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He is shooting a drama called "Goldland" with Park Bo-young and they asked him to get it put in for the duration of the filming. He also had to change his eyebrows and ears are pierced (again).

The Manipulated press conference will be held on Nov 3 @ 7:30 pm with the whole cast.

Another great episode, always very funny and it is great seeing the bond they all seem to have for each other. Next week looks good with the air balloon.

Seems to have the same viewership as last week.

Good to see her in a different role, I'm sure she was tired of it as well.

Yup, that was their worry, as they were in the same time slot as the baseball.

Still did well considering that.
"The broadcast achieved a nationwide household rating of 2.7% on average and peaked at 3.8%. In the Seoul metropolitan area, the average was 3.0%, with a peak of 4.7%, ranking first among cable and general programming channels in its time slot both nationwide and in the metropolitan area.

Among tvN’s target demographic of men and women aged 20–49, the show ranked first in its time slot across all channels, including terrestrial broadcasters, both nationwide and in the metropolitan area. (Based on paid platforms integrating cable, IPTV, and satellite / provided by Nielsen Korea)"

On Reddit in the "koreanvariety" show section someone usually uploads the episode 24hours or so after it airs on tv.

The live stream was good, very funny. They might put on proper subs later, if not you can use the auto generated ones. https://www.youtube.com/live/bG6uSqAjUws?si=P5CngChYDcqe3nTN&t=1203 (starts at around 20mins).

They said in the article what the previous FL character would be doing as an excuse of why she isn't in that season - "while she is away training in Los Angeles".

I never followed those two shows, so i can't say what they did. I can only speak on the shows i watch.
Disney is also way behind in terms of global reach compared to Netflix in the kdrama scene,
and they should be doing their utmost to expand their audience. They should not be following other companies example who are already ahead of them, otherwise they will just stagnate.

Netflix before release, has lots of promos, multiple trailers. They also get the cast together to play games on their netflix channel, they do 3 or four different activities and release them over multiple days, they get them onto atleast 4 or 5 different variety shows or interviews as well.

To show how bad Disney is at promotion, I see they have only now done those fun interview questions for the cast of "will you marry me" which has already started airing. By that logic they will only do stuff for this in November which would be stupid.

From what I see the 3 main leads are all in other countries:
JCW is in Bali
Kyung Soo is in Bangkok for music
Kwang Soo is in Vietnam for his movie promotion

I imagine they will all be back soon (this week) to do interviews and go on stage for the usual press conference, but yes Disney should have had more things pre-done.

It's only released in Vietnam at this moment, as it was a collaboration to promote their countries partnership, I assume it will be out on streaming by the end of the year for the rest of the world.

One more week.

It was posted earlier in thread that the screenwriter said this on X:

The original script for "The Manipulated" was rated 19+, but the director at the time (for movie "Fabricated city") lowered it to 15+ and added a game nerd setting, so it was almost like a new script. The upcoming drama "The Manipulated" is based on the original script, so it's pretty much a different work (Said the writer of "Taxi Driver", who's also the writer of "The Manipulated")

That is probably what it was, a meet up and discussion on the program. What they are aiming for with it etc...
I imagine they will be shooting it very very soon though. As Kwang Soo should be returning from Vietnam, and I'm sure he would want to do it before he has to do promotion for his other
drama the manipulated, and he is still filming Goldland with Park Bo-young.

Those charts don't look like it is sweeping anything.

No, it's a re-imagining, same plot outline but different execution.

I see Yoo Jae-myung flew to Vietnam to attend the premiere even though he only has a little cameo. That is very nice of him.

Yeah, I think the cast mentioned in an interview with Na PD that Kyung Soo is more behind the scenes planning, and Kwang Soo is the one who is more hands on bad guy.