News bites: January 29, 2022
Advertisements News bites: January 29, 2022 by tccolb Ryu Joon-yeol, IU, Park Jung-min A new drama called Money Game is in the works, based on two popular webtoons called Money Game and Pie Game, with casting confirmed for Ryu Joon-yeol (Human Disqualification), IU (Hotel del Luna), Park Jung-min (Hellbound), Park Hae-joon (A Couple’s World), and […]
News bites: January 15, 2022
Advertisements News bites: January 15, 2022 by tccolb Anupam Tripathi, Oh Young-soo Congratulations to our gganbu Oh Young-soo (Squid Game) who won a Golden Globe this past week for Best Supporting Actor, Television! Squid Game has celebrated a few wins already last year (Gotham Awards, HMMA, AFI Awards, and People’s Choice Awards) and the excitement […]
Premiere Watch: Through the Darkness, Dr. Park’s Clinic
Advertisements Premiere Watch: Through the Darkness, Dr. Park’s Clinic by missvictrix January is looking like a quiet month for premieres (before the February drama-tsunami hits). That being said, we’ve got two completely different shows hitting the airwaves this weekend: a probing thriller about Korea’s first criminal profiler, and a wacky comedy featuring some of the […]
Park Min-young, Song Kang secretly dating in Weather People’s new teasers
Advertisements Park Min-young, Song Kang secretly dating in Weather People’s new teasers by tccolb JTBC’s upcoming office romance Weather People (working title) has released another set of video teasers, this time giving us a better look at Park Min-young (I’ll Find You on a Beautiful Day) and Song Kang (Nevertheless) on the job at Korea’s […]
Drama viewership ratings for the week of Dec. 27, 2021-Jan. 2, 2022
Advertisements Drama viewership ratings for the week of Dec. 27, 2021-Jan. 2, 2022 by DB Staff With year-end festivities and award shows keeping people busy (and preempting some usual air times), things are pretty quiet on the ratings front. Even so, we’ve had a lot of dramas air their final episodes this week: Melancholia, Secret […]
Im Shi-wan stars as underdog tax collector in Tracer
Advertisements Im Shi-wan stars as underdog tax collector in Tracer by tineybeanie Tracer is an upcoming Wavve drama featuring Im Shi-wan (Run On), Go Ah-sung (Life on Mars), Sohn Hyun-joo (The Good Detective), and Park Yong-woo (Priest). Known pejoratively as the “trash landfill” of government agencies, the National Tax Service is the main focus of […]
Childhood Connections, Gods, And Demons: First Impressions Of “Lovers Of The Red Sky”
Advertisements Kim Yoo Jung is back! “Lovers of the Red Sky” has been teased since December of last year, and SBS’s newest sageuk fantasy is finally on our screens. The first two episodes pack in fated lovers, bloodshed, gods, demons, and the reoccurring theme of sight and sightlessness. But is it worth the hype? Here are […]
Script reading for tvN thriller “Happiness” with Park Hyung shik, Han Hyo joo, and Jo Woo jin
Advertisements The first script reading for tvN’s upcoming thriller Happiness recently took place, and stills of the cast and crew have been released. The drama stars Park Hyung-shik (Suits), Han Hyo-joo (W-Two Worlds), and Jo Woo-jin (Seobok, Mr. Sunshine) in a story that’s set in a near apocalyptic future. A new infectious disease has been […]
The Power of Vulnerability in “My Mister”
Advertisements Paulo Coelho, author of the modern classic The Alchemist, became a fan of Korean entertainment after watching Old Boy back in 2001. About My Mister he said: “It was a masterpiece. It’s one of the best works I’ve seen recently. It shows the intricacy of human psychology and … it is a flawless description […]