Getting his drink on in Beastie Boys

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Frankly, this movie doesn't look too interesting -- it looks pretty, but that's about it -- but it's some extra eye candy for those of us watching Who Are You?...

Tags: Yoon Kye-sang

Rivals (KBS)

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Rivals isn't necessarily a bad show… but there's something about it that smacks of the ridiculous. Chae Rim is pretty good and so is the subtler Lee Jong Hyuk; they...

Tags: Chae Rim, first episodes, Lee Jin-wook, Lee Jong-hyuk, Rivals

Park Shi Yeon in car accident

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29-year-old former Miss Korea, former Eric's Girlfriend and current actress Park Shi Yeon (My Girl, When Spring Comes) is the latest celebrity to be in a car accident rushing to...

Tags: Park Shi-yeon

Global Talk Show not quite as global as it thinks

by javabeans

Interesting. Another Misuda panelist in the harsh glare of the media spotlight. I don't really follow Misuda (Chatting with Beautiful Women, aka Global Talk Show), for various reasons which I've...

Tags: controversies, Misuda, netizens

Open Thread #26

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  Happy Friday, everyone! Everyone's talking about the pope, astronauts, Democrat infighting, creepy polygamists sects… What's going on with you? SONG OF THE DAY Dashboard Confessional - "The Best Deceptions."...

Who Are You: Episode 13

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I'm pleased with the pacing, given that (unfortunately) many to most of other kdramas start lagging in the home stretch -- even the good ones. It's not that they get...

Tags: Go Ara, Who Are You? (MBC), Yoon Kye-sang

Who Are You: Episode 12

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Aww. One of my favorite shots from the episode. Today's episode moved a lot of plot points forward. In fact, it's a little light on the romance angle (compared to,...

Tags: Go Ara, Who Are You? (MBC), Yoon Kye-sang

How to market boring movies

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(Image is totally unrelated; taken from a Korean artist whom I've mentioned here.) I'd have liked more elaborate answers to the question, but at least they acknowledged that they DO...

So Ji Sub’s U-Turn

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So Ji Sub makes his acting comeback in writer-director Jang Jin's (Welcome to Dongmakgol, My Son) television debut project, U-Turn. The four-part "special movie" aired its first episode on the 1...

Tags: branded entertainment, Lee Yeon-hee, So Ji-sub

And then there were two: Minwoo also hospitalized

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…or maybe the title of this post should be "Are you kidding me with this? Dude let the Shinhwa guys rest in peace! (And no, not that kind of RIP.)"...

Tags: Lee Min-woo, Shinhwa, star accidents