Posts Tagged ‘Lee Mi-yeon’

Drama Casting & News
MBC starts casting new drama Royal Family
by | December 28, 2010 | 36 Comments
Huh. MBC has one Wednesday-Thursday drama called My Princess coming up, and now it’s got a second Wednesday-Thursday show called Royal Family that’s in the works. Well, I suppose these things DO tend to come in pairs, for whatever inexplicable cosmic reason. (Daemul and President, What’s Up and Dream High, Cinderella Man and Style…) In... More »


Drama Casting & News
Shim Eun-kyung plays young Merchant Kim Man-deok
by | March 4, 2010 | 11 Comments
One of Korea’s favorite child actresses, 15-year-old Shim Eun-kyung, will once again be stepping into a childhood sageuk role; she’ll be playing the younger counterpart to Lee Mi-yeon‘s title character in the upcoming historical drama Merchant Kim Man-deok. She has already played notable childhood roles in television dramas Hwang Jini (whose adult role was played... More »


Drama Casting & News
Lee Mi-yeon as the great merchant Man-deok
by | February 8, 2010 | 14 Comments
These new photos of Lee Mi-yeon are beautiful, showing the actress dressed in hanbok for her latest television role as Merchant Kim Man-deok. The real Kim Man-deok rose from the low status of gisaeng and became a successful merchant and philanthropist. Tags: Lee Mi-yeon, Merchant Kim Man-deok... More »


Drama Casting & News
Han Jae-seok added to Merchant Kim Man-deok
by | February 3, 2010 | 16 Comments
Lee Mi-yeon has a leading man for her upcoming historical epic, Merchant Kim Man-deok: actor Han Jae-seok of Women in the Sun and Lobbyist. The KBS drama stars Lee Mi-yeon as the real-life figure born in the 18th century who became a gisaeng, then turned herself into a prosperous merchant — impressive given that she... More »


Drama Casting & News
Lee Mi-yeon returns to television with Man-deok
by | December 16, 2009 | 13 Comments
This is news that had been floating around for a while (and denied, then floated again), but now it’s confirmed: Lee Mi-yeon is making her drama comeback — eight years after her last sageuk Empress Myung Sung — in another historical epic, Merchant Kim Man-deok. The drama is based on a real-life woman from the... More »


Chungmuro/Film
17th Chunsa Film Festival
by | September 5, 2009 | 31 Comments
Aw, isn’t little Wang Seok-hyun cute? September 5 saw the end of the 17th Chunsa Film Festival and its closing-night awards ceremony, which was held in Icheon, Kyunggi-do. The winners list was dominated by the popular, recently released sports film Take Off [국가대표, or National Athlete], although vampire film Thirst did well, as did lush... More »


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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 »


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16th Chunsa Film Festival
by | September 6, 2008 | 19 Comments
Another film festival, another red carpet. On September 6, the city of Icheon was host to the 16th Chunsa Film Festival, which found its red carpet walked by film and TV stars and capped off the night with an awards ceremony. Honors were handed out actors including Ha Jung-woo (The Chaser, a big winner that... More »


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2nd Chungmuro International Film Festival
by | September 3, 2008 | 33 Comments
Stars came out in full force, from A-listers and all the way down, to the opening night of the 2nd Chungmuro International Film Festival, held on September 3. The celeb list boasted some big-name actors and even a few kpoppers (Girls Generation) who turned out in fine feather on the red carpet. (Well, minus a... More »