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Baek Bo-ram shares her fitness and happiness rituals
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Comedian Jang Do-yeon talks de-stressing and some of her current joys in life
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Ham Eun-jung talks about what roles she'd like to tackle and her fans
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Oh Chang-seok talks about role prep and wisdom for budding actors
Drama Casting & News
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Our love-hate relationship with drama remakes and adaptations
by javabeans
"They're remaking another drama?" *Boo, hiss, wails.* I'm pretty sure that's a familiar script for most of us who've been following dramaland for a while, and one that's cropped up...
Tags: 1 show to rule them all, adaptations, Boys Before Flowers, Cantabile Tomorrow, City Hunter, Coffee Prince, Fated To Love You, Gaksital, Hana Yori Dango, Liar Game, Misaeng, Nodame Cantabile, Pretty Man, remakes, Strike Love, Sungkyunkwan Scandal, Surplus Princess, The Moon That Embraces the Sun, Three Musketeers
Hana Yori Dango creator cheers on Boys Before Flowers
by javabeans
Kamio Yoko, the manga-ka (manga writer-artist) who started it all in 1992 with the incredibly popular manga series Hana Yori Dango, has recently come to Korea to meet with the cast...
Tags: Boys Before Flowers, Hana Yori Dango
Boys Before Flowers has its Evil Mom, goes overseas
by javabeans
Now that Korea's Hana Yori Dango has cast its leads (Makino and F4), settled on its secondary cast (older sisters, best friends), and even gotten its tertiary characters in place (...
Tags: Boys Before Flowers, Hana Yori Dango
Rounding out the Boys Before Flowers cast
by javabeans
Kim So-eun (Yuki), Lee Shi-young (Sakurako) Yeah, I know I'm posting a lot about Boys Before Flowers, but nothing else is getting me all that excited these days. Plus, it...
Tags: Boys Before Flowers, Gu Hye-sun, Han Chae-young, Hana Yori Dango, Kim Bum, Kim Hyun-joong, Kim So-eun, Lee Min-ho
Kim Hyun-joo added to Boys Before Flowers
by javabeans
Add one more big name to the cast of Boys Before Flowers (Hana Yori Dango): the lovely Kim Hyun-joo, last seen in last year's drama Insoon is Pretty, has been...
Tags: adaptations, Boys Before Flowers, Hana Yori Dango, Kim Hyun-joo
Meet your Korean F4
by javabeans
What horrible timing following Choi Jin-shil's shocking death, because now it's hard to get that excited about news I/we have been waiting forever to hear, which is the announcement...
Tags: Boys Before Flowers, Hana Yori Dango, Kim Bum, Kim Hyun-joong, Kim Joon, Lee Min-ho
Delays push back Korean “Hana Yori Dango”
by javabeans
The Korean "Boys Before Flowers" -- wild card? The Korean version of Boys Before Flowers [aka Hana Yori Dango] is looking like it may be dubbed a "wild card." The...
Tags: adaptations, Boys Before Flowers, Hana Yori Dango
Taking time to cast F4
by javabeans
Much-anticipated drama adaptation Boys Before Flowers, aka the Korean Hana Yori Dango, is taking a little longer than anticipated to complete its casting. With the immense popularity of the preceding...
Tags: Boys Before Flowers, Hana Yori Dango
“Boys Before Flowers,” aka the Korean Hana Yori Dango
by javabeans
I'm a little late to this info, but this news gets me excited. And apprehensive. But excited! So the Japanese manga Hana Yori Dango has been made into an anime...
Tags: adaptations, Boys Before Flowers, Hana Yori Dango, j-doramas, remakes
Hana Yori Dango
by javabeans
I happened to start watching Hana Yori Dango recently, and totally got hooked. I'm not an avid watcher of j-doramas, though I've seen a few in the past, but I...
Tags: Hana Yori Dango, j-doramas