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Jojo, thanks so much for this article, which is definitely on target for helping us understand key points in our personalities. Now retired, I took the MBTI three times for career counseling over the years; it was incredibly consistent each time, except for one letter in the last one. The first two times my result was ENFJ, with the first letter only being one mark left of the center line into Extrovert territory. The third time, my score was INFJ, with only two marks to the right of center line into Introvert. This made far more sense, give all of the alone time I've always needed after being with people all day. I love it when I'm there and at the end of a day, however long it is (even now), begin counting the minutes until I can get home and close the door. It has nothing to do with the people I love or the work that has been so important to me. Being in a quiet place is survival.

I imagine that our current enforced isolation is far easier INFJs than for everyone else: alone with favorite books, dramas, pets, and being able to order online. Is each result a sad reality or - for each of us - a blessed relief? This was a surprising subject and I appreciate it greatly, though now I need to watch several more dramas with the specific characters in mind with their MBTI result. Thank you again!! : )

Hime, thanks for the complete and very helpful definition. A few decades ago when I divorced my first and last husband, I began writing or checking "Single" when asked. It took a while to train people that "Single" was a valid option for a woman who had no plan to remarry. Ever. Which - naturally -had nothing to do with discovering if there was a truly compatible man in the world. So far, I've never seen the "Not Married" selection, which is redundant to "Single", plus extremely offensive and invasive. What's next: "Never asked?"

The Tiger and the Rose with Lu Si Zhao begins on Viki six days from now: April 18th.

Daramiya, I have not seen "Seven of Me", so I am unable to compare. What I can say is that I love Chinese dramas. They are the same in terms of very high-quality entertainment, yet also different. And, they are always much longer. That was why I turned to Korean dramas: just as excellent, yet far shorter, wonderful acting, and excellent production values. Here, we have the original drama and original performances, so how much is that value depends on an individual. I normally qualified the ratings by what I experienced in my heart/feelings, mind/imagination, eyes/visual impact, and stomach/distress.

With Kill Me, Heal Me I was stuck because of watching Seo Joon's complete drama list, yet was stopped by this title, which sounds brutal. I had worked in a mental health center for a few years where some clients had been patients the local mental health hospital for the criminally insane (one of only two facilities in our state). So, I was familiar with multiple personality disorder. The issue for dramatic productions is how the actor portrays the various personalities. KMHM is more unusual for Westerner since we are normally shown the effects of the multiple individuals, but seldom (if ever) witness the individuals arguing between themselves like here.

In my experience, it was completely unique, riveting, and heightened my sense of anxiety about Cha Do Hyun's vulnerability. In Hyde, Jekyll, and Me the same thing occurs with Hyun Bin playing a man possessed of only one additional personality in which they alternate sleeping time so each can be acting in real time. When WERE they acquiring downtime for that poorly treated physical shell they were sharing? From a mental health perspective, I found the story more dramatic than would be seen with actual clients for several reasons: one being that the individuals who often had additional physical challenges, almost never come from families with much money, and none were ever as handsome as Ji Sung or Hyun Bin, nor as beautiful as Joanne Woodward in the first film I can remember seeing on "Three Faces of Eve".

The mentally ill men and women with whom I worked were usually sad, unhealthy, unloved, abandoned, and broken people who had been highly medicated for years, sometimes being maintained on enough medicine to have almost no personality. They were seldom attractive due to their years of chemical and drug abuse, plus dangerous life choices that reduced their opportunities to zero most of the time. They weren't Billionaire Bad Boys like: "the grumpy, violent, protective, dashing and charming Shin Se Gi; or the middle-aged, goofy, bomb-making, beer-loving, accented Perry Park; or quiet, calm, suicidal teen-genius Ahn Yo Sub and his foul-mouthed, troublemaker, oppa-crazy, twin sister, Ahn Yo Na; and the less frequently appearing 7-year-old Nana, or Mysterious Mr. X," as Shreeya Sharma describes each of them above in the Reviews section.

In terms of whether to watch it as preferable to the Chinese copy, it is a personal choice as to whether knockoffs are more appealing to you. I watched “Beautiful Accident”, a Chinese remake based on a Korean film, “Wonderful Nightmare”, last year during in my first couple months of addiction to C and K-dramas. I enjoyed them equally because they were different enough to be separately interesting. Recently, I watched “Wonderful Nightmare”, the K-drama film, again because Jung-hwa Uhm had starred with a Park Seo Joon in The Witch's Romance and both had been excellent and truly memorable. I looked up Jung-haw’s films on Amazon to find “Wonderful Nightmare” again, because she had remained in my memory as having brought something special to the role through her life and acting experience. Similarly, I have no memory of any of the Chinese actors who were in the remake. The question may be whether or not you have the curiosity to watch the original, award winning drama. Many of us can say it is excellent, yet you are the final judge on your own entertainment values – given that second hand information will never be as accurate as you will be yourself if you have see this treasure. ??

So agree with you about Strong Woman and While You Were Sleeping: laughing hysterically in one and sobbing in the the other (after the rising tension became too much to stand.) What an amazing actor! He can do anything. I'd pay to watch him in a love story because I'm positive this man could play a Cary Grant-type role in a tuxedo driving a red Thunderbird with a beautiful woman by his side . . . and we would completely buy it. I'd offer a Korean actor in place of the Brit, except that I'm still too new to K-Drama with under-40s actors as stars. (I think that the oldest male-lead I've seen to date is Hyun Bin in "Crash Landing on You" a few weeks ago.)

Too funny! I'd never fight you for the honor of dealing with any naysayers, BUT I'll gladly hold any outer garments you want to remove in order to do make a clean sweep of the ignorant parties!!! He's the best and I intend making an effort to look through his dramas for ones to watch. : )

I've only been watching Asian dramas since early in July 2019, beginning with those long ones made in China and a few months later discovering a wonderful Korean series on YouTube, so I haven't recrossed that"border" yet to drop it. Since finding "kisskh", I often stop here to read comments, especially in the middle of the first episode when the drama is going a bit sideways. Well, perhaps it is in that phase where personal experience has internal bells clanging away on a high screech!! I already know that - in spite of the reviews claiming hatred for it - there is enough right now that I will give it a chance. What is interesting for me are the negatives and positives for Sung Joon. And, also, that you only mention two lines about his character, but not the actor. My first time seeing him in any of the K-dramas I've seen since September came in the one I just complete because of Hyun Bin, who recently took America by storm (along with Son Ye-Jin) in the powerful, highly rated, "Crash Landing on You" that began in December and concluded a couple or so weeks ago. I'b never heard on him since I'm (still being new and working my way thought the lists of actor &/or actress who has most recently impressed me.

Once I completed CDOY, I started on Mr. Bin's career list, working backward through subscriptions and free TV groups like Netflix, Amazon, Vicky, YouTube, Vudu, and DailyMotion to watch his dramas. Yesterday I completed his "Hyde, Jekyll, Me" that includes Sung Joon as second male lead. He plays a psychologist who is extremely sensitive and very helpful to his client - the female lead - whom he admires greatly. Having needed a clinical psychologist help during my late twenties when I was suicidal due to very serious depression because of emotionally abandoning parents and an extremely emotional/psychologically abusive man they forced me to marry, he was a life saver. After we were transferred to another state, I began volunteering at a small mental heath center. Being in the pioneer group was excellent for me because what I learned from my recent past was something that I could practice in a safe environment. Over the years - I divorced my husband two years after we moved here, which was in 1975 and the divorce was final in early 1976. Since then I've had 45 years of live experience, day by day, with successes and failures that have all been lessons for how to do some things differently and others to celebrate in feeling good about an action or choice.

As some others have mentioned, I've watched quite number of series - being retired for three years and a senior in my mid70s - and had seen that certain patterns are played out quite often. Due to my background, the most difficult for me to tolerate is lack of respect toward people, I always feel worse for women because it happens to us more frequently, yet many men receive vicious tirades from other men, especially if they are young, old, infirm, weak, immigrants, poor, or minorities. In "Hyde, Jekyll, Me" the action moves constantly between a pair of twins and the woman with whom they become involved. One of them falls for her very quickly because they are so similar, with sharing being a genuine pleasure with lots of fun and adventures involved. The other twin is in looks only because he's the oldest (yet, for an unknown reason never explained, the warmer brother is always referred to by themselves as oldest. Having known three sets of identical twins, they seem to have some quicks that were never explained.

Both of them have serious issues that are explained fairly on, yet their is on ongoing mystery, break-ins, kidnappings, etc., that all relate strictly to the story, so there's little time between mental health concerns to sort out things until the drama is closing. And yet, it received a high number of low marks that in several ways berated the mental health parts. I suffered through years of serious depression, was forced by my parents into a marriage I begged them not to make me do, and at four+ years of that I was at the point of planning my suicide. The only reason I kept going was because to be with my young daughters; With years of sublimated the fury I felt, the physical side effects of denial began to break down my health. so my neurologist - after spinal taps, brain scan, etc., found no problems and suggested therapy. The idea terrified me, but my future-ex-husband told me that I was "going to go there and get fixed. Now, make dinner as soon as we get home because I'm hungry right now!!"

The reason for this is that so often our parents treat us as they have because they are repeating the lives they had with their parents. We so often see it in films or TV comedies and dramas. I is true, yet different here. If we live long lives, we make have one or both apologize with many tears or they may go to their graves with their arrogance and pride intact. Even in a family, siblings will respond differently due to the dynamics. Due to my history, I tend to invest a lot in stories where the characters have similar struggles because I still feel heartache and tension when I witness reality or fiction dealing with abuse. In this situation, Jekyll and Hyde have much less to do with the kids who grew up and have problems as much as with others involved. That was an interesting aspects because the victims' stories were resolved in this situation as well as the adults involved. So, unlike the people who wanted romance and sexual tension, feeling "H,Y.M." was a complete downer and BORING!!, I appreciated most of it. The music was fine, with the exception that one songs began everytime the first leads got together, whether it was an appropriate use of that music of not.

I haven't commented with any of the other reviewers because, until I read yours, I felt that they were biased one way or another, and I had not seen a full episode yet. Yours is so balanced that it brought to mind the true basis for the series, which is about mental health, how long it takes, and that it is not mechanical with one service station or one mental health professional working well with everyone. I appreciate that reality that you gave to this drama. Thanks so much!

Kim Won Hae is the fourth draw for me in the Strong Woman cast after Park Bo Young, Park Hyung Shik, and (her dad) Jun Suk Ho, who has impressed me a lot even if he was only in it briefly during an episode or so. He's kind, sweet, faithful, diligent, hardworking, and attractive; I can not understand her problem.

While I know characters may have personality issues written in their roles, I cannot stand bullies, not men, not women, not male or female of ant age. Mom a mean, self-centered person who can't give her daughter or husband a kind thought or a break. She even bullies her friends on occasion. I find her very scary and too many people have made excuses for her. Yes, we finally hear her reason for being Mean Mommy: her cop-out! Does anyone else think that she pushed away the fact that she's the one who broke the rules because she wanted to do things her own way? The actress nails the part, but I can't stand her part. Give me the entire gang of crazies whom her girl put in the hospital rather than five minutes with her. I'll still watch other dramas with the actress with no side-effects. : )

Thank you so much for this great column!! I love Kim Won Hae! He is truly great in so many parts, but my two favorites of his, equal to my heart, are his Assistant Prosecutor in While You Were Sleeping and his hilarious twins – the brother and “sister” separated (obviously) at birth – in Strong Woman Do Bong Soon. Towards the conclusion of WYWS, I felt like my heart was crying for the sadness he had experienced; SWDBS also left me with tears, but from laughter. If I even think of his feminine side, I start laughing involuntarily. I wish I had known how to sashay down a hall or an aisle like he did from office to office. He’s a genius in major character roles whether second or third tier parts.

Wow!! I had no idea this was Noh Kwang Shik's first acting experience since he seems exactly like a veteran, hyper-efficient, executive assistant/junior buddy to Park Hae Jin's Genius-Whiz. Never suspected for an instant until I read it in the comments section for the program AND could not believe it. So, I rushed over to my Korean Drama Encyclopedia - The List - to check it out! Wow, he's good!

I wonder how he was approached for the series? Can't you just imagine a scenario or three on the possibilities?

YouTube lists a 9th Episode; it is found under the series name + Episode number by using the smaller search field at the top of the first page you open, not the Internet bar right under the edge of the screen.

The first eight episodes are also there with good English subtitles. Three or four people are putting the series online, so you have choices. I watched the ones from decdok who added 2-8. Today I watched it the one listed as Episode 9 today and found it to be a misnumbered copy of Episode 8. I hope this helps.

I'm glad to help; however, I wish that it has been true. There are so many dramas being added on an increasingly large number of websites; yet, we have no central guide at this time. I was wondering how to create a weekly guide to each location in on one site. I think that it would take a team to create a YouTube channel to make it functional. I've read that it's easy, but in thinking just of the formatting, it sounds very time consuming. So, when I read an alert and I'm already on a page, it's easy to copy and paste down the line. : )

I'm sorry, Chaimae. I think it is a repeat of Episode 8; plus, the person who loaded it accidentally records herself for a while.

DJRuth, I don't remember any scene in the bar where Wen Li and Jia Fei met because he was following Xia Jin. Which episode was that? The July 2014 issue of Psychology Today describes it as: "Psychological manipulation can be defined as the exercise of undue influence through mental distortion and emotional exploitation, with the intention to seize power, control, benefits, and privileges at the victim’s expense. It is important to distinguish healthy social influence from psychological manipulation. The manipulator deliberately creates an imbalance of power, and exploits the victim to serve his or her agenda. Healthy social influence occurs between most people, and is part of the give and take of constructive relationships. In psychological manipulation, one person is used for the benefit of another. "

A man might follow his fiancee somewhere to find her simply because he missed her, not because he thought that she doing something wrong. However, if he did not influence her to go to the bar, how would his action be "power that he put on her to gain something for himself" rather than insecurity, loneliness for her, or simple curiosity? Was there a voice-over to describe his thoughts?

Evidently, in Season 1, when he was feeling trashed and very low after she left him because of cruel, manipulative, Leukemia fiasco, he thought how wonderful it would be to rewind and start over with her. Season 2 is that new start, that began at the costume event two years before the photos came out of them in front of the men's room . Oh, NO!! NOT again!! the was no way that he would have known she and that bitchy actress were going to have a verbal match in front of the drinks table or that there would be a glass of sparkling soda available.

Do you think that the is another setup with the photos placed to capture them in front of the bathroom door? And, that he knew she was going to ask for his help in that way? But, how would that be possible? I hope that we don't get another betrayal like that. If this is some cheesy time travel issue, I'm not going to be pleased and will complain to the Director! I definitely would not be amused. : (

They are carried on VIKI.com and on YouTube (which has all the subtitles when they are added. : )

It's not a sequel at all. In the first series, when she finally discovers his deceit and shameful manipulation about her "leukemia", he wished that he could simply restart their lives instead of acting so terribly to he. He was also awful to Wen Li in bringing his wonderful, very moral assistant into it. He was sorry for a very long time in the first series. Most women would have divorced him as soon as that betrayal came to light. I am so glad that Season 1 did well, so we have this new version to enjoy. Plus, she is written as a strong, candid woman in this one. When she says that she has another way (several time) he listens and almost always accepts her ideas. The status is far more equal and his money is not so powerful in her life.

All are on VIKI.com or on YouTube, which now just loaded Episode 9. All have English subtitles.

Watch Episode 9 with english subtitles now on Youtube!

Watch Episode 9 with english subtitles now on Youtube!

Watch Episode 9 with english subtitles now on Youtube!