Makgulli, the drama: Shaken, not stirred
by javabeans
javabeans: Hey, did you hear? Makgulli drama!
girlfriday: An entire drama about makgulli? Is it not gonna suck, like Cinderella’s Sister did?
javabeans: Not if we watch it drunk.
girlfriday: Truer words, about most dramas in fact. What’s the story about?
javabeans: Dunno. Makgulli, apparently. No, I’m not being a smartass. That’s all the article says. Oh, and it’s 16 episodes.
girlfriday: Sixteen episodes about the merits of rice wine? So it’s a really really long liquor commercial?
javabeans: A commercial with product placement opportunties? What does that become?
girlfriday: A CF masquerading as a drama, masquerading as a CF?
javabeans: What do you call a drama with an identity crisis?
girlfriday: I Am Legend.
javabeans: Touche. So, you gonna watch Tak-bae-gi? (Apparently that’s the working title, another word for makgulli. I’m like, why not just call it Makgulli?)
girlfriday: It’s ‘cause it’s an old country drink, right? So it has different regional names, like dong-dong-ju? Or is that just a brand?
javabeans: I think you’re right. But makgulli is the standard word, no? I guess it’s like calling a drama Firewater rather than Whiskey. (By the way? I’d watch that drama.)
girlfriday: Sign me up for that drama. I think Santa would get dibs on recaps though.
javabeans: That ornery bastard? Sigh. I guess so. You don’t fight with Santa.
girlfriday: How can we turn this drama into a drinking game? Do we know anything about the plot? Drink every time someone cries?
javabeans: I don’t think there IS a plot yet. Would it be a bad idea to drink every time they drink?
girlfriday: I like your style. (And yes, it’s a bad idea. I want this on the record for when you blame me later.)
javabeans: But then you’ll have to confront the fact that you have it in writing, and yet still did it. What does that say?
girlfriday: That I am easily led astray by friends with bad ideas?
javabeans: Great! I have LOTS of those!
girlfriday: I know. It’s pretty much the bedrock of our friendship. I entertain your nutty schemes.
javabeans: Every good partnership needs visionary leader to lead…visually.
girlfriday: Yeah but I’m still not going to wear that Robin costume.
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1 Geneva
August 11, 2011 at 11:08 AM
.. Sounds riveting. <.<
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2 myweithisway
August 11, 2011 at 11:09 AM
Bhahahaha....
Oh you guys just crack me up sooooo much.
In all seriousness though, who'd watch a 16 ep long CF?
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Maymay
August 11, 2011 at 11:14 AM
I would if they cast Lee Min-ho, Jung Il-woo, Yoo Ah-in, Kim Soo-hyun, and Song Joong-ki as the leads.
:)
I don't care if it has no plot at all. :)
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Shel
August 11, 2011 at 11:23 AM
I'm with you on that one, May May. I don't even drink, lol. Can we add Kang JiHwan?
JB and GF, you bring smiles to my day nearly every day. Thanks!
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mizweng
August 11, 2011 at 6:31 PM
do count me in...a drunk, shirtless, lip biting Kang Ji Hwan is all I need to watch a plotless drama-like CF!!!! Of course, he leads the pack of my boy toys... Lee Min Ho, Jung Il Woo, Song Joong Ki, No Min Woo,Kim Bum and Kim Soo-hyun...Yaaaay this halmoni's dream cast indeed!!!! and please there should always be a shower scene...RAWR
thanks for this treat... playing with my perverted imagination is the BEST way to treat my Alzheimers...hihihi hik...
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Shel
August 11, 2011 at 11:24 PM
Maybe they could be drinking in the shower? OK, too weird maybe. But I could watch Kang JiHwan do nothing but stare back at me. Especially if he's shirtless, lol. As my gramma used to say about Robert Redford (back in the old days when he was young and cute) "that boy could park his slippers under my bed any day!"
Oh, and Yoo Ah-In, Cha Seung Woo (minus facial hair and tattoos)....
And, if there isn't too much acting involved: Song Seung Heon, Yoochun, Hyun Joong and.....there are probably too many in this category to mention.
A girl can dream, right?
Marina
August 12, 2011 at 12:56 PM
Love the way you all think :)
danna
August 11, 2011 at 11:30 AM
All these men drunk on makgulli all the time?? Yea i'm in...granted they start drunk stripping
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corn tea
August 11, 2011 at 12:33 PM
drunk stripping now we are talking. add Kim Bum, too!
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nozomi
August 11, 2011 at 1:10 PM
I'd watch a 16 ep drama with no plot if we have we Min-ho, Jung Il-woo, Yoo Ah-in, Kim Soo-hyun, and Song Joong-ki and KIM BUM drunk stripping even if there is NO PLOT.
SaisMY
August 11, 2011 at 9:28 PM
haha love this idea. would totally watch this drama just for them. :D
izocha
August 11, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Didn't they do that with wine and No Min-woo?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr4PsggplLY
Although a star studded cast would only improve the lack of plot, right?
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Dav
August 12, 2011 at 10:06 AM
And it was nigh unwatchable, even by my lax standards.
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Yuki (the one who fangirls A.N.JELL with her mom)
August 11, 2011 at 12:54 PM
Ditto. If that was the case, I'd be in even if it was just about them sitting around drinking makgulli and watching paint dry.
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DamzelD
August 11, 2011 at 1:32 PM
HEAR HEAR!!!
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xine
August 11, 2011 at 2:06 PM
And JKS
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belleza
August 11, 2011 at 1:04 PM
"who’d watch a 16 ep long CF?"
If this drama was called CASS, I'm down wit it. Lee Min Ho in guyliner? Guys making jizz-iny-my-pants faces while finishing up CASS beer? It's alllrrriiiggghhhttttt!!!
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luraaa
August 11, 2011 at 3:56 PM
Lee Min-ho in that Cass cf was hot. Or he could dance as well like in the banana drink cf. He was adorable in it.
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supah
August 11, 2011 at 4:42 PM
Yi Mino... Who?
This is the most recent of Cass campaigns and it was all over my cable show avi downloads this week (like seriously, it was on loop after every 198th second).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zsp6_Ao3k54
Cass Fresh. The drama Poseidon could never be.
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myweithisway
August 11, 2011 at 5:16 PM
I apologize having not seen that Cass commercial before but yeah, 16 eps of that? I'm so down for it. Also if somehow we can get Jang Geun Suk with his eyeliner too, it'd be great. And on that note, we should get Mr. Creepy from CH--it'll be an guyliner extravaganza!
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samsooki
August 12, 2011 at 11:37 AM
That was the drama Style... a few years back...
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3 questions987
August 11, 2011 at 11:14 AM
I vote for a buk bun ja ju drama instead.
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4 mskololia
August 11, 2011 at 11:28 AM
Are you two drunk?
This was a srsly hilarious read.
Thanks.
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5 Niki
August 11, 2011 at 11:33 AM
I like makgulli. But i dont look good in tights. Still....can i join in on the drinking game? XD
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Bellamafia
August 11, 2011 at 11:59 AM
what does makgulli taste like? sweet?
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ajbny
August 11, 2011 at 12:44 PM
makgulli has a taste I describe as malty when shaken: it is mildly sweet with a taste like rice soaked in water. It isn't an unpleasant rice taste, it's starchy, malty but lightly starchy, malty. Unshaken it tastes like saki. There are many varieties available. I've had traditional ( as traditional as a $3.00 bottle can be) and flavored and carbonated. The carbonated grows on you.
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Silver
August 11, 2011 at 12:54 PM
There's more plot in there than in a bunch if dramas I've watched so maybe the producers are on to something :P
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belleza
August 11, 2011 at 1:51 PM
Make it a romantic triangle between Makgulli Guy and Soju Junior, and we're good to go!
6 Damselfly H
August 11, 2011 at 11:46 AM
There is a 2001 Hong Kong TVB Drama, Country Spirit, with wine making as the back story. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_Spirit
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Yuki (the one who fangirls A.N.JELL with her mom)
August 11, 2011 at 12:57 PM
Ooh! That was a really good drama. I rarely watch anything that long, but that drama was totally worth it. Also it's predecessor...it was about tea, I think.
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Damselfly H
August 12, 2011 at 7:20 AM
Actually, TVB decided the predecessor of Country Spirit to be season 2 of a 1995 drama, called it Plain Love II
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Plain_Love
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7 ar_arguably romantic
August 11, 2011 at 11:53 AM
awesome post, you girls!
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8 Sunflowery
August 11, 2011 at 11:53 AM
if i drank everytime you guys said makgulli...
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9 yakno
August 11, 2011 at 12:09 PM
Sharpening my eyes.
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10 Auntiemame
August 11, 2011 at 12:28 PM
Wow! Beautiful photos. Coupled with a hilarious read. The two of you are the best!
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izocha
August 11, 2011 at 12:46 PM
2nd for AuntieMame. This post was a very fun surprise for Thursday afternoon. Cheers for a thirsty evening!
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11 Georgie
August 11, 2011 at 12:46 PM
I'm sure that this is nothing new, but there's a little Korean "pub" in the East Village that does Makgulli smoothies. SO freaking good.
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ajbny
August 11, 2011 at 12:52 PM
makgoli and smoothie sounded right in my head for two seconds and then the unripened banana taste of smoothies came into my head as well. That starchy taste should just be savored on its own.
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12 ajbny
August 11, 2011 at 12:50 PM
by makgolli you mean the middle episodes of couple of fantasy? If that show wasn't a makgoli advertisement I don't know advertisements! Meanwhile, that was one of my favorite parts of that drama. I loved to see anna drinking makgoli it sent me straight out to get some. I hope the drama really takes it cues from anna and just feature vignettes of people like anna.
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13 Cynthia
August 11, 2011 at 1:00 PM
HaaaHaaaHaaaaHaaa, funny post, you two! Rice wine is such a riveting topic and ......Wait.....what?!?! I thought the two of you were supposed to be deep into the devious planning of taking down and ambushing Lee Min-ho when he least expected it?!
Does this makgulli post mean that the two of you just gave up on LMH and figured that you couldn't post bail, if caught?
Disappointed, am I. Disappointed.
:)
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azuretash
August 13, 2011 at 3:29 PM
maybe the makgulli could play a part in the lee min ho ambush; they could get his hotness drunk and proceed to kidnap him...just a thought ;)
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14 MakkoliMan
August 11, 2011 at 1:41 PM
Makkoli is technically a beer since it is brewed. What most people get outside Korea (as well as in big cities) is pasteurized to stabilize the drink and make it last more than a week. Local varieties are not pasteurized and are usually consumed within a week. So, why is this important, you might ask. Well, a whole lot in terms of taste. The unpasteurized makkoli contains live latic acid bacteria that continues to mature the drink even after bottling. Some people argue that the live bacteria makes makkoli a healthy drink. What distinguishes taste between makkoli from one brewery to another, especially smaller ones, is the yeast. Big makkoli plants use mass produced yeast whereas local ones tend to use yeast that contain bacteria most prevalent in the local air and soil. Similar concept as why sourdough taste from San Francisco tastes different than those made elsewhere.
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belleza
August 11, 2011 at 2:28 PM
"The unpasteurized makkoli contains live latic acid bacteria that continues to mature the drink even after bottling. "
If yogurt partied like a rock star, it would be makkoli.
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corn tea
August 11, 2011 at 2:48 PM
If yogurt partied like a rock star, it would be makkoli. --- hats off to you belleza!
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Dav
August 12, 2011 at 10:08 AM
So what's the best bet for makgulli outside Korea? What's worth drinking? Yes, I want brand names.
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15 hjkomo
August 11, 2011 at 2:12 PM
*hiccup*
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16 danni
August 11, 2011 at 2:16 PM
Guess drama writers are running out of ideas.
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17 Celexa
August 11, 2011 at 2:23 PM
K dramas are quickly becoming Korea's travel/tourist industry ad men! I have never wanted to visit a country as much as Korea.
I'd honestly pay for a tour of KDrama homes, bridges and parks! LOL
I've already removed Greece from my list!
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Steamy Bun
August 11, 2011 at 2:31 PM
omg, SO TRUE. I swear, I haven't read a single book on Korea, didn't learn much about it in school, and only know a few Koreans - yet, from watching dramas, I've decided that I want to at least visit if not live there. lol. I'm even learning Korean for this very purpose!
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18 Dita
August 11, 2011 at 2:46 PM
I know. It will be about alcoholics ... :-))
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19 p3rk3le
August 11, 2011 at 4:10 PM
the funny thing is I WANT TO TASTE THIS SO MUCH i might actually watch it :p
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20 win
August 11, 2011 at 5:09 PM
I live makkoli!!! I would drink this over beer, wine or hard liquor any day! Man, I want some right now. :P
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21 missyxcindy
August 11, 2011 at 6:02 PM
I want to taste it. But, the last pic makes it look like soy milk.
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22 Brenda
August 11, 2011 at 6:22 PM
I love you guys. You guys are awesome ^^
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23 sosoxrah
August 11, 2011 at 6:32 PM
mmm...
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24 rita
August 11, 2011 at 6:52 PM
count me in on the drinking and the drooling over all the shower stripping!!!!! just give us a fair warning before so we can stock up on the alcohol from our local Korean store....should i also get some snacks ???or are we snacking on the guys?!!!
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Celexa
August 11, 2011 at 7:15 PM
O.O my mouth is starting to drool!! *for the guy snacks* ;)
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25 ricecakes
August 11, 2011 at 8:07 PM
Next the PD's will announce "Soju: The Sequel." Which will, in all actuality, only be a two episode extension.
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26 Nishli
August 11, 2011 at 9:38 PM
Wow, the pictures are so inviting!! I'm not a Korean and never taste makgulli either. But makgulli's appearance does resemble soy milk a lot. Slurrppp, now I feel like drinking soy milk..
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27 Cam
August 12, 2011 at 6:40 AM
Very, very interesting =)
I've never seen these pictures of Makgulli before & I thought it should be soy milk may be delicious BUT I didn't know that it's alcohol nor wine, either!! O_o Well, makgulli don't seem like it's exactly as alcohol nor wine to me, but like as soy milk, lolz. I am VERY curious to try to do that, ofc! I don't mind that I'd want to taste this makgulli, kekeke.
OH! I am not kind of person who wants to drink the alcohol, no way.....cuz' it's from Korean cultural, yups. ^__^
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28 peony
August 12, 2011 at 6:18 PM
you guys are amazing... how the hell did you make a post on a drama about MAKGULLI so funny??
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29 Retta
August 12, 2011 at 6:57 PM
HILARIOUS!!!
Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, JB and Girl Friday!! The greats!! take this show on the road!!
Hey Barkeep!! I want what their drinking!!!
lol lol
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30 Carinne
August 12, 2011 at 10:13 PM
Drinking game?
A shot, when someone cries in the show? How about a shot, when someone drunk blurts out "Ya" or starts a fight?? Now that's entertainment. Crying is for babies in this case.
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31 CherKell
August 13, 2011 at 8:45 AM
LOL great post!! You don't mess with Santa, man. Santa'll CUT YA! :-)
Just as long as this purported drama doesn't turn into "Cinderella's Sister 2," I'm down with it. And I agree with ajbny who said the carbonated version grows on you -- just perfect on a hot summer day. I'm fortunate to have three Korean supermarkets within spitting distance of my apartment, and makgulli is always on sale. Score!
And if this drama also involved hot shower guys... well, um... just well... :cough: I would have to clear viewings with my eye doctor first. Just sayin'...
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32 whimsy
January 31, 2014 at 9:33 AM
whatever happened to this cf..er..drama?
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