I'm sure it's no surprise that drama writer Jung Yoon-jung (Misaeng, Monstar, Arang and the Magistrate) is a hot commodity these days; Jung has announced that her next project will...
Well it's not exactly an appetizing title, but I guess it IS descriptive: Girl Who Sees Smells is a new drama headed to SBS on Wednesdays and Thursdays this spring,...
If any drama could go on for multiple seasons, it'd be Misaeng, the slice-of-life workplace series that's become cable network tvN's newest sensation. Expectations were high from the start for...
"They're remaking another drama?" *Boo, hiss, wails.* I'm pretty sure that's a familiar script for most of us who've been following dramaland for a while, and one that's cropped up...
Ooh, exciting -- casting rounds have begun for the rumored vampire manhwa drama adaptation Scholar Who Walks the Night, and in-demand actor Park Hae-jin (Bad Guys, Doctor Stranger) has been...
Fans of the original webtoon may have been upset about the casting decisions made for the movie edition of Fashion King, but as a novice to the material (I failed...
Ahhh, it's happening! Joo-won (Good Doctor, Gaksital) will be playing the lead character in the Korean remake of Nodame Cantabile, which had been previously suggested but only now confirmed. Wheeee!...
Ooh, interesting. Dramaland is pursuing a Korean remake of hit Japanese drama (and manga and anime) Nodame Cantabile, and while it's only in the very early stages, already the property...
First Joseon aliens, now Joseon vampires? HA. This should be interesting.
Before we get too excited, Kim Soo-hyun’s reps have already denied that he'll be taking on this...
Cable network SBS Plus is taking on a new short-form drama called Shoes, an adaptation of a popular manhwa classified as "women's manhwa," a genre of comics geared toward women...
Misaeng writer returns with new fantasy manhwa adaptation
by girlfriday
I'm sure it's no surprise that drama writer Jung Yoon-jung (Misaeng, Monstar, Arang and the Magistrate) is a hot commodity these days; Jung has announced that her next project will...
Tags: adaptations, Bride of the Water God 2017, Misaeng
Yoochun and Suzy sniff out new drama Girl Who Sees Smells
by girlfriday
Well it's not exactly an appetizing title, but I guess it IS descriptive: Girl Who Sees Smells is a new drama headed to SBS on Wednesdays and Thursdays this spring,...
Tags: adaptations, Girl Who Sees Smells, Micky Yoochun, Suzy
Season 2 talk for Misaeng the manhwa and the drama
by girlfriday
If any drama could go on for multiple seasons, it'd be Misaeng, the slice-of-life workplace series that's become cable network tvN's newest sensation. Expectations were high from the start for...
Tags: adaptations, Misaeng
Our love-hate relationship with drama remakes and adaptations
by javabeans
"They're remaking another drama?" *Boo, hiss, wails.* I'm pretty sure that's a familiar script for most of us who've been following dramaland for a while, and one that's cropped up...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, adaptations, Boys Before Flowers, Cantabile Tomorrow, City Hunter, Coffee Prince, Fated To Love You, Gaksital, Hana Yori Dango, Liar Game, Misaeng, Nodame Cantabile, Pretty Man, remakes, Strike Love, Sungkyunkwan Scandal, Surplus Princess, The Moon That Embraces the Sun, Three Musketeers
Park Hae-jin in the running to become a Joseon vampire
by girlfriday
Ooh, exciting -- casting rounds have begun for the rumored vampire manhwa drama adaptation Scholar Who Walks the Night, and in-demand actor Park Hae-jin (Bad Guys, Doctor Stranger) has been...
Tags: adaptations, Park Hae-jin
First look at Fashion King (the movie)
by awcoconuts
Fans of the original webtoon may have been upset about the casting decisions made for the movie edition of Fashion King, but as a novice to the material (I failed...
Tags: adaptations, Ahn Jae-hyun, Joo-won, Park Se-young, Sulli
Nodame Cantabile is a go: Joo-won in, Shim Eun-kyung a maybe
by javabeans
Ahhh, it's happening! Joo-won (Good Doctor, Gaksital) will be playing the lead character in the Korean remake of Nodame Cantabile, which had been previously suggested but only now confirmed. Wheeee!...
Tags: adaptations, Cantabile Tomorrow, Joo-won, Nodame Cantabile, remakes, Shim Eun-kyung
Joo-won offered lead in Korean remake of Nodame Cantabile
by javabeans
Ooh, interesting. Dramaland is pursuing a Korean remake of hit Japanese drama (and manga and anime) Nodame Cantabile, and while it's only in the very early stages, already the property...
Tags: adaptations, Cantabile Tomorrow, IU, Joo-won, Nodame Cantabile, remakes
Vampire sageuk drama in the works
by javabeans
First Joseon aliens, now Joseon vampires? HA. This should be interesting. Before we get too excited, Kim Soo-hyun’s reps have already denied that he'll be taking on this...
Tags: adaptations, Kim Soo-hyun
Han Seung-yeon headlines manhwa adaptation
by girlfriday
Cable network SBS Plus is taking on a new short-form drama called Shoes, an adaptation of a popular manhwa classified as "women's manhwa," a genre of comics geared toward women...
Tags: adaptations, web drama