This did not take very long. It was expected:

Victory Contents, the company that produced River Where The Moon Rises, has sued Ji Soo and KeyEast for ₩3 billion KRW ($2,661,771 USD) in damages following his bullying scandal.

According to Victory Contents’ press release, they have filed a compensation suit to the Seoul Central District Court against KeyEast to claim damages following Ji Soo’s bullying scandal. Ji Soo began filming the drama as a the male lead, but dropped out in early March following his scandal. At the time of him dropping out, nearly 90% of the drama was already filmed, which meant nearly the entire drama was re-filmed with Na In Woo after Ji Soo was replaced.

According to Dispatch, the production company claims it has suffered direct damages from staff costs, location, equipment fees, appearance fees, art fees, etc. due to re-shooting, and other serious damages that can affect the future, such as poor ratings, overseas customer claims, expected sales, and company image damage.

It will all come down to what morals clause, if any, was in the actor's contract to base a damage claim.

Happy Easter!

Don't eat too much chocolate and don't forget where you hid the eggs!

April - I was expecting 3000k+ ohh

Stock Market - Week went pretty smooth and quite good.
House - 2018-2019 I talked about buying 1 VIP area but prices are going up and up and that for already built ones.
I've plans to build a house where the 1st and last master is me and i want have my own ideas in the architecture of it as well as my own hardwork to claim every inch of it as my art.
In 2018-2019 it was costing 1.5m$ and now i'm sure price is above 2m$ and then all material costs have gone up too.
3 million dollars + interior and furniture is just too much.
The same amount can be easily invested in Ch,Ko or even Japan's real estate for good returns.
Quality living surely is costly.

I rewatch the master piece of Ten Miles of Peach Blossom is for my lonely heart.
If ever it got K remake I want Hyun Bin as Ye Hua. Ha ha ha

Hello all:

Not much happening...but Spring is peeking/peaking. Trying to finish editing and proofing my latest novel and will attempt to write a narrative speculative fiction poetry. Will see how i manage to do that.

Dramas:
Hello, Me: This is so going to become one of my favorite dramas. Noona romance, office dramas, believable treacherous family and friends, humor, melancholy, good plot, good moral and inspiration, great OST, great acting. What's not to like?

Navillera: Sweet. Please do not eand with death of ahjusshi, please!

Be My Dream Family: My first daily in ages. Five episodes but i am loving it so far. It just started so you have a chance to jump in without feeling overwhelmed. IT feels slice of life-ish and has no mega-makjang.

Times: What the heck??? It suddenly ended. Something feels cut out. Overall it was good but i can't drop the feeling that it was quickly wound up. Maybe they made the episodes longer so they could have less. Just odd to me.

cdramas:
Starting Rational Life, The Long Ballad, The way of the husbandman, Good every day, Duolou continent.

Have a great weekend, all. -C

Thank you to the beanies who offered some animated movies recommendations last week. I have watched both A Whisker Away and The Boy and the Beast.

Although A Whisker Away was not my cup of tea, the animation style was great.

I fully enjoyed The Boy and the Beast. It had been on my to-watch list for years and I am glad I finally had the incentive to sit down and watch it. Thank you!

I also watched a Ghibli film that I had never seen before Only Yesterday. It was a sweet film, but I felt there was something missing. Despite having a similar theme, it did not give me the same feeling of comfort and nostalgic desire to move to the countryside and plant potatoes as the Korean adaptation of Little Forest did.

I also re-watched the Taiwanese film Our Times with my mom who had never seen it. Although cliché and somewhat predictable, Our Times is still a little gem. My mother thought the movie childish at first but, in the end, she was fully invested in the story. SPOILER ALERT I had a good laugh watching her curse the casting director for not using the same actors to play the adult versions hahahaha "I'm going to write to them in Taïwan!" was what she declared.

I'm thinking of watching the 1999 Chinese movie The Road Home next. Has anyone seen it?

Hi beanies. It has been a weird day for me, a mix of little joys and bad news. India seems to be having a resurgence in Covid cases and my uncle has tested positive. He has been admitted to the hospital as he opted out of home isolation so as to keep his family safe. He seems to okay and only has a slight fever and a sore throat. We also lost a family friend to renal complications. She was the mother of one of my dad's closest friends and a very well-mannered and sweet lady. I remember going to their house as a kid and sitting with her in front of their tv and talking to her. I hadn't seen her for years and I don't really know what to feel.
On the drama front, things are going super slow. Exams are in a week so all my dramas are paused. The only drama I am following ardently is Oh My Master. I must say it is my first Lee Min Ki drama and I get why people love him. He acts with just the right emotions. I love Han Bi Soo's character. He isn't rude, just gruffy. Also Nana is amazing. She really seems to shine in romcoms ( I loveee her laugh. It's adorable).
Also the leads in You Are My Hero are amazing. They have such a natural chemistry. The one thing I find hilarious is that the makers keep driving home the point that our male lead is special police. They show us his capabilities, his prowess and then give him the most macho vehicle they could find. I just start laughing wen he drives around in that jeep of his. We get it you guys. Anyway, have a happy weekend beanies

It’s our family tradition to dye eggs today. It is shockingly cold April1 , I should know better than to expect warmer days just yet. Still...
feeling behind on dramas, but next week I’ll catch up. I have a crazy, rather illogical habit of doing my taxes the last Saturday before April15 and it makes me crabby to have to deal with it. What else? I also have a Family member with covid this week, and others in the household so far are ok (I don’t live there). I think vaccines open up this week to the general public. I read that so far 17% of the US population are fully vaccinated. Aren’t we all looking forward to better days — holding on together the best we can beanies. Fighting\ /

Hi beans. I hope everyone is happy, healthy and had a great week :)

Sungrok updates for the week:
1. Sungrok was the guest in My Ugly Duckling 🐤
2. Sungrok confirmed as Dracula in Dracula Musical 2021 🧛🏻‍♂️
3. Sungrok is still an active member in Master in The House 🏡
4. Sungrok new baseball ad will be released soon. The new stills for the ad look like stills from a drama. I am excited!!! 🤩
5. HB Entertainement aka Sungrok agency has revamped it's social media promo strategy. They will be more active in promoting their artists. Yay! 🥳

I’ve been watching older dramas (like early 2000s) to distract me while I’m waiting for the next episodes of Mouse.....I burned through My Lovely Sam Soon very fast (it was great) and I’m currently making my way through Princess Hours (so far a bit more of a struggle). Was wondering if anyone had any good recommendations of dramas from back then?

(Which simultaneously doesn’t feel like long ago but also somehow manages to be very long ago)

Happy weekend Beanies and keep Beaning On!

I passed my first internship evaluation yesterday!🥳🎉There is still a lot to learn, but my boss took into account how difficult it has been and continues to be to learn everything literally all by myself. She even noticed how much it increased my insecurity.😳

A few days before the evaluation, the boss of our boss joined our monthly team meeting and complimented us for our hard work getting ahead of schedule…and listed all the task teams that need extra helping hands.🙄One of the short-staffed task teams of course happens to work on the kind of cases that I am learning about in my current formation, so naturally I immediately was signed up for it to represent my team. Another so called short-staffed team are the call center workers. The colleague who taught me last week is more than capable to manage by himself, but bigger boss insists on a backup at all times, and again I get to do the honors.😬

I do not blame my colleagues for not volunteering, because I also am stressed and exhausted and in need of some calm right before D-month May. I dislike not having a say in the matter, but by sparing my colleagues from those tasks I am doing them and our work load a great service. I am also part of the first group of new employees who are being trained to be able to do everything within our division, which is fair in the long-term. My insecurity certainly never would have let me volunteer otherwise.🤔

April, May and summer in short will be nothing but call center duty, difficult cases and finishing the formation and exam concerning those difficult cases. I acknowledge these great opportunities and they are a necessary evil to learn and practice, but I have never felt so relieved while taking off my headset as I did when I finished work today.😴

Hello! Happy Friday! Happy Easter to those who observe it!

The weather here has finally hit sunny and not-too-cold, which is my favorite kind of weather. I've been too busy at work to really enjoy it, but I'm hoping this weekend will change that.

On the drama end of things, I'm watching (and loving) Reply 1988. Just everything about it so far is near-perfect, and I can't believe I put it off for this long.

I also watched Boys over Flowers, and I cannot even describe just how much I utterly hated the entire series. I had heard such effusive praise of it from others that it felt like must-see TV and now I hate myself for wasting time on it. Ugh.

Dropping by super late to wish all the Beanies a good weekend! Also, Happy Easter to those who observe the holiday!

Take care everyone!

I have two questions
1. How do you upload animated images? When I do, it says ‘failed’.
2. Other members’ image shows next to their username, mine doesn’t. Is there a reason for this?
Thank you.

Belated Easter Greetings to all. I had an eggstremely, eggciting Easter. The weather was eggcellent, and the wine was eggzactly what I wanted. It was eggstra special because the whole family were together, the littlies cleaned up eggcitedly in the Easter egg hunt, the adults had plenty of eggsercise, the baby had an eggsplosive nappy.

The hostess was eggtremely pleased that everyone brought a plate, I was eggstatic my potato salad was liked by all, and the United Nations Trifle was eggstravagent and decadent. We all had an eggseptional day.

Do you agree that these dramas are really worth our time to watch on Netflix? 🧐 Please let me know your thoughts. Thanks!

https://www.kdramapal.com/7-korean-dramas-netflix-deserve-your-time/​