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"Welcome To Wedding Hell" is a drama about Na Eun and Joon Hyung's journey in the process of preparing for their wedding and how it is nothing like the fairy tale that the movies make it out to be.

The story is captivating and since it only has 12 episodes, before you know it, it's over. I loved how it shows reality, the whole engagement process and the step-by-step process until the wedding actually happens. At times, it really did seem like hell, since everything went wrong.

From the meeting of the families, the preparation for the wedding, including the location, the money that will be spent, the gifts, the house they will live in, the choice of furniture, all of this really destroys any resemblance of a fairy tale and the idea that it is easy to get married, as if there were no need for any preparation and you just have to show up at the church, but in reality a LOT happens in the meantime!

The scene where they are taking the photos, everything is very tense and weird between the two, since they have just gotten out of a big fight with their mothers, it really wasn't the time to do something romantic, but honestly I didn't expect Na Eun to say that she wanted to break up with Joon Hyung and that she couldn't go through with the wedding. Thank goodness they realized that no relationship is perfect and the fights are a good sign, since they care enough to keep trying to solve the problems.

Min Woo and Hui Seon, steal the show at every moment <3

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It's a drama about Ji Eun, a woman who is torn between two men: Se Hoon and Jung Min.

Ji Eun comes from a wealthy family, but she falls in love with Se Hoon. Against her family's wishes, Ji Eun marries Se Hoon, but reality breaks the girl's fairy tale, since when they live together, the two begin to see how different they are. Se Hoon can't live with Ji Eun's family, with her corrupt father and alcoholic mother, but the moment that completely changes their relationship is when in a moment of anger, Se Hoon pushes Ji Eun down the stairs and she ends up losing her baby.

After the loss of her father, Ji Eun's family went bankrupt and in order to survive, she ended up becoming a completely different person. It was at this point in her life that she met Jung Min, Jung In's twin brother, who was her fiance. Se Hoon returns to Ji Eun's life 10 years later, now a successful man. Se Hoon returns with the intention of revenge against Ji Eun and her family, but over time his feelings for her return, but Ji Eun is in love with Jung Min and going through the same situation she was in with Se Hoon, only now with Jung Min's family against her.

We can't forget Mi Ran, our villain and bitch of the story, who is obsessed with Se Hoon.

The romance between Ji Eun and Sung Min is cute, the two have good chemistry on screen. He was the person who helped her when she needed it most, who was by her side. Even when they broke up, you could tell that they would end up together in the end. But I have to say that the whole situation with Jung Min's stalker/secretary was very weird. She killed someone, tried to frame Ji Eun and then kidnapped her.

In conclusion, it's a very realistic drama, especially the character Lee Ji Eun. She is an ambitious woman who is not afraid to go after what she wants, but who has been hurt a lot in her life and has to deal with these traumas in her daily life. Even though I liked her romance with Jung Min, I didn't like how he never trusted her completely, it's very similar to how Se Hoon treated her.

I also didn't like the way the drama handled Se Hoon's character. When he returns in the story, he became a supporting character and didn't even try to win Ji Eun back, which seemed to be the purpose of his return. In the end he ended up with Mi Ran, the crazy woman who pretended to be paralyzed when she could walk, broke an aquarium and walked barefoot on the broken glass. He was an important character in the story, he deserved a better ending than this.

The development is good, but it should have ended in episode 116, they would have tied up all the loose ends in the story and it would have been a better ending, but they decided to add more episodes unnecessarily and it served absolutely no purpose.

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"Big Mouth" is a drama about a lawyer named Chang Ho. He is an intelligent man, but he has no luck with his cases, always losing, and one day he receives a job offer he can't refuse. The problem is that everything was set up and Chang Ho was framed for being a famous drug dealer and wanted, which led to him being arrested and having to spend time in prison with criminals. Chang Ho then has a brilliant plan to survive in this place: he assumes the identity of the criminal "Big Mouse", the same person who is framing him, and transforms the prison, taking control..

This was a great drama, it really surprised me! Although the romance is not the focus, Chang Ho and Mi Ho's relationship is a strong point of the story. Seeing how Mi Ho believed in Chang Ho until the end was beautiful to see, even with everything against him, and that's why the ending hurts so much, they couldn't have a happy ending. Mi Ho dies, but Chang Ho takes revenge in the end, making Do Ha die the same way he killed Mi Ho, a very fair retribution.

Lee Jong Suk is an incredible actor, I don't know how people don't recognize his impeccable work. The way Chang Ho's expressions changed in each situation was impressive, even scary.

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"Mask Girl" follows Mo Mi, an ordinary woman who works in an office. She has inferiority issues and thinks she's ugly. To escape reality, Mo Mi starts doing a live broadcast on the internet wearing a mask that goes viral and makes her famous. Oh Nam is a coworker of hers who starts to become obsessed with Mo Mi since he knows her true identity.

To be honest, I expected something different from this drama; I really didn't think it would be a sad story. Initially, I thought Mo Mi would be a murderer, but in the end, she's just a poor girl who got caught in a bad situation. How can anyone blame her for what happened? Oh Nam was a pervert who raped her and he was the one who killed that man in the motel. Oh Nam ruined her life, not the other way around like her crazy mother thinks.

After the plastic surgery, Mo Mi was happy with Chun Ae, but then a new man comes along and ruins everything again. I guess the moral of the story is that all men suck. HAHAHAHA'

It's a good production, the three women who play Mo Mi are great: Lee Han Byel, Nana and Go Hyun Jung.

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"L.U.C.A" follows Zi Oh, a man who doesn't remember his past and has strange abilities. Sometimes, he can't control himself and hurts people. He meets Gu Reum and saves her life, after which he starts having flashes of memory. She wants to help him, because Gu Reum believes that Zi Oh is behind the truth about her parents' death.

The truth is that Zi Oh is part of a human experiment done by a company, mixing human and animal DNA to create something different. The story is interesting, with some science fiction elements, at times reminiscent of "Syphus - The Myth". The problem is the development, it needed more details, especially the romance that started out of nowhere.

Gu Reum and Zi Oh had a strange relationship until episode 7, with Gu Reum thinking she was responsible for her parents' death, but everything changes: they sleep together, Gu Reum gets pregnant and gives birth, all in the same episode.

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"Battle For Happiness" is basically a story centered around rich mothers and their children, but another person who doesn't belong to that world enters this world and that person is Mi Ho.

Mi Ho is a banker, she is not married and, in fact, she doesn't even think about it, but her life changes one day when she receives a phone call from Yu Jin, someone who used to be her sister when her parents got married. The two women meet again and, unexpectedly, Yu Jin dies and Mi Ho has to take care of her two daughters, since Yu Jin's husband is in a coma. Mi Ho finds everything very suspicious and starts to investigate what happened on the night Yu Jin died.

The rivalry between Mi Ho and Yu Jin started when they became teenagers, because Yu Jin started to feel the difference in the way her mother treated them, always favoring Mi Ho because she was the real daughter. Yu Jin only did small things at first, but the breaking point was when Mi Ho accidentally pushed Yu Jin and she hurt her face, leaving a scar. Yu Jin, out of revenge, told a horrible lie about Mi Ho having a relationship with her stepfather, which ruined her life. The parents divorced and the girls never saw each other again, until now.

Yu Jin was a complete bitch, she mistreated Mi Ho when they were children and continued to do so when they met again as adults, always trying to be the victim... but there is a hidden truth in this, something that no one knows and that is only revealed when Yu Jin dies. Her life was far from perfect, it was all a lie. Yu Jin's husband, Do Jun, was a pervert who even slept with his own daughter and traumatized the other two children by watching obscene videos of him. I think Yu Jin was completely right in trying to kill him, it's a shame she didn't succeed and ended up dying.

The drama had everything to be perfect, but for me Lee El didn't work as the protagonist, her expressions didn't match the atmosphere of the story, as if she always had the same face, no matter what happened on screen.

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"The King's Affection" is the story of a girl named Dam Yi, a simple court maid who discovered that she had the same face as the crown prince Lee Hwi. One day, they switch places and Lee Hwi accidentally dies, forcing Dam Yi to disguise herself and live as a man in Lee Hwi's place.
Ji Woon is her teacher and someone from her past life. Their lives intertwine and they fall in love, but Ji Woon thinks that Dam Yi is a man.

I've wanted to watch this drama for a long time, the story is good, but not enough to hook me as I expected. The main couple is cute, but I didn't see much chemistry between them, nothing that made me root for them.

To be completely honest, I think Dam Yi and Hyun would make a better couple; if the drama developed the story in that direction, I would like it a lot more.

Park Eun Bin's acting is the highlight of the drama, which makes it worth watching, the way she pretended to be a man and did it amazingly, she wasn't weak or feminine.

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"A Good Day to Be a Dog", as the title suggests, is a drama about a family curse: the women in the family turn into dogs when they kiss someone. So every night at midnight, the person turns into a dog and the only way to stop this is to make the person they kiss, kiss them back in dog form.

The story is really creative and interesting, this is the first time I've seen a curse that turns people into dogs, it's so cute. HAHAHA!
Hae Na and Seo Won are so cute together, but Cha Eun Woo is on a whole different level than Park Gyu Young, she couldn't keep up with him. The scene where Seo Won breaks Ha Na's curse is so good, the kiss in the epilogue is even better.

I didn't like that nothing happened to Bo Gyeom. He's a mountain spirit and interfered in the lives of humans, which he couldn't do. He cast a curse on a family for generations due to a misunderstanding, so he should be punished for it, even though he thought he was avenging his love, Bo Gyeom was abusing his power.

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"Perfect Marriage Revenge" is a time travel revenge drama, about a woman named Yi Joo. She's a good person and wife, but her life is far from being perfect, everything is a pretty lie. She's framed by her mother-in-law and betrayed by her husband, who's cheating on her with her sister, Yoo Ra. Yi Joo gets in an accident and goes back in time, before she even got married. She join hands with Do Guk, to get her revenge on everyone that hurt her.

The romance between Yi Joo and Do Guk is really surprising, more passionate then what I was expecting, that is because Do Guk wanted a real marriage and he made everything possible to make Yi Joo fell in love with her and let's be honest, it wouldn't take too long for that, the man was just perfect. HAHA'

Yi Joo's birth secret is a very good subject, to show how Jung Hye was a lying bitch from the start. It was all part of her plan, make Yi Joo be adopted by her own father and put her daughter Yoo Ra, in Yi Joo's place.
Speaking of Yoo Ra, that's another bitch. How could she think of start dating Do Guk's brother? It's so crazy.

The drama's real twist isn't actually too surprising, the story gave us hints all the time, even with Do Guk's falling in love with Yi Joo so easily, that's because he already knew her before her marriage proposal to him, they were together in the same accident and they both were given a second chance in life.

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"Story of Kunning Palace" follows Xue Ning, a woman who wanted to be empress and did everything to achieve that. She ends up dying and wakes up in the past. Now, she wants to changes things, with this second chance in life.

The problem is, not matter how much she tries, things kept happening how it was before. Xue Ning was afraid of Xie Wei, because she knew what he could do if he has power, so she tried to stay away from him and that only made him more interested in her. Xue Ning have always been in love with Zhang Zhe and that didn't change after she goes into the past, but by spending time with Xie Wei, she gradually sees his love and falls madly in love with him. Their kiss scenes is amazing, really impressive.

Zhang Ling He is truly an incredible actor, in the same year he played two incredible roles, showing two opposing sides of his personality: in "My Journey To You" he was an honest, good and caring man, here in "Story of Kunning Palace" he is calculating, cold and can kill without mercy... but we fall in love the same way! HAHAHA'

The chemistry between him and Bai Lu is tangible, which is why it's a shame that the drama took too long to form the couple, it was disappointing to think about everything we could have seen of them together, but that didn't ruin the quality of the drama, it's a wonderful story.

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"The Wolf" follows Zhai Xing, a daughter of a general, that one day meets a boy in the forest that was raised by wolfs, she then names him Wolfie and goes everyday to play and talk to him. The two innocent young people just want to spend time together in the forest, but they are tragically separated and Wolfie grows up thinking that Zhai Xing betrayed him. Time passes and they meet again, but Wolfie has become Lord Bo, a cold and calculating man and Zhai Xing ends up falling in love with him again.

The romance of Zhai Xing and Lord Bo is really good, they have great chemistry in scene. When they reunite, Zhai Xing makes Lord Bo admit that he's Wolfie, the couple has some happy moments, until something separates them again. To protect her, Lord Bo lies that he was the person who killed her parents, so that Zhai Xing would wanted to take revenge on him, so that she would become stronger and kept provoking her so much to the point that she nearly killed him.
Almost at the end, Zhai Xing discovers the truth and again they have a little bit of happiness, which is completely destroyed when she dies in the end. I was really hoping for a happy ending for this two, It was sad to see they didn't have one.

It's a very engaging drama, I loved Darren Wang, it's my first drama with the actor and he's simply incredible, you can't take your eyes off him for even a second. The story is very good and I liked how well it follows the pace of the story.
The soundtrack is simply addictive <3

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"Apple of My Eye" it's a drama about Kang San, who's a single dad that has to provide for the family of his wife, that abandoned him and their daughter Jan Di. There's also his troublemaker father. Mi Rae is a girl that was adopted into a rich family, but she always felt like she didn't belong. She started to work and becomes Jan Di's art teacher. That way she meets Kang San and the two bond over their problems and eventually fell in love.

It was a difficult drama to watch, because the story is tiring and the characters don't really capture your attention, they are all pretty dull, but it's not all bad. Kang San is certainly the best character, I really liked how he did everything for Jan Di and continued living with his wife's family, even though she abandoned him. The biggest problem for me was Mi Rae, I couldn't like Yoon Da Young's performance.

I knew that Sun Ju, Jan Di's mother, was going to come back for some reason, they weren't going to kill the character out of nowhere and there had to be some conflict, right? I just didn't imagine that she was going to come back because of her sick daughter, because she needed Jan Di to donate her marrow. I understand Jan Di's reaction, she always dreamed of meeting her mother, so when Sun Ju reappeared, Jan Di wanted to do everything to keep her by her side, even trying to force Kang San to get back with her, but after finding out that Kang San is not her biological father, Jan Di understood everything he sacrificed for her and knew that his happiness was more important.

If I have to choose something that made me happy while watching it was seeing Ye Ju and Joo Hyuk, I didn't expect this couple and I thought the two were cute together, I wish I had seen more of them ^^

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"The Real Has Come!" it's a romantic comedy drama about two people who make a marriage contract.

Yeon Doo it's a teacher that has a long time boyfriend. She discover that he's cheating on her and also that she's pregnant, at the same time. She wants to keep the baby, but Joon Ha doesn't want that. Yeon Doo then meets Tae Kyung, he's doesn't believe in marriage, but his family is forcing him to get married to Se Jin. To run away from that, the two make a plan to fake a relationship and each will get what they want: Yeon Doo will keep her baby and Tae Kyung will get married to someone who doesn't want anything to do with him and will keep him alone. It sounds perfect, right? But as always, life isn't that easy.
By spending with each other, Yeon Doo and Tae Kyung fell in love and now try to make their fake relationship, into something real.

It's been a while since a 50-episode drama gripped me like this. I really liked the drama, mainly because of the story. The drama developed two topics that are considered a taboo in South Korea: single mothers and people that don't want to get married. It's strange, because they are opposites and contradicted each other. There's a lot of people that these days don't believe in marriage and don't want to have children, but at the same time, there are others who want children, without a partner and that is considered wrong, it's an old custom that needs to be changed.

The romance between Yeon Doo and Tae Kyung is weak, there is no spark and I can't say that I rooted for both of them in that sense, but I really liked how Tae Kyung took the baby as his own, I thought it was a beautiful attitude and how he did everything to protect Ha Neul , that's a real father! Their relationship started the other way around, they started living together and little by little they fell in love, but as there was already a baby on the scene, there was no way to expect something very intense, but for me the biggest problem is that the actors didn't have much chemistry on scene.

The secondary characters really captivate your attention and there is space in the drama for all of them to develop their stories and one of the positive points is that none of them surpass the main ones, they only enrich the narrative.

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"Mr. Bad" tells the story of Nan Xing, an online writer that has no luck in love. One day, she makes a wish and unexpectedly, the villain from her novel, Xiao Wu Di gains life.
In the beginning the two fight like kids, because Nan Xing has the power to control Xiao Wu Di, but eventually they fell in love, the problem is that Xiao Wu Di isn't really real.

It's a very cute drama, I have to say, but it's really not my style of story.
The relationship between Nang Xing and Xiao Wu Di it's basically a fairy tale, since he came into her life out of a wish and the moments between them are very cute, but for me it was all very dull, they couldn't capture me.

The beginning is cool, when Xiao Wu Di treats her like a slave and was acting like a villain, but a short time later he becomes a little lamb in love and then the drama lost me. Obviously I imagined that the drama would end with them getting married, even though they've only been together as a couple for a very short time and there was no need for that now, but it's the biggest cliche of all, so it had to appear in such a drama filled with it.

Now what I found incredible was the twist about why Xiao Wu Di appeared and that it was all because of Xiao Jun, which was a wish he made as a child, to protect Nan Xing. Now that was something interesting and something I wasn’t expecting! But I was confused when Nan Xing calls Wu Di, Mao Xiao Jun at the end... does that mean he's living with Xiao Jun's identity?! But how is that possible if the boy died?!

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