Posts Tagged ‘Lee Dong-wook’

Drama Casting & News
Choi Chul-ho joins Partner
by | May 26, 2009 | 26 Comments
Remember how Queen of Housewives actor Choi Chul-ho alluded to his next project in the recent interview with Yoon Sang-hyun? Turns out that project is KBS’s Partner, the law drama starring Lee Dong-wook and Kim Hyun-joo. Choi Chul-ho follows up his turn as the prickly — but also hilarious — businessman in Queen of Housewives... More »


Drama Casting & News
Lee Dong-wook returns in Partner
by | May 21, 2009 | 40 Comments
How to choose? Lee Dong-wook versus the trio of Yoon Kye-sang, Lee Jung-jae, and Lee Seon-kyun? Wednesdays and Thursdays just got a lot more interesting with KBS’s new law drama Partner squaring off against Triple. (Magazine whut-now?) Partner announced its leading lady earlier this week with Kim Hyun-joo, and now have cast Lee Dong-wook opposite... More »


Celebrity News
Lee Dong-wook celebrates fan club anniversary in hanbok
by | January 31, 2009 | 29 Comments
  Lee Dong-wook (La Dolce Vita) held his latest fanmeeting on January 30 in Tokyo to commemorate the one-year anniversary of his official Japanese fan club. He arrived wearing the traditional Korean hanbok to ring in the new (lunar) year. After garnering fans for his roles in dramas like School and My Girl, Lee earned... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Pusan International Film Festival’s opening night
by | October 2, 2008 | 51 Comments
It’s kind of unnerving how all the news right now is either Choi Jin-shil‘s sudden death or the 13th Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), and sometimes while looking through the news listings, it’s easy to confuse the two based on the thumbnail images. (Given the timing, as far as I can see, there were no... More »


Celebrity News
An Exclusive Party with Lee Dong-wook
by | September 22, 2008 | 15 Comments
Lee Dong-wook, just coming off his recent dark drama La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life), has been invited as a special VIP guest at the upcoming Bangkok International Film Festival, which takes place from the 23rd through 30th. However, as one of eighteen VIP guests, he represents the Hallyu world not on the basis of... More »


Celebrity News
Pretty people looking… not so pretty, actually
by | August 7, 2008 | 51 Comments
I don’t usually comment on fashion, usually because I don’t care enough about what makes fashion “good” or “trendy” or “cutting-edge.” But I DO know bad fashion when I see it, and while I was scrolling through a bunch of the latest photos hitting the (internet) wire, I was taken aback by how uniformly bad... More »


Drama Casting & News
Falling through blue sky screen
by | July 18, 2008 | 9 Comments
Lee Dong-wook falls (way, way) down in a scene for the upcoming finale for La Dolce Vita (The Sweet Life) airing this weekend. If you’ve seen the first five minutes of the series, you can kind of predict how this scene plays out. In the drama, this scene shot in the studio supposedly takes place... More »


Drama Casting & News
Popular vs. buzzworthy dramas
by | July 4, 2008 | 34 Comments
MBC’s When Night Comes, SBS’s Iljimae   The following article from OSEN takes a look at the difference between the types of dramas on the air these days. I find a lot of mainstream entertainment press to be oversimplified (I’m sure I’m just not looking in the right places), but it’s something to chew on,... More »


Drama Casting & News
The Sweet Life with Lee Dong Wook
by | April 29, 2008 | 59 Comments
Finally, Lee Dong Wook fans can see him back on television! After rising to stardom in the romantic comedy series My Girl, he’s focused mostly on films and kept a relatively low profile; this will be his first television project in more than two years — and he appears with another My Girl co-star (although... More »


Chungmuro/Film
44th Baeksang Arts Awards
by | April 24, 2008 | 81 Comments
Best Actress winners Yoon Eun Hye (drama), Kim Min Hee (film) The 44th Baeksang Arts Awards were held in Seoul on April 24, handing out top honors to the films and television programs of the previous year. Big winners included films The Chaser and Forever the Moment (aka The Best Moment In Our Lives); Yoon... More »