Jang Geun-suk
I was browsing netflix and the Korean drama "You're Beautiful" was reccomdended. It seemed like standard asian drama, cross-dressing girl, cute musicians. . . but is was Korean. There are a MILLION of these, I hadn't watched nay , because I can't understand any korean. I'm hardly fluent in Japanese, but I CAN understand some of it, and can pick out words even if I don't understand. But Korean?
Well, SO GLAD I watched it. As was my experience with J-drama, the story took it's time to unfold, and the romance was 100% G-rated, but. . . Somehow, they can make SO MUCH out of SO LITTLE. Instead of being about sex and physical gratification, the romance takes it's time to develop, and the build up to even a HUG is so filled with emotion, it is amazing. The love story is about the emotions, not the consummation. It also helps that the emotional build-up is so good, because the kiss scenes are. . . terrible. lol
And. . .and. . . I LOVE Jang Geun-Suk. He is beautiful and his voice is beautiful too. Maybe it's because this was my first K-Drama. When I watched my first J-Drama, Kurosagi, I loved Yama-pi the most too. But Jang Geun-Suk is, in my opinion, a MUCH better actor, and a better singer. I don't usually go for ballads, especially if they aren't at least in Japanese so I can sing along a little, bu tI can't stop listening to his music. And, fortunately for me, as it seems his popularity in Japan may be greater, or at least more secure, than in Korea, his albums are all in Japanese, lol. Good for me!
After finishing You're Beautiful, I watched the only other Jang Geun-Suk offering Netflix had, a moive called Baby and Me. Unlike You're beautiful, in which JKS's character spends most of his time being arrogant and moody, flashing his gorgeous smile only rarely, in Baby and Me we get to see it often. And it is glorious.
The movie itself is touching. I think I was about an hour into the show before realizing it was a movie and not a tv show. JKS's character is your run-of-the-mill delinquent, pisses off his parents and they leave home, leaving him 100$ and saying they won't be back until he straightens up (via note). And then, in the supermarket, he gets a special gift in his cart - his baby son. The movie follows his characters maturation as he accepts and comes to love his son, reconciles with his parents, and, when he discovers that the baby wasn't his after all, the internal struggle that leads him to accept that the baby IS his son after all and he can't be without him. In the end he races to the airport, evading sceurity to find his child before he leaves with adoptive parents, and you can feel how much he loves the baby as he cries and shouts while security restrains him. And then at the end, that beautiful smile as he expresses joy at having the baby back.
I am currently watching the drama Beethoven Virus, in which JKS is one of the 2 male leads. Once again we are ack to a character wiht restrained emotions, who smiles infrequently, but when he does you can tell it's because he's really happy and not just to look good on camera. The emotions in this show are so restrained, the tension is palpable when the characters are experiencing stron gemotions but not expressing them explosively. And it is quite mature. A show about ameture musicians struggling to become an orchestra, an older conductor who speaks only honestly and is pretty much a jerk because of it, his younger apprentice, and a young woman who falls for, in a unique and refreshing twist, the older, more mature man.
Well, SO GLAD I watched it. As was my experience with J-drama, the story took it's time to unfold, and the romance was 100% G-rated, but. . . Somehow, they can make SO MUCH out of SO LITTLE. Instead of being about sex and physical gratification, the romance takes it's time to develop, and the build up to even a HUG is so filled with emotion, it is amazing. The love story is about the emotions, not the consummation. It also helps that the emotional build-up is so good, because the kiss scenes are. . . terrible. lol
And. . .and. . . I LOVE Jang Geun-Suk. He is beautiful and his voice is beautiful too. Maybe it's because this was my first K-Drama. When I watched my first J-Drama, Kurosagi, I loved Yama-pi the most too. But Jang Geun-Suk is, in my opinion, a MUCH better actor, and a better singer. I don't usually go for ballads, especially if they aren't at least in Japanese so I can sing along a little, bu tI can't stop listening to his music. And, fortunately for me, as it seems his popularity in Japan may be greater, or at least more secure, than in Korea, his albums are all in Japanese, lol. Good for me!
After finishing You're Beautiful, I watched the only other Jang Geun-Suk offering Netflix had, a moive called Baby and Me. Unlike You're beautiful, in which JKS's character spends most of his time being arrogant and moody, flashing his gorgeous smile only rarely, in Baby and Me we get to see it often. And it is glorious.
The movie itself is touching. I think I was about an hour into the show before realizing it was a movie and not a tv show. JKS's character is your run-of-the-mill delinquent, pisses off his parents and they leave home, leaving him 100$ and saying they won't be back until he straightens up (via note). And then, in the supermarket, he gets a special gift in his cart - his baby son. The movie follows his characters maturation as he accepts and comes to love his son, reconciles with his parents, and, when he discovers that the baby wasn't his after all, the internal struggle that leads him to accept that the baby IS his son after all and he can't be without him. In the end he races to the airport, evading sceurity to find his child before he leaves with adoptive parents, and you can feel how much he loves the baby as he cries and shouts while security restrains him. And then at the end, that beautiful smile as he expresses joy at having the baby back.
I am currently watching the drama Beethoven Virus, in which JKS is one of the 2 male leads. Once again we are ack to a character wiht restrained emotions, who smiles infrequently, but when he does you can tell it's because he's really happy and not just to look good on camera. The emotions in this show are so restrained, the tension is palpable when the characters are experiencing stron gemotions but not expressing them explosively. And it is quite mature. A show about ameture musicians struggling to become an orchestra, an older conductor who speaks only honestly and is pretty much a jerk because of it, his younger apprentice, and a young woman who falls for, in a unique and refreshing twist, the older, more mature man.