Okay, I think I’m done posting pics of stars visiting Lee Eon’s funeral room. If more information comes to light, I’m on it, but until then we’re just going to be getting photos of grieving folks, which is probably gratuitous.
I know it sounds hypocritical for me to dislike the photos and then post them. However, I do think it’s a matter of interest — just up to a point. When it starts feeling gratuitous, I step back.
Below are Strongest Chil Woo co-stars Eric, Gu Hye-sun, and Kim Byul. More pics beyond the jump.
They last acted together in the drama I Really, Really Like You, and are next cast as a couple in the upcoming film I Feel Lucky. Coffee Prince’s gentle and comforting Han Sung, actor Lee Seon Kyun, is also cast, paired with the lively actress Lee Soo Kyung, who’s currently popular for her role in Golden Age of Daughters-in-Law but will forever be in my mind the lovable everywoman from 2006’s Soulmate.
And for once, I don’t have to do any translating! Oddly enough, this following news article was printed in its original Korean, but came supplied with its own English translation, courtesy of Segye news:
Actor Lee Sun-Gyun and Lee Su-Gyung, Lee Min-Gi and Yu-Jin become couples in love.
A movie ‘I feel lucky’,(directed by Gang Chul-Woo, produced by DRM entertainment-SBSi) portraying a film-like romance of four people whom they met on a strange place, has the four above actors cast as lovers.
Lee Sun-Gyun, with rising popularity from the movie, ‘Our town’, plays CEO named Jae-Hyuk, who is bossy and cool-headed, but feels sadness in his heart, and actress Lee Su-Gyung, drawing attention nowadays with her bubbly and charming performances takes on the role of cheerful Su-Jin who is becoming a romantic couple with Jae-Hyuk in the movie.
A singer turned a successful actress Yu-Jin and actor Lee Min-Gi from movie ‘A good day to have an affair’, who is now enjoying overwhelming love from female fans, each appears as a top star Ga-Young and an ordinary guy Jung-Hwan unfolding an interesting romance. ‘I feel lucky’ is a romantic comedy about men and women who departs from their usual and lands on a dreamy Boracay Island with their own tales.
The shoot is scheduled to begin in mid-December in Seoul and take off in full-scale from next month in Manila, Philippine and Boracay Island.
To be honest, I kinda dragged my feet on this one, not just because episode recaps take much more time than anything else, but because I didn’t want to face the blankness of having nothing to watch for the immediate future (and don’tcha know, avoidance always solves problems!). Plus, I feel that final episodes deserve a little more time and effort to give (good) series their proper send-offs. (Bad series can just suck it.)
SONG OF THE DAY
Oldfish - “Way to Home.” I LOVE Oldfish. [ zShare download ]
What an excellent episode. By far the best to date. Episode 15 had everything — adventure, mystery, suspense, emotion, depth, and yet another well-done cliffhanger ending.
In fact, it rather felt like a mini-movie more than an episode of television because of the way it skillfully brought the tension to a head; and yet, there were still those trademark Mixed-up small moments of goofiness and wit. It wasn’t till the episode finished that I realized I’d spent the hour all tensed up in anxiety. With just one more episode to go, do our fearless friends finally find the treasure??!?
Seriously, just when I think there isn’t room for any more twists, Mixed-up Investigative Agency throws another one in. I’ve never seen such a tightly plotted series before, not even Veronica Mars. Here, it seems like not only are many clues peppered throughout all the episodes from the beginning, not one clue is wasted.
SONG OF THE DAY
Kite - “Insomnia for the Cake.” Kite is a modern-rock band that I haven’t quite made up my mind about yet. Their first album is half meh average rock, but there are a few tracks I quite like. This is one of them, for its interesting melody and laid-back rhythm. [ zShare download ]
(Another) one of the things I like about Mixed-up Investigative Agency is that the band of treasure-hunting misfit friends has some good ideas, but so often, they’re just plain WRONG. One tricky thing in making a mystery come alive is in making each step believable and yet keep the viewers guessing. The difficulty, many times, is in allowing the heroes to gain their objective, but not TOO easily (or there’s no suspense or fun), and yet also not too much by coincidence, otherwise it’ll seem like they didn’t earn their victory.
The friends mess up quite often, but their mess-ups often lead to insights they wouldn’t have gained otherwise. Which also means that other, smarter people might not have figured out these clues, because they would’ve thought of different, more clever ideas. In this way, this really is a “mixed-up” agency — a bumbling, awkward, clumsy, but lovable group of heroes who may just be the only people capable of finding the treasure. Not in spite of their flaws but because of them.
SONG OF THE DAY
J - “Ghost” from her newest (sixth) album. [ zShare download ]
