to lovenyc52:

just as promised... let me know if there's another song that you want... i'll get those uploaded too!

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8VKYATHN kidae junho,junsu, jay
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YY7XS8T5 wildflower junsu
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J17BP0AM because of you (neyo) cover by 2pm

half a day of work today! and it's already half over. SHOPPING, here i come!!!
this is making up for that house that i didn't get :-(
gotta think of it this way, if i bought the house, i mite not be able to shop.

Happy Weekend, EVERYONE!!

nothing profound here, just wanted to give much love for playing Rogue Wave, Descended Like Vultures is a favorite album of mine XD

To those who have seen the first couple eps of The Man Who Can't Get Married, how were they? How's the chemistry between the actors?

i'm off to my medicare conference now.. (still have 2 hrs of work left)
then it's all about me shopping!!!

My baby boy graduated high school yesterday. Ironically - he graduated under the same principal I graduated under 8 years ago. Gosh time flys.

In other news - my family is heading to VEGAS! not until next weekend though so I'll miss the Swallow in the Sun cast. Boo :(

Will be going for Skytrex tomorrow, I'm so excited yet nervous at the same time.

http://www.skytrex-adventure.com/index.php

wish me luck!

Hi everyone,
It's my first time writing here.

I'm currently watching Queen Seon Duk - I love the young actress who plays the teen version of the Princess. It has been quite good so far in terms of acting, cinematography, and costumes.
I was also watching The Sons of Sol Pharmacy but there were no subtitles (yet) after episode 8. =( I have been watching several other dramas as well instead of studying for my medical school exams (which I should be doing! )

All in all, I just wanted to say thanks for all your entries, JB. I come to this site at least 3 times a day if not more.

P.S - Could you answer the question I have posted in the glossary section. Thanks!

Hi guys,
I'm visiting Seoul for the first time next week. Any recommendations on what to do in and around Seoul, food, attractions and shopping? Not necessarily in that order either. I don't speak Korean but I will have my phrasebook handy. Any recommendations would be appreciated.

I was in Paris this week and I've seen Blood posters everywhere in Paris. Metro stations and street corners.

Happy Friday!
5 questions846 , Hello, it's nice to see somebody around my age?( guessing, on my part) is part of this community. I'm not the only obasan here... I'm off to London for a super short round trip: be back on Sunday! At least , I might walk around and browse through some shops a little. I'm patiently waiting for subs for Triple now that A man's story is over... Anyway, Have a divine weekend!

@7 I am also watching Queen Seon Duk and it has been an exciting and enjoyable delight to watch! It is a great drama! The young seon duk is very promising. I will miss her since she is not longer in the drama. I hope Lee Yo Won does her best. Looking forward to the next episodes!

I am also watching City Hall. I love that series. It is really good if anyone is interested in watching it. The story, script, and actors are great! I love everything about it! KSA and CSW are top notch actors indeed! Their chemistry is off the charts!

@7 Icarusfalls

A mak-jang (literally, dead-end) drama is a drama that is an over-the-top drama, with over-the-top characters, completely unrealistic plots and just no balance or sense of reality to them. Basically, it means that when you watch these dramas, you literally come to a dead stop. There isn’t any amount of debate or analysis or edification when it comes to it.

Temptation of Wife, for example, might be a good example of a mak-jang. Some critics say that watching mak-jang dramas will make you dumber. Empirically, I have found this to be true, but don't let that stop you though. Mak-jang dramas have their place in the world of k-dramas too. Not much can compare to the high you get from watching an addiction mak-jang like ToW.

park junghyun & wheesung concert tonight! two of the best voices/singers in kpop in los angeles. what more could i want?

@3 Snikki
since all remakes must be taken with a grain of salt, i don't know how you'd feel if you liked the original. i was pretty amused with it and am really liking ji jin-hee's character. but for some reason i found myself forwarding a lot during the ji jin-hee & eom jung-hwa scenes and looking forward to the yu ah-in & kim so-eun scenes. overall, it's a pretty entertaining drama.

@8 Bobbie
eating at street food stands is a must! keep an eye out for the crowded ones. and if you get the chance, there's a famous dduk-bokki (spicy rice cakes) truck in hongdae that operates until the wee hours of the night and always has a tremendous crowd. i found that eating that at 2-4 am was always best. ^^

I have to say, City Hall is pretty darn good - really, really good. We just finished Ep 13 (almost caught up!). Initially, I thought the story line would be about a predictable story about a young woman who rises from nothing to become mayor of a city, but really, that's just the backdrop.

The story is really a love story between a simple woman who tries to be everything to everyone and guy who knows he cannot be everything to everyone, and how these two individuals are literally heading into a hurricane of a drama series ending they cannot avoid - the woman is approaching the storm with courage despite her fears, unable to see what is about to come (but can feel something will happen), and the man approaches the storm with sadness and uncertainty, seeing everything and all the angles but cannot help himself because of what he feels, and doesn't even know what he will do in the end.

The woman (KSA fighting!) Shin Mirae, is a simple individual with not much education or political experience, but she is a good person with firm convictions, integrity and common sense. She is also a cutie with a heart as large as the ocean, and depth of emotion enough to fill the ocean's basin.

The man (Cha Seung Won) is a revelation for his acting performance, waaaay better than I expected. He is the rising star in Korean national politics, with an unbeatable pedigree, the most powerful connections, top ranks in school, and with the ruthlessness and cunning to survive, and a beautiful, elegant, rich and politically-connected fiance. He is the complete package. His initial exile to Mirae's city has him crossing paths with Shin Mirae, and they are then forever connected. What he sees in Shin Mirae is a beautiful but naive fairy tale, and the hurricane that will soon envelop both of them will very likely force him to make a choice between the fairy tale and his lifelong dream of marching toward the Korean presidency and occupancy in the Blue House.

This is a love story, and like all good love stories, it gnaws at your bones, and you itch when you can't watch the next episode. Granted, the first 3 episodes are someone clumsy and a little to riotous for my taste, but it is just set up, so don't despair if you don't like it much. City Hall gets better, quickly, and a lot, and stays that way.

Just started watching Dal Ja's Spring to get me in the mood for the new Lee Min-ki drama coming up. I love it! I'm only up to Episode 4 but so far it's just great. Chae Rim is such a cutie. And Lee Min-ki is, well, mine. Droopy pants and all!

Lest I get a little too happy, I'm also watching The Devil with Joo Ji-hoon and Shin Mina. I'm only about 4 episodes into it as well but it's very good too, albeit in a completely different way.

JB...I'm on pins and needles waiting for the final recap of Story of A Man! I haven't started watching Triple yet, I'm waiting for it to be posted with subs.

Hope everyone is having a great Friday so far!

Hey hey, people from Paris and London! Can you please recommend an area/neighborhood where I should book a hotel, away from the sketchy part of town, please.

And if there are people from Venice and Milan here too, same inquiry. Thanks!

@lb_tmi - thanks a bunch! I really appreciate it. Do you by chance have "I Do"? It's Jae, Junsu and Junho's version of an old Rain song. I think it really nicely displays all 3 of their voices. Did you catch Taec's mnet Scandal? Kid is gettin to be really hot haha. i did end up watching parts of it (though I had to take lil breathers inbetween haha!) and then i swear my blood pressure went thru the roof.

@10 new-s - ya i loved soulmate too :) parts were frustrating for sure, but i did love the 2 leads. the side character couple i loved the best was the playboy and soo-kyung's quirky boss. lots of laughs there haha... i think the ending was kind of frustrating cuz it was...bittersweet? and i think it was filmed with a second season in mind. but since the ratings weren't very high they decided against the 2nd season and left the series as is... and left us kind of hanging.

anybody got fun plans this weekend? i started off with a relaxing weekend at home and suddenly i have to juggle 3 events on saturday. yay? :)

Happy Friday!!

I'm really enjoying CIty Hall also. I started watching because of KSA and stuck around for the manly CSW. Wait til the next episodes...... gets much better.

@16 langdon813

I second the motion , final recap of ASOAM plsssssssssssssssssssssss.

@11, celestialorigin

I don't know, I think I'm probably the oldest one hanging out here!

I'll go ahead and out myself, since we're all friends here, right? ;-) I'm 44 and have two grown sons; one is 24 and the other is 22. Hey, I'm from the South, we get married young since there's nothing else to do around here!

I wouldn't change a thing though, honestly. It's kind of cool to be in my 40's having raised my kids already, while most of my friends still have young children (or babies, even). They're going to soccer games and swim meets and I'm going to concerts and long weekends with friends all over the country! And logging insane amounts of time in front of my laptop watching Kdramas, needless to say.

Have a great time in London, it's one of my favorite cities. You can't beat a Sunday stroll through Hyde Park, it just doesn't get much better than that.

@5 Snikki - Having watched the original Kekkon Dekinai Otoko fairly recently, all I could think about while watching the Korean version is how they copied almost everything. I guess if you haven't seen the original, it'll seem fresh and new, but I was so bothered by the nearly frame-by-frame simularities (I think at one point I decided that they just flipped it so that everything that was on the right of the screen is now on the left) that I almost quit watching. I haven't seen the second episode yet, but I'll probably give it a few more episodes to come into its own.. Hopefully they'll begin to deviate from the original a little more in the future.

I'm not as impressed with the cast of the Korean version, though. The absence of Abe Hiroshi is striking enough, but the Korean cast doesn't seem to have the same sort of chemistry as the Japanese cast.

Kim So-eun as the neighbour is ADORABLE, though. I don't think she'll top the original Michiru, but hopefully she'll be able to bring her own little spin on it. The dog..has yet to grow on me. It's kinda cute, I guess, but Chihuahuas always remind me of rodents more than of dogs. ^^;

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I think I've turned into a Drama-Watching Machine this summer.. Right now I'm watching Triple, Brilliant Legacy, Strike Love, Story of a Man (I'm waiting until the final subs or your recap are out), That Fool (I got tired of waiting for subs and started watching it unsubbed; TOTALLY IN LOVE WITH the lisping Sang Chul, the younger brother), The Man Who Can't Get Married, The Sons of Sol Pharmacy House, Atashinchi no Danshi, and Shiroi Haru. I also just finished Kekkon Dekinai Otoko, Ryuusei no Kizuna, Prince Who Turns Into Frog (my second viewing), and ToGetHer (OMG CUTEST THING EVER). I'm contemplating adding City Hall to the list of things to watch, but perhaps I should wait until I've finished another series. :P

Sunday is Father's Day.. My dad and I haven't been getting along terribly well since I've come home (I'm on my last year of university, so he's starting to lecture me on The Future and my Career Path and how I should go into Something Sensible.), so I want to surprise him. After he goes to bed on Saturday, I intend to take over the kitchen and bake up a storm, making all of the cookies and breads that he likes, and then arrange them into a cute little "Happy Father's Day!" message on the kitchen table.

The mosquitoes are out in full force here. Curse this southern climate.. My dad was installing my new car radio yesterday, and my job was just to sit there and swat away the mosquitoes. That was annoying. Stupid little bloodsuckers.

Also, I think I'm stealing my brother's dog, muahahahaha. He's a Tibetan Spaniel (they look kinda like Pekingese, but they're not), and SO ADORABLE. He always attaches himself to my side when I come home, as long as the cat isn't around to drive him away. It's kinda cute, actually, how they both fight for my affection.

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@ langdon813 - OooOOOoooo, another Southerner! Mind if I ask which state you're from?

@14 mie - i just discovered park junghyun this week.. where have i been for the last 10 years?? i don't know. but a friend of mine just got back from korea and told me about her. she is incredibly under-rated and oh so talented. wish i could see her live too! lucky :)

@ 22, Kender

The great state of Mississippi (mosquito capitol of the world)! How about you?

@24 langdon813 - South Carolina, aka We-Don't-Need-None-Of-Your-Stinkin'-Union! (Whenever my northern friends can't remember which Carolina I'm from, I tell them that we're the ones that seceded from the Union first.) :P

@ 18 lovenyc52

i knew there was one song i forgot. won't be able to access my MU account until i come back from shopping tonight..
send me an email and i'll reply w/ the link
lovebird_tmi@yahoo.com

you know, sometimes there's somethings that you have to sit thru and when ur done, you wish u had that time of ur life back because it was so worthless?
that's what i'm feeling right now regarding that stupid medicare conference i just had to listen to.

i also felt that way after watching Rain's drama A Love to Kill. why or why did i watch it and torture myself for absolutely nothing? i want those 16 hrs of my life back because that drama sucked.

@ 14 mie

I liked the original and I liked every character. I want to see the K-version for Kim So Eun, I'm probably gonna ffwd on Uhm Jung Hwa scenes too like you did since I'm not very fond of her.

May I ask where you catch the eps? Thanks!

@ 22 Kender

I don't like Chihuahuas either.

Dangit! If I find that I don't like most of the characters in the K-version, and if I'll just keep on ffwding, then I might as well skip this and watch Triple.

@ 27, lb_tmi

OMG, I know exactly what you mean about A Love to Kill. I wanted to kill MYSELF after watching it. Not even my love for Rain could make me feel better about it.

I watched Speed Scandal yesterday - has anyone else here seen it? It's A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!! I just read again what Javabeans said about it being remade, and I agree - it's one of those unecessary remakes hollywood is making of korean movies. It's perfect just as it is, and international enough to discart the "need" for a remake. I wish they would just market the korean original in the states and other parts of the world instead. It's a really well told story, and all the characters are adorable, but the little kid stands out. It's really funny, too - I caught myself laughing out loud several times, and trust me, comedy usually has a tough time getting to me in general...

If you're looking for a great light movie to watch (regardless of if you're lookng for a korean movie specifically), try Speed Scandal - I totally recomend it!

[end of total ad for the movie =)]

@30 langdon813

that i'm even discussing how much i HATED that drama and WASTED 16hrs of my life watching it, i want this part of my life back too! LOL! i can't even comprehend how anyone thought that ending would be good in this drama... i have seen it done beautifully in a Thai lakorn Songrao Nirudon (the two of us forever). but in ALTK it was just STUPID. and all that happened before the ending was stupid. the characters were stupid. the overall plot is good. but damn how they completely effed up the drama with the dialogue and acting.

on another note. i watched Daniel Henney's Seducing Mr. Perfect. he is good looking, but he needs to not act at all. i'm so afeared of seeing Three Rivers now.

@21...no you are not the oldest...My baby just turns 30 yesterday...

I tried to watch Soulmate few times but can't get pass eps 3...

I am watching Shinning Inheritance, Triple, Knock Knock I love you. I still prefer Korean D than Chinese...the hard part is I have to wait for English sub everyweek... The first two dramas are very good.

I watched Lover in Paris again last week...classic...I wonder where can I get OST of this drama?

There is one drama I have been looking with English sub but have no luck so far"Winterbird". Has anyone heard of it ??? Would appreciate for any clue...thanks and have a great weekend everyone.....

aww >_< i want to watch triple...but i can't find it anywhere :o
can someone help me?

LOVE OPEN THREADS!

am listening to Lee Ki Chan's 4th album. 1999 album. Pop was SO different then. :) Wonder how's he doing in military? Liked his voice since "Heaven"...come to think of it, I started liking kdramas and their OSTs more after "Hello God". Not all of 'em though.

loving Mate (i have a soft spot for alternative rock/soft rock) though they aren't dazzlingly different musically from other rock groups, but three talented guys who aren't bad looking, esp the drummer..... :) it's not often i find all tracks in the album nice.

anyone heard Park Ji Yoon's comeback album? I think it rocks her vocals so much more. Love all her melancholy tracks, especially "In My Fading Memory", "Sleep Talking" and "It's Alright"... :)

Am putting a hold on drama watching currently cause workload is packed to the max! Somehow I'm feeling really demotivated to work extra harder for this last semester of the final year. Someone please motivate me. :(

But after the semester ends...wahahahha...it'll be all the catching up! Then, maybe I can expand my drama list. I have to refrain from all temptations for now. :S

Blessed weekend and Father's Day everyone! :)

Hi everyone-
I'm new to downloading videos and subs (and kdrama)- I have just watched the dramas off of mysoju. I didn't realize that there was such drama around that site...so now I'm trying to respect the work of the subbers and go straight to With S2.

Can anyone tell me how to dl the video for Triple or Soulmate?

Thanks!

@34, summerrain -

I like your handle!

as to your question (and to @35, Max), you can find answers to most or all of your Triple questions on Soompi.

http://soompi.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t216299.html

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@35 Max -

As for Soulmate, you may wish to try Dramafever.com.

They are a legit site that has a number of k-dramas (including subs, I think) for free streaming, in very HQ mode, including:

Boys Over Flowers
Attic Cat
Coffee Prince
Goong
Soulmate
My Lovely Sam Soon
What's Up Fox?
Jewel in the Palace
Fireworks
The Kingdom of the Wind
Sad Love Story
Who Are You?
Yi San
Couple or Trouble
Jumong
Bad Love
The World That They Live In
Last Scandal
What Planet Are You From?
Time Between Dog and Wolf
New Heart
Que Sera, Sera
Over the Rainbow
La Dolce Vita
I Really Really Like You
H.I.T.
Strongest Chil Woo
Air City
Thank You
Dr. Kkang
White Tower.

If you can get an invite to register, you can watch these dramas with very little commercial interuption. Sort of like Hulu.com.

best of luck to you.

@32, lb_tmi: maybe u can try "my father" i think he's (DH) better there. angsty but can be glossed over.

@priki where did you find speed scandal online??

I am so glad everyone is watching so many different dramas. Definitely too little time and too many dramas.

Just started Jumong and I am following City Hall, Queon Seon Duk, Shining Legacy, Mr. Brain and Shiroi Haru to name a few. The list just keeps getting longer.

I've also watched a couple of good films, the japanese Departures with poor subtitles and Ip Man with amazing martial arts and the hunkalicious Donnie Yen. Both were very good.

I want to celebrate the longest day of the year this weekend by going to the Scandinavian festival and getting up close to a couple of vikings *keke*.

@37 chajjye
you think i'd like it enough to buy? it's selling at ethaicd for $7-8 bucks... maybe i will try it. and if i can't stand his acting in that either, i can just pause and mute it, right? you know, just to stare at him. LOL!

@Anh Rohrbach, you can download the Lovers in Paris OST from this page:

http://koreandramaost.blogspot.com/2007/03/lovers-in-paris-ost.html

Enjoy!

@31 PRIKI

I watched Speedy Scandal! It was, indeed, a sweet, cute movie! I have been wondering if it was her real voice singing? If so, my! she has a good voice! love that song she first sang solo!

In other asian dramas/movies:

I watched MagicBoy coz the reviews seemed pretty positive......Urg! I was bored to sleep! Wrong choice!!!!

While waiting for the last ep of A Man's Story, I am watching Mr. Brain because of Kimura (giggle!)..... reminds me of Monk and CSI....the Very Very Japanese Version! LOL!!!!

I havent been watching Japanese series for awhile now.....aaaaahhh... now, it's all coming back to me...., the japanese style cinematography, the japanese style of tv series / movies, and the Nipponggo(typed it right?), i am missing that already!

Anyway, Mr. Brain is light and funny.... the theme song reminds me how i cringed whenever i hear the Boys Over Flowers' song Almost Paradise! LOL! But, am getting used to it now (unlike Almost Paradise- urg! I thought i was going to melt everytime!!)
It also has some of the popular actors in its cast.
The lab is quite hi-tech (Sorry CSI....japan IS hi-tech), very very japanese! I havent seen people working though. LOL!!!!

ok....am off to work! Have a happy Friday everyone!!

Other random notes:

1. This morning, my wife used the OPW x2 on me, first time in a long time. Caught me completely off guard, and I can't even remember now what I agreed to now. Cute wiggling disengages my brain.

2. YesAsia sent me an email this morning - my boxset for 2 Outs In The Bottom of the Ninth (9회말 2아웃) is being shipped! And DVDAsian sent me an email -Star In My Heart (별은 내가슴에) is being shipped!

Now I got City Hall on Clubbox, Cinderella Man (oddly interesting, despite my ambivalence toward KSW and Yoonah), New Heart (with Ji Sung), and Good Job (with Chae Rim, kind of intriguing) on MBC America to watch on DVR, and 2 Outs, Star in My Heart, on DVD. And Friend, Partner, Triple coming soon? OMG OVERLOAD....

3. So Ji Sub.... coming to NYC on Tuesday and Wednesday... are we going??? Have to ask the wife... I'll take cell phone pics of any stalkers whose hands are all over SJS's butt. One of them should be bspanda.

I decided that I want to go teach english in S.Korea and im going to apply through ILOVEESL....
has anyone heard or applied through ILOVEESL for the teaching jobs abroad?
I am thinking of going through them and wanted to know if anyone has had a good experience with them or if i should try a different program...any help would be great cause im a little clueless right now

@summerrain, they are uploading it on http://aja-aja.com/regular/triple - but they don't have the subs as of yet. Hope you're one of the lucky people who don't need them! =) @Max, they have Soulmate there, too, : http://aja-aja.com/regular/Soulmate and they have the link to the subs on the page

@sue, I found it on one of the sites which uploads asian things : http://silentregrets.com/kmovies/speedy-scandal.php . good luck!

@MEIKO**** ^-^ My feelings exactly about her voice and about the song! I want to find the original - if it is an actual original song - to compare, but I'm afraid that if it is indeed a really old song, like he says, I won't be able to find it! =(

=)

@44 Samsooki-- don't forget Mishane, she'll be there grabbing SJS too! take lots of pictures if you do go.
dang, that's quite a collection now... i started watching New Heart, but had gotten sidetracked... maybe it's time to re-visit Ji Sung again...

"The lab is quite hi-tech (Sorry CSI….japan IS hi-tech), very very japanese! I havent seen people working though. LOL!!!!"

I MEANT the people in the lab are, more or less, lounging around.....^-^ (this time I give my applause to CSI).... but then I just have been watching the first two episodes...
in each episode, cameo appearances are made by some very popular japanese actors, which is neat!....

ok....gtg!

@ 15 Samsooki and 19 blkrose

Samsooki, I'm so pleased that you are now a City Haller! In fact, the drama has garnered a lot more fans in the last few weeks. When an episode airs live, we would have 100 users at Soompi checking out the latest plot development.

I'm still recovering from the intensity of Ep 15 and 16 and have just done a long post at Soompi. As someone said at Viikii, each new episode tops the previous one. Episode 15 is the best episode of any Kdramas I've seen. Rarely would you find in one single episode with so many (if not all) superlative scenes. They are all so awesomely shot with superb acting by the main and supporting cast, well-thought scene set up, great music to complement the scene, and the exquisitely constructed dialogues. In fact, the dialogues are one of the best things of this drama with so many memorable lines oozed with the right dose of emotion and humour. I do have to give up my prejudice against the scriptwriters (whose Lovers series are not really to my taste). I am so glad that the drama has not turned melodramatic while maintaining its unique storytelling, keeping us viewer on the edge and guessing what will happen next. We are riding this emotional roller coaster crying one minute and then laughing the next.

As Samsooki said, this is ultimately the love story of two different persons in the vein of heart vs mind, and amibition vs dream. KSA and CSW play their role out perfectly. KSA's character is the most independant, free-spirit and witty heroine I've seen in Kdrama. CSW - what can I say - I'm yet to come across a CH viewer who has not fallen for his charm. His acting is just top notch! I am thinking him as the young Jack Nicholson - sexy and charismatic. I've now stockpiled his previous movies and will watch them once CH is over. Right now, I am so entralled in the CH fever that I can't and don't have the capacity to watch anything else.

I will be so sad when the drama will finish in two weeks - four more episodes only! Best ever drama for me.

BTW, where has Belleza gone? Haven't seen her post for quite a while now.

@ SAMSOOKI

Hi! I have been waiting for The Return Of Iljimae DVD with subtitle..... seen it anywhere?

Thanks in advance!