Posts Tagged ‘Shin Ha-kyun’

Drama Casting & News
2011 KBS Drama Awards
by | December 31, 2011 | 98 Comments
Awards, awards, awards! And tons of pretty people. As with yesterday’s MBC Drama Awards, note that winners are decided in part due to popularity, in part due to ratings and politics. That said, I don’t think anyone will argue with their Daesang winner, Shin Ha-kyun (below), who has been tearing it up on Monday and... More »


Drama Casting & News
Scenes from newly premiered KBS drama Brain
by | November 14, 2011 | 42 Comments
Neurosurgery drama Brain began its run today on KBS, and while I haven’t gotten around to checking out the premiere yet, here are some posters and stills to mark the series launch. The posters do a pretty good job of telling us that this is going to be a Serious Medical Drama — rather than,... More »


Drama Casting & News
Medical drama Brain’s teasers and stills
by | November 5, 2011 | 26 Comments
With KBS medical drama Brain about a week from its premiere, here are the drama’s first two teasers, as well as character stills of the main cast of neurosurgeons featuring Shin Ha-kyun, Jung Jin-young, and Choi Jung-won. The way this drama handled its casting process has been pretty clunky (not to mention controversial), which had... More »


Drama Casting & News
A few more brains for Brain
by | September 29, 2011 | 31 Comments
KBS medical drama Brain is finally locking in its cast (again), and has finalized the casting of one male lead in Shin Ha-kyun and its female lead in Choi Jung-won. They’ve got no time to spare, with the drama set to premiere in early November, leaving them with just one month to begin filming. The... More »


Drama Casting & News
Kim Joo-hyuk and Shin Ha-kyun up for Brain transplants?
by | September 27, 2011 | 35 Comments
Yeah, you can pretty much forget about any article NOT making brain jokes when it comes to this drama. Upcoming medical drama Brain has had more casting drama than its fictional drama could ever live up to, and now that it’s fired one cast and lost the other, it’s got two heavy-hitters — Kim Joo-hyuk... More »


Chungmuro/Film
The Front Line is Korea’s Academy Awards submission
by | August 26, 2011 | 28 Comments
After considering a number of buzz projects released in the past year, South Korea has decided on the blockbuster war thriller The Front Line by director Jang Hoon (Secret Reunion, Rough Cut) to be its pick for foreign language film at the 84th Academy Awards. It beat out other films like Poongsan (aka Phungsan Dog)... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Summer blockbuster The Front Line opens to high expectations
by | July 21, 2011 | 25 Comments
Yesterday’s Go Soo post had me looking closer at his new movie, The Front Line, a high-budget blockbuster war film that’s expected to do big business this summer. The plot caught my attention with its suspenseful, uneasy premise, and the creds aren’t so bad, either: Director Jang Hoon steered thrillers Rough Cut and Secret Reunion... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Go Soo and Shin Ha-kyun’s new movie
by | October 18, 2010 | 25 Comments
Principle photography is underway for Go Soo‘s second film this year, upcoming war drama Before the Hills, alongside big-screen veteran Shin Ha-kyun (Festival, Cafe Noir). They’ll be playing soldiers who get taken by the North as prisoners of war, and will form an opposition force against their captors. Before the Hills is the third feature... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Teaser poster for Eom Ji-won’s new sex comedy
by | September 26, 2010 | 23 Comments
This fall, Eom Ji-won (The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry) stars in the lighthearted sex comedy Festival, about four couples and the various issues that sex introduces into their relationships. Eom stars opposite Shin Ha-kyun as a woman who buys a vibrator one day, sending her uptight police officer boyfriend into a tizzy about... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Sexy comedy Festival features solid acting lineup
by | February 27, 2010 | 8 Comments
Ryu Seung-beom, Eom Ji-won, Shin Ha-kyun It’s been a while since we’ve had a sex comedy come out (it seems?): the “bright, sexy romantic comedy” movie Festival has announced its cast, and it’s packed with name actors. Taking the lead are Ryu Seung-beom, Eom Ji-won, and Shin Ha-kyun in the film written and directed by... More »