Posts Tagged ‘Juni’

Celebrity News
My Name Is: Juni
by | September 14, 2010 | 40 Comments
Hyun Juni is a former rock band singer who has been making the transition to an acting career gradually, and her latest role in SBS’s I Am Legend has garnered her the most attention to date. The following is a profile and interview with the actress. SONG OF THE DAY Bella Mafia – “소리없이” (Without... More »


Drama Casting & News
I Am Legend’s band performs live at Jecheon
by | August 14, 2010 | 20 Comments
The drama I Am Legend has made it a point to feature real musical performances from its lead actresses, who comprise the Comeback Madonna Band in the show. The foursome rocked out again in a live stage performance on August 12, at the Jecheon International Music Film Festival’s opening ceremony. The band members are Kim... More »


Drama Casting & News
Juni is a young mom in Legend
by | August 8, 2010 | 25 Comments
Okay, that’s cute, right? Now we get our first peek at the backstory for Juni‘s character in I Am Legend. She was a former idol-in-training who had a little “accident” with a fellow idol-in-training that turned her into a young single mom. Her character Ah-reum has barely been onscreen so far and pre-show press materials... More »


Drama Recaps
I Am Legend: Episodes 1-2
by | August 4, 2010 | 65 Comments
I Am Legend kicked off this week to a fairly good start, both in story and in reception. The first episode had a decent 10.1% rating, which the second episode improved upon it with an 11.7%. I’d been interested in the premise from the start, back when it starred Kim Sun-ah, and was game for... More »


Drama Casting & News
I Am Legend’s rockers prepare for real stage performance
by | July 18, 2010 | 25 Comments
If I Am Legend‘s last set of stills weren’t rocker enough (they were rather retro-glam), the maybe these new ones will be more befitting the term. In addition to performing in the drama, the four actresses who comprise the “Comeback Madonna Band” — Kim Jung-eun, Hong Ji-min, Juni, and Jang Shin-young — will be taking... More »


Drama Casting & News
The rocker ladies of I Am Legend
by | July 14, 2010 | 39 Comments
These are much more fun than the first set of stills from I Am Legend, which showed series lead Kim Jung-eun as a posh city wife. She starts out as a “Cheongdam-dong daughter-in-law,” which is a description in Korean that immediately evokes the image of a well-maintained wife; Cheongdam-dong is an upscale neighborhood of Seoul,... More »


Drama Casting & News
Juni added to I Am Legend
by | April 26, 2010 | 15 Comments
Actress Juni of IRIS and Beethoven Virus has been added to the cast of I Am Legend, the SBS drama starring Kim Sun-ah as an ajumma turned rock singer. The drama also has cast Jang Shin-young as the band’s drummer and manager, and now Juni will become another of the band’s members. Juni’s a bit... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Jang Nara’s Sky and Ocean flops big at box office
by | November 2, 2009 | 40 Comments
Ouch. Jang Nara‘s latest film, Sky and Ocean [하늘과 바다], hasn’t just flopped at the box office, it put in a decidedly miserable showing in last place in its opening week. It seems these days we’re hearing about new films breaking records by bringing in millions of viewers in a single weekend (examples: Take Off,... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Bonding through music in Sky and Sea
by | April 17, 2009 | 24 Comments
Sky and Sea [하늘과 바다] is the new music-themed film for Jang Nara, wherein she plays a violinist who befriends other young musicians. On the 17th, reporters were invited down to the filming location at a university campus in Ansung, Kyeonggi province. The cast also features singer Hyun Juni playing a rock-band vocalist, which isn’t... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Jang Nara is back in Sky and Sea
by | February 5, 2009 | 18 Comments
Singer-actress Jang Nara hasn’t been that active in the Korean industry in recent years, focusing much of her career in China instead. (She was also burdened with several planned projects failing to come together.) Now she’s making her film comeback in the movie Sky and Sea, in which she plays a violinist. Directed by Oh... More »