Coffee Prince: Eleventh Cup
(Random) SONG OF THE DAY
Oldfish - “같이가자” (let’s go together) [ zShare download ]
Oh, zee angst! It keels!
(Great acting all around.)
There were fewer songs used this episode, with more empty spaces, which I actually appreciate. I have this odd belief (totally unbased in anything tangible) that really good acting requires less music. That bad or mediocre acting requires extra frills (cuts, effects, music) to elicit emotions from the scene. But in strong, emotional acting, you could have a single long take, with no cuts and no music, and still be compelling. There were a few scenes here that had that spare, raw feeling, which I thought was cool.
EPISODE 11 SUMMARY
The night of their kiss, Eun Chan and Han Gyul have their first giddy new-lovers phone call. She has to forcibly calm herself down before answering, and the conversation starts slowly and awkwardly. But now that Han Gyul has accepted his feelings, he seems much more willing to admit them to her, and says, “I miss you.” Eun Chan thrills at the sound of that, but tries to sound normal as she answers, “We just saw each other, what do you mean…? …me too.”
Eun Chan asks, “Tomorrow… will we be able to laugh together? We won’t fight anymore, and we can talk… right?” He answers yes. Although Han Gyul wants to stay on the line longer, her fluttery heart can’t take too much, and she has to make up an excuse to hang up. Before going to bed, Eun Chan takes out the Lego toy Han Gyul gave her, and tells it, “Now I have to tell him. Right?”
Han Gyul receives a request to meet from the mysterious stranger, Lee Myung Jae. Han Gyul has been told that he used to really like the man when he was young, but admits he can’t really remember him. The man’s comment that Han Gyul must have inherited his stubbornness from his mother leads him to the realization: “Did you… know my biological mother?” The man gives Han Gyul a photo of her.
[Note: The following is explained much later in the episode, but I didn't want to interrupt the flow of the recap (as if that should be a concern) so I'm explaining here. Lee Myung Jae is Han Gyul's blood father, and his (adoptive) family have kept it secret all these years. They're worried that Mr. Lee will cause problems even as they understand a father's natural desire to want to claim his son. The 'why' of the matter is not disclosed, but I presume there's a big reason hidden somewhere.]
Eun Chan arrives for work dressed as a girl, mentally prepared to tell Han Gyul everything. Ha Rim is still angry with her, and accuses her of being cunning — now that everyone’s found out the truth, her dressing as a girl is just a ploy at damage control. He sarcastically congratulates her on such wily thinking.
He sneers at her apology, asking about Han Gyul: “Do you know how much he suffered? That was the first time I’ve ever seen him so broken-down, do you know that?” He accuses her of playing around with people, saying she’s gone too far. Frustratedly: “I can’t even hit you, seriously!” Ha Rim takes a look at her teary eyes and scorns her for using tears to manipulate.
Han Sung arrives home to find Yu Ju packing her things. He asks what she’s doing, and she says she moved up her departure date. He tells her not to go — he’s serious about getting over his feelings for Eun Chan, if she just gives him some time.
Yu Ju: “What should I do while I wait? Pray? ‘Please don’t let him waver any more. Please don’t let this man be drawn further to that girl. Since that girl is in love with his cousin, he’ll have to come back around to me, so please give me the patience to wait that long.’ Should I say that kind of prayer while I wait?”
Yu Ju acknowledges that she did the same (or worse) to Han Sung and he took her back, so he must be wondering why it’s so hard for her to accept this:
“I know I don’t have the right to say this to you. That’s why I have to leave. I don’t want to become a burden to you. Don’t force your feelings because of me. Han Sung, follow your heart, because that’s what I did.”
And I really like this scene, not merely because the acting is so in-the-present, but because you think they’re talking about one thing, but suddenly they’re talking about something else altogether:
Han Sung: “Why don’t you speak honestly and just say it’s because of your work! You don’t need to fake an excuse. Whether my feelings wavered toward that girl or not doesn’t matter to you. Don’t you have another reason? That you’re bent on doing your work, or maybe you’re going back to that guy. Why? Do you feel too guilty to just leave me again? Is that why you’ve blamed this on that girl, like a coward?”
Yu Ju doesn’t say a word, and leaves in tears.
Han Gyul arrives at the cafe and immediately looks for Eun Chan. As she’s dressed in her work clothes, he doesn’t notice anything different, and she tries to work up her courage to tell him the truth. He tells her about meeting the man who knew his mother, and says, restlessly, “On a day like this, I really hate to work. Comfort me.” He describes feeling like a lump of ice is wedged in his chest — heavy and cold.
“Go Eun Chan. Why are we both men? What do you think, should we just run away to America?”
Sensing an opening, Eun Chan tries to speak, but can’t get the words out. Ha Rim interrupts, startling them both. Assuming Han Gyul already knows the truth, Ha Rim wonders to Han Gyul (when Eun Chan isn’t there) how they could’ve been so fooled. Han Gyul can’t believe it, but Eun Chan appears just as Ha Rim is going on about they should have known.
[Side note: I think it's really freaking cool of Han Gyul that, when Ha Rim first says Eun Chan is a girl, he laughs, "However much I might like that guy, how can you just turn a guy into a girl like that?" This is the day after he's decided to be happy with (a male) Eun Chan, and doesn't have a problem saying that in front of everyone -- which shows that he really was ready to go for it, and without shame.]
In disbelief, Han Gyul asks, point blank: “Ha Rim says you’re a girl. Are you really?” She can’t look him in the eye, so he asks again, “What, so you really are a girl?” At her continued inability to speak, he demands an answer, and yells at her to say something. Holding back tears, she nods yes, and Han Gyul walks out. She runs after him, but he drives off.
Han Gyul recalls all the little details that should’ve tipped him off — his initial impression that she looked like a girl, her identification number with a female designation (which he assumed was her error), why she didn’t grow facial hair, her asking how he’d feel if she were a girl…
Worried, Eun Chan calls him, and he demands to know who else knows the truth. Mr. Hong? Sun Ki? Ha Rim? And then, his face darkens when he thinks of Han Sung — “Does he know? Does Yu Ju know too?” Eun Chan’s afraid to say yes, but he barely contains his fury as he demands, “Answer me, you bastard. Does Choi Han Sung know or not!?” Looking sickened, Eun Chan admits he knows.
He shows up at Han Sung’s house and jumps right in: “Why didn’t you tell me Eun Chan was a girl?” Interestingly, Han Gyul still refers to Eun Chan as “that guy”: “Don’t you know how much I agonized because of him? And you still didn’t tell me?” Han Sung says that Han Gyul never asked him — if Han Gyul never brought it up, how could he say anything?
At that, Han Gyul punches him in the face.
Han Gyul: “Who the hell are you? Do you like that guy [Eun Chan]? Is that why you backstabbed me?”
Han Sung: “Why are you so angry? If Go Eun Chan is a girl, isn’t that a good thing for you? If Eun Chan likes you, what’s the problem?”
Han Gyul: “So you knew all along. You knew what was going on between us. And you still didn’t tell me? Han Yu Ju said you’d found another girl. That’s Go Eun Chan, right? The girl you took to the exhibition — was that her? Is that the reason you hid it from me?”
Han Sung: “Eun Chan had her reasons…”
Han Gyul: “What reasons?! If I found out she was a girl, would the sky fall? Would the earth crumble?!”
Han Sung: “You’re right. I’m sorry. I must’ve been thinking whatever was easiest for me. But I didn’t want to make things difficult for her.”
Han Gyul tells Han Sung to give him a straight answer: “When Yu Ju said you’d strayed, who was the woman?” Han Sung declines to answer (”That’s my business. Don’t involve yourself”), so Han Gyul calls Yu Ju:
“Hyung won’t say, so you tell me. The girl he took to the exhibit was Go Eun Chan, right? The girl that made him stray was Go Eun Chan, wasn’t it?!”
Han Sung grabs the phone, and levels with him (with Yu Ju still listening):
“Fine. I liked Go Eun Chan. But she wasn’t interested in me. I’ve already gotten over my feelings, all right?”
Han Gyul arrives home to see Eun Chan waiting outside his door. He tries to ignore her, but she has something to say.
“I didn’t mean to deceive you from the start. At first, it was because of money. The Taekwondo school closed, and I had nowhere to work. Then I liked working at Coffee Prince so much, I wanted to keep working there — but if I revealed I was a girl, I thought I’d have to leave. So I couldn’t say anything. I’m really sorry. I tried… I wanted to tell you… but I wanted to spend your remaining time here [before leaving for the US] on good terms. If I told you the truth, I was afraid I wouldn’t ever see you again.”
Han Gyul grabs her suddenly and pushes her against the door. He says, in a pleading tone:
“Say it’s not true. Please, say it’s not true. Eun Chan. I won’t get angry, so tell me the truth, okay? You didn’t lie, right? No matter what, you couldn’t deceive me, isn’t that right? Not just for a day, or two, but for several months… that’s not what happened, is it? Say you’re not a girl… say that you’ve never deceived me… that this can’t happen between two people who love each other… Tell me everything’s a misunderstanding, quickly, SAY IT!”
All she can do is weep and say sorry. Hearing those words, Han Gyul deflates in disbelief, barely whispering:
“You… lied to me? You did? You deceived me?”
He goes inside in a pained daze. Overwhelmed, Eun Chan cries outside his door.
She tells Eun Sae, “Even if I can’t see him anymore… even if he refuses to see me… I want to tell him. That I really, really love him.”
Eun Chan still comes to work every day, to Ha Rim’s ire, and he takes every chance to sarcastically make her feel bad, calling her shameless. It’s kinda mean, but kinda understandable. Ha Rim: “I don’t understand you at all.” Sun Ki steps in to defend Eun Chan: “Then don’t understand. What’s the problem?” Sun Ki’s perspective is that the two like each other so there’s no problem. Ha Rim sees things differently: “Liking each other isn’t everything. She deceived him and destroyed his trust.”
Min Yub apologizes to Han Gyul for his part in keeping the truth secret, offering a rather weak excuse that it was because of Eun Sae. Han Gyul calls him out on his selfishness, asking, “Is your love the only thing that’s important? You act all innocent, but you sure know how to lie and stab someone in the back.”
Mr. Hong casually-but-on-purpose tells Han Gyul how rough Eun Chan’s had it, providing for her family since she was sixteen, after her father died. It was easier not to worry about acting feminine, with so much else to worry about. Han Gyul tells Mr. Hong to fire her; Mr. Hong counters that since Han Gyul hired her, he should do the firing.
Han Sung visits Yu Ju, once more asking if work is truly the only thing that matters to her — can she live happily without him as long as she has her work? What does she really want? He says earnestly that he’s settled his feelings for Eun Chan.
Yu Ju isn’t buying it, though:
“Are you really over her? When I said I was leaving, you asked for time. I thought you’d tell me not to leave because you’d already settled your feelings. But you asked for time to get over her. I know you’re not one for saying empty words, but in that moment, you should have said them. I hoped you’d tell me, ‘I’m over her, she’s nothing to me. Han Yu Ju, I only want you.’ This means you’re not really over her.”
Han Sung asks why she can’t trust him, and Yu Ju tells him to look straight into her eyes and tell her Eun Chan means nothing to him. He can’t.
Yu Ju: “I can change quickly and end things quickly, but you can’t. Your feelings can’t change direction quickly, and once they have, it’s difficult for you to change them back. You’re different from me. That’s why it makes me more frightened and more angry. From the time I met you, until you met Eun Chan, there was nobody but me in your eyes. There were plenty of suitable women around you, but they were nothing to you. You wouldn’t even have a cup of coffee with another woman! When I needed you, you were always by my side, and whatever I did, you’d forgive me and accept me. I was always number one. But now, you’ve given me too many expectations.”
Han Sung: “Nothing’s changed.”
Yu Ju: “No, so much has changed, because I can’t trust you anymore.”
Han Sung says that if she wants to break up, this is the last time. Yu Ju bursts out that she can’t even stand to see him, and Han Sung replies:
“So you really want to break up again? You don’t give me any chances, and decide everything by yourself. What did I do that was so wrong? Both then and now… you sure do break up easily.”
Han Gyul’s mother drops by to make him dinner, and although Han Gyul accepts her presence without suspicion, it seems her real reason for being there is to find out about his meeting with Lee Myung Jae. (I’m not sure whether she’s a nice woman or someone to distrust.)
Han Gyul sinks into quiet thought, then tells her: “I think you’re the only one in the world who has faith in me.” (Ouch, that’s gonna hurt later if my instincts are right.)
Mr. Hong drops by to give Han Gyul some roundabout advice. He relates the story of a woman he once loved, a long time ago. She always lied to him about everything — she’d say she was meeting friends but go drinking; or that she was going home but then go dancing. Han Gyul: “You really loved someone like that?”
He asks why Mr. Hong laughs when it should make him angry, and gets the answer: ”Whenever I think of her, I laugh.” He figures the girl must’ve really liked him, though, and lied about those things for fear that he’d think less of her. “How much must she have liked me to have lied for so long?” He explains that he never once fought with her, because whenever he got angry, he would ask himself: “So you’re angry, but can you really live without her?”
Han Gyul gets the point (”So you’re saying if I’m not going to break up with Go Eun Chan, I should let this go?”) but doesn’t seem to be buying it.
Eun Chan looks at her Lego toy while repeating Han Gyul’s words to herself: “Whether you’re a man, or an alien…” Eun Chan tries to tell herself she hates him, but ends up saying, “I miss him… I miss him.”
At work the next day, Han Gyul briefly argues with Sun Ki and notes that everyone seems to be on Eun Chan’s side. She hangs her head and once again apologizes: “I should have told you from the beginning. I didn’t know things would come to this.”
Without sparing her a look, he tells her to pack her things and leave. She grabs his arm, and he flings it off harshly. He tells her it must’ve been fun for her — she got him to hire her, and admit he liked her thinking she was a man.
Han Gyul: “Miss Go Eun Chan, when were you planning on telling me? You must’ve had plenty of opportunities. When I said we should be sworn brothers, didn’t you understand my feelings driving me to say that? Couldn’t you figure out how I felt toward you? Do you know how hard it was for me when we were at the beach, and why I didn’t come to work for days? Did you really not know, you bastard?! Tell me. Did you really not know?”
Eun Chan: “I couldn’t say the words. I didn’t know how I’d act if you got this angry, and I thought I might not be able to see you ever again. I was wrong, truly wrong.”
Han Gyul: “You were only thinking of yourself. You didn’t care about how much you were putting me through. When I said I liked you as a man, when I said let’s go as far as we can go, you knew and still didn’t say anything? Was it fun?”
Eun Chan: “It wasn’t fun at all! I liked you too much, so I couldn’t say it. You said you were going to America in a month… we’d have to separate in the end anyway… So I tried to pretend not to know.”
Han Gyul: “Here I was, even thinking of taking you with me to America, but you were already thinking of sending me away. What was I to you?”
He turns to leave, and Eun Chan says to his turned back: “You said you wouldn’t like me as a girl. You said it was a good thing I was a guy. So what could I do, when I wanted to see you—”
He grabs her and shoves her against the wall, and assaults her in a kiss.
It’s harsh and unsexy — angry, and kinda almost ugly.
Eun Chan shoves him off — and he grabs her forcefully for a second kiss — and she forces him away again —
“The kiss was better when you were a guy. What’s left between us? Was there ever any trust there? I’d abandoned so much in my life just to have you. But you, you calculated everything to make sure you wouldn’t get hurt. Without a care for me.”
He stalks out, leaving Eun Chan in shock.
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Youre eternally fast!!!
Thank you soooo much ^^
Refreshing the page really pays off.. hee..
yeah! i’ve been waiting all day for this. Thanks javabeans. Can’t wait for tomorrow.
I was waiting all day for your take on episode 11. Thank you soo much, Dramabeans! I watched it raw, and you even translated the parts that I were shakey on! You really know how to please your readers. ^____^
It was a GREAT episode. I can’t wait for 12!
awww… its here. thanks… took me the nth time of refreshing just to see this. thanks a bunch.
Yay! Im on no#1… I know i just had to hit that “Home” button after reading the novel’s ending~~ whew! Thanks again!
FINALLY!!! SO EXCITED!!!
Am going to read it now!!! I’ve been waiting since last night. The waiting was a little easier thanks to the book. Thanks!!!
of course im the ultimate spoiler=) hehehe i just first read the last part from watching ep 11 in veoh. hihihi
“The kiss was better when you were a guy. What’s left between us? Was there ever any trust there? I’d abandoned so much in my life just to have you. But you, you calculated everything to make sure you wouldn’t get hurt. Without a care for me.”
Thank you!
Now, I can actually fall asleep. Ha.
this was hard to watch. very hard to watch. but you knew was coming. didnt matter. still hard to watch.
whoa…11th cup…thank you so very much…ive seen the raw episode earlier and has been checking your site every few mins….this episode is sooo good…acting wise, both HK and EC did a good job…i was crying like crazy…my heart goes out to both of them…the way HK finds out EC’s gender is different from the novel but just as good…my heart still hasn’t settled since ive watched this episode…looking forward to 12th cup tomorrow…As always, YOU’RE the BEST Javabeans!!!! thank you for all your hard work so that CP fans like us who only understands a few Korean words here and there is able to understand the episode fully .
Whew..i was going out of my mind waiting for this!!!! Thank you so much for taking the time to do this fast!!!
OMG - going to bed now so I can be up at 5 to watch this.
ahhh, crazy….
so it does not follow the novel exactly. ahhh, crazy…
and i can’t wait for tomorrow. ahhh, be still, my heart.
thank you, javabeans.
I really enjoy your recap!!=p!!Here’s I am your #1 Fan!!LOL
Thank you, Javabeans! A wonderful read from you as usual.
Finaaaaaaallllyyyyyyy its here!!!!
You never fail to disappoint me…. (not that you shouldnt) who am I right?
BUT what I mean is…
THANK YOU! THANK YOU!…
I just dont get it… isnt He glad though that she is a girl…???
I mean ofcourse he has the right to get mad.. but to say and convince Eun Chan that she really is a guy… is…. I dont know can’t relate!…
java, thank you, thank you and thank you! can’t wait for tomorrow.
i never regret missing out on some sleep so i can read your summaries.
gong yoo’s acting was ridiculously good, the anger at eun chan but only because he liked her that much more. so goooood. im hoping there will be some cute couple moments in the next episode….
Go Eun Chan’s face is getting puffier and puffier from too much crying…. good natural acting from all casts!
When I refreshed this page again and saw the 11th installment I was like jumping out of my skin from excitement! haha!
Dear Javabeans, you never fail to impress us! Thanks a helluva lot! (now I need to get back to work..hehe)
“Han Gyul visits Yu Ju, once more asking if work is truly the only thing that matters to her”
Your so into it you mixed them up, wanted to point it out before people get confused.
thank you so much!!! you’re a lifesaver!
There were plenty of suitable women around you, but they were nothing to you. You wouldn’t even have a cup of coffee with another woman! When I needed you, you were always by my side, and whatever I did, you’d forgive me and accept me. I was always number one. But now, you’ve given me too many expectations.”
Han Sung: “Nothing’s changed.”
Yu Ju: “No, so much has changed, because I can’t trust you anymore.”
No offense but she is one selfish bitch at times, omg I really cannot stand her in that part, acting like that. After the crap she did she selfishly wants to be number one, well she needs to get in line.
Yahhhhh….this is so good. The summary alone is making me all nervous and sweaty-palm. Thanks for the hard work!
I don’t get YuJu, how can she put the guilt trip on HanSung? She can play that game on him but when it’s her it can’t be done and that he’s not trustworthy? I just feel bad for HanSung to be in that situation. I figured that Lee Myung Jae was Han Gyul’s bio-dad when HG’s Dad told the Mom&Gran that he met up w/LMJ, and that he talked to HG about HG’s mom & him.(ep 9 or 10?). Then the Grandma or the Mom said that to let HG think of him as the bad guy…..ie…think of him as the Dad, so that HG wouldn’t find out about LMJ.
Javabeans, thanks so much for posting both the book version and the drama version. I enjoy reading both and like many people, anticipating your next post.
thank you for posting this up so fast!
what can i say about this episode…only that i have to agree with you 100%, the acting was really good and there was no need for much music.
i felt really bad for both EC and GH, cant wait to see what happens tomorrow
i don’t get…what the craps did he abandon? i have yet to figure that out *scratches head*
Thank you Javabeans. I love this summary and the tension in the scenes, the betrayal and hurt in Han Kyul. I love the conversational pieces in this episode. The last scene was brutal but very necessary because I feel HK’s pain. Gong Yoo is awesome and definitely stole the scenes from this episode!
So much emotion in this last line in your summary.
“The kiss was better when you were a guy. What’s left between us? Was there ever any trust there? I’d abandoned so much in my life just to have you. But you, you calculated everything to make sure you wouldn’t get hurt. Without a care for me.”
Ouch. Again. Gong Yoo is awesome in this episode.
I need to catch up on CP it looks like.
Thanks so much for all the summaries! It’s still just episode 11 and it’s already this sad =( I wonder how many episodes will they make us sad before they make things happy again =( I really like Coffee Prince. Yoon Eun Hye has improved so much in acting. Everybody is a good actor in CP!
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! i really reallly like that.. i wonder whats gonna happen in tom.. episode!!!!!!! i con’t wait!!!
wow…the endings of the past two episodes are complete polar opposites, ep 10 with the lovely kiss, and ep 11 with the ugly forced angry kiss
OMG!Its as intense as reading your book summaries . I think I’m gonna hold myself from watching raw vids and wait for the subs…tsk tsk…wish i could!lol!
Thanks again.
ACK! i couldn’t bear to read your commentary/summary yet! i have to wait until i actually watch it (w/subs).. but i had to scroll really quickly so i could at least calm my withdrawal symptoms with some suggestive pictures.. although admittedly, it’s just made me more anxious to watch. AHHHH the dillemma.
umm.. yeah. well, thanks. i’ll be back to read after i’ve watched. haha. i love your commentary. i’ve been with you since the witch amusement fiasco -__-” .. and my amaaazing que sera sera
Sigh. You had me at “Coffee Prince: Eleventh Cup.” THANKS!!!!!
As always, great analysis–especially about the music. I never thought about it that way, but yeah, sometimes less is more. BTW, how do you know all this great music!?
So the truth’s out, I see. Seriously, though. 7 more episodes. I suppose they’ll have to do at least one of those “3 years later” type deals. HK goes off to America. EC mourns w/ HS… YJ’s w/ DK… *maaaybe* she comes back. Something bad happens to EC that forces HK to wake up and hurry back to EC. Can’t. Wait.
P.S. I know this is random, so feel free to ignore it. Do you know the Kpop song from the late ’90s, it starts off w/ this violin intro. The main vocal is a female voice who sings the chorus that goes something like, “We’ll be forever, I love you, you’ll never know…” I hadn’t heard it for years until I was at a jjang jjang myung jip, but I didn’t have the nerve to ask the waiters for the title of the song. Worth a try, eh? Regardless, you’re still the BEST!
why am i ranting? idk but i know i love you javabeans!
oh, and your music, i love your music.
and your writing. i love your writing.
eeeeeehehehehe.. omgineedtowatch. sigh.
awesome episode.
but seems like everything will be ok, with them next episode.. still wondering what they’ll fill the next ~7 episodes with?
thank you.
Bamidele, thanks, it’s fixed. Man, I don’t get the characters mixed up but typing their names always confuses me. Especially when they’re talking to each other, lol. And yes, Yu Ju’s argument was very selfish, but I’m mixed about it — I can’t hate her because she’s not asking to be understood. She’s giving her explanation while recognizing it’s unfair. But her whole speech about how Han Sung has changed, I think, is to point out that his attempt to hold onto her is futile — it’s not so much a justification of her own behavior. That said, feel free to hate Yu Ju as you will.
JT, I interpret “abandon” to mean that he had to give up a lot of things — ideas, perceptions, beliefs — in order to be able to accept the idea of being with Eun Chan.
ginnie, oh yeah that last scene was pretty killer. Not to belabor the point, but it felt really QSS to me (and that’s a good thing). Han Gyul was so deliberately cruel, but you can totally understand him. Poor both of them.
omona…. *in shock* those last words from HK…. *deep sigh*
He is really really really-noone-else-would-ever-know-how-he-feels hurt.. d e e p hurt.
Poor him
At first I wanted him to get really MAD over her, but then again, episode 11 turned out to be a bit more than I expected. That forced kiss was too much, it was beyond harsh and hmph…
Not that I would take EC’s side for now, because like HK said, she had plenty of chances to tell him the truth. And for that, I blame her for leaving him in the dark.
Thanks sarahbeans babe for the quick recaps/summary *hugs*
can’t wait to see you this saturday! hehe! muah~~!
thanx for the summaries..now i can understands what is happening in ep 11
that was an intense episode…. i feel sorry for both of them..
but i kind of understand where they are coming from.
Han Gyul is mad because he trusted her so much. She was the only person in the world that he thought would never lie to him. A person who will always be honest with him but in the end he found out that she lied.
I also understand Eun Chan. It was never easy to tell the truth. Especially to the person you really value. She doesn’t want him to be mad at her, she doesn’t want to lose him. She didn’t really mean to lie but it just happened. Under that circumstances, I think she did it at first because she was desperate. I mean, she just lost her job and then an opportunity came but in exchange she had to lie. Even if I were her, I think I would also do what she did also.
Thanks javabeans i’ve been waiting for the episode summary for amost a week!!!!Love the story is going so far!!!
ohh a very bitter episode, i feel sorry for both, but more sorry for HG
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a heartbroking scene is the one when EC was waiting HG in front of his house ” say that you’ve never deceived me… that this can’t happen between two people who love each other… ” awwww i feel so heartbroken even now
manythanks javabeans
thanks for the summary upload. ~~~tears….this is a sad ep.
Yeah, everything is so messed up now. But isn’t it great writing when you can put yourself in each of the characters’ shoes and understand that they are acting/reacting in a true fashion - whether you “approve” of their behavior or not. That’s life, baby…. and a good drama as well!!!
Thank you so much for this latest update, javabeans. I always look forward to reading what you have to say. Monday’s are now a happy day for me!
Javabeans, I know what you mean…Was curious about CP when you made reference to QSS a few posts back. That made me wonder about CP and eventually stumble into this episode today. He is so badly hurt and betrayed. I think he is hating himself and hating everybody that lied to him especially a certain “he” that he has grown to love. Don’t you just get consumed by HK’s emotions in those scenes? I can’t sympathize with anybody else but HK, no matter what is the reason given…He was deliberately cruel and he has the rights! What other ways can he show his anger at what has happened? Throw a tantrum? Break down his apartment? I think that was the best revenge for what she did consciously to him.
Their acting was amazing…everyone. That last scene…wow when I watched it, I got cold because I could feel their angst, even if I couldn’t understand their dialogue, their eyes, body language, everything said it all. This is definitely one of the finest acting I’ve ever seen and I hope it keeps up. Can’t say much more because I’m so mesmerized after watching the raw ep.
Thanks Javabeans!
i’m confused, so Lee Myung Jae the new guy is Han Gyul’s blood father? as in real father? i thought the current one is his real father and just abandoned HG’s real mother then adopting him after 3 yrs isn’t that right? so the truth is Han Gyul is only adopted and the current father is not his real father? i’m going in circles, i can’t figure it out.
and the part when Han Gyul’s adapted mom visits him-
“I think you’re the only one in the world who has faith in me.” (Ouch, that’s gonna hurt later if my instincts are right.)- i remember his mom had a conversation with the grandma thanking her that if she hadn’t explained and force her she wouldn’t accept Han Gyul as her son….right? so probably that’s the part when he’ll be hurt when he would find out that his mom doesn’t want him either? i don’t know… Han Gyul’s real birth secret is slowly coming out and it’s confusing me!
anyway, Eun Chan…. poor Eun Chan the most important person in her life doesn’t understand her well… it’s partly her fault anyway but still she suffered too and it’s unfair that she only cries and not defend herself to the extent, i wish she should just yell at him back like she always used to and say “what can i do?! i tried to tell you but i just can’t and you wouldn’t want me as a girl! you’re not the only one who’s hurt me too!”
nyahaha i wish she’d tell him that then give him a punch! hahaha. but i still like him can’t blame him for being so angry but she has to fight back eventhough it was her fault
and Han Seung and Yuu Ju goodluck! i think Yuu Ju wants both to work and be with Han Seung but she only has one choice then why couldn’t they just go to US together that’ll be better…hehe
lastly, THANK YOU SO MUCH! YOU’RE MY ANGEL JAVABEANS!
arrrrghhh 42 COMMENTS ALREADY! this is really an emotional raw episode… am so looking forward to it… guess now nobody can deny eun chan acting skills.
i just love the script and your writing! wow! this drama really blows me away..
oh man what an ep!! thanks sarah!
tq so much…
great acting for hg! i can feel his pain. my heart hurts too much to say anything more! Thank you javabeans!
the best acting by GY, YEH, LSG and CJA!! no need for extra stuff the acting made it worthwhile. i loved it. so much powerful emotions. YJ is unbelievable! after all the times that HS accepted her back and let her back in despite the hurt, he falters and asks for time she cant stick by him, fight for him if she really loved him. cant she see HS really is affected by her. how selfish and conniving she can be.
its weird how i can really get HG’s feelings more. no matter that i know EC’s reasons, understands them and can see how much she wanted HG. when i see EC that hurt person.. when i hear those comebacks and lines from HG i cant help feel for him and understand him more. i can understand his feelings after also those things that happened and after he finds out about the dad and mom. its all downhill from here, his insecurities will show.
Wow! I think I am the only person not watching this drama. I just clicked on the soompi thread and there were 159 people in it.
Anyway, I’ve been reading the novel summaries and I just might take a stab at it. Keep up the good work.
I just love the acting of Gong Yoo and Yoon Eun Hye and the guy who plays Harim. I hope the 3 of them get an award. Watching todays episode really affected me. I was an emotional mess. I was happy, hurt, angry and etc…
My heart bled for HG, my heart broke for EC and I was so angry at Harim for bullying Eun Chan that I so wanted to punch my monitor each time he was on. This just goes to show that the actors did their parts very well.
I am really surprised at YEH’s acting. She has turned to such a GREAT actress and is nothing like she was in Goong. She made me turn into her fan.
Thank You javabeans for the wonderful recaps. We sure do appreciate your writing and your efforts. Love yah!
This is really a moving episode! the 2 characters are really superb! they made the story more exciting. can not wait for the coming episodes. again.. thank you for the “fast” summaries.
so..from now on can we assume the drama will be different than the novel??? *sigh*
i just want to say, i’m happy that you are alive!
i was crying in episode 10, and this episode 11 reading only here makes me cry… thanks!
the alarm didn’t work ha ha i just woke up! urgh!
finally, “eleventh cup”… wow! the script was perfect and even the way they all acted was perfect…. especially the scene i thought i was going to have a heart attack with that… whew!
thanks javabeans!
i knew eun chan would reveal her identity in this episode (from previews)
ohhh dramabeans u kill me! ur blog made me peek at the photos and comments
but it’s ok…it was predictable..as in how everythng turned out
i like how things are going
because now the will struggle over the trust that eunchan broke…ok i didn’t read thew hole summary
once i am finished with all my exams, COFFEE PRINCE..i will watch u
ur summaries are soooo good, it made me click the link!!! argh
=)
Holy crap, that episode was awesome you guys! Once again, Coffee Prince, you did not disappoint us.
Side note: you’re right, javabeans. Silence is so underrated. Once employed and is done well, it spoke volume for the story. Good example of that is the brilliant 2004 movie Bin-Jip.
Back to CP. Besides being heart-wrenching and raw, this episode was incredibly real and beautifully acted. Like Han Gyul, Eun Chan also exhibited tremendous emotional growth. Unfortunately, it was a painful (and some may say overdue) lesson for Eun Chan. Indeed, she finally realized that along with adult feelings come adult responsibilities. But then, isn’t it a mature thing to do to admit her “mistakes”, accept the repercussions and learn from them?
What i found so heartwarming in this episode are the reactions and actions of Sun Ki and Mr. Hong. We see Sun Ki reacted in defense for Eun Chan because he understood her dilemma. They both harbor secrets, albeit under different circumstances and for different reasons, but both carry the same emotional burden. Yay, waffle guy! On the other hand, i appreciate Mr. Hong for his eccentric views of life and love. I totally adore his hands-off approach to solving problems. The coffee princes could all be in turmoil, yet we can always count on his off-beat wisdom to bring some sensibilities to the situation. Mr. Hong is perhaps the only one who sees Han Gyul as the person whom we all hope that he could become.
Han Gyul reacted as expected, the alpha male version. I was so moved by GY’s fantastic performance. It is no surprise that Han Gyul lashed out in a childlike manner (geez, so much for character growth and progress people!). Life’s disappointment is aplenty. It is how we respond to these shortfalls - our choices, actions and the graceful manner in which we recover- will ultimate define who we are. It is never easy to forgive someone, but nothing will speak more for Han Gyul’s character than seeing him respond in kind to Eun Chan’s regretfulness. That is the only thing that she can hope for at this point.
Ahh, life’s journey is tough, isn’t it? It can be painful and exhausting at times (especially when it involves server upgrades :)), but we all know that we are better in the end because we’ve experienced it.
It was a beautiful recap, javabeans! Thank You.
Ooh! This time very so sad.
I’ve been refreshing as well the whole day! LOL Thanks, javabeans! Great summary as usual!
I wonder how they will resolve the conflict now. Han Gyul should understand Eun Chan and get over her deception. I know it’s hard but he has to accept the truth and get on with life. He should be grateful Eun Chan is a girl, so he’s not a gay afterall. hehehe
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thank you so much for your summary
my,my….. You know what? i’ve been checking your page since this morning coz i know they’ve alredy shown episode 11 yesterday in Korea and i’m eagerly waiting for your summary. Thanks a lot, it’s worth the wait. I’ve seen the raw, & although i understand very very little korean it’s difficult to catch up without your summary.
What can i say, Gong Yoo’s acting is really superb. His facial expression alone is enough to blow you away. And i’ve notice Eun Hye’s acting has improved a lot since Goong (Princess Hour). Well, I can totally understand HG for treating EC that way coz after all the mental anguish his gone through trying to accept his “homosexuality” only to find out that he’s been lied to,what do you expect…….this is really so exciting, i can’t wait till tomorrow. THANK YOU JAVABEANS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorry, i forgot to put my name..hehe =^.^=
Holy $#!+ !! Can’t wait to see the real thing. Suberp writing as usual. Thank You ^^
Thank you sooo much for the summary. I always look forward to reading about Coffee Prince! ^_^ You Rock!
Aahhhh… so heartbreaking *and I didn’t even read your summary* - just by looking at your screencaps, so I had to thank you before, javabeans ^-^
I really love your summaries *not only Coffee Prince, but Flowers for my Life too - because of this I found your site* I admit you have a talent to write, so keep up your good and time-taking work!!
I don’t know who’s side I’m one!!!! LOL…I think I can completely understand how HG feels but I want him to forgive EC ahh!!
Thanx for the summary!
I think I just died a few times while reading this post… in a way I understand perfectly why Go Eun Chan acted the way she did… she was selfish and only thinking of her feelings, but just the fear of disappointing him and losing him was more than she could bear. When Han Kyul was saying “Here I was, even thinking of taking you with me to America, but you were already thinking of sending me away.” it makes me think Eun Chan has never been in a relationship before. Or maybe she thought compared to YuJu he wasn’t serious about Eun Chan hence why she wasn’t thinking about the future, just the present. Ah~ I’m just thinking about how everyone in Coffee Prince has their “true love” that they’ve endlessly pursued, like Min Yoep for Angel, Sun Ki for his mystery girl, Mr. Hong and the woman he loved, Han Sung for YuJu. But Han Kyul doesn’t want to dump Eun Chan, does he? He’s just disappointed?
Coffee Prince has surprised me many times every episode with the amount of depth and psychology though it. Having watched many cross-gendered dramas and movies, it’s managed to stay original, I hope the next 5 episodes will maintain this indescribable quality. I haven’t felt like this towards a drama since Hana Yori Dango, season 1. TY javabeans for the wonderful chapters of the book and perfect summaries.
The 11th cup is hard to swallow when there is a lump in my throat….crying….so sad. Felt so sad and sorry for Han Gyul. As for Eun Chan, her deception is not her fault. It’s the circumstances that she is in. Thank you so much Javabeans. Cheers!!
Thanks so much for this awesome recap. I love how in contrast with his previous ‘upgrades’, Han Gyul seems to take this one really seriously. When he said let’s take it as far as it’ll go, he really meant it, and showed it in his unabashedness to pursue the relationship after that turning point. First thing he did when he got to the cafe was to ask Mr Hong where Eun Chan was - Mr Hong paused to give him a thoughtful look which he didn’t even register. I love it that he wasn’t even thinking of what people would think. When he told her he was thinking of taking her to America all the implications of this admission stabbed me. Han Gyul really has a way of making you feel for him, with him. When he first admitted (in their first meeting in the cafe) that he couldn’t sleep well (why? 설레서) I just melted. I’m an irrational sucker for that word, because when I hear it in dramas the guy gives off a sense of contented helplessness that just melts me. Like, against my will I am mesmerised I don’t hold it against you but stars in my eyes. And how can you help but be mesmerised in turn by that hypnotic light? I say coherently.
The scene in front of the apartment was just.. gut-wrenching. I mean, how do you put it in words? But you sense that lying seems to be quite an issue with him, what with the deceit and concealment surrounding his birth, and the lengths to which this deception took him. I mean I think it literally took him round the bend (though it probably stopped short of causing serious mental damage)
I really liked Mr Hong in this episode. You get the sense that though he’s kinda gross and ditzy, it’s not from not knowing any better, but from knowing what really matters. He’s mellow (like many of the tracks on this series, in a drugged-buzz kind of way), sooo mellow. duuuude. Interesting that while Sun Ki is cool and he’s mellow they’re both essentially doing the same. I also like how Sun Ki is sticking up staunchly for Eun Chan here, because he doesn’t see what the big deal’s about.
This episode is the first time I’ve tried (belatedly and unsuccessfully) to stream live, to download the lq at midnight and to watch without subtitles. Thanks to you and many other spot translations this wasn’t as painful as it could’ve been (Harim and Eun Chan talk fast and slurred). I’m going crazy because of this show but thankfully the process isn’t quite driving me mad yet!! Once again, thank you so much! Sorry if I sound incoherent ^^;;
Oops sorry I just noticed! Eun Chan, Yu Ju and Han Gyul all have this black shirt with a gaudy random white print… Eun Chan wore hers much earlier in the series, her print is of sneakers. Yu Ju wears hers in this episode, with diamonds. We see Han Gyul’s in the preview for episode 12, it has birds or flies or a pocket knife on it. Possibly the last, but they’re very fat swiss army knives.
Sorry this is a random point I just wanted to share but I forgot to lump it in my long previous post! =)
wow! and the plot thickens….
javabeans- how come you’ve never leave any preview?
Thank you for summary.
OMG!!!
Thank You very much javabeans!!!!i really like your summaries!!!!^^
Can’t wait till tomorrow!!!
really harsh.. but I totally understand him..
thanx alot javabeans for all your hardwork and understanding for all of us who was lost without your reviews..
can’t wait for more cups of coffee prince..
people hate it when others lie. it especially hurts more when the one who lies to you is the one you truly care about and trusts that you learn to open up yourself and let that person in…..only to find later on that that person has deceived you. love is hard. they say all you need is love….maybe not so since you should have trusts as well.
most shows has been about the girl’s character and how she is feeling. coffee prince is different. and i like it that way. in this show, we are able to see inside mind and heart of a namja. that they are like women too. they get hurt like we do.
THE SUSPENSE! >
oops. The message was cut. D:
I meant to say thank you for the summary as well. ^^
I’m catching my breath…..
Thanks babe..for the awesome summaries and feedbacks as always…B-)
It’s not easy to lie nor is it easy to be the one duped ..I totally feel for both of them ..sob sob sob…
**TRUST takes time to grow BUT a moment to be destroyed **
Cant wait for the 12th cup too!!!
This i intense and in a matter of 1 hour you got 75 comments. thanks for this. I’m still feeling the intensity of the episode. Seems like everything exploded. Can’t wait for episode 12. Thanks =)
hahaha, 10 more comments got added after just a few minutes =)
*sniffles* So sad! Everything’s falling apart. I felt for everybody in this episode (least for YJ and most for HG). With 5 or 8 more episodes to go I wonder what they’re going to fill it with? Are they going to keep us in tears for ages? *ponders*
Excellent episode, excellent acting and another excellent summary! Thanx! *chu*
Does anyone know the name of the song at the end of episode 11 when Eun Chan is sitting against the wall shocked? It’s really catchy! Thanks in advance.
Yes, being much more selective and sparing with the music than most KDramas really strikes home. I think there’s a parallel in the colour mixes for this production, too. Usually, KDramas go in for sumptuous rich pallettes, rather like tourist publicity videos, even for those mandatory caught-in-a-downpour-with only-one-umbrella shots. But in CP, browns, greys and black predominate. And the vegetation always appears slightly dusty (just like the leaves on city trees really are). Above all, that beach scene. Romantic seaside exchanges in KDramas usually involve staring out into the sunset (”ㅘ!! 예쁘다 !!!) with opalescent skies reflected in lovestruck eyes. But in CP it was in the uniform greyness of the pre-dawn, with a sea-mist to boot. As though the entire production was matching the breathtaking make-under that Yoon Eun Hye so bravely and succesfully underwent for this role. A little experiment for techno-fiddlers: get a mega-glossy KDrama (e.g. Lovers in Prague) on your screen, then find your TV’s or monitor’s colour temperature adjustment and turn it right down to the “coldest” setting. Hey presto, tourist Prague starts to look like CP Seoul. I imagine they did something similar at the video mixing desk.
Thank you.
i just finished watching a HQ version of 12th cup preview and it looks promising…although i couldn’t understand the dialogue but it looks like HK was smiling in one of the scene and in another scene, it looks like he was helping EC pick up something…hmmm….im so ready for another cup of CP…looking forward to it…should i sleep right now to make time go faster?hmmm
Gamsahamnida
thank you so much javabeans!!!!
this is so great…. can’t wait for the next episode!!!
I have been here for quite a while and I have always failed to even say thank you dramabeans. “Salamat” for your recaps, particularly for this episode.
This drama was well written, produced and acted. Kudos to staff and crew! Yoon Eun-hye’s acting is superb! Liked her a lot!
i’m off my heartboken mode so i guess i can give more of my 2 cents regarding episode 11. it’s another wow episode! i feel so much for their pain! coffee prince took my kdrama obsession to a whole new level. Now I have graduated from all-dayers and all-nighters drama marathons (usually dramas that have been “completed and subbed”) to all-dayers and all-nighters of refreshing forums, webpages and video galleries for this “currently airing” drama. And I couldn’t have survived watching the raw episodes without your summaries javabeans! Words aren’t enough to express how thankful I am. teehee. But still, A million Thank yous! It’s a whole new level of “obsession”. It’s gotten to a point where my workmates look at me in that funny way because in the middle of work I suddenly get teary-eyed and emotional! That’s what I get for continously refreshing this webpage and the coffee prince forums during office hours! enough of that.
now about episode 11, in my opinion this was yet another han kyul-ian episode. Han kyul totally floored me with his versatile acting from being so painfully sweet one moment to such an a**hole the next. he is so good at the way he delivers his lines (which i think were superb and made by genius writers!) that i came from being a eun-chan camper to han-kyulian camper in just a few scenes! Seriously, I expected to dislike han-kyul even just a little bit after this episode because i expected him to put eun-chan through so much suffering just because she hurt his ego! I was preparing myself to give my all out support to eun-chan because han-kyul was so mean to her in the past episodes making her cry, cursing and shouting at her, firing her at his whim and saying truly hurtful things like wanting to run over her ten times and all that! My heart also went out to eun-chan in that scene with han-sung where she totally breaks down and is absolutely lost on what to do. But lo and behold, after HK lashed out at EC at his apt and at the end of the episode and told her all that he went through, all that he is going through, the pain, what he gave up and lost; not to mention the perfectly delivered shouting, cursing and crying in the other scenes, i’m suddenly thinking “EC you evil girl! How can you hurt poor HK like that??!!! You should make it up to him for all that you’ve done! ” Despite the forced kiss and his roughness to EC, i still feel for HK since the things he said and did just reflects the pain and the hurt he is going through and had to go through all over again(epi 9-10)! Waah.. Such a long post. Enough already! I got so carried away. sorry! Anyway, i have a feeling i’m only among the few who is on HK’s side right now but what the heck! hehe.. peace out!
about the music selection of CP, it’s quite different from the previous kdramas I’ve seen. I think it’s one of the reason why I came to love the series. Those scenes that required ballad (possibly bordering to sappy) songs they actually came up with melodious and melancholy soundtracks. artists like vanilla unity, donawhale, rumble fish, clazziquai, and the likes, I mean, wow! what could get better than this? thanks for uploading these selections (among others). Love your taste in music Javabeans.
I also think that having that brown/black/grey production treatment and cinematography gives an organic feel to the show. hey, we’re dealing with coffee here (hence the brown I guess); then the multiple layers of emotions involved (the grey area of loving beyond the norm); and lastly the dark mysterious past (and ending) that’s about to be unearthed…. I dunno I’m just guessing here. But thanks Gramps for pointing that out.
im beginning to like han gyul less and less… somehow don’t sympathise with him at all.
thank you so much for this..
wow, 100 posts in just an over night…. approximately 7 hours my time. good job javabeans!
wizie
“approximately 7 hours my time”
Hey, that would explain one component of the javabeans miracle: she inhabits a parallel universe where time flows at a different rate! That would account for how she manages to do so much when measured in our time — especially over the past few days. But though it explains the astonishing quantity, it doesn’t explain the even more amazing quality.
i almost cried while reading the Eleventh Cup (to think im suing my ofc computer here at work) … cant wait to watch the episode later. thanks!!!
im really so hooked w/ Coffee Prince! the last im into this was when i watched “My Name is Kim Sam Soon”…
Acey
“Harim and Eun Chan talk fast and slurred.”
I hadn’t grasped this about EC’s speech until you pointed it out, but yes: this is another of the gender-blurring features that Yoon Eun Hye brilliantly yet unemphatically builds into her playing of the role. It’s not just speed, it’s pitch, or rather relative lack of variation in pitch. It’s a commonplace in phonetics that female speakers are, on the whole, easier for non-native learners of a language to understand than males, because the higher frequency makes it easier to discriminate between unfamiliar sounds. But in Korean especially that difference is heightened by the way that females, and especially trained presenters and performers, tend to use a much wider range of vowel tones than males. Listen to any Korean TV program where there is a male-female pair of MCs or anchors, block out the sense and just listen to the sounds. You’ll most likely notice that the female uses a much larger range of vowel-pitches than the male, even when talking about the same things. So much so that a visiting linguist from Mars might well conclude that Korean as spoken by females is a tone language (as of course for centuries Korean was, and still is in some dialects). The outcome of this for enjoy-the-dramas-while-pretending-it’s-all-all-for-the-sake-of-language-learning freaks like me is that we get to a stage where we understand most of what the women say while still having to wait for the subs (or javabeans) to decode what the men say back. But I had noticed that I was having real trouble following Eun Chan. Suddenly, I realise why and that the reason is very much part of this drama’s all-round excellence.
Ahh! I should have waited to read 11th and 12th cup together! Ah the angst the angst! Thank you for another awesome recap! Ah be still my heart!
I’m really glad that I finally am able to read this. Tried staying up all night and keep refreshing the page to see if you’ve updated, but sleep beckons me instead. hehehe…
I would just like to say that I really enjoy reading your reviews, esp on CP, because you seem to be very perceptive of the characters, and also very sensitive to the storyline. After reading your review, I always feel like there’s something I’ve missed and would normally go re-watch the episode again. There’s emotions in your review that reflects the storyline, and at times, just reading it can get just as good as watching the show itself.
And this review on 11th Cup, was just as poignant as the rest. I watched the raw last night, but not knowing a single Korean word, I had to struggle going through forums to check what exactly is going on. And your review just completed, and perhaps, gave me a more in-depth understanding of the episode from my initial understanding of it.
I like your comment about the (lack of) use of music in this episode. And again, your reflections about the characters are amazing. Han gyul’s and Eun Chan’s struggles with their emotions: betrayal, jealousy, anger, guilt, shame… it was painful to watch, yet necessary.
I’ll be waiting patiently for your next review tonight!
Hmm I think there’s something wrong with the cookies for the comments? Often I see the name of the last poster still in the Name box, and people have been using my name too -.-; ohwell not a big problem I sound pretty schizo normally anyway =p
I was watching episode 11 again (subless, I tell myself rewatching repeatedly is a good exercise in comprehension. which is half-true) and I think maybe for Han Gyul, the last fierce kiss in the end was meant to be some kind of exorcism? Maybe he feels betrayed by his own feelings because although he feels hurt and betrayed by Eun Chan he still can’t let go, so he’s trying to convince himself that he should know better? I’m not sure to what extent it worked though - though he lashed out hurtfully - the kiss was better when you were a guy, I wonder what he’s really thinking underneath the words (though Gong Yu’s superb acting gives us more than plenty of clues)
Sigh I really wonder how they’ll resolve this. Previews give indications that it will all be okay again, but I hope they do it believably - so far the CP production team has been great in handling things such that we’re like ohhh yeahhh that’s great I wouldn’t have done it any other way, if I’d even been able to think of such a perfect way of handling it. I hope they manage to resolve this issue with their usual flair instead of just making it fit for the sake of the story. That’d be disappointing. I love the way that, for example, while Han Gyul is still grappling with the truth of Eun Chan’s gender, he still refers to her as ‘i saekki’ - naturally, he still thinks of her as a boy.
And I think there is a sense that even when he gets over her deception, there’ll still be something lost to their relationship that they had when they were both boys. Or maybe it won’t be noticed as the natural first giddy, fluttery-ness of a relationship are lost as well. I really liked how in the book they’ve tried to keep their relationship as natural as possible, to get a sense that whatever’s lost isn’t all gone and is even replaced with something that’s perhaps even better - I really loved it when Han Gyul tells Eun Chan to dress girlier so they won’t look like two men - and Eun Chan, in typically Eun Chan-ish fashion, tells him to wear a skirt xP
Gramps
(I always feel bad at cluttering up the space with comments swiftly following one another - sorry I didn’t see your post before I posted!)
Wow, I never knew that. And suddenly, everything becomes clearer. As you put it, Korean dramas for me is very much a “enjoy-the-dramas-while-pretending-it’s-all-all-for-the-sake-of-language-learning” endeavor, and this I think justifies it. I learned something new, and now I realise why 1) although I generally prefer male singers to female ones I have many more female Korean singers’ songs than the normal proportion for other languages - I guess because I can actually understand what they’re saying more of the time, and 2) even for some of the male songs that I can understand happily (like Ready’O’s 손만 잡고 잘게, which is hilarious) the raps are completely unintelligible to me - I suppose there’s that much more tonal variation in the singing?
I’ll definitely pay more attention to tone the next time I listen to them speak!
waaah! such a sad episode
but excellent performance and dialogues, scenes etc.. i’m really proud of CP!
thanks sarah for your summary! can’t wait for tonight’s cup of coffee!
It’s me again. Still rewatching. I’m beginning to understand why in K-dramas they say michigetta so often. I bet it’s because there’s something particularly craziness-inducing in korean-ness, and it’s not a bad crazy. It’s an I’m-close-to-pulling-my-hair-out-but-I-wouldn’t-really-have-it-another-way kind of crazy. But I’m sooo amazed by the layers there are in these episodes, the sheer amount of detail. There’s always something left to discover. I’m beginning to wonder how much I’ve missed, having only watched the previous episodes once, with subs. But there’s this bit in episode 11 that I’m only just noticing, when Yu Ju is packing, where she picks up her toothbrush, lets it kiss Han Sung’s toothbrush, then ‘kick’ it. It’s at once sweet yet somehow sad. It’s also somehow very Yu Ju - reminds me of the time she was waiting for him at his house at made dominoes out of CD cases
awesome!!!!!!
intense. speechless. hmmm.
hey
i just saw episode 12 in korea and it is soooooooooo much better than 11…..totally made up for the drama in 11…..but this time there were no previews for next week so i have no idea where they are gonna go from here…..how are they gonna fill up 7 more episodes worth of storyline when they’ve already run the gamut of emotions already? i’m new to kdrama so i have lots of questions….anyway the cool thing is i happen to go to the same hair salon as HG and EC so i can see them anytime since they go there every morning for hair and makeup. i already saw the guy who plays min yup in person and he is just as cute as on tv. i wish i had the courage to ask them to so some commentary on the dvd like american shows. for some reason koreans dont do commentaries…but for CP i wish they would make an exception. i would really love it if they explained how they viewed certain scenes…why they chose these roles-what drew them to it….what were their favorite scenes…which ones were the most difficult to shoot…etc. it’s so much fun to get the actor’s perspective on each episode. i would so buy that dvd!!!! anyway you guys will love the 12th cup!!!!
Hi~
I`m Korean.
It was surprised that overseas people interested in 1st Coffee Prince.
I have seen the coffee prince Ep.12 on TV.
It`s very awesome episode.
Yippee, the cyber-fates were kind for once and let me watch the w