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South Korean-Canadian actor Lee Jae-yoon, one of the stars of the Netflix reality series Physical: 100, has been doing the rounds of Hong Kong arts events. He even took part in the 2025 Standard Chartered Hong Kong marathon.Now the city is about to see a lot more of him.Best known for his roles in the 2023 film Spring in Seoul and television dramas My Love By My Side (2011), Heartless City (2013) and Mother (2018), Lee is set to star in The Season, a six-part drama series set in Hong Kong.A casting call for the show posted on social media earlier this year describes the series as a White Lotus-type drama “with wealthy, complicated, and ultimately human characters”.It follows a group of posh buddies who get together for some summer fun until deception and power struggles take them down life...

As a producer, director and the lead actress for the Emmy-winning television series The Handmaid’s Tale, Elisabeth Moss is not ready to say goodbye to the dystopian drama series after a six-season-long run.“There’s been a very few periods of my life in the last nine years that I have not been working on this show,” Moss said of the series, showing on Max.“It hasn’t hit me at all yet that I’m not playing her [June Osborne] any more,” she added.The series, created by Bruce Miller and based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, will debut its sixth and final season on April 8.Elisabeth Moss as June Osborne in a scene from The Handmaid’s Tale. Photo: APSome women, called handmaids, are treated as breeders who must bear children for superior infertile families....

This article contains spoilers.2/5 starsLead cast: Lee Sun-bin, Kang Tae-ohLatest Nielsen rating: 1.79 per centThe great thing about potatoes is how versatile they are. Fry them, boil them, steam them, mash them – no matter how you slice or cook them, you’ll probably wind up with a tasty dish.The same, alas, cannot be said for The Potato Lab, a rigidly formulaic Korean drama series that does not dare stray from the tried and true recipe of the workplace romantic comedy.

A group of Chinese people decided they wanted China’s biggest movie to be big in the United States, literally. So they made it really big.And therein lies a story.On a recent Saturday afternoon, more than 100 people gathered at an IMAX screening room in a cinema outside Baltimore, in the US state of Maryland.Many were Chinese students and young professionals, while parents took their children – some of whom dressed as the movie’s main characters. Men and women wore traditional Chinese outfits.People lined up to sign their names on a Chinese scroll and get tickets styled like traditional Chinese paintings. Some posed for pictures with spears and swords.

Earlier this year, Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz had a near-death experience, and not for the first time.He was editing his new film, Magellan, when he began vomiting blood. “I almost died from tuberculosis. I vomited blood four times. It was scary,” he says.When we met for this interview, the 66-year-old was sitting in a hotel in Doha, Qatar. “This is the first time that I’ve got out of the Philippines [since then],” he explains. “I’m still on medication.”He seems entirely calm, but then he is no stranger to death.Right from the start, I knew that there was going to be a lot of rejection of my kind of cinema.Lav Diaz, Filipino filmmakerBorn in Columbio, Mindanao, Diaz grew up in a world where you would need to walk miles to see a doctor, where everything from crocodiles to the common cold c...

The blue wedding car, adorned with decorations, rolled to a stop in front of the church.Dressed in a white gown, IU’s character Yang Geum-myeong beamed as friends cheered her on. Beneath a shower of confetti and balloons soaring into the blue sky, she smiled with joy.Watching from a distance, her former lover offered a quiet smile, lost in memories of the past.A still from When Life Gives You Tangerines, with IU as Yang Geum-myeong. Photo: NetflixIt was filmed at Gasil Cathedral in Waegwan Town, Chilgok, North Gyeongsang province, South Korea – a church now drawing renewed attention following the drama’s success.

Liking a co-worker’s photo on social media. Sending them direct messages. Checking in on Slack more often than before.Progressively interacting in this way with someone outside your relationship may be no big deal to you. To your significant other, however, it may be microcheating, which some people consider a form of infidelity because it can involve building a bond one heart emoji at a time.Although pushing the boundaries of what is allowed in a relationship is not a new concept, the issue has become even more common with the rise of remote work, said William Schroeder, a therapist and owner of Just Mind Counselling centres in Austin, in the US state of Texas.“People are having more digital relationships, so it kind of creates more space for that,” Schroeder said. “In this work-from-home...

At 7.30pm Hong Kong time on April 1, the dissident Chinese-Australian artist known as Badiucao revealed to his 55,500 Instagram followers that he had managed to pull off a stunt in the city.His video posted to the social media platform shows the artist’s face, with his signature untamed beard, appearing in black and white on two large outdoor billboards for about four seconds.His mouth moves silently as traffic and pedestrians stream past. The Instagram post explains what he is mouthing, in English: “You must take part in revolution.” It is a line taken from a 1937 essay, “On Practice”, by late Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong that is also the title of his new graphic novel, written by Emmy-nominated journalist Melissa Chan.The short video clips, filmed from the street, are undate...

Chinatowns are often portrayed as gritty underworlds riddled with prostitution, gambling and drug trafficking. Some of this is rooted in truth, but that unfair depiction is largely the result of rampant xenophobia and cultural ignorance, especially in the West.In a series of articles, the Post explores the historical and social significance of major Chinatowns around the world and the communities that shape them.Known today as the oldest Chinatown in North America, San Francisco’s Chinatown has a remarkable history that spans over 175 years.Initially only occupying the area around Portsmouth Square and the nearby Dupont Street (now Grant Avenue) back in the 1850s, the neighbourhood now encompasses 30 square blocks in downtown San Francisco and is one of the largest Chinese enclaves outside...

Many people, from drivers to doctors, work in shifts. Some start early in the morning, others at midday. Some work at night while everyone else is asleep.Working at night is particularly challenging for the body because it goes against our natural rhythms. How does a person get used to it?Specialists provide some helpful advice.How does shift and night work affect our bodies?Many of our bodily functions shut down at night. Our body temperature drops and our pulse, digestive system and breathing slow down.“Your body wants to rest and relax, so working against the circadian rhythm (the body’s natural 24-hour cycle) is always associated with greater effort,” says Frank Brenscheidt from Germany’s Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.Sleeping during the day is not as restorative...