So this breaking political news story does tie into the recent scandal around top K-actor Kim Soo Hyun allegedly dating minor-aged deceased actress Kim Sae Ron so bear with me. This morning in a highly charged ruling, the top court of South Korea officially upheld the impeachment of conservative party President Yoon Seok Yul, four months after he was impeached … Continue reading →
So this is an unexpected pairing and also a weird story to keep re-doing. Netflix is planning a 2025 sageuk drama titled Scandal based on the 2003 explicit rated K-movie Untold Scandal, which is loosely based on the novel Dangerous Liaisons. In talks for the leads are Son Ye Jin and Ji Chang Wook so quite a mature and big … Continue reading →
This has become one of the most overwrought reaction level vis-a-vis the degree of severity for the scandal in quite some time and it’s all due to how famous the star is. When news first broke last week of BTS member Suga and his drunk driving arrest on an electric scooter (moped) and his high BAC level at 0.223% it … Continue reading →
So the Suga drunk driving (or drunk riding an electric moped) incident in South Korea shows no signs of simmering down. This week there has been funeral wreaths sent by angry BTS fans to the HYBE office demanding Suga’s removal from the group. A huge BTS fan site also shut down abruptly by the administrators, and a news report was … Continue reading →
There was a big incident and scandal this past week in K-pop and involves a member of the biggest and most popular group BTS. Member Suga was revealed to have been booked by police for a drunk driving incident where he was spotted on an electrical scooter and fell over impaired. The electrical scooter was an electric moped/small motorcycle and … Continue reading →
I was solely covering K-dramas in 2012 but even then I heard of the infamous Backstabbing (Sword Stabbing) Yin Xiao Tian Incident that year. It’s so famous it even has its own Baidu page haha. It spawned factions, memes, accusations, denials, betrayals, and true friends emerging. In 2012, then one of the four top male leads Yin Xiao Tian was … Continue reading →
So the Lee Seon Kyun drug use scandal currently under police investigation may involve a time frame much earlier than recent days in terms of the blackmail aspect. His own agency revealed that he had been blackmailed as part of this matter and turns out he paid the blackmail reportedly around $250,000 USD in dollar value. Unless he so rich … Continue reading →
Welp it’s been like half a year since K-ent had a big drug use scandal, that was Yoo Ah In back in February, so let’s wait and see who is revealed this time. K-ent is reporting that top actor L is being investigated for illegal drug use. shocking reveal and sadly there is one actor’s name being discussed by K-netizens … Continue reading →
So this may be one of the toughest celeb military enlistment scandals that I can remember in terms of the severity of the punishment. K-rapper Ravi of the group VIXX and former popular member of variety 2 Days 1 Night was under investigation since last year after a group of brokers were captured by police as running a military service … Continue reading →
Welp, Ah Se’s reputation just went into the gutter but it will need to be seen if this is an unforgivable (to C-netizens and Chinese moral police) transgression or just the the garden variety you’ve been a bad boy living up your playboy life type of tsk tsk thing. This past weekend C-ent was lit up with a bombshell gossip … Continue reading →
Marriages are hard and/or complicated but some just seem like a really long shot to work. Netizens have never seem HK-actor Jacky Heung and TW-actress Bea Hayden‘s union as probable to go the long run due to his past scandals (cheating, drugs) and being a total momma’s boy with rich entertainment honcho parents that coddle his every whim and his … Continue reading →
Man, marriage in real life is messy and can be dirty and definitely is between the two people that signed the social contract for better or for worse. But it’s hard not to have bystander commentary and it’s quite one-sided in the case of C-actress Zhang Jia Ni and her husband who was caught going into a hotel with a … Continue reading →
The verdict is out and there is no special treatment for celebrities in the strict Chinese penal system. Disgraced Canadian-Chinese star Wu Yi Fan (also known as Kris Wu) has been sentenced by the Beijing court to a total of 13 years in jail today after his trial earlier this year in June. This follows his arrest last August 2021 … Continue reading →
