Sooyi

I like the portrayal of the romance between Yoohyeon and Hani. It's not sickly sweet or thrilling, it's like a slow-cooking, warm love. To make them closer, the writer doesn't implement excessive skinship and diverse accidents, she opts instead to make the potential love interests know each other better and build mutual trust.

Public networks have adopted a system in which they divide one episode into two with a commercial break in between to boost more revenue as Korean dramas don't fare as well as they did overseas like they used to. So technically "Hello, Me" has 32 "episodes" that last 35 minutes each or 16 episodes that last one hour each.

The way Yoohyeon brandishes his cooking licenses is just pure comedy! It's one big FLEX and he sure knows how to show them off XD

I don't think her curled bangs are supposed to be ugly because I've seen other fashionable women having them too. The thing with adult Hani is that she is supposed to be a downgrade from her teen self but she still does have style (in my eyes). I really like her crisp office suits.

Something about the show makes it feel like a Japanese dorama: the dance sequence and the outrageous imagination scenes.

Okay I admit I was smiling like a buffoon because it's so funny to see the almighty Sung-woo being ruffled by sassy teen Hani. Then it made me aghast because adult Hani acts EXACTLY the same way with Yong-woo!! She talks to him in the same coddling tone! This made it much more inappropriate...

I feel like present Ha-ni scrunching up the packet of the fortune biscuit is a representation of her deciding to stop doing the bare minimum and living day-to-day.

I think the actor who plays Yoo-hyeon's father literally cracked up. I mean who wouldn't? LOL

That's more of a plausible theory. With the way Ba-reum reacts to heart-breaking situations, it's too meticulous to consider that it's all faked.

So in episode 4, it's revealed that Ba-reum got an award for protecting a classmate from a bully, however it was his prison guard friend, Chi-kook, who did the good deed. He mentioned he met said classmate two days ago, and when he was about to say his name, Hong-joo interrupted saying that they should quickly proceed with their investigation. I felt like she did it deliberately and this made me think that probably Yo-han was the classmate.

This is my theory: Han Seo-jun did not kill Song Soo-jung, the woman who was found headless in the sea (so I think he is not the infamous Headhunter). The number plates of the car at the site of Soo-jung's murder (something with the numbers 339) and Seo-jun's (4222) do not match. The way the bodies are disposed are different. Han Seo-jun does not want people to find out about his pastime from the way he hid the remains at his own home, while the Headhunter seems to want to brag his killings from the way he displayed the corpses in public.

There are some little details that we need to pay attention:
-Choi Hong-joo, the investigation show director, was acquainted with Song Soo-jung's murderer. Her child self was used as bait to lure the woman to the murderer. She was also the one who gave the boxing gloves to the victim's brother following her demise (this is interesting because until episode 3 we never know how the gloves to the man's possession when his sister clearly got murdered before she was able to give them herself). Moreover, she said to Moo-chi that her intent to find the Song Siblings' murderer is not pity but responsibility. I guess she feels guilty in her part for getting them killed and not revealing the killer at the time of Song Soo-jung's death. And from the way she reacted when Moo-chi asked her about the whereabouts of Han Seo-jun's son, she seems to know who it is but refrained from telling Moo-chi and was pretty vocal about her opposition to his revenge plan.

-Ba-reum said that he bought his current house with his parents' life insurance. So he is an orphan which leads to my following observation

-There's something about Jae-hoon that is making me perplexed. The newspapers say that Jae-hoon killed his ENTIRE family, but the detective showed three shrouded bodies when he was interrogating him, and from what I see his family consists of five people including himself, therefore one person is missing. So the little girl is not his sister?

Did anybody notice the index finger of Moo-won, Moo-chi's brother? It's pointing to a certain direction, and in the scene when Moo-chi angrily confronted him to stop visiting him, the church was behind Moo-won so in a way it looked like his finger was directed toward the cross just like the fingers of all the victims of the new serial killer.

Minor correction: the two perpetrators were girls.

What chilled me was that Jaehoon's scratching his arm to vent out his anger toward his classmates was something Kim (the mastermind behind the kidnapping and murder) had a tendency of doing.

Why do I have a feeling that Ha-ni's sister is going to say "No, you two cannot be together because.... you are RELATED!!" XDD

I was getting annoyed by Ahn So-ni, especially by the way he's treating his agency rep and manager (it's apparent he's bullying the latter), but yeah I feel like now he's taking center stage and it looks exciting.
I think the characters of "Hello, Me!" might come up as off-setting at first glance because we only get to see their surface. But once we peel it off, we see they're actually layered inside.

I definitely didn't like Yoo-hyeon in the first two episodes and didn't feel the sparks between him and Ban Ha-ni but he's starting to win me over just like he has done with the cafeteria ladies :))) His attempt to cheer up Ha-ni with the lettuce was definitely smooth, and I know the following is a move done a thousand times before in dramas, still I find it endearing how he recreated the lunch order for Ban Ha-ni's co-workers as he didn't want her to mess up her first day at work. He's not your flamboyant male lead but it's his little gestures that count.

This drama has all the tropes of a K-drama from the early 2000s but I think that's what makes it endearing: nothing too serious and fluffy.

Ah now I get why Ahn So-ni became an actor in the first place - so he could be in this old Korean show where celebrities reunite with a person from their past they really missed. This made me think that Ahn So-ni is stuck in the past: he has never really recovered from Ha-ni's disappearance from his life, judging by the way he treats his agency staff poorly (he thinks that intimidation is the way to have things his way).

Oh and Ah So-ni's manager should quit his job and take up acting :DD

It's "Forever Love" by Fin.K.L

In my perspective, the episodes do get better. You get a better insight on the characters.

Lol Liang Xia's best friend is not someone you could rely on (except if you want to have fun). She was a product of bad writing and characterization and I think the movie could do without her.
And I couldn't understand Liang Xia's boyfriend!! He doesn't like that Liang Xia only looks up to him but he still needs her to attend to him wtf. I feel like if they did get married and Liang Xia's 17-year-old conscience didn't appear, he would have gotten a mistress, an artist even.