Kang Ji Hwan, the dilemma of an actor four years into his debut

Coming off his role in the KBS 2TV Wednesday-Thursday drama Hong Gil Dong, which received favorable reviews for its fresh approach, Kang Ji Hwan appears wearing a goldenrod-yellow jacket. This was approximately a week after the drama ended, the impression of the series not yet faded.

Like he’s taken off the clothes of Hong Gil Dong, it feels like he’s taken off the character and returned to Kang Ji Hwan. He revealed, “At the start of Hong Gil Dong, I’d be in the mountains and wonder what I was supposed to do, but now that it’s over, it’s strange to be up in the morning without a schedule to meet. The week has passed slowly.”

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3rd Coast - “I Don’t Know” [ Download ]

 
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Tags: Capital Scandal, Hong Gil Dong, Kang Ji-hwan

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Yes, my last post was “The Best of 2007,” but rather than put up a Worst list, I’m lumping them all together with The Rest. Not all the dramas I’m mentioning here are bad; they’re just dramas I watched that didn’t belong in the Best list.

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War of Money OST - “알 수 없는 일” (unknowable thing) by Sweet Sorrow [ zShare download ]

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Tags: Air City, Auction House, Bad Couple, Capital Scandal, Goong S, Hello! Miss, Legend, Oh Su Jung, stuff I dig, War of Money, Witch Amusement

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Can you tell I’m having a slow work day? LOL. Just one more Coffee Prince-related post before the weekend! (I swear, I’m Coffee Prince-ing myself out.) I found this interesting article and (what else?) felt the need to share. I love this kind of behind-the-scenes writerly stuff. Full credits and source behind the jump.

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Gong Yoo’s “Coffee Prince” Character Just as Writer Lee Sun Mi Imagined

Love rectangle created for a fresh take of the romantic novel for television broadcast

By Reporter Nam Eun Ju
August 10, 2007

 
Looking back at July, there was a writer, Lee Sun Mi (36), behind television programming every day from Monday through Thursday. As the original novelist of “Kyung Sung Sad Story,” adapted into the Wednesday-Thursday drama “Kyung Sung Scandal” [aka "Capital Scandal"], which just finished its last episode on the 1st, romantic novelist Lee Sun Mi is also penning scripts for the Monday-Tuesday series “Coffee Prince Store #1,” of which she is also the original novelist, screenwriting under the pen name of Lee Jung Ah.

I met the writer behind the romance drama in Seoul’s Hongdae.

 
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Mono Diary - “달콤함에 빠지다” (lost in sweetness) [ zShare download ]

 
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Tags: Capital Scandal, Coffee Prince, Gong Yoo, Kang Ji-hwan, scriptwriters

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