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More stars pay their respects to deceased colleague

Posted on August 21st, 2008

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.

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News bites: January 21

Posted on January 21st, 2008

  • Goong S’s Heo Yi-jae (”little Kim Tae Hee”) has been cast as Oh Ji Ho’s love interest in the upcoming drama Single Papa in Love. Yikes, that makes me nervous for both of them.
  • While doing press for her upcoming film The Chaser, actress Park Hyo Joo of the cable “Chosun CSI” show Chosun Police (and spunky agent Im Yewon from Air City) admitted in an interview that she suffers from a rare spinal condition, congenital spondylolysis (a defect in the lower lumbar vertebra). She was diagnosed in high school and had to give up her lifelong dreams of being a ballerina. Thankfully her condition doesn’t get in the way of her current career; her film opens on Valentine’s Day.
  • Speaking of ballerinas, pop vocal group CSJH The Grace’s arguably most popular member, Stephanie, is dressing up as a ballerina (her previous artistic endeavor, prior to becoming a singer) in Project “S,” a mobile-content photo collection she shot in Singapore this past December. Already a two-minute video clip of Stephanie showing her ballet moves is available at the video portal tvpot.daum.net (or watch the video below):

  • And Lee Bo Young opens a new film and fights old rumors. She’s promoting her first starring film role in Once Upon a Time, which sounds like some kind of period crime caper hybrid (she’s in search of a stolen 3,000 carat diamond and teams with a master thief, played by Park Yong Woo), which opens at the end of January. Meanwhile, she’s still denying rumors that sprung up last year that she was seeing soccer star Park Ji Sung — gossip even placed her in England, supposedly visiting him there — but she insists they’ve never even met.

SONG OF THE DAY

CSJH The Grace - “Dancing Queen.” Because who couldn’t use a little ABBA on a Monday?
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Oh Ji Ho as a single father

Posted on January 13th, 2008

Hard-bodied actor Oh Ji Ho has been cast in his next role — as a single dad, in the KBS2 drama Single Papa in Love.

Oh costars with Kang Sung Yeon, who also appeared in the film The King and the Clown and the drama Let’s Get Married, in the drama about a man raising his son alone after being abandoned by his first love. By day he works as a pest exterminator, by night as a martial artist. The baby momma is played by Kang, a cold and proud woman who left her family to study abroad (ah, the ever-useful plot device!) as a pianist.

Oh Ji Ho’s last drama may have flopped, but he fared well in 2006’s Fantasy Couple. And while there have been plenty of single-mom dramas and movies out there, the single-father angle has been explored much less frequently. Although, given how Oh’s character in Fantasy Couple was very nearly a single father (single uncle, raising three young nephews on his own), perhaps this role won’t seem so unfamiliar after all.

Single Papa will follow Bad Love and airs in February.

Via Newsen

SONG OF THE DAY

VOY - “삼류인생” (third-rate life) [ zShare download ]

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Series Preview: Oh Su Jung

Posted on July 14th, 2007

You’ve probably heard about Oh Ji Ho’s new drama — or at least the part where he puts on a fat suit to give us the drama version of the hit movie 200 Pound Beauty. It’s also being called his comeback drama (although come on, can you call it a comeback when his last drama finished seven months ago?) — most probably since he dropped out of the limelight from grief/stress/fatigue when his former ex sadly committed suicide and he was vilified in the press and internet (always with the internets!) for various issues regarding that. Let’s not dwell on the ugly gossip, though.

Today’s episode of Bad Couple came with the preview to his new drama, and it looks pretty cute even if I wasn’t a 100% fan of 200 Pound Beauty (it was cute, but I had mixed feelings). Plus, although I didn’t previously really love costar Uhm Jung Hwa, after I saw Seducing Mr. Perfect, I had to admit she was a decent actress — anyone who had to act opposite Daniel Henney in that (whom I’d previously liked in My name Is Kim Samsoon, funnily enough) must have skills, because she’s acting opposite the emotional equivalent of a brick wall. Albeit a very nice-looking brick wall.

Oh, right, but back to my point:

WATCH THE SERIES TEASER >>


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Behind the K-Drama Scenes

Posted on May 11th, 2007

So I was thinking about the ending of Witch Amusement, and of how much more I enjoyed the director’s prior two series, 2005’s Delightful Girl Choon Hyang and 2006’s My Girl. And since both of those were written by the Hong sisters screenwriting team, Hong Jung Eun and Hong Mi Ran, I naturally thought to their first series after My Girl: Fantasy Couple (환상의커플) (aka Couple or Trouble), which ended its run in December 2006.

It also reminded me of an interview with Fantasy Couple’s PD, Kim Sang Ho, which I’d read months ago and found endlessly fascinating, regarding the process of actually producing these dramas. It also shed some light on the behind-the-scenes issues that explained some of the choices they made in the drama’s storyline. It was so interesting (to me) I’d posted up the translation on soompi, so I’m reposting it here behind the cut.

SONG OF THE DAY

Fantasy Couple OST - “Want U” by Ji Young Sun [ Download ]

There are some spoilers ahead about Fantasy Couple, so be forewarned >>


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