Posted on 02/20/2021 3:00:29 PM PST by mairdie
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PING to the last Secretary Kim music video
I heard that they were dragged into the sewers of New York and
had their Adrenochromes extracted by Satanists and then got turned
into sexual Mole children and suffered a lot until that FEMA tent
in Central Park concealed the recovery effort to extract them.
Now they are having fun at a horse ranch in Arizona.
I LOVE your humor! Great to see you.
This one is definitely on our “to watch “ list!
We just finished The Scholar Who Walks the Night ( I’ve become a Lee Joon Gi fan)
We are now watching Bring it On, Ghost! It’s cute
We also have Mr. Queen on our list and Flower of Evil ( another one starring Lee Joon Gi)
I watched Lee Joon Gi in My Girl and loved it. My favorite Korean actor is Song Joong Ki, and my favorite Chinese actor is Bai Yu.
I’m currently watching some really gooey romantic comedies, waiting for a couple of so-so ones to finish subtitling. Also trying to decide which drama to log next for music videos, Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty or Untamed.
If you haven’t watched Scarlet Heart Reyo: Moon Lovers stop what you’re doing and watch it now.
I’ll put it at the top of my list. Oh, and I loved Mr Queen!
Right now I’m watching an Over-The-Top “A Love So Romantic.” And for some bizarre reason I’m watching the Japanese “Princess Jellyfish.”
The only thing that drives me batty about Asian dramas is that the villain, instead of getting what’s coming to them, is changed into a good character. Grinds my teeth!
Buckle up for heartache with Reyo.
At least with KDramas it seems the evil people have no redeeming qualities. The ones we have watched they get their just desserts.
I’m floored!!! I have YET to see a KDrama like that.
The HORRIBLE mother in Boys Over Flowers is a loving wife to the husband she said was dead and hid away when he was in a coma. The son of the Triad leader killed one man’s father and came close to killing the hero’s father in Bromance and got off lightly because he was family. The evil girl in Love O2O sees the error of her ways. The president of the student body, pure evil, is redeemed by the end of Sungkyunkwan Scandal.
I stopped watching crime dramas and got caught by romances. Perhaps it’s a genre issue because Guardians, I’m now remembering, did let some of the bad guys die horribly, even though the main villain was redeemed by his brother.
Watch later.
>>If you haven’t watched Scarlet Heart Reyo: Moon Lovers stop what you’re doing and watch it now.
On episode 10.
😂😂
And how are you liking it?
The acting is above average. The pace is so-so. It’s got an interestingly different dress design, using flowers in preference to jewels. The use of plants everywhere is also different. The Mongolian subplot reminded me so strongly of another drama that I began to think I’d seen this one already but then it changed enough to stay different. The part of the plot that’s driving me batty is why she won’t use her future knowledge, why she doesn’t confide in someone other than some obscure references when drunk, and why she gave up so quickly trying stuff to get back.
The beauty of us being new to KDrama is that we can’t tell if their acting is good or bad and we have no experience with Korean culture so we don’t know if what is portrayed is accurate or not.
That being said, the stories are far more creative than the garbage pumped out of American Hollywood and there is no sex or swearing. It’s so refreshing.
We also were frustrated with Hae Soo not employing her future knowledge though but we are very good at suspending disbelief for the sake of a good story.
I’m only into it for less than a year. I’m hooked completely. Like you, this is the type of show I always wished I could see on American TV. But those days are so gone that I thought life was going to be rewatching old shows forever. Creative is right! I can’t get over how brilliant these are.
First there are new plot devices that I’ve never seen before. Who would imagine moving the story along while rotating the revolving door? I keep sitting up straight in my chair asking whether what I just saw was real because it was out of the blue, took me by surprise, and who would have guessed. Watching them is more cliched than the stories we’re watching.
Fashion! I can’t get over that. The Chinese shows have a fashion sense that is purely European. It’s like watching a runway show. The men are as brilliantly dressed as the women. Sometimes small touches; sometimes WAY out there. But always balanced beautifully.
Korean will sometimes show historical Korean influences on modern day dress. Men not as creatively dressed.
Japanese! It’s American! I had no idea that we had influenced their fashion industry to that extent.
Obviously, my favorite is Chinese fashion.
And the settings! I took video classes in lighting and “painting with shadows”. I’ve got a decent feel for set design and when I first got into the Chinese shows, my jaw kept dropping for the glorious art that the shows made of every separate shot. Husband later noted that the censorship I didn’t notice was actually probably at work making China look good in the outdoor shots. The only thing they couldn’t control was the smog out the windows of high rise shots.
Korean doesn’t have that same artistic balance but, like Japanese art, it’s probably the copier of the original Chinese designs. Art History/Physics major here. Part of the classes was showing how to tell original Chinese ancient works from Japanese stiffer copies. What the Korean DOES have is some really grungy outside shots. So their censorship is really different. They’re willing to show what real Korean cities look like.
But the Korean storylines and writing are, to me, much superior. The filmmakers know how to grab your guts and twist them into spaghetti.
What else? I don’t understand the mechanics of production of these dramas. Over and over I find the last episode just rushes like the rapids of a river, while the pace throughout all the other episodes feels consistent. Husband and I both noting that but no idea what real life reason lies behind that issue.
Acting. Just like on American TV, there seems to be a split between natural acting so that you’re completely caught up in the story, and some kind of over-the-top style like we see in American sitcoms. For example, the sound effects. A blink has an associated sound. A slow head turn getting a creaking gate effect. Animated effects like hearts appearing, or the sound of heartbeats when the characters suddenly realize their feelings for one another.
The real place I have to suspend belief is the age of the actors. Partly, when you look up info on the actors, it’s simply stunning how young they look in general. But my biggest initial problem was accepting that the babies were running the world. But once you get to the obligatory male shower scene, it’s all worth suspending belief.
And the morality! I watch American TV and I feel dirty afterwards. I watch Asian TV and I remember the moral beliefs I was taught as a child and the patriotism that we all had before the 60’s wiped them away. Grandfather never picked up hitchhikers, except for kids in uniform. Then he always stopped. I get chills sometimes from just how highly moral these stories are. And they do it without a trace of embarrassment or over the topness. It’s just the way you’re SUPPOSED to treat one another, or how you SHOULD behave when facing complicated life issues.
Maybe someday they, too, will have their 1960’s but, for now, I’m back to the world I learned sitting under the shade of the tree with grandmother. Two wrongs DON’T make a right.
where do you watch this?
https://www.viki.com/tv/35835c-whats-wrong-with-secretary-kim
What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim9.7(283,945)
Why Would Secretary Kim Do That?, Why Secretary Kim
2018 PG-13 16 episodes
Genres
Idol Drama, Romantic Comedy, Korean Drama
Cast
Park Seo Joon, Park Min Young, Lee Tae Hwan
Synopsis
Can you be so self-absorbed that you have no idea what’s truly going on around you? Lee Yeong Joon (Park Seo Joon) is vice president of his family-owned company, Yoomyung Group. He is so narcissistic that he doesn’t pay attention to what his trusty secretary, Kim Mi So (Park Min Young), is trying to tell him most of the time.
After nine years of making Yeong Joon look good and stroking his very large ego, Min So decides to quit her job. Yeong Joon’s older brother, Lee Sung Yeon (Lee Tae Hwan), is a famous author who is in love with Mi So.
Can Yeong Joon accept the fact that Mi So no longer wants to work for him or will he get the wrong idea?
“What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim” is a 2018 South Korean drama series directed by Park Joon Hwa. It is based on a novel by Jung Kyung Yoon. A 2016 webcomic by Kim Young Mi also was based on the same novel.
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