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Ara makes her Japanese drama debut
by javabeans
Nineteen-year-old Go Ara (Who Are You) is taking on not just one, but two new drama roles. One has already been announced, which pits her opposite U-Know Yunho in the...
Tags: Go Ara, Heading to the Ground, j-doramas
The man who can’t get ratings
by javabeans
This is an interesting article, in that it looks at the low numbers faced by current Monday-Tuesday drama The Man Who Can't Get Married and analyzes it from a cultural...
Tags: drama ratings, j-doramas, Ji Jin-hee, remakes, The Man Who Can't Get Married, Uhm Jung-hwa
The Man Who Can’t Get Married script reading and press day
by javabeans
Ji Jin-hee, Kim So-eun The Man Who Can't Get Married [결혼 못하는 남자] is a new KBS series that will replace Story of a Man come June. You may already know that it...
Tags: j-doramas, Ji Jin-hee, Kim So-eun, press conferences, remakes, The Man Who Can't Get Married, Uhm Jung-hwa, Yoo Ah-in
What Korean dramas could learn from Japanese productions
by javabeans
There's an article in the Korea Times (in English) that points out some issues in Korean drama production and what could be improved by looking at the Japanese drama production...
Tags: drama production, j-doramas
Will star Japanese writers and Korean production bring drama gold?
by javabeans
The Korean Foundation of International Cultural Exchange is working with the Japan Broadcast Writers Association in a joint "TV drama project," which was announced at the TV Drama Writers' Conference...
Tags: drama production, j-doramas, Tokyo Showers, Winter Sonata
“Boys Before Flowers,” aka the Korean Hana Yori Dango
by javabeans
I'm a little late to this info, but this news gets me excited. And apprehensive. But excited! So the Japanese manga Hana Yori Dango has been made into an anime...
Tags: adaptations, Boys Before Flowers, Hana Yori Dango, j-doramas, remakes
Japan’s Sassy Girl
by javabeans
The U.S. is already planning to remake the hit 2001 Jeon Ji Hyun-Cha Tae Hyun movie My Sassy Girl, but so are the Japanese. And they've selected their lead, 27-year-old...
Tags: j-doramas, remakes
Hana Yori Dango
by javabeans
I happened to start watching Hana Yori Dango recently, and totally got hooked. I'm not an avid watcher of j-doramas, though I've seen a few in the past, but I...
Tags: Hana Yori Dango, j-doramas