Tag: Kdrama

The newest hit zombie K-drama thriller presents a refreshing take on the well-loved genre by putting unassuming high school students into a sea of running corpses and mayhem. 

Following the success of The World of the Married and Nevertheless, Han So-hee is back on our screens as a gangster slash police officer in the Netflix action series My Name. The eight-part drama isn't necessarily pushing the envelope of a revenge storyline, but So-hee further solidified her standing as ...

I'm not really sure what spurred tvN to adapt the nearly two decades old Japanese television series Hundred Million Stars From the Sky into a K-Drama of the title The Smile Has Left Your Eyes, a work that borrows the bare bones structure of the original show. Both works tell ...

In recent years, tvN has been churning out hit over K-Drama hit, from the slice-of-life Reply series to the fantasy-romance Goblin. One of this cable network's latest 2018 success stories comes in the form of What's Wrong with Secretary Kim? an adaptation of a novel and webcomic by the same name. ...

The stigma attached to plastic surgery makes it touchy subject to address, even in a country like South Korea with the highest number of surgeries performed per capita. Thus, when a drama adaptation of the webcomic "My ID is Gangnam Beauty" was announced I was intrigued to see how the ...

I was surprised when I realized we were now in the month of June of 2018. That means 6 months have gone by, one half of a year that seems to have started just weeks ago. And during all this time, 2018 has already brought to us a lot of ...

In the radio, there are no cameras. Rather than focusing on image, the radio highlights something that comes (literally) from inside. Although conditioned by a script, the host voices not only his own emotions but also engages directly with listeners in an honest way. In this type of environment, the ...

Defendant, a drama that finished its run a few months ago in South Korea, was met with a warm reception by the general public. That wasn't altogether shocking given its star-studded cast and story of chaebol corruption. There's nothing like a good morally bereft CEO to fuel a modern K-Drama, ...

When you've seen enough K-Dramas, you realize there are a few scenarios almost guaranteed to show up in the plot somewhere along the way. These instances are so predictable that the scriptwriters may have very well been bumping elbows over a Wrist Grabs 101 textbook as they drafted up their scripts. ...

Well, 2017 has finally come. That typically means taking sometime to look back on the year past, the good moments and memorable events. As for me, I'm here to talk about some of my favorite things in Asian entertainment in general: OSTs. OSTs, or original sound tracks, can really make and ...