Author: Rahul M

JTBC’s upcoming rom-com “Surely Tomorrow” has dropped its first poster! “Surely Tomorrow” is a romantic comedy about former lovers Lee Gyeong Do (Park Seo Joon) and Seo Ji Woo (Won Ji An), who first fell in love at 20 and rekindled their relationship at 28 before breaking up. Years later, they cross paths again—Gyeong Do as a journalist covering an affair scandal and Ji Woo as the wife of the man at the center of it. The poster offers a glimpse of the two characters during the time they were each other’s first love. Seo Ji Woo shows an innocent…

The battle for Monday-Tuesday ratings continues! According to Nielsen Korea, the November 10 broadcast of Lee Jung Jae and Lim Ji Yeon’s “Nice to Not Meet You” garnered an average nationwide viewership rating of 4.2 percent, seeing a slight dip from the previous episode’s score of 4.8 percent. TV CHOSUN’s new Monday-Tuesday drama “No Next Life” achieved an average nationwide viewership rating of 1.9 percent for its premeire. “No Next Life” is a comedy starring Kim Hee Sun, Han Hye Jin, and Jin Seo Yeon as three 41-year-old women who are worn out from the daily grind of parenting and…

NCT’s Jeno and Jaemin’s upcoming coming-of age sports drama “Wind Up” (literal title) will be premiering next year! On November 11, content production development company TAKEONE COMPANY shared that they will be co-producing the drama “Wind Up” with SM Entertainment with plans to showcase the project as a short-form drama in the first half of 2026. “Wind Up” is a coming-of-age drama that tells the story of a high school baseball pitcher who can no longer throw a strike and a transfer student who becomes his self-appointed manager. The sports drama depicts the two students’ dazzling friendship. The series will…

He looks terrifying. Koreaboo 23 hours ago A handsome star underwent a jaw-dropping transformation for a new project. His appearance changed so much for his role that even his most die-hard fans might have trouble recognizing him. Jackson Yee | Wikipedia Jackson Yee (also known as Yi Yangqianxi) is a Chinese actor, singer, and member of the boy group TFBoys. He has starred in TV series such as The Longest Day in Chang’an and films, including Full River Red and Big World. TFBoys | TF Entertainment Yee stars in Resurrection, a Chinese science fiction drama film written and directed by Bi Gan. It takes place in a future…

The crime left “no room for sympathy,” according to the judge. Koreaboo 1 hour ago A 57-year-old man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for a murder that took place in a Tokyo hotel room. A photo of the hotel where the murder took place | Daily Shincho The perpetrator, Ishikawa Akira, retired from Fuji Xerox in 2018 after nearly 30 years, and he received a ¥60 million (about $389,634 USD) severance package. Within six months, he spent all of this money on anime figurines and sugar daddy relationships, called “papa-katsu” in Japan. Between 2018 and 2022, Ishikawa became…

I continue to be mystified by PLAVE’s incredible success. While established idol groups’ new videos are stuck at tens of thousands of hits, PLAVE’s new single BBUU! has already sailed past a million. I assume there’s some extra-musical appeal I’m missing. After all, I’ve never delved past the songs themselves because the music remains quite dull to me. Despite its capitalized, exclamatory title, BBUU! sounds like the kind of sleepy coffeehouse fare that usually goes in one ear and out the other. Its plonky, trap-assisted beat does nothing new or exciting and the repetitive, sing-song melodies feel designed for short-form…

New boy group AM8IC impressed me with their pre-debut Buzzin and its fun, funky riff on Ghostbusters. Now, it’s time for the guys to make their actual debut with their first mini album. Title track Link Up opts for a more reserved energy, borrowing from many familiar 2025 sounds. Link Up‘s verses are emblematic of the year, borrowing the skittering percussion the K-pop industry has seemingly fallen in love with, ornamented with an orchestral flourish here and there. The beat becomes more resounding during the chorus as the guys perform in falsetto. I’m impressed with their skill, but the melodies…

ONF have been a firm favorite of this blog since their debut, but trouble seemed to be in the air surrounding this new comeback. Not only does it interrupt the promising “My Identity” series the group launched earlier this year, but it completely jettisons their main producer Hwang Hyun in favor of in-house talent from RBW (who acquired WM Entertainment a few years ago). Who or what are ONF without their main collaborator? Fortunately, the group’s brilliant performance is still intact, even if the music doesn’t hit with the same personality. Sonically, Put It Back is not too dissimilar from…

Repackage albums aren’t as common in K-pop as they used to be, but I’ve always liked them. They give artists a chance for an ultra-quick comeback and extend the promotional life of a project. CRAVITY’s Dare To Crave was already a very strong album with a killer title track, but now they’ve extended it with an epilogue led by new single Lemonade Fever. CRAVITY’s music has enjoyed a renaissance this year and Lemonade Fever builds upon everything that made Set Net G0 so successful. As its title suggests, the song is ultra refreshing and energetic — the kind of thing…

ITZY released a strong single this spring with Girls Will Be Girls, but that album’s club-heavy b-sides pointed toward an even more promising avenue for the girls. Their charismatic performance style feels perfectly suited to the kind of talk-heavy dance music that’s currently in vogue and I’m surprised they didn’t release that kind of title track this time around. Instead, the group opted for the (insert sighing emoji) Dem Jointz produced Tunnel Vision. Dem Jointz’s beats have been everywhere this year and as someone who doesn’t enjoy his production style it’s become a bit frustrating. He does his thing again…