tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post7627655542364364231..comments2024-03-28T13:54:32.155-04:00Comments on Outside Seoul: Drama Short: I Do, I Do ReviewAmandahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18062557298628072047noreply@blogger.comBlogger50125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-80098372067783450182012-08-05T17:52:40.894-04:002012-08-05T17:52:40.894-04:00You know what I looked it up and it's not the ...You know what I looked it up and it's not the same girl in Rooftop Prince. I kept thinking that she looked strange to me, but not quite the same as Jung Yoo Mi, the person that wrote that blog was wrong, and all this time I was thinking it was her but when I looked back at pictures I wa slike "That doesn't quite look like her." I think they got confused because the second lead actress in Rooftop Prince also has the name Jung Yoo Mi. But in any case, she still looks weird to me. I saw her in The Crucible and Que Sera, Sera. I'll have to see what she looks like in I Need Romance 2012. She is a really great actress though, she does and excellent job in The Crucible.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-38213970528629299742012-08-05T13:46:32.448-04:002012-08-05T13:46:32.448-04:00Is that her? I kept thinking she looked familiar, ...Is that her? I kept thinking she looked familiar, but just couldn't place her. She looks a lot more normal.Donnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-6413669499558599422012-08-05T10:31:15.923-04:002012-08-05T10:31:15.923-04:00I just started watching the new I Need Romance, an...I just started watching the new I Need Romance, and Jung Yoo Mi is the lead. She looks a little more normal here—but then again, I always thought she was cute, once you got used to her doe eyes.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062557298628072047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-66255131217516026162012-08-04T12:59:02.643-04:002012-08-04T12:59:02.643-04:00I really can't see her being that helpless aft...I really can't see her being that helpless after watching her take down Rain, Eric, and a comedian even bigger than them at wrestling, like no lie she NEVER LOST, that's what she was a legend for on that show. And I picture her carrying huge Gong Yoo's dead weight when she was playing Go Eun Chan, so it would definitely be weird to see her act like she's being that overpowered by a guy. In fact, when I was watching Goong yesterday I turned to my husband in one scene where Shin was angry and like majorly manhandling her and I was like "In real life she could kick that skinny guy's ass" lol. Though her chemistry with Eric on X-Man was like smoking, so that would have been fun to watch in a drama, she was always being fought over by him and Rain, it was hysterical. Hey, they could still do a drama together...<br /><br />Jung Yoo Mi is a good actress, and she's done a great job in everything I've seen her in, but I just can't get used to the way she looks. She looks like an alien to me lol. I read a review of Rooftop Prince on someone else's blog where they said her guy roomates said she looks like she's "touched" lol, and she kinda does.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-45465822644614617212012-08-04T12:40:04.940-04:002012-08-04T12:40:04.940-04:00!?!?! YEH in Que Sera Sera? My head just exploded....!?!?! YEH in Que Sera Sera? My head just exploded. I can see why they would have wanted her for the role—she's a good fit for the more lighthearted portion of the female lead's part. She would have done a good job for the whole drama, but I think the almost-rape would have been unbearably awful to watch if it had been her. :(Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062557298628072047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-44323719045219506522012-08-04T11:37:29.675-04:002012-08-04T11:37:29.675-04:00So I rewatched Goong the abridged version (skipped...So I rewatched Goong the abridged version (skipped all the annoying parts with people just sitting around talking about the obvious and just watched all the good dramatic parts and the cute scenes lol), and I have to say it was still so good. I found myself crying again int he last episode even though I knew what was going to happen lol. And it struck me this time around that the male lead is a really good actor too (I read it was his first drama as well, the casting people were brave to pick an actor and actress who had both never done dramas before, but it surely worked out for them) and I saw that he had returned from his hiatus this year (apparently was sentenced for drug use and then went into the military when he finished his sentence) with a drama and a movie. I may have to check them out, though I think the movie just premiered a few days ago because I saw some recent pics of YEH at the premiere looking hot as always lol. <br /><br />And, thought you'd be interested in this Amanda, a lovely blogger going by the name of VegasPink shared this on my blog wall today:<br /><br />"Did you know that Yoon Eun Hye was actually first cast as the lead actress, until she was pulled out by her then company? She even went to the first script reading. It was a big news actually because of her immense chemistry with Eric on XMan…. But fortunately, she stood against her company and decided to join Coffee Prince instead when her company wanted her to star in their own production…. Thought you’d want to know since you are a big Yoon Eun Hye and Coffee Prince fan.."<br /><br />Crazy right? Wish she could've somehow done both CP and Que Sera, Sera cuz her and Eric were really good together on X-Man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-44376573705960268892012-08-03T14:39:05.970-04:002012-08-03T14:39:05.970-04:00It's crazy that he spent 3 years there and did...It's crazy that he spent 3 years there and didn't pick it up. But you know learning a language is somewhat about natural understanding of languages, but really a lot about how much time you spend actually trying to use it and learn it. So if he just spoke Korean all the time to his friends and family and didn't spend any extra time learning English then I wouldn't expect him to pick it up so well because English could not be more different than Korean, it's not like learning another Asian language where it's different but at least there are some similarities (Like us learning Spanish, it's not that difficult because it's so similar). I am like balking at the reading and writing aspect of trying to learn Korean because it's so incredibly different and they just use a lot of sounds that we don't use and I'm sure it's visa versa for them when they are trying to learn English. I always wonder what an American accent sounds like to someone else, but alas I will never be able to hear it because I am American lol.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-81153468423428949752012-08-03T14:26:36.440-04:002012-08-03T14:26:36.440-04:00I love hearing Kdrama people try to speak English....I love hearing Kdrama people try to speak English. It actually makes me feel better for being a total failure at all foreign languages =X <br /><br />Gong Yoo really does a decent job with it, as you noted—a whole section of the drama One Fine Day is set in Australia, and he spends most of it speaking passable English. (Especially when compared to the girl who was playing his sister; her English was impressionistic at best.)<br /><br />You know who made me sad? Park Yoochin went to middle school in America, but when he had to deliver an English-language speech in Miss Ripley it was clear he had no idea what the words he was saying meant. It must have sucked for him to live here if he couldn't really communicate...Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062557298628072047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-79105064446928599652012-08-03T12:24:54.880-04:002012-08-03T12:24:54.880-04:00They probably feel that way about us when we speak...They probably feel that way about us when we speak Korean too. They're probably thinking "Just stop you're embarrassing yourself" lol. It's funny because I just watched the episode of Goong last night where they are at Shin's bday party and a bunch of his rich friends are speaking in front of Chae Kyung in English and making fun of her because they know she can't understand them, but when she starts speaking the basic English phrases that she knows Yoon Eun Hye's English accent is WAY better than theirs. It made me laugh because they were supposed to sound like the ones who knew English the best, but I'm guessing she's had more practice at it in real life than them because she was touring and interviewing for Baby VOX since she was a teenager. It's just like how in Big that Shin kid who played Kyung Joon in the first episode was supposed to be from America but his English accent was so bad that he was almost unintelligible, but Gong Yoo's English accent was pretty decent and much more understandable when he was playing KJ.<br /><br />I am planning on trying to get a job teaching English in Korea (I want to do some traveling before I start having children and while I am still young, plus my brother lives in South China, right above Hong Kong so I would have family close by and I could go visit China too while I'm there), hopefully by next Fall, it just depends how life is going, but I'm already starting to go through all the paperwork muck of getting a passport and what not, but I've been studying Korean a lot just so I'll know at least some basic stuff by Fall of next year and I've already decided that if I actually do get job teaching over there I'm going to pretend that I can't understand any Korean at all in class for the first few weeks to see what they'll say in front of me lol.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-10195618990870843362012-08-03T12:12:32.676-04:002012-08-03T12:12:32.676-04:00Oh my gosh that is amazing!!! I have to do one of...Oh my gosh that is amazing!!! I have to do one of those races now!! What beautiful world we live in...<br /><br />Yeah I see familiar faces all the time now too and I know a decent amount of names, especially the older actors and actress, seems like some of them play the moms/dads or grandmas/grandpas in like everything lol.<br /><br />Now that I'm also attempting to learn some basic Korean I can also understand a lot of phrases and key words in sentences without the subtitles, it's pretty cool seeing as how I couldn't even pick out the characters names when I first started watching lol.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-34771834383534993532012-08-03T07:56:56.570-04:002012-08-03T07:56:56.570-04:00I downloaded the second Coffee Prince soundtrack a...I downloaded the second Coffee Prince soundtrack and listen to the dialogue clips all the time, just because it's fun to hear people speaking Korean at random moments in my day. <br /><br />God, I'm such a weirdo =XAmandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062557298628072047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-7891285883146774472012-08-03T07:55:22.955-04:002012-08-03T07:55:22.955-04:00There are also races that actually have some runne...There are also races that actually have some runners playing zombies and others playing survivors, like <a href="http://runforyourlives.com/" rel="nofollow">Run For Your Lives.</a> Now that sounds like a form of exercise I could get behind (probably literally, as I'm nothing if not slow).<br /><br />My Korean recognition abilities have skyrocketed lately, too ;) Whenever I started watching a new drama, I used to be lost for episodes before everyone's identity sank in, but nowadays I usually recognize half the cast from something else I've seen them in. (It's a good thing that's true of Iljimae, because without previous knowledge of its pretty-faced male leads, I'd never be able to keep them straight.) This has actually changed my experience of dramas a lot—having no idea who anyone was made the shows seem impossibly exotic, back in the day.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062557298628072047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-26248996271313807762012-08-03T07:46:57.096-04:002012-08-03T07:46:57.096-04:00Gong is light-hearted teenage fun that I really li...Gong is light-hearted teenage fun that I really liked, but I don't know that it's essential viewing ;) It's by far the best of the modern-day Korean monarchy shows, though...it's sort of the Korean version of that Julia Stiles rom-com The Prince and Me (which, of course, I also loved).Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062557298628072047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-14271094604615901102012-08-02T22:18:31.302-04:002012-08-02T22:18:31.302-04:00I kmow. I'm really attracted to people's v...I kmow. I'm really attracted to people's voices. I think part of what killed my Hyun Bin attraction was when I heard him speak English. I know it's not fair, but it was an assault to my ears and I could never look at him the same way. :(Donnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-70085248684417763452012-08-02T21:59:49.087-04:002012-08-02T21:59:49.087-04:00I'm not super attracted to Hyun Bin, though he...I'm not super attracted to Hyun Bin, though he is a good actor. I would definitely agree with, Lee Sun Gyun however, he is super sexy to me, even though he really isn't necessarily hot in the traditional sense. In fact, I will admit I was initially more attracted to him in like the first 3 episodes of CP than I was to Gong Yoo before GY's magical charm won me over. That voice....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-90242415339476188142012-08-02T21:39:38.965-04:002012-08-02T21:39:38.965-04:00I can't run 5 miles either, but I can shoot a ...I can't run 5 miles either, but I can shoot a gun! <br /><br />Goong.. now where did that drama go wrong for me? I think it was the guys. They seemed so bland. So bland. I think the teddy bears had better chemistry with each other than they did. <br /><br />I think it's a mark of my obsession that 6 months ago I couldn't look at a Korean's name and remember it 2 seconds later, but now on Donna's list I hadn't heard/seen 3 of them, and the rest I can picture instantly. That makes me happy. :P I mostly agree with your list of the attractive ones who lose points down the line, except Hyun Bin. I think he actually makes the first list for me. He's honestly not that classically attractive - I just like him. Sorry Amanda, that in your world he's married with babies. In my world, he's perpetually single. :PSaranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-17234822070705508662012-08-02T20:46:26.287-04:002012-08-02T20:46:26.287-04:00Yeah Ha Ji Won tends to be a weak link in whatever...Yeah Ha Ji Won tends to be a weak link in whatever she is in. I have seen her in dramas I liked, but she was always kind of boring. I'm personally not so crazy about Park Shin Hye either, she seems to bubbly and brainless well but nothing else...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-54629185538514717532012-08-02T20:42:10.619-04:002012-08-02T20:42:10.619-04:00As far as I'm concerned there are no new Star ...As far as I'm concerned there are no new Star Wars movie. They were all just part of a cruel joke.<br /><br />I would pay good money to make a guy sit through BOF and watch his reactions. Especially one of my brothers. Lol...I can just picture it. The agony!Donnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-62046307236795578452012-08-02T20:38:03.481-04:002012-08-02T20:38:03.481-04:00Amanda, I think you're exactly right. People&#...Amanda, I think you're exactly right. People's faces need the character that imperfection brings to be truly interesting. And I'm with you concerning Ha Ji Won. It kind of looks like the lights are on, but no one's home. OK, maybe that was mean. I didn't like Secret Garden, but loved City Hall. So you can't just go by the writers. Just like I like Harvest Villa, but thought Sign was a dead bore and couldn't get past episode 6 or 7.Donnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-46614321392837728792012-08-02T20:37:45.158-04:002012-08-02T20:37:45.158-04:00I don't know who some of theses guys are, I wi...I don't know who some of theses guys are, I will have to investigate...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-34074244673488359782012-08-02T20:35:51.853-04:002012-08-02T20:35:51.853-04:00I know a guy who looks exactly like Hyun Bin, so I...I know a guy who looks exactly like Hyun Bin, so I can't perv out over him. It makes me feel weird and dirty, because said guy is happily married with babies. He was lovely in Snow Queen, though.<br /><br />I agree about Lee Sun Gyun—through most of Coffee Prince, I only found him hot when he was wearing his hipster glasses. Now I'm always aboard train Sun Gyun. (Although I'm totally un-tempted by that Golden Hour show he's in now.) <br /><br />I literally don't even know who half of the people on your list are...which is beautiful. Now I need to watch all their dramas =X <br /><br />I think the roles people are playing can also make a huge difference—Lee Kyu Han in Can You Hear My Heart = no go; Lee Kyu Han in Que Sera Sera = yes, please.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18062557298628072047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-31815448373269531292012-08-02T20:35:49.023-04:002012-08-02T20:35:49.023-04:00Yes, love the teddy bears!! Such a great touch!!
...Yes, love the teddy bears!! Such a great touch!!<br /><br />If there ever is an outbreak of zombies, I may survive lol. You know there's actually a running app that was just made that is supposed to like narrate a story where there's zombies chasing you and tell you how far and fast to run to get away, I keep meaning to download it lol.<br /><br />Oh Tamra, what an interesting drama that was. Hmmm I like comedy, now I'm intrigued...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-21444082340861867502012-08-02T20:31:07.947-04:002012-08-02T20:31:07.947-04:00Wow, 5 miles. I'm with Amanda concerning the z...Wow, 5 miles. I'm with Amanda concerning the zombie outbreak. I had a small fries from Wendy's of the kids' football practice. Healthy, huh.<br /><br />I never did see Goong. It sounds like both of you really like it, but it never sounded the least bit interesting to me. Maybe I should just give it a try one day.Donnanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-40131668699687410932012-08-02T20:29:45.964-04:002012-08-02T20:29:45.964-04:00Yes, their eyes both tell it all for sure!!!
Haha...Yes, their eyes both tell it all for sure!!!<br /><br />Haha we can both be even because I love Secret Garden and hate BOF....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4952798172649226841.post-63961173255111417572012-08-02T20:27:54.301-04:002012-08-02T20:27:54.301-04:00Love the old starwars so much!!! Not a huge fan o...Love the old starwars so much!!! Not a huge fan of the new ones though :(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com