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- Yoon Shi-yoon scores first leading role in film
- Meet the cops of KBS’s Crime Squad
- Choi Ji-woo to make her drama comeback
- Hwang Jung-eum cast as lead in new drama
| Yoon Shi-yoon scores first leading role in film Posted: 29 Jan 2011 05:22 AM PST Last year’s king of baking and king of ratings Yoon Shi-yoon (Baker King Kim Tak-gu) lands his first leading role in the movie One Hundred Percent, about…golf. Really? What’s with the golf stories lately? Didn’t they notice what happened to Birdie Buddy? I get that it’s a big sport, but it’s the dramatic appeal that’s lost on me. Oh well. Yoon Shi-yoon managed to make the whole country care about baking, so maybe he’s got it in him to start some golf frenzy. Ha. Now that’s an oxymoron. Isn’t golf the sport where the audience does the silent clap? Yoon Shi-yoon will be playing…wait for it…a GENIUS pro golfer. Pfft. Oh, K-Drama/Film-land. Sigh. Why does every character have to be a frickin’ genius at something? It makes me laugh to think that based on these odds, everyone and their mother in Korea is a genius. Throw a stone, hit a genius. Why yes, that person makes a good cup of coffee, but he’s no ordinary barista. He’s a genius barista! (...) © girlfriday for Dramabeans, 2011. | Permalink | No comments | Add to del.icio.us  |
| Meet the cops of KBS’s Crime Squad Posted: 28 Jan 2011 09:05 PM PST Following teen idol drama Dream High, we have the more serious crime drama titled, appropriately enough, Crime Squad. Below are shots from the drama’s poster shoot earlier this week, featuring its cast of cops. The drama stars Kim Seung-woo (IRIS) and Song Il-kook (A Man Called God), each of whom embody two very differing working styles. Kim Seung-woo plays a cold, clean-cut, buttoned-up police chief, while Song Il-kook is decidedly scruffier as the hotheaded cop. (After seeing the latter playing sageuk kings and sleek modern badasses, I have to say I really like him rumpled-up and sporting some ‘tude.) (...) © javabeans for Dramabeans, 2011. | Permalink | 24 comments | Add to del.icio.us  |
| Choi Ji-woo to make her drama comeback Posted: 28 Jan 2011 03:09 PM PST The Goddess of Melodrama herself, Hallyu star Choi Ji-woo (A Star’s Lover, Air City, Winter Sonata) is planning a return to the small screen with the drama Medical School. Well, the title is informative, I’ll give you that, but not so punchy. (I assure you, it’s the same in Korean: 의과대학). I can’t say that I’m all aflutter for a medical melodrama (been theeeeere, done thaaaaat), but I’m happy to hear news that Choi Ji-woo is returning to television. It’s one thing javabeans and I always say that we love about the K-drama system: that miniseries mean big stars can commit to TV shows without signing away years of their lives, which means they can regularly return to the medium that launched their careers. (See: Lee Byung-heon in IRIS, Bae Yong-joon in Legend). It’s been two years since her last drama, 2009′s A Star’s Lover, but she’s since starred in the film Actresses alongside heavy-hitter Go Hyun-jung, who is, at least in the last few years, out-shining Choi as the hottest act in town. Perhaps this drama will be the commercial success that she needs to put her back in the game. (Not that, you know, she’s starving or anything.) She’ll first be starring in the Japanese melodrama Winter Cherry Blossom on TBS, and then move onto pre-production for Medical School. Looks like there’s a chance we’ll see Choi Ji-woo back in K-dramaland before the year is out. Via Hankook Ilbo RELATED POSTS
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| Hwang Jung-eum cast as lead in new drama Posted: 28 Jan 2011 11:08 AM PST Rising actress Hwang Jung-eum (Giant, High Kick Through the Roof) has been cast in her first leading role in the upcoming MBC drama Do You Hear My Heart. It’s not surprising that she’ll be headlining her own drama, with all the praise from her role in last year’s epic Giant, which earned her a New Star Award from SBS. There’s rampant speculation about her leading man co-star, from Hallyu stars to ‘flower pretty boys,’ but I’m sure we’ll find out soon enough who she’ll be sharing the screen with. Her character in the drama is described as a Candy-type (OF COURSE), who is cheery and strong. The team leading the production will be PD Kim Sang-ho of Fantasy Couple and writer Moon Hee-jung of Smile, You. Both upbeat, cheery comedies, so we can expect a similar tone I’m sure. I confess I’ve never liked Fantasy Couple, which was super hammy, but I’m in an optimistic mood, so we’ll keep our fingers crossed for a good springtime comedy. Via Seoul.co.kr RELATED POSTS
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