Receiving criticisms for awarding two winners, producers of MBC’s “2010 Drama Awards” decided to defend their decision via Star News.
The ceremony held on the night of December 30th gave out two awards for not only the daesang, but most of the other categories as well, leading many to question whether the awards show was simply handing out trophies as they pleased.
On the 31st, a high associate of MBC’s drama team stated, “The drama awards is not a contest, but a ceremony to end the year on a good note by supporting and encouraging each other. The fact that we’re even judging the dramas we made ourselves takes away from the ‘contest’ aspect of the show. The point of the ceremony was to congratulate those who worked hard throughout the year in the form of a trophy, and to support the programs that received poor ratings.”
He continued, “Regarding the winners for this year, it was difficult to clearly decide on a superior winner, which is why they were co-awarded. Regardless, two of the award categories were originally meant for two winners anyway.”
With regards to co-receipients having caused the awards ceremony’s status to decline, he further explained, “We’re the ones that made the dramas and we’re the ones judging them, so it’s difficult to determine the ’status’ of the awards. We know that it might be more meaningful for a person to win an award on their own, but from our viewpoint, all of the actors and actresses are amazing and impressive people. We don’t feel the need to specifically rank them in first and second.”
I just saw the SBS Drama Awards and to put it lightly, it was nothing but a farce. I think we all know that award shows are political in nature but this was taking it too far. It was almost like how elementary schools in the US give every child an award.
What in the difference between Special Drama, Special Project, Serial Drama and Serial Project? They all have different winners. By making up a billion acting categories, all popular actors in their hit shows can win awards. It's like they looked at all the list of popular actors and gave them awards. Then they looked at all the leads in the lower rated shows and gave them nominations. So basically, they would choose the winner then fill the rest of the nominees with actors on their other shows.
This was a post left by daunte29 in the MBC Awards thread on soompi:
I work and live in korea but I'm not korean. Most older korean folks in their 30s - 60s already know what I'm about to say here.
Those of us accustomed to hollywood film award shows and similar ones in Europe & HongKong/Taiwan should know that korean drama awards - MBC, SBS, KBS - are NOT so much about 'excellence' or 'rankings' but are MAINLY PR (public relations) shows. The so-called judges (other than internet polling or netizen votings) are the senior directors from their own respective broadcast companies with one or two invited 'outsiders' whose "services" are paid by the broadcasting station who invited them to judge. Therefore they can (and have for the past few years) easily decide who the winners are.
It's just like mum and dad in a family of 8 kids deciding who gets the cake first and the others biscuits.
Also for MBC, SBS & KBS drama award shows, voting is not audited by third-party accounting firms like how it's done in non-korean award shows to ensure accuracy and impartiality. So why do they do these internally pre-determined award shows?
To boost the global sales of its dramas through the sales of boxsets and broadcasting rights to overseas TV stations- simply by awarding the actors/actresses, the drama then earns the 'distinction' of having won Best This or Best That, and overseas fans will snap it up thinking the drama MUST be good bcos one (or two or three) of its cast won awards. Yabba, Dabba, doo!!
Closer examination, that is if they bother, will plainly show for example, that a particular MBC drama actually only won awards given by MBC, that a KBS drama won awards given by KBS...do you see what I mean?
I am NOT saying that korean actors/actresses do not deserve these awards and neither am I saying they're not talented or that the dramas are not by themselves well-produced. However I do think the SYSTEM of how winners are chosen leaves much to be desired. And it seems the big 3 - MBC, SBS & KBS - will each perpetuate their own self-patting award shows for many many years into the future.
During drama award shows, when you see the celebs are dressed-up siiting there looking pretty or dashing, you should also know BY NOW everyone (or almost everyone) WILL go home with at least one award. Winners ALL! Losers few...make that very few or or else they WON'T even be invited and just watch proceedings from the telly.
Drama series, both good and the not-so-good, once it ends its run on Korean domestic TV, then becomes a PRODUCT for overseas viewers to buy (or download). In other words, k dramas are BIG business for MBC, SBS, KBS and drama awards shows definitely help to promote big business. That's so very Korean.
What he or she said seems to be true. Everyone who showed up won an award. LOL. It doesn't matter if they were deserving or not (I happen to think they weren't all deserving of top awards. Just because your show is a hit doesn't automatically mean you should get an award) but they all went home with awards.
I stopped watching award shows in general many years ago because I kinda stopped watching t.v. lol.. but you often see some critically acclaimed shows win awards (e.g Arrested Development) even if they have low ratings and some hit shows win no awards. I bet some politics was also involved in those selections but it does make one feel that the academy or whoever determines the winner wasn't basing it on popularity alone.
Not that I think the fans are any better. Secret Garden won all three Netizen awards. Is it because it's the best drama of the year or the most recent hit? I'm guessing it's the latter.
I don't even remember what my original point was but basically, I just saw the SBS Awards and boy was it just a bunch of nonsense. lol.
I finally saw the bed scene and frankly speaking, it's not as bad as the previous kiss scenes - even the foam kiss. So I understand those wondering why some suddenly have an issue with this bed scene if they've tolerated even worse (the kiss at his house was just ugly IMO).
Perhaps it's a case of the straw that broke the camel's back? Perhaps they'd been slowly getting fed up with his selfish nature and the fact that he turns a deaf ear to everything she says and always insists on having things his way. So this was just the thing he did to push them over the edge.
What he did was very much in character and most have been squeeing so I'm not surprised that many defend his actions. I think the location (the bed) was what increased the ick factor for many.
Kdrama has a lot of sexist undertones and we always have this Cinderella plot going on with an alpha male and a weak female. Just because they made Ra Im a stunt woman doesn't mean she's strong - she's still very much a typical weak female character. We often call such characters kind hearted and sweet but that's just a positive way of looking at someone who isn't strong enough to truly stand up for herself. But standing up for herself means she'll never succumb to the stalking and the harassment and "fall in love" with the male protagonist.
It's funny cos Secret Garden has so many of the elements that made me switch to jdramas (Parental Disapproval, assholey arrogant lead males, weak women, repetitive dragging scenes etc etc) that it makes me feel like I'm watching a '90s drama.
I do love me some Oska so I want to see his happy ending but I just saw episode 13 and while it is the same stuff going on over and over again (I've been saying this for ages), it's gotten more tolerable, to be honest. Or maybe I just readjusted my expectations. Episode 14 is supposedly where a lot of good stuff happens so I'm looking forward to seeing something new. To be honest, I find these episodes more pleasant than the previous 6 or so.
Interesting. It's funny how what some of us have been talking about for ages is finally coming to a head because of JB's comments. I already mentioned that I disliked all his forced kisses and how Joo Won tries to force himself on Ra Im and this stalk-to-love plot.
A criticism of the drama isn't a criticism of the actors. And surely, positive comments aren't the only welcome ones, right? Anyway, I probably won't be able to watch the episodes till the end of this week but it's all so interesting.
So I know I just said I don't do these but now I have one: to post less on soompi.
Because how is it that in every thread I post in, even those I don't think I post that much in (like Wish Upon A Star), I am a top ten poster?
And the worst is the damn JoongBo thread. Yes, I did post a lot back then, but I haven't posted in over two years and I'm STILL a top 10 poster. What gives?!?!?!
I don't do New Year's resolutions so instead, I'll just write my wish list for Xmas 2010
What I want for Christmas:
A wonderful year ahead for everyone known and unknown both personally and professionally.
A wonderful vacation for me :D starting tomorrow. Safe flights, wonderful sun and wonderful family.
A great year for dramas, some more Coffee House BTS (hehehe), better economy, more $$ in my bank account and great friends.
And just joy, happiness and satisfaction for all my blog readers. HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
I really enjoy the Oska-Ra Im scenes but I want it to stay a friendship. I really hope they are not trying to make Oska fall for her. He probably doesn't have any friendships with women so he doesn't now he can have a platonic one but hopefully he'll realize that soon because I hate when ALL the men in a drama like the same girl. It's irritating.
As for Joo Won, the less said about him the better. I could manage the hug but the kiss was too much. What does he want from her in the next three months? To date him, sleep with him and love him then disappear? And he won't take no for answer? Give me a break. Unlike with Lee Jin Soo whom I both loved and hated, with Joo Won, I just dislike him. Right now, there's nothing about him that I like.
I feel that by the time he does change, I will feel nothing but indifference towards him.
Even though it's a sad song. I still love it... but then again, I just love her first Christmas album. It is perfection. :)
My next fav to listen to around this time of year is this one. And I guess it's a little sad too. lol, and by Wham! Which some might say is sad in and of itself. But I love it anyway.
I'm not really into Korean music so I only recognize three of the singers: Brian, Park Hyo Shin and Sung Si Kyung.
I really like the woman's voice. Apparently, her name is Lisa so I'm hunting down her music now. This post was supposed to be all about Xmas (I was going to post my favorite Xmas songs) but now I'm suddenly all obsessed with Lisa.
Come on, now. Someone blogged about it saying that according to a source, the actor playing Oska was told by the writer that he might be involved in a love affair with the guy he wants to produce.
I have nothing against Oska being in a gay relationship but if that was the case, they should have introduced it in episode 1 and not have this whole failed love relationship with Seul. As I blogged on couch kimchi last week, the idea was somewhat planted in my head in episode 1 when Oska spotted Tae Sun singing at the lounge but none of his actions afterwards have shown any attraction to this kid - especially as he's going through some emotional stuff with Seul.
We already have a bunch of stuff going on with the drama already - why add this? Although the guy's role in this drama would be made a lot clearer if he were to be in a relationship with Oska seeing as he's had a bit of screen time.
lol, oh well. There's nothing I can do if they decide to take this route but I hope they don't.
Given the last 8 episodes, the more I think about it, the less sense it makes.
Since Secret Garden likes to give us half of a scene then two episodes later, complete the full picture, I wonder if the Seul-Oska issue might be even more of a misunderstanding than it is now.
What I mean by that is that there are two sides to a story. While Seul heard what she heard, what if all Oska really said was, "Give me a break! I can never date someone like that." And "someone like that" meaning a slut, which is what that guy presented Seul as, which Oska knew was false.
Or, knowing how dramas usually are, he might have said something else after she left to defend her. lol. Who knows? We'll see how they get them to reconcile.
But it's interesting that just because of what she overheard, not only did she dump Oska, she followed that guy to America. Does that make sense? That guy was clearly acting out of jealousy or is it only clear to me because I'm a viewer? She didn't take issue with him calling her a slut even if it was for "investigative" purposes?
So even though I kinda dropped this drama, I decided to watch the storyline of the couple I decided I liked in the first 30 mins of episode 1. Maybe I'll go back and watch the drama in its entirety because another storyline with the eldest sister and her colleague is supposedly really good.
Credit: Baidu
So the characters are Ren Shao, a difficult designer and Ruo Wei, a fashion editor.
I started watching their scenes from like episode 7 (I will backtrack further later) and apparently, Ruo Wei's little sister had a crush on Ren Shao so she said she'd back off. But of course RS really likes her. So we had a kiss at a party that the sister witnessed and after that, RW bought concert tickets for them but he was too dense to realize that she was asking him out, she got pissed off, they did the usual Asian drama thing of him chasing her, he then helped her solve a problem at work, she got sick and hurt her leg and he tended to her the whole time. AWWW. They are cute. Looks like he'll be proposing next week.
As for the poor little sister, she began to work with him and invited him to a Valentine's Day dinner. He accepted not realizing it was Val's Day. So while the little sister was all happy, he was using it as an opportunity to get info on her sister. lol. Oh well... she's ending up with her best friend so all's well that end's well. I guess I will eventually watch this drama in its entirety. But argh, I don't want to have to watch it on viikii.
Yep, I've been there. Except for me, it was at 3am on a highway in Toronto (I'm not from Toronto). To be fair, I was being annoying but that's no reason to drop off a woman in clubbing gear on the highway in a strange city in the middle of the freaking night.
So I refused to get out and he refused to move till I got out so we sat there for like thirty minutes. It's a good thing it was during the summer otherwise, that would have been a rather cold wait. I guess thirty minutes was what he needed to cool off cos when he got tired, he turned on the engine and drove on. LOL. Life can be funny sometimes.
But to give a full picture, I wasn't being that bad. There were four of us in the car (two girls, one guy, one idiot) and the girls were being annoying. LOL. hahaha... but the idiot went too far. Come on, now!
The characters in Secret Garden have switched back to their original bodies and I must say that it's a tad disappointing because very little has been achieved. Yes, now Joo Won knows that his mom is a meddler and some weird things have happened with Ah Young thinking that Joo Won likes her, the incestuous kiss, Joo Won getting confirmation that Jong Soo likes Ra Im and other stuff but very little has occurred in terms of Joo Won becoming any less of a jackass. Oh well, I guess I'll just have to wait to see what else the writers have for us.
Anyway, that ended up making me look for a body swap movie where much does happen which led me to Dating The Enemy. It's a 1996 Australian romantic comedy about a couple that swaps bodies on the night they break up. Synopsis from imdb.
One messy science journalist (Tash) and a neat television host (Brett). Two very different people whose relationship is nose diving to get the opportunity to experience life in their partners shoes when they wake up one morning in each others bodies. Valuable lessons are learned by each as they both have to adjust to very different lives.
It's a pretty good movie, IMO. There's a sexual aspect to it and while I think that as a woman, if I switched bodies with a man, I might be curious about what sex is like as a man, I'm not sure that I'd choose a woman to test this out on. Not that I think I'd choose a man either. Or maybe I'd just become a monk. LOL. Anyway, it's on youtube.
To be honest, while I appreciate his looks, he's not on my Hot Guy list. Maybe because he's a tad skinny? But good looks are good looks even if seeing him doesn't give me naughty thoughts.
LOL.
So Kim Hee Chul from Super Junior who seems to be Kang Ji Hwan's BFF or something, tweets a picture of his dog called "Luxury" and says that he(or she) likes to lick his hand. And somehow, someone from a legitimate newspaper figures out a way to write an article about that. lol. Slow news day?
It's fun, it's enjoyable, it's wacky etc..
Good actors, interesting premise etc...
But what I need now is for the romance to really begin. Right now, we have stalker dude's obsession but he doesn't know her. She doesn't know him. They have good chemistry but I want to understand why she would fall for him and why he would fall for her (for real) so I HOPE that this drama delivers. Truthfully, I don't trust these writers too much. lol. Maybe because there's so much going on:
Oska and Seul's failed romance (I like this though)
Director's crush on Ra Im
Secretary Kim and Ah Young's romance
Director Park gunning for Joo Won's job
Grandpa's daughters worrying that his new wife will bear a son
Oska and possible new protege
Ra Im's father's angle
Switcheroo
Joo Won's claustrophobia
Ra Im's possible illness or whatever it is that puts her life in danger
And probably many more. The plot is so busy these days.
I don't listen to country music but I somehow stumbled upon this song. The song is a little sad but also inspirational in a sense. It's true, too many of us are stuck in the past, drowning in the pain of our mistakes. But eventually, regardless of who we are or what we've done, we have to move on. Every now and then, we need a reminder.
I still have to watch with subs to understand it fully but Joo Won's behavior reminds me of this song's chorus:
He does a nice thing, acts like he might care then is a JERK. I think this is really because at this point, the drama has a thin plot. It's fun but it's really all been: "I like you, but I shouldn't like you. I like you, but you're not good enough for me. I really like you, but I can't like you." That's what all the scenes between Joo Won and Ra Im have been about since episode 2. Except he gets jerkier and jerkier and Ra Im hasn't got enough sense to make sure he stays out of her life completely cos she "likes" him. LOL. Kdramas kill me.
But we had the body switch at the end of the episode so tomorrow's episode should be loads of fun. And then hopefully, the story can move forward. A drama often falls into this kind of rut when characters "fall in love" very quickly. If the main plot of a drama is the romance, not much to do other than go round and round in circles once love has been established. Either break up and make up all the time or just when the characters should move forward in their romance, an obstacle will be thrown in. I actually don't mind the version where they meet different obstacles because at least it's a different obstacle... although it can get rather tiring too. But the Jekyll and Hyde act can get stale quickly.
The few times I've heard this song on the radio, I thought it was by Rihanna. So I was fooling around on youtube when I saw some song in the suggestions bar with over 20 million hits. I'm like, "Who da hell is Shontelle?" I click on it and it's Rihanna's song. LOL. I guess I really am out of the loop. I know Rihanna is successful, but of all people to copy vocally. *smh*
I know loads of people have this sneaking suspicious than Secret Garden is like a Pride & Prejudice remake. It doesn't help that Joo Won is like an especially mean Darcy and he stole Darcy's first confession. But there are other things like his mom being like Darcy's aunt. His sister kinda "bonding" with Ra Im, and a bunch of other things with the plot.
But then Seul's plot... we don't know much about her yet but she comes off as a combination of two characters from Persuasion. LOL. The Seul-Oska story is clearly more like the main love story in that book but her scheming wannabe Joo Won's lover kinda comes off as the scheming woman in that book.
I am probably way off but this drama really does seem to draw a lot from other works.
Aside for this, one thing I'll say about the drama is that I think they brought the angst on a little bit too quickly. My heart should be twisting with them as they scream at each other but it's not because I don't feel connected to them yet. Maybe it'll happen later but I think we need to know the characters a bit more before we go on an emotional journey with them. But perhaps that will come later. Cos right now, there was no falling in love in this drama. Joo Won became a bit obsessed so perhaps when they switch bodies and really spend some time together, it will all come together.
I wasn't planning to review this weekly for Couch Kimchi but that mofo, Joo Won, has made me want to do it. Now I just have to wait till subs are released for ep 4.
But to sum it up, my feelings are this: Joo Won is a douche's douche's douche. He needs to die in a fire. Really. His arrogance is like unbelievable and he acts like he's not the one chasing after her and he can't deal with the fact that she's not like all the other rich women who are after him. Maybe that's the problem. He feels he's a prize and is pissed as hell that she doesn't recognize it.
They are not in a relationship, but he's already begun to have expectations of her. "Why can't you dress up for me?" "Why don't you melt when I do nice things for you?" "Why don't you understand me?" And he's a mean sonofabtich because not only is he rude and condescending to his employees, he doesn't treat Oska like his hyung. Oska should kick his ass one of these days.
Truthfully, this trailer pretty much tells the whole story
Basically, Easy A is the story of a 17 year old girl, Olive, who's pressured into lying about losing her virginity by her best friend. Word gets out and she's branded a slut. Then being the kindhearted girl she is, she pretends to have slept with a bunch of losers and a homosexual to help "improve" their reputations at school.
As I mentioned, the trailer really gives it all away and given that, there's nothing unexpected that occurs in the film. But these days, more often than not, we don't watch teen movies, romances or comedies to see unexpected turns. Instead, we watch them to see how a familiar or predictable tale is told.
Olive, who's played by Emma Stone, is a pretty engaging character. I'm not familiar with Emma Stone's work but I'll say that she did a good job in this movie. Since Olive is not one of the "cool kids" or an outright loser, she's one of the "invisibles" in High School. But she's not the kind of girl who's depressed about it. Instead, she's the kind of sarcastic girl who finds humor in her situation. She also has some crazy parents whose main purpose in this movie is to spit out great one-liners.
In fact, this movie is filled with witty dialogue and that's what makes it interesting. We know that she would be okay with having the bad reputation till it stopped being fun and she'd have to tell the truth. We know that she'll have a love interest (played by Penn Badgley of Gossip Girl fame) and they'll end up together. But you make her a kind, smart, self deprecating character and him smart, mature and into her and it becomes an entertaining story.
And speaking of romance, I won't go as far as calling this a romantic comedy. There's some romance in it but they got away with not having to focus on it by making it a delayed romance - in other words, both characters already had feelings for each other prior to the start of the story. And they kept him in our consciousness by making them have very short conversations (like less than a minute) every now and then.
Like most teen movies that attempt to rise above the usual crap we're fed, there are themes of hypocrisy, groupthink, cliquism and eventually individualism.
All in all, I found it to be a fun, interesting movie. For those who like smart comedy and witty dialogue, Easy A is not a bad way to kill 90 minutes.
Can someone please tell me why my fic, Wrong Foot First is on Course Hero? It's bad enough that it's rated 4 out of 5 (LOL) but why should some romance story be posted on a website that's:
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I know that once you post anything online, you run the risk of it being plagiarized or used in ways you don't approve of, however, A STUDY resource site?
It turns out that for a month-long subscription, users can either pay $30 or upload forty documents. I looked around and loads of soompi fics are on that site. So I'm guessing that an unscrupulous soompi member uploaded these documents there.
I've sent them an email requesting that it be removed but I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens from here. I hope they just take it off without incident.
At least, based on the first two episodes. If it ends up being a bust, it won't be the first time that's happened. I wrote a review on Couch Kimchi.
I don't know if the neurotic male lead is now a trend. We had it with Coffee House and now we get it with Secret Garden. The neurotic male lead and the insane second lead. lol. Both in Coffee House and Secret Garden. And I like it. Although Joo Won's neurosis is more endearing than Jin Soo's since he's not in a constant battle with himself nor does he intentionally hurt other people. He's just very honest and has no internal censor. So he says what he feels and doesn't care what other people think. I love that about him. And I also love his insane cousin. Although I must say that I hate this his cousin has some selfish bitch that he might still be in love with. I didn't enjoy watching Oska's look of pain.
I also like the romance although if we're starting the romance this early, what's going to happen for the rest of the drama? I know that the body switch can give us a lot of plot, but for how many episodes? I hope that such a quick paced drama doesn't drag like crazy in the middle episodes.
Right now, I'm not enjoying Philip Lee's character or the gold digging female. But maybe they'll add something of value to later episodes.
As for Dr. Champ, I'm still at ep 13. It's halfway dropped in my head but I'll try to finish it. What a boring romance.
I've seen episode 1 and I must say that I quite like it. We haven't yet gotten to the body switch bits so I don't know what future episodes will be like but the drama has made a good first impression on me.
Characters:
Kim Joo Won. Rich. Arrogant. Lazy but smart. Appears to be claustrophobic. I'm not sure exactly but he's scared of elevators. Played by Hyun Bin
Gil Ra Him. Stunt Woman. Strong willed and appears to be confident everywhere but on a movie set. On set, she bows her head way too much but off set, she doesn't let anyone talk down to her. Played by Ha Ji Won.
Oska. Joo Won's cousin. Pop star. Player. Flirt. Over the top. Has a love-hate and competitive relationship with his cousin.
I'm honestly not yet sure who the second lead female is. But it might be the rich bitch from the first half of the episode who met with Joo Won on a blind date but also shares a history with Oska.
There's also the stunt director played by Philip Lee who appears to have unrequited love for her. I've only seen one episode but his character seems to be the possessive sort - the sort I don't quite like.
Truthfully, I'm sick of the Cinderella story of a super rich prince coming to save a poor commoner. But Ra Him doesn't need anyone to save her and she's pretty damn bad ass. I think that even before the switch, she's "manlier" than Joo Won.
Their meet-cute is the very cliche case of mistaken identity when Oska asks Joo Won to spend time with an actress for him but he mistakenly picks up her stunt woman/body double instead. A hilarious conversation follows as this leads to Joo Won mistaking her for a very frank prostitute even though she's only speaking about her work. LOL.
Anyway, I expect Oska to fall for her as per most kdramas. My only question is, is he going to fall for her even after the switch? And does that mean that for a good chunk of the show, he's going to be chasing after his cousin trapped in a woman's body? lol. Considering how much the cousins get on each other's nerves,. I can't imagine how mortified Joo Won would feel. And also, if I were the writer of this drama, I'd include a scene where Ra Him, trapped in a man's body, cruises a gay club for men. lol. Then we'll also have Joo Won tag along doing everything in his power to "protect his body." I don't know, I find stuff like that hilarious. lol.
And yeah, the kiss in the first pics is a spoiler so it hasn't yet happened.
P.S. I tried MSOAN and checked out in the first 15 minutes. It might be good and I might try it another day but I wasn't feeling the comedy of debt and what not. I found father and daughter annoying.
Aww... I just saw an adorable little movie. It's called Flipped and is adapted from a Young Adult novel of the same name.
It's just a very simple teen coming-of-age romance story told from the POVs of both characters. It's a simple boy-meets-girl story with a very common plot but told in a very sweet and endearing way. There's nothing out of the ordinary here, loads of cliches and it's quite predictable. But none of that makes it less enjoyable - it's just like a very comfortable warm blanket you use on a cold winter's night.
The story starts off when the boy, Bryce, moves into the girl's (Julie) neighborhood when they are both seven and ends when they are around thirteen. It's the typical story of one falling hard first and the other falling when the first is no longer interested. Then it also lightly delves into their families' histories and relationship with each other.
My only issue with this is that she kept talking about wanting to have her first kiss with him and in the end, they didn't show it. A little sweet kiss would have been a nice end to the movie.
Oh... and something else is that it was a bit short. It was less than an hour and a half and since we were being told the same tale from two different POVs, it made it feel even shorter because half as much plot was explored. I think it would have been better even longer. But all in all, not a bad way to kill time.
I think I have my next story mostly figured out. I've actually never written a fic with the usual kdrama set up i.e. 4 leads with two love triangles. And I noticed that I never really give my male lead a best friend. LOL. So this is me trying to broaden my horizons... lol.. .even though it's still the same romantic fluff stuff. And of course, the guy will most likely fall first. I once tried to write a story where the girl was chasing after the guy but it felt so unnatural to me so I had to drop it. I guess I just love my heroines being chased... and being pig head.
So far, it's going to be a work place romance. She's 28, the creative director at a company that was recently acquired by another. He's 27 and head of sales at the parent company. He's moved in from the head office. She loves men but doesn't believe in love. His heart got broken by his long time girlfriend. She's got a best friend who's beautiful and always picks the wrong men. He's got a roommate who loves to live a stress free life. Won't say much so I won't spoil it. But my love triangles aren't ever real love triangles and I doubt this will be much different. I think I've got most of the kinks worked out so hopefully, I'll start writing this sometime soon. I hope I finish this one. :D
If I never write it, it won't be the first fic post I written that leads to nothing.
Even though my hubby, Kang Ji Hwan has been hard at work on Cafe In, he'll be in a new drama called "The Great Doctor" airing next year. Not my style of drama but I will watch for my hubby.
Then my hubby's second wife, Park Si Yeon is going to be in a movie called Happy Together which pairs her up with Ji Hyun Woo. It looks like Jay Park, who recently got kicked from his Idol group for making some comments against Korea on his myspace in 2005 will also star. The movie is set in the music industry. Si Yeon is a producer while Hyun Woo is the singer replacing the former leader of an Idol group. Jay Park will play one of the group members.
If the world is good with me, I should be posting the final chapter of The Honeymoon today. YIPPIE! This will definitely go down as the slowest fic I've ever worked on. But I'm happy that I'm at least completing it since a year ago, it was 90% abandoned as far as I was concerned. But damn, I'm a lazy woman. I've been "meaning" to work on this since Friday but only got around to do anything yesterday. But hopefully, I'll be done with the edits today. YES!
Having said that, I'm now debating between an original fiction or a Coffee House fanfic. I think I'll write the Original Fiction which will be a rom-com.... since that's all I seem to be able to write.
Dr. Champ provided some spoiler pics and I can't say I'm excited. LOL I was beginning to wonder if I'd become dead on the inside since there were other people screaming about it while I was like, "Oh, so there they are." I already expected this turn of events this week anyway. Their romance is still boring as hell but I'm watching. Right now, I enjoy posting about it more than watching it. I will try to finish it, though. I almost didn't watch it this week. I just know that if I pile them up, then I will definitely drop this drama or skim through the rest. Which is why I try to watch two a week.
I'm like 3 episodes behind on Dae Mul but I hope to catch up soon. In the mean time, I picked up a Japanese drama called Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge.
It's one of those manga-to-drama adaptations and is about a "ghoul girl" type character moving in with four hot guys. lol. Why are so many mangas like this? Anyway, I've seen the first episode and it's cute... and I've begun to root for the couple which means that I am NOT dead on the inside. YAY! Kame used to scare me with his pencil-thin eyebrows but I guess I'm used to it now.
So basically, it's the story of a girl who thinks she's ugly (a guy she confessed to four years ago called her that) so she hides from the world and a beautiful guy (women stalk and harass him because of his looks). So it's all about inner beauty and all that since he places no stock in his looks while she places too much in hers even though she's obviously not ugly. We already had a make over in episode 1 where the lead male stared at her beauty. But she's going back to her "ghoul girl" look soon. She sleeps in a coffin and her room is covered with skulls and the like. LOL. But it seems sweet.
