Posts Tagged ‘drama production’
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Failed dramas still result in high star price tags
Bad Love, Rivals Perhaps as a corollary to this discussion of why ratings are important, for better or for worse (usually for worse), here’s an article that discusses one such ramification: actors who come attached with high price tags that the drama then is unable to recoup when a drama flops in the ratings. (One... More »
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Will star Japanese writers and Korean production bring drama gold?
The Korean Foundation of International Cultural Exchange is working with the Japan Broadcast Writers Association in a joint “TV drama project,” which was announced at the TV Drama Writers’ Conference of East Asia, held in the city of Sasebo in Nagasaki Prefecture on June 10 and 11. Plans were announced for a drama series in... More »
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Historical inaccuracy, or dramatization?
The following is interesting to me because I don’t know much of the Chosun background during which Hong Gil Dong takes place, and because I had this exact conversation with my parents in discussing the drama’s historical accuracy. On a separate level, there’s also the question of how many liberties one can take when dramatizing... More »
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Left on the editing room floor
Lee Hye Young Actors’ editing woes After an enjoyable movie comes to a close, sometimes we’re left with a letdown feeling at its end. Some actors whose roles are cut down in the final products also express disappointment when seeing the finished film. We’ve gathered the thoughts of directors and actors from film sets to... More »
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The battle to claim Iljimae
Actors Lee Seung Gi, Lee Junki Iljimae is one of those folk-legend heroes, a real-life Robin Hood kinda guy dating back to the Chosun era who’s an ever-popular source of dramatic material. Jang Dong Gun played him in one film version in 1993, and Choi Su Jong played him in a modernized version in... More »
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Sequel Mania
(The lovebirds of Bad Couple and Bad Family) I find the following article (indented stuff in dark blue font is the translated article; the rest are my comments) particularly interesting because I’ve thought this topic over a lot in the past, and pretty much completely disagree — not with the article’s logic, but the... More »
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Behind the K-Drama Scenes
So I was thinking about the ending of Witch Amusement, and of how much more I enjoyed the director’s prior two series, 2005′s Delightful Girl Choon Hyang and 2006′s My Girl. And since both of those were written by the Hong sisters screenwriting team, Hong Jung Eun and Hong Mi Ran, I naturally thought to... More »
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