Posts Tagged ‘Park Jin-hee’

Chungmuro/Film
Movie Review: Sweet Lie (Lost and Found)
by | January 28, 2012 | 62 Comments
Next up is a movie from a few years ago that always gives me the warm fuzzies: Sweet Lie, a romantic comedy that released in the winter of 2008, which also goes by the title Lost and Found (Sweet Lie being the literal translation of the Korean title, 달콤한 거짓말). The film wasn’t a box... More »


Drama Casting & News
Fermentation Family’s posters and character stills
by | November 26, 2011 | 42 Comments
The new posters for the jTBC cable drama Fermentation Family aren’t the most exciting bunch around, but they do convey a tastefulness (ha, pun!) in their presentation of the drama’s family- and kimchi-centric premise. Fermentation Family stars Song Il-kook (A Man Called God) and Park Jin-hee (Giant) as the main couple who falls into a... More »


Celebrity News
Park Jin-hee’s autumn In Style shoot
by | November 2, 2011 | 32 Comments
A new drama, a new photo shoot for Park Jin-hee, who’s in the November issue of In Style magazine, looking like her usual gorgeous self in a look that’s kinda fall-like, kinda careerwoman-themed. Park is probably my favorite “careerwoman” actress these days, since she can pull off professional and vulnerable at the same time, be... More »


Drama Casting & News
Song Il-kook and Park Jin-hee in Fermentation Family
by | October 31, 2011 | 46 Comments
Fermentation Family (aka Balhyo Gajok), starring Song Il-kook and Park Jin-hee, may have an awkward-sounding title (at least in English), but the stills from the upcoming cable drama are quite easy on the eyes. Pictured together here are series stars Song Il-kook (A Man Called God) and Park Jin-hee (Giant) from the drama’s open set... More »


Chungmuro/Film
16th Busan International Film Festival’s opening red carpet
by | October 6, 2011 | 158 Comments
The 16th Busan International Film Festival opened on October 6, and the red carpet to the opening screening — So Ji-sub and Han Hyo-joo’s tragic romance Only You — was awash with stars. (For those of you used to seeing the festival called PIFF, it recently changed its spelling. The festival is in its 16th... More »


Drama Casting & News
Park Jin-hee and Song Il-kook headline new drama
by | September 28, 2011 | 54 Comments
Yay, Park Jin-hee is coming back to dramaland! The star of Giant and The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry has signed on to headline a new cable drama opposite Song Il-kook (Crime Squad). Song has been considering the role and other names have been bandied about for the lead actress, but both are now... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Park Jin-hee and Park Ji-yoon in Grape Candy
by | July 9, 2011 | 8 Comments
Park Jin-hee (Giant, The Woman Who Still Wants To Marry) and singer-actress Park Ji-yoon (Lie To Me) have been cast as the leads in a movie titled Grape Candy, whose tone is described as “mysterious and delicate.” There’s something about the description and the premise that reminds me of the dark indie film Bleak Night,... More »


Drama Casting & News
2010 SBS Drama Awards
by | December 31, 2010 | 187 Comments
There are lots of awards handed out, for sure, but at least SBS has some strong shows this year, with great performances all around in the competition. Go Hyun-jung stacks up another Daesang for her turn as the first Korean female president in Daemul, which if I’m to go based on all the parodies, involved... More »


Chungmuro/Film
2010 Blue Dragon Film Awards
by | November 26, 2010 | 92 Comments
More awards! The Blue Dragon Film Awards took place on November 26, and the many of the same films that have been winning lately were rewarded once again: Some of the big winners were for films such as crime drama Moss, dark thriller I Saw the Devil, romantic comedy Cyrano Dating Agency, stark action movie... More »


Drama Casting & News
She’s too young to play your mom: Age gaps in casting
by | July 31, 2010 | 46 Comments
There’s an interesting phenomenon these days where actresses are being cast in the role of Mom younger and younger. Not only that, but sometimes the age gap between Mom and Child is quite ridiculous, if you think about it. Jung Hye-young is no stranger to playing a mom, as she knocked it out of the... More »