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Drama Recaps
My Girlfriend Is a Gumiho: Episode 2
by | August 12, 2010 | 210 Comments
I freakin’ LOVE this show. I don’t even care if it breaks my heart or pistol-whips me later and leaves me for dead. Show, you complete me.   EPISODE 2 RECAP After revealing herself in her gumiho form, Mi-ho takes back her healing fox bead and Dae-woong slumps to the ground. She floats above him,... More »


Drama Casting & News
Newbie actress Ki Eun-sae joins The Musical
by | August 12, 2010 | 9 Comments
The Musical (starring Gu Hye-sun, Ok Joo-hyun, Daniel Choi, and Park Ki-woong) has just cast newbie actress Ki Eun-sae in a crucial supporting role. She’ll play second-lead in a love triangle between Gu Hye-sun and Park Ki-woong, as well as carry some of the melo aspects of the story, along with the two female leads.... More »


Drama Casting & News
Park Min-young closest to Micky Yoochun on set
by | August 11, 2010 | 30 Comments
It sounds like the Joseon era F4 is establishing a good rapport on the set of the upcoming drama Sungkyunkwan Scandal. In a recent interview, actress Park Min-young said that she grew close to Micky Yoochun the fastest, and that along with Song Joong-ki and Yoo Ah-in, the four of them are as tight as... More »


Drama Recaps
Bad Guy: Episode 16
by | August 9, 2010 | 104 Comments
Deck the walls with lots of padding / Fa la la la la la la la la / ‘Tis the season to go crazy / Fa la la la la la la la la / Don we now our white straightjackets / Fa la la la la la la la la / Madam Shin is... More »


Pop Culture & Society
Pop Culture: Gumiho
by | August 8, 2010 | 83 Comments
In honor of My Girlfriend is a Gumiho premiering this week, we thought it would be a good time to define what a gumiho is, and discuss this mythical creature’s cultural implications on gender, film, and tv. This isn’t a comprehensive definition, by any means, because there are endless number of myths, folktales, films, and... More »


Chungmuro/Film News
Jung Jin-young and Ryu Seung-ryong in historical comedy
by | August 8, 2010 | 10 Comments
Lee Jun-ik, director of The King and the Clown, is re-teaming with veteran actor Jung Jin-young (left) for a sequel to his hit 2003 film Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield, (Hwangsanbul). Also starring is Ryu Seung-ryong (right), whom some of you may remember as Choi Do-bin in this year’s Personal Taste, and Lee... More »


Drama Casting & News
When will Birdie Buddy air?
by | August 7, 2010 | 28 Comments
UEE was supposed to debut in her first starring role this summer. But summer’s going by and Birdie Buddy is nowhere to be found. What gives? Looks like Group 8′s playing favorites, and Birdie Buddy is coming up with the short straw. It’s been six months since production began on the drama, but it hasn’t... More »


Off Topic/Blog Stuff
Dramabeans gets fancy new duds
by | August 7, 2010 | 419 Comments
Hey, check out the fancy new threads we’re sporting! Every kdrama Cinderella gets a shiny new makeover, and dramabeans was feeling left out. So we took her for a spin at the website-makeover spa and salon, and this is how she came out! We worked really hard on this redesign (as in, directed people much... More »
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Chungmuro/Film News
Min Suk joins Sector 7
by | August 7, 2010 | 3 Comments
Actor Min Suk, star of MBC DramaNet’s Chosun Police 3, has been cast in Ha Ji-won‘s new 3-D blockbuster film Sector 7, due out next summer. The mega-budget sci-fi/action/horror film is set on an oil rig out at sea, and Min Suk will join the cast as the rookie underwater equipment manager. It stars Ha... More »


Theater/Musicals
Ok Joo-hyun in Aida
by | August 6, 2010 | 29 Comments
Singer, actress Ok Joo-hyun, of k-pop group FinKL and the upcoming drama The Musical, has been cast as the lead in a production of Aida to hit the stage this winter season. Here she is sporting her look for Aida, as well as a trip down memory lane, for those of us to whom FinKL... More »