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Movie Version of The Beauty Inside Director Baek Jong Yeol Criticizes the Poor Directing of PD Lee Eun Bok in tvN Drama Jirisan Before Deleting Instagram Post Hours Later

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Oooooh pass me the popcorn now chingus! This is the type of shady beef I love because no harm done and just lots of juicy industry cattiness. Yesterday was the Saturday premiere of tvN action suspense drama Jirisan (Mount Jiri) which set a new premiere ratings record for the weekend time slot in terms of cable dramas. I saw the … Continue reading →

OCN and jTBC Dramas Surpass Cable Leader tvN in Late Fall 2018 Ratings

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Cable network tvN has been the ratings leader not just of its own paid competitors but doing even better than some prime time big three network dramas that it’s quite a surprise to suddenly see the smaller cable networks upping their game in such notable fashion. K-ent is writing about how the recent crop of cable dramas have flipped the … Continue reading →

KBS Drama Matrimonial Chaos Joins Mon-Tues Slot Still Led by tvN Sageuk 100 Days My Prince

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Lately KBS just can’t land any punches in the prime time drama time slots and newly arrived prestige drama Matrimonial Chaos (The Best Divorce) doesn’t offer any reprieve. This Monday Matrimonial Chaos with Bae Doo Na and Cha Tae Hyun took over from the recently concluded Lovely Horribly and brought a little bit higher but still low ratings of 3.2% … Continue reading →

Where Stars Land, The Beauty Inside, and Bad Papa Add Fun New Dramas to the Mon-Tues Slot

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The Mon-Tues time slot has way more interesting dramas than the Wed-Thurs period, at least for the month of October thanks to the premiere of three new dramas that all got good reviews. Leading the prime time networks is SBS new arrival Where Stars Land (Fox Star Bride) with 5.9% and 7.2% in its first episode, way higher than the … Continue reading →

Seo Hyun Jin Transforms into Comedian Kim Joon Hyun in Hilarious Start to jTBC Drama The Beauty Inside

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When I heard that K-actress Kang Sora was going to cameo in the jTBC drama adaption of The Beauty Inside, I totally thought she was going to play one of the forms that female lead Seo Hyun Jin changes into. Turns out Kang Sora cameos as herself presenting a Best Actress award to fellow top actress character played by Seo … Continue reading →

Seo Hyun Jin Turns into Kim Sung Ryung in Preview for jTBC Drama The Beauty Inside

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We’re one week away from the premiere of the K-drama adaptation of The Beauty Inside and the production really looks fast and fun. Seo Hyun Jin plays the form-changer in this version, a top star by day and once a week out of the month turns into a different person in age and/or gender. The first change shown in the … Continue reading →

Posters and Preview for The Beauty Inside Playful with Outlandish Characters

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With the conclusion of jTBC medical drama Life, the channel switches moods and gears to the colorful and playful with the K-drama remake of form-changing story The Beauty Inside. The drama reverses the movie set up with the male lead changing forms every day, this version has the female lead changing forms but only once a month and it lasts … Continue reading →

Seo Hyun Jin Goes Glam as Top Star Walking the Meta Red Carpet in New Stills for The Beauty Inside

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K-actress Seo Hyun Jin has in recent years broke through to leading lady status but with it came the feedback that she was getting typecast. Always the ordinary but plucky leading lady with talent and a heaping dose of bad luck. She’s basically the modern Candy or a more shrewish Mary Sue. That’s why it’s going to be refreshing to … Continue reading →

Seo Hyun Jin Stunning in Creative and Gorgeous Drama Poster for The Beauty Inside

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K-drama posters are hit and miss and it’s even rarer for one to really hit a home run even vis-a-vis a bigger budget and higher profile film version. The drama poster for the remake of The Beauty Inside is just A++, everything is done right and far outshines the movie version from three years ago. The drama poster has female … Continue reading →

Lee Min Ki Accepts Form-changing Seo Hyun Jin in First Teaser for K-drama The Beauty Inside

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With a dash of changes the K-drama remake of the movie The Beauty Inside reverses the genders around and adds a longer period between switches in order to make it work on the small screen. The first teaser unveils the emotionally dreamy and visually jarring romance between top actress Seo Hyun Jin who changes forms once a month and her … Continue reading →

Seo Hyun Jin Considering the Female Lead Role in K-drama Version of Body Changing Movie The Beauty Inside

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This is a good choice both for the production and for K-actress Seo Hyun Jin if she ends up accepting. She’s considering the lead role in the K-drama remake of the fantasy romance Korean movie The Beauty Inside, also known as the movie with half the Korean acting population doing cameos in. The movie had the male lead wake up … Continue reading →

K-movie The Beauty Inside Readies for K-drama Adaptation in 2018

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I was intrigued by the K-movie concept of The Beauty Inside when it was announced, and the movie ended up doing a decent enough job with the central conceit in two hours run time. How that will work for a 16-episode (or longer) K-drama version is beyond me to map out but the news reports are confirming that the 2015 … Continue reading →