Posts Tagged ‘Boys Before Flowers’

Drama Casting & News
Boys Before Flowers has its Evil Mom, goes overseas
by | December 2, 2008 | 55 Comments
Now that Korea’s Hana Yori Dango has cast its leads (Makino and F4), settled on its secondary cast (older sisters, best friends), and even gotten its tertiary characters in place (schoolmates, part-time employers), the one main role remaining was that of Doumyouji Tsukasa’s hard-hearted mother, the businesswoman behind the family empire, Kaede. Lee Hye-young (Fashion... More »


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Rounding out the Boys Before Flowers cast
by | November 14, 2008 | 100 Comments
Kim So-eun (Yuki), Lee Shi-young (Sakurako) Yeah, I know I’m posting a lot about Boys Before Flowers, but nothing else is getting me all that excited these days. Plus, it goes to show just how anticipated this drama is when we get news reporting not just on the leading actors, but even the very peripheral... More »


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Kim Hyun-joo added to Boys Before Flowers
by | November 6, 2008 | 27 Comments
Add one more big name to the cast of Boys Before Flowers (Hana Yori Dango): the lovely Kim Hyun-joo, last seen in last year’s drama Insoon is Pretty, has been cast in the Tsubaki role, older sister to main character Doumyouji Tsukasa. Kim Hyun-joo’s character is named Gu Jun-hee in the series and is the... More »


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Han Chae-young joins Boys Before Flowers
by | October 22, 2008 | 33 Comments
“Barbie doll” Han Chae-young teams up again with director Jeon Ki-sang, who’d made her into a star in 2005′s Delightful Girl Chun-hyang with Jae Hee, in the upcoming Boys Before Flowers. She’ll take on a cameo role in the drama as an older “noona” on the receiving end of the affections of one of the... More »


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And Makino (in the Korean Hana Yori Dango) is…
by | October 5, 2008 | 122 Comments
…Gu Hye-sun??? Erm. Okay. Don’t get me wrong, I like Gu Hye-sun (of hit family drama Pure 19, sageuk King & I, and fusion sageuk Strongest Chil Woo). A lot. I think she’s one of her generation’s more promising actors. She can do vulnerable, and she can do inner toughness. She can cry. She can... More »


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Meet your Korean F4
by | October 1, 2008 | 319 Comments
What horrible timing following Choi Jin-shil’s shocking death, because now it’s hard to get that excited about news I/we have been waiting forever to hear, which is the announcement of the “F4″ guys in the Korean Hana Yori Dango, aka Boys Before Flowers. Although it was floated around that the casting would comprise mostly pop... More »


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Continued failure to cast Korean “Hanadan” keeps super-idol boys’ hopes alive
by | September 14, 2008 | 48 Comments
There’s no real new info in this report (well, not about the points we care most about, i.e., casting), but I’m sure people are curious as to the progress of this drama, its production, casting, etc. In short: Stuff is still in limbo, but at least the drama has a writer and a director now.... More »


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Delays push back Korean “Hana Yori Dango”
by | September 3, 2008 | 26 Comments
The Korean “Boys Before Flowers” — wild card? The Korean version of Boys Before Flowers [aka Hana Yori Dango] is looking like it may be dubbed a “wild card.” The series, which has been produced in Taiwan and Japan and now plans for a Korean version, had initially planned to air on KBS2 at the... More »


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Taking time to cast F4
by | August 4, 2008 | 36 Comments
Much-anticipated drama adaptation Boys Before Flowers, aka the Korean Hana Yori Dango, is taking a little longer than anticipated to complete its casting. With the immense popularity of the preceding adaptations in Japan and Taiwan, it’s no surprise they’re taking particular pains in the casting process. A representative of production company Group 8 said in... More »


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“Boys Before Flowers,” aka the Korean Hana Yori Dango
by | February 29, 2008 | 149 Comments
I’m a little late to this info, but this news gets me excited. And apprehensive. But excited! So the Japanese manga Hana Yori Dango has been made into an anime series, a Taiwanese drama (Meteor Garden), and a Japanese dorama. The Japanese versions are already popular in Korea, but now a kdrama adaptation of the... More »