So here are more stills from Song Seung Heon’s new Wednesday-Thursday drama When A Man Loves, which is the (purportedly) intense emotional gangster melodrama featuring Song as a mobster with a wife and a girlfriend (Chae Jung Ahn and Shin Se Kyung), and Yeon Woo Jin hanging around to play spoiler in the love triangle(s).
What’s funny about these stills is that I feel like I’m totally watching East of Eden all over again, from the way he’s dressed and style ...
Name: 원덕현 / Won Duk Hyun Profession: Actor Birthdate: August 9, 1996 Star sign: Leo Blood type: A
TV Shows Kim Soo Ro (MBC, 2010) A Man's Story (KBS2, 2009) East of Eden (MBC, 2008) Lovers in Prague (SBS, 2005) Land (SBS, 2004) You are a Star (KBS1, 2004) Not Divorced (KBS2, 2003) Dae Jang Geum (MBC, 2003) All ...
Lee Da Hae has dropped out of her movie debut(s), 3D blockbuster Song of Springs and Coffee (Ka-bi) (formerly titled Russian Coffee), the latter of which she’d signed on to a few months back alongside Joo Jin Mo.
Coffee is a late-Joseon-era spy melodrama about an assassination attempt on Emperor Gojong; Lee was to have played a Joseon barista who served coffee to him. Yoo Sun and Park Hee Soon are also starring.
With Lee’s last-minute departure comes shooting delay ...
MBC attracted some ire for cutting its daily drama Stormy Lovers, which recently got slashed from 120 planned episodes down to 50, drawing particular anger from its writer and some of its cast. A few days after the initial announcement, the station amended their decision, giving the drama 70 total episodes before its early cutoff.
The drama has been pulling in pretty low ratings for an evening daily drama, with numbers in the 5% to 7% range despite its well-known writer (Na Yeon So ...
Stormy Lovers is a daily drama, which means it airs Monday Through Friday (in the 8 pm hour). It’s not unusual for dailies to pull in 30%+ ratings, and sometimes even 40%+. (Examples: You’re My Destiny, Everybody Cha Cha Cha, Smile Donghae.) So it’s disappointing that Stormy Lovers has been resting in the 5% to 8% range.
Still, it seems a bit harsh to cut the drama down from 120 planned episodes to 50. The move, call it cancellation, call it curtailment, is also a ...