KBS, MBC union workers go on strike, programs halt production
You guys, Falsify is real! I know sometimes dramas about corruption and media play are overdramatized, but that certainly doesn’t seem to be the case right now. A large-scale union strike has been...
View ArticleTroubled Hwayugi pre-empts episodes in wake of accidents
It has been a pretty awful launch for tvN’s big buzz drama Hwayugi, and now the production is taking a week off to regroup and get back on track, with this weekend’s planned airings of Episodes 3 and 4...
View ArticleGo Hyun-jung leaves Return amid on-set strife
Or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that the production of Return fired Go Hyun-jung, the headlining actress of the well-performing SBS legal drama. According to reports, Go was given the...
View ArticleFour Men in danger of being shelved (again)
This drama just can’t catch a break. It’s been one tumultuous road for mystery-romance drama Four Men, the Park Hae-jin vehicle and prequel to his JTBC spy comedy Man to Man: The series was initially...
View ArticleKim Jung-hyun drops out of MBC drama Time halfway through its run
It’s been a turbulent week for dramaland; I never expected to watch two dramas lose their male leads in a single week, but this new one makes Yoon Doo-joon leaving early for army duty seem like a minor...
View ArticleBlockbuster action drama Prometheus loses Ha Ji-won, Jin Gu, Park Ki-woong
Uh-oh. Things don’t look too good for planned MBC action drama Prometheus. This drama has been plagued with a bunch of production issues since its conception in 2016. Initially, it was backed by KBS,...
View ArticleAre K-dramas creative?
Creativity is one of those magical things that evades description. We can sense when something is creative, but it’s not as easy to quantify or explain. Is it a skill, an act, a mythical unicorn or a...
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