Ju Hwan and What's up

By KCOMMENTS

Im Ju Hwan in What’s Up would likely be my surprise Korean actor this year. Not sure how many times I’ve watched this Stupid Cupid, mostly because of  Im Ju Hwan’s range of expressions. From a bad boy on the street, captured by music. His eyes were so expressive, harmoniously in tune with the music scores. You have to see when he cried. I wondered why I didn’t notice him before. Can’t wait to hear him sing, his friends are wary now that he wouldn’t sing, so THAT is interesting!

 

But this is not to be mistaken with the drama itself, still not sure how I feel. One thing though, the vocals in this drama seems pretty solid and that’s the benefit. It’s too early to tell, so still hang in there. Tonally, it’s realistic and bittersweet imo.

 

And this is  probably the coolest of the year for me. Take a look at the cinematography, the editing, the acting/singing/dancing. Aww…just love.  Like a dream sequence of a talented young man who can’t seem to get pass his nervousness in public. Why so cool?

What’s Up Press Conference

What’s Up premiered this past weekend on MBN, a new cable channel that’s trying to take a slice of the Big Three Broadcasters’ pie. I’ll save my thoughts on the first two episodes for another post, but here are some photos from the press conference. While usually the press conference is done a week before it airs, it looks like this one was recently held – on December 6 in the afternoon, Seoul time.

As for the man of the hour? Looks to be Daesung, who’s making his first big appearance since his car accident back in May. Oh Man Seok, Jo Jung Suk, and Im Joo Eun attended to represent the actors with screenwriter Song Ji Na and director Song Ji Won.

What's up

Profile

• TV Show: What's Up?
• Revised romanization: Watstcheu Eop
• Hangul: 왓츠 업
• Director: Song Ji-Won
• Writer: Song Ji-Na
• Network: MBN
• Episodes: 20
• Release Date: December 3, 2011 -- February 5, 2012
• Runtime: Sat. & Sun. 21:00
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea

What’s Up posters are finally out

Finally! “Now Is Our Time,” indeed. (Now is past time, I’d say.)

What’s Up has been in stasis forever, and even though it’s premiering this weekend — yup, tomorrow — we’ve seen and heard very little from it. Posters are out now, though, so at least there’s a teeny bit of movement in the promo front, which has been practically nonexistent for months.

The drama set in a university musical theater department is taking up the weekend prime-time slot on new cable station MBN, and will air episodes on Saturday and Sunday evenings. Given that its rocky production road has pushed back its premiere by over half a year, the drama has long since completed filming and will be 100% pre-produced. While pre-produced dramas haven’t had much luck hitting the popularity jackpot with the public, they do tend to boast higher than average production values. (That doesn’t mean pre-produced is automatically better — that’s dependent on writing quality — but it usually means pretty.)