KDrama Celebrities Watch Baseball

Can you believe the star power in this single frame? Each of these actors can headline their own drama. Crash Landing On You and real-life couple Son Ye-jin and Hyun Bin were seen at the Major League Baseball (MLB) Seoul Series game between the LA Dodgers and the San Diego Padres last March 21 at

Jang Dong-yoon in Like Flowers in Sand

Jang Dong-yoon’s acting in Like Flowers in Sand reminds me of actors Kim Min-jae and Yeo Jin-goo. They’re all starting to look alike.  Dong-yoon’s character Kim Baek-du and his young version both wore an Ohio State University t-shirt. I wonder if this is a deliberate wardrobe choice? I’m only on episode 3, we’ll find out. 

First Look at Like Flowers in Sand

Like Flowers in Sand is a sports-themed coming-of-age romcom drama about a ssireum (wrestling) team. Jang Dong-yoon is a ssireum athlete. His childhood friend Lee Joo-myung comes back to manage the team. This new series is available on Netflix every Wednesdays and Thursdays. 

Rewatching Hot Stove League

I’m rewatching the baseball drama series Hot Stove League because of Park Eun-bin and Chae Jong-hyeop. This award-winning series is still good on second watch. There’s Park Eun-bin before she was Extraordinary Attorney Woo and she nails her character as a frustrated and hard-working team manager. There’s Namkoong Min who has a similar acting style

Road to Boston

Ha Jung-woo stars in another sports-themed, heartwarming journey (he was in the 2009 ski jump movie Take Off). Im Si-wan runs again as an athlete (he was in the 2021 drama Run On). This movie is based on actual events in 1947, when the newly independent Korea fielded their own athletes in the Boston Marathon,

Dream

A professional athlete does an unprofessional thing. He is suspended and ordered to do community service. He ends up coaching an underdog team whose members either don’t know the sport, don’t have the talent, or don’t care. He trains them and they make it to a major competition. Along the way, he meets an interesting

The Baseball Catch Interview in 18 Again

A lot of viewers are rewatching 18 Again  because of Lee Do-hyun (The Glory), Ryeoun (The Secret Romantic Guesthouse), or Wi Ha-joon (Squid Game). This clip came up on my feed recently, and it looked familiar because of a viral video from some time ago. It’s the scene where baseball player Ji-hoon (Wi Ha-joon) catches an

Physical:100 (Finale)

Do you even remember who won? I’m very disappointed with the editing of this show. They barely featured 3 of the top 5 contestants. It was hard to root for them because until episode 9, they were practically unknown. The viewers were only familiar with the big guy and the ice climber guy. Who were

Love All Play

Love All Play (literal title: Going To You at a Speed of 493kph) is a badminton-themed romance drama. I ignored this series when it first came out because I just finished watching the enjoyable Racket Boys and I wasn’t in the mood for another sports drama. I came across this series again when I was

Take Off

If Disney movies in the 90s had Cool Runnings, then KDrama movies in the 2009s had Take Off. Take Off is about Korea’s first national ski jump team. It’s loosely based on a true story. The City of Muju wants to host the Winter Olympics, but to do that Korea needs an official winter sports.