Dramabeans

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DramabeansKoreaNews bites: November 1, 2026 Park Hee-soon, Han Ji-eun, Park Myung-hoon, Suho, Ra Mi-ran A new action movie called Father’s Secret (roughly translated) is in the works, lining up Dad Park Hee-soon (The Judge Returns), Son Suho…

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DramabeansKoreaDrama viewership ratings for the week of Oct. 26-Nov. 1, 2026 It was a quiet farewell this week for Dive Into You as well as A Love Other Than Yours, though the latter did manage to draw in their highest numbers for the finale.

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DramabeansKoreaSung Hoon seeks Oh Se-young in What a Boss Wants Checking in on promos for MBN’s What a Boss Wants, the path is set for Sung Hoon (The Defects), Oh Se-young (The Judge Returns), and Lee Jung-shin (7 Escape – Resurrection) to take a tumble down the…

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DramabeansKoreaChoi Bool-am passes away at 87 years old Choi Bool-am passed away on October 30, 2026, at the age of 87. A giant of the Korean entertainment industry, he became a household name through his work in television, and he starred in two of the…

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DramabeansKoreaPark Min-young, Yook Sung-jae, and Go Soo work Nine to Six Yook Sung-jae, Park Min-young, Go Soo Promotions have begun for SBS’s office rom-com Nine to Six with a sneak peek at the cast’s first table read, poster, and teaser.

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Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo