It's been a while, but I'M BACK, and with a new Korean drama to obsess with!
The new drama in question is 미남이시네요, otherwise known as You're Beautiful. The drama stars Park Shin Hye, Jang Geun Suk, and is another one of those girl-dresses-as-a-guy-but-falls-in-love-with-guy-that-another-girl-also-likes-so-love-triangle-and-drama-oh-my! And since I LOVED Coffee Prince, You're Beautiful seemed worth a watch.
The series focuses on the life of a Kpop group: Go Mi Nyu and Go Mi Nam are twins raised in an orphanage. She and her brother have parted ways (he aspires to be a pop star and she is on track to become a nun), until one day, Mi Nam's manager comes to Min Nyu and asks that she fills in for her brother - Mi Nam had just signed on to become a member of the Korean pop idol group, AN.JELL (yeah yeah, I don't understand Koreans and their obsession with weird acronyms -_-), but due to an unexplained injury, is unable to make his debut - hence, the reason why Mi Nyu has to cross-dress as her twin. Hwang Tae Kyung, the leader of AN.JELL finds out early on that the Mi Nam he is presented with is really Mi Nyu, but agrees to follow along with her act (until Mi Nyu's brother recovers from his injury). But love happens (cheesy, I know), a love triangle-rectangle forms, and Mi Nyu digs herself deeper into the lie. (There's also a side story about Hwang Tae Kyung's birth secret, as well as the twins' .. oh my!)
Sure, it sounds like another messy, complicated Korean drama .. but You're Beautiful works. Or rather, at least it works for me :P
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Korean Drama Review: You're Beautiful
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Current Obsession: 꽃보다 남자
For our non Korean reading/speaking viewers .. my bad.
Julia Park has officially gone to the dark side. After a 7 year ban on ALL Korean dramas, the hiatus has been broken. The culprit? KBS's 꽃보다 남자, or in horrible English translation, Boys Before Flowers/Boys Over Flowers. Yes, I hang my head low in shame, especially with a name like that. But in my defense, I JUST HAD TO watch it, since it's based off of one of my favorite all-time comic books, Hana Yori Dango by Kamio Yoko.
The series centers around 금잔디/Geum Jan Di, your typical Korean drama protaganist, who lands herself at the elite Shinhwa High School on a scholarship type. Why did such a "common" girl get accepted? Well, mainly for damage control for the school's bad rep with being too elite and with the shady high school snobs in it. And of course, there's the F4 - Flower 4 (again, super gay name). F4 is consisted of four of the school's most elite boys, who are rich, spoiled, and definitely consider them to be above the rest by faaar. Situations occur, and the main leader of F4 (구준표/Goo Joon Pyo, played by Lee Min Ho) falls for Jan Di.
Of course there's a love triangle mixed in, but it also deals with the cruel rite of passage called high school (but obviously, to the extreme), friendships, etc.
What's my favorite part of the series? Definitely the character of 구준표/Goo Joon Pyo. He's arrogant, snobby, a bully, an asshole, and he has this ugly ass wave perm going on .. but all girls love the bad boys, especially a bad boy who changes once he meets that girl (trust me girls, he'll grow on you past the first episode). I'll say it here, loud and proud: 구준표/Goo Joon Pyo FTW!
And then there's the other F4 member who Jan Di falls for: 윤지후/Yun Ji Hoo. Again, looks can be deceiving, with the super long orange hair .. but he's the foil to 구준표/Goo Joon Pyo, in terms of his mannerisms.
Things that bother me about the series? Definitely when the characters randomly throw in English. An ocassional "Oh.My.God!" and "Yo, yo, yo" makes my skin crawl, as much as the translated title of the series -_-
