Posts Tagged ‘Hana Yori Dango’
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Hana Yori Dango creator cheers on Boys Before Flowers
Kamio Yoko, the manga-ka (manga writer-artist) who started it all in 1992 with the incredibly popular manga series Hana Yori Dango, has recently come to Korea to meet with the cast and production crew behind the latest adaptation, KBS kdrama series Boys Before Flowers. She was actually an unannounced attendee at the recent production press... More »
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Boys Before Flowers has its Evil Mom, goes overseas
Now that Korea’s Hana Yori Dango has cast its leads (Makino and F4), settled on its secondary cast (older sisters, best friends), and even gotten its tertiary characters in place (schoolmates, part-time employers), the one main role remaining was that of Doumyouji Tsukasa’s hard-hearted mother, the businesswoman behind the family empire, Kaede. Lee Hye-young (Fashion... More »
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Rounding out the Boys Before Flowers cast
Kim So-eun (Yuki), Lee Shi-young (Sakurako) Yeah, I know I’m posting a lot about Boys Before Flowers, but nothing else is getting me all that excited these days. Plus, it goes to show just how anticipated this drama is when we get news reporting not just on the leading actors, but even the very peripheral... More »
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Kim Hyun-joo added to Boys Before Flowers
Add one more big name to the cast of Boys Before Flowers (Hana Yori Dango): the lovely Kim Hyun-joo, last seen in last year’s drama Insoon is Pretty, has been cast in the Tsubaki role, older sister to main character Doumyouji Tsukasa. Kim Hyun-joo’s character is named Gu Jun-hee in the series and is the... More »
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Meet your Korean F4
What horrible timing following Choi Jin-shil’s shocking death, because now it’s hard to get that excited about news I/we have been waiting forever to hear, which is the announcement of the “F4″ guys in the Korean Hana Yori Dango, aka Boys Before Flowers. Although it was floated around that the casting would comprise mostly pop... More »
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Delays push back Korean “Hana Yori Dango”
The Korean “Boys Before Flowers” — wild card? The Korean version of Boys Before Flowers [aka Hana Yori Dango] is looking like it may be dubbed a “wild card.” The series, which has been produced in Taiwan and Japan and now plans for a Korean version, had initially planned to air on KBS2 at the... More »
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Taking time to cast F4
Much-anticipated drama adaptation Boys Before Flowers, aka the Korean Hana Yori Dango, is taking a little longer than anticipated to complete its casting. With the immense popularity of the preceding adaptations in Japan and Taiwan, it’s no surprise they’re taking particular pains in the casting process. A representative of production company Group 8 said in... More »
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“Boys Before Flowers,” aka the Korean Hana Yori Dango
I’m a little late to this info, but this news gets me excited. And apprehensive. But excited! So the Japanese manga Hana Yori Dango has been made into an anime series, a Taiwanese drama (Meteor Garden), and a Japanese dorama. The Japanese versions are already popular in Korea, but now a kdrama adaptation of the... More »
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Hana Yori Dango
I happened to start watching Hana Yori Dango recently, and totally got hooked. I’m not an avid watcher of j-doramas, though I’ve seen a few in the past, but I watched all of the first season at once (I kind of like how j-doramas are short and sweet at around 10 episodes, although I do... More »
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