Full House
Full House is a drama produced in 2004. A quite old drama but it never gets old for me. This graphic-novel adapted drama is one of my first Korean dramas. The main reason I watched this is of course the main actor, Rain.
Han Ji-Eun is a naive writer who got swindled by her childhood friends. Her one and only wealth, the Full House was sold by her friends to an actor named Lee Young-Jae who is somehow got a problem related to her in some circumstance. To get her house back, she finds herself tied in a contract marriage with Lee Young-Jae, the current owner of Full House.
Lee Young-Jae, a famous Asian star is someone who never thinks before doing something and always ends up regretting his decisions. He’s a childish and selfish young man. However, he’s a person who I think have some kind of bipolar disorder since he always portrays a good husband image despite his character’s personality and the contract marriage. This young man is actually in love with his friend from his childhood days but could never get a hold of her since her heart is for someone else.
As Ji-Eun and Young-Jae live together, they begin to develop feelings for each other and started to rely on each of them. He loves to tease her and call her names. Sometimes it’s rude but most of the time I think it’s cute especially when he calls her ‘kko kko’. However, that girl named Kang Hye-Won who initially doesn’t accept Young-Jae’s heart, changed her mind after seeing Young-Jae’s marriage. Seriously, how can a person be very low-minded and cruel? The childish Young-Jae’s heart then starts to waver and soon starting to abandon his so-called wife. Everytime he’s trying to make Ji-Eun happy, Hye-Won is always there to ruin the mood. After his whole mood has become down, he’ll go home and that adorable Ji-Eun will cheer him up again. And believe me, it happens again and again. And yet he’s still blinded by his ‘first love’. Pft! First love, my foot!
Ji-Eun and Young-Jae’s married life is one of the most adorable things I’ve seen. They’ll have fun together then they’ll fight. After that she’ll go to her friend’s house. Then, somehow there’ll be something that’ll bring them back together and Young-Jae will end up picking her from somewhere with his sports car and take her home to Full House. It’s like some kind of cycle all along the drama.
Toward the end, the drama gets very dramatic, some kind of love-war between the characters starts to become intense, and it’s no fun at all. Usually I’ll skip that part. And yes, I said ‘usually’ because I’ve seen this drama for like hundreds of time that I even know what dialogue will come out next but I never gets tired of it. Cool huh?
However, the drama quickly recovers when the very end episodes are all very sweet, cutesy, adorable, and marshmallow-like story. Young-Jae begins to realise that the person he actually loves is Han Ji-Eun but too bad for him; Ji-Eun already sets her eyes on another guy. Well, a real man got to fight until the end right? He makes plans to get Ji-Eun back. And seeing that selfish man trying so hard really makes me giggle and sometimes sends butterflies in my tummy. Young-Jae owns almost everything in his life. He can do 99% things by himself and that 1% can only be completed by Ji-Eun. At last, of course the hero will win right? Young-Jae finally got his Ji-Eun back and they lived happily ever after. Well, maybe not but let’s just pretend that they do.
The scene that I love the most is the day after he confessed his true feeling towards his wife. He was okay along the night but the next day, he becomes very shy and embarrassed. The part where he covered his face with a blanket and smiled adorably really made me screamed my lungs out. Why? Like duh! A person with that kind of body build, that kind of charismatic personality and a little bit of princely disease acting all cute like that, he could even kill all the fan-girls all over the world with that kind of smile.
Full House is listed as the must-see drama and I agree 100% with that. This romantic comedy drama has give a lot of laughter to my life and it also tops my most favourite drama list.
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26 February 2011
SungKyunKwan Scandal
Sungkyunkwan Scandal
This 20 episodes of historical drama took place in Sungkyunkwan, the highest educational agency of the Joseon era. Sungkyunkwan University often previously featured in other historical dramas as the most prestigious academy at that dinasty but none of them ever focused on the Sungkyunkwan itself. This time, a production crew decided to produce a drama that took place fully in the Sungkyunkwan.
At first, I hesitate to watch it and decided to watch the drama because of the main cast is Micky YooChun, a member of the legendary 2nd generation idol group, DBSK. As I watched it, my heart grew fonder towards this drama because of the interesting storyline and at last, I got completely addicted to it. Some of the scenes in this drama had made me literally rolling on the floor laughing or clapping hands while adoring and seriously, I got a lot to say about this amazing drama.
Sungkyunkwan Scandal is a novel-inspired drama. This drama was different than other typical k-dramas, in my oppinion. Well, of course the main story is about the girl and the boy but the differences could be seen in the side stories where they reflected the politic world nowdays along with the wealthy and the poor in a country.
This story is about YoonHee, whose father died because of his loyalty to the king, having a sick younger brother, living in a society where people still couldn't accept the facts that women could do other things too than staying at home cooking and taking care of the kids. She, who was trapped in the situation and could not stand doing nothing, decided to work using her brother's identity. With the amazing brain of hers, she could totally decieved everyone with her expertness in confucian and poetry and got herself a job at a bookstore. Involving herself in a syndicate helping the Joseon teenagers to cheat in the entrance exam, she found herself taking the exam using her brother's identity after meeting with an upright good-looking young man, Lee SeonJoon and being picked in by the king himself.
Men and women were strictly divided socially during the Confucianist Joseon era and Sungkyunkwan was off limits to women. Kim YoonHee ventures into this all male institute. She will die if she is caught. She's not as slick as she thought. She needed to hide and there were those who wanted to unveil her secret. They chased after each other.
However, this girl is protected by her three guardian angels; Lee SeonJoon, the arrogant genius, Moon JaeShin, the rebellious child who seeked for justice and Gu YongHa who did everything for fun. Starting from Gu YongHa, they all soon discovered that the woman-like 'Kim YunShik' was actually a female. They then developed the instinct to protect her and that's how she could survive. Just like the well-known F4, these four blooming flower-like 'boys' were adored by the gisaengs along with girls at that area. Surprisingly, they're always together facing all the challenges as Sungkyunkwan scholars despite their differences in political views; SeonJoon was a Noron(Noble), JaeShin was a Noron prentending to be a Soron, YoonHee was a Soron and Gu YongHa, a half noble. With that, they gained themselves a name, 'The Political Harmony Room 2' group.
Just like the king's dream of the new Joseon; a country with political harmony, they then gained trust from the king himself to uncover the truth about Geum Deung Ji Sa, a missing will from the late king which was the reason Kim YoonHee's father and Moon JaeShin's brother were dead while protecting the will. The will that talked about building a new Joseon where everybody was the same and have the rights to do anything had openned YoonHee's eyes about how much her father wanted her to succeed that he's willing to be dead as long as his daughter could pursue her dreams in the dreamed new Joseon.
And of course, there were some love scenes between YoonHee and SeonJoon. SeonJoon, who initially thought that he was a gay, was relieved when he discovered that the one that he loved, Kim YoonHee was actually a girl. He tried his best to protect her while they're still in Sungkyunkwan. It was a little late for SeonJoon and I felt bad for JaeShin, my favourite character who had protected her since her first week in and had some feelings towards her but YoonHee clearly showed her interest in SeonJoon in front of him.
My favourite scenes in this drama were a lot. One of them was the scene where the girl prentending to be a boy pretended to be a girl. Well, I know it's kind of complicated but it's definitely interesting. She did that as a way to save Lee SeonJoon from the government guards and her dressing like a girl had made the almighty Lee SeonJoon stuttered and shivered his whole body. That totally cracked me up. Another one was after they confessed to each other their real feelings. It made me grinned from ear to ear like an idiot when the ultimate bookworm, Lee SeonJoon got all itchy to touch her hands and they end up studying all night while holding hands.
This drama had taught me about hope, love, trust and loyalty. It told me to not give up hope, to love myself before loving anyone, to be careful before giving full trust to someone and to be loyal to person that never leaves us.
Lastly but importantly, this drama was indeed an amazing drama. I even decided to put it into my all-time favorite list along with other dramas that had left great impressions to myself.
t/n : this was written in 2010.
This 20 episodes of historical drama took place in Sungkyunkwan, the highest educational agency of the Joseon era. Sungkyunkwan University often previously featured in other historical dramas as the most prestigious academy at that dinasty but none of them ever focused on the Sungkyunkwan itself. This time, a production crew decided to produce a drama that took place fully in the Sungkyunkwan.
At first, I hesitate to watch it and decided to watch the drama because of the main cast is Micky YooChun, a member of the legendary 2nd generation idol group, DBSK. As I watched it, my heart grew fonder towards this drama because of the interesting storyline and at last, I got completely addicted to it. Some of the scenes in this drama had made me literally rolling on the floor laughing or clapping hands while adoring and seriously, I got a lot to say about this amazing drama.
Sungkyunkwan Scandal is a novel-inspired drama. This drama was different than other typical k-dramas, in my oppinion. Well, of course the main story is about the girl and the boy but the differences could be seen in the side stories where they reflected the politic world nowdays along with the wealthy and the poor in a country.
This story is about YoonHee, whose father died because of his loyalty to the king, having a sick younger brother, living in a society where people still couldn't accept the facts that women could do other things too than staying at home cooking and taking care of the kids. She, who was trapped in the situation and could not stand doing nothing, decided to work using her brother's identity. With the amazing brain of hers, she could totally decieved everyone with her expertness in confucian and poetry and got herself a job at a bookstore. Involving herself in a syndicate helping the Joseon teenagers to cheat in the entrance exam, she found herself taking the exam using her brother's identity after meeting with an upright good-looking young man, Lee SeonJoon and being picked in by the king himself.
Men and women were strictly divided socially during the Confucianist Joseon era and Sungkyunkwan was off limits to women. Kim YoonHee ventures into this all male institute. She will die if she is caught. She's not as slick as she thought. She needed to hide and there were those who wanted to unveil her secret. They chased after each other.
However, this girl is protected by her three guardian angels; Lee SeonJoon, the arrogant genius, Moon JaeShin, the rebellious child who seeked for justice and Gu YongHa who did everything for fun. Starting from Gu YongHa, they all soon discovered that the woman-like 'Kim YunShik' was actually a female. They then developed the instinct to protect her and that's how she could survive. Just like the well-known F4, these four blooming flower-like 'boys' were adored by the gisaengs along with girls at that area. Surprisingly, they're always together facing all the challenges as Sungkyunkwan scholars despite their differences in political views; SeonJoon was a Noron(Noble), JaeShin was a Noron prentending to be a Soron, YoonHee was a Soron and Gu YongHa, a half noble. With that, they gained themselves a name, 'The Political Harmony Room 2' group.
Just like the king's dream of the new Joseon; a country with political harmony, they then gained trust from the king himself to uncover the truth about Geum Deung Ji Sa, a missing will from the late king which was the reason Kim YoonHee's father and Moon JaeShin's brother were dead while protecting the will. The will that talked about building a new Joseon where everybody was the same and have the rights to do anything had openned YoonHee's eyes about how much her father wanted her to succeed that he's willing to be dead as long as his daughter could pursue her dreams in the dreamed new Joseon.
And of course, there were some love scenes between YoonHee and SeonJoon. SeonJoon, who initially thought that he was a gay, was relieved when he discovered that the one that he loved, Kim YoonHee was actually a girl. He tried his best to protect her while they're still in Sungkyunkwan. It was a little late for SeonJoon and I felt bad for JaeShin, my favourite character who had protected her since her first week in and had some feelings towards her but YoonHee clearly showed her interest in SeonJoon in front of him.
My favourite scenes in this drama were a lot. One of them was the scene where the girl prentending to be a boy pretended to be a girl. Well, I know it's kind of complicated but it's definitely interesting. She did that as a way to save Lee SeonJoon from the government guards and her dressing like a girl had made the almighty Lee SeonJoon stuttered and shivered his whole body. That totally cracked me up. Another one was after they confessed to each other their real feelings. It made me grinned from ear to ear like an idiot when the ultimate bookworm, Lee SeonJoon got all itchy to touch her hands and they end up studying all night while holding hands.
This drama had taught me about hope, love, trust and loyalty. It told me to not give up hope, to love myself before loving anyone, to be careful before giving full trust to someone and to be loyal to person that never leaves us.
Lastly but importantly, this drama was indeed an amazing drama. I even decided to put it into my all-time favorite list along with other dramas that had left great impressions to myself.
t/n : this was written in 2010.
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