Posts Tagged ‘Kim Sang-kyung’

Chungmuro/Film
Blockbuster disaster movie Tower releases first stills
by | June 12, 2011 | 40 Comments
The first stills are out of blockbuster film Tower, which began filming last month and is currently deep in production. As previously mentioned, Tower is an action movie that centers around a skyscraper fire and comes to us from the director of that other anticipated summer action flick Sector 7, wherein a sea monster terrorizes... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Sohn Ye-jin back to the big screen with Tower
by | March 27, 2011 | 33 Comments
Sohn Ye-jin (Chilling Romance, Personal Taste) has announced her next project. As expected, she’ll be returning to filmlandia; what’s not as expected is the genre. She’ll be starring in her first blockbuster action flick, Tower, a disaster film about a skyscraper fire, due out later this year. Iiiinteresting. Move over, Ha Ji-won? While I don’t... More »


Drama Casting & News
Baek Sung-hyun leads the boys in Monster
by | January 14, 2011 | 34 Comments
This sounds pretty interesting: Baek Sung-hyun (Accidental Couple, Like the Moon Escaping From Clouds) is taking on a leading role in a Drama Special miniseries called Monster. Most Drama Special installments have been one-offs, but this one (like Rock Rock Rock) will have more episodes; it’s scheduled for eight total. The plot of Monster involves... More »


Drama Casting & News
My Country Calls ends quietly on KBS
by | June 30, 2010 | 52 Comments
KBS’s romantic comedy My Country Calls went out quietly on Tuesday with its finale episode, its 16th. The drama has performed under the radar in its Monday-Tuesday timeslot, having gone up against two heavy-hitters: MBC’s historical Dong Yi and SBS’s saga Giant. Its ratings have been consistently in the 6% range, while its rivals have... More »


Drama Casting & News
Posters for KBS’s upcoming My Country Calls
by | May 1, 2010 | 15 Comments
My Country Calls will be airing once Birth of the Rich is over, and has released its official posters. The romantic-comedy series pairs a cute but accident-prone policewoman (Lee Soo-kyung) with a spy who’s a stickler for the rules (Kim Sang-kyung). Ryu Jin and Horan fill out the main cast; the former is both a... More »


Drama Casting & News
A look at KBS’s upcoming My Country Calls
by | April 22, 2010 | 28 Comments
Mondays and Tuesdays will soon be getting a new romantic comedy, My Country Calls, to replace Birth of the Rich. Several key leads play spies, but this’ll be a far cry from the action thrills of the IRIS franchise, and aims for a more comic bent. Lee Soo-kyung plays a lowly, accident-prone officer who meets... More »


Drama Casting & News
Lee Soo-kyung’s new drama My Country Calls
by | April 3, 2010 | 14 Comments
The drama to follow KBS’s Birth of the Rich is romantic-comedy series My Country Calls [국가가 부른다], which has cast Lee Soo-kyung as its lead actress. She will play a bold and unpredictable character, in stark contrast with her most recent role in weekend drama Loving You a Thousand Times. Lee plays a lowly policewoman... More »


Drama Casting & News
TV directors of photography honor sageuk actors
by | December 13, 2008 | 18 Comments
Kim Sang-kyung and Moon Geun-young are the newest recipients of the 2008 Grime Award (pronounced gree-may) for acting, presented by the Korean Television Directors of Photography Association. The honor goes to their roles in their sageuk dramas, Great King Sejong and Painter of the Wind, respectively. All other awards went to directors; the Daesang, the... More »