Posts Tagged ‘Cha Seung-won’

Chungmuro/Film News
More additions to the cast of Cha Seung-won’s drag comedy
by | March 23, 2013 | 78 Comments
So, there’s more information out on Cha Seung-won’s new cop action comedy with director Jang Jin, and get this: he plays a dude who wants to be a lady. Oh man, that is NOT what I expected, even with the title High Heels. I mean, of all the leading men, Cha Seung-won is pretty much... More »


Chungmuro/Film News
Cha Seung-won reteams with Jang Jin for action-comedy
by | March 10, 2013 | 38 Comments
Why mess with a winning combo? Actor Cha Seung-won has had two projects with director Jang Jin, and now he’s signed on for their third collaboration, a movie titled High Heels. Their first film together was the 2005 comedy-mystery-drama The Big Scene, which they followed up with 2007′s Son. In this new film, Cha Seung-won... More »


Drama Reactions & Reviews
Thing vs. Thing: Actors playing actors
by | November 25, 2012 | 119 Comments
javabeans: Not all meta is funny, but actors making fun of themselves always hits the spot. Like Siwon opening up a twitter account for his King of Dramas character Kang Hyun-min, who resembles nobody so much as, perhaps, Zoolander. Though I suppose Eric and his alter ego for Myung-wol the Spy come close. girlfriday: Eric... More »


Drama Casting & News
Ha Ji-won and Cha Seung-won in The King?
by | January 9, 2012 | 107 Comments
There have been so many rumors upon rumors circulating for so long about Ha Ji-won starring in upcoming romantic comedy The King, and new reports are out that she’s finally confirmed the role. But with this drama, I’ll believe it when I see it. And right on the tail of her casting report, a new... More »


Drama Casting & News
2011 MBC Drama Awards
by | December 30, 2011 | 121 Comments
Oh, MBC. I can always count on you for some awards-time whatthefuckery. Three years ago it was split Daesangs (daesang = Grand Prize), giving the same award to Kim Myung-min and Song Seung-heon and doubling awards in every category. Two years ago, there were more split awards, and last year we had the bizarre “Character... More »


Drama Casting & News
Cha Seung-won considers medical drama
by | November 3, 2011 | 71 Comments
Will Cha Seung-won be returning to dramaland as Doctor McSwoony? (Though I really want to name him Doctor McMustache…) The action-drama heavyweight who transformed into comical leading man in this year’s hit rom-com Best Love may be making a quick foray back to television, this time as a doctor in the medical drama The Third... More »


Chungmuro/Film News
16th Busan International Film Festival’s opening red carpet
by | October 6, 2011 | 159 Comments
The 16th Busan International Film Festival opened on October 6, and the red carpet to the opening screening — So Ji-sub and Han Hyo-joo’s tragic romance Only You — was awash with stars. (For those of you used to seeing the festival called PIFF, it recently changed its spelling. The festival is in its 16th... More »


Celebrity News
Dokko Jin moves in on Seung-gi’s refrigerator CF
by | August 24, 2011 | 104 Comments
LOL. They really did it! Dokko Jin did say that he’d move in on Seung-gi’s CF territory if he didn’t help get Gu Ae-jung on Steel Heart, and now it looks like he’ll be sharing the limelight (and hugs!) as a result. Capitalizing on the meta brilliance of the Hong Sisters’ drama Best Love, Samsung... More »


Celebrity News
Fabulous Hong sisters sit down for an interview
by | July 29, 2011 | 67 Comments
They had me at pig rabbit…or wait…was it the rabbit pig? The hybrid lovechild doll born out of Tae Kyung (Jang Geun-Seok) and Mi-Nam’s (Park Shin-Hye) puppy love in the hit drama You’re Beautiful had me looking at the Hong Sisters in a fresh new light. It was just this past winter when I was first introduced to... More »


Drama Recaps
Best Love: Episode 16 (Final)
by | June 23, 2011 | 276 Comments
It’s over! Did Best Love topple my long-standing No. 1 from the top of my personal Hong Sisters favorites list? Maybe not, but it did give the list a pretty decent shakeup. As a straight-up episode, this one was admittedly light on drama — but as an epilogue, it’s one of the better ones I’ve... More »