Archive for August, 2009
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Cast additions to I Love You Ten Million Times
Lee Shi-young, Kim Heechul I Love You Ten Million Times [천만번 사랑해] is a new SBS weekend drama whose main cast has already been filled by Lee Soo-kyung, Ryu Jin, and Jung Kyeo-woon. I’d noted the interesting-sounding plot when the drama was first announced; it deals with surrogacy and the complications that arise when the... More »
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Park Shin-hye is Jang Geun-seok’s girl in You’re Beautiful
Jang Geun-seok has found his love interest for the Hong sisters idol-star drama You’re Beautiful [미남이시네요], and it’s 19-year-old Park Shin-hye (Radish Kimchi and Goong S). The plot traces the growth and development of teenage aspiring pop stars as they are trained in idol groups. Jang’s character is a simple country boy who begins his... More »
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Itazura na Kiss comes to Korea
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 Kiss, or Playful Kiss, which was turned into an anime series as well as the Taiwanese drama It Started With a Kiss. (Waits for manga/anime/Tdrama... More »
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Kim Ji-hoon makes his sageuk debut
All right, so Kim Ji-hoon isn’t exactly a strong actor, but he IS very, very pleasant to look at. (I mean, really really great eye-candy. The first thing I said when I saw the news and the accompanying photos was, “Oooh.”) He’s also taking on his sageuk debut as he joins the cast of Iron... More »
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Lee Min-jung gets her first leading role
Lee Min-jung, most well-known for her recent role playing Lee Min-ho’s annoying (but endearing) fiancée in Boys Before Flowers, is getting her first leading role. It’ll be in the new SBS weekend drama Smile (more literally, Smile, You [그대, 웃어요], which is a working title). At first glance, the story seems somewhat reminiscent of early... More »
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My Fair Lady’s prince on a white horse
KBS’s My Fair Lady (aka Please Take Care of the Young Lady, aka 아가씨를 부탁해, aka 아부해) has been doing a pretty good job of releasing still shots of its drama at a steady trickle, no doubt to keep interest high and fans’ appetites for news whetted. The latest to join the group are these... More »
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Hometown of Legends is back for a 2009 edition
After last year’s revival of 1990s horror series Hometown of Legends proved to be a hit (and starred some recognizable names like Choi Su-jong, Park Min-young, Jae Hee, Lee Jin), KBS is bringing it back for a fresh new run this summer. That also means that Hon won’t be the only horror offering for viewers... More »
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Su Ae and Jo Seung-woo are lovers in “Like Fireworks”
The movie Like Fireworks, Like a Butterfly [불꽃처럼 나비처럼] has settled on a premiere date, even though one of its stars, Jo Seung-woo, will still be serving his military service when it releases for the upcoming Chuseok fall harvest holiday. The film is set in the late Joseon era and follows the political affairs of... More »
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Lee Seon-kyun off for a belated honeymoon
Lee Seon-kyun (White Tower, Coffee Prince) married his longtime girlfriend, actress Jeon Hye-jin, in a May ceremony, but due to immediate filming of his drama Triple, he put off the honeymoon till later. Now it’s later, and with Triple off the air, the newlywed couple set off for Thailand on August 2 for a ten-day... More »
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Hon goes underwater, on rooftops to build up horror
Hon looks like it’s really building up the creep factor with its bloody promo pictures, its adult rating, and eerie shoots, like this one which involved submerging lead actress Im Joo-eun underwater for ten hours. Such was the harshness of the conditions that Im suffered symptoms of hypothermic shock; the shoot began in the afternoon... More »
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RECENTLY RECAPPED
