i am impressed that she can cook … not many women cook these days; not to mention to do it well, it’s like a dream come true for who ever she’s dating or marrying in the future. lucky guy … ah .. she’s also a hottie; thus making her the “perfect” 10 .. at least for me…lol

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> For example, you’d have no frigging idea that Jeon Do Yeon
> was a brilliant transformation artist if you’d seen just her TV work,
> where she’s mostly known as, well, The President’s Daughter.

Oh… yeah, I see what you what you mean.

In films they do get to take edgier and riskier roles—especially because most profitable dramas need to be aired during prime time so they need to fit certain ratings and “standards.”

So I guess I can understand that they’re afraid of being typecast (but at the same time, I’m really eager to typecast the ones I like! )

Do you know if k-dramas are the only ones that do live shoots? Because I think most Chinese, HK, and TW dramas are done beforehand. What about Japan?

I can definitely see how this might affect the creativity. I remember there were a few cases where TW-dramas had to re-shoot the ending due to fan complaints though! kekeke

I do wonder how the quality of Asian dramas might change if they were given more creative freedom and had a better distribution channel (like premium-type cable).

And I agree with Carina, I love reading your thoughts

belleza, let me just say that I love and really appreciate your posts. You always seem to know what you are talking about and seem very well-informed.

About the interview, yes she seems very sad, and I think she was prettier all “bursting” in Autumn Tale than now. I’m not really looking forward to this drama.

Spike > Angel! S&B forever.

“Do you think a lot of actors and actresses think this way? That films are always superior to TV dramas?”

Most actors prefer film because the hours are more reasonable. K-dramas, especially sageuks, are a grind. Also, most actors feel frustrated with live-shoot, because they get scripts at last minute and don’t have adequate time to rehearse. Of course, most actors do both, since TV pays better and protects your visibility. For example, you’d have no frigging idea that Jeon Do Yeon was a brilliant transformation artist if you’d seen just her TV work, where she’s mostly known as, well, The President’s Daughter.

“Like they keep their “best acting” only for films and just coast through the dramas to make some side money…”

Yes, but it’s also not their fault that most Korean dramas are trendy romances (which we love, of course.) And it’s not like everybody gets to play king in a sageuk. That said, Kim Myung Min (who has a lengthy career in theatre) has passionately defended TV as a viable art form. MBC occasionally runs one or two episode specials (a la Fuji/TBS tanpatsus) and KBS runs its own anthology series. And there’s cable. I love the shows that Yellow Arts Entertainment produces, which play like a fusion of Japanese and K-drama tropes. Also, the acting and art direction in those shows are much improved.

Problem with Hye Kyo is that she stopped acting regularly when she was 23. She resented the pure girl roles she was handed (you’ll hear professional disappointment from almost every show she did due to this issue), yet she also felt deeply insecure about her acting skills. She wanted to take chances, but her handlers advised her to protect her fanbase/image. So she ends up doing neither, stagnating as an artist, only doing 2 movies since, and watching a generation of actresses born from 79-84 take over both TV and film. She’s an iconoclast now, associated with a pre-fringe/bangs natural beauty image and pre-My Girl/Goong/SamSoon Hallyu. She (like Jeon Ji Hyun), who may have had risen too quickly into her popularity, now seems so much older than her same age peers.

She’s vaguely out of date, and yet poised for an awesome comeback. For Hallyu fans, she’s a bit like the princess coming out of a long sleep and remains kind of a bridge between the previous and current generations of K-drama fans.

> sometimes I wonder how she’d be today if she just had
> worked through her 4 years in drama exile on TV projects
> and waited to establish herself as a serious actress.

Do you think a lot of actors and actresses think this way? That films are always superior to TV dramas?

I know some do and that’s disappointing for me. Like they keep their “best acting” only for films and just coast through the dramas to make some side money…

Personally I prefer dramas over films, because in films you aren’t really given the time to know the characters and so I don’t really relate to or care about them.

( Of course TV dramas need to have a limit in length. This is why I prefer Asian entertainment overall since it actually ends! The one thing that turned me off to American TV series was how long it lasted and in order to keep the storyline going they had to change the characters personality so much! Spike & Buffy? Seriously!? )

> This used to be the custom for Chinese and Japanese as well.
> In addition, most Asians used to celebrate their B-day on the lunar calendar.

They still do this in Taiwan as well. I hate it now because it makes me older

But growing up it was great. In an effort to introduce some Chinese culture to me, my parents would celebrate BOTH my lunar and Gregorian birthday

Also, the lunar birthday is important if you go to a Chinese fortune teller… so my mom told me to always keep it a secret! kekeke