Archive for the ‘Drama Casting & News’ Category
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Lee Seon-kyun returns with new drama
So, good news / bad news. The good news: The Voice returns to dramaland! Wheeeeeeee! The bad news: It’s YET ANOTHER medical drama. Whaaaaaaa? So not only do we have Song Seung-heon and Kim Seung-woo each in their own medical dramas due out this spring, but now Lee Seon-kyun is joining them too? Are the... More »
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Kim Sun-ah and Lee Jang-woo for I Do, I Do
Kim Sun-ah has confirmed that she will be headlining upcoming MBC romantic-comedy drama I Do, I Do, which is great news for dramaland. The story seems tailor-made for her: top-dog female executive has a one-night stand with bright-eyed, bushy-tailed new hire, and she gets knocked up (because don’tcha know — that’s the only outcome of... More »
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Ji Hyun-woo headlines another time-traveling fantasy drama
javabeans: Lordy, ANOTHER time-tripping, fantasy-sageuk, Joseon-to-modern drama! girlfriday: Seriously? Now THAT’s gotta be the real competition for deadest horse ever. javabeans: So it stars Ji Hyun-woo (A Thousand Kisses, Birth of the Rich), and it’s also got the 300-year time difference, with a time warp. In the Joseon era the hero is an upright Confucian... More »
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Fashion King releases character promo shots
Well, it’s definitely going for sleek, that’s for sure. Upcoming drama Fashion King may be a story about underdogs, but you wouldn’t know from the promos. Based on these shots, I’d guess it was a Gossip Girl-esque soapfest about privileged, angsty teens and their saucy problems. The first one reads: “Running towards tomorrow and the... More »
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Jang Geun-seok cuts his hair for Love Rain
Jang Geun-seok is showing off an image transformation for Love Rain, the upcoming drama where he plays a young man in the 1970s who falls in love with Yoon-ah, and then also portrays the man’s son three decades later. These stills come from a recent shoot in Hokkaido; who wants to bet Jang spent all... More »
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So Ji-sub’s return to dramaland?
Perhaps there’s something in the water, but 2012 seems to be the year for film actors to return to television. And So Ji-sub might be next, if they can wrangle Mr. Broodypants for the part. I got all excited over the drama’s title — Ghost — thinking of course that it’d be a supernatural story... More »
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Kim Seung-woo headlines medical drama
So if you’ve been following medical drama-to-be Third Ward at all, it’s been on quite the rollercoaster pre-production journey. First it was slated for SBS with Cha Seung-won attached. Then both SBS and Cha dropped it, and it picked up Uhm Tae-woong as a hero and started shopping at KBS. During that round it changed... More »
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The King 2 Hearts’s poster and trailer
The first official poster is out for MBC’s The King 2 Hearts, which has finally fixed (again) on a title after changing it a jillion times. The funny thing? Each change was minuscule, accompanied by some nonsense explanation that (1) totally overexplained, (2) and yet explained nothing, like we were in a merry-go-round of nitpickery.... More »
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MBC confirms Moon/Sun will not air this week
The addition of drama PDs to the MBC labor strike has rendered it impossible for The Moon That Embraces the Sun to finish production on this week’s episodes, as previously feared. There’s just too much work and too few hands among the short-staffed crew, and MBC has announced that they’ll be airing Moon/Sun specials this... More »
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MBC strike threatens to delay Moon/Sun finale
Some possible bad news for fans of MBC drama The Moon That Embraces the Sun: head PD Kim Do-hoon has joined the ranks in the ongoing labor strike over at MBC, in what will probably be the union’s big last-ditch effort to turn the tables. The drama finally managed to pass the 40% ratings mark... More »
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