Coffee Prince: Ninth Cup
by javabeans
First things first. As usual, I thoroughly enjoyed the episode, and continue to enjoy the way they are progressing the relationship between Han Gyul and Eun Chan. But let me get this bit of criticism out of the way, and that is that this episode didn’t flow perfectly.
There were a few awkward transitions, which felt choppy at first. Disjointed. I think they were busy trying to squeeze in some new plot points to set us up for more stories — like exploring more about Han Gyul’s birth, for instance — and because elements felt shoehorned in, it disrupted the otherwise nice developments of the episode. Thankfully, that bit of awkwardness mostly occupied the first half (minus the very beginning, which was entirely too cute); the latter half was lovely.
(Background) SONG OF THE DAY
Arco – “Perfect World.” This song plays in one of the early scenes between Yu Ju and Han Sung.
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EPISODE 9 SUMMARY
Now that they’ve agreed to be like brothers, Han Gyul starts off the next morning goofing around and making Eun Chan breakfast. Eun Chan wonders what’ll be different now that they’re acting as brothers (in a “hyung-dongsaeng” relationship), and asks, does that mean she’ll be treated with more love? Han Gyul awkwardly mumbles at the mention of love, and Eun Chan asks, then will he treat her better? That he can do, and to show it, he heaps food in Eun Chan’s bowl.
Eun Chan tests out the word hyung, joking around as she calls him that repeatedly. It also appears that at some point, they’ve pierced Eun Chan’s ear and marked it with one of Han Gyul’s earrings as “proof” of their sworn brotherhood.
At work, the two continue their happy, giddy new relationship. Seeing the two of them getting along so well strikes the others as strange.
Sun Ki: “Wait, were you together this morning? Do you like each other?”
Eun Chan: [shushing him] “Say something that makes sense! What would he think of a guy like me?”
Sun Ki: “But you’re a girl. Well, I suppose it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or woman. The important part is a person liking another person.”
Sun Ki uses the fact that he knows she’s a girl to blackmail her into promising to help clean out his (Mr. Hong’s) home. Min Yub notices that she’s wearing Han Gyul’s earring. And Ha Rim is put off, grumbling that he’s known Han Gyul much longer than Eun Chan. If anyone should be such a close hyung-dongsaeng relationship, it should be Ha Rim, not Eun Chan.
Sun Ki to Ha Rim: “You’re so unperceptive. Can’t you see the boss likes Eun Chan?”
Ha Rim: “What are you talking about?”
Sun Ki: “They like each other. Is that strange? It’s not a big deal in Japan.”
Yu Ju asks to meet with Eun Chan after some hesitation. Her relationship with Han Sung has hit a bump after she ran into Eun Chan after Han Sung surprise-kissed her. Han Sung understands that Yu Ju’s upset, and tells her he’ll wait until she’s ready to talk to him. When Yu Ju meets Eun Chan, she doesn’t quite know how to begin, but Eun Chan answers the questions before they’re asked.
Eun Chan: “Actually, I did like Han Sung before. That was before I knew you were Girl B.”
Yu Ju: “What about now?”
Eun Chan: “I like him now too, but not in a romantic way. Because there’s someone else I like.”
Yu Ju: “Han Gyul?”
Eun Chan tries to deny it, sees Yu Ju’s perceptive look, then admits, “Yes.” Yu Ju asks why she doesn’t tell Han Gyul she’s a girl, and Eun Chan replies: “I’ve thought a lot about it too. He suggested I be his younger sibling. If he knew I’m a girl, I couldn’t be with him like now. And things aren’t bad, they way they are now.” Eun Chan tells Yu Ju that she doesn’t have to worry about her (regarding Han Sung), and Yu Ju sees Eun Chan’s response is sincere.
I love this shot. Their distance is so eloquent. Yu Ju asks if Han Sung’s feelings wavered because she’d made things hard for him, and he answers no. Yu Ju: “It would be easy if it were because of me. Since then I could just fix myself.”
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(The song posted up top, Arco’s “Perfect World,” plays.) Han Sung tells her he’s in the middle of thinking over what happened, figuring out what it means. Yu Ju: “So you’re saying it wasn’t a mistake, but that you love her?”
Yu Ju: “What do you want me to do?”
Han Sung: “I’ll get over my feelings.”
Yu Ju: “I worried that you’d be hurt because of her… but it seems I was hurt more.”
Han Sung suggests, in a somewhat urgent (last-ditch-effort?) tone, that they go on a trip together.
Everyone goes to Mr. Hong’s place to clean the place up, and Eun Sae keeps sending Min Yub away to do chores so she can be alone with Sun Ki. Although Min Yub knows she’s not treating him well (as does everyone else, including Sun Ki), he still follows her orders, doing the laundry, taking the trash, doing the dishes — until finally she’s so dismissive that he can’t take it anymore.
He stands up to her — just because he likes her, she shouldn’t use him like that. Eun Sae: “Who asked you to like me? Just give up! I really hate you following me around too! You’re ignorant, and all you’ve got is brute strength. I was really embarrassed showing you to my friends, you know!”
With no other way of venting his aggravation, Min Yub growls and runs around the neighborhood — trying to climb poles, lifting furniture, and at one point running around with a refrigerator. HA!
Eun Chan tells Eun Sae to apologize to Min Yub, figuring she doesn’t really hate him: “People fight as they grow attached to one another.” Eun Sae asks, “Like you and your boss?” Eun Chan sighs with satisfaction: “I get to see him everyday, we spend time together, play around, have good conversation. It’s great.” But Eun Sae says she’ll start wanting more — that’ll lead to wanting to hold hands, then wanting to hug, and then wanting to kiss.
Han Sung and Yu Ju go on their trip, and seem to have regained some semblance of their former relationship, but Eun Chan is still a barrier between them. Yu Ju sees that he’s not answering Eun Chan’s calls and tells him that he’s the adult; he should be mature and talk to her first. Han Sung says he will when he’s gotten his feelings in order. He gets a text from her, an awkward message that asks: “Ajusshi, you’re doing fine, right? I’m all right. Please give me a call when it’s convenient. Bye.”
Sun Ki, meanwhile, sees a woman with a young child and chases after her — looks like he’s found the one he’s been searching for — but is unable to catch up. He manages to see the name written on the van, and urgently tries to find out more about it over the phone. At the same time, a pissed-off Min Yub tries to pick a fight, asking if Sun Ki’s enjoying Eun Sae’s attentions. He provokes Sun Ki, and the mood turns dark as they nearly come to blows.
Okay, here’s where they start to lose me a little, because they introduce a new character who hints at mysteries to come. He’s an older man who speaks quite familiarly with Han Gyul’s father, and of whom the father is very wary. (He asks about “Mother,” and I wonder if they’re brothers despite having different last names.) The man, Lee Myung Jae, is in Korea on business and asks if Han Gyul is doing well.
Then, Han Gyul has lunch with his father. He asks his father to not mention to his mother that he knows about his birth secret, and also inquires about his birth mother. Han Gyul knows his father had an affair, sent him to an orphanage, then later adopted him back. Han Gyul’s father describes his birth mother as a warm, affectionate person, a middle-school teacher. Han Gyul cuts in to ask, “Did she leave you? Or did you abandon her?”
Han Gyul’s father admits he left her — at that point in his life, he wasn’t ready to be responsible for anyone. She died in a car accident before Han Gyul’s 100-day birthday (a big event for Korean babies). Han Gyul’s reaction to his father’s cowardice may be best described as disgusted — it might’ve been disappointed, but he’d have to have had faith in his father in the first place to be able to lose it now.
In a despondent, pensive mood, Han Gyul calls his mother to tell her, “Mom. You know I love you lots, right?… Thanks, Mom. Thank you.”
When his mother hangs up, Han Gyul’s father’s and grandmother’s reactions indicate that they know the full story, whatever that is. They’re suspicious over the reappearance of Lee Myung Jae, and Han Gyul’s mother warns her husband to be careful: “I can’t allow our Han Gyul to meet that man.”
Han Gyul then drives over to Eun Chan’s house, still in his quiet, reserved mode. He parks outside and wakes her from sleep with his call.
Han Gyul takes Eun Chan to the batting cages to relieve some tension, and suggests they go to the beach. He lets Eun Chan drive his car (complaining all the while at how fearlessly she drives), and they arrive at the ocean in the middle of the night.
With Han Gyul’s mood much lifted at Eun Chan’s antics, they laugh and goof around on the beach. Han Gyul asks about her birthday and blood type (December, O) and Eun Chan jokes around by telling him (with a straight face) that she doesn’t like guys with his blood type, B — they’re fussy and uptight. Han Gyul protests that he’s not like that at all, defending himself, before realizing Eun Chan’s teasing.
Eun Chan asks when he started liking toys so much, and he says he played with toys since he didn’t have many friends. Kids disliked him because he has a rather unfriendly personality — he’d get angry and annoyed easily.
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“Last Arpeggios” by 푸른새벽 (Blue Dawn) plays. The mood of this segment is so tense and pregnant with meaning that I wish I could convey it in words. You’ll just have to watch. Basically, they both skirt around the topic they both want to broach but are too afraid to — and both tentatively draw closer with the words they want to say, then pull back in skittish fear, covering up with their excuse of being in a brotherly relationship. It’s all nerves and hope and fear.
The ambiance grows more serious when Eun Chan faces Han Gyul, and steps closer and closer, while he backs away, unsettled. She asks, “Do you really just like me as a sibling? What do you like best about me?”
Han Gyul tells her uneasily to stop joking, then asks what she likes about him, and she answers, “Everything.” Having laid one truth out plainly, she retracts it a bit as she walks ahead of him, adding, “But of course, as a hyung.”
After staring at Eun Chan for a long moment, Han Gyul walks up to her and casually takes her hand. Without looking at her surprised reaction, he explains, “As hyung and dongsaeng, we can do this much.”
And then, Han Gyul takes the hand he holds and intertwines their fingers together. They walk along wordlessly.
Eun Chan uses the same reasoning to lay her head in Han Gyul’s lap as they sit on the sand: “As hyung and dongsaeng, we can do this much.” She snuggles into his side and falls asleep.
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Azure Ray’s “Across the Ocean” plays some time later, as Han Gyul looks over at the sleeping Eun Chan. He hesitantly draws nearer to her, lying close to her back, touching her hair, tentatively cupping her hand in his.
After resting like that for a moment, he rises abruptly, disturbed and conflicted. He looks over at her, sleeping soundly, and says, “Go Eun Chan. I can’t go any further.”
He drives her home, and she awakes with her usual cheer, unaware that anything’s the matter. Han Gyul tells her quietly, coldly, that he’s decided he can’t be her hyung; they’re over. “Let’s stop meeting.” Eun Chan assumes he’s joking, and goes to work eagerly anticipating seeing him.
When he won’t look at her, or talk to her, Eun Chan asks what the matter is — did something happen? Did she do something wrong?
He tells her curtly to stop coming to work; he’ll forgive her debt. She doesn’t understand, and insists she’ll keep coming, and he says, “Fine, then I’ll leave.” He reminds her of what he said that morning, and Eun Chan realizes he meant it — but how can someone change so much in one morning?
Han Gyul: “I’m that kind of guy. Didn’t you know that?”
Eun Chan: “You’re right, I didn’t know. How can you treat someone like that — are you playing around?”
Han Gyul: “I don’t like you. I’ve come to dislike you. So stop bugging me, it’s annoying.”
Eun Chan: “So you just change whenever you want, since you do that so well. First acting one way, then the opposite.”
Han Gyul tells her, in a wearied tone, “I really… dislike you.” Eun Chan responds, as though in challenge: “Why? Because you love me?” He doesn’t object — just laughs a small, rueful laugh. At this point, both have traces of tears in their eyes — Eun Chan’s indignant, Han Gyul’s regretful.
Eun Chan: “Why are you laughing?”
Han Gyul: “Is this easy for you? Ah, I guess it is. It’s no big deal for you. This is just difficult for me.”
Han Gyul walks out and drives home, where he idles his day away in frustration.
Likewise, Eun Chan spends her day listlessly going about her daily work, her heart not really in anything. Mr. Hong wonders how long she’ll keep her gender hidden from Han Gyul, and she answers: “If I tell him the truth, everything’s over. He said he was glad that I was a guy.”
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Kim Yeon Woo’s “나는 사랑이 뭔지 모르나봐요” (“I must not know what love is”) plays as they go about their day. Han Gyul doesn’t respond to her messages asking him to come in to work.
Han Gyul ends up trashing his apartment, throwing things, beating his head into the wall.
Finally, Eun Chan arrives outside his place, pounding on his door. “Boss… Boss… Please don’t be like this. Okay? Boss…”
Getting no response, Eun Chan returns home, and writes (but can’t finish) a series of text messages: “I miss you…” “Where are you?” “Please call me.” “I love you…”
Thwarted at every turn, Eun Chan shouts in bitter frustration, “Hey, you jerk! Why won’t you call?!” as she cries.
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101 jk
August 1, 2007 at 11:12 AM
This may sound funny living in Seoul, but I tend to avoid kdramas cuz they keep letting me down killing off characters left and right in the most random order-after I’ve invested time liking ‘em…then I heard no one died in Full House so I watched it. Not that much substance to it, but still liked the heart of it. Haven’t watched a drama or became addicted to one since Kim San Soon, but coffee prince is making up for everything I missed out on. I love the subtlety of the actors embracing their characters-becoming them-it’s like there is no acting going on at all…they are so comfortable and natural being these people…love that. Every little gesture or instinctive nuance makes these characters more real. It’s the same natural synergy as garden state.
Gotta say, to most of us who wish to be fluent in Korean but are “linguistically challenged” - you are a godsend…hands down the best written/blogged website for kdrama fans. My sister lives for kdramas and when I told her about your site, she acted like she won the lottery. That woman lives for dramas and makes me buy all these freakin' expensive illiterately subtitled boxed dvd sets. She can’t understand most of what she watches (and trust me the crappy subbing on Paris, Full House & KSS didnt help much), but now there is finally some clarity – thanks to you and your summaries. Wish i found your site before i bought all those dvds. You are a wonderful human being for sharing your talent with the rest of the world and we really appreciate it!!! Keep up the great work
.And bless you for posting the songs for CP…looked for belle époque “may” for weeks…bought the soundtrack and everything and finally found it on your site – god I love that song….thanks heaps!!!!!
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102 mina
August 1, 2007 at 1:30 PM
XD lol i love your summaries. though they make me want for more.
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103 vicjen
August 1, 2007 at 2:02 PM
awesome! thanks alot!!
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104 moochi
August 1, 2007 at 7:38 PM
i finally watched episode 9
this episode wasn't as exciting as the last one, but the second half made up for it
i would say this one punches the heart haha
when they were at the beach, i had to cover my mouth and i felt like my heart was being squeezed (he is so good at acting - his eyes..ohh his eyes haha)
regardless of the simple plot in this episode, we actually 'feel' the characters here. yuju actually turns back to normal, i guess she was never really evil (all girls like to know they can attract guyz or whatever she was doing to hk)
yah i have to say, the music is THUMBS UP upupupupupup UP
haha
ur reviews are too fast haha, maybe u can insert some comments next time, i like reading your opinions
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105 Nessy
August 1, 2007 at 8:01 PM
Thanks so much for the summary I have to wait for the subs to be released to get the full understanding of what's going on normally but with you summary i understand most of it. Can't wait to see the last episode.
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106 Lovedrama
August 2, 2007 at 6:46 AM
hey!! this is just wonderful!
I can't believe how detail you remember and write here.
all of things are so beautifullly summarized and described ...
I love that.
Thank you so much for doing this.
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107 meian
August 2, 2007 at 8:07 AM
this is so cool! thanks! i can't wait to read about the 10th cup!
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108 Jan
August 2, 2007 at 1:05 PM
Thank youu!!!! Your summaries are really good!!! =p
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109 princess_agl
August 3, 2007 at 4:43 PM
Hey just want to let you guys know Coffee Prince "9th Cup" (Episode 9) with English subtitles just got released at:
http://www.mysoju.com/the-1st-shop-of-coffee-prince/episode-9/
Bringing you the fastest Coffee Prince with English subtitles releases! Enjoy ^^!
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110 kisha
August 5, 2007 at 6:03 AM
What i love about coffee prince is that it has depth without being too dragging.
I love the beach scene! the actor acted great in it, when eun chan was sleeping and he held her. Without saying word, it made a great impact on me, it went straight to my heart. It showed his love for her and it showed how confused he is. He thought he could take it. He thought they could just be sworn brothers and stay beside each other but at the end he still craved for more...
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111 Bérénice
August 5, 2007 at 11:15 AM
In the series "tracking Coffee prince's soundtrack", I've recognized a song used that hasn't been noted yet, in the 9th cup : when Yoo Joo and Eun Chan go to the cafe to "talk" (around 8 minutes from the beginning), the song in the background is "I don't know what I can save you from", from the Kings of Convenience (cf youtube link of a remix version, since I can't find the original one there : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CN-ci1ksM_A&mode=related&search=)
Hope that helps...
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112 basia
August 14, 2007 at 3:52 PM
This must be the first drama i've ever seen with so many comments, and people waiting and refreshing for the next ep......lol, just to show u how much everyone enjoy cp and thanks a million for your hard work.....this is by far one of my favorite drama ever.
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113 Melody
August 29, 2007 at 7:54 AM
Can't tell you how much I loved about this drama and of course your summary!!!
Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!
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114 Khaethriya
September 10, 2007 at 6:02 AM
i just want a perfect world
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115 Solange Lee
November 1, 2007 at 6:02 PM
javabeans.....this drama is surely your cup of tea(rather coffee). I was too busy watching and feeling to simultaneously analyze the hopes and fears of the beach scene which you so insightfully expressed. I mean, I was left limpless with the greatest ache in my heart after watching Han Gyul as he slowly and painfully approached her hair, her hand, her waist. The agony on his face, the tears.......gosh, what beautiful acting.
in the last scene when Eun Chan is agonizing over why Han Gyul hasn't called and over her desire to text her feelings for him, I truly felt less sympathetic over her pain than Han Gyul's. If I am correct, we have only seen her reacting from her point of view, from her role of Eun Chan, the girl. Has she ever considered the dramatic paradigm switch for him and the suffering and questioning he has undergone as a heterosexual now responding to homosexual tendencies. Stupid girl(don't hit me people, I love Eun Chan and the actress Yoon Eun Hye---she's doing a marvelous job!), don't you understand that he only sees you as a male?
and javabeans, again, enormous thank yous for the consistently uber vunderbar job that you have done in all of your summaries.
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116 Alou
November 2, 2007 at 1:35 AM
I agree with everyone that GONG YOO showed what true acting is. I have watched a lot of Kseries and I'm a sucker for it. But no one has ever struck me like I was struck with that beach scene.
It goes right through my heart and I can really feel what Gong Yoo or rather Han Gyul is feeling. Unconsciously, he wishes that Eun Chan is anything other than a man. Cause of the attraction that he felt, the different feeling that he has whenever he's with Han Gyul..GAWD! This is really great.
Thanks so much!
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117 deathlymallows
February 5, 2008 at 7:02 AM
OMG..thank you, thank you, thank you! i never thought i would find the songs from Coffee Prince, much less play and download them...but here you were! what you did was amazing. =)
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118
March 20, 2008 at 4:45 AM
ei tnx a lot!
i've been (for soooooo long)looking for this bluedawn song.
THANKS A MILLION!
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119 vanz
April 12, 2008 at 3:25 AM
THIS EPISODE WAS REALLY A TOUCHING ONE, AND IT'S SO SAD THAT HAN GYUL WAS IN DEEP PAIN . I REALLY LOVE ALL THE EPISODE
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120 crissie
October 15, 2008 at 7:41 PM
wow, your summaries are amazing - lengthy, detailed, and we get everything that's happening. :)
Oh, don't forget another bg song played when Go Eun Chan and the other girl were having pastries and milk.
"I dont know what i can save you from" by the kings of convenience. :)
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121 Kai
May 6, 2009 at 6:04 AM
Starting watching this when it first came out but got distracted by life. now i've started over and I don't know how I went so long without it! such a beautiful drama. i like to watch the drama and read your summary; it's like having someone to talk to about it :-). Did anyone else notice that they 'pierced' EC's ear in this ep, but in the ep where she let her sister dress hr, she was wearing red earrings? :-P
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122 Woo Bin- Fan!
May 10, 2009 at 10:25 AM
Awesome, thanks again! I really appreciate that you post some songs, then I'll know the name of the song.. sort of XD (I'm from sweden, hence my english!)
Gosh, I can't get over the beach scene.. I seriously cried, lol! XD It's so beautiful, I really can't get over it :P
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123 Tracy
June 23, 2009 at 8:58 PM
Ahhh, I so LOVE reading these summaries when I'm at work...It's the next best thing to watching the show (since my office computer has no audio, haha!)
You summarize these so well and I find that I completely agree with you on all your opinions. This beach scene touched me so deeply. I have never felt such a LONGING for someone! When he curled up behind her, I realized I was holding my breath, wishing he could stay like that, and at the same time so afraid that something would happen to ruin it. I literally had tears in my eyes, and I am NOT a girl who cries easily! The actors are just so freaking convincing and this whole series is so heart-breakingly sweet! I cannot wait to watch it all for the 3rd time. Thanks again, Dramabeans!!! =)
P.S. This part of your summary, "Basically, they both skirt around the topic they both want to broach but are too afraid to — and both tentatively draw closer with the words they want to say, then pull back in skittish fear, covering up with their excuse of being in a brotherly relationship. It’s all nerves and hope and fear." is totally spot-on. You took the emotions I couldn't even name and expressed them perfectly! =)
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124 Stephanie
May 30, 2010 at 8:30 AM
"The mood of this segment is so tense and pregnant with meaning that I wish I could convey it in words."
I think much of the drama is like that. I started reading your blog 2010 so I was quite disappointed when I started reading your analysis of CP because you missed out a lot of details that I would have mentioned if I ever did a recap. But then I realised. It is very hard to spell out CP's goodness because it is all subtle, natural and life-like that many people will notice different things, just because they come from different backgrounds. From the lighting, the design, the extensive soundtracks to the acting, plot lead-ins, believable character development and the way they treat issues...............It is so hard to explain how everything is weaved together so nicely - I don't even bother to read the manhwa or book or whatever cus I can't imagine all this to be put in words. I can't enjoy the goodness of its subtle nature with it spelt out in words, staring in my face.
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125 Teddy
August 23, 2012 at 3:29 PM
This episode....what can I say that hasn't already been said? The ocean scene is my favorite scene, mainly for the ambience and crackling tension between the two leads, but also for just the simplicity of their attraction for each other. I know most people don't view it as simple, but for me, their attraction is so basic and animalistic that even thought Han Gyul tries to reject it because of society's constraints and preconceived notions of heterosexual love, his emotions constantly try to push past his barriers and push past his comfort zone. Those moments where he succumbs to his feelings for Eun-chan are so heartbreaking and wrench at my heartstrings in ways that make me realize how even the simplest moments can make you feel pain.
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126 misshhheelleee
August 4, 2013 at 4:20 PM
this drama is so boring...enough said... :/
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127 Ruby T
May 14, 2014 at 5:32 PM
Finally watching Coffee Prince, years late. Now that I'm half way through, I have to go on a mini-rant (hope profanity is okay here)...
Just what does EC want from HG?!!! Is she a fucking IDIOT?!!! Why would you keep pushing a straight man to fall in love with you while you're pretending to be male? What do you think is going to happen in this situation? She want to pretend to be a boy (and looks way underage), but she gets mad when this straight man doesn't want to get intimate with a boy? This is such bullshit. Does she want him to convince himself that he's gay BEFORE she tells him she's female? What the fuck sense does that make? That is not only illogical, it's cruel and ridiculous. I always start out liking these "cute" kdrama girls and then eventually begin to hate them as they become more obsessive and whiny and stupid. Good Lord, I needed to get that off my chest before I can go on to episode 10.
End rant
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Laura
January 31, 2015 at 8:43 PM
I kind of agree actually. I didn't even think about that until I read your comment haha. I think this is one of the reasons as to why I'm so late watching this drama, I absolutely hate watching him thinking that he's gay and watching him struggle when she literally just has to tell him and that's it. Grr ＞_＜ my rang also over aha ^_^
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lynnB
May 17, 2021 at 4:17 PM
I know it is seven years later, and you probably wont see this, but I have looked high and low for this comment. The sheer glamorizing of mental anguish by both the show and more so viewers is ridiculous. Everyone is commenting that the show emphasis that gender is irrelevant and love is most important. This man is under so much mental anguish over this situation! He went on medication because of it! This isn't romantic, it's cruel manipulation and almost abuse. Actual gay people have suffered so much when coming to accept their sexual orientation that some self harm or commit suicide. And here she is shoving him into the same mental stress. This is not cute! Rant over.
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128 gumiho
September 2, 2015 at 1:03 PM
its so fucking gay..... I mean the han gyul knows/thinks she a boy but still has feelings and loves her?? Fucking gay
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129 dramabird
October 16, 2015 at 4:15 PM
I'm going voting crazy!
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