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- Kim Bum and Park Min-young for Vogue Girl
- Secret Garden: Episode 20 (Final)
- Cancellation delayed for MBC’s Stormy Lovers
| Kim Bum and Park Min-young for Vogue Girl Posted: 17 Jan 2011 05:07 AM PST Kim Bum (The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry), Park Min-young (Sungkyunkwan Scandal), and Sung Yuri (Noona, Swallow the Sun) pose for a spread in Vogue Girl entitled “Wedding Party.” Hm. Dunno what kind of macabre Addams’ Family sort of wedding they were invited to, but I half expect that the food on the table is poisoned. I like the look of the shoot: moody, intriguing, crackling with strange narrative potential. I can’t say it actually picks a single vibe, as “vampire wedding” works just as well as “murder mystery dinner theater.” But I love how everyone looks. (...) © girlfriday for Dramabeans, 2011. | Permalink | No comments | Add to del.icio.us  |
| Secret Garden: Episode 20 (Final) Posted: 16 Jan 2011 08:52 PM PST It’s the bow-tied, triple-knotted kind of ending for this cast of characters, as we say our final goodbyes to Secret Garden. I’d personally like to say farewell to omo-queen Secretary Kim. Thanks for the laughs. And of course to my new favorite idol-oppa, Oska. Yoon Sang-hyun, I was never on your bus before, but I’m totally on it now. Oska, fighting! (...) © girlfriday for Dramabeans, 2011. | Permalink | 236 comments | Add to del.icio.us  |
| Cancellation delayed for MBC’s Stormy Lovers Posted: 16 Jan 2011 01:25 PM PST MBC attracted some ire for cutting its daily drama Stormy Lovers, which recently got slashed from 120 planned episodes down to 50, drawing particular anger from its writer and some of its cast. A few days after the initial announcement, the station amended their decision, giving the drama 70 total episodes before its early cutoff. The drama has been pulling in pretty low ratings for an evening daily drama, with numbers in the 5% to 7% range despite its well-known writer (Na Yeon-sook of East of Eden) and PD (Go Dong-sun of Queen of Housewives). It has reportedly earned the backing of fans for its self-professed avoidance of the “makjang code” (and since people keep asking what that is, I’ll direct you to the glossary, which is linked in the footer) with its tales of reconciliation, forgiveness, and tolerance. I can’t tell you if the drama was successful in that respect; perhaps regular viewers can speak to that. (Funny, since I’d actually thought it was supposed to be fairly makjang. But I could be wrong.) I don’t think there’s something inherently wrong with cutting loose a show that isn’t performing, and in the States, shows are cut much more brutally. However, I think the issue isn’t the cut itself, but the way it was handled: The show airs its 40th episode tomorrow, and news about the cut to 50 episodes was released last week, giving the drama a mere two weeks to wrap up stories it thought it had half a year to complete. It’s odd that with MBC struggling so much with its programming, it then goes and seems to deliberately set its shows up to fail. There’s also something to be said for the industry culture; despite the ease with which shows are cancelled in Hollywood, that isn’t the norm with K-dramas. It’s considered a rare enough occasion when miniseries are cut a few episodes, but dailies are almost never given that treatment, and certainly not in such drastic quantities. So the anger makes sense to me. Furthermore, I wonder if the move will hamper the follow-up drama, which suddenly has a lot less time to prepare. It’s a traditional melodrama titled I Trusted Men and comes from writer Joo Chang-ok of 2007′s Lobbyist (from high-budget action dramas to dailies? Interesting switch) and PD Lee Eun-kyu, who produced Coffee Prince, HIT, and Woman of Matchless Beauty Park Jung-geum. In any case, this means means that Stormy Lovers will now wrap at the end of February. Actor Jung Bo-seok said, “Recently, the plot has improved… The relationships between the characters are also getting more interesting. I’m sorry that we’ve been thrown into chaos. I hope you’ll remain interested in the drama through the end.” RELATED POSTS © javabeans for Dramabeans, 2011. | Permalink | 8 comments | Add to del.icio.us  |
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