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TVEdward Lee → Byun Yo-han, Ko Ah-sung, Cynthia, Emphasize Chemistry… So Is It Fun? (Country Cook)tvN‘s ‘Edward Lee’s Country Cook’ begins a special 15-day journey in search of the flavors of the Korean countryside. ‘Edward Lee‘s Country Cook’ is a program where Chef Edward Lee and his ‘best friends’ three movie actors Byun Yo-han, Ko Ah-sung, and Cynthia travel around the country and present a variety of concepts of cuisine using seasonal winter ingredients. The production team revealed the must-see points to know ahead of the broadcast on the 12th. ● Edward Lee’s first reality show “I‘m a Country Man”According to the production team, ‘Edward Lee’s Country Cook’ is Edward Lee‘s first reality program. Edward Lee, who captivated the world with his creative and unique cooking on various cooking competition programs such as ‘Black and White Chef’, will reveal his true hidden side. Edward Lee, a ‘genius in his profession’, ‘Eom Geun-jin’, with 30 years of cooking experience, will show a ‘real reaction’, expressing surprise and admiration at the unfamiliar Korean seasonal ingredients anFeb 12, 2025
TVLee Kyung-sil, 50s, Gives Up on Dementia Test → “Cut Off Doctors” Ten Minutes (Star Health Ranking)Comedian Lee Kyung-sil gives up on taking a dementia test. Today (12th), Channel A‘s ‘Star Health Ranking Number One’ will discuss the second topic, ‘dementia’, the disease most people want to avoid. On this day’s broadcast, regarding dementia, the cruelest disease sent by God, the actual brain health rankings of the stars will be revealed based on the test results of the guests. On this day‘s broadcast, the stars’ nervousness is portrayed as they face the greatest crisis of the screening process, confessing their difficulties with the dementia test they received for the first time in their lives. Ji Seok-jin, in his 50s, complains that the test was too difficult, and says he was speechless after the announcement of first place. Han Da-gam, in his 40s, confidently says, ‘Do I really need to get a dementia test at this age?’, but his shocking remark throws the filming set into chaos. Because of this remark, all the guests, including Ji Seok-jin, point out Han Da-gam as the candidate forFeb 12, 2025
TV‘Solo Sisters’ Jang Seo-hee, Ye Ji-won, Lee Soo-kyung‘s ‘Single Life’The ‘solo sisters’ are revealing their real daily lives. Jang Seo-hee, Ye Ji-won, and Lee Soo-kyung are appearing in the entertainment program ‘Because I’m Solo‘, co-produced by SBS Plus and E Channel. On the 12th, the program announced the news of their joining and said, “We will reveal the actresses’ ‘solo life’.” ‘Because I’m Solo‘ is an observational reality entertainment program that captures the honest daily lives of charming solos who are lonely because they are single, but happy because they are single. It was first broadcast on October 29th last year and was loved by viewers. Broadcaster Shin Dong-yup and actress Hwang Jung-eum will once again work together as studio MCs. Jang Seo-hee has beenFeb 12, 2025
TVKim Ga-eun‘s delusional rampage, Welcome to the world of Eungkeum (Potato Research Institute)Kim Ga-eun brings cheerfulness. The production team of tvN‘s new weekend drama ‘Potato Research Institute’ (directed by Kang Il-soo and Shim Jae-hyun, written by Kim Ho-soo) released the first character still cut of the lovely romance nerd Lee Ong-ju (played by Kim Ga-eun) on the 12th. Attention is focused on what kind of activities Lee Ong-ju will show as the love cupid of her best friend Kim Mi-kyung (played by Lee Sun-bin). ‘Potato Research Institute’ is a healing comic romance that depicts Baek-ho (played by Kang Tae-oh), a cold-hearted man of principle, appearing in front of Mi-kyung, for whom potatoes are her whole life, and swirling around like a whirlwind of potatoes. The romance between the two perfectly contrasting men and women, which unfolds in a potato research institute in a mountain valley, is expected to bring about pleasant laughter and a different kind of excitement. It is a work in which Director Kang Il-soo of ‘Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung’, ‘Solomon’s Perjury’, aFeb 12, 2025
TVYoo Jae-suk·Song Eun-i→Go Kyung-pyo·Mimi, solid character chemistry (Sixth Sense: City Tour)tvN‘s ‘Sixth Sense: City Tour’, which will take you on a fake-finding journey beyond your imagination, has released a must-read guide. ‘Sixth Sense: City Tour’ is a program that finds the one and only fake hidden in a special journey to find hot places and trendy issues that have taken over SNS. It is a spin-off of the variety show ‘Sixth Sense’, which finds fakes that are more real than the real thing hidden within the real thing and captivates your senses. The production team pointed out some key points to watch on the 12th, ahead of the first broadcast. ● Different method! The NEW ‘Six Senseis’’s tumultuous fake-finding According to the production team, ‘Sixth Sense: City Tour’ is a fresh combination of Yoo Jae-suk, who has experience with the ‘Six Sense’ series, and new faces Song Eun-i, Go Kyung-pyo, and Mimi. The new ‘Sikseni’ (cast members) present a different kind of enjoyment by exuding a blunt and purely silly charm rather than a sharp gaze that distinguishes between the realFeb 12, 2025
TV‘Villain‘s Country’ Laughter Still Script Reading SceneThe script reading site of ‘Villain‘s Country’ has been revealed. KBS 2TV’s new Wednesday-Thursday sitcom ‘Villain‘s Country’ (directed by Kim Young-jo, Choi Jung-eun / written by Chae-woo, Park Kwang-yeon), scheduled to air for the first time in March, is a situational comedy drama containing the sometimes rough but sometimes warm daily life of the K-ajumma sisters and their witty family. With the news of the appearance of trustworthy actors such as Oh Na-ra (as Oh Na-ra), So Yoo-jin (as Oh Yu-jin), Seo Hyun-chul (as Seo Hyun-chul), Song Jin-woo (as Song Jin-woo), and Park Young-gyu (as Oh Young-gyu), attention is focused on the casting news, and in the video released today (the 12th), all the famous actors boasting solid acting skills gathered in one place, spreading a hot laughter virus. Oh Na-ra plays the role of Oh Na-ra, the family’s biggest villain. She perfectly melted into her character at the script reading site and brought laughter to the fullest with her lively K-housewifeFeb 12, 2025
TVSeungri‘s dating rumors are not enough... Kim Ye-rin who lost 20kg, the female cast in chaos (Couple Palace 2)The female cast of Mnet‘s ‘Couple Palace 2’ is unveiled. ‘Couple Palace 2’, which is the talk of the town with the honest and fiery ‘straightforward’ marriage proposals of single men and women who are serious about marriage, settled in at number 10 in the TV-OTT non-drama category for the first week of February announced by Good Data Corporation FUNdex after only one episode. The identities of the female cast will be revealed in the second episode of ‘Couple Palace 2’, which will air on the 12th. According to the production team, in the preview video of the second episode released before the broadcast, the three women appear with the keyword ‘beauty pageant contestants’, drawing attention. Female number 2, a researcher at a large corporation who has experience in beauty pageants, confidently appeals with a tone-deaf stage, but instead, the ‘pick’ give-up button is quickly appearing. In the midst of this, only rapper MacDaddy reveals his feelings for woman number 2, saying, “I felt an uFeb 12, 2025
TVDirector Ahn Pan-seok “Lee Je-hoon, ‘Negotiation Skills’ The Point of Viewing Itself”Director Ahn Pan-seok shared his first encounter with the extraordinary new JTBC weekend drama ‘The Art of Negotiation’ (directed by Ahn Pan-seok, written by Lee Seung-young). ‘The Art of Negotiation’ is a drama that depicts the activities of a legendary negotiator and an M&A expert of a large corporation and his team. Director Ahn Pan-seok, who was in charge of directing, said, “Usually when choosing or starting a project, I sit down with the writer from zero base and come up with a story” and ‘The Art of Negotiation’ is the first project that I chose after seeing a completed script. After reading the script, I thought, ‘This will be a story’, ‘This will be a conflict worth dealing with’. So I grabbed it. It is the first time in my history of doing a drama.” About ‘The Art of Negotiation’, he said, “Unlike the dramas I have done in the past few years, it is a bit of a hard-boiled drama. “It felt like a war of money rather than a soft love story, so it felt really refreshing to do someFeb 12, 2025
TVJang-Ryul, ♥Go Ara, Doing Everything to Seduce (Chunhwa Romance Story)The story of a princess who rebels in an era where men and women were separate and sets out to find her husband begins in earnest. Episodes 1 and 2 of the TVING original series ‘Chunhwa Romance’ (written by Seo Eun-jung and directed by Lee Kwang-young) previously showed the failure of her first love and the declaration of her ‘direct selection’ for the son-in-law of Princess Hwa-ri (played by Go Ara), who grew up as a troublemaker in the royal family. Hwa-ri, who was born as the first daughter of a rich king and grew up receiving lots of love, showed an unconventional side that broke the stereotype of a princess. Hwa-ri‘s bold personality, who did not lose heart even when she got caught disguised as a man and visited a gisaeng house to make a bet with Confucian scholars on whether her older brother Lee Yeol (played by Kim Taek) would lose his virginity or not, was intriguing. That incident triggered the order for Hwa-ri to select a son-in-law from the king, but she did not even followFeb 12, 2025
TVCha Joo-young‘s Rediscovery = What ’Won-gyeong‘ Left Behind [TV Comprehensive]Cha Joo-young and Lee Hyun-wook ended their years of regret in Joseon, the place where they made a success. The final episode of the tvN X TVING original drama ‘Won-kyung’ (directed by Kim Sang-ho, written by Lee Young-mi), which aired on the 11th, recorded an average of 6.6% in viewership ratings nationwide, a peak of 8.0%, an average of 6.4% in the metropolitan area, and a peak of 7.9%. It is its own highest viewership rating. tvN‘s target 2049 viewership ratings were an average of 2.0% nationwide, a peak of 2.6%, an average of 1.9% in the metropolitan area, and a peak of 2.3%, respectively. (Paid platform, Nielsen Korea) On this day, Won-kyung (played by Cha Joo-young) and Lee Bang-won (played by Lee Hyun-wook) ultimately lost their youngest son, Prince Seongnyeong. To Won-kyung, Seongnyeong was a prince like a gift sent from heaven so that she would not be separated from her husband. She was overcome with indescribable sadness at the death of her son, whom she had loved so much. WhFeb 12, 2025
TVSong Sun-mi, first appearance with 11-year-old daughter… Sharing fan DNA “G-Dragon·An Yu-jin♥” (Shudol)Actress Song Sun-mi will make her first appearance on KBS2‘s ‘The Return of Superman’ with her 11-year-old daughter Ari, an elementary school student. Episode 560 of ‘The Return of Superman’, which airs today (the 12th), is a ‘Congratulations, I Love You, Let’s Be Together’ episode, featuring the 3MCs Park Soo-hong, Choi Ji-woo, and Ahn Young-mi as well as the new Superman Song Sun-mi. Among them, actress Song Sun-mi, who has been acting for 28 years, will make her first appearance with her 11-year-old daughter Ari and show off her teenage parenting as the first single mom on ‘The Return of Superman’. Song Sun-mi is attracting attention as she will be appearing with her daughter Ari for the first time on air, revealing the mother-daughter duo like friends. On this day, Song Sun-mi and Ari spread out a yoga mat in the living room and do various yoga poses together, starting the morning with ‘Morning Yoga’. In particular, 11-year-old Ari catches the eye with her long arms and legs, showiFeb 12, 2025
TVAhn Jae-wook, Veteran Performance… Perfect Transformation into Chaebol Character (Please Take Care of the Five Eagle Brothers!)Actor Ahn Jae-wook gave a flawless performance in ‘Please Take Care of the Five Eagle Brothers!’. In the KBS 2TV weekend drama ‘Please Take Care of the Five Eagle Brothers!’ (directed by Choi Sang-yeol / written by Koo Hyun-sook), Ahn Jae-wook perfectly transformed into the role of Han Dong-seok, the chairman of LX Hotel and a born-to-be diamond spoon. He expresses Han Dong-seok‘s cool charisma with a stern expression and tone of speech, while delicately portraying his deep, pure love for his deceased wife, thereby greatly increasing the immersion of the drama. Ahn Jae-wook stole the spotlight from the beginning of the drama by properly bringing the character’s characteristics to life. At a blind date arranged by his daughter, Han Bom (played by Kim Seung-yoon), Dong-seok crosses his arms and makes a blank expression when someone asks him to explain a painting to him, saying, “Please don‘t explain. I judge only by what I see with my eyes.“ In that scene, Ahn Jae-wook made Han Dong-seokFeb 12, 2025
TVPark Won-bin is also crying… Why is it a mess? The scene is scorched earth (Transfer Love, Another Beginning)TVING original ‘Transfer Love, Another Beginning’ is about to start something different. Episode 4 of ‘Transfer Love, Another Beginning’, which will be released on the 12th, will feature ‘Transfer Love’ Ikoko and ‘Transfer Love 2’ Park Won-bin as guests in the studio. According to the production team, new travel mates Lee Kwan-woo and Park Ji-yeon previously presented a strange atmosphere to the Jeju Island house with a 2-on-1 random date. Just when the chemistry (chemistry or harmony) of the cast was reaching a peak, surprise guests appeared again. With the appearance of new travel mates, the three MCs cannot hide their surprise at the ‘chaos of confusion’ that arises from the meetings of the cast members of each season. In addition, new characters will act as a detonator for those in the Jeju Island house, and even more bold developments will unfold. In the meantime, the production team said that at the moment when the night of the Jeju Island house is filled with the season‘s grandFeb 12, 2025
TVPark Na-rae, ♥ Establishing a relationship with Yang Se-hyung… Even explaining pregnancy rumors (Radio Star)Comedian Park Na-rae explains her relationship with comedian Yang Se-hyung, as well as the ‘pregnancy rumors early this year’. Today‘s (12th) MBC entertainment show ‘Radio Star’ (planned by Kang Young-sun/directed by Kim Myung-yeop and Hwang Yoon-sang) will be decorated with the second part of the ‘Old Palace is a Myeonggwan’ special featuring Kim Jong-min, Moon Se-yoon, Park Na-rae, and Code Kunst. Based on her solid sense of humor from ‘Gag Concert’, Park Na-rae exploded with her potential through ‘Radio Star’, and is currently active in various programs including ‘I Live Alone’ (hereafter ‘Nahonsan’). Park Na-rae gives candid answers about recent rumors ranging from their crush to dating and pregnancy rumors. First, he appeared on ‘I Live Alone’ and revealed that he had heard from a tarot card reading that ‘you will get pregnant in January of this year’, and Code Kunst (Kokun), who was next to him, made everyone burst into laughter by saying ‘he said that you could have a baby withoFeb 12, 2025
TV‘Unscripted Drama’Sports Entertainment CrazeThe ‘Sports entertainment craze’ is heating up even more. Last year, after baseball and soccer became the talk of the town, even the unpopular sport of rugby was featured, and a series of new, heavily armed sports entertainment programs are coming one after another. In particular, as the nation‘s attention was focused on the sport of ‘baseball’, which set a record of surpassing 10 million spectators for the first time in professional baseball history last year, there is an atmosphere of ‘all-in’ on the one sport of ‘baseball’. ‘Strongest Baseball’, which has emerged as the strongest ‘baseball entertainment’, is introducing ‘Kim Sung-geun’s Winter Vacation’ in a spin-off format to raise interest in baseball, which has entered ‘winter hibernation’. ‘Kim Sung-geun‘s Winter Vacation’, which will premiere on Tving on the 17th,Feb 12, 2025
TVMimi, a rising star in the entertainment industryGirl group Oh My Girl member Mimi has established herself as a ‘entertainment trend’ by dominating the broadcasting industry. She is showing unstoppable progress to the point where her name is on every new entertainment program that is being introduced. After garnering attention for representing the MZ generation of office workers in the ENA entertainment program ‘Kian Isseo’, which ended last month on the 30th, she is captivating viewers with her unique quirky charm and cheerfulness. She will appear as an MC in the new Channel A entertainment program ‘Heart Pairing’, which will air from March 4th. ‘Heart Pairing’ is a new dating entertainment program prepared by the production team of ‘Heart Signal’, a representative dating entertainment program. It is a dating entertainment program for those in the early stages of a relationship.Feb 12, 2025
TVComic book original box office success rate 100%… Joo Ji-hoon, second heydayActor Joo Ji-hoon is experiencing a ‘second heyday’ with the Netflix original series ‘Trauma Center’, sweeping global box office charts and various topic rankings. Due to the success of this drama, which is based on a web novel and webtoon, his past hit works based on comics and webtoons are also being reexamined. O Joo Ji-hoon, No. 1 in topic ‘Trauma Center’ ranked 3rd in the non-English category of the weekly viewership ranking chart just 3 days after its release on the 10th of last month, and in its 2nd week, it beat ‘Squid Game’ Season 2 to take 1st place. The cumulative viewing hours and cumulative number of views for 2 weeks were 114.3 million hours and 100 million views, respectively.Feb 12, 2025
TV‘Witch’ Kim Tae-kyun → ‘Severe’ Lee Do-yoon… Film director‘s ‘Drama experiment’ hitThe ‘conquest of the home theater’ of directors who have been on the screen has become a key word in the latest drama trend. This is thanks to directors who mainly made movies, such as Kim Tae-gyun of Channel A‘s new Saturday-Sunday drama ’The Witch‘, Lee Do-yoon of Netflix’s ‘Severe Trauma Center’, and Lee Jang-hoon of Tving‘s ’Study Group‘, each achieving outstanding results with their first dramas. In particular, they are drawing favorable reviews for not missing out on fresh fun by thoroughly following the ’drama writing method‘ while also incorporating experimental charms throughout the drama. This is an example of some star directors who previously experienced box office failures with dramas they made by borrowing movie production methods.Feb 12, 2025
TV‘The Trend’ Park Jin-young and Noh Jeong-ui Reunite as ‘Witch’ “We Were Destined” [Comprehensive]Global hitmaker writer Kang Full, director Kim Tae-gyun of ‘Dark Figure of Crime’, K-pop star GOT7 Park Jin-young, and ‘MZ representative actress’ Noh Jung-eui. The ‘golden lineup’, which is rarely seen in broadcasting these days, has been completed with Channel A‘s new Saturday-Sunday drama ‘The Witch’. ‘The Witch’, ambitiously prepared by Channel A, will premiere at 9:10 PM on the 15th as a follow-up to ‘Check In Hanyang’, which recently surpassed 4% (nationwide) in viewership ratings and gained explosive popularity. The drama is about Park Mi-jeong (Noh Jung-eui), a woman who is called a ‘witch’ and is driven out of the village after the men who like her get hurt or die, and her husband, who is driven out of the village by the law of death.Feb 12, 2025
TVSBS Weekday Drama Revival… Go Hyun-jung ‘Warts’ → Lee Je-hoon ‘Model Taxi 3’ LineupSBS‘s weekday drama revival... Go Hyun-jung’s ‘Warts’ → Lee Je-hoon‘s ‘Taxi Driver 3’ lineup SBS has revealed its 2025 drama lineup. Starting with the popular ‘My Perfect Secretary’, as well as ‘Treasure Island’, ‘The Return of the Condor Heroes’, ‘Our Movie’, ‘Try’, ‘Marry Me in Space’, ‘Warts’, ‘Taxi Driver 3’, ‘Kiss Me for Nothing!’, ‘I’m Human Starting Today’, and other all-time great works will be leading the SBS drama lineup in 2025. The first SBS drama to start this year is ‘My Perfect Secretary’ (directed by Ham Joon-ho and Kim Jae-hong, written by Ji-eun, produced by Studio S and IO Contents Group). The sequel is ‘Treasure Island’ (written by Lee Myung-hee/directed by Jin Chang-gyu/produced by Studio S, A2Z Entertainment, and Purumir Factory). This work is a life-or-death revenge battle in which Seo Dong-joo (played by Park Hyung-sik), who hacked 2 trillion won in political slush funds, fights with everything he has to destroy the absolute evil that killed him and its world. PFeb 11, 2025