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Choi Jin-shil up for posthumous Daesang award
by javabeans
MBC won't be awarding its end-of-year winners until December 30, but it has revealed its acting award nominees, and the name of deceased actress Choi Jin-shil has been included as a...
Tags: awards, Beethoven Virus, Choi Jin-shil, East of Eden, Kim Myung-min, Song Seung-heon, The Last Scandal of My Life
Ji-woo-hime’s starpower brings in foreign coin
by javabeans
I would have thought that a Choi Ji-woo drama would have been sold to Japan months in advance, but apparently they've just licensed A Star's Lover. The amount: approximately $2 million (...
Tags: A Star's Lover, Choi Ji-woo
Posters out for Boys Before Flowers
by javabeans
There's a lot I could say about this, but really, only a few things I need to: (1) Boys Before Flowers, or Hana Yori Dango (2) New posters (3) Series airs January 5, KBS....
Tags: Boys Before Flowers, Gu Hye-sun, Kim Bum, Kim Hyun-joong, Kim Joon, Lee Min-ho
Jang Dong-gun back on TV
by javabeans
Jang Dong-gun (Taegukgi, Friend) made a television appearance on the inaugural December 14 episode of the new talk show Park Joong-hoon Show on KBS. The reason this is noteworthy is that...
Tags: Jang Dong-gun
Romantic Island Love’s Donation Event
by javabeans
Eugene and Lee Seon-kyun, stars of the recent movie Romantic Island, have donated a few of own belongings to raise money for the Beautiful Foundation. On December 13, their items were...
Tags: Eugene, good deeds, Lee Seon-kyun
TV directors of photography honor sageuk actors
by javabeans
Kim Sang-kyung and Moon Geun-young are the newest recipients of the 2008 Grime Award (pronounced gree-may) for acting, presented by the Korean Television Directors of Photography Association. The honor goes to...
Tags: awards, East of Eden, Kim Sang-kyung, Moon Geun-young, The Painter of Wind
Shin Ae takes up classical music for Empress Cheon-chu
by javabeans
(Pretty!) Shin Ae (We Got Married) is one of a sizable lineup for the upcoming Empress Cheon-chu, the large-scale KBS sageuk drama starring Chae Shi-ra. (Also cast: Moon Jung-hee, Lee...
Tags: Iron Empress, Shin Ae
Kim Myung-min replaces Kwon Sang-woo
by javabeans
When Kwon Sang-woo dropped out of the film My Love By My Side at the last minute, he gave no explanation and left the production in a lurch at crunch...
Tags: Kim Myung-min, Kwon Sang-woo
Alex hosts “Delicious Korea”
by javabeans
Is it me, or is this kind of… random? Clazziquai singer Alex is making his entry into the Japanese market, not in music but on television. And not just any...
Tags: Alex, reality shows
Movies first, army second
by javabeans
Remember how Jo In-sung (A Dirty Carnival) had applied for the army's entertainers unit? He'd undergone all the requisite physical and in-person exams and was ready to go if accepted;...
Tags: army duty, Jo In-sung