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This is a 2006 drama about the life of Hwang Jin-Yi, a Joseon period gisaeng who was famous for her poetry, art, music, and dancing. We begin with wee!Jin-Yi, who has been raised in a Buddhist monastery, as her mother, a gisaeng herself, wanted Jin-Yi to be able to escape gisaeng life. Unfortunately for the mother, Jin-Yi ends up watching the ( Read more... )

Okay, this is definitely up there with Coffee Prince and Dal Ja's Spring as one of my favorite trendy dramas, and it may actually surpass them at some points (particularly the ending, since it didn't get an episode extension). It has less "awwwwww so cute" moments than CP and less hilarious-making-fun-of-drama-tropes moments than DJS, but it makes ( Read more... )

Or: What I Did for Winter Vacation
Subtitle: Kdramas, I missed you so much!!!!

(My sister and I started Secret Garden as well, though I got yelled at when she realized I had started her on an as-of-then incomplete drama ( Read more... )

Wait, there is an upcoming kdrama with Hyun Bin (why do I like him?! He's not even very good!) and a female star who looks like this? And wants to be a martial arts star? With body switching thrown in?

... clearly I have not been keeping up with my blogroll enough.

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I'm doing (yet another) presentation on kdramas for Korean class and was wondering off I could get anecdotes from people ( Read more... )

• It's nice to know that even when I have no context because I started watching at episode eleven and don't have enough Korean to really understand anything, drunken karaoke scenes with the requisite piggy back ride and vomiting still crack me up.
• As an addendum to this, Kang Ji Hwan's charm conquers all language boundaries, especially when he is in ( Read more... )

(original title: 아직도 결혼하고 싶은 여자)

This is about three friends-Lee Shin Young, Kim Bu Gi, and Jung Da Jung-and their successes and failures in love and work. I think this has been billed as Korea's Sex in the City several times, but a) I've only seen bits of the show, b) what I did see I wasn't a huge fan of, and c) and I hate the "[name], [country ( Read more... )

This continues to be a fun, fluffy watch for me. The fashions for Yoon Eun Hye's character can be amazingly ridiculous-the shoulder pads! the neon leggings! the leather butterfly vest thing I have no words to adequately describe-and I'm very much enjoying Yoon Sang Hyeon as Seo Dong Chan ( Read more... )

(original title: 9회말 2아웃 ( Read more... )