Birth of a franchise: Coffee Prince cafe opens

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  Riding the Wave of Popularity for Drama "Coffee Prince," Cafe Launches in Hongdae MBC embarks on franchise; first store of opens in Hongdae's "Theater Chu" on the 20th Before...

Tags: Coffee Prince

Follow-up: Jang Dong Gun’s CNN interview

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Following up on this earlier report on CNN's "Eye on South Korea" special broadcast, actor-superstar Jang Dong Gun's interview on Talk Asia aired on CNN on the 14th. I missed...

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Blast from kpop’s past

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Wow, here's one to make you feel really old. (Or really young, I suppose.) Back in the Stone Ages, aka the '90s, there was a pop group that was...

Kwon Sang Woo screws up love, but in a manly way

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Kwon Sang Woo returns to television after three years in the upcoming KBS Monday-Tuesday drama (starting December 3) Wretched Love (a more apt but slangy translation could be "Screwed-up Love"), which...

Tags: Bad Love, Kwon Sang-woo

Kim Sun Ah to make her comeback

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Sexy actress Kim Sun Ah, who'd had a fairly lengthy resume but vaulted to superfame in My Name Is Kim Sam Soon, is back after a rather quiet past two...

Tags: comebacks, Kim Sun-ah, My Name Is Kim Sam-soon

Return of the “What the hell–?!” writers

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Fascinating. (Although, I'd hate to be called a "What the hell?!" writer. Oh, wait, was that just an invitation? Very well. Everyone gets a freebie "What the hell?!") Personally, I...

Tags: Golden Age for Daughters-in-Law, Madam Ah Hyun Dong, scriptwriters

And yet, I probably still won’t see it

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Huh. So J.J. Abrams is doing the newest Star Trek movie, and at least this time he doesn't have a TV series to sink while off trying to revive...

Tags: Hollywood

Lee Eon picks his first post-Coffee Prince project

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  Actor Lee Eon, fresh from his role as dumb but lovable Min Yub in Coffee Prince (like I really need to identify him on this site, huh?), will be...

Tags: Coffee Prince, Lee Eon

Park Jiyoon’s “Secret Garden”

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I know I just posted about Park Jiyoon not long ago, but in the spirit of discussing artists with hidden talents, here's another bit of news about the singer-actor. It's...

Tags: books, Park Ji-yoon, star extracurricular activities

The “News” as news

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Surely there's some irony, isn't there, in reporting on the news as an item of news? ...yes? ...no? In any case, MyDaily reports that two of Korea's premier actors (that's...

Tags: Jang Dong-gun, Jeon Do-yeon