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On March 7th Jin Se-yeon uploaded a picture of herself to Instagram. She exhorts followers to be careful of yellow dust. The yellow dust season had been particularly bad in South Korea during that time...More

Jin Goo has been gaining traction for his work in "Legal High". In that drama, he plays the unstoppable lawyer Tae-rim who is constantly on the attack against enemy weaknesses. Yet he also deals with past trauma, and compensates with relaxation...More

According to the Korean Film Council, "Innocent Witness" had 35,860 admissions on Sunday. This brings it current total to 2,421,612. It's ranking was third for the day and fourth for the weekend...More

A representative from Na Hye-mi's agency confirmed that Na Hye-mi is in the final stages of agreeing to appear in "Queen's Children", the new daily drama from KBS. This follows reports last month that Lee Young-eun was also taking a role...More

If you don't have enough stress in your life, "Confession - Drama" is here to help, and petty me is going to share some of its latest, anxiety-inducing goodies with you. The series is getting me all worked up, in a good way, and I already know I'm going to need those snacks and a clench-pillow when it's out. I have a giant teddy bear and I'm not afraid to use it...More

Yu Gwan-sun (played by Go Ah-sung) was a real-life organizer in the March 1st Movement. Interestingly, writer/director Jo Min-ho does not depict Yu Gwan-sun's participation in that event so much. We do get a few full color scenes of Yu Gwan-sun with her family. But for the most part, "A Resistance" is the story of Yu Gwan-sun's life in prison following her arrest, set in bleak black-and-white as Yu Gwan-sun's patriotism is contrasted with her inevitably suffering for expressing it...More

So apparently, back during the Japanese Occupation of Korea, bicycle racing was a pretty big event. Right away we see a huge Olympic-style Stadium where the greatest athletes of the day compete for glory on the track via these newfangled inventions called bicycles. Then we get to the post-race, where a dozen odd members of the Korean Resistance are discussing whether their goals are best achieved with terrorism or improving the quality of their bicycle athletes...More