Ex-vampire-prosecutor Yeon Jung-hoon‘s new drama For the Emperor (or Here’s To the Emperor) has secured its leading lady in Eom Ji-won (Sign, The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry). Damn, just what I need — another drama to watch. I love each of them separately, but together? Okay, so maybe Yeon Jung-hoon with anyone is swoonworthy, but I love Eom Ji-won’s bubbly charm. Her Woman Who Wants to Marry character pretty much endeared me to her for life.

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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 year and began back when the city was spelled Pusan. The spelling of the southern city officially changed to Busan in 2000, but the festival kept its former spelling, which naturally led to some confusion. Yeah, the Korean romanization system changes hasn’t been the most easy to follow.)

It’s been a while since we’ve had a big, star-packed red carpet, but this reminds me that we’re heading into awards season, and will soon be seeing lots of events like this. Which means, lots and lots of red carpets to ooh over, or, as the case may be, snark.

There were some questionable outfits (always fun), but overall I really like what I saw, even if there was an overwhelming trend toward leg slits Up To There and a good amount of side-boob. But the colors! Yay for colors!

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Yeah, I still find that above image weird. Is he a magician? Is he going to raise the dead with his super-psychic powers? Is he unleashing some sort of snowmaking abilities from his hands? I… got nothing.

Ahem. In any case, SBS’s Sign kicks off this week, and in anticipation of its premiere, here are a whole slew of stills from the drama, featuring its five main characters: Park Shin-yang and Kim Ah-joong as forensic doctors (he’s a genius, she’s a rookie), Eom Ji-won as a tough prosecutor, Jung Kyeo-woon as the hot-blooded cop she appears to be butting heads with, and Jeon Gwang-ryul as the boss at the forensic lab.

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Here we are, Part 5!

As girlfriday said in her review, I’d also like to thank guest bloggers Dahee Fanel and thunderbolt for participating in this year’s year-in-review roundup. A particular thank-you goes out to GF herself for being so game to jump into this whole world of crazy with me, and I think you’ll all agree when I say that Dramabeans is better for her addition to it. I never fail to get a huge kick out of her wicked humor, or for Dahee’s frank and bold insights, or thundie’s thoughtful eloquence. We don’t always agree, but that’s exactly why I love hearing the differing points of views.

Most of all, thanks to the DB readership — that means you! — who have been so supportive, vibrant, and often laugh-out-loud funny. We don’t take you guys for granted, rest assured, and are honored by the community you’ve built here. It’s like a second home, which sounds like a metaphor but actually isn’t because with all the hours I spend here, it really IS one.

So here’s the last of the reviews! With that, we bid adieu to the past year and look forward to lots more laughs, craziness, and yes, head-pounding-WTF-ery in the new year. Bring it on, 2011.

SONG OF THE DAY

Standing Egg – “First Christmas.” The song’s a day or two late, but no matter: Hope your Christmas (or other seasonal holiday) was merry! [ Download ]

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Aw, look at the happy, cute couple, before they presumably suffer an acrimonious split and end up hardened versions of themselves when they re-meet a few years later as antagonists in both the professional and personal realm. At least, that’s the setup I get from the descriptions of SBS’s Sign, the medical investigation drama set to air next month.

These photos show the “hidden past” between Park Shin-yang and Eom Ji-won‘s characters, taking the couple on a late-night date on the Namsan cable cars and at Namsan Tower, which are popular date spots. Her character is particularly touched because she’d pegged her boyfriend for the silent type, and is surprised by the special pains he takes in planning their romantic date.

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Question: If your two main characters are forensic doctors, why is one of them holding a camera in the drama poster?

Here are the character posters for the new SBS drama Sign, in which Kim Ah-joong (with said camera) plays a forensic doctor who decides to make a (slight) career change after working in the coroner’s office. Instead of investigating in labs and exam rooms, what she really wants to do is examine evidence at the scene of the crime. (Okay, I see the point of the camera. But I contend that it’s still… weird.)

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Having just mentioned MBC’s My Princess, here’s a look at its competition, SBS’s forensic-crime-investigation drama Sign (formerly titled Heaven). The following are the first stills from the drama, which began filming about a week ago.

(Sign will get a few weeks’ jump on My Princess, which will be attempting to crack the supposed “MBC curse” that has killed drama after drama in its Wednesday-Thursday lineup. In fact, since 2008, MBC hasn’t had any dramas maintain double-digit ratings in that slot, except for one: Personal Taste.)

Sign stars Park Shin-yang (Painter of the Wind) and Kim Ah-joong (Accidental Couple) as two forensic doctors who engage in some C.S.I. action as they solve murder cases through science. The drama also covers the workplace relationships and politics at the lab where they work, in addition to — of course! — romantic entanglements. Besides Park and Kim, we have Eom Ji-won (The Woman Who Still Wants To Marry, in the still above) as Park’s ex and an aggressive prosecutor.

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As previously mentioned, Kim Ah-joong (Accidental Couple, above) and Park Shin-yang (Painter of the Wind) will soon be returning to broadcast airwaves with their new drama, initially titled Heaven, which has now been renamed Sign and given a slot on SBS’s upcoming TV schedule.

The medical investigation drama takes a page out of the C.S.I. handbook in following the work of two forensic doctors: he’s the famous perfectionist boss, she’s the rookie subordinate. Of course. So what else is new? Together they’ll perform autopsies and solve murder cases; the drama also looks into the power struggles and rivalries that exist within their organization. (Or, to put it simply: office drama!)

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Woot! Eom Ji-won (The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry) joins the cast of forensic-investigation drama Heaven, starring Park Shin-yang and Kim Ah-joong, due out early next year. I have to say, Eom is one of my favorite discoveries from this past drama season. I adore her, and the way she can walk the line between professional career woman and vulnerable girl-at-heart, all while making us laugh.

Eom will play the top District Attorney, a fierce competitor in the courtroom who never met a case she couldn’t win. She also has a romantic past with Park Shin-yang’s character, and once they get involved in cases together, will form the main love triangle with Kim Ah-joong.

Eom is known for being a genre-chameleon, and the producers stated that she will again “show a 180-degree transformation” for this drama.

Heaven starts shooting in November, and will air early next year on SBS.

Via SPN

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This fall, Eom Ji-won (The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry) stars in the lighthearted sex comedy Festival, about four couples and the various issues that sex introduces into their relationships.

Eom stars opposite Shin Ha-kyun as a woman who buys a vibrator one day, sending her uptight police officer boyfriend into a tizzy about whether or not he can satisfy her. That? Is comedy. They should just do the whole movie about that one couple, because the premise sounds hysterical.

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