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For me the worst second male syndromes are the ones you can't acknowledge the first male lead. In this case I can't really agree with YWCFTS's Lee Hui Kyung, Sassy Go Go's Ha Joon and Pinocchio's Seo Bum Jo. Although they were lovable and sincere second male leads, it didn't hurt to see the female protagonists end up with the first male lead because I knew they would be as loved as if they had ended with the second male.

My personal favorite second male leads (that are not really favorite cause it made me hate the drama) are:

5. Choi Da Bi Deu (Lee Jang Woo) from Pretty Man. Ma Te (Geum Seuk) was an idiot to the protagonist, Kim Bo Tong (IU). She was head over heels for him and he spent half of the drama using her and going after other women (I do not care if it had a purpose), on the other hand there was Lee Jang Woo and his adorkable second lead character that developed a great connection to IU's character. I had to drop the drama cause I couldn't accept that Da Bi Deu was going to get dumped for someone that didn't treated the girl as nicely as he did. I don't know if Ma Te got less worst at the end (cause like I said, I dropped the drama) and I don't really care if he did change, for me Geum Suk should have ended alone while IU and Lee Jang Woo should have had a million of adorkable cute babies.

4. Gook Cheon Soo (Lee Pil Mo) from ER Couple. I didn't hate Chang Min (Choi Jin Hyuk), but Cheon Soo made it hard to accept Chang Min as the guy who gets the girl. The biggest problem here was that the second lead had all (ALL!!!) the chances to get the girl but he didn't had the balls (sorry, but it's true). He was nice, funny and he and Oh Jin Hee (Song Ji Hyo) had a great chemistry. I really wanted him to at least kiss her... :(

3. Choi Kang Hyeok (Lee Ki Woo) from Flower Boy Ramyun Shop. This drama had both: the protagonist who didn't deserved the girl and the second male lead that let her be taken away. Flower Boy Ramyun shop broke my heart, and although I had already had another second male syndromes before this drama, this one opened my eyes on how the k drama industry is unfair. HOWEVER, Lee Ki Woo and Lee Chung Ah are a happy couple in real life, so justice exists somewhere.

2. Gong Tae Kwang (Yook Sung Jae) from Who are You: School 2015. Oh, this drama... *sigh*... I started this drama rooting for Han Yi An (Nam Joo Hyuk), and although Tae Kwang was a great, nice, lovable, perfect, caring, dependable second lead, I was able to keep my ship as YiBi (Yi An x Eun Bi) until half of the drama. However, Yi An screwed everything when he made Eun Bi (Kim So Hyun) cry and kept being mean to her for 3~4 episodes. I could only think, "I understand you being angry, but nothing justifies the way you are treating her, specially when you know it's not her fault". After that I became a TaeBi shipper, only to suffer seeing him being the best person Eun Bi could have by her side and being dumped by her at the end. NOT FAIR.

1. Chilbong (Yeon Yun Suk) from Reply 1994. I don't want to talk about this because I'm still traumatized by this second male syndrome (and this is another drama I dropped cause I couldn't accept the final couple, yay!) Chilbong was again a second lead that made everything to deserve the girl but in the end lost her to someone who didn't do half of what he did. Do I have to accept that? No, next drama.

This, for me, were the second male syndromes that made my heart hurt, that made me be sad and that made me angry. There's lots of second male leads who were great, that made me root for them, but never as much as this ones. This guys will always live in my heart. <3

Kill Me, Heal Me is another drama that used Amnesia to build up the tension in the drama, since the viewers could only learn about what happened when the main leads started to figure things out. And the Amnesia was caused by emotional traumas, which makes forgetting specific parts of the memory more acceptable.
It's Okay that's love uses this too, wait... Ok, overused amnesia... You're right... hahaha

Song Ok Sook in Missing You is definitely the best ajumma EVER. I love her. <3

South Korea
"Auditory Hallucinations", by Jang Jae In ft NaShow, from Kill Me Heal Me.
"The Vow", By ALi, from Golden Raibow.
"It's Okay That's Love", by Davichi, from It's Okay That's love.
"I can't live without you", by Changmin&Dahee, from You're the best Lee soon Shin.
"Mask Dance", by MC Sniper, from Arang and The Magistrate.

Japan
"Love So Sweet", by Arashi, from Hana Yori Dango
"Flavor of Life", by Utada Hikaru, from Hana Yori Dango
(Hana Yori Dango ost biased, I know...)

Taiwan
"Future", by Miffy, from Skip Beat!
"Solo", by Super Junior M, from Skip Beat!

In episode 3 (I think), Eun Bi calls whoever rescued her and asked if there were someone else when he found her and the guy said there was a corpse. Still, if Eun Byul really died, she died after rescuing Eun Bi and putting that thing her mother gave her in Eun Bi's neck, that means that if Eun Byul died, it wasn't from drowning, so how did she die?? I don't know, I'm confused.

Jun Matsumoto and Inoue Mao, is my top ship in the world of dramas. Every time I hear any news about them being together I get anxious and super duper happy. <3 I really hope that it's true, so I totally can't think (and accept) him with anyone else.
And Han Ye Sul is perfect with Teddy, they are such a bubbly cute couple, and she's so happy and loves him so much. I love them.
Geun Seok with anyone that isn't PSH? Wow, that caught me off guard! I thought they were the most obvious ship...
The rest, I liked. Although Jo Jun Suk is dating Gummy I totally liked the idea of him with Ivy Chen, I love her! And Victoria and Zhoumi are totally meant for each other, even though there were rumors about her dating TVXQ's Changmin (they were also a good pairing).

I felt the same way, but if you see from Se Gi's perspective he went from "kissed the girl I like and was all happy" to "MY WOMAN IS IN MY OTHER PERSONALITY'S BED SLEPPING, AND LIVING IN HIS HOUSE AND APPARENTLY CONSPIRING WITH HIM TO GET RID OF ME" [sorry for the caps, but it was needed]. Well, I would be mad too, he was nice to her, opened his heart to her and she betrayed him, he has THE right to be mad.

PS: The part in the meeting where he is writing on the paper her name with hearts around was soooo CUTE. <3 <3 <3

I'm loving this drama, it's not perfect, but it's really addicting. <3 If Ji Sung wasn't married [and were expecting a child] I would totally ship him and Hwang Jung Eum in real life. Too bad Bo Young snatched him first. ://

I think that is part of the character because Hwang Jung Eum is just like that in real life [just watch the military female special of WGM w/ her, it's hilarious]. It doesn't annoy me because I actually laugh of her out of the box reactions. Usually they have a second lead character to bright up the mood and be the funny character but in this one they put everything in the protagonist, she's the hero, the woman, the crazy person, the funny one. Sometimes it really seems too much, but it's still much better that a lot of other boring protagonists.

I know I'm too late but I still want to give my opinion. :B

Best Korean Drama of 2014: Emergency Couple

Best Korean Movie of 2014: -

Best Mini Series/Web Drama: Love Cell

Best Romance Drama: You who came from the stars

Best Comedy Drama: Surpluss Princess, Boarding House 24 and High School of Savvy

Best Romantic/Comedy Drama: It's Okay That's Love

Best Historical/Sageuk Drama: - (OMG, haven't I watched a Sageuk drama from 2014? Let me correct this right now)

Best Family Drama: What happens to my family?; Come! Jang Bo Ri. and Golden Rainbow

Best Action/Thriller/Suspense Drama: Ghost-Seeing Detective Cheo Yong

Best Melodrama: Angel Eyes

Best Actor: Lee Kang Joon (Cunning Single Lady, What happens to my family), Kim Soo Hyun (You who came from the stars) and Jo In Sung (It's Okay That's Love)

Best Actress: UEE (Golden Rainbow), Kim Yoo Jung (Golden Rainbow, Love Cell, Secret Door, Lee Yoo Bi (Pinnochio)

Best Supporting Actor: Kwon Seong Deok (High School of Savvy - the grandpa); Le Kwang Soo (It's okay that's love - Tourette's Syndrome) and Lee Pil Mo (Third Wheel - Emergency couple; Cap - Pinnochio)

Best Supporting Actress: Gong Hyun Joo (Hotel King - Lee Da Hae Assistant); Lee Yeol Eum (High School of Savvy - Lee Ha Na Sister) and Kim Seul Gi (Surpluss Princess - Mukbang girl)

Best Villain: You're all surrounded: Yoo Ae Yeon; You Who came form the stars: Lee Jae Kyung; Golden Rainbow: Seo Min ki

Best Idol Actor: Min Hee (Tiny G - Tomorrow's Cantabile, Boarding House 24); UEE ( After School - Golden Rainbow) and Lee Kang Joon (5urprise - What happens to my Family)

Best Couple: Kim Baek Won - Seo Do Young (Golden Rainbow); Jang Jae Yeol - Ji Hae Soo (It's Okay That's Love) and Chun Song Yi - Do min Joon (You Who came from the stars).

Best Kiss: It's Okay That's Love (Jang Jae Yeol - Ji Hae Soo in the lake/river/natural pool?); Surpluss Princess (Jo bo Ah - Song Jae Rim Underwater Kiss); High School Love On (Woo Hyun - Kim Sae Ron lovely bubble gum kiss).

Best Bromance: High School Of Savvy (Lee Min Suk w/ his two BFF + Yoo Jin Woo before they became Rivals); You Who came from the stars (Chun Yoon Jae love for Do Min Jun)

Best OST: It's Okay That's Love - Davichi; Best Luck - Chen; ALi - Vow (Golden Rainbow)

Most Overrated Drama: Pinnochio (good, but overrated), You Who Came from the stars (Good, but too overrated) and It's Okay That's Love (Good, but people made it seem as if it were the best drama ever - it's is not).

Worst Drama: Night's Watchmen Journal (The drama cant be good when they transform the female protagonist into a supporting character, sad but true)

After doing this I have to share that 2014 weren't as good as 2013 in dramas. ): There were good ones this year but not memorable ones as last year. </3

I was already curious about this drama and after reading this I want to start watching RIGHT NOW. ;;;;;;

Hana yori Dango has the most perfect OST. No more, no less. PERFECT. <3

Please, Paradise Kiss end is the best manga ending EVER. ParaKiss would have been boring if it wasn't for the end, and if had ended in any other way it wouldn't have gotten my attention and my love the way it did. <3

Ok, there's something that need to be pointed out. Just like other manga adaptation into k-dramas, Korean writers like to mess things up. Nodame Cantabile is a manga about music, but this drama, as korean ones, focus on romance. If someone starts watching this expecting it to be faithful to the original I'll have to say that you'll be disappointed.
If you want a silly drama, with romance, love triangles, mean people, basically everything a korean drama offers, with great classical music, this is it. But if you expect something focused on music just like the original watch the Japanese version, it has won several wards and everybody says that Ueno Juri was the perfect Nodame.
For me, I'm currently watching the Korean version too. And I'm liking it. There are some major errors, but I didn't get my hopes up anyway, I wasn't expecting it to be perfect, I just wanted to have fun and laugh. So far, so good.

I just hope we'll see more of Seol Nae Il's talent, she deserves it, after all, isn't she the main character of this story? Orabang, give her the spotlight she deserves! ò3o9

Her piano purse in the 1st teaser!!! It's been ages since I read Nodame Cantabile, but didn't she had one too in the manga??

Ah, who is the first male lead? They decided one or I'll have to suffer just like in Reply 1994 cheering for one of them without knowing who gets the girl?

Hyung Myung started seeming he was a loser but he's been growing in the last few episodes. In the beginning I didn't liked him but now I have much more respect for the character. I hope he ends up with Kim Ha Ni, the way he looks and smile at her makes me heart go badum badum. <3 I hope it'll make hers go badum badum too. :3

Is this something like Breakout Kings? Because the plot reminded me of. <3

YOU GENIUS! Now i totally agree with you. Your theory is the best. :D

Oh yes! How could I forget this?! Nice theory. :D