Cheongdam-dong Alice
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Plucky Han Se Kyung (Moon Geun-yeong) is a fledgling fashion designer with big dreams and an even bigger ambition to succeed. She enters every design contest possible, cheerily dusting off rejections and the accompanying hardships, but it all pays off. Or so she thinks. Her dream job ends up being a rude awakening when she realizes she's been hired as the go-to assistant of the company president's wife — the woman who was once her high school nemesis! The tide turns when Han resolves to move up the social echelon by marrying into a rich family and becoming a "cheongdam-dong" daughter-in-law (aka trophy wife). Han must confront her innermost desires: will she hang up her dreams to dry, or does money really mean everything?
Moon Geun-yeong has this perpetual sad look all the time and seemed almost inappropriate at times, in this show. Still, I like this Alice in Wonderland fairytale-like story.
The things that Park Shi Hoo will do to make her happy. His childish-like stances and his innocent sheer joy lit up the screen and make you marvel at this "being in love" feeling that everyone will have when they are in love.
If you are single, you are envious and long for it. If you are attached, you agreed with it. If you are married, you missed those days. Sometimes its not the person you missed, but the moments and feelings when you had with them.
Quoted from the show :
Immature love says " you love him because you need him"
Mature love says " you need him because you love him"
Master's Sun
Monday, October 7, 2013
Joo Joong Won (So Ji Sub) is a cold and ambitious CEO, who measures all human relationships through money. Tae Gong Sil (Gong Hyo Jin) is a sensitive assistant, who suffers from insomnia, due to her ability to see ghosts after an accident. Joong Won will learn to trust Gong Sil and falls in love with her.
This is a recent drama which I was watching. When I first heard about the ghosts that are associated with the show, it actually deterred me from watching it until my friend highly recommended it. Naturally, the first episode had me hooked.
Trust the Hong Sisters to come up with something refreshing and different. Some of the ghost stories are pretty touching though some of them have scary faces.
Basically this drama has great writing, a great cast and believable and endearing chemistry.
Though initially, I did find Kong-Sil's actions pretty silly, the way she always touches Joong-Won like a silly school girl. It does not quite gel with how normal adults should behave.
With a mixture of laughter, sweetness and fleeting thru different stories in the perspective of ghosts, this is yet another must-watch drama.
The endearing touching moments between Joong-Won (So Ji-Sub) and Kong-Sil (Kong Hyo-Jin), the zany gestures and reactions from Joong-Won, the cute expressions of Ms Little Sun who's besotted with Kang Woo and a little mystery surrounding Joong-Won's ex girlfriend make this drama a must-watch. And of course the self -sacrificing love that will reduce me to tears.
I can literally feel the tears and the pain when Joong-Won forgets about Kong-Sil.
Korean dramas always have this effect on me. I can feel their happiness, their laughter and their sadness. I cried for them and I am happy for them. And sometimes, I can draw a parallel comparison of their stories with mine.
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