MUSIC
- Epik High’s new bilingual site is up, with full song samples, band member blogs, and lots of other goodies. Their latest album, Map the Soul, will be available on iTunes March 27th (*site no longer available*).
MANGA
- John Jakala at Sporadic Sequential made my week with this tip: save money on manga by shopping at Tower.com. I work at a bookstore part-time and my employee discount is 33% before sales tax, but Tower had certain titles for 37 to 45% off, no sales tax. In the words of Kyoko Mogami:
DRAMAS & MOVIES
Twitch has a trailer for Joe Odagiri’s latest movie, Plastic City.
- Antique (right), the Korean film based on Fumi Yoshinaga’s Antique Bakery, is finally out on DVD. I’m still writing my review, but the short version is SEE IT. It’s hysterical and worthy of the manga.
- Dramabeans has a good take on the Jang Ja-Yeon scandal [Jang Ja-Yeon was a young actress who committed suicide after debuting on the top-rated Boys Before Flowers].
- Dramabeans also has info on two promising new drama series: Kim Sun-Ah’s (My Lovely Sam-Soon) new drama City Hall and Sandglass writer Song Ji-Nah’s new series, Story of a Man.
- Finally, just because: a fan combined Boys Before Flowers footage with the Antique trailer:
