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Currently Watching, Ji Chang-wook, Kim Min-jung, Man to Man, My Secret Romance, Nam Ji-hyun, Park Hae-jin, Park Sung-woong, Song Ji-eun, Sung Hoon, Suspicious Partner
Besh yung totoo, busy naman talaga ako sa work at pagiging single mom ko. Hindi lang pala isa yung work ko besh, may full time job ako at dalawang part time Upwork clients. Pero sinisingit ko pa rin si Oppa sa mala-Divisoria ko na schedule. Ang mga KDrama ang nagpapaga-an ng Mondays ko besh! O di kaya kung sobrang busy sa office, KissAsian or Dramahood agad pag-uwi sa bahay (after Mommy duties though).
So this week, eto yung mga pinapanood ko besh: Continue reading
Kesyo nag-episode react na ako with My Secret Romance, might as well do it for the other dramas that I like and am currently watching. I’m not gonna do this for the other dramas besh coz it’s so time consuming in fairness ha. So I’m going to just play favorites and do it for a few. XD And Suspicious Partner is one of my favorites, so here goes.
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I don’t normally do an episode blog but let’s give My Secret Romance an exemption. Panatang Makabayan besh, sama mo na sya sa lista ng mga “must watch” mo. Super duper kilig sya for me so feel ko, kikiligin ka din. XD So our loves finally broke up on this episode! It was bound to happen besh. XD But don’t despair coz happy ending naman to. She’s moving to the countryside and as much as our Jin-wook wanted to hold on to her, she didn’t give him a choice.
Whisper just finished, finally! This has been one long tense drama besh. Whew! But it was a very satisfying finale. Yung feeling mo na everyone got what they deserved, you feel justified, I mean I felt justified. Pero seryoso, I wanted to stop watching this one mga mid-season coz it was just full of conflict and feeling ko it was getting too complicated. It was full of manipulation and lies and people with ulterior motives. Nakaka-stress na! Pero I stuck around coz I was curious how they’d end it.
So basically, Lee Bo-young plays Shin Young-joo, a charismatic female section chief police officer who is passionate in her career. With her family facing financial difficulties, she has to undergo the agony and pay debts for her family. She speaks harsh, but has a heart of gold. Lee Sang-yoon plays Lee Dong-joon, a virtuous elite judge, brilliant-minded and warm-hearted, and has a willingness for weak people who needs a listening ear. To cut it short, both of them join alliances together to uncover defense industry corruption at Taebaek, the nation’s biggest law firm, which turns out to be one of the top scandals ever.
Quirky and cute guys in a band with their upbeat and likeable songs? Bring it on! Haha. Okay let me just say that I love music so I’m right where I belong. The Liar and His Lover is actually based on the Japanese manga Kanojo wa Uso o Aishisugiteru by Kotomi Aoki. This drama caters the teenagers and mga early 20’s na viewers, my age gen, pero pede na din sa mga young at heart. Haha.
On a serious note, this is centered on the love story between a genius music composer Kang Han-gyeol (Lee Hyun-woo) for the Crude Play and a high school student, Yoon So-rim (Joy). The first half of the drama is mushy and happy then it shifted to conflict confrontation which is fine because it showed us the growth of the characters throughout the story. It’s also packed with catchy songs that showcase the zeal and torment of the characters. It’s a story about chasing your dreams and loving faithfully with an unfeigned heart.
What I think + Spoilers: Introverted Boss is from the same director and writer that gave us Marriage Not Dating. Actually hindi lang pala the director and writer, there’s two more from that show, the main lead Yeon Woo-jin who played Eun Hwan-Gi and Heo Jung-min (Eom Sun-bong), one of the employees of the PR company. Considering that and the teasers, I figured this is going to be another light rom-com with out of the box twists.
The first episode caught me off guard coz it was kind’a dark, I expected it to be light and fun. But it started with Ji Hye jumping off the building. She fell on top of the car parked in street with people bustling around on Christmas eve. I kind off hesitated about the show but I was willing to give it a few more episodes.
So this show follows the story of an extreme introvert CEO of a PR company Eun Hwan Gi (Yeon Woo Jin) and the energetic extrovert Chae Ro Woon (Park Hye Soo). Due to Hwan Gi’s extreme shyness, people misunderstood him and called him “silent monster”. Behind the two lies the mysterious suicide of Ji Hye, Ro Woon’s older sister and secretary of Hwan Gi.
Ro Woon thought that her sister was mistreated by her boss that one day she got fed up and eventually jumped off the office building. Sobrang determined siya to expose Hwan Gi for the monter that she thought he is, so she worked her ass off to become part of Hwan Gi’s PR company, which *clap clap* she eventually did. The first few episodes, I hated her. She’s rude and abrasive! That part where she went inside Hwan Gi’s office and looked around, I was like girl – what is wrong with you? It’s your first day at work and you had to the nerve to poke around the boss’ office! Are you for real?! But later on, her personality grew on me. *Haha!*
The feels – kilig hanggang langit. Sorry na, wala kasi akong life, ito lang ang inspiration ko. Haha! Pero in fairness, super kilig ang pair ni Bong-soon and Min-min. It’s not the OTP pero I can forgive the transference of emotions to Min-min from Gook-du. This is the first alpha heroine drama I watched and I loved it! It’s a rom-com with a bit of dark criminal elements. Despite the loop holes in the storyline, ito yung tipong mapapa-smile ka at the end.
Okay so basically, I watched this before I watched Hwarang. Ongoing pa siya that time which is why I was able to finish Hwarang before this ended. Ang guapo ni Park Hyung-sik plus he gave the character his best. Ang cute niya tingnan pag kinikilig siya coz of Bong-soon. On a serious note, the writers did not fully develop that part about his family and his trauma.
Coffee Prince is a very light gender bender show and a typical rom-com. Gong Yoo’s portrayal of Han-kyul is superb. Sa sobrang galing ng portayal nya, Han-kyul turned into this loveable and complex person, not just some rich pitiful playboy. I don’t know any other Yoon Eun-hye drama but she was amazing as Go Eun-chan. Ang galing nya with the boy-act and I liked the type of friendship she had with Han-kyul.
What I think + Spoilers: A lot of bromance and pretty boys on this one! So basically Lee-gak is from the Joseon era whose wife was murdered. While investigating, he along with his entourage jumped to present time, to be exact, in Park-ha’s rooftop house. Park-ha grew up in the US and she came back to Korea to look for his father. May reincarnation plot din ang show. Ang daming funny moments ng show like when Lee-gak and the guys were trying to adjust to the current world. However, mid-season, I got bored. Medyo predictable na sya, alam mo na kung sino yung bad and good guys. Medyo light sya, nothing extraodrinary happened. The ending is realistically sad. They did not end up together as Lee-gak was brought back to his time. Will I watch this again? No. Will I recommend this? No. However if you’re into temporal paradoxes, go for it.
Synopis: Tae-mu (Lee Tae-sung), after killing his lost cousin in the United States, returns to Korea, claiming that his cousin, Tae-yong (Park Yoochun), could not be found in New York City. Meanwhile, Tae-mu has been having a secret affair with Se-na (Jeong Yu-mi), his secretary, who, in turn, runs into her long-lost stepsister Park-ha (Han Ji-min). Park-ha has been missing for a prolonged period of time and it is revealed that she was in the US after Se-na abandoned her in a truck driving away when she was nine.
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