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Pop quiz! Lady detective Namsoon of Duelist (2005) is turned on by
(a) violence
(b) pretty boys
(c) criminals
(d) sad pandas
(e) some synergistic combination of all the above

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I'm not sure I really care about the answer because I think I could fall in love with Ha Ji Won just with the thought that she might have done most half of the fight ( Read more... )

Um, hello, my new love Ha Ji Won (alternate wiki database). (This is in addition to my love for Son Ye Jin, as the two have very different resumes that allow them to fill different niches in my heart.)* I think my love can be summed up in a simple phrase: tomboy roles. Ha Ji Won's performance in Damo (2003) as leading lady Jang Chae-Ohk wasn't ( Read more... )

So I stayed up to finish Damo (kdrama, 2003, 14 episodes) and I'm not sure how I feel about this drama. At the moment, the negatives stick out in my mind: ( Read more... )

Do you know what I find funny (sometimes annoying) about martial arts in Asian dramas? Besides the cliche that chicks can really only kick other chicks' asses? (Well, to her credit, Chae-Ohk can kick the asses of lesser male minions, but I doubt she can take down either of the two male leads.)


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ZOMGWTFBBQ, this historical drama with a fictional gender-bending twist is so gay--except it won't be gay anymore soon. D ( Read more... )

I was going to post about my shameless fan-stalking of Son Ye Jin's other works (notably movies Lover's Concerto (2003), Crazy First Love (2003)[good lord, she had three movies come out in 2003], A Moment to Remember (2004), and Open City (2007)), but then I thought, Goddamn, I love Alone in Love. So have some videos:

The Theme/Ending Song. ( Read more... )

So I was going to post about my sudden and deep crush on Korean actress Son Ye Jin but I love Alone in Love (2006), a drama in which she stars, so much that I feel the need to unabashedly gush about this drama.

Warning! Alone in Love contains ( Read more... )

I . . . have such a talent!kink. EFF! And now I'm a sad kitty because there are only two episodes subbed and I don't know a word of Korean to understand a single thing they say in the raws! (This series airs twice a week (!) in Korea, so it's already up to episode 7 of 16.) Darn it! However, I have added the words "ahjumma," "aigoo," and "sunbae" ( Read more... )