Posts Tagged ‘Lee Bo-young’

Drama Casting & News
2011 MBC Drama Awards
by | December 30, 2011 | 119 Comments
Oh, MBC. I can always count on you for some awards-time whatthefuckery. Three years ago it was split Daesangs (daesang = Grand Prize), giving the same award to Kim Myung-min and Song Seung-heon and doubling awards in every category. Two years ago, there were more split awards, and last year we had the bizarre “Character... More »


Drama Casting & News
Weekend drama Hooray For Love’s promo stills
by | July 9, 2011 | 54 Comments
MBC’s about to premiere a new weekend drama, Hooray For Love, which looks pretty cute if we’re going solely on the stills and promo shots that have been released. This is the drama Jae Hee (Three Dads, One Mom) and Jung Seok-won (Dr. Champ) had both dropped out of, and stepping in to replace them... More »


Drama Casting & News
Jae Hee (finally!) back with new drama
by | May 27, 2011 | 115 Comments
Jae Hee is back! YESSSSSSSS!! The drama is an MBC weekend dealio called Hooray For Love, which appears to be the same drama previously referred to as She Never Loses, starring Lee Bo-young (Birth of the Rich). She plays Kang Jae-mi, divorcée who overcomes obstacles in the basic Candy-esque narrative trajectory. Jae Hee will play... More »


Drama Casting & News
Lee Bo-young takes on new weekend drama
by | April 23, 2011 | 21 Comments
Lee Bo-young (Birth of the Rich) has signed on to her next drama, an MBC weekend production titled The Woman Who Doesn’t Lose. But maybe a better way to refer to it would be She Never Loses, since we’re full up on drama titles about men and women who can’t, want, or still want to... More »


Drama Casting & News
Athena casts Lee Bo-young as presidential daughter
by | June 24, 2010 | 25 Comments
Lee Bo-young has been added to the cast of the already star-studded Athena: Goddess of War, wherein she plays the daughter of the president. This means she joins Jung Woo-sung, Cha Seung-won, Su Ae, Kim Min-jong, Lee Jia, and Choi Siwon, who are all either spies or work within the intelligence agency in some capacity... More »


Drama Casting & News
It’s finale week for Birth of the Rich, Jejoongwon
by | May 4, 2010 | 27 Comments
This week saw the finales of two Monday-Tuesday dramas, KBS’s comedic Birth of the Rich and SBS’s medical-themed period drama Jejoongwon. The former enjoyed enough of a response to extend its series by four episodes, for a total of 20. The latter began in January and wrapped up its four-month-long broadcast with Episode 36. Both... More »


Drama Casting & News
Birth of the Rich premieres, Pasta rises to top spot
by | March 1, 2010 | 30 Comments
KBS premiered a new drama today, the light comic drama The Birth of the Rich, to replace God of Study. Although the first episode numbers were modest at 12.1% (TNS Media), the drama received generally positive reception for its imaginative and “manhwa-like” story and its refreshing cheeriness. Also earning some praise is lead actor Ji... More »


Drama Casting & News
Poster released for Birth of the Rich
by | February 20, 2010 | 27 Comments
The poster is out for KBS’s Birth of the Rich [부자의 탄생] and, as one may have guessed, the main theme of the drama is money. Similar to how its timeslot predecessor God of Study incorporates studying techniques, Birth of the Rich promises to show viewers secrets and methods for earning money. The poster features,... More »


Drama Casting & News
Ji Hyun-woo and Lee Bo-young in Birth of A Rich Man
by | January 25, 2010 | 38 Comments
Casting news has been announced for a new KBS series, Birth of a Rich Man or Birth of the Rich [부자의 탄생], which will headline Lee Bo-young (More than Blue) and Ji Hyun-woo (Invincible Lee Pyeong-gang). The theme is, as you can guess from the title, about the pursuit of wealth. Lee Bo-young plays the... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Theater audiences make it a blue White Day
by | March 15, 2009 | 24 Comments
Kwon Sang-woo‘s latest flick, tearjerker romance More Than Blue [슬픔보다 더 슬픈 이야기], enjoyed a strong White Day showing in theaters; its opening weekend sold more than 200,000 tickets — 147,000 of them on White Day alone. Pretty good for a single day’s take. Wild horses couldn’t drag me to such an overindulgence of weepie... More »