The Year of Han Hyo Joo (2023)

• Finished on Jun 30, 2023

Watched this before my Hyo Joo obsession kicked in, and in fact I had no idea she was even in it. I do love her connection Kim You Jung, but eventually I hope they get to be in the same room together in a film or drama, as mother/daughter or as sisters.

• Finished on Sep 20, 2023

The drama that started my Han Hyo Joo obsession, I blame the glasses. It was almost perfect, I just think the ending was a little rushed.

• Finished on Sep 24, 2023

It'd have been better if it had leaned on the romance more.

• Finished on Sep 24, 2023

This was a lot more fun than I expected, especially considering I didn't watch the first film, but Hyo Joo and Kang Ha Neul were a cute couple and the action scenes were pretty well-done. A solid watch!

• Finished on Sep 30, 2023

A lovely romcom with a couple that actually has chemistry. We love a well-done representation of a person with a disability and we love So Ji Sub, our pro-Palestine king.

• Finished on Sep 30, 2023

Rude male leads only work when you have an equally crazy female lead, which is exactly why this romcom is pretty solid.

• Finished on Oct 3, 2023

Confining a drama to an apartment building could'be been a huge mistake, but Happiness does the zombie story really well, I just wish we had more couple/romantic moments between the lead couple, but I understand the story is more action and less romance.

• Finished on Oct 15, 2023

The tone of this drama was so odd, one second the male lead was in dispair, the next the side characters would be making poop jokes. Maybe if we spent less time on these dumb "plots" and more time on the female lead and her relationship with the male lead then maybe this drama would've been good.

• Finished on Oct 22, 2023

Despite not liking Lee Byung Hun (cheaters should choke!), I can't deny he and Hyo Joo were a funny duo in a likewise fun film.

• Finished on Oct 24, 2023

Imagine my shock when I found out this is one of the highest-grossing films of all time in South Korea AND the reason why Hyo Joo has a Blue Dragon Film Award. I don't know what Koreans saw in it, I was bored from beginning to end.

• Finished on Oct 27, 2023

Started out well enough, but I didn't think the male lead had any charisma at all, so it lost me completely. 

• Finished on Oct 27, 2023

The female lead was infinitely more interesting than any of the men, so the film would've been much better if the focus was on her.

• Finished on Oct 27, 2023

So Yul did nothing wrong and I stand by that!

• Finished on Oct 27, 2023

The only true good thing about this film being Lee Hi's Golden Slumber cover.

• Finished on Oct 31, 2023

The typical 2000s Korean Drama with all the tropes you can imagine. I can overlook these tropes if the chemistry between the leads is good, but sadly there was no passion/emotion here.

• Finished on Nov 5, 2023

Genuinely forgettable, and in a way that's worst than being bad.

• Finished on Nov 9, 2023

Pretty basic independent film with nothing really special to it.

• Finished on Nov 18, 2023

Hyo Joo's first villain and I'm not sure I liked it very much, she had great moments, but I didn't hated her decision (or the director's decision) to be always playing with her mouth/tongue. I hope I get to see her do another role like this eventually though, to see how much she evolves.

• Finished on Nov 24, 2023

Genuinely can't understand why at a point in time everyone agreed that men being rude to women was romantic and a sign that he is falling in love. I'll never enjoy the trope of the "man who learns to be kind because of love".

• Finished on Dec 4, 2023

One of the best historical dramas I've seen, the romance and the evil deeds of the second female lead worked so perfectly that my only complaint is that I wish we had spent more time with them and less time with the side characters.

• Finished on Dec 9, 2023

I'm not a Park Hae Jin fan, I usually come out of his dramas not seeing any chemistry between him and the women he plays along, and this was not an exception. Beyond there, none of the subplots were nearly interesting enough to make up for it.

• Finished on Dec 17, 2023

The problem is that the film wasn't about Hyo Joo and Byun Yo Han, they had so much chemistry despite having small roles, I need them in a romcom.

• Finished on Dec 20, 2023

I genuinely missed Hyo Joo's cameo in this film, I went back a couple times to see if I could catch it, but I have no idea when she shows up.

• Finished on Dec 20, 2023

Cringey as hell, so let's just all pretend this isn't part of Hyo Joo's filmography.

• Finished on Dec 21, 2023

Even in 2006 we as a society were already over female characters being used to further the a male character's plot and life change.