Posts Tagged ‘Kang Ji-hwan’

Drama Casting & News
2008 KBS Drama Awards
by | December 31, 2008 | 66 Comments
All right, we’ve seen MBC’s Acting Awards (met with much criticism) and SBS’s awards, so now we close out the broadcast station awards with the 2008 KBS Acting Awards. No real surprise (or controversy) for KBS’s Daesang, awarded to veteran actress Kim Hye-ja for her role in the popular series Mom’s Dead Upset. Personally, I... More »


Drama Casting & News
KBS nominates (practically everyone) for acting awards
by | December 18, 2008 | 35 Comments
Like MBC before it, KBS has also released its list of year-end acting award nominees. And while Hong Gil Dong (above) wasn’t the most prominent drama featured among the contenders (that would have to be the daily drama Mom’s Dead Upset, which brought in a whopping four nominations just in the Daesang category), it’s the... More »


Drama Casting & News
Kang Ji-hwan injured on set
by | December 10, 2008 | 15 Comments
Oh noes! My Kang Ji-hwan, he iz hurtingks! Speaking of on-the-job injuries, on December 9, Kang was shooting a chase scene for his new film Civil Servant Level 7 in Seoul’s Itaewon neighborhood when the slippery ground caused him to fall. Ankle hurt, Kang was taken to a nearby hospital, where it was confirmed that... More »


Celebrity News
7th Korea Film Awards
by | December 4, 2008 | 35 Comments
You know how at the prom, everyone goes for uber-glitz and black-tie formal, only it’s done through the filter of a 17-year-old fashion sense — or rather, what a 17-year-old would think was formal black-tie fashion sense? So the end result is a really weird mix of over-the-top gaudiness that may have been expensive but... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Blue Dragon Awards 2008
by | November 20, 2008 | 76 Comments
Kim Haneul and Kang Ji-hwan Did the Blue Dragon Awards sneak up on us this year or what? As one of the largest year-end awards shows, the Blue Dragon always tends to draw out a good number of A-listers, and we saw plenty of them out on the red carpet on November 20 and posing... More »


Chungmuro/Film
28th Critics Choice Awards names its top honors
by | November 5, 2008 | 20 Comments
The 28th Critics Choice Awards, presented by the Association of Korean Film Critics, awarded its top honors on November 5. The film A Movie Is a Movie (or Rough Cut), starring So Ji-sub and Kang Ji-hwan (above), was the big winner of the night, pulling in three awards total, two for its lead actors and... More »


Chungmuro/Film
“Civil Servant” kicks off filming, wishes self luck
by | October 16, 2008 | 23 Comments
October 13 marked the official start for work on the romantic action comedy Civil Servant Level 7 [7급공무원], starring Kim Haneul as a sexy veteran spy and Kang Ji-hwan as a newbie agent on his first secret mission chasing Russian industrial spies who work for an illegal crime organization, in an attempt to prevent the... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Secret agent man Kang Ji-hwan
by | September 28, 2008 | 25 Comments
Kang Ji-hwan really is keeping busy, making the most of this productive and successful time in his career. (He did back-to-back dramas, shooting Capital Scandal before launching himself directly into the eight-month-long commitment with Hong Gil Dong, after which he kept active promoting his recent film with So Ji-sub, A Movie Is a Movie (aka... More »


Drama Casting & News
Triple is officially awesome
by | September 25, 2008 | 93 Comments
…and it hasn’t even aired yet! That’s it. Triple has just shot up — over Song Hye-gyo and Hyun Bin, over the Korean Hana Yori Dango — as my new most anticipated drama. Because on top of casting Lee Seon-kyun, then following with Yoon Kye-sang, they’ve now rounded out their lead trio with… …Kang Ji-hwan!... More »


Celebrity News
Readying for his second Japanese fanmeeting
by | September 13, 2008 | 9 Comments
Kang Ji-hwan has had a fanmeeting in Japan before, but the one to take place on September 15 (his second Japanese fanmeeting) in Tokyo will be on a larger scale, with an attendance of 2,000. Apparently tickets sold out immediately, leaving fans who were unable to secure tickets to make requests for more via messages... More »