The 2024 slate of K-dramas continue to bubble to the surface now that we’re at the end of 2023 and a big sageuk on deck next year will be tvN drama Sejak (meaning Spy). It’s totally a hate-love type of twisted romance with the King and the woman who tries to seduce him for revenge but ends up falling in … Continue reading →
The wide net of bully allegations against 20-something Korean actors/actresses and idols has another casting change though not openly admitted. Actor Lee Sin Young, most famous for playing the good looking reticent North Korean soldier in Crash Landing on You, will be leaving upcoming youth romance From as Distance, Green Spring adapted from the same name webtoon. The drama stars … Continue reading →
tvN’s final Mon-Tues drama of 2020 is ready to start filming and the time slot is going to go from aspirational Record of Youth to medical miracle heartwarming Birthcare Center to dark procedural Awaken (Night and Day). The leads of Awaken held their script reading earlier this month led by Namgong Min, Seolhyun, Lee Chung Ah, and Yoon Sun Woo. … Continue reading →
This is one casting combo where I think the two female leads should be swapped. tvN has confirmed the main cast of upcoming Mon-Tues procedural mystery drama Awaken (Korean title Night and Day) with Namgong Min, Seolhyun, and Lee Chung Ah. Seolhyun remains such an unimpressive actress and I never feel she’s substantively improving, whereas Lee Chung Ah has grown … Continue reading →
It’s not everyday that supporting role characters get their spotlight moment and this time it’s four at once. The young actors playing the North Korean soldier squad to male lead Hyun Bin in tvN drama Crash Landing on You were stars on their own. It needed all four characters together at once because the different personalities and rock solid friendship … Continue reading →
KBS is restarting its Mon-Tues drama line up after taking a break post The Tale of Nokdu. Starting in early April 2020 a short 4-episode mini drama will premiere called Friend Contract starring leads who can still believably pass as high school students. Lee Sin Young, Kim So Hye, Shin Sung Ho, and maybe Min Do Hee will play high … Continue reading →
The news cycle went fast with this one as mere 1-2 days went by before it was all reportedly cleared up. Last week rookie actor Lee Sin Young, who plays the handsome North Korean army soldier in Crash Landing on You, was accused in a SNS post by an anonymous poster of being a high school iljin (delinquent) and bully … Continue reading →
K-drama casting agents are like sharks pouncing quickly on breakout rookies and a new face just got a leading man role even before his drama has finished airing. Lee Sin Young, playing the stoic and handsome member of Hyun Bin‘s North Korea squad, will be headlining the KBS drama Friend Contract opposite also relative newbie Kim So Hye best known … Continue reading →
