Posts Tagged ‘Lee Yo-won’

Drama Casting & News
Drama trends for 2009
by | January 4, 2009 | 33 Comments
Note: The following is taken from a Korean article, so the opinions therein aren’t necessarily my own. Still, it’s a look into the trends we can expect in the coming year of dramas. (For instance: Not one, but TWO figure-skating dramas?) 2009 looks like a bright new year. This year, there are many dramas to... More »


Drama Casting & News
2008 SBS Drama Awards
by | December 31, 2008 | 68 Comments
Following MBC’s Acting Awards on the 30th, the 31st saw awards ceremonies for the other two stations. First up: 2008 SBS Drama Awards. (KBS coming up next!) The big news is that the SBS Daesang was awarded to the very young but very talented Moon Geun-young for her gender-bending role in the gorgeously shot historical... More »


Drama Casting & News
Queen Seon-deok recast
by | December 18, 2008 | 34 Comments
After an aborted first attempt to cast the role, Lee Yo-won (Bad Love, Surgeon Bong Dal-hee, Fashion 70s) has been announced as MBC’s pick for the titular role in Queen Seon-deok, starring opposite Go Hyun-jung. Sung Yuri was named first to the meaty role of Shilla’s first queen, but there was enough of a backlash... More »


Celebrity News
Lee Yo-won in Vietnam
by | November 8, 2008 | 42 Comments
Like several actors before her (Bae Doona in Nepal, Shin Hyun-joon in Malaysia), Lee Yo-won (Bad Love, Surgeon Bong Dal-hee) is participating in tvN’s “LOVE” charity program, wherein celebrities travel abroad to help the less fortunate. To that end, Lee recently spent six days in the Ha Long Bay region in northern Vietnam with international... More »


Celebrity News
Graduation day
by | February 16, 2008 | 18 Comments
Go Ara It’s graduation season in Korea, and as with everything else, stars always attract the most attention. Fifteen-year-old So Hee of the teen pop group Wonder Girls has just graduated from middle school (ceremony was held on the 15th) — MIDDLE SCHOOL — which just tinges the group’s exaggerated flirtiness and coquetry with unsavory... More »


Drama Casting & News
Why is Bad Love so bad?
by | January 16, 2008 | 112 Comments
I gave up watching KBS’s over-the-top melodrama Bad Love because from what I saw, it was horrible. And yet, part of me thinks it could’ve been a lot of fun to watch even despite — or because of — how ridiculously bad the series is. Alas I don’t have twenty hours to commit to unabashedly... More »