Dammit just jump already! Stop hogging that healthy liver!
I think the first kdrama I ever really fell in love with was Delightful Girl Chun-Hyang. Sure I had tried out other kdramas like Goong and Full House and found them fun and delightful. But something about DGHC made me want to watch it over and over again. Of course, it helped that it had one of the best OTP's. Mong-Ryong and Chun-Hyang are one of the most adorable kdrama couples ever who are also the best of friends and how often can you say that about most dorama OTP's. And their relationship was alternately hilarious and adorable and painful, down to earth with undertones of an epic romance. Mong-Ryong is just touching in his devotion to Chun-Hyang, refusing to let go even when she's begging him to and hurting him every way she can think of. And I love Chun-Hyang who, even when she loses everything which happens a lot in the series, a little broken but a lot stronger.
Also, I know this is going to be an incredibly unpopular but I actually liked evil CEO guy. I think that might be influenced by the fact that I checked out The Devil before DGHC and thought Uhm Tae Wong was so amazing that I actually liked his character more than Joo Ji-Hoon's character. But when he was playing the other guy in DGHC, I couldn't help but be somewhat fascinated by his character and his pathological obsession with the heroine. The way his eyes go intense and restrained all at once is just....wow. Even if I hate him for hurting the main characters, Uhm Tae Wong plays it so well that I can sympathize with him because no matter what he does, he isn't going to win. She will never love him and the more he tries to hold on to her its not enough, just enough to hurt them both. Then I look back at the early episodes when she looked up to him with innocent admiration...can't help but pity the guy although it was his own damn fault.
One of my favorite scenes in the series was when Chun-Hyang is at the airport about to skip the country and he's already there to meet her. He tells her not to leave and she replies that she's not going to stay with him no matter. And then he says: "My wanting to be with you...ever think it might be out of love?" Chun-Hyang replies, all bitter and triumphant: "I don't care about your love. But I'll use it to keep Mong-Ryong safe just as you used my love for him." He just stares at her and I can only imagine that he's thinking how things became so wrong between the two of them.
The chemistry between is just straight acid and I mean that in a good way.
Now on to some more functional couples. Or at least gifs of them.
Gwen and Arthur from Merlin
I'm going to enjoy watching Arthur fall in love this season. Bradley James is so pretty when he's angsting.
Beo Jin and Park Kyu from Tamra the Island
You know, after watching episodes 7 and 8 of Tamra, I just really hope that Beo-Jin and Park Kyu are the endgame and not Beo Jin/William. Because Beo Jin is DUMB. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb as a bag of bricks. Really DUMB bricks. And William is not much smarter. If you see your boarder skulking in the bushes and you suspect he's on some sort of mission that requires stealth, you do not bounce up to him and start chirping about why he's hiding in the bushes. Especially when the guy he's spying on is right THERE. Or you catch him breaking into a house and decide to follow him inside which somehow ends up with the two of you hiding in the closet, how bout shutting your trap for five minutes until the owner of the house leaves the room? But it turns out well because Park Kyu shuts it for her. With his mouth.
I dunno, you could've just gagged her with her own hair.
I'll let it pass because she's not really aware of his true identity but she does know that he is loads smarter than her so when he says "Do not go out tonight to meet your boyfriend" maybe just stay in and play cards or something rather than going out to meet your boyfriend because the date will end with the two of you witnessing an attempted murder and then getting captured.
Of course this leads Park Kyu to freak out and track them down to some shack in the woods where he OH HOLY CRAP HE JUST SNAPPED A GUY'S NECK!!! SNAPPED IT LIKE A GODDAMN TWIG! That pompous, goofy, immature, stuffy, smug bastard of an exile totally whacked a guy like he's been doing it for the mafia for ages. He barely even blinks, just walks past the soldier's corpse like it was tissue paper. That is badass and awesome and yes, I'm aware that I sound like a sociopath but ddaaaammmmnnnn. I didn't know he had it in him. In episode 5, I thought he looked jealous enough to hire a hitman to off William. Now I realize he'd probably do it himself rather than waste the money. Not that he would...mostly likely.
Also, I know this is going to be an incredibly unpopular but I actually liked evil CEO guy. I think that might be influenced by the fact that I checked out The Devil before DGHC and thought Uhm Tae Wong was so amazing that I actually liked his character more than Joo Ji-Hoon's character. But when he was playing the other guy in DGHC, I couldn't help but be somewhat fascinated by his character and his pathological obsession with the heroine. The way his eyes go intense and restrained all at once is just....wow. Even if I hate him for hurting the main characters, Uhm Tae Wong plays it so well that I can sympathize with him because no matter what he does, he isn't going to win. She will never love him and the more he tries to hold on to her its not enough, just enough to hurt them both. Then I look back at the early episodes when she looked up to him with innocent admiration...can't help but pity the guy although it was his own damn fault.
One of my favorite scenes in the series was when Chun-Hyang is at the airport about to skip the country and he's already there to meet her. He tells her not to leave and she replies that she's not going to stay with him no matter. And then he says: "My wanting to be with you...ever think it might be out of love?" Chun-Hyang replies, all bitter and triumphant: "I don't care about your love. But I'll use it to keep Mong-Ryong safe just as you used my love for him." He just stares at her and I can only imagine that he's thinking how things became so wrong between the two of them.
Click to viewThe chemistry between is just straight acid and I mean that in a good way.
Now on to some more functional couples. Or at least gifs of them.
Gwen and Arthur from Merlin
I'm going to enjoy watching Arthur fall in love this season. Bradley James is so pretty when he's angsting.
Beo Jin and Park Kyu from Tamra the Island
You know, after watching episodes 7 and 8 of Tamra, I just really hope that Beo-Jin and Park Kyu are the endgame and not Beo Jin/William. Because Beo Jin is DUMB. Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb as a bag of bricks. Really DUMB bricks. And William is not much smarter. If you see your boarder skulking in the bushes and you suspect he's on some sort of mission that requires stealth, you do not bounce up to him and start chirping about why he's hiding in the bushes. Especially when the guy he's spying on is right THERE. Or you catch him breaking into a house and decide to follow him inside which somehow ends up with the two of you hiding in the closet, how bout shutting your trap for five minutes until the owner of the house leaves the room? But it turns out well because Park Kyu shuts it for her. With his mouth.
I dunno, you could've just gagged her with her own hair.
I'll let it pass because she's not really aware of his true identity but she does know that he is loads smarter than her so when he says "Do not go out tonight to meet your boyfriend" maybe just stay in and play cards or something rather than going out to meet your boyfriend because the date will end with the two of you witnessing an attempted murder and then getting captured.
Of course this leads Park Kyu to freak out and track them down to some shack in the woods where he OH HOLY CRAP HE JUST SNAPPED A GUY'S NECK!!! SNAPPED IT LIKE A GODDAMN TWIG! That pompous, goofy, immature, stuffy, smug bastard of an exile totally whacked a guy like he's been doing it for the mafia for ages. He barely even blinks, just walks past the soldier's corpse like it was tissue paper. That is badass and awesome and yes, I'm aware that I sound like a sociopath but ddaaaammmmnnnn. I didn't know he had it in him. In episode 5, I thought he looked jealous enough to hire a hitman to off William. Now I realize he'd probably do it himself rather than waste the money. Not that he would...mostly likely.