Sometimes certain stories come into your life right when you need them the most.
On the one Korean drama I can’t forget
Category: Dramas
Interview with Jung Yumi (Elle Korea 2018)
I've liked a lot of projects that Jung Yumi has been in, but the one I can't forget is Que Sera Sera, her first TV drama. It's possibly one of the most horrifying and hard-to-stomach (i.e. amazing) melodramas I've ever seen. I've seen it 2.5 times myself and the opening song still always gives me goosebumps. That said, I [...]
Interview with Gong Yoo (Elle Korea 2018)
Gong Yoo is one of those actors who consistently takes me by surprise and I'm not really sure why. He's good and he picks pretty solid projects. I've seen (ahem!) five of his dramas and three of his films over the years and every single time I've found something beautiful and moving in his performance. I'll [...]
That poem in ‘Because This Is My First Life’
There are a lot of reasons I loved Because This Is My First Life. Like, a lot. One of them is Jiho's penchant for making literary allusions and using extended metaphors to express her complicated thoughts and feelings. This was a nice bit of character development, I thought; even though Jiho doesn't work as a [...]
Interview with Lee Min-ki and Jung So-min (Marie Claire 2017)
So 이번 생은 처음이라 / Because This Is My First Life wraps up this week. This interview came out in October, right before the show started airing so it's kinda old news at this point, but I needed something to occupy me between episodes and it's been ages since I've translated celebrity news anyway, so here [...]
화초서생
In terms of genre, 구르미 그린 달빛 checks all the boxes for me--historical rom-com, crossdressing (guilty pleasure don't judge), princes who pretend they aren't princes, and dramatic angst delivered in the most delicious of ways. Also I mean: If you've watched the first couple episodes, you'll notice that Sam-nom/Ra-on has an amusing nickname for our prince-in-disguise: 화초서생. [...]
All the feels for ‘Age of Youth’
Yay long weekend! I just finished a 6 hour binge of 청춘시대 (Age of Youth). The last 4 episodes were such a rollercoaster - I think I cried in every single one. Ha. Given that I generally don't like "slice of life" type shows--and the fact that the last Korean drama I actually finished was 마을: [...]
Interview with Park Yoochun (Marie Claire 2015)
Given that I know zilch about what's happening in Korean entertainment these days, it came as a mild surprise to learn that Park Yoochun (of K-drama & K-pop fame) is off to serve his mandatory two-year military service. Very soon in fact. Like, today. Or yesterday. I chanced upon this short interview while scanning Korean celeb [...]
The thing about 책임감
Let's talk about 상류사회 (High Society). That show should win some kind of award for creating two of the most precious side characters in a drama full of people I couldn't care a whit about. Changsoo and Jiyi's flirtationship is, at least in the first six episodes (and honestly I don't see myself continuing with this [...]
Interview with Lee Jin-wook and Jo Yoon-hee (Marie Claire)
I consider 나인: 아홉 번의 시간 여행 (Nine: Nine Time Travels) to be the Korean drama to end all Korean dramas for me. In a good way. It's not my all-time favorite drama, but it hit me in a way that no K-drama since has been able to. In fact, I don't think I've managed to finish a [...]
