Actress Lee Min-jeong and actor Jeong Kyeong-ho shoot a scene for TV series "Smile, Love" at a repair shop in Seoul, South Korea on February 5, 2010. [SBS]
SBS TV series "Smile, Love"
- Have you ever seen an outdoor wedding held in subzero weather?
One February day which feels about ten degrees below zero celcius, guests are filling up the front yard of "Seungri Car Center" where a biting wind is blowing from the nearby Han River. Character Jung-in (played by Lee Min-jeong), who met Hyun-soo (played by Jeong Kyeong-ho) the day she broke off her engagement with Han-se (played by Lee Kyoo-han), will finally be wearing a wedding dress again....More
Choi Jin-sil,
Jeong Joon-ho, and
Jeong Woong-in star together in
"Last Scandal", a romantic comedy and special MBC weekend TV drama (Scriptwriter:
Moon Hee-jeong, Director:
Lee Tae-gon-I). The show reached its highest viewership rating of 19.2% in its 4th week on the air (TNS).
The first episode of
"Last Scandal" garnered a viewership rating of 19.2% and every week, its ratings have rise by 1 to 2 percent, which is a solid performance considering that it is competing against dramas on other networks that premiered earlier than "Last Scandal.
The growing popularity of
"Last Scandal" in the last four weeks was made possible by the brill...
MoreCall it ajumma power.
Ajumma is Korean for middle-aged women, and ajumma characters are currently in full control of the screen ― both television and film.
But they are no longer portrayed as aggressive or hot-tempered, for example, as a woman dashing for a vacant seat in the subway or elbowing other ajumma for the last grocery item on sale. They no longer wear loose floral-print pants or sport curly hair.
Their aggressiveness is presented rather as an endearing trait ― as enthusiasm for life and full tolerance of others.
Jung-geum (played by
Bae Jong-ok) from MBC TV's "
Park Jung-geum, Heavenly Beauty" is one example.
Jung-geum is a 38-year-old detective in charge of investigating violent crimes and a single mom living with a child. Her div...
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Wang-mo and Ja-gyeong finally got married.
The weekend TV drama "Dear Heaven" ("
Love in Heaven" - writer:
Im Seong-han; producer:
Lee Yeong-hee) features a dramatic storyline that includes a daughter, deserted by her mother as a child, and the mother's stepson getting married.
In the show's March 18 episode, Yeong-sun's (
Han Hye-sook) daughter Ja-gyeong (
Yoon Jeong-hee) and her stepson Wang-mo (
Lee Tae-gon) will marry. The secret that the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law are actually mother and daughter will soon be disclosed, and the show's audience has had a keen interest in how the drama will unfold afterwards.
According to TNS Media Korea, the show's ratings for March 12 were 34.6 percent, the highest since the start of the drama.
Key reasons for the show's success are Lim's characteristic well-woven story, sophisticated descriptions, and unique episodes. Viewers say that the true love of hero Gu Wang-mo and heroine Lee Ja-gyeong eases the sometimes too-provocative story and enables them to become engrossed in each episode.
The two main actors,
Lee Tae-gon-I (29), who made his debut ...
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