Im Soo-jung (Search: WWW) and Lee Do-hyun (Youth of May) are set to star in the new tvN drama “Melancholia” (literal title). The drama revolves around the lives of students and teachers of a private high school riddled with corruption and preferential treatment. Im Soo-jung has been confirmed for the role of the tenacious math teacher Ji…
Continue reading ➞ Im Soo-jung, Lee Do-hyun to play teacher-student in new tvN drama
I already expected that Youth of May would become a tragic love story that could break my heart into million melodrama pieces. But this series is more than that. The main leads Hwang Hee-tae (Lee Do-hyun) and Kim Myung-hee (Go Min-si) are victims of being at the wrong place at the wrong time. Their story…
Drama Profile Title: Youth of MayMain Cast: Lee Do-hyun, Go Min-si, Lee Sang-yi, Geum Sae-rokWriter: Lee Kang (Spy)PD: Song Min-yeop (Doctor Prisoner)Timeslot: Monday and Tuesday / 2130HNetwork: KBSEpisodes: 12Genre: Melodrama, Period Drama Plot Synopsis: Set in May of 1980 during the Gwangju Uprising, two young people found each other and fall in love. Medical student…
Our 4th Anniversary celebration is almost over but that doesn’t mean we don’t have time for another anniv-related listicle! Back in 2017, the five of us decided to finally create a home for our K-drama thoughts and fangirling moods. And for four years, we’ve met a lot of chinggus (yes, I’m talking to you our…
Continue reading ➞ Co-Celebrants: Four K-Actors Who Debuted In 2017
I’m always excited and scared whenever I watch a remake of something. Excited because hey, it’s always fun to watch a retelling of a story you once loved and scared because they might butcher it and ruin your precious memories. Okay, I’d concede I couldn’t remember the original film version of this series except for…
I must have been crazy for skipping this drama before. Prison Playbook’s synopsis read as a drama that “depicts the story of prisoners and staff at a prison.” I knew what I want in a drama and I knew from that text alone that Prison Playbook wasn’t a series made for me… or so I…
Netflix announced that it will team up with director Lee Eung-bok (Mr. Sunshine, Goblin, Descendants of the Sun) to produce the new original drama “Sweet Home.” It will be topbilled by Song Kang (Love Alarm), Lee Jin-wook (Voice 3), and Lee Si-young (Liver or Die). Joining them are Lee Do-hyun (Hotel del Luna), Kim Nam-hee (Search:…
We always have our favorite and go-to actors and actresses in Korean Entertainment. But every now and then we discover new artists that would shake our bias list. These new artists could be rookie actors/actresses who just debuted and showed huge potential to hit big in the foreseeable future. Or they could be actors/actresses who…
Continue reading ➞ Ahjummas’ Picks Year-end Special: Breakout Stars of 2019
Millennial K-drama Fans grew up watching a lot of hit fantasy series written by the Hong Sisters. We cherish a lot of scenes and characters from Sassy Girl Chun-hyang, Couple or Trouble, and My Girlfriend Is a Nine-Tailed Fox the same way we fondly look back to our after-school-afternoons. But as we grew older, our…
