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2025 Baeksang Awards Nominations Out with When Life Gives You Tangerines Leading the Pack with Most Nominations Followed by Lovely Runner

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With so much distraction the last few weeks in K-ent it’s nice to get back to regular business and none bigger than the 2025 Baeksang Awards nominations which came out this week. On the drama side, When Life You You Tangerines led the pack with the most nominations across Best Drama, Best Actor and Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Actress, … Continue reading →

Cine21 Magazine Names Top 5 Best Works in 2024 with Exhuma Followed by Queen of Tears

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The year end top lists all came out at the end of 2024 in December but here comes Cine21 with their own take. The top K-ent magazine released it’s own list of both successful hits of 2024 as well as people and projects to watch in 2025. Let’s start with what the magazine found to be the best projects of … Continue reading →

Love in the Big City Tops the C-netizens Voted Douban Ratings as Highest of the 2024 K-dramas with 8.7 Followed by Lovely Runner and LTNS

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The C-viewers have spoken as a glance at the Douban ratings for K-dramas aired in 2024 shows which ones resonated in the Mainland. Topping the ratings was TVING K-drama Love in the Big City with 8.7, which was the highest of all the 2024 aired shows. Next came Lovely Runner with 8.5, and Light Shop and Dongjae, the Good or … Continue reading →

Queen of Tears Tops the GoodData Full Year 2024 Drama Buzz Rankings Followed by Lovely Runner

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It’s still crazy that the two biggest K-dramas of this year 2024 aired basically at the same time, with a full month overlap. I’m talking about Queen of Tears which has been confirmed by GoodData as the buzziest K-drama of the year, followed by Lovely Runner in second place. The two never didn’t air in the same time slot but … Continue reading →

Fans of Lovely Runner Upset that Producer Credited the Success of the Drama to Molding the Male Lead Character for Byun Woo Seok’s Image

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Man, talk about the production of Lovely Runner continuing to praise one lead or criticize the other. Months ago the PD of the drama was criticized for saying that he needed Kim Hye Yoon to improve her looks and visuals for the drama, calling it “tough love” so she could be seen as the best version of herself onscreen and … Continue reading →

With Two Months Remaining in 2024 K-netizens Wonder What the Biggest “Thing” to Happen This Year is: From Queen of Tears to Byun Woo Seok Onward

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Oh this is a fun question to ponder! A recent hot post has K-netizens heatedly discussing what they think the biggest “Thing” to happen in 2024 is/will be. It’s basically what a top zeitgeist event is for K-ent and here are some of the contenders: mega hit and award winning movie Exhuma, new cable ratings champion Queen of Tears, the … Continue reading →

tvN and TVING Announce Hacking of Channels with Videos of Recent Hits Queen of Tears and Lovely Runner Deleted and Suspicious Content Added

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On the same week a software update caused global travel chaos, this news feels like a blip but for us K-drama watchers it’s rather concerning. Cable network tvN and its streaming arm TVING announced this weekend that it has been hacked, the network name was changed to Ripple and the content is a mess on the platforms. Videos of recent … Continue reading →

U-Next Japan Declares Lovely Runner the Most Popular K-drama Streamed in the First Half of 2024

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Hahaha, this is going to generate some debate but oh wells, it’s still one point of reference. U-Next the largest streaming platform in Japan is declaring Lovely Runner the number 1 most popular Hallyu K-drama in the first half of 2024. I have no doubt LR is mega popular in Japan and if it wasn’t for the presence of Queen … Continue reading →

Lovely Runner Sold to Multiple Countries for Network Airing, Confirming Overseas Sale of Dramas Remain Primarily Due to Lead Actor Popularity Abroad

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This is the reality whether we think it fair or not, and ultimately dramas and movies and the stars in them are all commodities. The business is the end product. Lovely Runner has wrapped its airing and has already sold overseas licensing rights to broadcast in various countries network channels, this happens to a few K-dramas a year that get … Continue reading →

PD of Lovely Runner Incurs Netizens Ire for Being Sexist and Paternalistic Towards Kim Hye Yoon in Asking Her to Improve Her Looks for the Role

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This is either a case of foot in mouth syndrome by the PD of Lovely Runner, or he really is as douchey as this makes him sound. PD Yoon Jong Ho gave a post drama interview to discuss the popularity and success of the show and he discussed the “tough love” he gave to lead actress Kim Hye Yoon in … Continue reading →

Streaming Platform TVing Beats Netflix Total Viewership Numbers Last Week For the First Time Ever Thanks to Lovely Runner

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In yet another record set by Lovely Runner, or record set thanks to Lovely Runner, cable network tvN‘s hit Mon-Tues drama was exclusively streaming on TVING and last week the total viewership hours came out and for the first time in history it beat out streaming giant Netflix. Last week TVING had a total viewership of 2.5M hours watched and … Continue reading →

tvN Hit Mon-Tues Drama Lovely Runner Ends with Drama High 5.762% Ratings and Satisfying Happy Ending

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It’s with a grateful heart that I can report it’s safe to finally binge Lovely Runner if you haven’t started. Lol, I know there is fear of this drama going sideways or even off a cliff and the finale today confirmed it’s a lovely and happy ending all around. Huzzah to that, and to tvN for getting it’s second buzziest … Continue reading →

Lovely Runner Hits New Ratings High and Break 5% in Penultimate Episode 15 Ahead of Big Finale

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It’s that time wuri fans of Lovely Runner. That hurts so good time when you can’t wait to see how your favorite drama ends but so sad it’s over after that without any more excitement in the week-to-week waits. The little drama that could hit a new ratings high of 5.297% in episode 15, the first time it broke 5% … Continue reading →