An Implicit Admission about Korean Reality TV
WGM: savior of K-Dramas?
OK, no, but
I started watching Heartstrings, starring Park Shin-Hye and Jung Yong-Hwa, who were in You're Beautiful.
HOT POSTER, why do none of the sites with episodes use this for a header?
Yong-Hwa is a pretty band-idol and in YB he played the doomed-love second lead male. Kind of...awkwardly.
Then he went on We Got Married, spent a year or something teaching Seo-Hyun how to act like a girl and apparently got comfortable in front of the camera in a way he didn't actually filming a drama. He's playing lead in this drama and actually making it work. No one is more surprised than I, lemme tell you.
And I realize that Hyun-Joong's acting in Boys Before Flowers (and Playful Kiss) isn't really anything to write home about, but after watching him get so much more at ease in front of the camera there...I kind of wonder if agencies try to get their idols onto this when they're plotting drama cross-overs for them on purpose.
Because that is a really bright idea.
They have to be themselves, but in a TV friendly way--essentially, playing themselves as a persona. That's gotta be good for learning to act like a real person on camera, instead of a paper doll.
Anyway. Heartstrings is kind of fun, I don't know whether I'll stick it out but for now I'll keep looking at it when I've run out of City Hunter and other things. During the first two episodes, I'm totally shipping the wrong man. :| Remind me to tell you about how cute Myung Wol the Spy is going to be sometime, too! I'm on the OTP ship like whoa for that one, and I've only read the recap for the second episode, since it's not subbed yet...
OK, no, but
I started watching Heartstrings, starring Park Shin-Hye and Jung Yong-Hwa, who were in You're Beautiful.
HOT POSTER, why do none of the sites with episodes use this for a header?
Yong-Hwa is a pretty band-idol and in YB he played the doomed-love second lead male. Kind of...awkwardly.
Then he went on We Got Married, spent a year or something teaching Seo-Hyun how to act like a girl and apparently got comfortable in front of the camera in a way he didn't actually filming a drama. He's playing lead in this drama and actually making it work. No one is more surprised than I, lemme tell you.
And I realize that Hyun-Joong's acting in Boys Before Flowers (and Playful Kiss) isn't really anything to write home about, but after watching him get so much more at ease in front of the camera there...I kind of wonder if agencies try to get their idols onto this when they're plotting drama cross-overs for them on purpose.
Because that is a really bright idea.
They have to be themselves, but in a TV friendly way--essentially, playing themselves as a persona. That's gotta be good for learning to act like a real person on camera, instead of a paper doll.
Anyway. Heartstrings is kind of fun, I don't know whether I'll stick it out but for now I'll keep looking at it when I've run out of City Hunter and other things. During the first two episodes, I'm totally shipping the wrong man. :| Remind me to tell you about how cute Myung Wol the Spy is going to be sometime, too! I'm on the OTP ship like whoa for that one, and I've only read the recap for the second episode, since it's not subbed yet...