Following up on this earlier report on CNN's "Eye on South Korea" special broadcast, actor-superstar Jang Dong Gun's interview on Talk Asia aired on CNN on the 14th. I missed...
Kwon Sang Woo returns to television after three years in the upcoming KBS Monday-Tuesday drama (starting December 3) Wretched Love (a more apt but slangy translation could be "Screwed-up Love"), which...
Sexy actress Kim Sun Ah, who'd had a fairly lengthy resume but vaulted to superfame in My Name Is Kim Sam Soon, is back after a rather quiet past two...
Fascinating.
(Although, I'd hate to be called a "What the hell?!" writer. Oh, wait, was that just an invitation? Very well. Everyone gets a freebie "What the hell?!")
Personally, I...
I know I just posted about Park Jiyoon not long ago, but in the spirit of discussing artists with hidden talents, here's another bit of news about the singer-actor.
It's...
Surely there's some irony, isn't there, in reporting on the news as an item of news? ...yes? ...no?
In any case, MyDaily reports that two of Korea's premier actors (that's...
Lee Minki's new drama actually sounds interesting (and not just because it's Lee Minki's new drama) -- if a bit of question mark. It's doing something different and, dare we...
Follow-up: Jang Dong Gun’s CNN interview
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Following up on this earlier report on CNN's "Eye on South Korea" special broadcast, actor-superstar Jang Dong Gun's interview on Talk Asia aired on CNN on the 14th. I missed...
Tags: Jang Dong-gun
Blast from kpop’s past
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Wow, here's one to make you feel really old. (Or really young, I suppose.) Back in the Stone Ages, aka the '90s, there was a pop group that was...
Kwon Sang Woo screws up love, but in a manly way
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Kwon Sang Woo returns to television after three years in the upcoming KBS Monday-Tuesday drama (starting December 3) Wretched Love (a more apt but slangy translation could be "Screwed-up Love"), which...
Tags: Bad Love, Kwon Sang-woo
Kim Sun Ah to make her comeback
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Sexy actress Kim Sun Ah, who'd had a fairly lengthy resume but vaulted to superfame in My Name Is Kim Sam Soon, is back after a rather quiet past two...
Tags: comebacks, Kim Sun-ah, My Name Is Kim Sam-soon
Return of the “What the hell–?!” writers
by javabeans
Fascinating. (Although, I'd hate to be called a "What the hell?!" writer. Oh, wait, was that just an invitation? Very well. Everyone gets a freebie "What the hell?!") Personally, I...
Tags: Golden Age for Daughters-in-Law, Madam Ah Hyun Dong, scriptwriters
And yet, I probably still won’t see it
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Huh. So J.J. Abrams is doing the newest Star Trek movie, and at least this time he doesn't have a TV series to sink while off trying to revive...
Tags: Hollywood
Lee Eon picks his first post-Coffee Prince project
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Actor Lee Eon, fresh from his role as dumb but lovable Min Yub in Coffee Prince (like I really need to identify him on this site, huh?), will be...
Tags: Coffee Prince, Lee Eon
Park Jiyoon’s “Secret Garden”
by javabeans
I know I just posted about Park Jiyoon not long ago, but in the spirit of discussing artists with hidden talents, here's another bit of news about the singer-actor. It's...
Tags: books, Park Ji-yoon, star extracurricular activities
The “News” as news
by javabeans
Surely there's some irony, isn't there, in reporting on the news as an item of news? ...yes? ...no? In any case, MyDaily reports that two of Korea's premier actors (that's...
Tags: Jang Dong-gun, Jeon Do-yeon
Lee Minki’s Mixed-Up Investigative Agency
by javabeans
Lee Minki's new drama actually sounds interesting (and not just because it's Lee Minki's new drama) -- if a bit of question mark. It's doing something different and, dare we...
Tags: Lee Eun-sung, Lee Min-ki, Mixed-up Investigative Agency, Ryu Seung-soo, Yeh Ji-won