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Every Single Day (band)
Every Single Day ( ko, 에브리싱글데이), is a South Korean rock band formed in 1997. The group debuted as a trio with Moon Sung-nam (vocals, bass), Jung Jae-oo (guitar), and Gang Moon-chul (drums). History 1997–99: Formation and first album Every Single Day was formed in Busan in 1997 by singer and bassist Moon Sung-nam, guitarist Jung Jae-oo, and drummer Gang Moon-chul. In 1999, they relocated to Seoul to release their first album, entitled ''Broken Street''. 2000–10: Subsequent releases and personnel changes In 2000, drummer Gang Moon-chul left the band and was replaced by Choi Seung-won. In 2001, the band's first EP, entitled ''Happy Birthday'', was released. In 2004, they issued their second album, the self-titled ''Every Single Day''. This was followed by ''Tom's Diary'' in 2007, and shortly after, Choi Seung-won left the band, to be replaced by Yoo Hyo-jun. In 2008, the band released their fourth album, entitled ''The Bright Side''. 2010–present: Soundtrack ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoul
Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 of the 1948 constitution. According to the 2020 census, Seoul has a population of 9.9 million people, and forms the heart of the Seoul Capital Area with the surrounding Incheon metropolis and Gyeonggi province. Considered to be a global city and rated as an Alpha – City by Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC), Seoul was the world's fourth largest metropolitan economy in 2014, following Tokyo, New York City and Los Angeles. Seoul was rated Asia's most livable city with the second highest quality of life globally by Arcadis in 2015, with a GDP per capita (PPP) of around $40,000. With major technology hubs centered in Gangnam and Digital Media City, the Seoul Capital Area is home to the headquarters of 15 ''Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Korea (TV Series)
''Miss Korea'' () is a South Korean television series starring Lee Sun-kyun, Lee Yeon-hee, Lee Mi-sook, Lee Sung-min, Song Seon-mi, and Lee Ki-woo. It aired on MBC from December 18, 2013, to February 26, 2014, on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 20 episodes. Plot Set in the year 1997, a cosmetics company is in bad financial shape during the IMF crisis, so to save the company, Hyung-joon along with his fellow employees attempt to make 25-year-old Ji-young into Miss Korea, a nationwide beauty pageant winner. Back in their high school days, Ji-young was the most beautiful and popular girl on campus, but she now works as an elevator girl. Cast Main *Lee Yeon-hee as Oh Ji-young :25 years old, "Dream" department store elevator girl. She was Kim Hyung-joon's junior in high-school and his first love. *Lee Sun-kyun as Kim Hyung-joon :29 years old, president of ViVi cosmetics, who has huge debt to loan sharks (for his cosmetics factory) and additionally needs money for launch ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Korean Boy Bands
South is one of the cardinal directions or Points of the compass, compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic language, Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz'' ("south"), possibly related to the same Proto-Indo-European language, Proto-Indo-European root that the word ''sun'' derived from. Some languages describe south in the same way, from the fact that it is the direction of the sun at noon (in the Northern Hemisphere), like Latin meridies 'noon, south' (from medius 'middle' + dies 'day', cf English meridional), while others describe south as the right-hand side of the rising sun, like Biblical Hebrew תֵּימָן teiman 'south' from יָמִין yamin 'right', Aramaic תַּימנַא taymna from יָמִין yamin 'right' and Syriac ܬܰܝܡܢܳܐ taymna from ܝܰܡܝܺܢܳܐ yamina (hence the name of Yemen, the land to the south/right of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Special Labor Inspector
''Special Labor Inspector'' () is a 2019 South Korean television series starring Kim Dong-wook, Park Se-young, Ryu Deok-hwan and Kim Kyung-nam. It aired from April 8 to May 28, 2019 on MBC TV. Synopsis The series follows the story of a civil servant who is appointed as a labor inspector in the Ministry of Employment and Labor. Cast Main * Kim Dong-wook as Jo Jin-gap, a pure-hearted, hardworking, and honest person with strong sense of justice. He was once a promising judo athlete but was forced to quit after trying to protest an unfair result. He then attempted to become a fitness teacher, but it did not last long as he was unable to control his quick temper in front of the chairman's son. He eventually studied and passed the level nine civil servant exam and becomes a civil servant for a secured government position. However, everything changes when he is assigned as a labor inspector for the Ministry of Employment and Labor. * Park Se-young as Joo Mi-ran, Jin-gap's ex-wife who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Still 17
''Still 17'' () is a South Korean television series starring Shin Hye-sun, Yang Se-jong and Ahn Hyo-seop. It aired on SBS's Mondays and Tuesdays at 22:00 ( KST) time slot from July 23 to September 18, 2018 for 32 episodes. Plot Gong Woo-jin (Yang Se-jong) is a 30-year-old single man who works as a set designer. Due to trauma he experienced 13 years ago, he does not want to have a relationship with others. When Woo Seo-ri (Shin Hye-sun) was 17, she fell into a coma. Thirteen years later, she wakes up from her coma, but she is now 30-years-old. Gong Woo-jin and Woo Seo-ri get involved with each other and fall in love. Gong Woo-jin caused an accident when he was 17 years old, or so he believes. Due to the crush he had on a girl of his age, he caused her to stay on the bus she was travelling for one stop longer than required. As a result, she was still on the bus when it crashed, and later Gong Woo-jin finds out that this girl (No Soo-mi) died in the accident. He feels very guilty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jugglers (TV Series)
''Jugglers'' () is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Baek Jin-hee, Choi Daniel, Kang Hye-jung and Lee Won-keun. It aired from December 4, 2017 to January 23, 2018 on KBS2's Mondays and Tuesdays at 22:00 ( KST) time slot for 16 episodes. Synopsis A secretary with a passive and obedient personality meets a boss who is completely uninterested in others and has no consideration for them. Cast Main * Baek Jin-hee as Jwa Yoon-yi (29 years old), Chi-won's secretary who is skilled in assisting and supporting her superiors. She is quick to adapt and knows how to get by in any situation. * Choi Daniel as Nam Chi-won (36 years old), the director of a media company who is completely uninterested in others and has no consideration for them, but somehow always ends up getting attention from women. * Kang Hye-jung as Wang Jeong-ae (37 years old), a mother who returns to the workforce after fifteen years as a full-time housewife. * Lee Won-keun as Hwangbo Yul (28 years old), th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Because This Is My First Life
''Because This Is My First Life'' () is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Lee Min-ki and Jung So-min that explores different points of view on careers, relationships, marriage, and love. The series marks Lee Min-ki's first small screen lead role since 2007. It aired from October 9 to November 28, 2017 on tvN's Mondays and Tuesdays at 21:30 ( KST) time slot. Synopsis IT employee and socially awkward Nam Se-hee (Lee Min-ki) marries broke, homeless writer Yoon Ji-ho (Jung So-min) by signing a contract of two years. Both parties agree to the terms and conditions of being just landlord and tenant. They plan to share their home based on common goals and values, safe from mutual attraction. Things do not go as planned when the housemates fall prey to their personal trauma, social expectations, and familial interventions. The series also follows the lives of Se-hee and Ji-ho's friends and their different perspectives on love and marriage. Cast Main * Lee Min-ki as Nam Se-h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confession Couple
''Go Back'' () is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Son Ho-jun and Jang Na-ra. It premiered on October 13, 2017 and aired every Friday and Saturday at 23:00 ( KST) on KBS2. The series was based on the Naver webtoon series ''Do it one more time'' () by Hong Seung-pyo (aka Miti) and Kim Hye-yeon (aka Gugu), which was first published online in 2016. Plot Choi Ban-do (Son Ho-jun) and Ma Jin-joo (Jang Na-ra) are both 38 years old and married with a little son. Both are struggling through daily lives that leave them exhausted and unhappy. Ban-do is a pharmaceutical salesman who spends his days begging people to buy his medicines and his evenings either drinking with prospective clients or helping an arrogant and cruel hospital director, Park Hyun-suk (Im Ji-kyu), to hide the fact that he is cheating on his wealthy wife. Jin-joo is a housewife who raises their son while struggling to find meaning in her life and feels lonely and abandoned by Ban-do. After coming to a br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strong Girl Bong-soon
''Strong Girl Bong-soon'' () is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Park Bo-young in the title role as a woman with superhuman strength, with Park Hyung-sik and Ji Soo. It aired on JTBC from February 24 to April 15, 2017. The series was a commercial hit and became one of the highest-rated Korean dramas on cable television history. Synopsis Do Bong-soon (Park Bo-young) was born with superhuman strength. Her strength is hereditary and passed along only to the women in her family. Her dream is to create a video game with herself as the main character. She desperately wants to become a delicate and elegant woman, which is the ideal type of her crush, In Guk-doo (Ji Soo), a police officer. Thanks to her strength, she gets a job as bodyguard to rich heir Ahn Min-hyuk (Park Hyung-sik), the CEO of a gaming company, Ainsoft. A series of kidnapping cases happen in Dobong-dong, the district Bong-soon lives in, and she is determined to catch the culprit, who targeted her best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Time We Were Not In Love
''The Time We Were Not in Love'' (; lit. ''The Time I've Loved You'') is a 2015 South Korean television series starring Ha Ji-won and Lee Jin-wook, adapted from the award-winning 2011 Taiwanese drama '' In Time with You''. It aired on SBS from June 27 to August 16, 2015 on Saturdays and Sundays at 22:00 for 16 episodes. Plot Oh Ha-na and Choi Won are both 34 years old and have been best friends since high school. For the past seventeen years they have been present for every milestone in each other's lives; but, through missed timing, a romance has never developed between them. Cast Main *Ha Ji-won as Oh Ha-na *Lee Jin-wook as Choi Won * Yoon Kyun-sang as Cha Seo-hoo *Choo Soo-hyun as Lee So-eun Supporting People around Oh Ha-na *Shin Jung-geun as Oh Jung-geun, Ha-na’s father *Seo Ju-hee as Kim Soo-mi, Ha-na’s mother *Lee Joo-seung as Oh Dae-bok, Ha-na’s younger brother People around Choi Won *Jin Kyung as Choi Mi-hyang *Kang Rae-yeon as Kang Na-young, Ha-na and Won’s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinocchio (2014 TV Series)
''Pinocchio'' () is a 2014–2015 South Korean television series starring Lee Jong-suk, Park Shin-hye, Kim Young-kwang, and Lee Yu-bi. With 20 episodes, the show aired on SBS from 12 November 2014 to 15 January 2015. In China, the online broadcasting rights were sold at a record price of per episode, making it the most expensive Korean drama ever to be sold in China at the time. As of 23 January 2015, it has an accumulated view of 1 billion on Chinese video-sharing website Youku. Synopsis In the year 2000, Ki Ha-myung is leading a happy life with his parents and elder brother, Jae-myung, until his father, Ki Ho-sang, the captain of a firefighting squad, dies in a factory explosion during a rescue attempt, along with several of his men. Ho-sang's body initially goes missing, and the media sensationalizes the case by scapegoating him. In a battle for ratings, cold and calculating MSC reporter Song Cha-Ok alleges that Ho-sang survived the blast and is currently in hiding beca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gap-dong
''Gap-dong'' () is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Yoon Sang-hyun, Sung Dong-il, Kim Min-jung, Kim Ji-won and Lee Joon. It aired on cable channel tvN from April 11 to June 14, 2014 on Fridays and Saturdays at 20:40 ( KST) time slot for 20 episodes. The series is based on the real-life Hwaseong serial murders. Synopsis In 1986, the (fictional) city of Iltan in Gyeonggi Province: A young girl gets brutally murdered by an unknown person on a dark night. As the city is gripped by a succession of serial killings, a total of nine murders within a twelve-kilometer radius since 1993, the police conclude that a man they've nicknamed "Gap-dong" is behind the crimes. Detective Yang Cheol-gon is convinced that the actual killer is Ha Il-sik, a resident of the town who is intellectually challenged. His attempt to arrest the suspect fails as Ha commits suicide to prove his innocence. His death inspires his son Moo-yeom to become a police officer to clear his father's name an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
