Posts Tagged ‘Wang Ji-hye’

Drama Casting & News
2012 KBS Drama Awards
by | December 31, 2012 | 254 Comments
And closing out the year-end drama awards is KBS, who didn’t stray too far off the beaten path. The big winner tonight was You Who Rolled In Unexpectedly, the big ratings pull for the station this year. Taking home the Daesang was its star, Kim Nam-joo, who continues her reign as queen of the small... More »


Drama Casting & News
Cast assembled for conspiracy drama Father’s War
by | April 14, 2012 | 64 Comments
New-drama alert! SBS is prepping an upcoming Monday-Tuesday series called Father’s War, which has cast Wang Ji-hye in the lead, who’s coming off of the cable drama Bachelor’s Vegetable Store. Is it weird that I’m more excited about the ajusshis, though? The drama has also cast Sohn Hyun-joo, who’s always wonderful in everything (Neighbor Enemies,... More »


Drama Recaps
Bachelor’s Vegetable Store: Series review
by | March 18, 2012 | 78 Comments
Bachelor’s Vegetable Store finished up its twenty-four episode run last week, and served as an exercise in patience with a mixed bag of results. What it could have been was evident from the premise – heartwarming, uplifting, ideally addicting. Instead it seemed to suffer an identity crisis ten chaebols wide, torn between makjang shenanigans and... More »


Drama Casting & News
2011 SBS Drama Awards
by | December 31, 2011 | 141 Comments
And now to conclude the Big 3 Broadcaster awards with SBS, featuring some of the most popular dramas of the year. Tree With Deep Roots was the big winner of the night, winning six trophies in total, including the Daesang for Han Seok-kyu, and the Top Excellence Award for Best Drama. There were no big... More »


Drama Recaps
Bachelor’s Vegetable Store: Episode 3
by | December 29, 2011 | 40 Comments
We’re just two Bachelors into the Six Pack, which is slow for my liking, but on the upside I just adore what we’ve seen of them so far. Mostly Tae-yang, who brightens up the screen with his presence, his warm spirit, his good humor… and okay, the sheepish half-nakedness surely doesn’t hurt. Frankly, the proportion... More »


Drama Recaps
Bachelor’s Vegetable Store: Episode 2
by | December 26, 2011 | 43 Comments
Finally! Ji Chang-wook! Boy, did you make me suffer through a whole lot of backstory to get to you. The second episode spends most of its time still stuck in the past, throughout which I’m continuously mumbling, yeah, we geddit. But the good news is, once we get out, things look brighter. Let’s just hope... More »


Drama Casting & News
Meet the Bachelors of the Veggie Store
by | November 29, 2011 | 134 Comments
I thought we’d only have one bachelor in upcoming drama Bachelor’s Vegetable Store — played by Ji Chang-wook — but we get SIX? The more, the merrier. Bring on the pretty! They are, in order of the photo below: Ji Chang-wook, our hero (Warrior Baek Dong-soo); Kim Young-kwang (White Christmas); Lee Kwang-soo (City Hunter); pop... More »


Drama Casting & News
Veggie Store gets its bachelor, broadcaster, and leading lady
by | November 3, 2011 | 154 Comments
It’s confirmed: Ji Chang-wook will take the lead role in the drama series Bachelor’s Vegetable Store, which will air on cable (surprise surprise) on Channel A. The news was teased a while back after Yoon Shi-yoon dropped from the list of candidates, filling his schedule instead with the upcoming Me Too, Flower, and Ji was... More »


Chungmuro/Film News
16th Busan International Film Festival’s opening red carpet
by | October 6, 2011 | 159 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
Protect the Boss posters and character stills
by | July 22, 2011 | 120 Comments
We’ve got posters and character promo stills out for SBS’s Protect the Boss, and I have to say that this drama is slowly growing on me with what appears to be an offbeat, wacky vibe. It just may be quirky enough to work. I wasn’t initially too enthralled by the chaebol hero and the boss-secretary... More »