Getting his drink on in Beastie Boys

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Frankly, this movie doesn't look too interesting -- it looks pretty, but that's about it -- but it's some extra eye candy for those of us watching Who Are You?...

Tags: Yoon Kye-sang

Park Shi Yeon in car accident

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29-year-old former Miss Korea, former Eric's Girlfriend and current actress Park Shi Yeon (My Girl, When Spring Comes) is the latest celebrity to be in a car accident rushing to...

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Global Talk Show not quite as global as it thinks

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Interesting. Another Misuda panelist in the harsh glare of the media spotlight. I don't really follow Misuda (Chatting with Beautiful Women, aka Global Talk Show), for various reasons which I've...

Tags: controversies, Misuda, netizens

How to market boring movies

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(Image is totally unrelated; taken from a Korean artist whom I've mentioned here.) I'd have liked more elaborate answers to the question, but at least they acknowledged that they DO...

So Ji Sub’s U-Turn

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So Ji Sub makes his acting comeback in writer-director Jang Jin's (Welcome to Dongmakgol, My Son) television debut project, U-Turn. The four-part "special movie" aired its first episode on the 1...

Tags: branded entertainment, Lee Yeon-hee, So Ji-sub

Ivy emerges from self-imposed exile

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After her nightmarish past year (public scorn, sex scandals, lawsuits), singer Ivy will be making her comeback to the public eye not with another album, but onscreen in her acting...

Tags: Ivy, singers, Tokyo Showers

News bites: April 13, 2008

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KBS's new action drama Rivals, aka Kang-jeok-deul or Adversaries, premieres tomorrow. In striving for realism, Chae Rim visited a special attack squad and handled real firearms; Lee Jong Hyuk and...

Tags: Kim Dong-wan, Kim Haneul, Kim Sun-ah, Lee Dong-gun, Lee Hana, music videos, On Air, overworking, Rivals, When Night Comes

Big Bang’s Seung Ri, shy with the ladies

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Pop idol Seung Ri is less Big Bang and more Big Bang Theory (CBS) -- "reading" his book upside-down here -- in his lead role in the just-opened musical Sonagi (...

Tags: Big Bang, musicals, Seung-ri

From pretty boys to figure skates

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The adorably apple-cheeked director with the resounding belly laugh -- Coffee Prince's PD Lee Yoon Jung, that is -- is taking on her next project: a figure-skating drama for MBC...

Tags: Coffee Prince, Lee Yoon-jung, Triple

When Boy Meets Boy

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I admit the first thing that struck me about Kim Hye Sung was his adorable baby face. But although he's part of the newest generation of good-looking, trendy young stars,...

Tags: Kim Hye-sung, netizens, uljjangs, Unstoppable High Kick