Posts Tagged ‘Jang Geun-seok’
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Jang Geun-seok: “Just Crazy”
javabeans: So. Here’s this. girlfriday: O.M.G. javabeans: I mean, I’m not surprised or anything… It was the last leg of his 2012 Asian tour in Saitama (you know, since touring actors are a thing) so he must’ve wanted to outdo himself. Which in his case means less sensical than all occasions previous, I suppose. girlfriday:... More »
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Love Rain: Episode 1
There’s plenty of love and plenty of rain in KBS’s new-vintage drama offering, Love Rain, which enjoyed some considerable hype before its release due to its popular stars. It’s not out to transcend its genre, and works well to deliver an atmospheric, youthful vibe and a core love story with all its requisite entanglements. There... More »
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Jang Geun-seok cuts his hair for Love Rain
Jang Geun-seok is showing off an image transformation for Love Rain, the upcoming drama where he plays a young man in the 1970s who falls in love with Yoon-ah, and then also portrays the man’s son three decades later. These stills come from a recent shoot in Hokkaido; who wants to bet Jang spent all... More »
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Movie Review: You’re My Pet
2011 was a good year for the noona romance, with You’re My Pet standing as a highly-anticipated film based on the Japanese manga Kimi wa petto, later adapted into a Japanese drama series of the same name. Most of the anticipation rested on the shoulders of its two A-list stars, Jang Geun-seok and Kim Haneul.... More »
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Jang Geun-seok in High Cut
javabeans: Now this is what we call a Scrolldown Fug. (TM Fug Girls.) girlfriday: It’s like a fashion mullet: All business on top, party on the bottom. javabeans: Are palazzo pants making a comeback? Because the moment they went of style in the ‘90s was the brief moment when fashion embraced sanity. girlfriday: And in... More »
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Love Rain, literally
Looks like they’re taking the title literally for Love Rain, with series leads Jang Geun-seok and Yoon-ah meeting in the rain in the above still. The multigenerational “premium melodrama” from melo king PD Yoon Seok-ho (he of the Season dramas) has already pre-sold to Japan, no doubt owing a lot of its hype to the... More »
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You’re My Pet releases yet another saucy poster
Another poster for You’re My Pet! To be honest, I’m not even that excited about this movie (it looks super-cute and fluffy, but I have no great expectations of it), but they do have some pretty eye-catching promotional materials. Kudos to the marketing team, you get a cookie. In the latest one, the tagline reads,... More »
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New posters and a teaser for You’re My Pet
Me-ow. Well they were certainly going for sex kitten with the poster concept, only they seem to have split the difference, sexy for Kim Haneul and… just kitty for Jang Geun-seok. How come he gets bad hair, a furry sweater AND a box, while she gets a shirt and a cheeky lolli? A few more... More »
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Love Rain holds initial script reading
Huh, script reading already? Love Rain isn’t scheduled to air till 2012, but the main cast convened recently for its first script reading, which included actors Jang Geun-seok, Yoon-ah, Kim Shi-hoo, Sohn Eun-seok, Hwang Bora, and Seo In-gook. (I use the term scheduled loosely; technically Love Rain isn’t scheduled at all, in that it doesn’t... More »
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Another idol joins Jang Geun-seok’s Love Rain
What is this, Idol Rain? Another pop singer joins the cast of the drama Love Rain, and this time it’s Seo In-gook, a newish singer who won the TV reality competition show Superstar K in 2009. Seo In-gook will play one of a trio of university students in the 1970s portion of the drama, with... More »
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