Posts Tagged ‘Lee Min-ho’

Drama Casting & News
2010 KBS Drama Awards
by | December 31, 2010 | 288 Comments
KBS just may have the longest winners list at the end-of-the-year award ceremony, but they do have the most programming. Not surprisingly, some of the big winners were expected names, like Baker King Kim Tak-gu, Cinderella’s Sister, and Chuno. The Grand Prize of the night went to Jang Hyuk, who beat out Choi Su-jong’s president... More »


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2010 MBC Drama Awards
by | December 30, 2010 | 230 Comments
It’s time for each broadcast station to put on their end-of-year awards. The MBC Drama Awards are first of the bunch, and man, Kim Nam-joo must be peeved. She finally gets her Daesang — and it goes shared, with Han Hyo-joo. Yeesh. This is almost as bad as when MBC split the Daesang between Kim... More »


Drama Casting & News
Lee Min-ho’s City Hunter set for May broadcast
by | December 29, 2010 | 126 Comments
javabeans: So City Hunter has an airdate. girlfriday: Woot! Lee Min-ho to come back soon? javabeans: It’s weird how nobody else is cast yet. girlfriday: Maybe one Lee Min-ho is enough. No one else needed. javabeans: But who will he make out with then? girlfriday: Oh, right. javabeans: And if there were two, we wouldn’t... More »


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Fanmade City Hunter posters are lookin’ good
by | November 19, 2010 | 52 Comments
Lee Min-ho’s drama City Hunter is still months away from premiering, but already fans are abuzz with anticipation and have taken to their Photoshop with fervor, creating some nifty-looking mock posters. Frankly they’re pretty damn good, much like the fanmade posters for Mary Stayed Out All Night, which I thought were even better than the... More »


Drama Casting & News
Did Rain steal Lee Min-ho’s thunder?
by | October 28, 2010 | 83 Comments
It was big news when Lee Min-ho was cast as a womanizing PI in the kdrama adaptation of the famous manga and anime series City Hunter, which was hugely popular in the 1980s. So what has the production team suddenly worried? Apparently, it’s the similarity of City Hunter’s distinctive Ryo Saeba character to Rain‘s lead... More »


Drama Casting & News
Lee Min-ho cast in City Hunter (?) (!)
by | September 12, 2010 | 182 Comments
WHAT?! I won’t believe this until it’s on the air, but Lee Min-ho has reportedly been selected to headline a Korean drama adaptation of City Hunter, the popular 1980s manga and anime about a womanizing detective. The lead character is Saeba Ryo, who runs the City Hunter business with his partner, Kaori Makimura, and is... More »


Celebrity News
Jung Il-woo’s birthday fanmeeting
by | September 6, 2010 | 65 Comments
Gah, so adorable. Jung Il-woo (Return of Iljimae) celebrated his 23rd birthday with fans and two of his buddies, Kim Bum and Lee Min-ho. (Did they all go get haircuts together, or what?) Jung and Lee Min-ho have been best buds for years now, but I was a little surprised to see Kim Bum there.... More »


Drama Casting & News
Why are there so many false casting rumors?
by | July 18, 2010 | 46 Comments
Park Bo-young, Park Shin-hye, and Sulli were all rumored for Playful Kiss If you’ve been following Korean dramas for a while, you probably have noticed a tendency for productions to make casting announcements before things are entirely finalized. Sometimes those initial reports will go on to be confirmed, and sometimes the reports will be followed... More »


Drama Casting & News
Lee Min-ho and Sohn Ye-jin re-team for Personal Taste DVD
by | July 9, 2010 | 41 Comments
A month after completing production on the MBC drama Personal Taste, Lee Min-ho and Sohn Ye-jin reunite for a DVD commentary. They’re joined by co-stars Jung Sung-hwa (Sang-jun) and Wang Ji-hye (In-hee), in recording commentaries as well as interviews for the upcoming DVD. Tags: Lee Min-ho, Personal Taste, Sohn Ye-jin... More »


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Lee Min-ho declines lead, Playful Kiss still looking for its cast
by | July 6, 2010 | 161 Comments
Aw, man. For one brief moment I got totally excited. One story published today reports that Lee Min-ho has been cast as the lead in Playful Kiss, aka the remake of Itazura na Kiss / It Started With A Kiss. And girlfriday and I literally, and I mean literally-out-loud, squealed in glee when we thought... More »