I Need Romance to be tvN’s next prime-time drama

Published By aznwave On Sunday, April 10th 2011. Under Korea, Korean Drama  Tags: , , , ,   
I Need Romance to be tvN’s next prime-time drama
Hm, it looks like tvN is jumping into the prime-time drama game in earnest with a second midweek drama offering in the works. Manny (about a haughty male nanny working for a careerwoman single mom) is its first, and now it has I Need Romance, ano...

Best Love casts former idol as former idol

Published By aznwave On Monday, April 4th 2011. Under K. Actress, K.Music, Korea, Korean Drama  Tags: ,   
Best Love casts former idol as former idol
The Hong sisters trendy drama Best Love is going a bit meta for its latest casting, in that an ex-idol group singer is playing an ex-idol group singer. Lee Hee-jin has joined the drama — which is about washed-up star Ae-jung (Gong Hyo-jin) and...

Maids changes its name to…

Published By aznwave On Monday, April 4th 2011. Under K. Actor, K. Actress, Korea, Korean Drama  Tags: , , , ,   
Maids changes its name to…
Romance Town? Are you kidding me? But that’s so… lame. Last week, the drama formerly known as Maids encountered some opposition regarding its name, as it uses a word for “maids” [식모] that has in recent years been abandoned for more fa...

Lee So-yeon gets knocked up for new drama

Published By aznwave On Saturday, April 2nd 2011. Under Korea, Korean Drama  Tags: , ,   
Lee So-yeon gets knocked up for new drama
Dong Yi and Angel’s Temptation villainess Lee So-yeon is taking the lead in a new SBS weekend drama titled Nice To Meet You (a working title), where she plays a teenage single mother. Well, I’m assuming that the character ages at some point, ...

Cast of new romantic comedy film Couples

Published By girlfriday On Saturday, April 2nd 2011. Under K. Actor, K. Actress, Korea, Korean Drama  Tags: , , ,   
Cast of new romantic comedy film Couples
Kim Joo-hyuk, Lee Yoon-ji Lee Yoon-ji (Dream High) and Lee Shi-young (Dangerous Meeting, Playful Kiss) have been cast to headline a new romantic comedy, opposite leading man Kim Joo-hyuk (Terroir, Sleeping With the Enemy) and hilarious everyman G...

Do You Hear My Heart? premieres this weekend

Published By aznwave On Friday, April 1st 2011. Under K. Actor, K. Actress, Korea, Korean Drama  Tags: , , ,   
Do You Hear My Heart? premieres this weekend
Tomorrow is premiere day for MBC’s new weekend drama, Do You Hear My Heart?, and here are its official posters. Not that you can tell much about a drama from its posters, but I think they’re pretty and colorful — even if four of the five le...

Poetry picks up its 17th award

Published By aznwave On Tuesday, March 29th 2011. Under K. Actor, K. Actress, K.Movie, Korea, Korean Drama  Tags: , , , ,   
Poetry picks up its 17th award
And the awards keep rolling in for Poetry, which has just collected its 17th from Switzerland’s 25th Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF), taking home the festival’s top prize, the Regard d’Or. Starring Yoon Jung-hee as an elderly wo...

Cha Seung-won and Kong Hyo-jin shoot Hong sisters next project "The Greatest Love"

Published By HanCinema Daily News and Updates On Tuesday, March 29th 2011. Under K. Actor, K. Actress, Korea, Korean Drama  Tags: , , , , ,   
Cha Seung-won and Kong Hyo-jin shoot Hong sisters next project "The Greatest Love"
Actor Cha Seung-won is cast for new MBC drama "The Greatest Love" (written by Hong Jeong-ran, Hong Mi-ran, directed by Park Hong-gyoon). Cha Seung-won was a charismatic, solid and cold spy in SBS drama "ATHENA". However, this time, he is a b...

More additions to upcoming Hong sisters drama

Published By aznwave On Tuesday, March 29th 2011. Under K. Actor, K. Actress, Korea, Korean Drama  Tags: , , , ,   
More additions to upcoming Hong sisters drama
The Hong sisters drama formerly titled Discovery of Affection has a title change, and is now called Best Love. Meh. Neither title is very good — they sound so generic, and lack the wit and humor of the Hong sisters’ style — but who knows, m...

The perils of the live-shoot drama system

Published By aznwave On Sunday, March 27th 2011. Under Korea, Korean Drama  Tags: , , , , ,   
The perils of the live-shoot drama system
Midas “I filmed all through the night until 6 o’clock this morning, and went home only to shower. We’ll have to pull all-night shoots tonight and tomorrow, too, to make the broadcast tomorrow.” That’s direct from the lips of a drama lead...
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