News bites: March 12, 2024
by tccolb
- New character posters have dropped for Coupang Play’s Hide, enveloping our leads Lee Bo-young (Agency), Lee Moo-saeng (Maestra – Strings of Truth), Lee Chung-ah (My Dearest), and Lee Min-jae (Oh! Young-shim) in a foggy mystery-suspense. Premiering this month on March 23, production is being led by PD Kim Dong-hwi (The Tale of Nokdu) along with writers, Lee Hee-soo, Choi Ah-yul, and Hwang Yoo-jung. [News]
- Disney+ came out with new stills for the upcoming Blood Free, introducing us to retired soldier Joo Ji-hoon (Jirisan), who becomes bodyguard to biotech CEO Han Hyo-joo (Moving). With PD Park Chul-hwan (Grid) at the helm and scripts penned by Lee Soo-yeon (Grid, Forest of Secrets), the sci-fi thriller will be launching next month on April 10. [Newsen (1), (2)]
- Jung Sang-hoon (Twinkling Watermelon) has been cast as the lead in MBC’s new I Don’t Like Donkatsu (translated title), a cute and short romp with our village chief hero facing a pending vasectomy – which happens to coincide with his dog’s neutering procedure. Written by Noh Ye-ri with PD Kim Young-jae at the helm, the two-episode comedy is slated to broadcast later this year. [MBC]
Jung Sang-hoon
- Over on KBS, the search for truth continues in the latest teaser for Nothing Uncovered, where Kim Haneul (Kill Heel), Yeon Woo-jin (Daily Dose of Sunshine), and Jang Seung-jo (Death’s Game) are tangled in a mess of lies. Beginning next week on March 18, the crime-mystery will be airing in the Monday-Tuesday slot. [10 Asia]
- In the same week, KBS’s next weekender Beauty and Mr. Romantic will also be starting its run and we spend some more time with Im Soo-hyang (Kokdu: Season of Deity) and Ji Hyun-woo (Young Lady and Gentleman) in the latest batch of stills. Coming to our screens on March 23, the family drama is helmed by PD Hong Seok-gu (Oh! Samkwang Villa) with Kim Sa-kyung (Young Lady and Gentleman) writing. [Newsen (1), (2)]
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1 9TailedVixen (formerly 9TailedFox)
March 12, 2024 at 11:20 PM
Looking forward to BLOOD FREE!
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2 Kurama
March 13, 2024 at 12:12 AM
1) With Hide, Wonderful World and Nothing Uncovered, I'm little bit scared to mix or be bored by the same kind of story.
2) Seeing Joo Ji-Hoon like this, it reminds me The Man in the Suit aka Reese in Person of Interest :P
I read that Han Hyo-Joo was casted to do a rom-com movie with Shun Oguri (Netflix). I love both of them \o/
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9TailedVixen (formerly 9TailedFox)
March 13, 2024 at 12:15 AM
Ji-Hoon Oppa would definitely be able to play this type of the role to the hilt. Now that you've mentioned PERSON OF INTEREST, I'll be watching this drama while paying attention to whether his character is as great as Reese's character. POI was a first-rate Sci-Fi Thriller series.
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Dylan [Suffering from Judge from Hell brainrot]
March 13, 2024 at 3:58 AM
God I loved Person of Interest so much... And tbh does Reese count as an oppa lol
And wow, Shun Oguri and HHJ? The cross cullural collabs keep coming...
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Kafiyah Bello
March 13, 2024 at 4:04 AM
If Reese is older than you, then yes, he does count as an Oppa, the actor is over 50 now if that helps.
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Dylan [Suffering from Judge from Hell brainrot]
March 13, 2024 at 3:00 PM
God, I had a phase where I was obsessed with wearing suits bc of John Reese.
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Kurama
March 13, 2024 at 3:09 PM
I can totally understand why! He looked good in these suits.
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StacyA
March 13, 2024 at 6:14 AM
OGURI SHUN????? **runs off to MDL**
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StacyA
March 13, 2024 at 6:21 AM
Eh, it's not on MDL yet. But according to Soompi it's called Romantic Anonymous.
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Kurama
March 13, 2024 at 6:30 AM
In French, it's Les Émotifs anonymes (The Emotional Anonymous). I wonder how they will adapt it by adding the difference of nationality.
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🌸 Seeker 🌸
March 13, 2024 at 9:56 AM
I'm really looking forward to these collaborations.
jillian
March 13, 2024 at 6:21 PM
John Reese in Person of Interest looks great in suits! I can definitely imagine JJH looking similar to him.
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3 Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
March 13, 2024 at 12:27 AM
How bad is it that the only one vaguely appealing is about a vasectomy? I have seen previous dramas tackle sensitive issues and they tend to go for crude so it’s highly likely this will be a rapid drop from the long list as more info/trailers come out.
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9TailedVixen (formerly 9TailedFox)
March 13, 2024 at 5:14 AM
"How bad is it that the only one vaguely appealing is about a vasectomy? "
I couldn't help it - I burst out giggling when I read this line! LMAO!
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Kodra aka Qanon something
March 13, 2024 at 9:59 AM
Of course you did, the idea is that funny to you.
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jerrykuvira
March 13, 2024 at 10:21 AM
I'm definitely watching Dontaksu. The actor already drew me in. The premise sealed the deal. I know it is not an easy subject but I'm all for the com in the mel.
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23new2kdrama🫘🌱 ❤️WDH❤️
March 13, 2024 at 5:16 PM
Very wise to only have 2 episodes. Trying to recall ever seeing something of this topic before. Hummmm. My bet is man meets true love at vet- she wants kids. And she has a girl dog
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Reply1988 -❣️Mother Bean❣️
March 13, 2024 at 9:16 PM
I agree a short and sweet drama with a reason for the decision and the challenges he faces. I assumed he was married already had children or they had decided not to have them and it was an ‘easy’ form of contraceptive but the fears of pain or potential complications, reflections on his identity and the negative comments he gets from others all lead to him questioning the decision as the date approaches. He thought the operation for his dog was the responsible thing to do but now he is facing a similar process he feels sorry for his dog.
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4 Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
March 13, 2024 at 1:13 AM
After seeing her in Moving, I can't picture Han Hyo-joo really needing a bodyguard :)
But if she's a biotech bigwig, maybe she can bio-engineer some superpowers?
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Reminds me of a scene late in Touch Your Behind.
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Gikata
March 13, 2024 at 9:50 AM
She was doing fine without one in HAPPINESS as well (to the point of other characters regularly needing a bodyguard to protect them from her). Impressive, right? If anyone told me a decade ago she would become a poster girl for action FL, I'd laugh in their face)))
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Mandy
March 13, 2024 at 1:33 PM
HHJ has consistently done action throughout her career tho? Love 911 and Cold Eyes are both a decade old. This isn’t a new genre or a new image for her…
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Gikata
March 13, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Really? I must've live under the rock then since I haven't heard these titles before... Are they movies?
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Mandy
March 13, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Yes! Both are movies - she shifted her focus to Chungmuro after Dong Yi for the most part with only a few dramas here and there. Cold Eyes has Jung Woo-sung and Junho (it’s decent!) and Love 911 has Go Soo (pretty meh).
5 jillian
March 13, 2024 at 1:57 AM
These are a good list of upcoming dramas with veteran actors as leads. I am most interested in Blood Free with Joo Ji Hoon and Han Hyo Joo.
The next is Hide with Lee Bo Young and Lee Moo Saeng.
Hopefully both will be good!
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6 OAsia
March 13, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Vasectomy in a short comedy drama? In a way, I am interested in how this topic will be presented. Will the drama even mention that Korea has the lowest birth rate in the world? Will this vasectomy take place or not in the drama? That is the question.
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Kodra aka Qanon something
March 13, 2024 at 5:24 AM
This is just great! We need more shows as such, to make sure SK will disapear in a few generations. No problem, I hear the japanese are begging indians to come and work for them, so maybe people from pakistan will come to SK and the past problems between the two countries will be solved. 🤣
Interesting that men have always been compared to dogs and what do we do to male dogs? That's some fantasy that I assume this brand new female writer has. I don't think the show will mention the fact that SK has the lowest birth rate in the show because, as I have read, the ML has already THREE KIDS ( how dare he!) and he commited the crime to have ANOTHER ONE on the way because the wife is pregnant. To make the analogy complete, the dog is the village casanova and that is why the villagers need him to be fixed. There you go SK, get your married men fixed cause the unmarried ones are solved.
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vienibenmio
March 13, 2024 at 5:57 AM
I dunno, I don't think it's an individual's responsibility to solve their country's low birth rate, especially when there are systemic factors that said country needs to address
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Kodra aka Qanon something
March 13, 2024 at 7:33 AM
I am all for systemic factors to be addressed. I think that women should be protected and supported to choose what they want to do. We, as women, posses the miracle of God, creator or whatever you believe in. We get to make a new living human, something that the scientists cannot and hopefully will never be able to do. I believe that women should be given special treatment and choices in life. You see, I am a more feminist than you guys think I am. But I am also a humanist and believes that children should be raised in the best conditions especially in their first years that are so important in life. I believe that if one chooses to have a child, the mother's role is very important so she should be given all the help that she needs to raise that child. I think that in all this radical feminist movement the children are the ones that are forgotten, they are given the least considerations by women especially. They are seen as a burden, as something inconvenient, as a chore, something to be thrown away and disregarded. Or not have at all.
Now, if the modern discussion was still about how to help the women in their journey, from house chores to career opportunities after having kids to whatever it will improve women's life, I am all for it and I am the biggest supporter because I have been there and struggled and I had it very hard. I have not talked at all about the misogyny I have faced in my life, from my family, school or career. Maybe I will someday. But I chose to understand it and forgive it and to not hold grudges or any hateful feelings even with my parents. But the disscusions have moved and crossed the line so far in the past years that the ultimate logical end of it is just as terifying as the Joseon era to me. Because we will not stop here, this is just the beginning if we somehow do not step back a little. The conversation is not how do we make women life better while also having a family, the conversation is how do we make women hate men and not have children. If more women are made to believe that they do not want to have children, than there is no need for systemic factors to be address when it comes to motherhood. If women are made to believe that the nuclear family is evil and end up to not want to get married, than there is no need to address women's rights in marriages. They, the governments that are run by globalists, do not want to adress it so who will make them? Do you think they are scared that the population is not growing or that there will be less south koreans for example? No, its an excuse for them to bring others that are less paid and can control easier. And I am afraid that women will continue to be underpaid and worse treated because each day our freedoms are being taken away without us noticing.
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OldLawyer
March 13, 2024 at 10:40 AM
You make many good points here. Clearly what is needed is a lot more thinking than has been done rather than knee jerk reactions and general thoughtlessness which has been the default setting until now- regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum. There is a total lack of wisdom on all sides- and it is not simply a matter of reaching a compromise either because a
compromise of irrationality does not equal rationality.
7 Britney
March 13, 2024 at 3:54 AM
Aww a vasectomy and a neutering. I wonder how that story is supposed to play out. Is some projection gonna be at play?
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8 Dylan [Suffering from Judge from Hell brainrot]
March 13, 2024 at 3:57 AM
Ooh, a bodyguard drama? Will there be a romance? I immediately thought of the mystery-romance I'm watching, Koisuru Keigo, which features the bodyguard trope.
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jillian
March 13, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Yes its a good start for our leads relationship. JJH will look gorgeous as a bodyguard.
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Diana Hansen
March 13, 2024 at 12:07 PM
He sure will!
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Gikata
March 13, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Bet JJH will still look very much gorgeous even when he eventually ages to play those bearded scheming ministers we all love to have...
Now the biggest question is whether this drama will disappoint us greatly by not including the widely anticipated Forbidden Bodyguard Romance arc or not.
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jillian
March 13, 2024 at 6:16 PM
I bet he will look more dashing as he gets older. I am not sure how I feel as I imagine him as a bearded minister.
If writernim decide to forego with the Forbidden Romance plot, I hope she replace it with something better? Is there anything better than that though..🤔
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Gikata
March 13, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Guess we'll just have to start "rooting for the Empire" then, so to speak)))
Better? Hmm... maybe just him kicking asses, but for bodyguard it's a given already, so probably not.
jillian
March 13, 2024 at 6:54 PM
On second thought, Jo Jung Seok's beard in Captivating the King is a work of art. I would be okay to see JJH sport something similar in a saguek. I will be on his side even if he is the villain 😂
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Gikata
March 14, 2024 at 4:09 AM
I've seen JJH with facial hair like twice and while I loathe the whole concept religiously, he didn't look half bad even with it so...
9 Kafiyah Bello
March 13, 2024 at 4:09 AM
1. I was excited for Hide, but I am so over the cheating husband trope. SIGH
2. SO EXCITED!!!
3. I don't like Donkatsu sounds hilarious
4. Nothing Uncovered sounds tedious too, but my unabashed love for Jang Seung Jo will keep me.
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M
March 13, 2024 at 10:43 AM
I read there's no cheating in the original Welsh tv series. So I 'm hoping Mr korean Screenwriter doesn't add it
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Kafiyah Bello
March 13, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Oh, that would be great, thanks for the info!!!
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10 bong-soo
March 13, 2024 at 7:18 AM
No. 1. Coupang Play’s S/S drama HIDE. This drama is suddenly on my radar one reason being: US availability. HIDE is on Viki US’s “Coming Soon List”. Episode one airs Mar. 23.
No. 4. KBS’s M/T drama NOTHING UNCOVERED. This drama is slowly falling off my radar one reason being: US availability. KBS still has not done the right thing and licensed NU to Viki. I will not resubscribe to Kocowa to watch NU.
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11 Gikata
March 13, 2024 at 9:52 AM
2 - everything else is ???, but the cast! No promises yet, but I'll pay attention from now.
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12 🌸 Seeker 🌸
March 13, 2024 at 9:54 AM
Blood Free and Beauty and Mr. Romantic for me please, thank you!!
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13 welh
March 13, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Breaking news today:
Jo Yeo Jeong’s episode in the upcoming seven episode TV series TAROT has been nominated for the Cannes Film Festival TV short film competition to be held in early April, 2024 at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. It is quite an honor for her and the production helmed by director Ashbun, whose last drama was HIGH CLASS starring JYJ. She just finished shooting her episode only a few weeks ago so the nomination comes as a surprise. Perhaps it comes from her international reputation as a quality actress. The news was broken by her Philippines fan club social media page.
However, when looking for the trailer I found that there is another TAROT, an upcoming American horror movie starring Harriet Slater, Adain Bradley, Avantika, and Jacob Batalon.
“When a group of friends recklessly violates the sacred rule of Tarot readings – never use someone else’s deck – they unknowingly unleash an unspeakable evil trapped within the cursed cards. One by one, they come face to face with fate and end up in a race against death to escape the future foretold in their readings.” This movie opens in theaters in May 2024.
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welh
March 14, 2024 at 6:32 AM
Update: Korean newspapers reported today that TAROT will be screened April 9, 2024 in Cannes, France.
No release date for the web series has been announced.
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