Amastris Dratwka

"...After a year of hiatus, Red Velvet's Wendy is set to make a comeback to the entertainment industry as the MC of JTBC's new music talk show, "Mysterious Record Shop..." ~ It has taken her a whole year to heal herself to even make a comeback, and Red Velvet had to stop all its promotion of it's song "Psycho". The cost to that group was enormous and now they're coming back during a pandemic so it's even harder to garner attention and get success promoting yourself. With that kind of price being paid by entertainers, SBS should have gotten its act together already... but here we are a year later, and they're back to being lackadaisical with their safety precautions again.

This bothers me quite a bit.

SBS is responsible for the unsafe conditions that caused Red Velvet's Wendy serious falling accident. She actually fell 2 meters and fractured her right pelvis & wrist besides an injury to her face. SBS promised to make sure that sets and rehearsals in the future would have accident precautions strictly adhered to so nothing like this happens again.

Yes, accidents happen but it angers me to hear SBS's production staff making the statement, "...The production team promised to be more careful and to take precautionary measures to prevent the reoccurrence of such accidents..." when based on their words, THIS should have been taking place to begin with, not AFTER an injury occurs. =/

This drama was already filmed before the pandemic, in the beginning of 2019. [ You can see all the filming previews from the filming in the beginning of this video] The drama was already completed and was supposed to air on GMM channel 31. However, something happened, and it was never official listed on their schedule, and was shelved. Aom Sushar attempted to promoted it as you can see in her IG from early this year [ https://www.instagram.com/p/B9TOotsAadT/ ] and somewhere in the comments P'Push actually comments to this post "...when??..." to which Aom replies, "...well, we can try..." or something to that affect, indicating that they want the drama to come out as much as all of us. You can go thru Aom's IG posts from April 2019 to September 2019, and see some of her stills from the filming of #BossandmeThai.

Bottom line: for w/e reason GMM isn't releasing this drama even though it's filmed and completed and the actors have moved on to other projects.

You can surmise it from the synopsis: "Her current husband works as a diplomatic official and seems gentle and warm. His secret is that he is actually a cold-blooded industrial spy." and "[Jun Ji Hoon] was married to Kang Ah Reum, but they divorced without Kang Ah Reum learning about his secret life as a spy." Thus, this pits her current husband against her ex-husband. One is a good guy who hides this fact, and the other is a bad guy who hides this fact. The OTP is with her and the *good guy*.

Someday or One Day & Meet You @ 1006 will definitely meet the caliber of the pre-2016 era, since after 2016, China up'ed its entertainment investment, and like South Korea, closed the Chinese market/viewership to Taiwan, over politics. This forced the vast majority of Taiwanese actors/actresses to follow the Chinese money, and join Chinese productions if they wanted to have the same successes as before. [Ex: Think of how Chinese TV canceled kpop girl group Twice appearances because Tzuyu deemed to have a political opinion in favor of the nation she resides in and her ethnicity instead of supporting "China", in 2016, by waving her nation's Taiwanese flag.] Others just, pretty much, left the international scene, and stuck to Taiwan. The exodus has caused a huge gap in the quality and acting of Taiwan dramas post-2016, with these 2, in particular, bringing back that nostalgic feeling.

For me, Taiwanese dramas are what truly started my Asian drama obsession.

I had watched a few South Korea movies on YouTube, 100 Days with Mr. Arrogant[2004]; Duelist [2005]; & Seducing Mr. Perfect[2006] but hadn't started in on any dramas. Obviously this is way before Viki & streaming sites, so YouTube or DailyMotion were the *only* places I could watch with subs.

I came across the Taiwanese drama, It Started with A Kiss [2006], almost an year after it was broadcast, subbed on a Dailymotion. I had to scrounge around for subbed episodes in chronological order, but managed to watch that and They Kiss Again [2007]. From there I became obsessed with watching Taiwanese dramas. I went back in time and found MARS, Why Why Love, & Devil Beside You. Then going forward I watched the epic Fated to Love You, & Autumn's Concerto.

By 2010, Viki had come on the scene, and since I was one of the first adults around that I knew to switch to an iPhone from standard cell, while everyone else was still using Blackberrys, I went on a app downloading tear, since at that time, data was UNLIMITED. hahaha. That's when I discovered the Korean dramas Secret Garden & Boys Over Flowers. From 2010 onward, I switched between Taiwan & South Korean dramas. It wasn't until all the hoopla happened, and more and more streaming sites popped up, that I started to, at first, add Thai dramas & Filipino dramas, and then, ultimately, Chinese dramas. Of course, since I studied Japanese, student exchange in Utsunomiya, & worked for All Nippon Airways, I'd watch anything Japanese when it was available. Sadly, except for animes, that was actually hard to do and find back in the day, after I canceled my cable tv service since my kids never watched TV, only stuff online. hahaha.

Between 2010 & 2016, good Taiwan dramas I watched were Love Buffet, Material Queen, In Time With You, Drunken to Love You, What is Love, Summer Fever, Love Now, In Between, Fondant Garden, King Flower, Just You, In A Good Way, Fabulous Boys, The Way We Were, Rock 'n' Road, Pleasantly Surprised, Aim High, Someone Like You, Our Times, Murphy's Law of Love, Marry Me or Not?, Bromance. This not all of what I watched, just what was some of the best stuff I watched.

I'm going to be honest here. On my desktop computer, watching this on the Tencent Video - WeTV-vip website at 1090p with near perfect English translations for the 2 *free* episodes with the committed timeframe of 2 episodes per day M-W each week, with 6 episodes *advance* for *vip* members, makes me legit consider spending the money for *vip*. =)

It's just that they hesitate on what they release to everyone outside China for so long, I'm not always confident they'll give us everything we want. I don't wanna pay then miss out anyway. It's truly the *only* reason I stop myself. !! =/

Unfortunately, we'll still have to wait. Only 2 are actually "free" for viewing; only 8 episodes have been uploaded, and the rest are VIP access only. =/

They don't tag it as makjang for nothing. Just remember that - melodrama is melodrama. hahahaa.

I would watch it on wetv.vip/en which is Tencent Videos English version video streaming site and they're the company that produced this. The full version is non-VIP so you can stream all episodes in its entirely, with English subs from there.

The Kim Jae Wook & IU actually looks really interesting along with the theme. After My Mister, we know that IU could actually pull that off really well. The age gap at their age isn't really that big a deal either. 37 to 27 doesn't seem problematic.

Number 2 & 3 in Cons is the reason I rarely ever watching currently airing dramas. 2 is likely my biggest reason. Any drama I watched live, I have been burned by bad endings 4:1.

Oh boy! Oh boy! I <3 this!

Thanks @Ji-N & @Skye-N-Rain !!!!

This was already on my PTW. I'm gonna wait until is completed to marathon it.

Anyone who regularly watches C-Dramas knows that you skip the first 2 minutes if you’re not interested in spoilers, and don’t watch the ending. It’s a choice. lol. It’s very rare for a C-Drama to not have spoiler intro and credits.

"Are you on your period?" Classic. LMFAO!

Thanks for the fun read.

More of these please! =)

Actually, this was a plot point in Itaewon Class, so I guess at company dinners this kind of thing happens.

WTF? No he doesn't. He never did. In fact, Kang Gook didn't give Hyemi his real phone number. In episode 2, Tae Joo gave it to her and when she called, Tae Joo told Kang Gook, "It's a gift...I'm telling you to go ahead and experiment everything you want." That's a very CLEAR message. On top of this, you already know from the beginning of episode 1 that Tae Joo is a playa because why do you think Pil Hyun and his friends were chasing him to kick his ass? It's because Tae Joo fooled around with 3 of the girls Pil Hyun was interested in dating. Why did Pil Hyun hit Tae Joo? Because he teased him about playing around with them without being seriously involved at all. Lastly, in episode 3, when you see Tae Joo kiss the girl that just shows up at his home with a box of things Tae Joo bought for her, before she drops the box on the ground and hits Tae Joo, she legit tells him, "How can you treat my friend like this? Even our gifts are the same." This CLEARLY indicates that he was playing around with both her and her friend and it's obvious from his attitude that he does this a lot and gets away with it because they know he is a chaebol. Thus, even after hitting him for being a jerk, he was still able to kiss her without her objection. He's telling Kang Gook to do the same, play around but don't be serious... because you can only truly care about me.

I thought it was crystal clear frankly.

I have a 2nd degree black belt in taekwondo. My son has a 3rd degree. Although I wasn't required, for testing, to do any jiu jitsu, we were still required to train in the form for advanced self defense. The only requirement for taekwondo was forms, sparring, & weapons. Sparring isn't ground combat. you do it standing...but for advanced techniques they teach this AND you have the separate uniform for it, AND you have a separate belt ranking for it as well.

Let me break it down: Kang Guk is wearing the traditional white gi/dobok for taekwondo. Tae Jo is wearing the traditional blue uniform for jiu jitsu. In fact, the patch on Tae Jo's arm legit says, "ATAMA Jiu Jitsu". lol. When you are in the guard, i.e. body over the person your attacking while they have their legs wrapped around your waist, that is a dead give away for jiu jitsu. Triangles [head between legs squeezing] or arm bars are jiu jitsu. With Judo you start from a standing position, and you're working to not do any "rolling" or "ground" combat. Additionally, for scoring points in sparring in taekwondo it's for kicking the chest and/or head, not below the belt or in the arms. SO.... What these boys are doing is jiu jitsu sparring.

Also, if you didn't notice, they are both purple belts which means they are still learning, and they are mid-tier level combatants.

Let's just say, if there is a S3, Dr. Kang won't be there. Sorry, he's moved on to Yulje Medical Center, where he's received a much higher rating as a doctor, and has a new love interest. He never once considered a S2 with Dr. Kim but he's already renewed his contract with Yulje Medical Center.

In fact, in episode 1, it was quite clear by what was said, that Dr. Yoon & Dr. Kang have broken up. I heard that loud and clear. As tight as this group is, if they were still together, they'd have referenced that, AND the potential of them returning...but that wasn't stated. That Master Kim loses "young talent" was what was stated, and I made note of that after watching episode 1.

And the idea that Dr. Kang and Dr. Do got together, well maybe they still have contact but she's in the USA for the next few years, in school, at a minimum, and besides, her alter ego will be too busy with a timeslip, not scheduled for take off until the end of the year @ 100 x 1hr20min, to a Korea run by Japanese Imperialists to date Dr. Do anyway.

Dr. Kim fans will just have to be happy with Dr. Cha and Dr. Seo alone and likely have to wait another 3 years to boot.

How is he not fat? That's what I wanna know... lol...

Sung Hoon is legit the very description and epitome of 4D... and that's fine by us.