Timothy Baril

Hyori Lee’s (Lee Hyo Ri / 이효리) 3rd album is fantastic!! It’s a great mix of R&B and pop, a little reggae, that makes you want to get up and dance. It’s fun, it’s sexy, and from the 1st to last, the tracks are all worth listening to. You’ll surely find more than a few [...]

I’ve been struggling for some time with money, being burdened with some rather large outstanding debts. This has meant I’ve been far to embarrassed to even contemplate the idea of dating and finding a future, let alone eating regularly. So I’ve been looking about for a second job and the like. Hoping I could clean [...]

Samsung, the giant Korean cell phone company has put together a GREAT series of mini-movie music videos to promote their phones. They center around either Lee Hyori or BoA, Korea’s hottest, most talented, most beautiful female pop stars, and an ensemble of other music stars.
I love BoA very much, but I have to say, Lee [...]

Screen pics from Sexy Teacher/Hot for Teacher are now in the gallery:
http://www.barilsports.com/Media1

I watched the Korean film Sexy Teacher/Hot For Teacher (Depends on translation) last night. It’s a very silly sexual comedy, but was charming enough. The real star of the show and the reason I spent hours trying to find it, download it, convert it, find subtitles, and watch it: is Kim Sa Rang.
I’m completely enamored [...]

Two of Korea’s hottest, sexiest music performers face off at the awards. Great voices. Hyori does an excellent job with this song. I like it better than the original.

200 Pounds Beauty is an absolutely wonderful Korean film, following along a similar premises as the Hollywood movie Shallow Hal (obesity) and the Korean tv drama Coffee Prince (mistaken identity).
You can read the in-depth synopsis at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200_Pounds_Beauty
However, the above includes spoilers, so better to watch it yourself.
It features STUNNING famous beauty Kim Ah-jung (this is [...]

If you haven’t heard of it yet - FIND IT! This Korean drama is hilarious and feel good. And the style in which it is filmed makes it feel so much more real than typical American TV dramas like OC or sitcoms. The leads are terrific and so much fun.
Oh, and Chae Jung An is [...]