Posts Tagged ‘Park Yong-woo’

Drama Casting & News
New weekend rom-com My Love, Madame Butterfly
by | October 5, 2012 | 57 Comments
Rawr. Well don’t they make a nice pair. Here’s a sneak peek at the new weekend drama My Love, Madame Butterfly set to premiere this Saturday. Yeom Jung-ah (Royal Family) stars as Nam Nabi [nabi = butterfly, hence the puntastic title], a has-been diva actress who still has the ‘tude, but not so much the... More »


Drama Casting & News
It’s finale week for Birth of the Rich, Jejoongwon
by | May 4, 2010 | 27 Comments
This week saw the finales of two Monday-Tuesday dramas, KBS’s comedic Birth of the Rich and SBS’s medical-themed period drama Jejoongwon. The former enjoyed enough of a response to extend its series by four episodes, for a total of 20. The latter began in January and wrapped up its four-month-long broadcast with Episode 36. Both... More »


Drama Casting & News
Jejoongwon’s production press conference
by | December 23, 2009 | 24 Comments
Han Hye-jin, Yeon Jung-hoon December 23 was production press conference day for SBS’s upcoming medical period drama, Jejoongwon. The cast came dressed in character in their 1880s attire. In addition to leads Park Yong-woo, Yeon Jung-hoon, and Han Hye-jin, also featured are Sean Richard; a new actress with a famous name, Kim Tae-hee; and former... More »


Drama Casting & News
Promo photos for Jejoongwon
by | November 30, 2009 | 50 Comments
My interest in SBS’s medical period drama Jejoongwon just shot up from zero to sixty (okay, maybe zero to forty) with these new promo photos. I knew in my head that with this cast and this writer (Lee Ki-won of White Tower, one of the best kdramas in the contemporary medical genre), the drama was... More »


Drama Casting & News
Jejoongwon’s production team at prayer ceremony
by | October 14, 2009 | 18 Comments
Is that not a beautiful photo? Jejoongwon [제중원], the drama also called the “Joseon-era White Tower,” held its customary opening prayer ceremony on the afternoon of October 14 as the series heads into filming. Jejoongwon has been steadily preparing its production over the past year and is the follow-up for writer Lee Ki-won, who wrote... More »


Drama Casting & News
Yeon Jung-hoon leads Joseon-era White Tower
by | August 4, 2009 | 6 Comments
Actor Yeon Jung-hoon of East of Eden (and husband to Han Ga-in) is coming back with a new series, Jejoongwon [제중원], a historical drama set in the world of early modern medicine in Korea. He’ll be acting alongside Terroir‘s Han Hye-jin, who has already been cast as a doctor. Jejoongwon is the name of a... More »


Drama Casting & News
SBS lines up new medical sageuk
by | June 11, 2009 | 13 Comments
SBS has another historical drama planned for Mondays and Tuesdays, which brings Han Hye-jin (Terroir) back to the sageuk genre following her turn in Jumong two years ago. The drama is Jejoongwon [제중원], which is the first modern hospital in Korea established in the Joseon era in the year 1886. Han takes the lead role... More »


Chungmuro/Film News
Will Cell Phone get a Hollywood remake?
by | February 19, 2009 | 9 Comments
There’s a lot of news out currently about the thriller Cell Phone, mostly because of its theatrical release this week. Reportedly, licensing negotiations are under way for a Hollywood remake of the thriller, which stars two great actors, Uhm Tae-woong (Devil) and Park Yong-woo (My Scary Girl). That sure is fast; these talks began in... More »


Chungmuro/Film News
An early look at Cell Phone
by | December 17, 2008 | 6 Comments
The teaser poster is out for the upcoming “Chaser-like” cell phone thriller called, well, Cell Phone. While I didn’t care for the U.S. film Cellular, the plots don’t look TOO similar; and though the story doesn’t sound all that exciting on first glance, it stars actors I do like: Uhm Tae-woong and Park Yong-woo. In... More »