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Weekend sageuk King Geunchogo extended

javabeans — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:42:21 +0000

King Geunchogo fans will be happy (I think?) to hear that the big-budget historical drama will be getting an additional 10 episodes, which brings its run through June.

The KBS weekend drama starring Kam Woo-sung as a Baekche-era (4th century) warrior king was initially planned for 50 episodes, but has been granted the extension by the broadcast station. KBS was reportedly looking at an extension of 20 to 30 episodes in total, but ultimately decided on 10 instead, and will then make way for its successor drama, King Gwanggaeto, which will begin filming in March. The weekends love ‘em their sageuks.

The drama has not been performing particularly strongly in the ratings, holding steady in the 10% to 12% range. Ordinarily those numbers wouldn’t merit extending, but sageuk dramas tend to play by slightly different rules, and I’ve heard generally favorable remarks about the series. Perhaps consideration for its follow-up series also plays a role, although that much is purely speculation on my part. (It wouldn’t be unheard-of, though; Queen of Reversals owed the filming delays of The Duo for its extension much more than it did its middling ratings.)

The drama also stars Kim Ji-soo, Lee Jong-won, Lee Ji-hoon, and Ahn Jae-mo.

Via Star News

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Kim Ji-soo’s DUI won’t keep her out of drama

javabeans — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 00:19:34 +0000

Looks like KBS is standing by leading lady Kim Ji-soo, and will not be cutting her from her upcoming sageuk drama King Geunchogo despite the controversy over her drunk hit-and-run accident a couple weeks ago.

The timing of the accident was uncomfortably close to the premiere of KBS’s new big-budget production, which had producers and broadcasters worried as the wave of public scorn for Kim’s actions cast the show in a negative light before it had even begun. The station made an early statement that they were not considering dropping Kim, but there was still speculation that her job was in danger, with the public calling for her dismissal. The tenor was particularly harsh given that this was Kim’s second DUI; the first was in 2000.

A senior rep from the drama stated on October 21 that Kim would remain onboard, saying, “We recognize that the situation with Kim Ji-soo comes with social and ethical problems. We did think hard about whether to drop her. However, she has reflected heavily and intends to throw herself even more thoroughly into her role, and she will receive sufficient punishment in a legal sense, so we decided to continue as planned.”

King Geunchogo will premiere on November 6 and is planned for 70 episodes.

Via Asiae

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Kam Woo-sung and Kim Ji-soo’s character stills for King Geunchogo

javabeans — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:38:20 +0000

Here are the first stills for sageuk drama King Geunchogo, which premieres next month on KBS starring Kam Woo-sung as the king and Kim Ji-soo (currently besieged by netizen complaints due to her drunken hit and run) as his love interest.

The drama focuses on warrior-king Geunchogo, the 13th ruler of Baekje, who reigned from 346 to 375 A.D. in what is considered Baekje’s golden age. He expanded the kingdom’s territorial reaches far into the north and occupied much of the Korean peninsula, opened trading lines between China and Japan, and encouraged culture. Kim Ji-soo plays Baekje princess Bu Yeo-hwa, and is dressed below in royal finery.

On the 8th, Kim Ji-soo released an official apology for her recent accident via her management company, admitting that it was a mistake to drive drunk and to leave the scene of the accident. She expressed her deep apologies for her bad judgment, stating that she was frightened and shocked by the collision and therefore left the scene in a friend’s car (who had been following her own). She went to the police the next day for questioning and admitted to the accident.

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Will Kim Ji-soo’s hit and run endanger her drama role?

javabeans — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:35:10 +0000

Actress Kim Ji-soo (Women In the Sun) finds herself in some hot water and on the receiving end of a wave of negative public sentiment after she was charged for a hit and run this week. As a result, some question whether she will remain with the upcoming KBS sageuk drama she is currently filming, King Geunchogo, which stars Kam Woo-sung as the king.

The traffic accident occurred on October 5 at around 9 pm in the Cheongdam-dong neighborhood of Seoul’s Kangnam district. According to Kangnam police, Kim was allegedly driving drunk when she collided with a taxi at an intersection and fled the scene. She was booked without detention on October 6.

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Kim Ji-soo and Ahn Jae-mo join King Geunchogo

javabeans — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 18:05:49 +0000

Two more actors have been added to the upcoming KBS sageuk series King Geunchogo, which has already cast Kam Woo-sung (Alone in Love) as the titular king: Kim Ji-soo (Women in the Sun) and Ahn Jae-mo (King and I, Yeon Gaesomun).

This is Kim’s first sageuk and her first drama in two years, since she did Women in the Sun, a drama that netted her a Top Excellence acting award that year from KBS’s drama awards. After that show wrapped, she had been cast in the Tokyo Tower remake project, but that fell apart when her co-star Joo Ji-hoon was indicted for drug charges.

Ahn Jae-mo, meanwhile, plays a central character who is the king’s childhood friend and vassal. Ahn previously worked with director Yoon Chang-beom in his debut role, sageuk King and Queen back in 1998. PD Yoon also did other KBS period dramas Seoul 1945, Age of Warriors, and Empress Myung-sung.

King Geunchogo is set in the Baekje kingdom in the Three Kingdoms era, and although the sageuk genre is a staple in the kdrama landscape, Baekje is lesser-explored dramatic terrain compared to, say, the later Goryeo or Joseon dynasties. King Geunchogo reigned from 346 to 375 A.D.

Filming will begin in early September, and the drama will premiere in October.

Via Hankyung, TV Report

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Tokyo Tower bought for Korean remake

javabeans — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:22:45 +0000

Kim Ji-soo (Women in the Sun) is pairing up with Antique Bakery and The Naked Kitchen star Joo Ji-hoon for the Korean remake of the Japanese film Tokyo Tower [도쿄 타워].

Tokyo Tower was originally a novel written by popular Japanese novelist Ekuni Kaori and depicts the love story of a 20-something young man with a 40-something married woman (Joo Ji-hoon’s real age is 26 — he turns 27 next month — while Kim Ji-soo is 36). It was produced as a 2005 movie starring Okada Junichi, Kuroki Hitomi, and Matsumoto Jun.

According to production company Future One, the remake rights were recently bought and a director has been attached: PD Ahn Pan-seok, who successfully helmed the MBC drama remake series White Tower. The drama will be filmed in advance of airing, although it hasn’t yet decided which broadcast station to air on.

Via DongA

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45th Baeksang Arts Awards

javabeans — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:25:22 +0000

New Actress winner Park Bo-young

Awards!

The 45th Baeksang Arts Awards were held on the evening of February 27, which means: lots of awards for film and television stars, and lots of clothes to gawk at.

There were no real surprises in the winners list; they’re mostly a variation of the same lists we’ve been seeing from the other ceremonies in the winter awards season. Some film winners include A Movie is a Movie and My Dear Enemy, while acting honors went to many of the Daesang winners from earlier awards, like Kim Myung-min, Moon Geun-young, and Sohn Ye-jin. Oh, and a little actor going by the name of Lee Min-ho took home one of the newcomer awards — but a stumble on the red carpet keeps him humble.

Check out all the winners (and the clothes!) beyond the jump:

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Kim Ji-soo’s London Life

javabeans — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:25:17 +0000

Following her last role in the KBS drama Women in the Sun, actress Kim Ji-soo has left for London, as these newly released photos show.

She’s filming the trip — her first in that city — for a two-part broadcast on the women’s lifestyle channel DongaTV, called Kim Ji-soo’s London Life, which airs her episodes on February 11 and 18.

As with many of these types of programs, the camera follows around the star as they browse and walk around the city. Case in point: Choi Kang-hee’s Six Addictions, Shin Mina’s French Diary, Go Ara’s Twenty-Year-Old Story, Kim Haneul’s Travel Diary in Italy.

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2008 KBS Drama Awards

javabeans — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:32:02 +0000

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 don’t know that Kim was outstanding in that drama specifically, but there’s no doubt she’s built up an impressive, long-running career and therefore this was probably more of an opportunity to give her a lifetime-achievement-ish Daesang.

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KBS nominates (practically everyone) for acting awards

javabeans — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:29:35 +0000

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 one I watched and enjoyed in what I thought was a rather lackluster list. (Also! Kang! Ji! Hwan!)

The (very long) list of KBS actors is topped by a subset of nine Daesang contenders, which includes the aforementioned crowd of Mom’s Dead Upset veterans as well as Song Il-kook in the sageuk Kingdom of the Wind, Kim Sang-kyung in the sageuk Great King Sejong, and Kang Ji-hwan in the fusion-sageuk Hong Gil Dong. (A big sageuk year, no?)

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