Posts Tagged ‘Chae Jung-ahn’

Chungmuro/Film News
49th Baeksang Arts Awards
by | May 9, 2013 | 163 Comments
The Baeksang Arts Awards really snuck up on me this year. This awards ceremony is the lone wolf being held in the springtime rather than toward the end of the year (as is the case with the broadcaster events and film awards like the Grand Bells and Blue Dragons), and is also unusual in that... More »


Drama Recaps
When A Man Loves: Episode 1
by | April 5, 2013 | 242 Comments
It’s time for a whole new crop of premieres, with When A Man Loves headlining MBC’s foray into the competitive Wednesday-Thursday timeslot. We’ve got a gangster with a heart of gold, a Candy with a heart of ice, and at least three shirtless scenes for our hunky hero. Does it all come together in a... More »


Drama Casting & News
More stills from MBC’s When a Man Loves
by | March 23, 2013 | 62 Comments
So here are more stills from Song Seung-heon’s new Wednesday-Thursday drama When A Man Loves, which is the (purportedly) intense emotional gangster melodrama featuring Song as a mobster with a wife and a girlfriend (Chae Jung-ahn and Shin Se-kyung), and Yeon Woo-jin hanging around to play spoiler in the love triangle(s). What’s funny about these... More »


Drama Casting & News
First stills from Song Seung-heon’s When a Man Loves
by | February 26, 2013 | 78 Comments
MBC’s next Wednesday-Thursday drama When a Man Loves has started shooting, and here’s our first look at the four leads doin’ their thing. We’ve got Song Seung-heon (Dr. Jin) as the revenge-getting two-timing gangster, Chae Jung-ahn (Queen of Reversals) as his wife, Shin Se-kyung (Fashion King) as the other woman, and Yeon Woo-jin (Arang and... More »


Drama Casting & News
Chae Jung-ahn to play Song Seung-heon’s wife
by | February 2, 2013 | 80 Comments
Interesting. Chae Jung-ahn (Queen of Reversals) was originally planning to make her drama comeback in the JTBC sageuk War of the Flowers, but has dropped that project to join Song Seung-heon’s new gangster-who-loves show When A Man Loves. Well, they’ll certainly make a pretty pair. This should tell us everything we need to know about... More »


Drama Casting & News
Kim Hyun-joo headlines JTBC’s sageuk War of the Flowers
by | January 17, 2013 | 20 Comments
With the success of Childless Good Fortune buoying JTBC’s roster, they’re not wasting any time lining up their next weekend drama: They’ve announced Dark History: War of the Flowers, which has cast Kim Hyun-joo in the lead role playing a Joseon-era femme fatale. The drama is a sageuk and comes from the team who gave... More »


Kpop News
Javabeans Playlist #3: Actor edition
by | August 18, 2011 | 121 Comments
More songs! And this time, they’re sung by some of your favorite (or not) actors. This list is hardly comprehensive, and I picked mostly those actors who weren’t singers first. (And if they were, they are generally stars who are not known for their singing, despite their origins. See: Kim Kang-woo’s awesome beginnings as a... More »


Drama Reactions & Reviews
Queen of Reversals: Series review
by | February 5, 2011 | 172 Comments
Strangely enough, the most crack-addled I’ve been over a drama of late isn’t a snazzy one, or even a zippy fresh one at that. It’s the very classic and simple, almost throwback workplace drama Queen of Reversals, which just completed its 31-episode run on MBC this week. So if it wasn’t new and exciting, just... More »


Drama Casting & News
2010 MBC Drama Awards
by | December 30, 2010 | 230 Comments
It’s time for each broadcast station to put on their end-of-year awards. The MBC Drama Awards are first of the bunch, and man, Kim Nam-joo must be peeved. She finally gets her Daesang — and it goes shared, with Han Hyo-joo. Yeesh. This is almost as bad as when MBC split the Daesang between Kim... More »


Drama Casting & News
Queen of Reversals kicks off tomorrow
by | October 17, 2010 | 34 Comments
MBC’s new drama Queen of Reversals premieres tomorrow, bringing more romantic-comedy energy to Mondays and Tuesdays. As with its predecessor drama Queen of Housewives, the initial premise didn’t really engage me, but once I’ve seen a few clips I find myself enjoying the tone and humor of the show. At least as much as I... More »