We Got Married
I've become completely addicted to this South Korean reality show called 'We Got Married.' The concept is very interesting: the show casts eight Korean celebrities and put them together as 'married' couples so they can experience what it's like to live the life of a married. The directors match up the couples so the celebrities don't have any say
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And as dumb as it could be, I've been stunned by just how deep and honest some of the couples' interactions. They seem like that couple who lives down the street or friends who just got married and are still trying to figure it out and each other.
Crown J and In Young are awesome. I love how he has such a big heart and caring nature behind his hip hop bravado and I love how she seems to care about him even while being a spoiled little princess.
Yup, Hyunjoong has been officially cast as the Rui character in the upcoming Korean Hana Yori Dango remake Boys Over Flowers. He seems like such a great guy. Even at 22, he *gets it*, in my opinion he's been one of the best husbands on the show.
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Hells to the yes. And if they don't force arranged marriages on Ueno Jurie & Eita and Aoi Yuu & Shugo Oshinari, my ass will be outside the studio of NHK, TBS, Fuji TV or whichever station is airing it, with signs protesting.
I am a sucker for the reality-behind-the-celebrity-veneer trope, because OMG HAUNTED PAST HIDDEN BEHIND RED CARPET FLASHBULBS. It pushes all my buttons, seriously.
Mine too SO HARD. When Shin Ae was commenting calmly in a confessional that in the beginning of her career as a model in commercials, they were usually for beauty products and only showed her from the neck up and she suffered a lot of backlash from fans after her first tv drama and they saw her entire body and saw that she was taller and curvier than the stereotypical cute tiny bird-boned Asian girl...man, I teared up because she's freaking gorgeous, all of her, and it was obvious that she didn't think so. And how she would comment upon seeing photo spreads of herself that they didn't look like her made my heart hurt.
Don't even get my started on Hyunjoong and his boyband...I don't really care about their music, I'm not into boyband pop, but they're like my little brothers, I'm so fond of them. When he came back onto the show after their mini-tour of Japan looking markedly thinner and very weary, I was practically wringing my hands while sitting in front of my computer screen. I was stunned when I first saw SS501's Deja Vu music video, it was like seeing different people, I was like who are these slick arrogant-looking men with their black leather outfits and teased hair and smirks? What happened to little Hyung Joon and Kyu Jong who shyly asked Hwangbo when she visited the band in Japan to make them fried chicken and introduce them to a couple of nice pretty girls? What happened to little Jung Min who hovered around Hwangbo as she made breakfast for the band because it reminded him of his mom cooking back home? What happened to sleepy little Young Saeng who wouldn't wake up for breakfast no matter how much he was shaken or tickled? And after concerts, they just sit around sequestered in their crappy little dorm-like hotel room reading manga and playing around with their little karaoke machine instead of hitting every sleazy karaoke bar or picking up fangirls and taking them to love hotels. Then the camera shows the big board on the hotel room wall that has them scheduled and regimented practically down to the minute and I got really sad.
Poor lonely little boy pop idols. That mixture of suspended stunted childlike innocence and weary traveled worldliness got me in the gut. No wonder Hyunjoong listens so well to his fake wife and follows her lead, all he does is listen and follow the dictates of his management like a good obedient little pop idol soldier. When he took Hwangbo to the amusement park (it's a special amusement park because it has a safari! lol, oh HJ)and wore a big ridiculous wig and yelled 'I'm NOT Kim Hyunjoong!' at the mass of fans screaming and holding up their cellphones to take pictures as they recognized him, man, I tell you, it was funny and a little heartbreaking. Okay, I'm overdramatizing, I'll stop before I end up writing horrible wretched SS501 fanfiction about how even though Hyunjoong did WGM at the urging of his management, being around Hwangbo and being on a reality show has actually given him the chance to feel free to be himself for the first time. ;b
it's on Korean TV, which means it's probably ridiculously wholesome and totally something my mom wouldn't feel odd about watching.
I think that's part of the genius of the show; that it IS wholesome in that there's nothing more 'scandalous' than a kiss on the cheek or a hug so the older generation can watch but the younger can read more into it and glean from the participants' confessionals about how they could hear their hearts pounding or how they're still in a tizzy and nervous as they remember it that the shy awkward glances and cheek pecks mean much more to those involved. And that is hotter than falling into bed, in my opinion. It's more about what didn't happen, what they may have secretly longed to happen, that appeals than anything explicit.
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I highly recommend it! I was completely verklempt through all of Hwangbo's surprise visit to her husband and his bandmates in Japan. Everything was just ahhhhhhh poor little pop idols! I got choked up so many times while watching those two episodes, from Hwangbo asking them what they did in the evenings when not performing and the boys excitedly taking her to one of their cramped meager bedrooms and dragging out their little karaoke machine when I was expecting them to be like 'drinking until I pass out in the street! Screwing girls one right after the other until they beg for mercy! Club-hopping and destroying property!' And when the boys threw Hyunjoong and Hwangbo a little congrats on being married party in the hotel room complete with handwritten letters from each of them wishing the couple well ('be good to each other and never ever get divorced please!') and two little stuffed animals representing Hyunjoong and Hwangbo and some vile looking green cocktails the boys concocted and made them drink for luck in their marriage. Oh and the boys were so precious when the couple first walked in and they were like 'sorry we don't have any fireworks but we'll make firework noises yay!' and proceeded to go 'bam, whoosh, fizzzzz!' So, so precious.
Don't stop there! You know, I'd totally read that SS501 fic if it actually came to fruition.
Dude, the fanficcy sweetness and angst practically writes itself! Hyunjoong being rushed to the hospital for a sleeping pill overdose because the stress of his schedule caused him to have horrible insomnia! Hwangbo making him some weird onion soup thing to help him sleep! Random people reproaching Hwangbo for her husband's dark eye circles and increasingly thinness! Hyunjoong writing a message to his fans on SS501's website pleading with them to stop saying and writing mean things about his wife! SS501 members visiting the married couple's apartment for a home cooked meal and to meet the blind dates Hwangbo arranged for them (Kyu Jong likes nice girls but Hyung Joon likes pretty girls, lol)! Hyunjoong surprising Hwangbo by playing the guitar and singing to her 'Falling Slowly' from the movie Once and his heartbreaking confessional where he says he loves the songs from Once and always wanted to sing the song to a girl he cared about! I don't know if Hwangbo got the significance or even knew the movie, but I was tearing up big time -- especially when he stops in the middle of the lyrics and quotes lyrics from one of her songs about not having confidence before to love someone and then he says 'I love you' to her. Man, the fanfic really writes itself!
The Japanese version would feature a reaction cam, "doki doki" sound effects, and possibly thought bubbles. The thought of it makes my heart SOAR.
Tee hee, mine too! It would be wonderful!
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I wonder about that too, in general, when I'm watching WGM. For some reason I can't put my finger on, the stuff that happens on WGM seem more natural and authentic that shenanigans on American reality shows.
I like that these boys find being nice and being pretty mutually exclusive traits in women.
Hehe, yeah, I am so amused that despite their slick boyband personas and tons of screaming flailing fangirls, they're still so clueless and naive about women.
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I Totally Agree with you about HYD -- don't care about the manga or anime, LOVE the live actions. I think Hyunjoong will end up being my favorite Rui since I already like him as person from WGM and his personality is pretty different from Rui so it likely won't take much to impress me. I think, so far, Shun is the best Rui but I'm not completely attached to him because Shun is an enigma, the consummate professional, so I have trouble evaluating how good his performance is. It must be excellent though since he pretty much is Rui in my mind.
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And lest we forget, one or both of them has an incurable terminal illness that causes them to frolic in the snow and then cough up blood in the snow.
Four good-looking, exceedingly wealthy boys solve all of my problems, and TWO OF THEM ARE IN LOVE WITH ME.
Seriously, WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO MAKE THIS MY LIFE?
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The next time I see a good-looking, arrogant rich boy, I'm going to punch him in the face so he will fall in love with me.
Good plan! I should warm up my puny fists.
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