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Namib

Mak — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:38:46 +0000

Kang Su Hyun is a star producer who trains idols with her own philosophy and intuition. For an unknown reason, she gets fired from Pandora Entertainment. At home, Kang Su Hyun is the breadwinner of her family. Her husband, Sim Jun Seok, is a full-time homemaker and takes care of their son, Sim Jin U. Before becoming a homemaker, Sim Jun Seok worked as a music producer, but after his son lost his hearing in a childhood car accident, he quit his job to take care of him and their home full time.

To get back on her feet, Kang Su Hyun begins a new project to create a star. She picks Yoo Jin U as her trainee. Yoo Jin U has trained to become an idol for the past 10 years he carries all sorts of baggage with him, like his parents’ debt and past career. When Yoo Jin U was about to give up on his dream, Kang Su Hyun selected him as her trainee. Yoo Jin U now restarts his training in earnest. Sim Jun Seok’s desire to return to his job as a music producer grows and Kang Su Hyun tells him to work as Yoo Jin U’s producer.

(Source: AsianWiki)

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Who Is She

Liu — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 03:06:48 +0000

After O Mal Sun lost her husband at a young age, she raised her children by herself and also ran a small restaurant. She is now in her 70’s. One day, she has an argument with her daughter Ji Suk and leaves home. Something happens at this time that causes her physical appearance to revert back to when she was in her 20s.

Taking advantage of her youthful appearance, she begins using the name O Du Ri and decides to pursue her dream of becoming a singer. A dream that went unfulfilled when she was in her 20s. O Du Ri then joins Unis Entertainment as an idol trainee. There, she meets Daniel Han. He was once the leader of a popular idol group, and he is now the chief producer of Unis Entertainment. He is a genius planner who does everything from composing to producing to creating album concepts. His life goes by smoothly as he has achieved success in his career, but his life becomes shaken after he meets O Du Ri.

Meanwhile, O Mal Sun’s granddaughter Choi Ha Na is a smart high school student who always ranks first academically at her school. To pursue her dream of becoming a singer, she gives up taking her university entrance exam and joins Unis Entertainment as an idol trainee.

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The Movie Emperor (2024)

Dargom Bes — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 09:08:54 +0000

Lau Wai-Chi is a Hong Kong movie star with legions of devoted fans and a constant eye on his competition. His fame has drawn him inside an ever-tighter circle, where all he can do is keep his body perfect and worry what other star is snagging an award or a big role that should be his.
Vulnerable and sensing the need for a new image, Lau is persuaded to take the starring role in a humble indie drama where the protagonist is a village pig farmer. Lau and the director agree this foray into miserabilist cinema will be just what foreign film festivals crave.
As Lau begins the painstaking process of learning how to play the role convincingly, we witness a series of pitch-perfect take-downs of film industry pretension.

(Source: tiff.net)

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Frankly Speaking

Liu — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:21:49 +0000

Song Ki Baek is single and 33 years old. He works as an announcer at a broadcasting station. People consider him an ideal announcer. He is polite and well-mannered. One day, Song Ki Baek suffers from a disease which causes him to speak without thinking first. He now faces the biggest crisis of his life.

Meanwhile, On Woo Joo is an enthusiastic TV variety show writer. She becomes interested in Song Ki Baek’s harsh language, and she gets him to appear on her variety show.

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Castaway Diva

Liu — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 04:15:31 +0000

Follows the story of a woman who is rescued on a deserted island after going missing 15-years ago.

Mok Ha is a girl who has always dreamt of becoming a singer. During middle school, Mok Ha goes missing and ends up on a deserted island, where she manages to survive alone for 15-years. For Mok Ha, being rescued from her solitary life is one thing; adjusting to modern society is another!

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Once Upon a Star (2023)

Mak — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 08:24:31 +0000

Set during the Mitr-Petchara era of Thai cinema, a troupe—full of dreams—travels all around the country peddling medicine and live-dubbing films.

(Source: MyDramaList)

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Oh! Youngsim

Liu — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 23:18:56 +0000

Oh Young Sim is single and in her 30’s. She has worked as a TV variety show PD for 8 years. She wants to make people laugh with her TV shows, but they were always cancelled due to low popularity ratings. Her career is now in a crisis. She has a chance to produce a love entertainment show as a pilot program. For the show, Oh Young Sim casts famous start-up founder Mark Wang as a guest. She is surprised that Mark Wang is Wang Kyung Tae. When they were little, Wang Kyung Tae had a crush on Oh Young Sim and he always let her know how he felt about her. Oh Young Sim did not feel the same way towards Wang Kyung Tae at the time. He then suddenly moved to the United States with his family. They lost contact with each other afterwards.

Now, 20 years after they were last together, Wang Kyung Tae appears in front of her as CEO Mark Wang. Meanwhile, PD Lee Chae Dong works with PD Oh Young Sim in the same variety show department. He is always on her side. Also around Oh Young Sim is her friend Goo Wol Sook. She runs popular YouTube video channel “Ku’s Date.”

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Hello, My Noisy MP3

Mak — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 23:28:55 +0000

An MP3 from the past, allowed the almost 30-year-old star Zhao Man’er to communicate with her 11-year-old self through recordings. When she thought she could finally use this to change her current bad life, get rid of her dark past that she is being threatened by now, she did not expect to cause her past and present self to sink into a bigger crisis…..

(Source: iQiyi)

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Sh**ting Stars

Liu — Fri, 22 Apr 2022 19:43:59 +0000

The story talks about the people who work behind-the-scenes of the entertainment industry, such as PR teams, managers, and reporters, and clean up the messes created by the stars. It tells of Oh Han Byul, the head of the PR team at an entertainment agency, and the flawless top star Gong Tae Sung, who is also her natural enemy. They bicker all the time, but soon also develop feelings for each other.

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Be My Princess

Dargom Bes — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 23:30:24 +0000

Ming Wei is a part-time translator who loves acting. She was unexpectedly selected to be the female lead of award winning actor Mu Ting Zhou’s upcoming drama. There she enacts the love story between a princess and a master in Ming Dynasty with Mu Ting Zhou. After an accident which caused Mu Ting Zhou to lose his memories, he only remembers Ming Wei who he protected dearly as the princess in the drama. In order to help Mu Ting Zhou recover his memories, Ming Wei starts taking care of his life.

(Source: iQiyi)

~~ Adapted from the novel "Ying Di De Gong Zhu" (影帝的公主) by Xiao Jia Ren (笑佳人).

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