One of Korea's top actresses, "Cannes Queen" Jeon Do-yeon, is returning to film her next project following a yearlong break (during which she'd given birth to her first child). She'll...
The action comedy Level 7 Civil Servant, or per its English title, My Girlfriend is a Secret Agent, drew in more than 4 million viewers in a slumping movie industry and proved...
Group Eight, the producers who butchered adapted Hana Yori Dango into the hot mess that was Boys Before Flowers, is adapting another popular Japanese manga for Korean television: Itazura na...
With Hollywood remakes planned for Park Chan-wook's Cannes prizewinner Oldboy (2003) and the follow-up film Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005), I suppose it should be no surprise that the precursor to those...
This is an interesting article, in that it looks at the low numbers faced by current Monday-Tuesday drama The Man Who Can't Get Married and analyzes it from a cultural...
I first heard of Into the White Night (literally Baekyahaeng: Walk Into the White Darkness or 백야행 -- 하얀 어둠속을 걷다) last year, when lead actress Sohn Ye-jin was cast, and filed it away...
Hyun Bin, Kim Min-joon
(Cute.)
With baseball drama Strike Love winding down on MBC, its replacement series is getting ready to air: Friend, Our Legend [친구, 우리들의 전설], which is the television remake...
We first heard about the animated version of Winter Sonata being produced way back in 2007, and now the project is making more progress. Lead actors Bae Yong-joon and Choi Ji-woo,...
(Hyun Bin, is that really you?)
One of the buzzworthy dramas this year is the remake of the 2001 film Friend [친구], which is being adapted for television in MBC's Friend, Our...
Ji Jin-hee, Kim So-eun
The Man Who Can't Get Married [결혼 못하는 남자] is a new KBS series that will replace Story of a Man come June. You may already know that it...
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Jeon Do-yeon returns with a remake of a classic
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One of Korea's top actresses, "Cannes Queen" Jeon Do-yeon, is returning to film her next project following a yearlong break (during which she'd given birth to her first child). She'll...
Tags: Jeon Do-yeon, remakes
Coming soon to a television near you?
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The action comedy Level 7 Civil Servant, or per its English title, My Girlfriend is a Secret Agent, drew in more than 4 million viewers in a slumping movie industry and proved...
Tags: Kang Ji-hwan, Kim Haneul, remakes
Itazura na Kiss comes to Korea
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Group Eight, the producers who butchered adapted Hana Yori Dango into the hot mess that was Boys Before Flowers, is adapting another popular Japanese manga for Korean television: Itazura na...
Tags: adaptations, remakes
Hollywood remaking another Park Chan-wook film
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With Hollywood remakes planned for Park Chan-wook's Cannes prizewinner Oldboy (2003) and the follow-up film Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005), I suppose it should be no surprise that the precursor to those...
Tags: Hollywood, Park Chan-wook, remakes, Song Kang-ho
The man who can’t get ratings
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This is an interesting article, in that it looks at the low numbers faced by current Monday-Tuesday drama The Man Who Can't Get Married and analyzes it from a cultural...
Tags: drama ratings, j-doramas, Ji Jin-hee, remakes, The Man Who Can't Get Married, Uhm Jung-hwa
Into the White Night marks Go Soo’s screen comeback
by javabeans
I first heard of Into the White Night (literally Baekyahaeng: Walk Into the White Darkness or 백야행 -- 하얀 어둠속을 걷다) last year, when lead actress Sohn Ye-jin was cast, and filed it away...
Tags: comebacks, Go Soo, remakes, Sohn Ye-jin
Hyun Bin and Kim Min-joon are friends again
by javabeans
Hyun Bin, Kim Min-joon (Cute.) With baseball drama Strike Love winding down on MBC, its replacement series is getting ready to air: Friend, Our Legend [친구, 우리들의 전설], which is the television remake...
Tags: Friend, Hyun Bin, Kim Min-joon, remakes
Animated Winter Sonata aims for fall TV broadcast
by javabeans
We first heard about the animated version of Winter Sonata being produced way back in 2007, and now the project is making more progress. Lead actors Bae Yong-joon and Choi Ji-woo,...
Tags: Bae Yong-joon, Choi Ji-woo, remakes, Winter Sonata
Shoots nearing completion for Friend
by javabeans
(Hyun Bin, is that really you?) One of the buzzworthy dramas this year is the remake of the 2001 film Friend [친구], which is being adapted for television in MBC's Friend, Our...
Tags: drama production, Friend, Hyun Bin, Kim Min-joon, remakes
The Man Who Can’t Get Married script reading and press day
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Ji Jin-hee, Kim So-eun The Man Who Can't Get Married [결혼 못하는 남자] is a new KBS series that will replace Story of a Man come June. You may already know that it...
Tags: j-doramas, Ji Jin-hee, Kim So-eun, press conferences, remakes, The Man Who Can't Get Married, Uhm Jung-hwa, Yoo Ah-in