A Love to Kill

Synopsis:

In A Love to Kill, Bi/Rain/Jeong Ji-Hoon plays a tough guy as the role of a K-1 Fighter, Kang Bok-gu. Bok-gu is a character who is dynamic in nature and grew up in a foster home. He falls in love with a woman whom he should not love. It was because of…

Han Geng/Hankyung of Super Junior and Super Junior M will be playing a character named Xia Lei in a 12-episode drama on CCTV. The drama is called Qing Chun Wu Tai (Stage of Youth).

Hankyung’s character Xia Lei is a son of a father who is a top-notched archery athelete. After the death of his mother,…

We present to you this week’s featured staff member Bubbletea, who happens to be one of Asian-Central’s most social members.  Bubbletea’s real name is Cathalina, she’s 15 years old, speaks English, Mandarin and a bit of Spanish and is studying Japanese and Korean. Cathalina is also known as Asian-Central’s “Rice Point Queen.”

Cathalina discovered Asian-Central through…

Events in Asian History on July 10th-

Korea:

Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Kaesong
In June of 1951, during the Korean War, the Soviet delegate to the UN formally proposed that the belligerents in Korea open discussions for a cease-fire. On this day, following preparatory talks, representatives of the UN and North Korean Communist commands…

Review by felichan4@asian-central.com

Episodes: 28
Opening theme song: Wu Suo Wei (無所謂) It Doesn’t Matter by 5566
Ending theme song: Wo Nan Guo I’m Sad by 5566

Synopsis
In this drama based on basketball (and somewhat on the anime Slam Dunk), a Taiwanese national team basketballer, Yan Xing Shu plays the lead Duan Chen Feng, whose world consists of his 2 greatest loves: basketball and…

Virgin Snow

Cast
Jun-gi Lee - Min Kim
Aoi Miyazaki - Nanae Sasaki
Ayaka Morita
Otoha
Shun Shioya
Miyu Yagyu
Kimiko Yo

Virgin Snow is an intriguing movie. The concept of having more than one main language in a movie is simply brilliant. You don’t normally hear about a movie having two main languages, but only one. Although this movie didn’t really have any…

June 24, 2008

Big Bang’s TOP (Choi Seunghyun) is casted as actor Lee Byung Hun’s “KILLER” in the new drama IRIS (아이리스). IRIS was a $20,000,000 expensed drama that will be shot at an overseas location and have a large-scale set. The drama is directed by Kang Jegyu who has also directed Taegukgi: The Brotherhood of War.

In…

June 21, 2008

SS501 member Kim Hyun Joong was casted as the F4 member Hanazawa Rui in the Korean version of Hana Yori Dango, which is scheduled to be broadcasted via KBS 2TV in the first half of 2009. The Korean name for Rui has not been set yet.

This will be the third time the Japanese…