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K-drama
Check-in Hanyang, period/hotel drama mash-up with Kim Ji-eun, Bae In-hyuk
Neither lead character is who they appear to be in this tale set in the past but tapping themes usually seen in contemporary dramas.
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Where Squid Game creator gets his inspiration, his ‘darker’ next project
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Entertainment stories you read most in 2024 about adult film stars and more
27 Dec 2024 - 3:15PM
Artists & celebrities
Actress Lee Min-jung shares update on her son with Lee Byung-hun
Korean actress, who is set for return to screens after a long break, posts photo showing back view of son Joon-hoo gazing out of a window.
27 Dec 2024 - 2:16PM
Korean actress Lee Ming-jun and her husband Lee Byung-hun, currently starring in Squid Game season 2 as Front Man, and their son Joon-hoo (right). Photo: Instagram/@salamkorea
Entertainment
How Chinese film fans embraced Cloud Atlas, movie spurned elsewhere
The Wachowkis and Tom Tykwer’s adaptation of David Mitchell’s novel was a box-office flop everywhere except China, despite a starry cast.
27 Dec 2024 - 5:22AM
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Health & Wellness
Escape Lunar New Year bad luck with a snake-themed run through Hong Kong
The third day of the Lunar New Year is considered an unlucky day. Shake off that bad luck with a run that snakes through country parks.
26 Dec 2024 - 5:49PM
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Squid Game season 2 offers electrifying and pulse-pounding new games
Richer, deeper, more cohesive, with familiar characters like Lee Jung-jae’s Gi-hun and new ones, and kinetic camerawork, Squid Game is back.
26 Dec 2024 - 4:00PM
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Lee Jung-jae as Seong Gi-hun in a still from Squid Game season 2. Photo: No Ju-han/Netflix
Entertainment
Copyrights on Popeye, Tintin, Singin’ in the Rain start expiring in 2025
The sailor and boy detective can be reproduced without permission from 2025, but some details, like Tintin’s red hair, are still copyrighted.
26 Dec 2024 - 4:33AM
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Entertainment
The Hong Kong films released in 2024, ranked from worst to best
From We 12 to Papa, Fly Me to the Moon and The Last Dance, our ranking of the Hong Kong films that hit cinemas in the course of the year.
26 Dec 2024 - 12:40PM
Travel & Leisure
Sonic boom as airports focus on music to lighten travellers’ moods
From live performances to carefully curated playlists, airports from Singapore to Seattle are using music in new ways to ease travel stress.
24 Dec 2024 - 12:45PM
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Arts & Culture
Hong Kong art show homage to Wong Kar-wai asks: can we be happy together?
In How to Be Happy Together, artists consider the human connections economic migrants make and the sense of homelessness engendered by exile.
24 Dec 2024 - 11:15AM
Fireflies (Lucciole), a video piece featured at the exhibition. Photo: Pauline Curnier Jardin & Feel Good Cooperative
K-drama
Squid Game 2 star on its ‘genius’ writer and ‘living with Gi-hun’
As the Netflix K-drama hit returns for a second season, cast and crew including Lee Jung-jae reflect on show’s impact globally – and on them.
26 Dec 2024 - 5:05PM
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K-movies
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Hidden Face, a Korean erotic thriller, serves up scandalous fun
This sexy K-movie follows a conductor who sleeps with the replacement player for his cellist fiancée, who seems to have disappeared.
23 Dec 2024 - 1:15PM
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K-drama
Lee Min-ho makes return to TV in Netflix space romcom When the Stars Gossip
The new series, set aboard a space station, boasts a production budget of US$34.5 million and aims to set a new standard for K-dramas.
23 Dec 2024 - 11:15AM
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Travel & Leisure
Hong Kong ‘snake bible’ author on why you should learn to fear them less
The coming Year of the Snake is a great time to learn more about them, says Adam Francis, an enthusiast for the reptiles and for Hong Kong.
22 Dec 2024 - 11:15AM
A Burmese python, the apex snake species in Hong Kong. Photo: Adam Francis
United States & Canada
Blake Lively accuses Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment, smear campaign
The actress says her co-star waged a campaign to destroy her reputation after she spoke up about his ‘disturbing behaviour’ on the film set.
22 Dec 2024 - 7:31AM
Entertainment
3 of John Woo’s lesser known action films, one so violent it was shelved
A triad movie with a young Stephen Chow, a crude war film and a crime caper starring Leslie Cheung. These 3 Woo projects fly under the radar.
22 Dec 2024 - 4:15AM
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OPINION
Damien Green
Opinion
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To connect Hong Kong with the world, we must go beyond the superficial
26 Dec 2024 - 10:16AM
Phoebe Zhang
Opinion
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How China’s reality TV shows reveal changing attitudes to marriage
19 Dec 2024 - 9:30AM
Ashlyn Chak
Opinion
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Frat-boy behaviour tainted Hong Kong Clockenflap 2024. A sign of the times?
4 Dec 2024 - 5:45PM
Wee Kek Koon
Reflections
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The wells where a Chinese scholar and emperor’s consort met their ends
9 Nov 2024 - 8:15AM
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Lisa Lim
Language Matters
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How Art Basel Paris was a showcase for Hong Kong culture
27 Oct 2024 - 8:15AM
Wee Kek Koon
Reflections
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When officials in drought-prone part of China committed huge fraud
19 Oct 2024 - 8:15AM
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MULTIMEDIA
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Photo trove offers window on life in China’s wartime capital Chongqing
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Behind the scenes of classic 1987 movie The Last Emperor in photos
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Wonders old and new in China’s Greater Bay Area, land of opportunity
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Instantly familiar, strangely foreign: photos of 1970s Hong Kong
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