Thee different but awesome kdrama women
1. Is anyone else excited for just started period kdrama Princess Ja Myung Go? I am so excited, I can hardly wait! The only thing better than a Korean period drama (I have yet to see a bad one) is a woman-centric Korean period drama and this is it!
PJMG stars Jung Ryo Won as the title character, Park Min Young as her sister, Princess Nak-Rang, and Jung Kyung Ho as the object of both their affections and heir to an enemy kingdom, Prince Hodong (yes, that Hodong- the son of Song Il Gook's character from Kingdom of the Winds, which if you haven't seen btw, what are you doing, go watch!)
According to legend, 2000 years ago, the Kingdom of Nangang possessed a magical drum which would warn of invaders. But in this story, the 'drum' is the Princess Ja Myung - one of two daughters of the King. One daughter has been prophesied to save the kingdom and one to bring destruction, but which is which?
Watch PJNG to find kickass, strong women, awesome battle sequences and fights, and the most star-crossed forbidden love story since...I was going to say Romeo & Juliet, but let's face it, since the last angsty period kdrama! With the alternative title being 'The Story of Self Destruction' don't expect a happy ending though!
This can serve as a pretty awesome trailer:
2. I found my favorite scene from Lobbyist on line: Maria digging a bullet out of Harry with just a knife and a bottle of alcohol.
Lobbyist was a flawed drama that I really liked overall: Harry was a strong man who'd nonthelss sacrifice anything for Maria (the guy got hideously tortured for her, among other things!) and Maria was an even stronger woman, who could fight, bargain, and deal with the best of them. Oh, and the drama didn't view her as a slut for sleeping with a potential customer or supplier if that was what needed to get the deal - just hardbitten.
3. If you like your women without fighting abilities and somewhat more traditional but nontheless strong and awesome, how about the heroine of one of my favorite romantic dramas, Save the Last Dance for Me?
This shippy MV is so wonderful:
StLDfM is a drama that always always always makes me feel better - it's deceptively simple but so pitch perfect - in its romance, in its angst, in its happiness. And it's impossible not to love the two lead characters who are just such good people. Mmmm. Also, take note: an amnesia story done right, for once! The whole plot about them being in love and then his forgetting her and their life together, but slowly and almost unwillingly falling in love with her all over again? I cried. I squeed. I bawled and laughed and acted like a maniac throughout.
So, you go, awesome kdrama women!
PJMG stars Jung Ryo Won as the title character, Park Min Young as her sister, Princess Nak-Rang, and Jung Kyung Ho as the object of both their affections and heir to an enemy kingdom, Prince Hodong (yes, that Hodong- the son of Song Il Gook's character from Kingdom of the Winds, which if you haven't seen btw, what are you doing, go watch!)
According to legend, 2000 years ago, the Kingdom of Nangang possessed a magical drum which would warn of invaders. But in this story, the 'drum' is the Princess Ja Myung - one of two daughters of the King. One daughter has been prophesied to save the kingdom and one to bring destruction, but which is which?
Watch PJNG to find kickass, strong women, awesome battle sequences and fights, and the most star-crossed forbidden love story since...I was going to say Romeo & Juliet, but let's face it, since the last angsty period kdrama! With the alternative title being 'The Story of Self Destruction' don't expect a happy ending though!
This can serve as a pretty awesome trailer:
Click to view2. I found my favorite scene from Lobbyist on line: Maria digging a bullet out of Harry with just a knife and a bottle of alcohol.
Lobbyist was a flawed drama that I really liked overall: Harry was a strong man who'd nonthelss sacrifice anything for Maria (the guy got hideously tortured for her, among other things!) and Maria was an even stronger woman, who could fight, bargain, and deal with the best of them. Oh, and the drama didn't view her as a slut for sleeping with a potential customer or supplier if that was what needed to get the deal - just hardbitten.
3. If you like your women without fighting abilities and somewhat more traditional but nontheless strong and awesome, how about the heroine of one of my favorite romantic dramas, Save the Last Dance for Me?
This shippy MV is so wonderful:
StLDfM is a drama that always always always makes me feel better - it's deceptively simple but so pitch perfect - in its romance, in its angst, in its happiness. And it's impossible not to love the two lead characters who are just such good people. Mmmm. Also, take note: an amnesia story done right, for once! The whole plot about them being in love and then his forgetting her and their life together, but slowly and almost unwillingly falling in love with her all over again? I cried. I squeed. I bawled and laughed and acted like a maniac throughout.
So, you go, awesome kdrama women!