Doll-faced actress Kim Byul (of the uncommonly good sports drama Taereung National Village, and Clazziquai’s “Sweety” music video opposite Lee Junki) has been cast opposite Jang Geun Seok (of the current fusion sageuk Hong Gil Dong — but if you spend any time on this site you already know that,... More »

  Who wants a date with Clazziquai? Talk about star endorsement. SK Telecom is conducting a Thrilling Star Date promotion, which is open to people enrolled in its wireless music portal service SBS Music Star Channel. A random lottery will pick out the winners of a “date,” to take place... More »

Hong Gil Dong is performing decently well in the ratings — it’s not soaring, but holding steady in its initial 15% range against the hit medical drama New Heart, which has risen with its latest episode to break the 30% mark. (Their third rival barely compares; Bulhandang [Con Man] is... More »

Another celebrity with an upcoming ten-year anniversary is pop singer, widely renounced actress, and all-around sexpot Lee Hyori, who first debuted as a member of the questionably named girl group FinKL (Fine Killing Liberty? Really? That’s the best you could come up with) in May of 1998. She talked about... More »

Pop group Shinhwa has had an amazingly successful career — eight full-length albums (a ninth on the way), four compilation albums and one best-of, one Japanese album, numerous CFs, a large and devoted fanbase, and successful spinoff projects for its members. Each member has a busy career on his own,... More »

Go Ara It’s graduation season in Korea, and as with everything else, stars always attract the most attention. Fifteen-year-old So Hee of the teen pop group Wonder Girls has just graduated from middle school (ceremony was held on the 15th) — MIDDLE SCHOOL — which just tinges the group’s exaggerated... More »

Okay, so I’m sure most of you have already seen, or heard of, the Will.i.am video that used as its base the “Yes We Can” speech made by Obama. Personally, I’m not really a fan of the video — well, half of me responds to its intended effect. The other... More »

Woo-wee, things just got kicked up a notch. Just something I’ve noticed over the Hong sisters’ three previous drama series — [Glass half empty perspective]: Their secondary romantic pairings tend not to be that compelling. I may like the secondary characters, but I’ve never actually believed the main pairing to... More »

Hm, maybe there’s hope after all. Prominent Hallyu star Lee Byung Heon is also gearing up for his Hollywood debut in the film G.I. Joe, in which he was cast as a Japanese ninja. But before you can gripe, “What the fuck, Hollywood?” — the role has been amended to... More »

Hmm, interesting. Chang Whe — evil or cunning? Good, bad, merely Machiavellian? The story structure has taken on an interesting pattern, which I think works well for the series — every three or four episodes, each mini-arc comes to a resolution and a new one is launched. It’s not a... More »