The holiday season is fast approaching like a freight train and with it comes holiday cheer and hopefully more charitable givings. Elle Korea has assembled a huge group of actors, actresses, and idols for it’s annual “Share Happiness” charity photo campaign. The ginormous list of participating stars include: Jung Kyung Ho, Lee Jin Wook, Daniel Henney, Lee Bo Young, Han … Continue reading →
The 18th annual Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) kicked off yesterday in the seaside town of Busan, South Korea with lots of glam and anticipation. Featuring 301 movie selections from 70 countries shown over 10 days, BIFF has cemented its reputation as one of the top film festivals in Asia and this year’s star studded opening ceremony brought lots of … Continue reading →
I remember last year when two body-swap dramas were airing at the same time – the Hong Sisters Big on network TV while there was I Love Lee Tae Ri over on cable. I was completely in love with Big while ILLTR did nothing for me, but this year the same two screenwriters are at it again and its strange … Continue reading →
Sometimes fashion magazines send famous stars to far flung places for a photo shoot, spending lots of travel moolah but forgetting to actually incorporate the pretty location into the pictures. Cosmopolitan Korea decided to focus on the flower and not the leaves for its September edition featuring lots of young, talented, up-and-coming musicians and actors. Or for many of these … Continue reading →
It’s a couples shirt, people! Dead Hyun Joon’s ever present blue shirt is a couple’s shirt! Ahhhhhh, the tears, they be coming like a spigot that won’t turn off. Episode 10 of Who Are You just flipped the switch for me from love to rabid insane whirlpool of emotion. The remembrance and reunion of torn apart lovers Si On and Hyun … Continue reading →
Welcome to dead guy angst central, feel free to park your sanity gut-check and critical analysis at the door and just go with the flow. I promise Who Are You won’t drink your tears for breakfast, but it might have some for a midnight snack. How the heck does Kim Jae Wook play a character who in the present time … Continue reading →
After two back-to-back K-dramas dealing with the I-see-dead-people ability and ensuing conundrum, I think its safe to say this gimmick doesn’t make for the best drama concept. I appreciate that its trying something new, but the ghost of the episode stories are never in depth enough to feel important and end up taking time away from the main characters and … Continue reading →
The first of this Season’s ghostly-themed drama offerings arrives in the form of Who Are You being the first out of the gate. Will it give this drama an advantage? Probably not, there is no saturation point with this topic yet and the other drama The Master’s Sun airs on SBS as a prime time offering so it’s appealing to different … Continue reading →
I want to thank the kind soul on the Who Are You production team who decided to release official stills of Kim Jae Wook and So Yi Hyun‘s characters kissing. Clearly its in the before days, yunno, before she falls into a coma and wakes up seeing ghosts and before he…..dies. See, there is totally hope for second leading shipping … Continue reading →
The cast of the upcoming cable network tvN Mon-Tues drama Who Are You attended a press conferences yesterday as the drama gears up for its premiere next week. This was an off-week for tvN since Cyrano Dating Agency finished airing last week, but a breather is never a bad thing. The tone of the two dramas couldn’t be anymore different … Continue reading →
The picture above speaks volumes, doesn’t it? It captures in an instant that very ephemeral thing called acting. Critics and audiences can discern good versus bad acting (unless fangirling gets involved and then that becomes like a veil of denial in itself), but its hard to really describe. I fall back on Justice Stewart’s enduring line from Jacobellis v. Ohio … Continue reading →
When I’m excited about a drama then the video teasers are much appreciated since it starts the ball rolling on the goodies. When I could give a fig then video teasers for dramas feel so pointless because its usually comprised of material not from the drama proper and sometimes have no bearing on the end product. In that sense it … Continue reading →
Good lord, can I get this right now or do I really have to wait another month? The upcoming tvN cops-and-spirits melodrama Who Are You released the first official stills of the three leads So Yi Hyun, Taecyeon, and Kim Jae Wook. I promptly fell in love. All three of them look so gorgeous its unreal, though only one plays … Continue reading →