[NOT REALLY SPOILERY BUT...]
Oh, this just cracks me up. So. Hard.
Secret Garden watchers will be familiar with Hyun Bin’s obsession (or rather, Joo-won’s) with his expensive, hand-stitched, sequined Italian tracksuit, which everyone else mocks as tacky and unfashionable. Despite the fact that Joo-won has been the butt of many jokes as a result of his Suit of Sparkles, he apparently can’t let go even when his soul has been transported into the body of Ha Ji-won, as we see in these teaser stills from the drama’s upcoming Episode 8.
Dying. Laughing.
I know some of you were hoping that once the bodies were switched, Joo-won would use his endless cash flow and sophisticated fashion sense to spiff up Ra-im’s tomboyish, casual wardrobe. I think we set our hopes too high.
What kills me (even more) is that given their size difference, Joo-won has either had to procure another designer sequined extravaganza, or he’s gone out of his way to retrieve his old one and then altered it to fit his new womanly shape.
This drama could do nothing but physical comedy gags between Hyun Bin and Ha Ji-won and I would be in heaven.
Secret Garden, which passed the 20% ratings threshold within four episodes, airs on Saturdays and Sundays. As if our weeks weren’t long enough.
Via Star News
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LOL. This is just ridiculously funny.
This, is Gold! I hope Joo-Wanda dons other great sparkly tracksuit designs.. lol Long Live the Sparkly Tracksuits ..lmao
I feel as if these tracksuits might just start a trend in real life. Hey, I’ve seen what those crazy fans can do okay. It’s possible. XD
Attack of the Sparkly Blue Tracksuit.
World Domination!
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Though, as a side note… isn’t Raim more tomboyish on the outside, yet I think Hyun Bin is making her seem more girlish on the outside. Same with Ha-Ji Won where I kinda miss Hyun Binnie’s little neurotic personality that I can’t quite feel in Ha-Ji Won.
(Then again, both made pretty big impressions on each actors kinda has to live up to the acting of the other actor in their portrayal….)
I was thinking the exact same thing! Raim was tomboyish and is being played too girly sometimes by Hyun Bin…I think that Ha-Ji-Won is being played more true to form, but yes all of the neurotic behaviour is gone, but it is early days yet, as they are just getting used to the switch.
agreed
haha.
yup..though I love love love the show, I think Hyun-bin could toned down the girly thing a bit, dont remember Raim that girly, but I think Ha Ji-won did okay.
I wonder if the girliness seems all the more obvious because it’s exuding from a man.
@anais I totally agree with you
Because if Ra Him was in her own body ~ she wouldn’t be encountering all the close proximity moments with Oska, but being in Joo-won’s body~ she has no choice in encountering Oska on a daily basis & on a private level
Props to Binnie for being such an awesome GURL!!!
Also to Ha Ji-Won for being so excellent in portraying an arrogant ass <3
I can almost picture it…people walking around in sparkly tracksuits. Stores running out of them, people demanding them.
speaking of said fans.. check this out! someone made the track suit for the sims!
http://blog.paran.com/myosbox
check out what ive already found!!! someone made the tracksuit for the sims game!
http://blog.paran.com/myosbox
Waa…cool ^^
I’ll create a joo won sims
thanks
I’m clearly tacky and unfashionable, because i always thought the tracksuit was rather cute.
And looks quite sexy Joo-wanda….she’s working it in the photo, look at her bum!!!
I agree that Joo-wanda/Ra-im/Ha Ji-won looks sexy in the sparkly. She’s workin’ it without even trying…and yes, I did notice her lovely…uhm…you know…
OMG, so funny!
I silently laughed at work…
OMG ahahaha LOVE this.
love it love it love it.. Hyun bin still too skinny. he looks like fido dido less the curly hair.
I agree, waaaayyyy to skinny. I much prefer the Hyun Bin of old, with a bit of meat on his bones, he was fiiiineeee!!!
Here’s hoping that this new look is a bit of method acting gone a step to far, that somehow this look is related to the obsessive quirky/arsey character and is not here to stay.
LOL I approve of this.
Saturday o Saturday, please come sooner
If your going to have a drama with body/soul switches, you may as well have zombie track suits too!
I saw a spoiler pic of Ha Ji-won in a big red coat, so at least Ji-won did improve Ra-im’s wardrobe. But this pic of her in the tracksuit cracks me up. I wonder whether we will see her in the leopard print one too?
I agree with you about leopard tracksuit.Ha Ha Ha
LoL..he needs to zip it up too!!
lol that’s what i was thinking– s’okay, really, but did he have to zip it again all the way up? aaahhh jo wonda. LOL
ain’t she glad it’s winter over there?
Oh my goodness!! I freakin’ love this show. LMAO. I don’t think these gags will get old. I just hope the writer doesn’t pull a fast one on us and suddenly turns it into a melodrama. That would be blasphemous, I tell you.
Five bucks on the leopard-print member’s-only jacket making an appearance, too.
lol, this comment cracked me up.
Oh my gosh, the tracksuit returns. Is it only Tuesday? Seriously…where is the weekend.
OMG! That’s hysterical. I’m giggle-snorting over here.
I’m going back to visit next month and this tracksuit has become priority number one (seeing Grammy is running a close second). I will definitely be combing Namdaemun/Dongdaemun markets looking for one of these. And I’m totally gonna rock it…..
LOL, will the tracksuit be the next fashion trend?…and it’s amazing that she stands just like him with her hands in the pocket…
They have the mannerisms down pat right…they purposely created ones we’d remember so it’d follow on the switch…I love these actors
God forbid I wake up in the next couple of days and see the headline “Secret Garden sparks sparkly tracksuit trend.”
If a piece of clothing can make someone as beautiful as Binnie or HJW can look absolutely ridiculous, I would advise the general public to save it for halloween.
Mwahahaha!!! This would make my day!
NO WAY!!!!!! BAHHHHHAHAHAHAA!!!
i just died.
lol
Thanks for sharing… it gave me such a nice laugh… I really love this drama… and this stupid tracksuit…
I’m so behind on watching Secret Garden because of schools but when I saw the first picture, I just cracked up. Oh man, the tracksuit…bwahhahahaha
**Sigh** It’s shows like these that make the months and years go by quickly and make life feel short. In waiting longingly each week, sometimes you miss life going by next to you.
wow… I was just thinking the exact same thing! I’m so focused on waiting for the next episode, I don’t really register what happened in between. Even during the day… I’m literally just wasting time until the subs come out… sad, sad indeed.
Time is going by sooo slowly for me waiting for the next episode.
I know right!!!! is it saturday yet?!?!?!
LOL. I let out a giggle after seeing the shiny tracksuit. I wish this drama airs EVERYDAY in little tidbits so that it won’t wrap up already. Now I’m looking forward for weekends.
AHAHHHA I totally love it! I like to imagine that he got his original track suit back and tailored it to his own body… ahahahha!! oh my god this is too hilarious to imagine.
LOL…just finished my dinner and I opened this article and boom, I can’t stop laughing. You have to give HJW creidt, you can see/feel – that’s not Ra Im and her eyes expression and her posture just SO Jin Won. LOVE IT…I wish weekend is here soon…I know that I will be out of town for two straight weekend during X’mas and New Year…oh no what am I going to do.
I just watched Episode 6 and Hyun Bin and Ha Ji-won are really killing it! I wonder if they have to watch the earlier clips to perfect each others’ expressions and gestures.
seriously tho
what am I gonna do the rest of the wk?
just watched ep 6 again
HJW is so Hyun Bin! The eyes, the posture, the crazy blinding tracksuit. I fear the melo but embrace the wackiness!
One piece of clothing that is causing so much hilarity.
The tracksuit will go down in kdrama history.
Ahhh! So true! It’s going to be talked about for dramas
and recaps to come!
And you know what!? It’s growing on me!
Gonna look for one like it…the blue one!
This is pure JOY.
JB I agree, it has to be an obsession for Joo Won not to see that people will either:
a. Think he bought Raim a matching suit
or
b. Raim is wearing his suit
Either way eye-brows would be raised. :-S
Couples sparkly track suit = scary
Maybe Ra-him can wear the “Oska socks” to get back at Joo-wanda.
your suggestion – that would be absolutely hysterical!!!!! lol
“Maybe Ra-him can wear the “Oska socks” to get back at Joo-wanda.”
This makes me died laughter.. So hilarious
Haha. If Ra-Him wears oska socks, it will spark off bromance rumours.
Oh YES!!! Bring on the Oska socks!!!
Ahhh.. I’ve never been so enthralled with a garment. One blue sequined tracksuit to rule them all.
I am sooo loving this drama right now. I’m caught up with the show but I could not help myself but watch the episodes again this past holiday weekend. As if I didn’t crave for the weekend to come along any faster, waiting for the new episodes of this show has made it far worse.
Hahah OMG EVERYTHING about her is so spot on Joo Won.
I ridiculed the tracksuite like no other, but now I want one…SG what have you done to me, and my fashion style? LOL
I will laugh at this all day.
Please continue the fangurling of this drama, episode 6 one of the funniest ever, since watchin the raws on Sunday until now with your recaps and finally watching it with subs… best ever Hyun Bin’s feminine body language–AWESOME, AWESOMEST acting ever with Ha Ji Won’s masculine foil… Thanks JB and GF for your recaps and “gifs.”
cant wait to see this tracksuit again…the sparkly girl is out to shine….lol…i will be laughing out loud when i see this scene…imagining it cant stop me from giggling once in awhile
omg LOL
saturday and sunday could not come any slower T.T
still confused over ra-him and joo-wanda! haha
Bwahahaha..this pic just made my day..
hell yeahhhh!!
I was not expecting this piece of hilarity. Even with his quirky fashion sense, I didn’t think joo-wanda would cross that line. The poor girl is forced to see herself wearing this spectacular horror. Does this mean they’re comfortable letting each other seeing their original bodies?
wooowwww
great story line
hahaha funny indeed
those two are really great together
i feel pity to the stunt director though
he is so deeply in love with ra im
he’s kinda good looking too
it’s okay if ra im choose the stunt director as well
lol
hahahaha
this drama is SO funny
i am eagerly awaiting the sparkly tracksuit’s comeback
Exactly what I needed to make a dull tuesday sparkle!! thanks for the crack javabeans, so wrong, so good…
Ha-ji won is seriously channelling Joo-won those pictures. Even as I at her face I don’t really see the actress or Ra-im there anymore..what amazing acting. I love Binnie and totally teared up laughing at his comedic antics in ep 6, but I still need a little more to be convinced that it’s really Ra-im and not HB acting . (Maybe I just know his face too well-Don’t kill me, fans).
Would it be wishful thinking to see them in couple sparkle wear? Even bts? Surely someone’s thought of it.
Saturday needs to be today.
I agree with you. Sometimes I still see Joo-won in Binnie and not Ra-im. It is the mannerism.
i think its because girls can act tomboyish and attain the character whereas when boys act like girls it is actually hard to make it seem.. natural.
Not to pick on Ha Ji Won or anything, I miss the neurotic Joo Won who knows he is neurotic in her acting.. Am I making sense? lol
i’d have expected the soul-switch would spark another of bout of “neurosy” and chanting thingy.
the tracksuits might possibly be my fave running gag ever. love them.
Tee hee! See what you did there?
Tracksuit is a “running gag.”
no doubt this is kdrama-Seinfield’s-puffy shirt..never laugh this much over kdrama
Omo Omo
HAHAHA!
Not gonna lie, I would wear that sparkly tracksuit LOL. I guess I have my moments of tackiness.
Binnie is awesome in this drama. I can’t picture anyone else in the role. So happy that he gets to do this cool drama before he’s off to the army.
OMG, the tracksuit is BACK with a vengeance. Haha, I hope Joo-wanda also wears the leopard print one. Can’t wait for the weekend to come!
This is hilarious. I love how the tracksuit is pulled up to cover part of HJW’s chin because that’s exactly how HB wears that spakly monstrosity!!!! HAHAHAHA… Laughing so hard.
oh god!
the more i look at the tracksuit the more normal-looking it appears to become xD
i honestly want me one of those now @_@ lol
you know you’re obsessed with secret garden when you actually WANT to wear that tracksuit =P
is it just me who wants joowanda (if i got this wrong, i mean joowon inside raim’s body) to say the whole
haha!
haha!
rhyme “kim suamo gubooki..etc. etc.”? because i think it would be so cute for her to do that..especially with her voice
and
LMAO
about that sparkly tracksuit! hey, binnie, looks like jiwon-shi looks just as hot in it
nope, not just you! I love this idea.
I’d love to see that too.
I love this idea!