Hometown started off as your typical rom-com. City Girl ends up as a fish out of water in a small rural town and meets Country Boy. However, the show eventually evolved (or devolved?) into a sort of long drawn advertisement of sorts. With the “PPL” being Gongjin City (or any rural small town). We have... Continue Reading →
Story summary with spoilers: Story happened when the earth was no longer habitable due to severe pollution and large amount of space trash also threatened people on earth. UTS corporation had the technology to allow plants to grow on Mars, creating environments similar to that of earth. However, the new home was only available to... Continue Reading →
The drama cast used to be treated to an overseas trip upon completion of a successful drama, but as overseas trips are difficult to arrange these days, it seemed trendy to treat the drama cast to a healing trip to the countryside cum filming for a variety show. A new “healing” variety show with the... Continue Reading →
For the sake of those cutesy little “cells”, I hope Yu-mi and Koo Woong have a happy ending. When I first started on Yumi, I felt a bit of disorientation. Cos I was sitting there wondering why in the world am I watching a show that is somewhat similar to my 5yo preschooler’s cartoons? Even... Continue Reading →
Story in a Nutshell Based on the superstition that twins signify bad luck (which was last used as a central plot in Queen Seondeok), The King's Affection tells a tale of a pair of boy and girl twin born to the Crown Princess of a fictitious Crown Prince in the Joseon Dynasty. The King is... Continue Reading →
Storyline with major spoilers: Oh Ha-rin (Yeri) did not like celebrate her birthday since her high school crush Ji Seo-joon (Yang Hong-seok) died mysteriously on her birthday 10 years ago. They had agreed to meet at the photography club on her birthday, but Seo-joon was found dead there with his wrist cut, presuming to have... Continue Reading →
Not sure if it is due to Netflix’s influence, but I have been seeing an increase of short (i.e. less than the usual 16eps) Kdramas on air. Granted, Shaman is on a smaller internet TV channel, so it probably does not have the production capital of larger, and traditional TV stations such as KBS and... Continue Reading →
I thought this would be a pure rom-com so I was actually surprised at the eventual message about social stigmas (no, it's not about erectile dysfunction). Show is short and sweet at eight episodes, and we follow the changes Do Young-shik (Yoon Shi-yoon) went through to regain his self-confidence, after years of subconscious self-loathing and... Continue Reading →
The latest variety show from tvN had the 3 villains from Penthouse as their regular member, including Uhm Ki-joon (as Joo Dan-tae in Penthouse), Bong Tae-gyu (as Lee Kyu-jin in Penthouse) and Yoon Jong-hoon (as Ha Yoon-cheol in Penthouse). It was pretty funny that the 3 brothers thought that they would be filming a healing... Continue Reading →
Despite it getting a little maudlin at the end, Police generally still score a B or B+ in terms of watchability. I enjoyed the earlier parts of the narrative immensely, when Dong-man and Sun-ho learn from each other and learn to trust each other. The budding camaraderie between the police recruits are fun to watch... Continue Reading →
I am not sure if anyone else will be interested in staying at Sung Dong-il and co.’s House on Wheels, but the cast of the movie Pirates 2 certainly enjoyed their stay there. The members who stayed at the house included Han Hyo-joo, Kang Ha-neul, Lee Kwang-soo, Park Ji-hwan, Kim Sung-oh, Chae Soo-bin, Exo’s Sehun,... Continue Reading →
Summary of the show with major spoilers: Kang Da-jeong (Seo Hyun-jin) grew up with an abusive father who would often beat up her mother Mun Mi-ran (Oh Hyun-kyung), whom managed to leave her husband to raise Da-jeong and her son Kang Tae-jung (Kang Hoon) on her own. However, Da-jeong kept encountering bad relationships as she... Continue Reading →
Story in a Nutshell For once we do not have a rags to riches Cindy story, but more of the opposite: Kim Dali (Park Kyu-young) is a well-educated and talented visual artist who's currently a visiting researcher to the Netherlands, which is where we first met her. Dali was tasked to receive a certain Mr... Continue Reading →
Storyline with spoilers: Jeong Jin (Nam Ji-hyun) lived with her mother Seo Ae-sook (So Hee-jung), while her father was in ill health at the nursing home. Ae-sook decided to take over a popular restaurant owned by her friend, as her friend promised to leave the restaurant staffs to help Ae-sook. Initially, the restaurant was still... Continue Reading →
A guy can never be too busy. Sun-ho is juggling his studies in the Police Uni, helping to solve a high profile crime…and also handling a few lovelines. The obvious one being with Kang-hee, who took the initiative to confess to him, and now the two are lovey-dovey. It must be an unwritten rule in... Continue Reading →
Synopsis with spoilers: Story started in 1999 where a student Lee Kyung-jin (Kim Ji-an) was missing and her mother was found dead in the house. Prior to her disappearance, she tried to seek help from local police, claiming that there was a woman in her house’s bathroom. However, her mother denied presence of anyone in... Continue Reading →
Personally, I find the story progress of this drama very slow even when watching at 2x, as the story background seemed a bit thin for a 16-episode drama, resulting the story to be much overstretched. I was initially quite excited about this drama due to the cast, became disappointed after a couple of episodes, partly... Continue Reading →
I had finished watching this drama quite some time ago, but only found time now to write this review. To be honest, I cannot quite remember the details for this drama, and probably can only spoil you with the endings. It happened that Seo Hi-soo (Lee Bo-young) found that the new tutor Kang Ja-kyung (Ok... Continue Reading →
