Posts Tagged ‘City Hunter’

Drama Casting & News
Lee Kwang-soo added to City Hunter
by | March 9, 2011 | 68 Comments
More casting news for City Hunter comes with the announcement of Lee Kwang-soo, the Dong Yi and High Kick Through the Roof actor whom you may also know from the variety program Running Man. (He’s known there as “angry Kwang-soo” and “incriminating Kwang-soo,” the latter nickname being attributed to his habit of embarrassing his fellow... More »


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Lee Jun-hyuk joins City Hunter
by | February 23, 2011 | 53 Comments
Lee Jun-hyuk is joining the cast of City Hunter, the franchise formerly set in the seedy underbelly of metropolitan life which has now been transferred to the much less gritty Blue House. I guess it really IS the season for presidential dramas. Lee will play a prosecutor with the Seoul District Prosecutor’s Office, a workaholic... More »


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City Hunter confirms casting Park Min-young
by | February 20, 2011 | 148 Comments
The news was hinted recently, and now it’s confirmed: Park Min-young will play the lead in the City Hunter adaptation starring Lee Min-ho. Ehh, I wasn’t enthusiastic about the prospect of Park in the Kaori role before, but it seems the new adaptation will have a number of differences with the original, so there’s probably... More »


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Park Min-young up for City Hunter?
by | February 17, 2011 | 157 Comments
This…is an interesting choice, if it comes to pass: Park Min-young, last seen cross-dressing in period costume for Sungkyunkwan Scandal, is being reported as a top contender for City Hunter, starring Lee Min-ho. According to Park’s agency rep, she is in the final negotiation stages with the producers, as well as discussions of character development... More »


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City Hunter confirms its scriptwriter
by | February 16, 2011 | 63 Comments
Funny how this drama’s star (hot property Lee Min-ho) was cast first, then the director brought on, and lastly the writer: City Hunter has brought onboard scriptwriter Hwang Eun-kyung…who might inspire more confidence had she not been ejected from the Daemul production last year. Then again, perhaps Hwang wasn’t the sole problem there; Daemul had... More »


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Lee Min-ho’s City Hunter set for May broadcast
by | December 29, 2010 | 126 Comments
javabeans: So City Hunter has an airdate. girlfriday: Woot! Lee Min-ho to come back soon? javabeans: It’s weird how nobody else is cast yet. girlfriday: Maybe one Lee Min-ho is enough. No one else needed. javabeans: But who will he make out with then? girlfriday: Oh, right. javabeans: And if there were two, we wouldn’t... More »


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Fanmade City Hunter posters are lookin’ good
by | November 19, 2010 | 52 Comments
Lee Min-ho’s drama City Hunter is still months away from premiering, but already fans are abuzz with anticipation and have taken to their Photoshop with fervor, creating some nifty-looking mock posters. Frankly they’re pretty damn good, much like the fanmade posters for Mary Stayed Out All Night, which I thought were even better than the... More »


Drama Casting & News
Did Rain steal Lee Min-ho’s thunder?
by | October 28, 2010 | 81 Comments
It was big news when Lee Min-ho was cast as a womanizing PI in the kdrama adaptation of the famous manga and anime series City Hunter, which was hugely popular in the 1980s. So what has the production team suddenly worried? Apparently, it’s the similarity of City Hunter’s distinctive Ryo Saeba character to Rain‘s lead... More »