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On August 27, an official from SM Entertainment said, ŌĆ£Changmin pushed back his wedding, originally scheduled on September 5, push back his wedding date following the recent surge in COVID-19 cases. He plans to choose the new date after discussing with [his and his fianc├®eŌĆÖs] family.ŌĆØ Earlier, Changmin announced his marriage with a handwritten letter. In it, he wrote, ŌĆ£I have had a good relationship with the woman I love with trust and faith in one another, and naturally, I decided that I want to continue my life together with her, so we decided to get married in September when the heat cools down....

On the 13th (local time), Billboard announced that TXT debuted at No.5 on the main album chart with its second full-length album, The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE. Notably, they broke their own record by entering the Top 5 for the first time on the Billboard 200. They rose 20 places compared to the last yearŌĆÖs record with minisode1: Blue Hour, which came in 25th place. In particular, the record is the highest ever set by the group that has been in the industry for only three years....

On the morning of Feb 3, the actor held an online interview and expressed his excitement ahead of the release of his new movie on Feb 10. ŌĆ£The result came out to be more interesting than the script I read. IŌĆÖm glad that the outcome exceeds my expectation. ItŌĆÖs a good movie to watch in the holiday season, and I liked the fact that itŌĆÖs a rom-com genre. I feel good....

According to Sports Seoul, Yoon Kyun Sang, Kim Ye Won, and Lee Tae Hwan have been cast in Chiaksan and recently finished their first table read. With Chiaksan, the three actors will be making their comeback to the big screen after a long time. Yoon Kyung Sang, who has been working predominantly in the drama industry since 2015, will work on his first film in 6 years. He recently showed off his slimmer face and body after losing much weight, raising expectations for his acting transformation in the new project....

According to Nielsen Korea, the 4th episode of SBSŌĆÖs Alice, which aired on September 5, recorded 8.7% and 10.6% viewership and soared up to 11.9%. This is about 2.2% higher on average than the previous episode and the highest viewership of the drama. At the end of the episode, Joo Won was seen traveling to 2010, raising the expectations. JTBCŌĆÖs Graceful Friends ended with 5.081% viewership, the highest record of its own....

In movie Deliver Us from Evil, Ray, played by Lee Jung Jae, is a character who the audience cannot easily sympathize with. He chases someone for revenge, but reasons for his revenge are not well explained. It was not easy for Lee Jung Jae to fully digest the character when he first saw the script, because no detailed explanations about him were present. So he had to ponder over, ŌĆ£why did Ray chase after In Nam....

The first teaser for tvNŌĆÖs new weekend series Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha was released. And the sight of Shin Min Ah and Kim Seon Ho on the same screen made us smile like a fool for 30 seconds straight. The upcoming series, Hometown Cha Cha Cha, is a healing romance drama between ŌĆśrealistŌĆÖ dentist Yoon Hye Jin and an unemployed man Hong Du Sik who goes by ŌĆśChief HongŌĆÖ in his town....

tvNŌĆÖs weekend drama ItŌĆÖs Okay to Not Be Okay is heading to the end. Recently, it has been revealed that the mother of Go Moon Young (Seo Ye Ji) and the murderer who killed Moon Kang Tae (Kim Soo Hyun)ŌĆÖs mother is the same person, Park Haeng Ja (Jang Young Nam), the head nurse of the meatal hospital, adding to the viewersŌĆÖ immersion. Is drama heading for a sad ending?...

According to the Korean Film Council, Jos├®e maintained its No. 1 spot in the box office with 15,924 moviegoers on Dec 11. The cumulative audience now stands at 38,534. With the re-surge of COVID-19 in Korea, the total number of moviegoers per day dropped to 20,000 this week. However, with the release of Jos├®e on Dec 10, the number nearly doubled to 40,000. The total number of viewers who visited the theater on Friday was 44,463....

According to Nielsen Korea, the first episode of OCNŌĆÖs The Uncanny Counter, which aired on Nov 28, recorded 2.7% and soared up to 4.7% viewer ratings. This new drama drew keen attention by giving shapes to the original webtoonŌĆÖs colorful imagination. The production team did their best in recreating some of the signature scenes in the webtoon, providing viewers with a high ŌĆ£synchro rateŌĆØ with the original work. As the teamwork among Jo Byung Gyu, Kim Se Jeong, Yoo Joon Sang and Yeom Hye Ran, which seemed a bit awkward in the first episode, is expected to grow stronger, expectations for the ŌĆ£thrillsŌĆØ they will show are rising rapidly....

As of 1:00 p.m. on September 8 KST, the clip of WhatŌĆÖs Wrong with Secretary Kim has surpassed 217 million views on YouTube. The clip is a scene from episode 13, where Park Min Young and Park Seo Joon shared a hot kiss. Since the video had about 100 million views last month, it saw an increase of 100 million views in just a month. Since itŌĆÖs quite unusual for a drama to regain attention two years later, the sudden popularity is drawing keen attention from the netizens....

On Nov 25, JTBC announced that Begin Again: REUNION will air at the end of December. Begin Again: REUNION is a special year-end version of JTBCŌĆÖs Begin Again, which made headlines for its unique setting of KoreaŌĆÖs top musicians busking in unfamiliar places, and will gather singers who have appeared in previous seasons in one place. For Begin Again: REUNION, Yoon Do Hyun (season 1), Henry (season 2, 3, Korea), AKMUŌĆÖs Suhyun (season 2, 3, Korea), Paul Kim (season 3), Lim Heon Il (season 3), Lee Hi (season Korea), and more will deliver healing and comfort to viewers with beautiful songs....

On Jan 12, BaeŌĆÖs legal representative Park Ji Hoon sent out the official statement to media outlets, affirming, ŌĆ£We ask you to refrain from making false reports about Bae Jin Woong.ŌĆØ A media outlet reported on Jan 11 that actor A is currently under investigation for sexually harassing actress B. Soon, AŌĆÖs real name was revealed to be Bae Jin Woong. Lawyer Park wrote, ŌĆ£The media outlet wrote the content so that it didnŌĆÖt take a lot to identify the person in question (A) as Bae Jin Woong....

Jin Young debuted in 2012 with a special appearance in MBCŌĆÖs The Thousandth Man. He played an ordinary young man wearing thick glasses with a warm smile on his face. The following year, he changed his image by playing a problematic high schooler in tvNŌĆÖs She Is Wow. He played the son of a celebrity couple who looks happy on the outside but broken on the inside. At that time, Jin Young was considered as just another idol-singer-turned-actors from the boy group B1A4....

The boys appeared as global K-pop stars as LUNA is described as the global group in the drama. And throughout the photoshoot, they boasted brilliant teamwork as if theyŌĆÖve been working together for a long time. Though LUNA is a band that only exists in Let Me Be Your Knight, the band didnŌĆÖt just appear out of thin air. TheyŌĆÖve actually filmed a music video and released a single Beautiful Breakup....

When it was announced that the hero of NetflixŌĆÖs first K-pop documentary was ŌĆ£Blackpink,ŌĆØ no one raised a question. In 2019, Blackpink performed at the Coachella in a breeze surrounded by tens of thousands of spectators shouting the catchphrase ŌĆ£BLACKPINK in your area.ŌĆØ Their song ŌĆ£Kill This Love,ŌĆØ which was released just before the Coachella, smashed a new YouTube record for being the fastest video ever to hit 100 million views....

Love stories have become very rare recently. Romance is constantly seeking viewers on small screens, but the latest Korean films are mostly based on other genres. Indeed, some are in the production stage: Jeon Jong Seo and Son Seok GuŌĆÖs Romance Without Love (working title), Lee Dong Wook and Lim Su JeongŌĆÖs Single in Seoul, and Han Ji Min, Yoona, Kang Ha NeulŌĆÖs Happy New Year. However, there are not many of them....