Starting today, South Korea will enter a five-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. On the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, most supermarkets, restaurants, cafes, real estate agencies, etc. will be closed. Even brokerage companies will issue news saying that their artists who work day and night will go back to reunite with their parents like everyone else. Therefore, there should be an overall increase in ratings this week compared to previous weeks.

KBS "Moonlight Drawn by Clouds" continued to lead the monthly drama, with a ratings of 20.4%. Park Bo Gum is expected to be the first actor to break the "Reply Curse"; in comparison, the 6.0% ratings of "Beautiful Heart: Rei" are indeed somewhat unsatisfactory.

Among the weekend dramas, KBS's "The Gentlemen of Wolgye Suit Shop" stands out, with the fresh combination of Ra Mi-ran, Lee Dong-gun and Cha In-pyo.

 

SBS’s “We are the best”, which was highly anticipated before it was aired, had the blessing of an “Elf Couple”, but the plot of the first six episodes was a bit “complaining”, and the ratings were at the bottom. The first six episodes of "We Are the Best" showed the audience a boyfriend who was ignorant and careless in all aspects. The euphemistic name is preparing to take the civil service exam, forget it if you don't study hard, and play games while reading, leaving your unmarried and pregnant girlfriend to go to parties, drink as much as you want, and don't forget to flirt with other girls. When my father passed away, the reason why he cried bitterly at the grave was because he complained that he had no property to inherit. Don't know anything, don't learn anything, and occasionally daydream? This kind of boyfriend doesn't want to break up and wait for the Mid-Autumn Festival?

KBS's new drama "Road to the Airport" will premiere on September 21. Starring Kim Ha Neul, Lee Sangyun, Shin Sung Rok, Jang Hee Jin, and Choi Yeo Jin. It is written by the screenwriter of the movie "Spring Dies" and directed by Kim Cheol-gyu of "Emergency Man and Woman" and "Hwang Jin-i". It aims to bring resonance and comfort to the audience with the theme of "Can there be pure friendship in the world of married men and women?"

This drama is Kim Ha Neul's return to TV dramas after four years in "A Gentleman's Dignity". It is her first work after marriage. Lee Sangyun and Shin Sung-rok also collaborated again after tvN's "Fraud Game". Kim Ha Neul plays Choi Soo-ah, a flight attendant with 12 years of experience. She is married to the captain Park Jin-seok (played by Shin Seung-rok) and has a daughter who is in elementary school. She considers herself an excellent wife and mother, but since meeting Seo Do-woo (played by Lee Sangyun), her life has begun to change. Lee Sangyun plays the role of a lecturer in the Department of Architecture. He has a cheerful and upright personality. He originally had a happy family, but fell into chaos after experiencing a shocking incident. At this time, Choi Soo-ah (Kim Ha-neul) entered his world.

Shin Sung-rok plays the role of captain Park Jin-seok, who has strong self-esteem and authority. Jang Hee-jin plays Lee Hye-won, a very capable curator who has an almost obsessive love for her husband Seo Do-woo (played by Lee Sangyun). Choi Ru-jin plays Song Meizhen, a colleague of Choi Soo-ah (played by Kim Ha-neul). She has a strong sense of responsibility and professionalism, and is the only person in the play who knows all the secrets.

Lee Sangyun, the male protagonist of this drama, is what Koreans call "Mama's friend." He graduated from the Physics Department of Seoul National University. Because he had to balance his studies and his acting career, it took him 13 years from enrollment in 2001 to graduation in 2013. In 2013, the KBS weekend drama "My Daughter So Young" starring her partner Lee Bo Young was called the 2013 Korean national TV drama. The final broadcast ratings reached 47%

"Model Worker" Seo In-guk will have another new drama on the line after "38th Division Mobile Team". MBC's new TV drama "Shopping King Louis" will premiere on September 21 after "W: Two Worlds". Starring Seo In Guk, Nam Ji Hyun, and Yoon Sang Hyun.

Seo In-guk plays Kang Ji-sung (Louis), the third chaebol who grew up in a greenhouse, Nam Ji-hyun plays the optimistic and energetic Go Bok-sil, and Yoon Sang-hyun plays the charming Cha Jong-won, the head of the online shopping mall. This drama tells the twists and turns of the romantic comedy between "Shopping King Louis" who lost his memory after falling from the center of Seoul and "Go Bok-sil", a mountain village girl who knows nothing about the Internet.

This drama is a work for the 7th TV Drama Script Public Competition Excellence Award and is written by a newbie. Although it is a clichéd plot from the 1980s, the lines and plot development are very humorous. It is directed by Lee Sang-yeop, the director of "The Emperor's Daughter", "Light and Shadow", and "The Woman Still Wants to Get Married".

Korean Movies of the Week

"The Secret Agent" and "Gushanzi: The Map of Daedongyu" are the pioneers of this year's Korean film Mid-Autumn Festival. They were released on the same day on September 7. However, the box office is very different. Directed by Kim Jee-woon and starring Song Kang-ho, Gong Yoo, and Han Ji-min, "The Secret Agent" exceeded 1 million in 4 days and 2 million in 5 days. With a box office share of 74.5%, it continues to dominate the single-day box office list. But "Gushanzi: Map of Daedongyu" starring Cha Seung-won and Yoo Jun-sang has less than 350,000 moviegoers as of today.

Next week, the movie "Duel" directed by Shin Dong-yeop, director of "The Punisher" and "Extraterritoriality" and starring Lee Joo-seung, Lee Jung-jin, and Oh Ji-ho, will be released on September 22. The film is a black action film based on the theme of "Reality Player Kill" (a social phenomenon in which online fights turn into real fights and even killings).

In order to avenge his brother, Fenghao (played by Lee Joo-seung), a student preparing for employment, started a "real world" with CEO Jae-hee (played by Oh Ji-ho), extending the battle in the online virtual world to the real world. The film starts with "fighting" and ends with "fighting". The different fighting forms of Taekwondo, Judo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Aikido, and Drunken Master make the film full of attractions.

The "41st Toronto International Film Festival" kicked off on September 8, local time. At this film festival, the Hollywood movie "The Brave Seven Dragons" starring Lee Byung-hun will be screened as the opening film. In addition, three Korean films including "The Lady", "Asura" and "The Secret Agent" were invited to appear in the "Special Screening Unit".

The "21st Busan International Film Festival" has announced the list of this year's shortlisted works, and a total of 301 works from 69 countries around the world will be screened. Among them, 96 are world premieres (66 feature films, 30 short films), 27 are international premieres (25 feature films, 2 short films), and 11 works will be screened in the New Currents section. Compared with last year’s 20th Busan Film Festival (75 countries, 304 films), the number of films released this year has slightly decreased.

The opening film of the film festival is "Spring Dream" by Chinese Korean director Zhang Lu, and the closing film is "The Dark Wind" by Iraqi director Hussein Hassan.

"Spring Dream" tells a humorous story between a young woman who runs a tavern to take care of her father who suffers from general paralysis, and the three men around her. The film stars Han Ye-ri and three outstanding young Korean directors, Yang Ik-joon (director of "Blowfly"), Yoon Jong-bin (director of "War on Crime"), and Park Jung-beom (director of "Mosan Diary"). There are also special appearances by Shin Min-a (Shin Min-ah), Yoo Yeon-seok, Kim Eui-sung, Kim Tae-hoon, and Jo Dal-hwan.

This year’s Busan Film Festival will be held from October 6 to 15. All shortlisted works will be screened on 34 screens in a total of five cinemas in Busan including the Cinematheque, CGVCentum City Cinema, Lotte Cinema Centum City, and Megabox Haeundae Cinema.