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Saturday, August 18, 2012

TOP Korean Dramas review -~ and extras

Hi everybody
Today I'll gonna talk about the best Korean dramas I have seen some of them are so good , comical , weird (xD) and really interesting to me or just impressive in some way , i'll put it with out order .
My girlfriend is a gumiho (nine-tailed fox)
 

  • Title: 내 여자친구는 구미호 / Nae Yeojachinguneun Gumiho
  • Also known as: My Girlfriend is a Gumiho
  • Genre: Romance, comedy, fantasy
  • Episodes: 16
  • Broadcast network: SBS
  • Broadcast period: 2010-Aug-11 to 2010-Sep-30
  • Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55 
  • Director: Boo Sung Chul (부성철)
  • Complete 


SYNOPSIS

On one day after Cha Dae Woong ran away from his grandfather, he accidently freed a nine-tailed fox who was closed in a painting for about 500 years. He didn't realize what he has done, until the Gumiho (nine-tailed fox),who took the form of a beautiful woman, appeared in front of him. Dae Woong was really frightened that he ran away from her and fell on the riverbank.Since he was severely injured, Gumiho came to save him and gave him her most precious bead to share with him the mystic fox' strength, as she owes him her freedom. Gumiho then asked him if he can help her become human and how to act like one. In return, she allowed him to use her bead for him to shoot for his dream action movie despite his body's severe condition. As time goes by, their mutual relationship grew deeper as they start to fall for each other.

CAST

Lee Seung Gi - Cha Dae Woong
Shin Min Ah - Gumiho

No Min Woo - Park Dong Joo

Park Soo Jin - Eun Hye In



REVIEW

I just fell in love from the begging of the drama , i loved a lot the story and the argument , although isn't very well posed , but i don't care about that , the point here was the end , it left much to be desired.





The rooftop prince 
★ = TOTALLY RECOMMENDED 












  • Title: 옥탑방 왕세자 / Oktabbang Wangseja
  • Also known as: Rooftop Prince
  • Genre: Fantasy, Comedy, Romance
  • Episodes: 20
  • Broadcast network: SBS
  • Broadcast period: 2012-Mar-21 to 2012-May-24
  • Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55
  • Director : Shin Yoon Sub
  • COMPLETE  


SYNOPSIS



When Crown Prince Lee Gak is transported 300 years into the future to present day Seoul along with his three retainers, they believe that it is their duty to solve the murder case of the Crown Princess in order to return to Joseon.

They land in the rooftop apartment of Park Ha, a cheerful woman in her mid-20s, who eventually believes the odd quartet's predicament and becomes their guardian.

As Park Ha educates the four on life in the 21st century, Lee Gak comes across Hong Se Na, who seems to be the reincarnation of his wife.

Taking on the identity of Yong Tae Yong, Lee Gak slowly begins to unravel the murder of Yong Tae Yong and in turn moves closer to solving the murder case of the Crown Princess.

As he finds himself in love with Park Ha, he figures that maybe the Crown Princess was not so perfect after all...

CAST
Micky Yoochun (JYJ MEMBER ) as Lee Gak / Yong Tae Yong 
Choi Won Hong as young Lee Gak
Han Ji Min as Park Ha / Bu Yong
Jun Min Seo as young Park Ha / young Bu Yong
Lee Tae Sung as Yong Tae Moo
Jung Yoo Mi as Hong Se Na / Hwa Yong
Kim So Hyun as young Se Na / young Hwa Yong

REVIEW


This drama is totally fun , and you just don't get tired of the story as in other drama's with a similar argument "traveling trough  time and space"



Dream High

★ = TOTALLY RECOMMENDED 

  • Title: 드림하이 / Dream High
  • Genre: School, drama, comedy, romance
    • Episodes: 16
    • Broadcast network: KBS2
    • Broadcast period: 2011-Jan-03 to 2011-Feb-28
    • Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55
    • Director: Lee Eung Bok
    • CPMPLETE 

SYNOPSIS

Dream High tells the story of six students at Kirin Art High School who work to achieve their dreams of becoming music stars in the Korean music industry. Go Hye Mi is a student who had majored in classical music but has to give up her dream by entering Kirin Art High School to pay off her father's debt. However, she needs to get two other students to also come to the school in order for her to enroll in the school conditionally. These two students are Song Sam Dong, who lives in the countryside, and Jin Guk, whom she accidentally meets while trying to escape from a loan shark. Yoon Baek Hee, formerly Hyemi's sidekick, becomes her rival in school because Hye Mi betrays her during an audition to enter the school.

CAST



Suzy (MISS A MEMBER) as Go Hye Mi

Kim Soo Hyun as Song Sam Dong

Taecyeon  (2PM MEMBER)as Jin Gook / Hyun Shi Hyuk

Ham Eun Jung (T-ARA MEMBER)as Yoon Baek Hee

Wooyoung (2PM MEMBER) as Jason

IU as Kim Pil Sook





 REVIEW



Is perfect because the main cast of the drama is full of k-pop artist and the argument of the story is about become a k-pop star.




DREAM HIGH 2
 




  • Title: 드림하이 시즌2 / Dream High Season 2
  • Episodes: 16
  • Broadcast network: KBS2
  • Broadcast period: 2012-Jan-30 to 2012-Mar-20
  • Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55
  • complete

SYNOPSIS



In Season Two, Kirin Arts High School has fallen from its top arts academy status into dire financial straits and is in danger of closing. This season follows a new group of students after the previous group graduated.
The school is taken over by OZ Entertainment Agency, who transfers their own idol stars over to the school to avoid the law that prohibits underage entertainers from performing after 10pm. Competition arises between the troubled students of Kirin and the newly transferred idols from OZ.

CAST

Jin Woon (2AM MEMBER)as Jin Yoo Jin
Kang So Ra as Shin Hye Sung
JB as JB (JJ MEMBER) / Jang Woo Jae
Park Ji Yeon as Lian )T-ARA MEMBER) / Lee Ji Kyung
Park Seo Joon as Si Woo
Hyo Rin as Nana (SISTAR MEMBER) / Lee Jae Hee
Ailee as Ailee

REVIEW

The story is so similar  , sooo sometimes is a little bit tired , and i personal hate Hye Sung attitudes she seems so stupid ; also the final was without sense i can say uncomplete , something is missing .


BIG

★ 

  • Title: 빅 / Big
  • Genre: Comedy, romance
  • Episodes: 16
  • Broadcast network: KBS2
  • Broadcast period: 2012-Jun-04 to 2012-Jul-24
  • Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55
  • Director: Ji Byung Hyun, Kim Sung Yoon
  • Complete





SYNOPSIS

The mind of 18 year old Kang Kyung Joon somehow gets trapped in the body of 30 year old doctor, Seo Yoon Jae, after an accident.

CAST

Gong Yoo as Seo Yoon Jae
Lee Min Jung as Kil Da Ran
Shin Won Ho as Kang Kyung Joon
Suzy (miss a member ) as Jang Ma Ri


REVIEW

At the beginning I couldn't wait to watch another episode but just 3 episodes before the end it turns tired for some reason but i still think is a good drama , although i took 1 moth to watch that 3 episodes . 


SECRET GARDEN
★ = TOTALLY RECOMMENDED 





  • Title: 시크릿 가든 / Secret Garden
  • Genre: Romance, comedy, fantasy, melodrama
  • Episodes: 20
  • Broadcast network: SBS
  • Broadcast period: 2010-Nov-13 to 2011-Jan-16
  • Air time: Saturday & Sunday 21:45
  • Director: Shin Woo Chul, Kwon Hyuk Chan
  • COMPLETE 






SYNOPSIS


The drama tells the story of Kim Joo Won (Hyun Bin), an arrogant and eccentric CEO who maintains the image of seeming perfection, and Gil Ra Im (Ha Ji Won), a poor and humble stuntwoman whose beauty and body are the object of envy among st top actresses. Their accidental meeting, when Joo Won mistakes Ra Im for actress Park Chae Rin, marks the beginning of a tense, bickering relationship, through which Joo Won tries to hide a growing attraction to Ra Im that both confuses and disturbs him. To complicate matters further, a strange sequence of events results in them swapping bodies.


CAST




  • Hyun Bin as Kim Joo Won
  • Ha Ji Won as Gil Ra Im
  • Yoon Sang Hyun as Choi Woo Young / Oska (Joo Won's cousin)
  • Kim Sa Rang as Yoon Seul
  • Lee Philip as Im Jong Soo


REVIEW


Among is another story about body change is totally entertaining .




The moon that embraces the sun


 






Title: 해를 품은 달 / Haereul Poomeun Dal
Also known as: The Moon Embracing the Sun / The Sun and the Moon
Tagline: Don’t come close! But don’t go far…
Genre: Romance, fantasy, period
Episodes: 20
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2012-Jan-04 to 2012-Mar-15
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55
Director: Kim Do Hoon (김도훈)
COMPLETE

Synopsis

The story of the secret love between Lee Hwon, a fictional king of Joseon, and Wol, a female shaman. Wol was born as Heo Yeon Woo, the daughter of a noble family who won the love of the crown prince, Hwon. Her enemies, jealous of her family's position in court, schemed against her and wrestled away her rightful place as crown princess and nearly takes her life. Years later, an embittered Hwon meets Wol, now a female shaman who has no recollection of her past.

CAST

Kim Soo Hyun as Lee Hwon
Yeo Jin Goo as Hwon (15 years old)
Han Ga In as Heo Yeon Woo / Wol
Kim Yoo Jung as Yeon Woo (13 years old)
Jung Il Woo as Prince Yang Myung
Lee Min Ho as young Yang Myung
Kim Min Seo as Yoon Bo Kyung
Kim So Hyun as young Bo Kyung

REVIEW

In the first part where the protagonists are young it seemed very interesting, but when the characters grow up , i lost some interest.


BOYS OVER FLOWERS
★ 

Title: 꽃보다 남자 / Kkotboda Namja
Also known as: Boys Before Flowers / Boys Over Flowers
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 25
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2009-Jan-05 to 2009-Mar-31
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55



SYNOPSIS

Geum Jan Di is an ordinary girl whose family owns a dry cleaning store.
While delivering dry cleaning to a student at the prestigious Shin Hwa High School, she saves his life by stopping his attempt at jumping off the roof and is given a full swimming scholarship.
She attends Shin Hwa High and soon is terrorised by the leader of F4 (the four richest and most popular boys at the school) Gu Jun Pyo.
Although Jun Pyo persists on bullying her, he begins to find himself attracted to Jan Di. However, Jan Di has a crush on Yoon Ji Hoo, Jun Pyo's best friend.
When she realises that Ji Hoo is merely a close friend and that she really loves Jun Pyo the couple are thrown into a dilemma as Jun Pyo's mother sets out to break them up and find a more suitable match for her son.

CAST

Koo Hye Sun as Geum Jan Di
F4
Lee Min Ho as Goo Joon Pyo
Kang Han Byul as young Joon Pyo
Kim Hyun Joong as Yoon Ji Hoo
Nam Da Reum as young Ji Hoo
Kim Bum as So Yi Jung
Kim Joon as Song Woo Bin
Kim So Eun as Chu Ga Eul (Jan Di's best friend)

REVIEW

This was the first drama i saw , and was the reason i start to watch dramas , a lot of people says that is the best Korean drama ever  by far and i can think that because is the first drama that is transmitted in Europe and Latin America ; although the original  version is Japanese (Hana no yori dango) that is based in a manga , in my opinion this is much better , also surpassing Taiwanese version too.



BABY FACED BEAUTY
 
Title: 동안미녀 / Dongan Minyeo
Also known as: Youthful Beauty / Pretty Young Woman
Genre: Romance, comedy
Episodes: 20
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2011-May-02 to 2011-Jul-05
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55
COMPLETE

SYNOPSIS

The story of Lee So Young, a 34-year-old woman who's saddled with family debt and only 
has a high school qualifications, but dreams of becoming a fashion designer. Her youthful 
appearance is her only advantage; she is mistaken for a 25-year-old university graduate and
 subsequently lands her dream job when she's hired by a fashion design company, where she
 meets Choi Jin Wook, a man who looks more mature than his young age.

CAST

Jang Na Ra as Lee So Young
Choi Daniel as Choi Jin Wook
Ryu Jin as Ji Seung Il
Kim Min Seo as Kang Yoon Seo

REVIEW

I LIKED BUT I THINK THIS DRAMA GONNA GIVE MORE , WHATEVER I STILL LIKE IT.


LIE TO ME
 

Title: 내게 거짓말을 해봐 / Naege Geojitmaleul Haebwa
Also known as: Try Lying to Me
Previously known as: 달콤한 스캔들 / Sweet Scandal
Genre: Romance, comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2011-May-09 to 2011-Jun-28
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55


SYNOPSIS

Gong Ah Jung, a level 5 Ministry of Culture official, gets entangled in a web of lies when she mistakenly lies that she's married to Hyun Ki Joon, a hotel manager from an affluent family. Their relationship is further complicated when Ki Joon's ex-fiancée and a close friend of his brother's, Oh Yoon Joo, reappears in his life.

CAST

Yoon Eun Hye as Gong Ah Jung
Kang Ji Hwan as Hyun Ki Joon
Sung Joon as Hyun Sang Hee
Jo Yoon Hee as Oh Yoon Joo
Hong Soo Hyun as Yoo So Ran
Ryu Seung Soo as Chun Jae Bum

REVIEW

Is a pretty good drama not just because it's fun.

HON (SOUL)
 



Title: 혼 (魂) / Hon
Also known as: Soul / Spirit / Ghost / Possessed
Episodes: 10
Genre: Horror, tragedy
Broadcast Network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2009-Aug-05 to 2009-Sep-03
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55
COMPLETE


SYNOPSIS

Ha Na and Doo Na were twin sisters who were very close to each other until Doo Na died a terrible death. One day, the usually bright and energetic Ha Na finds herself changing. She has superhuman strength and can do things that nobody can. Ha Na realizes that Doo Na's spirit has inhabited her body. Shin Ryu, a criminal psychoanalyst, uses Ha Na's powers to kill people that cannot be punished by the law.

CAST

Lee Seo Jin as Shin Ryu
Im Joo Eun as Yoon Ha Na
Ahn Seo Hyun as Ha Na (child)
Lee Jin as Lee Hye Won

REVIEW

Is not like I had loved the drama , which led me to see the drama were some scenes, then why it is here?  I don't know, but I assure you  ,it's not the end, I can assure it is one of the worsts end I've seen.


MY GIRL
★ 



Title: 마이걸 / Ma-i-geol
Also known as: My Girl
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2005-Dec-14 to 2006-Feb-02
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

SYNOPSIS

When Gong Chan (Lee Dong Wook) meets the lively and beautiful Yoo Rin (Lee Da Hae), he finds out that she has connections to his missing cousin, whom his grandfather has been searching for. He asks Yoo Rin to lie about being his long missing cousin until he can find his real cousin. She says yes, but soon their feelings for each other get in the way of their plans. Gong Chan's friend, Jung Woo (Lee Jun Ki) falls for Yoo Rin while Gong Chan's ex-girlfriend, Seo Hyun (Park Si Yeon), a pro tennis player, tries to win him back. Will the two ever tell each other how they feel? Will Gong Chan ever find his real cousin?

CAST

Lee Dong Wook as Seol Gong Chan
Lee Da Hae as Joo Yoo Rin
Lee Jun Ki as Seo Jung Woo
Park Si Yeon as Kim Seo Hyun

REVIEW

It was so fun and i like the final , that is the point here ... I LIKE THE END. becuase most od the dramas i don't like the ends



TO THE BEAUTIFUL YOU
★ = TOTALLY RECOMMENDED 


Title: 아름다운 그대에게 / Areumdawun Geodaeege
Also known as: To the Beautiful You / Hana Kimi / For You In Full Blossom
Genre: Romance, comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2012-Aug-15 to 2012-Oct-04 (currently showing)
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55
CURRENTLY WATCHING

SYNOPSIS

The series centers on Goo Jae Hee, a Korean girl who lives in the United States. One day, she sees a track and field competition on TV, and becomes attracted to one of the high jump competitors, Kang Tae Joon. She begins to idolize the young athlete and eventually transfers to Korea to attend the same school that Tae Joon attends after he suffers an accident that could potentially end his career. There is a catch, however: Tae Joon attends an all-boys high school and Jae Hee must disguise herself as a boy to enter.

CAST

Choi Seol Ri [SULLI F(X) MEMBER] as Goo Jae Hee
Min Ho (SHINEE MEMBER )as Kang Tae Joon
Lee Hyun Woo as Cha Eun Kyul
Kim Ji Won as Seol Han Na
Suh Joon Young as Ha Seung Ri
Kang Ha Neul as Joo Ji Chul
Hwang Kwang Hee as Song Jong Min

REVIEW

I just felt it incomplete at the end 

You are beautiful 
★ = TOTALLY RECOMMENDED 


  • Title: 미남이시네요 / Minami Shineyo
  • Also known as: He's Beautiful / You're Handsome
  • Genre: Romance, comedy
  • Episodes: 16
  • Broadcast Network: SBS
  • Broadcast period: 2009-Oct-07 to 2009-Nov-26
  • Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55
  • Related shows: Ikemen desu ne (TBS, 2011), Yuan Lai Shi Mei Nan (2013)

CAST

The A.N.JELL:
  • Park Shin-hye as Go Mi Nam (Male) / Go Mi Nyu (Female)
  • Jang Keun Suk as Hwang Tae Kyung
  • Jung Yong-hwa as Kang Shin Woo
  • Lee Hongki as Jeremy
Extended cast:
  • Uee as Yoo He Yi
  • Bae Geu Rin as Sa Yu Ri (fan club president)
  • Kim In Kwon as Ma Hoon Yi (Mi Nam's manager- Manager Ma)
  • Choi Ran as Go Mi Ja (Mi Nam & Mi Nyu's aunt)
  • Kim Sung Ryung as Mo Hwa Ran
  • Jung Chan as President Ahn
  • Choi Soo Eun as Wang Coordi (Stylist of A.N.JELL)
  • Tae Hwang as staff
  • Yoo Seung Ho (cameo, ep9)
  • After School as Before School

SYNOPSIS

Go Mi Nyu (Park Shin-hye) is a sister-in-training. Her twin brother, Go Mi Nam (Park Shin-hye) successfully auditions for the musical band A.N.JELL but is forced to leave for the United States to correct a botched plastic surgery. Mi Nyu is approached by Mi Nam's manager to pose as Mi Nam while he recovers. She is against it at first but agrees in order to fulfill her dream of finding their mother. Now, posing as Mi Nam, Mi Nyu enters the group A.N.JELL and meets its members: Hwang Tae Kyung (Jang Keun-suk), Kang Shin Woo (Jung Yong-hwa) and Jeremy (Lee Hongki). At first, Tae Kyung does not like Mi Nam and makes her life hard, Shin Woo and Jeremy are friendly to her. Tae Kyung discovers that Mi Nam is a girl and threatens to reveal it, Shin Woo discovers it but does not reveal it and develops feelings for her. The story follows their lives away from the cameras and Mi Nam's efforts to keep her secret. Her life is made harder by Tae Kyung's initial hatred for her and the evil actress Yoo He Yi, who likes Tae Kyung. As the story progresses, Jeremy finds himself struggling with developing feelings for Mi Nam as he doesn't know about Mi Nam being a girl until later during a press conference. Shin Woo falls deeper and deeper for Mi Nam as well. Tae Kyung also starts to like Mi Nam but doesn't realise it until later. Yoo He Yi, made Mi Nyu confess that she is a girl at her music video opening, but later seek that Tae Kyung Shin Woo and Jeremy there keeping her secret. Near the end Mi Nam comes back falling for Yoo He Yi. Shin Woo and Jeremy keep asking to see Mi Nyu, but it was Tae Kyung in the end that ended up with her heart.



REVIEW

In some parts I despair of the attitude of the protagonist, which makes me think that she acts well, because I wanted to hit her , a very entertaining drama, I like it, but do not expect much from the end, as in all Korean dramas is bad .


not official trailer , made by  CHiCOLAT3


Heartstrings

★ = TOTALLY RECOMMENDED 



Twelve men in a year
★ = TOTALLY RECOMMENDED (incomplete)


FLOWER BOY NEXT DOOR
★ = TOTALLY RECOMMENDED (incomplete)







EXTRAS

THESE AREN'T KOREAN BUT I SPEACIALLY LIKE IT FOR SOME REASON .

SWITCH GIRL
 


SWITCH GIRL 2

GAL-SA
 

Title: ギャルサー
Title (romaji): Galcir
Also known as: Gal Circle
Genre: Comedy
Episode: 11
Viewership rating: 12.88
Broadcast network: NTV
Broadcast period: 2006-Apr-15 to 2006-Jun-24
Air time: Saturday 21:00

SYNOPSIS

Kitajima Shinnosuke, a cowboy from the USA who goes to Shibuya to find a group of girls to dance Para-Para. Along the way, he becomes a new type of hero, helping to solve problems that afflict Shibuya-Gals.

CAST


Fujiki Naohito as Kitajima Shinnosuke
Toda Erika as Saki
Suzuki Emi as Remi
Aragaki Yui as Nagisa
Iwasa Mayuko as Rika
Yaguchi Mari as Yurika
Satsukawa Aimi as Shizuka
Natsuko as Sumire
Furuta Arata as Geronimo
Yamauchi Nana as Momo
Namase Katsuhisa
Nukumizu Youichi
Oshima Satoko
Kamiwaki Yu as Yayoi
Miura Rieko as Akiko
Sato Ryuta as Ichinose-kun (Police Officer)
Kawamura Yosuke
Watanabe Tetsu (guest)
Kato Yoshika
Akita Makoto
Kishi Hiroyuki
Takase Yukina as Youko
Maeda Ken (ep2)
Kobayashi Kinako (ep9)

REVIEW

Actually i don't like Japanese doramas , but this was the first first first foreigner serie
 i have seen and I watched because is about gal culture , and actually ... it don't exposed well 
gyaru culture.


MULAN


SYNOPSIS

YOU KNOW MULAN'S STORY !! BUT THIS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM THE
 DISNEY'S MULAN OK NOT A LITTLE A LOT DIFFERENT .


CAST

Zhao Wei as Hua Mulan
Xu Jiao as young Hua Mulan
Chen Kun as Wentai
Hu Jun as Mendu
Jaycee Chan as Fei Xiaohu
Nicky Lee as Hu Kui
Liu Yuxin as the Rouran princess
Yu Rongguang as Hua Hu
Vitas as Gude
Sun Zhou as the Wei emperor

REVIEW

I LOVE IT .








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