Pearl Harbor

So you are saying, Zi Qiu wanting to be part of the Li family by means, which is through either marriage or being brother are totally different things and creepy. Its like I want to marry , if not I will be your brother. At one point, I had romantic feelings enough to marry you but never mind, I will settle with being brother. Once you get romantic feelings for someone, how can you undo it ...let alone go be a brother.....I hope you realize they are totally opposite relationships...we do not marry our brothers and vice versa.... Sun ha and juwon are neighbors....sunha never addressed juwon's dad as his dad as he already has a dad. So I don't find anything odd there

Like so many others, i am one of those who has seen the original C drama and was so curious about its remake, since the time it was announced. I was on the clouds when they said Han Seo Joon i mean Hwang In Yeop is in the lead...lol......I have seen "True Beauty" only for him.....What a charmer, anyway........ROFL.....

When a drama or a movie is a remake then it is inevitable to get compared with the original when the original was a superhit when it had come out..... I saw that drama when it was ongoing and have participated in MDL discussions and stuff because that drama was so detailedly laid and every character had a backstory so no character was a supporting character.....So, let talk about the characters here,

That drama was mainly around Li Jian Jian (FL).... She was a wild child when she was young and a normal adult when she grows up. She was not a striking beauty but a normal individual. When the 3 main characters were in school, it was a normal school life for them. In the Korean one, the writers have shown as if all the girls in the town are behind the two main guys...lol.....I don't know why korean writers make love triangle in everything...be it in middle school or high school or in office or in space.....like everywhere..... Here, the FL's main problem is the harassment faced by her due to the love interest shown towards the guys. I don't know why everyone looks like an idol in korean dramas so it takes away from the authenticity. In the chinese OG, nothing like that happened, it was a normal school life with normal looking people. Both the dramas were Family drama and not rom com so i hope they give more importance to the family dynamics and NOT to the love story. I am afraid koreans will take it fully towards love drag fest.
Even Park Dal (FL's friend) in the OG had a story line and how her mother tormented and controlled her life and she had a crush on Kim Sanha's counterpart in chinese.....Here, Park Dal's character looks like a supporting role and she likes Hae Jun.

The OG was like 46 episodes long so the writer took his time in laying out the plot and in depth story for each character but i doubt the korean version will have such a levay to layout characters so it might become shallow.
The most hateable character there and for sure here will be SanHa's mom (OG version)...my god!!! whenever she came on screen, i just wanted to kill her...Hating her was such a waste of time, i just wanted her to be gone...........Pull your socks guys for some actual hate. This character is going to check your sanity........

The main problem the OG had was "Incestuous Vibe", mainly with Hae Jun's OG proposes Li Jian Jian. He calls her dad as "dad" since childhood and very brought up like siblings since childhood so him proposing her was super creepy and then going back to being actual siblings when their parents get married was creepy on another level.

In the Korean version, FL in these two episodes has brought this up many times that they are actually siblings even though they are not blood related or not on papers. She herself has told this that its unfair to call not a family if we consider adoptees or step siblings when they don't share blood....so i wanted the writers to keep the purity of this relationship...ofcourse it is a drama and San Ha clearly has feelings for her but she doesn't and her thinking is totally different compared to these guys. So, such a girl who thinks these guys as nothing but her brothers goes on to become couple with one of them is too creepy...... Her foundation and thinking changes is what my problem was with the OG and will be with this one when FL has said this over and again that they all should be under the same family registry and share same last name.

What happened to Ma Eum 's South Pole's plans?

I will say this again.... In America, medical services are expensive but every company provides health benefits/ insurance it is all included in the salary package. Seeing, how she went back to her work after the treatment which shows that she was on a medical leave ....so according to cali laws, she can claim compensation from the government.... insurance benefits is given to all the employees irrespective of immigration status..... Even if it is not Google, all the companies pay for the health insurance. So Americans here work till late in their age because their company would provide health insurance

I will say this again.... In America, medical services are expensive but every company provides health benefits/ insurance it is all included in the salary package. Seeing, how she went back to her work after the treatment which shows that she was on a medical leave ....so according to cali laws, she can claim compensation from the government

Ofcourse it is going to be that .... Perks of being a FL I guess

I wonder how Soek Ryu never thought of working with her dad or revamping the restaurant . It also amazes me as to how she never asked about their financial situation. She was a product manager for 13+ years so it shouldn't be that difficult to identify the risk and do market analysis around the area. The restaurant and everything is ready, she just have to give it a face lift

I brought this point over and again but crazy fanatics just shot me down.... I am someone of Soek Ryu 's age and is working in America. Let's assume Greip as Google.... because the level they gave to Greip sounded like that.... Google's pay is unimaginable and it is not easy to get into Google. She had worked there for some 13+ years.... Google is a company who pays the children 's education fee of employees if they die while working there ( you can Google this fact ...lol).... So insurance covers most of it. Also, while she was getting treated for a year then she would have gotten 70% of the salary. California govt also pays..... So she would have earned a lot while she was in America, so this thing always bothered me as to why she financially didn't help her parents despite seeing how her mom was folding to-go boxes while having pain relief patch on her hand.... Not once she offered help. Her parents are taking care of 2 unemployment children despite their restaurant not doing well..... I couldn't understand this from get go.....

Ok.

I was so excited when this drama was announced and about the cast..... I always found mesmerizing and exotic when love booms beyond a country's border..... But this drama is weird.... Couldn't establish the chemistry though the leads are super established and famous.... I felt their feelings were forced and dialogues were weird and didn't make much sense........

Funny thing was how her busy broom hair becomes super straight in Korea.....lol..... Is that stereotyping......ahem ahem....

Ofcourse he would...talk about perks of being a FL..... Also, he didn't reach this stage in 1-2 years....he has worked hard.... Despite so many years into this , and he is still passionate.... imagine, how he would have been in the beginning of his career..... ofcourse, she bought a French cooking book, but don't forget she just slept off in the middle....they showed it in a romantic way but that is not the point here

I think you didn't read my comment properly...I said, they have thrown her cooking class or cooking stuff randomly here and there....no much improvement after that..... Have you seen the ML, he keeps going to some competitions or whenever he talks about some projects, you can feel his passion... unlike FL, which is still not convincing.

Should she be working even harder to prove them wrong or show her passion. It didn't make much sense when she was cooking some French dish when she is going for Korean basic cooking classes.

That's what her parents have been saying that it's not that easy in this profession.....she got their approval because of her past cancer battle or else they would have never agreed because they know how difficult this profession is and how her father has struggled to meet the ends. Isn't it why she worked hard in the past

I like such dramas where all the characters are good.....no particular character is there to tick you off.... But still I have a complaint about FL's passion for cooking....I mean, her cooking scenes are again randomly thrown here and there. She doesn't look that passionate. I mean, she is going to make this as her profession but she doesn't look that serious...it's been a while, her parents have accepted her new thing but not once she has cooked a meal for her family...she is going for traditional Korean cooking class but never made anything for her parents..... I mean, ofcourse she is taking it slow, health is important etc etc but money is also important. Anything can happen tomorrow....her parents might fall sick, she can or brother can. Now, there is no fixed income in the family so her passion isn't coming across as something serious

I totally agree with you. Rape itself cannot justified that too on a child .... I do not want to imagine.....those culprits are not human....they are animals... actually animals are also innocent....these worms should be squished.....

How can a pedo be reformed? So many innocents get affected and so many officer's life are put in danger just by setting one scumbag out in the free....It surprises me every time to see how South Korean Judiciary is kinda joke. These heinous crimes including murders get only 20 years of prison. People with power won't even get punished. South Koreans should come as a society together and raise this questions to reform their justice system.
If these demons had to be release into the society then castrate and then let them go

You have to say it out explicitly or else the opposite person will not know.... Like, I love you, I miss you, I am hurt, be with me, I am alone etc..... we all are busy in our own lives and ofcourse nobody reads between the lines.....so the opposite person will now feel guilty for the rest of his/ her lives for missing out on the signals. Ofcourse, here Soek Ryu turned out to be fine. We know how life threatening cancer can be....she could have died. If something like that had happened then ML and her parents would have only blamed themselves for the rest of their lives......

So, we should ask for help if we need. Not make out scenarios in our heads..if we don't then nobody will know

Not supporting the brother here but who isn't selfish in this world or in the drama world ....lol.... If Soek Ryu was not sick then her mom and dad would have still pushed her for getting a job till the end refusing to understand...... I hate this troupe where everything disappears when ML/FL has some terminal disease.....her mom will magically support her now being a cook/chef.....

According to me an evil guy is someone who deliberately/ purposely does something bad to others.... Like, park sung hoon's characters in both the glory and queen of tears..... Rest all I can take it because it's correctable. Even the brother will become responsible at the end of the drama....while those evil guys in the drama mentioned just died because they justified their evilness