Dramabeans Podcast #6
by javabeans
Podcast #6 is here!
In which javabeans and girlfriday discuss:
- My Name Is Kim Sam-soon
- Soulmate (18:05)
- What’s Up Fox (23:25)
- Goong and Goong S (35:09)
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Songs Used in Podcast (In order of use)
“Be My Love” by Clazziquai from the My Name Is Kim Sam-soon OST
“She Is” by Clazziquai from the My Name Is Kim Sam-soon OST
“Bonbon au Chocolat I” from the My Name Is Kim Sam-soon OST
“Where I Belong” by Sia from Soulmate
“What’s Up Fox?” from the What’s Up Fox? OST
“궁” (Palace) from the Goong OST
“Crystal Flower” from the Goong OST
“Falling in Love Again” by Bobby Kim from the What’s Up Fox? OST
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51 Lost without KDrama
May 7, 2011 at 6:40 PM
Good morning.
Nice to hear your voices JB and GF. Look forward to Part 2 of this podcast.
I loved MNIKSS.
Would like to see What's up fox? and Soulmates. Has anyone found them online recently?
I found WUF on Mysoju but the links are broken. I found it again on Veoh but only from Episode 9!
Appreciate your help.
P.S. Dramafever isn't an option for me.
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pai
May 9, 2011 at 8:06 AM
What's up, fox? is on Hulu.
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52 ar_arguably romantic
May 7, 2011 at 6:43 PM
I can't wait for part 2!!
I also love the MNIKSS ending! Usually, I prefer the neat sort of "and they lived happily ever after" sort of ending, but the ending went so well with the tone and feel of the drama and made me pause to reflect. I didn't like Hyun-bin's character that much on the 2nd and 3rd watch - I liked Hyun-bin charisma and how he contributed to the comedy of it all, but not his personality - but like you, I liked him because he would make Samsoon happy. And loved the music! The MNIKSS is one of my favorite kdrama soundtracks.
Re Goong: My problem with Goong is that I didn't feel like I could really root for anyone in it. Maybe I rooted for YEH's character a little just because life was throwing all sorts of crap at her, but I wasn't passionate about it. I didn't really like Shin or Yul. The acting for both characters were pretty blah. But I loved the sets, clothes, and the music for the drama. I would give up kdramas for an entire year if I can have Chae-gyung's wardrobe!
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53 CLEE
May 7, 2011 at 6:48 PM
YO SAM SOON IS MY FAVORITE DRAMA OF ALL TIME. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THIS!!
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54 annie
May 7, 2011 at 7:31 PM
Wow, thank you! And there's a part two? I feel like I stumbled over treasure :)
I completely agree with you about MNKSS, javabeans. I was not moved by Sam Shik, especially when he became all wishy-washy about Heejin. And except for the "anorexia", I liked Heejin and her relationship with Henry was sweet. I was glad they ended up together. Samsoon is one of my favourite characters, but because I wasn't that crazy about the male lead, MNKSS is not one of my favourite dramas. Still, it had some great moments.
It was so much fun to walk down memory lane with you guys, and especially to hear your thoughts on some popular dramas you haven't addressed on the site, which I've always been curious about. Looking forward to part 2!
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55 kdlover
May 7, 2011 at 8:20 PM
Ahh sam soon is my most rewatch drama!!! It was actually funnier and better the second time I watch it!! My second korean drama that I watch but still my favorite!! I remember it took me three tried before I can get passed the first ep hotel part. I quit and thought to myself I didnt like sam soon but glad I stuck with it!!! She grow on you and you will love her!!! I might just go rewatch this now!!!! lol
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56 Lady Seoul
May 7, 2011 at 8:37 PM
Yea, I love how Hong sister's main leads grow to deserve the heroine. Thanks for the pod cast, I enjoyed!
<3
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57 vanillasalt
May 7, 2011 at 9:37 PM
All i gotta say is: I really didn't like goong. Like, at all.
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58 John
May 7, 2011 at 11:02 PM
Old favorites that you'll talk about? :D
Sam-Soon and Soulmate? :D :D
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59 theedie
May 7, 2011 at 11:09 PM
Ah, funny that you guys should mention Goong. I did my own retrospective look on that a few months ago (link, for anyone who's interested: http://theedqueen.livejournal.com/3841.html). I sincerely hope that someday down the road someone will do a reboot of this drama and get it right this time. Goong has so much potential to be amazing, but the drama just fell so flat. While I do have fond memories, I could never rewatch the whole thing again. It'd be too painful. And I say that as having been one of those rabid fangirls back in the day. I have a whole website to prove it too.
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60 Annie
May 7, 2011 at 11:24 PM
It's amazing that you guys remember all this about older dramas. Maybe I'm just forgetful, but I don't remember much details about older dramas.
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61 bjharm
May 8, 2011 at 1:38 AM
More than likely like myself most have watched these dramas more than once, That is the true test of a fun drama for me, being able, and wanting to watch it again and perhaps again.
Some have linked Jang Nara's BFB character to that of Kim Sam-soon, as in rude and crude,,ie swearing and drinking with the normal k-drama puke over the lead guy, seems in k-drama land all poor unmarried 30+ ladies are that way..unhappy and disgruntled and as in Fox of course frustrated virgins..got to love the sexiest slant to Korean dramas..one set of rules for men and another for woman..ow that right over 30 and you no longer to be considered a woman..yeah right
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62 nonski ⭐️A forever JIN who crash landed on Hyun Bins heart❤️!
May 8, 2011 at 1:50 AM
weeeeeeeeeeeh, thanks for the podcast! i;ve been longing for this for sometime now...
anyhow, of the dramas mentioned i haven't watched Goong S and Soulmate (but now i will looking forward to watching Soulmate, after podcast, and after the may drama festival!)
first, Sam Soon is still the best drama for me... i love Kim Sun ah and yes, i started liking Binnie there but what really gave weight for the drama for me is Sun ah. MNKSS will always be my top drama c",)
Goong i love it but for me the ending is just lame but it is something i could watch again.
and Fox is just awesome! i love the show coz i can relate being 30 something and single... it's just so realistic and i feel in love with CJM!
thanks for doing this podcast!
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63 amberscube
May 8, 2011 at 2:06 AM
It's so good to hear your voices again JB and GF. I recently just saw pictures of you guys while browsing previous OT. You are fabulous. Thanks. Looking forward for the part two of this podcast.
I was listening to this while hubby was watching pacquiao's fight with mosley. Hehehe, he said the fight was kinda boring. Im glad i choose dramabeans podcast instead of watching the fight...
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64 Brenda
May 8, 2011 at 4:07 AM
woah this is the first time i've heard your podcasts even though i've been following this blog for little under 2 years? its so interesting to hear your voices <3 you guys are so articulate :)
my lovely kim sam soon was my first 'favourite' kdrama (the second kdrama i watched EVER) and i didn't even know it was popular so i'm so glad you two are talking about it <3
gong is a drama i can not seem to finish even though i heard so many good things about it (and i love YEH) but eventually dropped. i think its because i only started to try watching it about last year, after i've watched so many good dramas with good pacing, i found it sooooo long and slow and just didn't like the characters :(
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65 Unnursvana
May 8, 2011 at 4:23 AM
Goong <3 my frist K-drama love :)
I loved the royal couple in that drama. I liked Shin, even if he was sort of an jackass... I think he became better in the later episodes but maybe that was just me. I on the other hand hates Yul with passion. I think it is because to me, he was always in the way of the Royal Couple and messing with the main girls head. I didn't like him at all.
Yes, he was nice but I just hated him.
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mihinikki
May 8, 2011 at 6:34 PM
YES! What made me really disgusted with Yul was that he seemed so sensitive and thoughtful, but was ready to prey on Chae Kyung's insecurities about Shin. I would've respected him if he was just upfront and said early on that he like her. And then Yul should have been committed to protecting her. Instead he tried to convince her Shin would never love her so she should just give up and go with him, becoming the #1 enemy of the monarchy and Korea. If Yul really loved her he wouldn't have dared suggest they run off together. But, then again he was only like 18 yo... 'Nuff with ranting. Can ya tell Goong is still my #1 crack kdrama of all time? ;)
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66 Dorotka
May 8, 2011 at 5:25 AM
Thanks a lot for the podcast!!!
I have not listened to it yet, going to do it right now :)
I always love listening to you and your comments... it's like having you in my living... or with this summer weather in our garden... nice! :)
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67 Dorotka
May 8, 2011 at 7:40 AM
Ok, I finished listening :-)
Sam Soon is my favorite drama ever! I hope you will one day write a recap of it, just like you did with Bottom of the 9th with 2 Outs. This was the first k-drama I rewatched (and I still do time to time), it totally captured my heart.
I loved Sam Soon a lot – her character, her baking, her talking to her dad and herself...and her kissing JH as the first:) ... the only scenes I didn't like much were those on their dating day (when she makes a scene in that cloth-stand about the picture or what)... that was so unSam Soon-ish...
Unlike you... I did like Sam Shik. I did like how he tried to play cool and yet was so boyish inside, how he from the beginning liked SS straightness, independence and sassiness and often defended her and how he sort of fought with his attraction to Sam Soon (remember the bike scene? And the pig-garbage scene?:) )... and I think his return to Hee Jin was because of 1.first love memories, 2.sense of duty and 3.unknowingly trying to suppress his feelings for SS (he can't love such a girl, right?;) )
I also liked the relationship of SS sister and the chef :) So refreshing :D
As for the anorexia issue, I don't remember it so well, but I thought it was more result of HJ not eating for a couple of days and her stomach sensitivity after the cancer – I mean because she felt unhappy and stressed, she didn't eat (I do the same thing unknowingly and have to watch out my diet in hard times) and because her stomach was so sensitive, she got into a more serious state. At least that's how I understood it. Perhaps they just used some funny terminology... or my memory is wrong:)
Because I liked KSS so much, I also watched What's Up, Fox. I liked the noona relationship and the associated problems, but the story of her younger sister was a bit strange.
Goong had for me too much angst and drama in the later parts. And the ending??? But I sort of liked Shin's change from an uninterested amused bystander to a guy being deeply in love with CH.
Anyway, thanks a lot again for this podcast and I hope the second part is coming soon!! :)
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68 Nay Jack
May 8, 2011 at 8:17 AM
One of the best scenes is seeing her carry around a model of the female womb and reproductive system in What's Up, Fox! The whole bit when it's cast into the ocean and she imagines it floating in the cosmos.l
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69 sleeplessinwgtn
May 8, 2011 at 8:12 PM
MNIKSS is the drama that got me in the K-drama bandwagon, and that was just by accident.
KSS is the modern day heroine; she's not the pitiful type and she stands up for herself. I love KSS's character; though not Korean speaking I can surmise that
A very poignant moment is whenshe was talking about her father on the mobile phone; that always sends me to tears, no matter how many times I have seen the drama, and that's going into double digits by now.
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sleeplessinwgtn
May 8, 2011 at 8:53 PM
.oopppss..
.. though not Korean speaking I can surmise that she was swearing a lot... so typical of the character being depicted. In Filipino I think she would fall under the 'palengkera' type.
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70 Rachel
May 9, 2011 at 1:45 AM
What annoyed me most about Goong wasn't the angst they smack you over the head with, or even how Shin is sort of a bastard. It's the embarrassingly sloppy ending with Yul.
I might have been more satisfied with Shin getting the girl in the end if the writers had taken the care to give Yul a decent ending. I truly think the writers just went, "Okay, we need to end this storyline the next 20 minutes... Fuck it, let's just do this."
I haven't seen What's Up Fox, but it's now on list of Dramas To Watch. Thanks for the podcast, girlfriday and javabeans! Looking forward to the next one.
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71 Cabbage
May 9, 2011 at 3:58 AM
What really sets the Hong sisters apart for me was exactly what you mention early in this podcast - that their plots are TIGHT, and they know exactly where they're going to end up (giving you plenty of hints along the way). Gumiho is even symmetric! After ep 8, it's like a mirror is set up and everything happens again from the other way around. And in My Girl, it felt like the heroine was always one step ahead of everyone else. That frees up the actors to really act!
And for that, I'm willing to forgive a little childish behavior and some potty humor.
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72 jomo143
May 9, 2011 at 10:28 AM
KSS was my fav character of all time, for all the reasons you listed plus she liked to have sex. We never get to see that with these dramas. It is as if touching a male bodypart is like touching rotten meat!
It’s funny that you mention “we watch the drama to watch the ending.” I had my heart broken too many times with Kdrama endings I have detached myself from them. Watching Giant also affected me because I decided to enjoy the journey, and not worry about the ending. That is why I’m loving “Sparkling” because I get to hang out with the characters for a long time.
In WUF, do I believe Byung Hee could still be a virgin? Could it also be that NO MAN could possibly live up to the scenarios she had written? Someone suggested it was because she had been actually in love with CS the whole time? I don’t know if I buy it, though.
Goong? One of the freaking saddest dramas out there. Both of those poor kids did not deserve what they suffered for what? But wasn’t Shin the most beautiful human ever in THAT shirt in Thailand?
(Remember – from Goong you learned that to be a princess you have to read a LOT of books!)
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73 Janey
May 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM
Actually, you are incorrect on the anorexia thing and it has to do with actual medical terminology and the common usage of the term anorexia. Anorexia nervosa is the eating disorder that you are thinking of. The rest of us commonly refer to anorexia nervosa as just anorexia, but doctors and medical terminology differentiates between anorexia and anorexia nervosa the eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa is a long term eating disorder where people literally starve themselves. In My Name is Kim Sam-Soon the patient had only anorexia, NOT anorexia nervosa, which means she had a complete loss of appetite for only a few days. When anyone has a loss of appetite (happens often with children or the elderly when they are ill) the medical terminology for this is simply anorexia.
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74 annieee
May 10, 2011 at 4:57 PM
kim sam soon! this drama will always have a special place in my heart. i agree that sam shik was too much of a bastard at times, but like girlfriday said, kim sam soon was the heart of the drama! she made me want to have a dream job as a pastry chef : )
and i also loveeee the ending! so bittersweet and realistic. MNIKSS is THE go-to drama to watch when you're feeling down. every time i hear music from the soundtrack, i feel all nostalgic and giddy inside from all the memories! speaking of MNIKSS, when is kim sun ah going to have her comeback?? i've been missing her since city hall!
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75 shareta
May 10, 2011 at 5:11 PM
Great podcast! Hardly any of my friends watch kdramas so this is brilliant!
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76 pininci
May 14, 2011 at 1:42 PM
I really enjoy the podcasts :) please continue doing them. i think, i became especially fond of these mostly because i can not find people to talk about kdramas and this is the closest i am to just a chit chat about them :D
also, i really appreciate that now you put the exact moments of the topics.
thank you :)
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77 pigshallfly
May 14, 2011 at 2:36 PM
woah loved this podcast Kim Sam Soon & Soulmate are my two most favourite kdramas ever & I really really love What's up Fox!!! :DD (hate Goong coudn't stand watching it but lets not go there)
theres just something abt kim sam soon- Im not sure if i can pinpoint it.. but even though we've had snappier plots & sassier heroines since its really been the one thats stuck with me all this while.. & Soulmate what can i say a work of art if nothing else than for its brilliant use of a stellar soundtrack..
What's up fox was hilarious, & for a drama full of risque professions & sexual innuendos extraordinarily sweet.. loved most characters incredibly realistic way of portraying them & their reactions agreed & on the whole a very unusual gem in the kdrama landscape..
fun podcast looking forward to part 2 :D
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78 pigshallfly
May 14, 2011 at 2:40 PM
btw if you're looking at gems among older kdrama do consider looking at Bottom of 9 End 2 Outs its absolutely fabulous it has the best elements of dal ja's spring, soulmate & woman who still wants to marry added to its own charm.. probably the best look at friendship, love, career, & choices iv ever seen.. would love to hear a podcast covering it :]]
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79 orple3d
May 16, 2011 at 11:00 AM
YAY for another podcast! Love Sam Soon.
For the next podcast, I wanted to ask about your thoughts and opinions on What Star Did You Come From. Thanks!
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80 denwanai
May 18, 2011 at 5:37 PM
Just watched the "Personal Taste" episode 6 where the female lead sends out the handsome male lead - Lee Min Ho to buy sanitary pads during a fancy party they are attending. The scene in the pharmacy was perfectly FUNNY!
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81 Dubukat
May 27, 2011 at 8:25 AM
Thanks for going back to older favorites! I recently watched Soulmate & loved it. Now I want to watch the rest of the ones you talked about!
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82 anonymous
June 26, 2011 at 12:46 PM
besides dramas, what other shows do you guys watch?
like, american tv
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83 anonymous
June 26, 2011 at 12:46 PM
besides dramas, what other shows do you guys watch?
like, american tv
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84 blueFish
July 1, 2011 at 5:00 AM
just listened to all of your podcasts!! ended up awake at almost 4AM..
had fun listening to both of you!!
Can I request another podcast after Miss Ripley end??
Hope you can talk about the May dramas plus 49 Days..I watched everything that you recapped!! I already have a habit of not watching the next episode until I read the recap. You gals made my drama experience complete.
Keep up the good work!!
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85 Mai'
July 26, 2011 at 6:16 PM
Hi girls =)
I really like hearing your podcasts =)
please, keep up the amazing work!
Hugs from brazil ^.^
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