Are web dramas the future of scripted content and Hallyu, or is the industry just trying to make fetch happen? It's hard to say with SO many web dramas in...
At this point I'm really confused as to why they're going to call this drama Mrs. Cop 2 when they failed to re-cast everyone from the first season except for Kim...
Yoon Shi-yoon is back, and not a moment too soon! (What with the bevy of stars heading off for their two-year service soon, like Lee Seung-gi, Yoo Ah-in, Joo-won, Lee...
It's only in its third week, but KBS seems ready to give up on its fantasy youth drama Moorim School, and is giving the show an episode cutdown from 20 down...
Despite the title bringing to mind images of heaps of powdered non-dairy creamer, I found the movie Coffee Mate piquing my interest, and not just because of its casting of...
A gambling drama set in Joseon? Well it's not the same old, same old, I'll give it that. SBS has a new series in the works called Jackpot (Daebak), a...
It's cable's week again, at least as far as premieres are concerned. Three new shows premiered on all three major cable networks this week, to mixed results—as far as...
Yoon Shi-yoon
Hooray! Yoon Shi-yoon (Prime Minister and I) will be released from military service (in the Marine Corps, no less) on January 27. His contract with his current agency, Taxi...
And I mean snatched -- in trademark Na PD style, the actors didn’t know what hit them. He and his team stealthily collaborated with the Answer Me 1988 crew to...
Park Eun-bin joins EXO’s Kai in web drama Choco Bank
by javabeans
Are web dramas the future of scripted content and Hallyu, or is the industry just trying to make fetch happen? It's hard to say with SO many web dramas in...
Tags: Park Eun-bin, web drama
Mrs. Cop 2 loses entire original cast except Kim Min-jong
by girlfriday
At this point I'm really confused as to why they're going to call this drama Mrs. Cop 2 when they failed to re-cast everyone from the first season except for Kim...
Tags: Im Seul-ong, Kim Min-jong, Mrs. Cop 2, sequels
Yoon Shi-yoon is back among us, hurrah!
by javabeans
Yoon Shi-yoon is back, and not a moment too soon! (What with the bevy of stars heading off for their two-year service soon, like Lee Seung-gi, Yoo Ah-in, Joo-won, Lee...
Tags: army duty, Yoon Shi-yoon
Moorim School cuts down episode count to 16
by javabeans
It's only in its third week, but KBS seems ready to give up on its fantasy youth drama Moorim School, and is giving the show an episode cutdown from 20 down...
Tags: drama production, Moorim School
Oh Ji-ho, Yoon Jin-seo team up for quiet melo film Coffee Mate
by javabeans
Despite the title bringing to mind images of heaps of powdered non-dairy creamer, I found the movie Coffee Mate piquing my interest, and not just because of its casting of...
Tags: Oh Ji-ho, Yoon Jin-seo
Jang Geun-seok, Im Ji-yeon, Yeo Jin-gu for Joseon gambling drama
by girlfriday
A gambling drama set in Joseon? Well it's not the same old, same old, I'll give it that. SBS has a new series in the works called Jackpot (Daebak), a...
Tags: Im Ji-yeon, Jackpot, Jang Geun-seok, Yeo Jin-gu
Youths Over Flowers in Iceland: Episode 4
by javabeans
javabeans: The guys arrive at the base of a waterfall and decide to hike up to the top, and the show makes seem like this will be more of an...
Tags: featured, Jo Jung-seok, Jung Sang-hoon, Jung Woo, Kang Haneul, Youths Over Flowers
Drama viewership ratings for the week of Jan. 18-24, 2016
by HeadsNo2
It's cable's week again, at least as far as premieres are concerned. Three new shows premiered on all three major cable networks this week, to mixed results—as far as...
Tags: drama ratings
News bites: January 23, 2016
by awcoconuts
Yoon Shi-yoon Hooray! Yoon Shi-yoon (Prime Minister and I) will be released from military service (in the Marine Corps, no less) on January 27. His contract with his current agency, Taxi...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, Cheese in the Trap, Do Ji-han, Go Chang-seok, Gong Hyo-jin, Joo Jin-mo, Kang So-ra, Kim Ji-won, Kim Min-joon, Kim Woo-bin, Lee Byung-heon, Lee Hyun-woo (2), Lee Jia, Lee Seon-kyun, news bites, Park Shin-yang, Park Yoo-hwan, remakes, Ryu Soo-young, Seo In-gook, Yoo Yeon-seok, Yoon Shi-yoon
Youths Over Flowers snatches up the boys of Answer Me 1988
by awcoconuts
And I mean snatched -- in trademark Na PD style, the actors didn’t know what hit them. He and his team stealthily collaborated with the Answer Me 1988 crew to...
Tags: Go Kyung-pyo, Park Bo-gum, Ryu Joon-yeol, Youths Over Flowers