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Park Bo Gum Hits a Home Run in Picking When Life Gives You Tangerines as His First Post Military Drama and is Grateful for the Role in Recent Interview

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This coming April will be the third year that K-actor Park Bo Gum has been discharged from the military in 2022 but his comeback drama only recently aired and for awhile fans wished he took on more projects and faster. But with the critical and commercial success of Netflix drama When Life Gives You Tangerines, it’s clear he values quality … Continue reading →

Netflix Drama When Life Gives You Tangerines Releases Final Four Episodes as the Sadness of Winter Emerges Back to Spring in the Cycle of Life

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If you’re on the fence or waiting to binge watch Netflix K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines (Korean title Thank You for Your Hard Work) then now is the time to start. The final four episodes dropped on Friday and wraps up a truly exceptional drama, telling the story through four seasons and three generations of parents and children set … Continue reading →

jTBC Drama Good Boy with Park Bo Gum and Kim So Hyun Appeared Scheduled for May 31st Premiere According to Naver

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The great start to 2025 for Park Bo Gum hopefully will continue into the summer now that it’s basically confirmed his next drama the jTBC sports and police show Good Boy will be airing soon. The Naver page for the drama just updated to a May 31st premiere which means this will be a summer show to follow along with. … Continue reading →

Park Bo Gum’s Costars Kim Yoo Jung, Jinyoung, and Kwak Dong Yeon From Moonlight Drawn By Clouds Guest Star in His New Variety Show The Seasons

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This is so sweet and wonderful to see, old coworkers still friends and together again in support. Park Bo Gum is doing double duty this March as an actor with his Netflix K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines and also hosting a new variety stage show The Seasons: Park Bo Gum’s Cantabile. Nearly all his leading cast costars from the … Continue reading →

Netflix Four Seasons of Family, Love, and Struggle K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines Premieres to Glowing Reviews, Viewership, and Online Buzz

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This past weekend big budget Netflix exclusive K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines premiered the first four episodes, with three more four episode drops on the subsequent Fridays to come. The theme is love, family, adversity, and life through the four seasons, literally and figuratively. The first poster of leads IU and Park Bo Gum they are school students in … Continue reading →

Park Bo Gum and Kim So Hyun Transform Their Olympic Athleticism into Policing in New Look at jTBC Drama Good Boy

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I know that When Life Gives You Tangerines is the prestige drama with Park Bo Gum as the lead but I’m looking forward more to his other drama Good Boy on jTBC. There are two new stills and also a network promos of a few of its upcoming dramas that include clips from Good Boy and it’s giving strong physical … Continue reading →

First Official Poster and Preview for Netflix 1950’s Era K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines with IU and Park Bo Gum

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Jeju and the 1950’s are coming for K-drama viewers in a month and a half, with Netflix announcing this week the premiere date of March 7th for When Life Gives You Tangerines. I like the idea of a cute punny drama title but this one is too punny and a mouthful, but still the drama starring IU and Park Bo … Continue reading →

jTBC Sports and Police Drama Good Boy Releases Great First Stills of Leads Park Bo Gum and Kim So Hyun

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jTBC must be thanking their lucky stars that the start of its promos for upcoming sports and police procedural drama Good Boy coincidences with the Paris Olympics, what with the leads all being Olympic gold medalists turned cops. The first drama stills are out showing Park Bo Gum in action and winning his boxing gold medal and also Kim So … Continue reading →

First Look at the Olympians Turned Police Officers in jTBC Drama Good Boy with Park Bo Gum and Kim So Hyun

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What perfect timing for jTBC to release its first still of upcoming sports and procedural drama Good Boy. It’s a drama revolving around medal winning retired South Korean Olympians who have become police officers and their intersecting stories. Park Bo Gum is a boxer and Kim So Hyun a sharpshooter so both have the athletic skills in the drama to … Continue reading →

K-netizens Disagree with Entertainment Reporter Article that Post Military Park Bo Gum has Been a Disappointment with Movie and Variety Show

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I love a controversial take, it makes for good back and forth discussion. A news article this week in K-ent has a reporter doing a review of post military discharge Park Bo Gum and deemed him a disappointment. The ensemble movie Wonderland got bad reviews and low box office, and now his variety show My Name is Gabriel is also … Continue reading →

Success of Exhuma Remains Korean Box Office Outlier as 2024 Continues Disappointing Releases with Big Names Kang Dong Won, Ha Jung Woo, and Park Bo Gum All Flopping

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A recent article on the state of the South Korean box office reveals that it’s been a terrible first half of 2024 so far heading into the end of June. Other than award winning and box office success Exhuma that kicked off the year with a bang, it’s been one flop after another and even the usual big names that … Continue reading →

Moon Embraces the Sun and Moonlight Drawn by Clouds Cast Reunite at VIP Premiere and Afterparty of K-movie Wonderland

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So it’s a Moon kinda night at the VIP movie premiere and afterparty for the star studded sci-fi movie Wonderland starring Tang Wei, Jung Yumi, Park Bo Gum, Suzy, and Choi Woo Shik. Many cast members from two hit dramas The Moon Embraces the Sun and Moonlight Drawn by Clouds were there together and it made for quite a picture … Continue reading →

Park Bo Gum and Suzy Did Their Homework and Wear Couple’s Outfit at the Wonderland Movie Press Conference

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Popular K-stars Park Bo Gum and Suzy have been the mood for the entire week. First they cohosted the 2024 Baeksang Arts Awards and now they are promoting the movie Wonderland together. It’s an ensemble with even bigger names than then but as the youngest of the cast they have their scenes together as a couple in their twenties dealing … Continue reading →