Behind Every Star has interesting original material to bank on. It’s an adaptation of a French comedy-drama series ‘Call My Agent’ which depicts the story of talent agents and their relationships with their actor clients. Behind Every Star took the essence of Call My Agent and use South Korea’s entertainment industry as its backdrop. The…
Multi-awarded actress Jeon Do-yeon has been in the industry since 1992. Debuting in an era where Korean actresses have limited choices in the roles they can get, Jeon Do-yeon still was able to gain her reputation as a “chameleon” actress who can transform from one role to another. She was also not one to back…
Our drunken avengers are back for the second season of TVING Original series, Work Later, Drink Now. In this season, we watch Ahn So-hee (Lee Sun-bin), Han Ji-yeon (Han Sun-hwa), and Kang Ji-gu (Jung Eun-ji) get back to their normal lives after the struggles they had to face in season 1. They gave us funnier…
Continue reading ➞ The Best of “Work Later, Drink Now” Season 2
Seeing Kim Hye-soo and Kim Hae-sook in the cast roster of Under the Queen’s Umbrella gave me the impression that it would be a heavy sageuk drama filled with kimchi slaps and obnoxious bearded men deciding the fate of helpless female characters. But once its teasers dropped, I realized that it would be something different…
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Moon Chae-won studied Western Painting at the Chugye University for the Arts before she discovered her passion for acting. She eventually left university to pursue a career in the entertainment industry. She steadily found her place among the stars with one impressive role after another. She's truly an actress one can't help but love to…
Gone are the years when the ‘damsel in distress’ is the only female archetype that becomes the main character in K-dramas. This year, there is a more noticeable shift in the way a woman’s story is told. There is more effort to diversify the tales shared with us. Characters who walked into our screen have…
Bae Suzy (Anna) and Yang Se-jong (My Country: The New Age) will star in the upcoming Netflix romance series, Lee Doo-na! (with the working title The Girl Downstairs). Based on the webtoon of the same name, the upcoming series is a romance drama about a former K-pop idol member and an ordinary student who met…
Continue reading ➞ Bae Suzy and Yang Se-jong confirmed for webtoon-based romance series
Lee Yeon-hee (Welcome to Wedding Hell), Hong Jong-hyun (Stockstruck), Moon So-ri (On The Verge of Insanity), and TVXQ’s Yun-ho (Meloholic) are cast in the new Disney+ series, Race (literal title). The upcoming office series will revolve around the story of an ordinary employee and her journey of growth as she follows the path of her work role…
K-dramaland has a reputation for labeling a series as women-centric but most of them would just end up highlighting stereotypes rather than breaking away from them. Little Women was one of the rare gems amidst the pile of faux female-led narratives. The series took inspiration from the classic novel of the same name by Louisa…
The epic fantasy series Arthdal Chronicles will be coming back for a second season with its new main leads Lee Joon-gi (Again My Life) and Shin Se-kyung (Run On) joining its original cast members Jang Dong-gun (Arthdal Chronicles) and Kim Ok-vin (Dark Hole). Arthdal Chronicles is about a set of heroes who make their own…
tvN finally confirmed the cast line-up for its live-action adaptation of the popular webtoon See You in My 19th Life. The fantasy series will be headlined by Shin Hae-sun (Mr. Queen) and Ahn Bo-hyun (Adamas) together with Ha Yun-kyung (Extraordinary Attorney Woo) and Ahn Dong-gu (The Law Cafe). The series revolves around a woman who…
Born Jeon Hae-rim, actress Ha Ji-won has been in the entertainment industry since 1996. She was scouted by an agency when she was a senior high school student after seeing her picture at a photography studio. Since then, she became one of South Korea's most sought-after actresses known for memorable roles in both TV and…
Yoo Seung-ho (Moonshine), Kim Dong-hwi (Missing: The Other Side 2), and Yoo Su-bin (Lost), are all confirmed to star in the upcoming wavve series Deal. Based on an award-winning webtoon of the same name, the crime thriller series follows three former high school classmates who get together in their twenties and got entangled with complications…
Continue reading ➞ Yoo Seung-ho, Kim Dong-hwi, Yoo Su-bin teams up for new webtoon-based drama
Kim Hyun-joo (Hellbound), Park Hee-soon (A Model Family), Park Byung-eun (Alchemy of Souls), and Ryu Kyung-soo (Glitch) are all confirmed to star in upcoming Netflix original series The Bequeathed. The thriller series depicts the story of a woman who becomes involved in a series of ominous events after she inherits a family relative's gravesite. Kim…
Lee Sang-yeob (Eve) and Kim So-hye (Her Bucket List) are confirmed to lead the KBS upcoming drama Pure Boxer. Based on the novel Pure Boxer Lee Kwon-sok by Choo Jong-nam, the sports drama's story will revolve around a cold-blooded sports agent who doesn't feel guilty about match-fixing to earn money and the success of his…
Continue reading ➞ Lee Sang-yeob, Kim So-hye teams up for new KBS drama
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