shall We Live Together. The leads are going to be Han Ji Hye and Lee Sang Woo, the former making her first drama in … Continue reading →
I don’t know what’s going on with the MBC strike but it’s clearly not a promising sign for upcoming dramas on the network most pressing being the Mon-Tues slotted 20th Century Boy and Girl. It’s taking over in less than three weeks from A King Loves and has enough footage in the can for a cute teaser preview released last … Continue reading →
Oh wow, this is a really shocking drama filming update, and makes sense in light of no promos seen yet for this drama airing at the end of September. K-ent is reporting that production may be halted or delayed for upcoming MBC Wed-Thurs drama 20th Century Boy and Girl, which was slated to take over the time slot from sageuk … Continue reading →
Viewers on Mon-Tues tuning into MBC get to watch a sageuk era love triangle and who knows yet if A King Loves will actually have the king get any love back. The network is changing eras and genres completely with the next drama for that time slot 20th Century Boy and Girl, which is itself an anachronism since we’re in … Continue reading →
It’s straight out of a classic wedding fairy tale scene to see pictures from inside the wedding ceremony of Korean acting couple Kim So Yeon and Lee Sang Woo. They join an illustrious group of married Korean stars who work together and then got together, there’s too many to list but this group certainly keeps the fan shipper fantasy ongoing … Continue reading →
Korean stars Kim So Yeon and Lee Sang Woo are taking a page from the Rain and Kim Tae Hee playbook, opting for a private wedding rather than media coverage of their nuptials. The couple tied the knot today in Seoul, releasing two pictures to their fans showing them seated beside each other in their wedding affire. Kim So Yeon opted … Continue reading →
Summer is usually a rough time for singles who aspire to find their special someone as the march into June means the imminent start of wedding season. Facebook feeds are hijacked by weddings in between beach vacations, and this year K-ent is piling on the love parade. A day after engaged couple Joo Sang Wook and Cha Ye Ryun‘s wedding … Continue reading →
A real wedding has been confirmed following a reel wedding that brought the couple together. Actress Kim So Yeon and her actor boyfriend and drama costar Lee Sang Woo have announced their upcoming wedding this June. They news comes six months after the thirty-something couple confirmed their relationship in September of 2016, which was shortly after they wrapped filming on … Continue reading →
The 2016 year end K-drama awards for the big three networks came and went last weekend, smack dab in the middle of me heading off for my trans-pacific flight, taking said long flight, traveling back home from long flight, and then being massively jetlagged from said flight. All in all I lost 36 hours and also the ability to collect … Continue reading →
Leave it to two well matched same-age K-ent veterans to bring back some of the celebrity relationship thunder that’s been stolen by Chinese entertainment this summer. K-media is buzzing over the newly confirmed dating relationship of actor Lee Sang Woo and actress Kim So Yeon, who recently costarred as a romantic couple in MBC weekend drama Happy Home. The drama … Continue reading →
The turnout was a smidge on the less-than-star-studded side for the VIP movie premiere of period film Princess Deokhye, starring Son Ye Jin and Park Hae Il on the life of the last princess of Korea. On the plus side there was weird fashion aplenty starting with a surfeit of ugly jean cuts, but made up by having a few … Continue reading →
This probably doesn’t bode well on the quality predictor scale that I’m this excited about upcoming SBS Mon-Tues drama High Society (formerly Chaebol’s Daughter and briefly flirted with being called True Romance). And then I realize that plenty of dramas I’ve loved have been less than stellar fare but simply delivered a stirring romance. With that fallback option available, I can … Continue reading →
The casting silence from upcoming SBS Mon-Tues drama Chaebol’s Daughter (True Romance) can best be described as a difficult labor. Having casting problems is nothing new in drama land, whether lately or even in the early days, what surprises is purely that it’s this particular drama. Chaebol’s Daughter comes from the production team of One Warm Word, a drama that garnered … Continue reading →
