InspectorMegre

Sure go ahead and kill kdramas that way. Then there is no advertising revenue, there is not much buzz, and you got a hole in time until you release the next drama.

ok thanks for checking

G and EA know each other when she was 5 and became friends, the 4 leaf clover that she carries is what he gave her back then to console her.
They met on a playground just before he went to his Bday celebration with his father and then the father died.
EA was alone on that playground bc her mother left her there, bc the mother saw someone who looked like her mother and started following them and forgot about EA, who had to come back home on her own, 5 yrs old.

SR's father was at the collumbarium bc Chairman used to go all the time and now cannot. SR's dad drives Chairman around, so perhaps that's how G's dad was killed.
Dai Chi is definitely not Grandma's son.
FL's mom is Grandma's lost daughter, they are still looking for her but she is NOT looking for them, she is angry that her mother abandoned her. Chairman and Grandma got married and seems like they went on a honeymoon and left the daughter with some ... relatives? and the relatives took her and disappeared.

But who is Dai Chi's mom ?? - bc we saw young Chairman meeting young Grandma (who already had a young daughter - FL's mom) - as workers on a construction site. THERE WAS NO DAI CHI SHOWN IN SCENES FROM THAT TIME... so where did Dai Chi come from.... ??? Seems like Chairman was married before, but why only Grandma's daughter was shown when they got together... ?

thanks to you, i just checked him out.
CWS is totally hilarious in The Boy next door. He is a really good actor. The other dude is cute but doesnt have those acting skills and really cannot do comedy... I crossed him off bc of Dynamite Kiss. That was the death blow to my liking him as an actor

Would you Marry Me was trash, the entire drama.... FL actress is one of the most terrible actresses I know and she copied 100% - even the clothing - from her super cringe role in My Father is Strage .... and CWS looked totally bored the entire time, with the face "i am dying here this is stupid when is time to go home, i cant film this one more second - but i will grit my teeth and stay to finish filming" - Wth did he do that drama? money? or what?
I wont watch Train to Busan bc it is horror but I need to watch Parasite, Okja, and Witch part 1
Thanks to you, I learned about a great actor I didnt even know about
well I did know him from Would you marry Me, but besides being good looking, he was ... soooooo boring to watch, his acting was so ... "i dont want to be filming this" vibe

I just did some research to get the idea about the time when the drama happens.
IT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF Japanese occupation 1910-1935 and KOREAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT, the long haul of 35 years.....
In year 1926, so many Koreans already died from forced labor, forced systemic starvation, and as independence fighters, and there is still all the years till 1939 when WWW2 starts and Japan does war crimes in Korea and mobilizes 5.4 million Koreans, until finally Japan leaves in May 1945.... Wow... this is BRUTAL
****Total bill: about 500,000 Koreans dead plus about 200,000 Korean women and girls as Japanese sex slaves and about 800,000 Koreans forced to relocate to Japan.

Wow the brutal Japanese occupation 1910-1945 where Korean language and names were forbidden, Korean resources taken, ppl "enslaved" to help grab the resources and yeah the war crimes during WW2.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule About 500,000 Koreans died as a result of the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910–1945) from forced labor, military conscription - 5.4 Koreans were mobilized to help Japan fight WW2 and 240,000 Korean men had to fight in Japanese army during WW2 and 22,000 died, systemic starvation, and deadly crackdowns on independence movements. And about 200,000 Korean women AND GIRLS were used as "comfort women" i.e. sex slaves to Japanese soldiers during WW2, and there are still Koreans living in Japan from that time. About 800,000 were forcefully relocated to Japan during WWW2 to work there, plus the comfort women.
Around 500,000 Koreans died or disappeared across the empire during the colonial and WWII period due to disease, dangerous working conditions, and systemic starvation. JAPAN INTENTIONALLY STARVED KOREANS

By the end of World War II in 1945, the total ethnic Korean population in Japan had peaked over 2 million (up from roughly 30,000 in 1920): forced to relocate during WWW2, comfort women, earlier voluntary immigrants and those whose labor contracts had expired

But then we have Korean presidents who are pro japanese, like the infamous president Park...

then Korean war 1950-1953, N Korea invaded Seoul,... then UN forces kicked them out and invaded N Korea... then Chinese military came in and invaded Seoul... then again UN kicked them out of S Korea.... This is year 1951 .... AND IT WAS SEEMINGLY ALL GOOD BUT UN - SPECIFICALLY USA - KEPT CARPET BOMBING N KOREA AND DESTROYED EVERYTHING IN N KOREA and it lasted UNTIL July 1953..... the USA used Korea as cash cow for selling its bombs... The massive air campaign was directed by U.S. General [Douglas MacArthur]who served as the Supreme Commander of UN forces. The strategic and tactical bombings were conducted primarily by the USAF's Far East Air Forces (FEAF), utilizing heavy bombers like the B-29 Superfortress

Korean war deaths: about 1 million military dead and about 3 million civilians dead, all N Korea cities destroyed and all N Korea infrastructure destroyed... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War

Then From September 1964 to March 1973, South Korea sent some 350,000 troops to S Vietnam to be in the Vietnam war - and that is where Korean soldiers are accused of committing terrible war crimes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea_in_the_Vietnam_War

OK no wonder that Koreans are all over the world, LA Korea town, Toronto, Sidney, Malesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Hawaii, so many ppl must have escaped this somehow at one point or another...

and it is totally surprising that Koreans did NOT get rid of sexism in all this!!!! it would have been so much easier to fight.... Perhaps Japanese etc would have been kicked out much earlier

and now S Korea lives sandwiched in the middle of China.... with Japan and Russia nearby.... ikes!!!!! AND, Japan has a fashist imperialist prime minister!!!!! Most Europe does too..... WWW2 setup is kinda repeating....

and S Korea has the globally lowest birth rate.... and is essentially going extinct

Imo the only thing that can save them is to stop the fetish of being skinny and to proclaim normal eating and normal weight and normal BMI as fashionable and desirable

So anyways, this is why S Korea is special and that's where the "special" of kdramas comes from

And this 1926 drama is gonna be rather devastating bc ... 15 years of japanese occupation already happened, so many dead and so much suffering, and there is 20 more years of Japanese occupation to still happen

Stupidville lmao i will remember that word so appropriate for this drama

I just did some research to get the idea about the time when the drama happens.
IT IS IN THE MIDDLE OF Japanese occupation 1910-1935 and KOREAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT, the long haul of 35 years.....
In year 1926, so many Koreans already died from forced labor, forced systemic starvation, and as independence fighters, and there is still all the years till 1939 when WWW2 starts and Japan does war crimes in Korea and mobilizes 5.4 million Koreans, until finally Japan leaves in May 1945.... Wow... this is BRUTAL
****Total bill: about 500,000 Koreans dead plus about 200,000 Korean women and girls as Japanese sex slaves and about 800,000 Koreans forced to relocate to Japan.

Wow the brutal Japanese occupation 1910-1945 where Korean language and names were forbidden, Korean resources taken, ppl "enslaved" to help grab the resources and yeah the war crimes during WW2.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_under_Japanese_rule About 500,000 Koreans died as a result of the Japanese occupation of Korea (1910–1945) from forced labor, military conscription - 5.4 Koreans were mobilized to help Japan fight WW2 and 240,000 Korean men had to fight in Japanese army during WW2 and 22,000 died, systemic starvation, and deadly crackdowns on independence movements. And about 200,000 Korean women AND GIRLS were used as "comfort women" i.e. sex slaves to Japanese soldiers during WW2, and there are still Koreans living in Japan from that time. About 800,000 were forcefully relocated to Japan during WWW2 to work there, plus the comfort women.
Around 500,000 Koreans died or disappeared across the empire during the colonial and WWII period due to disease, dangerous working conditions, and systemic starvation. JAPAN INTENTIONALLY STARVED KOREANS

By the end of World War II in 1945, the total ethnic Korean population in Japan had peaked over 2 million (up from roughly 30,000 in 1920): forced to relocate during WWW2, comfort women, earlier voluntary immigrants and those whose labor contracts had expired

But then we have Korean presidents who are pro japanese, like the infamous president Park...

then Korean war 1950-1953, N Korea invaded Seoul,... then UN forces kicked them out and invaded N Korea... then Chinese military came in and invaded Seoul... then again UN kicked them out of S Korea.... This is year 1951 .... AND IT WAS SEEMINGLY ALL GOOD BUT UN - SPECIFICALLY USA - KEPT CARPET BOMBING N KOREA AND DESTROYED EVERYTHING IN N KOREA and it lasted UNTIL July 1953..... the USA used Korea as cash cow for selling its bombs... The massive air campaign was directed by U.S. General [Douglas MacArthur]who served as the Supreme Commander of UN forces. The strategic and tactical bombings were conducted primarily by the USAF's Far East Air Forces (FEAF), utilizing heavy bombers like the B-29 Superfortress

Korean war deaths: about 1 million military dead and about 3 million civilians dead, all N Korea cities destroyed and all N Korea infrastructure destroyed... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War

Then From September 1964 to March 1973, South Korea sent some 350,000 troops to S Vietnam to be in the Vietnam war - and that is where Korean soldiers are accused of committing terrible war crimes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea_in_the_Vietnam_War

OK no wonder that Koreans are all over the world, LA Korea town, Toronto, Sidney, Malesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Hawaii, so many ppl must have escaped this somehow at one point or another...

and it is totally surprising that Koreans did NOT get rid of sexism in all this!!!! it would have been so much easier to fight.... Perhaps Japanese etc would have been kicked out much earlier

and now S Korea lives sandwiched in the middle of China.... with Japan and Russia nearby.... ikes!!!!! AND, Japan has a fashist imperialist prime minister!!!!! Most Europe does too..... WWW2 setup is kinda repeating....

and S Korea has the globally lowest birth rate.... and is essentially going extinct

Imo the only thing that can save them is to stop the fetish of being skinny and to proclaim normal eating and normal weight and normal BMI as fashionable and desirable

So anyways, this is why S Korea is special and that's where the "special" of kdramas comes from

And this 1926 drama is gonna be rather devastating bc ... 15 years of japanese occupation already happened, so many dead and so much suffering, and there is 20 more years of Japanese occupation to still happen

MDL drama page lists this as KBS2 drama, not Disney?

wow Koreans found a gold mine - Americans love to eat (too much - most ppl are medically obese) and so they love watching these food dramas. That's $$$$$ for Koreans... So yeah food dramas are here to stay :(

I find long food scenes boring, so I went to feed the meter for most of those scenes... .
I wish they would use more scenes useful as a cooking lesson, then I would watch more carefully

ok, that's your opinion
Imo both JH and MJ actors are really bad. When I watch JH, I feel like I am watching a wall or a robot, something that is not alive. Watching MJ is definitely watching a live person, he acts with his eyes, but he either looks like a super tight anxious person who is just about to faint from hyperventilation, like someone who just ran into an ER in total panic and can barely breathe and speak. OR like Wizard of Oz, blazing eyes behind a poker face. That actor does not act with his face and his body. His shoulders and neck are one piece of cement.
I suspect Chloe actress can do a lot more and it is frustrating to me to watch her in Pearl in Red, her acting abilities totally "dimmed out"
Imo HJ actor is gonna make a name for himself bc he CAN act well, a whole wide range
I also like the acting of Chairman actor, he is a perfect crude rude cheap villain

i keep saying that :) I was studying MJ actor. His shoulders and neck are so cemented, moving like a block, and so his whole torso and breathing system is cemented so he cannot speak from his core so his voice sounds feeble and strange. That dude is totally shut down STIFF

So yeah at this point we are watching to see IF it is possible to get worse - and it is apparently possible. We are just fast forwarding to see the end of ep 140 and be DONE with this

Yeah.... you are right. We are all just ffwding to see the end to this.

HOW THE HECK CAN THIS WRITER LEAVE PRACTICALLY ALL CHARACTERS THE SAME from ep 1 to now. How can the writer leave the main characters the same????? so how are they qualified to be main characters if they have not transformed at all since ep 1... ?????

This is mind boggling to see a major network do this kind of script, and esp after Woman Who Swallowed the Sun fiasco... Well actually First Man is a slight improvement, but not a real drama yet

This is only ep 55 there are 45 or 65 eps left? So clearly G and EA are gonna have some rough seas ahead...

gosh this is the only sane decent daily
thank god it exists
this is more like a QUALITY family drama in 30 min dosage

we know nothing about G's mom, nor how his dad died. We all suspect Chairman or his driver ran him over.
So Chairman brought G home and asked his bio son Dai Chi to raise G as if he were his son - but ... Dai Chi, Crystal and MH all were dissing G and definitely hate the idea that G could inherit anything, so ... G left to the USA and was gone for like ... 15 years? or 10 years? and came back recently ONLY bc Chairman called him back bc the Chairman is dying. So the Chairman organized the competition to determine who will inherit the company. DaiChi/Crystal/MH are all dissing G bc they want the company...
Plus..
for all those years, SR was pining after G..... and is seriously pursuing him now and "suffering" bc he keeps rejecting her.. and so MH is after G bc MH is "protecting" SR... ... plus the company competition...
So.... G wants to bail out and just go back to the USA where he has a full life in NYC. ALTHOUGH he was seducing EA for a while, and he knows he likes her.... He is a push-pull flakey unreliable dude so far.... he didnt still tell EA that he is adopted and that his dad died after they met the first time

He still might leave ... but he will surely come back lmao OR EA will go to NYC but .... Seems like it is better for them to stay in Korea

Now the next question is, when will G bail on EA again lmao He kissed her today and confessed, tomorrow he is gonna take it back...

ep 68 is terrible, took 5 mins to watch it on fast forward
So it is 2 young male dogs chasing 1 female dog and doing whatever they can think of to get ahead. And FL (Chloe) is a chronic liar and cheater.
Boring

wow Dumb Mi and Dumb Ma .... such a dumb drama... takes 5 mins to fast forward through an episode..
and I learned a new word that describes the drama: Stupidville

Yeah I agree that he can feel but I am also saying he doesnt know WHAT the stuff he feels means lmao so he is confused, does not understand what he is feeling, and doesnt act on it.

The fact that he is feeling it doesnt mean anything bc he is oppressing his feelings and trying to back out

Sure he cares but as you said, he doesnt commit, so by definition it is not love :) it is just kindness of a stranger passing by

So let's watch and see what happens :)