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Guys. Our Blues is one stellar piece of work. My jaw dropped too many times watching it. All I could think of every other minute was how ridiculously talented whoever wrote the drama was. Noh Hee-kyung helmed the screenplay and apparently, she is a star writer in Korea responsible for acclaimed dramas like, It's Okay, …
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For years, I have wanted to write this article. I never got around to doing it, so I'm really curious to see how I make sense of the conflicting emotions and opinions I've always had when it comes to Blackpink. You see, my first encounter with this megahit South-Korean girl group was the year, 2018. …
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Before I finally decided to check out this high-school drama, I would always see caveats like – “Beware, it’s extremely violent” or “It has very dark and inhumane scenes” – and they would stop me from checking out the drama despite the same comments lauding its praises. Now that I’ve emerged from the other side, …
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Towards the end of last year, I saw viral pictures of renowned singer-songwriter and actress, IU (Lee Ji-eun), at the Cannes Film Festival's screening of Broker. She looked angelic in her beautiful gown and the movie was garnering hype, so I googled what Broker was about. I came to understand that she was playing the …
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Now that I've reviewed the best K-dramas I watched in 2022 as well as the ones I moderately enjoyed, here come the ones I deem to be bad and highly flawed: Money Heist: Korea-Joint Security Area Nothing to say here. It was a very mediocre, boring version of the real thing. There was hardly anything …
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I've reviewed the special and interesting dramas I watched in 2022. So here are the ones I enjoyed to a good, moderate extent: Extraordinary Attorney Woo Ever since Hello, My Twenties, I have been a strong fan of Park Eun-bin, so of course I was going to check out how she portrayed an autistic, genius …
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Just days ago while reviewing the bad dramas I watched in 2022, I butchered Now We're Breaking Up - Song Hye-kyo's last drama. I found the character she played to be the same bland, cold, independent woman, and as usual, her soulless facial expression was not helping matters at all — it worsened things. Basically, …
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When I think about 2022 in relation to K-dramas, lines blur. It literally took me googling some of the dramas I watched this year to be sure I saw them this year and not last year. What does this tell me? Well, that life moves so fast! Okay, jokes apart, I think it’s telling me …
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My Little Story Before The Main GistI vividly recall rounding up 2021 with great satisfaction and wonder even at how good all the K-dramas I saw that year were. I’m not sure if it’s because I’ve gotten so good at choosing only high-quality K-dramas, or if it’s really that more interesting K-dramas are being produced. …
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Hey yo my lovers! What's good?! 2020 was a hell of a year right?Whooo! There were unprecedented happenings that brought feelings of difficulty, isolation and loneliness. But thankfully we had God, family, friends and of course, music to pull us together. Both coincidentally and intentionally, certain awesome artists gifted us the most nostalgic, cuddly, vibrant …
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