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Go Youn-Jung’s 5 Must-Watch K-Dramas (Photo Credit – Netflix)

Go Youn-Jung used to be a dedicated student until she was encouraged by a college senior to model. She appeared on Daehaknaeil (a magazine for university students), which led her to get casting offers from different agencies. Although Go initially declined the offers, she debuted as an actress in 2019 with the Tvn drama He Is Psychometric and made her film debut in Hunt in 2022.

Youn-Jung is currently trending everywhere because of her performance as Oh I-Yeong in Resident Playbook, a spin-off series of Hospital Playlist. However, she gained massive popularity after featuring in the K-drama, Alchemy of Souls, so to learn more about her versatility, we have curated a list of her dramas below. Scroll ahead.

1. Alchemy of Souls Season 1 & 2 Streaming On: Netflix Director: Park Joon-Hwa

Plot: Go Youn-Jung gave one of her best performances in Alchemy of Souls season 1 and 2. Although...

Korean Child Stars Tragic Fate (Photo Credit – Instagram)

It’s been a tragic time for the South Korean entertainment industry after Kim Sae-Ron passed away. Read on to learn more about the sad fate of the deaths of the Korean stars who began their career as child artists.

Kim Sae-Ron’s death stirred up the South Korean entertainment industry as it led people to notice how the young artist had been walking on the path of suicidal thoughts. In the last few years, South Korea has witnessed many young celebrities die by suicide, including Moonbin, Sulli, and others. These are just a few names among the rest who have faced the pressure of fame. These suicides are not just isolated incidents, but what people and critics realize is that they are a part of systemic issues within the industry.

The real question that should be asked is, even after having fame and wealth,...

Written and directed by Kim Chang-hoon, the debut feature Hopeless is marked by a morose atmospheric tone that forces the audience to be spectators in the dismal lives of others. Despite the story being ripe with promise, its progress is hampered by an overlong runtime, shoddy editing and its inability to tap into any other feelings besides discontent.

In Myeongan City, South Korea, 17-year-old Yeon-gyu (Hong Xa-bin) is starting trouble. He gets into a violent altercation at school and is quickly reprimanded. His mother expresses disappointment but doesn’t do much to discipline him. In addition to his mom, he lives with his alcoholic stepfather and step-sister Hayan (Kim Hyoung-seo), who he treats like trash. Yeon-gyu is working to save enough money to travel to Holland, but with everyone in the family making meager earnings, travel outside the city is a distant goal. Outside of that, the young boy doesn...

Moonbin of the K-pop boy band Astro was found dead at his home on Wednesday, according to South Korean entertainment news outlet. He was 25 years old.

The news outlet added that the Seoul Gangnam Police Station has confirmed that Moonbin’s manager discovered him dead in his home in the Gangnam district of Seoul on April 19 at around 8:10 p.m. Kst, and the manager immediately alerted the police.

Moonbin debuted on February 23, 2016. He started acting at a young age and starred in the popular K-drama ‘Boys Over Flowers’, playing the younger self of actor Kim Bum’s character.

Along with debuting as an Astro member, Moonbin also became a part of its first subunit, Moonbin & Sanha, which went on to debut on September 14, 2020.

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Writer-director Park Chan-wook has long been a favorite of cinephiles thanks to the combination of meticulously controlled craft and boundary-busting shock value in films like “Oldboy,” “Lady Vengeance,” and “Thirst.” With his Best International Feature–shortlisted romantic thriller “Decision to Leave,” however, the auteur leaves his penchant for taboo-breaking behind in favor of a subtler approach that paradoxically yields his boldest and most original film yet. The story of a detective (Park Hae-il) who falls deeply and tragically in love with a murder suspect (Tang Wei), “Decision to Leave” is a hypnotic reverie of longing, obsession, and regret in which the characters are constantly hiding things from themselves, each other, and occasionally the audience — which required precisely adjusted cinematic effects from Park and his collaborators.

“People in modern films tend to be very honest with their feelings,” Park told IndieWire, “and honesty is considered an ideal in our society. But...

“Return to Dust,” the latest work from Chinese director Li Ruin won the top Golden Spike at the Seminci Valladolid Film Festival, Spain’s traditional arthouse platform, which this last week sold over 100,000 tickets for the second time in a row, a sign of much needed, if temporary, vitality in Spain’s desperately sagging art pic market.

“An absorbing, beautifully framed drama that makes a virtue — possibly too much a virtue — of simplicity,” stated Variety’s Jessica Kiang in her Berlinale review, “Dust” is set in a decimated Chinese village, where a downtrodden couple in an arranged marriage forge an unexpected bond as they eke out a living from the land. “Return to Dust” was released in China in September.

“Eo” director Jerzy Skolimowski (“11 Minutes”) earned the best director prize for “a damning polemic on our relationship to other intelligent species — as free labor, food and companions — as seen through the dewy,...