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Hajimemashite minna san....welcome to my site on my fave Japanese Pop Culture likes such as dramas, movies, magazine scans, promo events etc. Mainly concentrate on my faves...Yui Kobayashi... Miku Tanaka... Nagi Inoue....Maria Makino.... Nene Shida.... if you're a fan at all of any of them then you've come to the right place(!) but many others are featured here besides them. Do mainly quick reviews on things I've watched, try to make the reviews brief, quick to read through with not too many spoilers, just whether they're good or bad and why I thought so plus whether you may find them enjoyable. Many, many screenshots are included from everything I've watched plus any video trailers if they're available. Hope you find something that interests you, don't hesitate to comment, arigato gozaimasu!
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Showing posts with label Bona promo events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bona promo events. Show all posts
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Kim Ji-Yeon(Bona): Her intro post #2- "Girls' Generation 1979" drama tidbits....
Never going to top those pics of Bona from the 'KBS Drama Awards' show so won't even try though the ones for today are all oki doki. Have found there's not as many Bona happenings of her to post about but that also may mean I need to work a bit harder and with her dazzling looks think she's worth the effort. That also may mean doing some posts for Cosmic Girls which is Bona's K-Pop group, songs I've heard from them have been fairly good.
But Bona has made me a bit more active as too often I say that I'll end up watching this and that which doesn't happen enough. But did start on the "Girls Generation 1979" drama today and the first episode was so good have a feeling I'm going to be zipping right through it. Bona plays eighteen year old Jung-Hee in the series, the first episode was 64 minutes long and she must have been on the screen for sixty of them.
Her performance was so top notch Bona was nominated for a Best Actress award at the '2017 KBS Drama Awards' show held on December 31st but unfortunately didn't come away a winner. Bona's performance through one show has been a winner to me though and she really has such a screen presence. Will be recapping the entire eight episode series but unsure what format it'll be, two episodes at a time is how I usually recap dramas but you'll find out soon enough.
Here's a few screenshots from the first show, it was truly such a fun and entertaining episode. Sure a few older drama fans remember the name of Hae Chae-Young who was my first fave Korean actress. First Korean drama I ever viewed was in 2008 which was "Sassy Girl Chun-Hyung" from 2005 and that gets one of Nao's highest recommendations ever. So far in this drama Bona really resembles her face wise but few in the world resemble Chae-Young from the neck down.
That bottom screenshot is of Min Do-Hee and what a head turner she is, she used to be in the K-Pop group Tiny-G which disbanded in 2015. Do-Hee is in the bottom two pics of this set which were promo ones for the drama. Also in some of the pics is Chae Seo-Jin who also makes a few heads turn, she did in the first episode and plays Jung-Hee's main love rival.
The series began on September 11th, the day of it's premiere there was a mini event at Jinji Baba in Yeouido, Seoul. For some strange reason it wasn't heavily covered but don't think it was considered a major drama, ratings for it were usually a little over 4%. Do have a few pics from the event though and following them is a short promo video for the first episode. Lot of older K-Pop tunes were played throughout the show along with some American hits from the era.
Kim Ji-Yeon(Bona): Her intro post #1- '2017 KBS Drama Awards' show pics and video
Kim Ji-Yeon seems to be a common name, there's another singer with the name who also goes by Kei and was born in 1995 just as this post's honoree was. Another woman that shares the name is an Olympic fencer born in 1988. So to make her recognition easier this Ji-Yon goes by the name of Bona and I'll be using that name in her posts.
Had never heard of Bona up until a few days ago but when I saw these pics from the KBS Drama Awards show my heart went into maximum overdrive which hasn't happened in a long time. Bona is a member of the K-Pop group Cosmic Girls which also is known as WJSN. It's a mix of Korean and Chinese gals with four coming from China but unsure if the members now reside in Korea. Above is a PV for their "Happy" single that came out in 2017.
More on them in future Bona posts but want to just talk about her today as my boiling blood still hasn't cooled off after seeing those first pics of her.
A drama that I've been curious about is "Girls Generation 1979" which aired in September and October for eight episodes. It's set in the late seventies as the title suggests and though at first it appears to be a bit fluffy think it turned out to be quite a serious series. Bona has the lead role of Jung-Hee in the show and the more I talk about it the more I want to view it. Being only eight episodes is a big plus too so that just may be my next watch, there are now way too many on my -need-to-watch list and have to start watching them instead of talking about them.
The show was a KBS drama and for her role Bona in the above drama was nominated for the Excellence Award for best actress. She was also up for the Best Newcomer Award which was also for her "Hit the Top" series but sadly failed to win either one of them. Least to me Bona easily won the award for most sweltering actress at the awards show and there were plenty of actresses who looked more than oki doki at it. Plenty of dazzling pics from the awards show which was held on December 31st and after them is a short video of her on the red carpet.
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