Comments on: Seo Woo takes on a Lolita role in Paju

By: Xybciba

Xybciba — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 05:45:10 +0000

This is probably the first Korean drama/movie that I have had an honest interest in. I’ve seen Stairway to Heaven/Winter Sonata/Autumn Tale/ect and I found them all to be overly dramatic and unrealistically predictable. Everything was the same, rich guy/sweet girl are childhood lovers, one leaves then comes back, stuff happens, one gets amnesia but the power of love overcomes that and then one of them dies all of a sudden. I’m glad this seems more realistic, serious, and less fairy-tale like. A slice of the darker side of life and love, if you will. The actor/actress don’t seem like perfect cookie-cutter faces either which makes them seem more realistic and individual. I hope they have respectable acting skills, because I’m looking forward to seeing this and liking it.

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Wed, 23 Dec 2009 12:24:38 +0000

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By: Sada

Sada — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:52:25 +0000

Hmmmm…I like Lolita-esque stories. I was a bit of a wanna-be-Lolita myself.

By: Elisa

Elisa — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:38:49 +0000

more lsg is always good DDDDD

By: chajjye

chajjye — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:18:50 +0000

ah, crush and blush. she was really a spunk in that show. though that movie was err…odd.

she somewhat reminds me of im su jung in …ing. maybe its the lips and pale look. hehe.

By: travp16

travp16 — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:58:45 +0000

Hum. This has definitely sparked my interest.

By: tofu

tofu — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:00:47 +0000

Ahh Lee Seon Kyun “The Voice” has a new movie awesome!

I really like this dude because he CAN act.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:31:28 +0000

LSK was pretty good as a badass amoral PI in The Customer is Always Right. Maybe those who complain he acts the same have only seen his drama roles Coffee Prince-onwards? The Voice is excellent at playing The Nice Guy, but he’s capable of so much more y’all, esp in his film work.

That said, let’s hope this movie makes him uberly creepy so he can break out of that particular typecasting rut.

@9 langdon813
” Listening to him speak is like the acoustic equivalent of hot fudge sliding over vanilla ice cream.”

@4 Samsooki
“If there has to be an “issue to overcome,” maybe it is Lee Sun Gyoon trying to learn how to sing and trying to participate in a local radio singing competition.”

The socks thing is probably a bit facetious lol, but okay, I’ll bite. You might take to Lee Joon Ik’s movies Radio Star and The Happy Life — the characters have a few problems (an aging has-been rockstar reviving a failing radio show, a couple of guys starting a band) but nothing major and not treated in a melodramatic way, just ordinary people living ordinary lives who love music. There’s a little bitter mixed in with the sweet, but that makes them authentically feel-good.

By: Samsooki

Samsooki — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:56:16 +0000

@23 seri –

Purely purely purely out of academic curiousity.

Is sister-hopping considered bad form, and, whose “bad” is it?

i.e., example:

Guy X starts dating Girl Y. Girl B has a sister Girl Z. X dates Y, then, say Y dumps Z. Is X not able to date Z? If X DOES in fact start dating Z, then who’s at fault (or is nobody at fault, because “sister-hopping” is okay, as long as each person is an adult and knows what he or she is doing)?

1. X, because “sister-hopping” is bad form for X.
2. Y, because it’s her fault that X was free to date other people.
3. Z, because she should have realized that X is off-limits for her.

and does the answer change if X was the one who dumped Y?