Posts Tagged ‘comebacks’

Drama Casting & News
Hyun Bin’s comeback (times two)
by | June 11, 2008 | 37 Comments
Hyun Bin adds a film, I’m Happy, to his year-end plans, bringing his upcoming project count to two. He’d first gotten his fans excited for his long-awaited comeback with the recent announcement that he would be returning to television by the end of the year. Cast opposite Song Hye Gyo in November’s KBS miniseries The... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Won Bin and mom
by | April 9, 2008 | 31 Comments
There’s a building buzz around the upcoming film Mother, and it’s not just because of its lead actor, Won Bin. Naturally, Won Bin taking the lead role is news in itself, given that he’s spent the last four years away from the big screen (or small screen, for that matter), and fans have long awaited... More »


Theater/Musicals
Anticipating Go Soo’s comeback
by | February 8, 2008 | 16 Comments
Actor Go Soo won’t be discharged from the military for a couple months yet, but already people are looking to his comeback — and while most other actors choose to drum up press and make their triumphant returns to celebrity in high-profile films or dramas, Go Soo’s return will be, unusually enough, in theater. Or... More »


Drama Casting & News
One planned comeback, one failed one
by | January 5, 2008 | 18 Comments
Actress Kim Jung Eun always makes me a little uncomfortable watching her because of the vaguely alien look her face can give off — the product of extensive plastic surgery, which the actress has openly admitted (surgeries, not alien-ness). But she’s one of the more talented drama actors working these days, and her next project... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Son Yejin returns with “Open City”
by | January 1, 2008 | 23 Comments
In an interview with MyDaily, actress Son Yejin explained the reason behind her yearlong absence from the entertainment scene. She hasn’t appeared in anything following her successful drama turn in Alone in Love last year, and the break wasn’t exactly planned — she’d been preparing over the year for a large-scale film, but in the... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Kim Ah Joong as a blind human vegetable
by | December 18, 2007 | 22 Comments
In more casting news, actor Kim Ah Joong has finally decided upon her first project after she skyrocketed to fame after her 2006 film 200 Pound Beauty became a sleeper hit. She’s in early planning stages to appear in director Song Hae Sung’s upcoming fantasy film Melos (meaning “song” in Greek), produced by Crayon Pictures... More »


Drama Casting & News
Lee Young Ae, Potential Madam President
by | December 13, 2007 | 35 Comments
(Whenever I see distinguished actress Lee Young Ae, I think she looks so classy.) She’s deciding on her drama comeback next year (she’s been away from television for four years, last seen in her mega-hit series Dae Jang Geum aka Jewel in the Palace), which’ll come sometime in the first half of 2008, and SBS... More »


Drama Casting & News
Song Seung Heon on the prowl for his next drama
by | November 1, 2007 | 23 Comments
Top Hallyu star Song Seung Heon completed his mandatory military service some time ago but hasn’t been seen in a project yet. The man’s popularity was so high that producers and broacasting companies were scrambling in anticipation of his release to nab him for his first post-army job, which was just as eagerly awaited by... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Kim Sun Ah to make her comeback
by | October 14, 2007 | 19 Comments
Sexy actress Kim Sun Ah, who’d had a fairly lengthy resume but vaulted to superfame in My Name Is Kim Sam Soon, is back after a rather quiet past two years. Her first post-Sam Soon project was supposed to be the legal drama movie Thursday’s Child (she was cast as a tough lawyer in the... More »


Drama Casting & News
Insoon Is Pretty (for a killer?)
by | September 23, 2007 | 16 Comments
The upcoming KBS Wednesday-Thursday drama Insoon Is Pretty is one I’m keeping my eye on. This is Kim Hyun Joo‘s (above left) comeback drama — although it bugs me that the word ‘comeback’ is misused an awful lot, thrown around to describe anything from a true comeback to merely a star’s next project (summer 2007′s... More »