Cable network tvN started off 2025 with a giant turkey that was mega budget sci-fi drama When the Stars Gossip, but has now found redemption with what is being called the best reviewed terrestrial K-drama of this year so far midway through. When Life Gives You Tangerines was the critical and audience fave banger on streaming platform Netflix but now … Continue reading →
It’s rarer these days to see K-dramas burst out of the gate and start increasing in ratings noticeably. Most of the stronger offerings increase incrementally and hope to be buoyed by strong reviews. That’s the case for recently premiered tvN Sat-Sun drama Our Unwritten Seoul with Park Bo Young playing life swapping polar opposite twins with Jinyoung as the male … Continue reading →
The weekend time slot for cable network tvN was much buzzier in the beginning of the year when When the Stars Gossip (Ask the Stars) premiered, though most of that was generated by befuddlement and negative criticism for how wildly awful it was lol. But buzz is still buzz and after that drama it’s been a series of mid K-dramas … Continue reading →
This could be a big year for Disney+, what with Netflix hit or miss these days, terrestrial channels still struggling, and big cable like tvN and jTBC also not consistently producing hits. Last year the streaming platform hosted the leads of its biggest on deck dramas to Singapore for a media event and this week released new official shots of … Continue reading →
So the countryside-city dichotomy K-drama genre is still going strong and now we add a twin element. K-actor Jinyoung (Park Jin Young) is in talks to be the male lead of K-drama Unknown Seoul, which will likely star Park Bo Young as the female lead. She will be playing twins who one lives the city life in Seoul and the … Continue reading →
A great new K-drama is now cast and on deck for 2024 and has a cute punny name as well. It’s called Romance Movie (or Melo Movie) and the female lead has the name Kim Moo Bi and the drama is set in the world of K-movies. The leads are Choi Woo Shik and Park Bo Young with him playing … Continue reading →
I didn’t follow the K-movies this year so I don’t even know if any of the winners were the right ones lol but I still love awards ceremonies for the glitz and glamor. It was the usual level of awards show dressing for the 2023 Blue Dragon Awards which fetes the best in film with plenty of A-list and rising … Continue reading →
Okay where I can donate money to make this happen like RIGHT NOW. Because the pairing of Park Bo Young and Jung Hae In in a rom-com seems straight out of fan fiction that I’m not even creative enough to write but will forever thank the drama gods if it existed. She’s a rom-com queen in both dramas and movies … Continue reading →
jTBC just premiered Strong Girl Nam Soon last weekend, the follow up drama to the 2017 Strong Girl Bong Soon both centered around a family of very very very physically strong women who all look super feminine. The OG leads Park Bo Young and Park Hyung Sik are making cameo appearances in Nam Soon and from the stills just released … Continue reading →
It’s day 2 of the Busan International Film Festival and there are press conferences aplenty, a festival within a festival, and also a star awards night. The outfits range from day events to evening out and honestly are so mid I feel like it takes effort to not be eye catching. Kim Seo Hyung stood out for dressing completely against … Continue reading →
This month in August 2023 K-actress Park Bo Young has a new movie out with Concrete Utopia, where she plays Park Seo Joon‘s wife as they deal with the aftermath of a major disaster in Seoul. With the promotion she has a new fashion pictorial for W Korea that I’m not sure if it was intentionally done in muted color … Continue reading →
It’s been a slower than usual summer season for K-movies, other than for the 3rd installment of The Roundup: No Way Out topping three weekends at the box office and Smugglers one weekend, it’s been Hollywood movies at the top. The next big name flick to try to lure audiences in will be Concrete Utopia, the disaster movie starring Lee … Continue reading →
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 in mere seconds of a stitched together scene. To date, the most common wish is for Hyun Bin and Jeon … Continue reading →
