I was browsing around Dramabeans' site and was appalled to discover how many people loved the pool scene from the end of Boys Over FlowersYes. They love the scene where heroine (who has been previously crippled and thus can't swim) jumps into a pool in front of amnesiac hero as a way to force him to remember her. If he does not, she risks drowning ( Read more... )

Is there a single female character on Worlds Within who is NOT awesome? It doesn't feel like a typical Korean drama in its attitudes at all - these women are not self-sacrificing saints - they are capable of sacrifice to the same degree as men, but they are ambitious, strong-willed, knowing what they want. And not a single one has a life which ( Read more... )

I am about half-an-episode into Worlds Within and so far I like it. Now, this means little - there have been plenty of dramas which I started out by liking and ended up loathing and vice-versa ( Read more... )

The Hero has now cholroformed Heroine and stuffed her in the truck. That's quite a first meeting ( Read more... )

OK, guys, I hate myself a little - but viikii has Defendant of Love subbed and I found myself starting the first episode. I posted about it before but DoL is a Thai drama - an umpteenth hit adaptation of some really popular novel about how Hero decides to avenge the fact that his brother offed himself over the girl by kidnapping and torturing said ( Read more... )

Reading comments on the Time of India website, relating to an article addressing the scandal of Bollywood actor's Shiney Ahuja being accused of rape by his 18-yr-old maid (the cops have corroborating evidence of sexual assault) is...interesting.

There are reasonable people and then there are people like this:

I think (assume) that being the ( Read more... )

I am sure anyone who is interested in the issue is already following the fallout over the Iranian election.

However, I found this article especially interesting because it deals with women's issues on the whole.

As you peruse the images coming out of Iran from all over, remember this: when you see a woman with a tunic above her knees, red ( Read more... )

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Ahhh, and now with date rape and attempted murder.

WHAT?

This is the plot of the currently airing and very successful kdrama Temptation of a Wife. I got curious what it was about and finally looked it up.

One night Goo Eun Jae (heroine) got drunk and Jung Gyo Bin took this opportunity to take advantage of her. Eun Jae and Gyo Bin got married but ( Read more... )

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