What is the difference between "saranghae" and "saranghanda?"

It is the time of year in the US where everyone is gathering up their paperwork to prepare their tax returns.

The Korean National Tax Service started a sweeping investigation of 85 celebrities, athletes and influencers for tax evasion. It conducted a special tax audit on Lee Min Ho and MYM Entertainment in 2020 and fined them hundreds of millions of won. The media said, “According to tax experts, the disposition of additional charges through a special tax audit usually includes tax evasion.” In this regard, MYM Entertainment said, “Lee Min Ho has faithfully paid all the taxes. There has never been any unsavory action”. They explained, “The mentioned issue occurred due to a difference in interpretation of whether the compensation for the use of our artist’s illegal portraits rights that our company received is subject to taxation. It’s an amount of additional taxes incurred after a correction of an accounting error in the process of handling the company’s expenses. We already faithfully paid it.”

The Seoul Tax Office to conduct special tax audits on Kim Tae Hee and her past personal agency, Lua Entertainment. Kim Tae Hee’s agency Story J Company stated, “Over the past few years, Kim Tae Hee has faithfully taken care of the tax issues. She has paid taxes to the tax authorities in accordance with the law. This incident occurred because the payments of advertising/modeling fees were delayed when the actress ended her contract with former agency Lua Entertainment”.

Previously, a media outlet reported that the National Tax Service conducted a special tax audit on Lee Byung Hun and his agency BH Entertainment in September, 2022 and that they were fined hundreds of millions of won (hundreds of thousands of dollars) in additional taxes. On February 28, a representative of BH Entertainment shared, “Actor Lee Byung Hun has not had one shameful incident regarding taxes in the past 30 years. The additional fee collected was due to the differences in the deposit time for an advertising guarantee and in the process of accounting normalization for bonuses paid to all employees with the actor’s own personal expenses that were processed as company expenses.”

Actor Kwon Sang Woo was fined 1 billion Won ($756,985.50 US) by the National Tax Service. On February 28, his agency Su Company addressed rumors of tax evasion by the actor, stating, "It's not tax omission or evasion. Payment and refund occurred at the same time, so it was a report of correction." However, they did not deny that Kwon Sang Woo had been fined 1 billion Won. Su Company explained, "The tax authorities asked for clarification on the timing of profit and loss attribution. There was a difference in the timing, so we voluntarily paid after completing the revised return."

The excuses all seem similar in tone: there was a question of timing of income payments or tax code interpretation. Since all the cases were quickly settled, the stigma of actual tax evasion charges were never...

Yoo Ah-ins recent cancellation reminded me of two excellent dramas he has appeared in, Six Flying Dragons (2015) and Chicago Typewriter (2017). The former is well known and was hugely successful while the later is painfully and criminally underrated.

He may have snorted and injected the entire periodic table into his body, but he really is a talented actor, such a shame.

I have seen that in the Our Blooming Youth comments section some beanies were talking about love triangles and the fact that rarely those love triangles are F-M-F (two women and a man).

So I have looked at my list of dramas and these are the only ones I have found with some sort of F-M-F love triangle: Our Beloved Summer (more or less), 12 nights, It's ok to not be ok, Go Back Couple, Vivid romance, King of Baking.

There are many more M-F-M love triangles, indeed.

I hope Yoo Ah-in, and all faced with similar situation, find the care that they need. They need rehabilitation, not criminalization. The ones that sell and distribute them should be criminalized and serve their sentences.

On another note, I’ve been rewatching When the Weather is Fine for the last couple of days now. And I am loving it all over again. This time, watching Eon-seob caring for Haw-won gave me butterflies. Is there any drama that you rewatched and felt more love for it the second time?

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I'm been looking at Gu Family Book scenes lately and it made me think about a couple of things. 1- reincarnation stories and 2- I wonder how Kang Chi ended up rich haha

Even though I'm a jaded, loveless cynic, I really enjoy the fantasy idea of reincarnation stories and how people are meant to be (be it as friends or lovers or family) over numerous circumstances and life times. The thing is, I think it's a hard concept to pull off. One thing I saw regarding Gu Family Book was people say that it's not the same because it's not the character we spent all that time with so their reunion isn't as impactful. I didn't personally agree since I had no issue with the fast forward time jump and I liked the scene (seriously, I love the song used so it's instantly affecting for me haha) but I could understand where people were coming from. Makes me wonder if there's ever been a reincarnation story that was mostly satisfying. There's a new drama coming out, I think at some point this year based on a webtoon called See You in My 19th Life (at least I think that's the title) and the premise is the lead character remembers her past lives after reincarnating. Since I've read the webtoon, I'm nervous about how the drama will play out but I'm also curious how people who know nothing about the webtoon will receive it. Will this be a successfully satisfying reincarnation story?

And about Kang Chi becoming rich, it's something I always think about when the reveal happens haha
He must've lived such a lonely life over his 400+ years and I was told that if he lived that long, he *should* be rich and have something to show for it. Still, I wonder what he did. It makes me wish there was a webtoon or something about his 400 years. Did he participate in wars? Hmmm, I don't think so but it would be nice to what he did. I imagine he would help the powerless people who were impacted by wars or injustices. Did he make his money in hospitality? I'm even moderately curious about how he and 21st century Yeowool end up bonding.

I was reading about Dramabeans instagram posts, and the reaction of some people (which I share by the way) that they support drama beans but will not be on Facebook. It brought to mind a somewhat related article I read this week on cell phones. I think of how many kdramas these days turn on cell phones--either suspense or misunderstandings caused by phones being broken or running out of battery power; plus how many feature teen bullying and suicide.

So here's an article once again connecting the feelings of despair and hopelessness among teens in the U.S. to phones and social media:

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/honestly-its-probably-the-phones

I personally tend to reject technological determinism--very often the things that people blame technology for have other, deeper causes, and technology is just a facilitator of them. But this writer makes a pretty good case that phones ARE a primary cause of teen despair.

What makes this hard for me to grasp, even as a parent of 2 (now adult) children, is that I'm old enough that I have never been able to thoroughly integrate cell phones into my life. I do remember arguments with my children about getting cell phones--their reasoning, because "all their friends had them" leading to the classic parental wisdom: "If all your friends jumped off of cliffs, would you jump off of a cliff?" Pretty hard to answer that, I'd say!

Anyway, this article gives me a more socially conscious reason in addition to safety reason when I'm in grumpy old man mode and yell at other drivers to "get off your phone!"

Happy weekend Beanies and keep Beaning On!
I am having visitors over this weekend, which means it is time to clean!🤭 My friend is spending another weekend at my place because we are attending a convention on Sunday. If we are not back too late, there might be some of my dad’s birthday cakes left for us!😋Most of all I am looking forward to catching up. Videochat is nice and all, but nothing beats talking or watching stuff nestled together with tea and blankets on the sofa.🍵

My 7-8 year search for a particular Stand Up! came to an Wednesday this week.

A classmate of mine in high school sent me this song amongst many between 2014-2015. Someway I lost all my playlist on my phone in 2015 and I've been searching for this song to no avail, this particular Stand Up for the champions rendition. The only keywords I remember was "stand up for the champions. stand up for the champions" and 'remember we will stay the same'. But the tone always remained seared in my memory. Until Wednesday evening, I just happened to put in the right lyrics after several trials for 7-8 years now and it popped up. Just imagine my joy. It's like meeting an age long friend. I'll make sure I do not lose this song again.

To enjoy the song, here's the link

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oRzjolqoKwc

Hi beanies. My grandmother broke her femur on the 2nd of April and now she has been operated upon and her stitches have been pulled out. Its been super chaotic with uncles visiting from out of state and people and well wishers visiting. Also, old patients can be very uncooperative. Its been physically taxing and we still need a caretaker for the day because with a bedridden patient, there is a lot of work. I have exams in less than a moth and i have half a mind to simply run away from home. I asked my mom if i could visit a library just for a few hours and she said that i couldn't because she can't change my grandmother's diaper alone and needs my help.

Im a bit behind in episodes, but How How Do You Play 170 & 171 national snack competition is fascinating! Our lovable teams are sampling bibimbap croquettes, bean sprouts fishcake, street food skewers, ramyeon, and much more from diff regions- good food!!

I'm hating life these days, so I'm so glad it's a rainy Friday. There's nothing as relaxing as the sound of rain when nothing is going right. At least I get some relief.

I recently started watching a very old drama called Style, and it's been nothing but euphoria. Being unemployed and job searching is a living hell, so it's been so nice to at least watch in dramaland what I would like to be working with in my professional life. The narrative, which is OK, is secondary to the constant stream of exciting wardrobes of the characters and portraying the creative genius of fashion design, even if it's made-up Korean designers. If art can manifest life, I'm hoping for a manifestation of a job I love.

US viewers. KBS’s OASIS is now on Viki US’s “Coming Soon” list. Episode 1 (of 16) airs this Monday, March 6. Welcome back Jang Dong-yoon.

Three weeks in a row! And I'm watching an airing heterosexual romance.

I probably will only be commenting on OT. I'm watching mainly BLs. And trying to get back into music.

Life update:
Having a bad mental health week. Hoping it will get better by Sunday.
I've decided to live with my brother. My nephew moved in yesterday. I have a new goal to wake up by 9:30am. And to eat 1600 calories a day.

Music

Hamilton Every day!!!! I'm going to have to convince my nephew to watch it on the weekends.
My head of my metal health team, who I have a crush on, hasn't seen it. So anytime he comes over from now on it WILL be playing. It is easier to wae up knowing I'll listen to it. Also helps me get chores done.
Top 50 in Country and Americana writing a blog post on it. Kane Brown is changing my life. Calmed th baby with it yesterday.

Watching:

The End of the world with you: I was singing before he ep started "they're going to hook up. They're going to have sex." They did NOT. But it was still a fantastic episode.
Moonlight Chicken: still pausedon ep 2
Miracles in Cell no. 9: paused. I need encouragement to finish this movie. Might drop.
Call It Love: on ep 1. I'm annoyed is not available in my country. KYK, LSK, SJ are all the loves of my life. And I am a bag of emotions.
Jack o Frost: this class A b*tch is lying about amnesia and I AM here for it.
Grown-ish just finished the BLM eps of season 3. I feel what Nomi said about if her friends think she has racist thoughts, how are they friends with her. But I don't think disapproving of looting is racist. I think it hold oppressed people to a standard. Just because you're angry and hurt, doesn't mean you get a pass to bully people. I'd prefer an open discussion of how to stand for a cause without ignoring morals. Like Jazz takin thins that were stolen? Not cool. I don't want to look up to her as a black person. I get that protests are stressful but Doug throwing the bottle wasn't good. Is it realistic? Yes. But whe will shows, show people being better than reality? Don't act aggressive and egg on the people with tear gas. You're putting your fello protesters at danger. Maybe I'm being unforgiving. But for a show with a lot of lessons, they are showing the wrong things as desirable or neutral behaviors.
Did not expect that to take a whole page of my notebook.
Miraculous Ladybug: officially I'm on season 3. Bit I've seen random eps from s4 and s5. So I know a lot about what the characters are going to become. I'm sad that all the Mari/Adrien find out eps end badly. Like what is my shipping heart supposed to think of fanfics now?
Emma Agenda: Gay Jane Austen is God tier. I watch like they are my friends. It's such a comfort series.

Just finished:

My Beautiful Man s2: ONG! This was soooooo perfect. I don't id Hira as autistic but I'm glad people feel...

I just watched the movie Thirst (2009) and I'm pretty sure our High priest Blueberry would hate it and call it the work of the devil. LOL

Beanies, is there any particular genre or concept you're enjoying these days? After Thirst I want some supernatural/fantasy/horror kind of content.