KDrama Review: She Was Pretty: I'm Pretty Too!

Hey all! I'm back at it again with these drama reviews! I know I've been gone for like years or something, and I'd like to apologize. Talk about inconsistency. To start a new era of k-drama reviews I'll be starting with a 2015 show... Ha ha, years later. 

This drama was a romantic comedy that stared Hwang Jung Eum as Kim Hye Jin, Park Seo Joon as Jin Sung Joon, Go Joon Hee as Min Ha Ri, and Choi Shi Won as Kim Shin Hyuk. I would like to start by saying GO JOON HE'S hair was giving me life. I love her hair, her fashion sense however left a lot to be desired. Not going to lie it was a little weird.

Anyway, this drama was about Kim Hye Jin (Hwang Jung Eum) an unemployed woman looking for work, who happens to find one in the same company as Jin Sung Joon (Park Seo Joon) her old childhood friend and first love. Actually, not only do they work in the same company, he ends up being her boss. Prior to this we learn that he's been in America for about 15 years, wanted to link

back up, and when she goes to meet him, he doesn't recognize her. The reason being, when he left she was still a young girl and very pretty and now that she's older she looks completely different. So she asks her friend Min Ha Ri (Go Joon Hee) to pretend to be her and well, things get very interesting.

I want to say before continuing that it was nice to see Hwang Jung Eum and Park Seo Joon in another drama together. The other drama they were in together was Kill Me, Heal Me where they were adoptive sibling. Woo! That drama.***

While watching this drama I could seen an antagonist per say which I go into a little later, but you know it a lot of dramas there is that one character that's so horrible and mean and they make it hard for the main character. They're always so awful. I can tell you right now you will saved from anger and hatred in this drama. Why? Because all you can do is cringe. Cringe really hard. You will hurt yourself cringing. Kim Hye Jin has got to be the most cringe worthy character ever. She freaks out and does really embarrassing things and says embarrassing things too. It hurts to watch, but it's so

funny.

Throughout this drama I had second lead syndrome so bad. I'll assume most of you know what it is, but if you don't I'll tell you, Second lead syndrome is when you can't help but root for the second male lead because you want them to be with the main girl, but you know that it'll never happen. This is every drama ever. I felt so bad for Min Ha Ri (Go Joon Hee) and Kim Shin Hyuk (Choi Shi Won) because they both fell in love with people that would never love them back, but I loved them because they were so okay with it all at the end. It was bitter sweet, but mostly sweet. 

In the drama, there were two other big secrets. One was who was the chief editor's nephew because they end up being VP of the company. I had a hard time figuring it out who it was. The other one was who the famous author TEN was. I guess that from the jump. I called it! But no spoilers. 

This drama promoted the idea of fairy tales and happy endings as well as self love and believing in ones self to achieve overall happiness. Which I appreciated. While it wasn't a big problem they had to to overcome in the drama, it made the show light and fluffy. Now thinking back on it the over antagonist of the show was HQ trying to shut down the magazine if they didn't bring their ratings up. Of course I wasn't worries. Knowing the fairy tale theme one could see that just about nothing remotely horrible was going to happen. To me that was its downfall. It was predictable because it was a fairy tale, there was so much more that could have been done. Even the plot twists weren't huge.

If you're looking for a drama that is lighthearted and you don't want to tear your hair out watch this drama, but if you want more DRAMA don't watch this one. 

ALRIGHT JACKSONS! I give this drama 3.5 G-Dragon heads out of 5. And honestly though, she was still is pretty.

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****Kill Me Heal Me Review****

KDrama Review: Flower Boy Ramen Shop: I Hated It ***Semi Spoilers***

First of all let me just apologize for this title that doesn’t have any kind of witty connection to the title of the drama. I couldn’t think of anything nor did I really want to.

I know we all have that one show that we thought was just god awful. It had no perks, and you only finished it because you felt obligated to because you started it. That’s how this drama was for me. It was poorly written. I don’t know what the dialogue was, nor do I know what that horrible plot was, but let me stop being biased and throwing my opinions at you. I’m going to give you a chance to figure out if it’s worth watching on your own. ***READ THE BOTTOM***

This drama starred Jung II Woo; he played Cha Chi Soo, Lee Chung Ah; who plays Yang Eun Bi, Lee Ki Woo; who starred as Choi Gang Hyuk and Park Min Woo who is Kim Ba Eul (he was also in Modern Farmers.)

The plot of this drama… okay, Yang Eun Bi, leaves her father's Ramen shop to pursue her dreams of being a high school teacher—actually let me back track. Cha Chi Soo is this rich boy, essentially his father is very wealthy, making him so. He comes back to Korea from New York, without his father knowing, his father didn’t want him to be in Korea and upon hearing the news of his son’s return he sets out his people to find him to send him back to America. Cha Chi Soo pleads with father to let him go to school in Korea instead and his father complies.

Yang Eun Bi is this senior in college who wants to be, basically a gym teacher (I don’t know anyone who wants that) anyway, she only does this because she thinks it’s an easy job essentially.

Let me just stop and say this drama is based on this one fortune she got from this woman who tells her she’ll meet the love of her life with ringing bells or something like that. BOOM she meets Cha Chi Soo with ringing bells, but… only because he was running away from his father’s security and ran into her bathroom stall? Yeah… he ran into her bathroom stall… thankfully Yan Eun Bi has a boyfriend who

is in the military and he’s coming back the next day, no worries.

So she goes to meet him and he’s not there.. he left with another woman. Come up with your own conclusion. Blah blah blah. Her father ____ (this would be a spoiler so I left it blank), she sucks at her high school job she starts to work at the Ramen shop. She embarrassed herself in front of Cha Chi Soo who she has feelings for out of nowhere… overall her character was very childish, especially for someone who was supposedly a senior in college. Did I mention that she was a senior in college and he was like.. a junior.. or something in high school... that's a little weird. (But that's just me.)

She then meets this other man who knows her father and he starts to fall for her. THIS DRAMA AS YOU CAN SEE IS A GOD DAMN MESS.

You’re probably wondering where Park Min Woo comes in in all of this, and why it’s called Flower Boy Ramen shop. Park Min Woo has another story of his own in this drama. If you want to know what it is, I say go and watch it.

Trying to give the plot of this drama was ridiculous in itself because the plot was so messy you really couldn’t put it in like 5 sentences. There was this part about volleyball that seemed to come out of the blue as well, I don’t even know how they managed to connect it. Also there was another character who I don’t really consider important, but he was in it. He was running from debt collectors all the god damn time. There were so many background stories that it was hard to focus on the plot. It was like, they knew the plot was bad so they just threw all this other shit in there to distract you from it. It was okay, I couldn’t follow it anyway so, if anything it made it better?

They also talked about poop a lot in this drama, like it was the topic in a lot of scenes. I didn’t even

understand it.

I guess the pros of this drama was the small plot twist where you find out two people are actually related, like WHOA DIDN’T SEE IT COMING and the ending was garbage. Okay that was harsh, but I did like it because it wasn’t a happy ending. It was kind of like real life almost. Granted she got the guy she wanted, but they went through a lot of shit, I mean the stuff they went through isn’t realistic (well maybe where I’m from it isn’t’?) but I mean they still had a lot of hoops to jump through to get to where they kind of wanted to be and there was still more to go. 

So in that aspect it was good, but that small ending, and the plot twist could NOT make up for the rest of that horrible drama. This drama had so much potential. 

I give this drama 1 G-Dragon head out of 5. I have to say, I really hated it.

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If you really liked this drama please don’t feel offended by my OPINION. It’s not fact. If you liked it please tell me why, because I’d love to hear from someone who enjoyed it. Honestly I would.

KDrama Review: Kill Me, Heal Me: "Considered Me Healed"

I’m sure you’re all tired of me writing reviews where I give the dramas really horrible reviews. Sometimes though writing those kind of reviews are easy, because when writing about something I really like, my thoughts get all cluttered because I can’t help but think of all the things I liked about it.

Kill Me, Heal Me was an amazing drama let me just start off by saying that. I really liked this drama. It starred Ji Sung, Hwang Jung Eun, Park Seo Joon, and Kim Yoo Ri. I didn’t know Ji Sung before

this drama and I’m so glad that I watched it because WOW was he amazing.The whole plot was about Cha Do Hyun (Ji Sung) who had DID which is Dissociative Identity Disorder. He had seven, yes, 7 different personalities. I want to tell you all of them, but I feel like it would give so much away, so I won’t. If you really want to know go and look it up, that way you can’t say it wasn't me who gave you all the spoilers. You did it to yourself! For shame! All these personalities were created due to a childhood trauma and the need to save the person he loved the most. Yes it sounds a little corny, but trust me it’s not. He is the chaebol to this company that his grandmother is currently running. No one in his family knows of his condition; they wouldn’t want anyone to find and they would remove him from the company if they knew. So he keeps it all a secret as he is forced to run the company; he really doesn’t want to, he just wants to get better. In order to help himself further he requests an onset doctor. Oh Ri Jin decides to be that doctor and with the help of her and her adorable brother he figures out and remembers his childhood trauma and overcomes all of the personalities.

OH SNAP PLOT TWIST, she’s connected to his past. It gets so intense. I mean really intense. Okay, let’s see cons of this drama. They made Ji Sung cry a lot! Like, there was so much crying. I mean things were pretty damn emotional, but he cried a lot, too much. I can’t think of other cons, it’s probably because I’m so biased. Hold on let me look at this objectively. I liked everything about this drama except the ending honestly. I really didn’t like the ending, and it’s not for a reason like You’re Beautiful. I’ll get to that in a bit, and don’t worry I won’t give any spoilers. Promise. I think something that bothered me about this drama, was the story of his first love and his cousin, she was a wishy washy character and you didn’t get to his cousin a lot. I think because they showed bits and pieces of their “personal” story I wanted more even though the show wasn’t supposed to be about them. I wanted to see more of the struggles they were going through as a couple because I know they were. Also the ending where he talks to her (you’ll know what I’m talking about if you watch it or have seen it) you don’t really get much of a reaction from her. She just walks down some goddamn stairs, like he just told you some real shit, you walk down some stairs. They don’t talk

about her after that. I think that was it honestly, everything else I pretty much liked (excluding the ending), the acting was pretty on point. The plot was really good too, I know for a little while it was compared to Hyde, Jekyll and Me, but it wasn’t even close. The plots were different, the trauma was different and the characters were totally different. I guess they mean in terms of being a show about DID and their main character being in charge of a large company, but I mean I didn’t think it was the same at all. Okay, now on to this horrible ending. I’m going to try my best to tell you without any spoilers. It’s going to be hard so… bear with me here. The ending didn’t sum up everything well at all that was my biggest problem with this drama. If they gave it at least one more episode I think I would have given it a perfect score. Sometimes the ending really matters, I say that in this case it was half and half. It was great, but the ending if better would have made it perfect.

The ending didn’t sum up the things that were going on with his mother, nor his cousin and uncle. If you watch it you’ll know they were, well the uncle more so was a scumbag. At one point he was on the phone and they were asking him when he was coming back to Korea… but he was in Korea the whole time. I’m just saying if you run that large a corporation where you can kidnap people you should be able to find your son. Also Oh Ri Jin’s parents were still calling him Perry Park. Which isn’t his name. So I just wanted to know if they ever told the parents about anything that was going on. It was small things, and it might seem like I’m nitpicking, but they could have easily done some of that one more episode and BANG perfect, but they left us hanging with some small minor details. It’s okay though. It really is. If you’re looking for a melodrama that keeps you on the edge of your seat and clicking next before the small timer with the seconds run out watch Kill Me, Heal Me. There are a lot of plot twist and the plot twist are always jaw dropping.

Even when he cries, it's hot... 

I give this drama 4.7 G-Dragon heads out of 5 the .3 points were that missing episode. As you can see it’s relevant, but not really. After all the other not so good dramas this one really just… helped me keep the faith, so… consider me healed. 

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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? 

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KDrama Review: Modern Farmer: "Farmers Can’t Be Modern"

****SPOILERS****

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So, some time ago, I decided to watch this Korean drama titled Modern Farmer because my friend said that it was funny and she wanted someone to talk with about the drama. I of course was all for it, like “WHOOO NEW DRAMA!!” This drama starred Lee Hong Ki the lead singer of the Korean band FT Island (Who if you haven’t heard of you should totally check them out. His voice is amazing).

FT Island 

It also starred Park Min Woo who was in the other drama Flower Boy Ramen shop, which I hated, but that’s another blog post, there was also Lee Si Eon and Kwak Dong Yeon. As well as Honey Lee (that is not her real name). Min A from AOA and Park Jin Joo who is in a lot of dramas actually. Of course that wasn’t that whole cast, just the people that I think are worth mentioning.

Anyway, let me think… the plot of this drama… Hong Ki’s character whose name is Min Ki was in a band with his friends and they were called I believe Excellent Souls or something like that. Please correct me if I am wrong. The band disbanded and they went their separate ways, some of them still talking to each other, only excluding one member. Min Ki is serious debt and owes a lot of money to some loan sharks and when his grandmother dies he inherits her land. His grandmother lived in his home town which was pretty much farm country, so he gathers the band under the false pretense that they are going to grow cabbages to make a new album when in reality it’s so he can get out of debt and pay back the loan sharks. There he is reunited with his first love.

The drama started off good, it was really weird, not like all the other drama’s I have watched so it was pretty into it. Although it seemed predictable.

They were going to be successful and make money but then poof half the money is gone because Min Ki took it to pay off his debts and the rest of them find out and boom the end, but twist in turn they forgive him and they become a band again and he falls for his first love all over again.

Well, I was half right, okay more like, ¼ right. Although the drama was funny and quirky. I feel like it sort of left the plot behind. Which was him making cabbages to PAY OFF HIS DEBT. Granted he got closer to his band mates again, but they never found out about his debt. I guess you could call that a good thing, but after his one segment in the drama it was never talked about again and the loan shark like… didn’t exist in the drama again. Which was weird to me, because I’m just saying if I was a loan shark, I would have scrambled his brains so I could get my money back. On top of that there was this girl trying to find some hidden money in the all the farmers fields, I didn’t even understand her purpose except for being the love interest for this other character who had an illness.

Each character had their own problems they were dealing with and you know that makes sense because each individual has their own issues, but it would, most of the time take priority over the entire plot. So, Min Ki is supposed to grow cabbages with his band mates to pay off his debt, and they do, but of course they run into issues like any farmer would, but that would fade into the background for a little bit. Yes you can't make the whole drama about him paying off his debt, but they never talked about it again. DID HE EVER PAY OFF HIS DEBT? On top of that, the reason this one guy in the show didn't talk, didn't make any sense at all, like yes tragedy, but... you suddenly lose the will and power to speak ever again? Even to your daughter? I didn't get it, but if you do, keep watching. 

Also, not sure this is relevant, but one of the characters, the one with the illness looked much older than the rest of the group. When I looked it up he was like 32, not saying there is anything wrong with that, but you could tell, I just wished they decided to cast someone who looked younger, or... was younger. 

It was kind of all over the place if you ask me, but it didn’t make me like it any less, well okay it did just a little. I wanted some consistency, but they kept pulling this weird background story and not explaining it well at all. They would give a half ass explanation and then would be like there you go now you have some sort of idea. THE ENDING was not good at all, not even a little bit, but it fit the dramas quirky style.

Sorry about some of the spoilers, hopefully this review doesn’t make you not want to watch it or stop watching it if you already are, because no matter what I say about it, I still enjoyed my time watching it. Honestly, I enjoyed the singing bits a lot, and it was pretty funny, but it a serious corny way, like very corny, but it kept me laughing and hooked, because obviously finished then entire drama.

This is also where I learned the term  괜찮아 [gwenchana.] If you watched this you know what I mean.

I give the drama 2.5 G-Dragon heads out of 5 

But seriously, farmers can’t be modern.

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KDrama Review: Blood: "Not Enough Blood"

Second kdrama review on lock! 

So... Blood. It's a vampire Korean drama. I'll be honest there was way too much dialogue when it was supposedly an action, thriller, fantasy drama. For every 1 action scene, there were like... 5 dialogue scene. However it was pretty good, had situational irony, a lot of it actually, but, YES BUT, the objective of the antagonist wasn't super clear and neither was the end for that matter. 

Let me be the first to say that American vampires are cooler than Korean ones-- excluding Twilight of course. Maybe their concept of vampires are just... not good. By their I mean the writers, and producers and directors. The drama starred Ahn Jae Hyun who played Park Ji Sang and Koo Hye Sun who was in Boys Over Flowers. I liked her in that drama, Boys Over Flowers I mean, but in this drama she was annoying as all hell. I hated her character. Well, okay hate is a strong word, I strongly disliked her character. She was selfish and self entitled, whined a lot and very arrogant. If that was their goal, bravo. 

Ahn Jae Hyun's character was also a bit arrogant, not as self entitled and not as whiny. I felt like both of their characters were pretty three dimensional. Their background story, although it could have been explained more, it gave them a good amount of depth. For a vampire drama there weren't a lot of vampires. I mean there were, but there was a lot lacking. They were more human than vampire, yeah they had the super human strength, and the quick agility, but they didn't really drink blood. It was pretty darn rare, and isn't that like the one thing that vampires are known for, their love of the red drink? 

Blood is about Park Ji Sang who was born a vampire. For a while he grew up with his mother and even though when he's around blood he changes, he decides to be a surgeon and help people instead of killing them, so he gets a job at a hospital. Ji Sang is quickly accepted by the other doctors excluding Yoo Ri Ta( Koo Hye Sun). A new director is employed at the hospital and with the "help" of him Ji Sang starts to uncover truths and secrets about his past. 

So overall it was good, there were plenty of deaths, and you know it was satisfying. I just wish the antagonist had a better reason for doing what he did. He personally didn't have a good story line. Or maybe I just didn't understand, but I doubt it. He seemed one dimensional even though I knew he really wasn't supposed to be. On top of that the things he did to get his way didn't really add up. Perhaps if they did more flashbacks for him or something. The ending was also pretty confusing in itself. Like, is there going to be a second season? The ending (***no spoilers***) was way too simple when obviously, it didn't make sense! If there is going to be another season then it makes sense, but with an ending like that if they don't have a second season it just set people up for disappointment. Especially if they really liked this drama. 

The drama had a few characters that, if anything, weren't needed. They were probably like "Oh shit, we hired too many people. Let's kill 'em off." Kim Yu Seok, that played Doctor Jung Ji Tae; his character was lacking so much. He had what seemed like an interesting childhood, but because he wasn't the focus, they didn't talk about him much. All the humans that found out Ji Sang was a vampire were way too cool about it. WAY TOO COOL. 

Some parts of this drama were too slow and others too fast, but if you've watched Vampire Prosecutor and want move vampire dramas watch Blood because it wasn't horrible. No matter the faults, I really liked it. I'm giving it 3.5 G-Dragon heads out of 5.  

Seriously though, there was not enough blood. 

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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?

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KDrama Review: Dream Knights: "What Is A Dream Knight"

So this is my first first review ever. Before you read this just remember that a review is often just an opinion piece. So before you chop my head off if you disagree, keep in mind we are all entitled to out own opinion, but we aren't entitled to murder. 

Dream Knights starred, Song Ha Yoon and all of the GOT7 members. If you don't know GOT7 they are a 7 member boy group that started in JYP entertainment company. If you really want to know all about the beautiful members of GOT7 I'll throw a link somewhere. 

This was more of a web series drama and every episode ranged from 12- 20 minutes depending on what the focus was in that episode. There were only 12 episodes, so you could probably watch it in a day if it wasn't SO BAD. Okay, it wasn't downright atrocious or anything. The drama was about these four boys that were guardians/protectors of this girl who had "a lot of pain." These boys were supposed to be mysterious because they appeared out of nowhere. 

Let's be honest, if this drama didn't have the cute and talented GOT7 in it, it would be trash, but because it was CLEARLY made to benefit their music careers and make a larger name for themselves it got a lot of good feedback and publicity. I'll give props where it's due, they had some good songs put in there. They were stuck in my head even after I finished the drama. So I went out and bought them. If that was their goal, congratulations you freaking succeeded. 

When watching this drama, all I could think about was anime. With these powers they had, yeah I said it, they had powers. Like, excuse me what? 

Jackson from GOT7 with fire powers.

The concept was also kind of corny, like random hot guys appear out of nowhere and this girl lets them live with her? Then the ending was kind of like what? Dance competition? Childish is a good term to describe this drama. Everything was anti climatic in my opinion. The character that Song Ha Yoon played irked me because she just seemed to lack everything, she was totally one dimensional. If anything the only one that seem to have some kind of depth to them was Junior, and he played... himself? 

His character had an interesting background story, and I really wished that it was developed more. I'm just saying The Bravest Warriors has a better plot than this drama and it's a cartoon. (Ah that sounded like a backhanded compliment, but I really meant it with the utmost respect, I honestly like The Bravest Warriors). 

If you're looking for a short, quirky, and funny romantic comedy, then you should check this out? I give is 2.5 G-Dragon heads out of 5, but I mean it's probably because I went in looking for a real drama and came out with a web series. Whatever y'all! It was cute even though it wasn't amazing! Good job GOT7 and JYP. 

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But I mean really, what is a Dream Knight?