HoYeon Jung is the striking 27-year-old Korean model and actress whose popularity exploded with her role as Kang Sae-Byeok, player No. 067, in the megasmash hit Squid Game, Netflix’s number one most popular title of all time. There are so many reasons we (along with the rest of the world) have come to love HoYeon.…
With the global phenomenon of K-pop, K-beauty, and K-dramas, Netflix announced at the beginning of this year that they would invest $700 million on Korean dramas and other Korean entertainment content. With the huge worldwide success of Squid Game, we can see how extraordinary Korean dramas can be with a vast investment from Netflix. Director…
Korean drama Squid Game (오징어게임) is the number one show on Netflix in the US as well as much of the world right now. Squid Game is also scoring a perfect 100% among critics on Rotten Tomatoes. If this news surprises you, you obviously have not yet seen this incredibly stylish series that grips you…
Paulo Coelho, author of the modern classic The Alchemist, said about My Mister: “It was a masterpiece. It’s one of the best works I’ve seen recently. It shows the intricacy of human psychology and … it is a flawless description of the human condition”. This is high praise for a K Drama from a man…
It’s hard to imagine any new Kpop group surpassing the popularity of BTS and Blackpink, but in the past year, there have been some serious contenders for the top spot on the international charts! I am a massive fan of BTS (ARMY) and Blackpink (Blink), but since my love for Kpop runs even deeper and…
There’s really no question the appeal surrounding Korean dramas, aka K-Dramas. So many people are watching them and if they aren’t watching, they’ve heard of them; look no further than the explosion of offerings on Netflix and other streaming platforms. The K-Drama global phenomenon is real. I’ve even started bringing them into my clinical work.…
YouTube officially announced that BTS’s “Butter” set a new 24-hour record, breaking the previous record held by their own “Dynamite” music video. BTS now occupies the No. 1 and No. 2 spots on YouTube’s All-Time Top 24 Hour Music Debuts. BTS also took to the Billboard Music Awards stage on Sunday for the television debut…
A list of this year’s 2021 Baeksang Award winners has been released! All the nominated Korean dramas are currently available to stream in many regions but the films are not yet available as of this writing. Here are this year’s Film & Television winner and nominee highlights with links for where to watch the ones…
“I’d like to thank my two boys who made me go out and work. This is the result because mommy worked so hard.” Minari star Yuh-jung Youn won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar last night, and gave what might have been the most memorable speech of the evening. Ms. Youn’s historic win marks the first…
Inform. Inspire. Influence. That’s the mission behind the impactful social network, Asians in LA, and it’s actually the perfect depiction of its founder Nancy Yoon. She is the Korean American female trailblazer who is the AAPI publicist for the Oscar-nominated movie Minari. Yoon helped catapult the movie Minari from a hidden treasure to a global…