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A Tyrant’s Chef with Yoona and Lee Chae Min to Start Filming This Week on January 23rd

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 22, 2025 by ockoalaJanuary 21, 2025
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So the timing seems off to kick start filming right before the lunar new year holiday stretch but likely this drama was already delayed after needing to re-cast the male lead. Sageuk romance A Tyrant’s Chef with Yoona and Lee Chae Min will start filming this week on January 23rd. Complaints from netizens have ended after original male lead Park … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged A Tyrant's Chef, Lee Chae Min, Yoona | 5 Replies

Lee Chae Min in Talks for Male Lead Role Vacated by Park Sung Hoon in A Tyrant’s Chef with Female Lead Yoona

A Koala's Playground Posted on January 13, 2025 by ockoalaJanuary 13, 2025
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Well this is both fast and really odd of a pick. K-ent is reporting that young actor Lee Chae Min has been offered the male lead in the K-drama A Tyrant’s Chef with still confirmed female lead Yoona. The male lead role was recently opened back up after Park Sung Hoon dropped out post his Squid Game 2 parody porn … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged A Tyrant's Chef, Lee Chae Min, Yoona | 31 Replies

Yoona and Park Sung Hoon to Star in Time Travel Romance Drama A Tyrant’s Chef

A Koala's Playground Posted on December 2, 2024 by ockoalaDecember 2, 2024
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What’s with back-to-back great K-drama cast news in the last day! Yoona and Park Sung Hoon are going to star in the time-travel romance tvN K-drama A Tyrant’s Chef. She plays the titular chef at the very top peak of her successful career when she suddenly time travels back to the era ruled by his tyrant King who also happens … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged A Tyrant's Chef, Park Sung Hoon, Yoona | 33 Replies

Chinese and Korean Actresses Smacking Shirts Often in Same Outfits with Different Vibes

A Koala's Playground Posted on September 30, 2024 by ockoalaAugust 29, 2024
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The phenomenon that is smacking shirts (Chinese colloquial slang for wearing the same outfit) has really crossed country and industry lines so much so that it’s a stark reminder that there aren’t that many fashion houses out there. If we take the top ten from France, Italy, and US, chances are there is only so many red carpet, performance, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Fashion | Tagged Angelababy, Crystal Liu, Fan Bing Bing, Gao Yuan Yuan, Jeon Ji Hyun, Kim Tae Hee, Liu Shi Shi, Ni Ni, Song Hye Kyo, Suzy, Tang Yan, Yang Mi, Yoona, Zhao Li Ying, Zheng Shuang | 9 Replies

K-actresses Han So Hee and Yoona Walk the Red Carpet at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival

A Koala's Playground Posted on May 19, 2024 by ockoalaMay 19, 2024
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It’s time for the K-stars to descend on the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and the first two are Han So Hee and Yoona. They walked the red carpet on the same day this Sunday and absolutely brought the classic K-dressing looks. Han So Hee was in a white dress and Yoona in a pink dress, colors that are favored among … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Han So Hee, Yoona | 38 Replies

jTBC Summer Hit Rom-com Drama King the Land Starring Junho and Yoona Ends with13.789% Ratings

A Koala's Playground Posted on August 6, 2023 by ockoalaAugust 7, 2023
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So after a really adorable start for me, I totally lost interest in jTBC Sat-Sun rom-com King the Land. And it’s not the dramas fault, from all accountants it stayed consistently just cute so I strayed because I had more interesting fare to watch instead with my limited time. The audiences stayed there but didn’t surge the way it could … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Junho, King the Land, Yoona | 21 Replies

Song Hye Kyo Takes Home the Daesang at the 2nd Annual Blue Dragon Series Awards with Suzy Winning Best Actress and Ha Jung Woo Getting Best Actor

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 19, 2023 by ockoalaJuly 19, 2023
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Last year in 2022 was the first ever Blue Dragon Series Awards as the awards body until then was exclusively a movie awards ceremony. So this year in 2023 its only the 2nd annual Blue Dragon Series Awards and last nights in person ceremony was full of big name stars but devoid of any meaningful and well dressed fashion per … Continue reading →

Posted in Awards, K-dramas | Tagged Cha Eun Woo, Cha Joo Young, D.O., Gong Hyo Jin, Ha Jung Woo, Jeon Hye Bin, Jung Eun Chae, Jung Ryeo Won, Kim Go Eun, Kim Seo Hyung, Lee Elijah, Lee Jung Jae, Lee Kwang Soo, Lee Sung Min, Lim Ji Yeon, Park Hyung Sik, Park Shin Hye, Park Sung Hoon, Seo Hyun Jin, Shin Ye Eun, Song Hye Kyo, Suzy, Yoona, Yura, Yuri | 30 Replies

King the Land Climbs a Bit More to New Ratings High of 12.317% as the Romance Gets Started in Earnest by Episode 8

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 10, 2023 by ockoalaJuly 10, 2023
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Man, these two were totally playing coy with the early promos for King the Land. I remember finding leads Junho and Yoona, whom I adore as actors and stars, looking more like platonic BFFs than potential romantic partners based on chemistry. It got better after the drama aired but seeing these new promo stills from Netflix, which is streaming the … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Junho, King the Land, Yoona | 11 Replies

jTBC Weekend Romance King the Land Rockets to 12.017% Ratings by Episode 6 Continuing the Classic Rom-com Beats

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 3, 2023 by ockoalaJuly 3, 2023
Family cooking and gifting moments captured.

When young people tend to take things for granted but living through changing tides allows appreciation in the moment. Rom-coms used to be a dime-a-dozen in K-drama land and honestly most were meh and only some exceptional but even the meh ones were worth watching as time wasters. Then the great rom-com demise of the 2010s happened where a decade … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Junho, King the Land, Yoona | 12 Replies

K-ent News Report Claims Yoona and Junho are Dating But SM Entertainment Denies it Claiming They are Just Good Friends

A Koala's Playground Posted on July 3, 2023 by ockoalaJuly 3, 2023
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Well this was a good hour’s worth of entertainment between the release of the first report and the follow up from their agency. A news report claimed that top idol-actors Junho and Yoona are dating in real life, and on top of that they accepted jTBC romance drama King the Land so they could act together because they are dating. … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Dating, Junho, Yoona | 4 Replies

King the Land Rises to Nearly 10% Ratings in Episodes 3-4 with Extreme Love/Hate Reactions from Viewers to its Cliched Cheesiness

A Koala's Playground Posted on June 27, 2023 by ockoalaJune 26, 2023
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A warm, comforting and familiar meal absolutely deserves to be enjoyed and praised when done right, not everything needs to be cutting edge and innovative. jTBC rom-com King the Land has risen to the top in the second week of airing, nearly doubling the ratings of tvN‘s See You in My 19th Life and also getting close to breaking 10% … Continue reading →

Posted in Musings | Tagged Junho, King the Land, Yoona | 8 Replies

King the Land and See You in My 19th Life Both Increase in Ratings in the Second Episode

A Koala's Playground Posted on June 18, 2023 by ockoalaJune 18, 2023
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The weekend time slot now has not one but two successful romance K-dramas to occupy viewers time and both are deserving of the first weekend out of the gate win. jTBC old school chaebol romance King the Land increased in its second episode to 7.544% ratings even bigger than tvN fantasy romance See You in My 19th Life which increased … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Ahn Bo Hyun, Junho, King the Land, See You in My 19th Life, Shin Hye Sun, Yoona | 9 Replies

Junho and Yoona Bring their King the Land Drama Romance to the Pages of Allure Korea July 2023 Edition

A Koala's Playground Posted on June 15, 2023 by ockoalaJune 15, 2023
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This Sat is the head to head premiere of two romance K-dramas both on my watch list. tvN has Meet You in My 19th Life going fantasy while jTBC brings back old school classic chaebol and cinderella romance with King the Land. The leads of King the Land are in the upcoming Allure Korea July edition doing their darndest to … Continue reading →

Posted in K-dramas | Tagged Junho, King the Land, Yoona | 1 Reply

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