KDrama Review: You’re Beautiful: "Um, Who’s Beautiful?"

HA, You’re Beautiful, what a drama I tell you. Anyway, I watched this drama because it was starring three of my favorite actors. Jang Keun Suk, Park Shin Hye, and Lee Hong Ki (who I’ve spoken about before). Of course it also had Jung Yong Hwa and Uee. If any of you all listen to or know CNBLUE or After School you know these two. The drama was about Park Shin Hye’s character, Gemma who is this nun, or this nun to be, she is learning the ways. As she is doing this, her twin brother’s agent comes to find her because he needs her to pretend to be her brother so that he could sign some papers to officially be a part of this group called A.N.JELL.

A.N.JELL

She poses as him because he’s in America fixing his hideous plastic surgery. So her second “real” character is Go Mi Nam her “twin brother.” I use quotation marks to let you know that she was just playing a man there was no actual man playing the brother, only in one episode. The only reason she decided to pretend to be her brother wants to find their mother. She is a singer and he thinks it’s the only way to find her. (They grew up in an orphanage in a church.) So, she agrees believing in her brother’s technique.

From there it’s a whorl wind of everything let me tell you. People start to fall for each other, people cry, turns out some people’s past are intertwined in a convoluted way. Jang Keun Suk’s character, Hwang Tae Kyung who has a crap relationship with his mother, and he hates her, for a very good reason too. She’s messed up.

Cute Dorks 

All of this is going on and Gemma somehow is stuck in the middle of it all, somehow she can keep up this façade. For a while it was pretty damn predictable, I say this because prior to this drama, I’ve seen others that dealt with women pretending to be men. So I had an idea of what to expect and what I thought was going to happen sort of happened… but then boom! Plot twist, the past of the lead characters happened to be intertwined and they have no idea. I honestly didn’t see it coming. The thing is, although the background of the characters was unpredictable, everything else was, but then again it’s a kdrama. So far I haven’t watched one that wasn’t predictable, but that’s just me of course.

Within this drama you knew at some point Gemma was going to be found out by someone early on. The person who found out was going to be a guy and that guy who did, was going to fall for her seeing her as a woman. Then there was going to be that other character who might be the guy above (or not) except in this scenario he doesn’t find out and is now questioning his sexuality and it’s putting him through his own personal hell. Then there is the male lead, who could be the guy questioning his sexuality (again or not) and knows absolutely nothing, for a long time. He finds out by accident and hates her for a while because he was falling for her and thinking she was a man because she had him questioning himself and he’s just hurt and slightly relieved. There is that, or he finds out after everyone and is still hurt. He might also know, and not let on that he knows that could also be the first guy I talked about.

Confusing right? So many possibilities.

And thus Piggy Bunny was made.

After the first couple of dramas I watched with something like this I had some of these characters down to a t.

Oh, there is also the second female lead, who likes the male lead and learns that the female lead is lying about her identity and threatens her because she’s evil and nasty and mean and she wants the advantage.

The drama was funny and it had a lot of feels.

Some serious feels here.

Uee who based on Infinity Challenge (if you know what that is, YAY. If not you should check it out it’s a variety show) seems like the sweetest person ever, played the biggest bitch ever in the drama. She was pretty evil y’all. She was very convincing. Personally I think Jang Keun Suk and Park Shin Hye are really amazing, but Uee killed it. The drama was corny, it had a lot of those moments, but it honestly didn’t make me like it any less. Sometimes though it would piss me off because it some of the characters just talked to each other a lot of things could have been easily resolved.

The ENDING was completely and utter BS, but I liked it, but not a lot. If anything I respected it… can you respect an ending? It was happy, but it wasn’t a “happy ending” I guess when I think about it, it was perfect for this drama. It was unpredictable. I really thought it was going to be a legit happy ever after like most dramas I watch. So even though I didn’t like the ending (this will sound like a contradiction) because it wasn’t the ending I wanted, I was happy that it wasn’t.

I have to give this drama. 3 G-Dragon heads out of 5. The predictability overtook the unpredictability sadly. If I didn’t watch all of other dramas. I would give it a 3.5, but I guess I ruined it for myself. Sucks doesn’t it?

After you watch this could you tell me who’s beautiful, exactly? 

Check out You're Beautiful here >>>> You're Beautiful

Do You Even Watch Korean Dramas?

Wait a minute, hold up! Do you not know what a Korean Drama is? 

Oh you do? 

Never mind. I was worried for a second. In all seriousness, if you don't know what a Korean drama is, it's a basically a soap opera in Korean. Except they are way better than American soap operas, and tv novelas. Of course this statement will differ depending on who you're talking to, but right now you're talking to me and I'm telling you, they are amazing. 

All of my last post were talking about kpop and this blog is "My Korean Drama Life" and not once have I talked about a drama. 

I'll be honest, my Korean addiction didn't officially start until freshman year of college and I'm a junior right now, so it hasn't been long like some others. (Sorry if use the term addiction too loosely) 

My first Korean drama was also freshman year of college, it was called "Bel Ami" also known as the 

"Pretty Man." Let me sum up this drama for you. It was about this man, who had was given the task to "conquer" women, it was really just learning certain skills from them and climb the corporate and social ladder in life. Making a name for himself, he soon finds himself tangled up with a poor dorky girl he met years ago who is in love with him, he now finds himself also starting to fall for her and thus, climbing the ladder becomes more of a game of chutes and ladders. I think I summed it up quite nicely. From there I watched other dramas like "Coffee Prince," "To The Beautiful You," "The Flower Boy Next Door," "Secret Garden," and my personal favorite "Mary Stayed Out All Night." The list goes on and on but I think I'll just stop here. 

If you're thinking about watching a Korean drama and you're on the fence I'm here to push you off the fence and onto the side of the drama. You're going to thank me later, and then you're going to hate me and then you're going to wish you never listened to me, because now you're addicted. It's the truth.

  So far I haven't really said what makes a kdrama so good. Well, one day for my Japanese pop culture class I talked about Japanese Cool vs. The Korean Wave and the differences in the drama. I stated that a Korean drama has great quality and the acting, although the writing is corny sometimes, the acting is pretty on par. Although it's not often easy to relate to, compared to a Japanese drama, they are a little more grown up and have a wider rage of audience, but that was based on other things. I like them, because they aren't your average drama, they aren't SUPER dramatic and they open one up to a new culture, because you know certain aspects of dramas, just like anime have real things about them, like food, and customs ect. I like them also because they are freaking hilarious, and they always hit you right in the god damned feels. You get second lead syndrome almost every time and kills you when the female lead doesn't realize she should be with guy #2 not #1.
Kdramas are everything man. That's all I'm saying. Do you even watch Korean dramas?

Watch it here! >>>> Pretty Man on DramaFever