#Jang Hee-Jin

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Lee Ji-ah pointed a knife at Shim Sooung..Bloody Revenge Starts

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THE FLOWER OF EVIL // KDRAMA DİZİ YORUMU

UYARI : Yazılar genel olarak spoiler içerebilir. İçermeyedebilir.

İmdb: 8,7 Benim puanım: 9

Drama: Flower of Evil (English title)

Hangul: 악의 꽃

Director: Kim Cheol-Kyu

Writer: Yoo Jung-Hee

Date: 2020

Language: Korean

Country: South Korea

Cast: Lee Joon-Gi, Moon Chae-Won, Jang Hee-Jin, Seo Hyun-Woo, Choi Young-Joon

2021 (57th) BaekSang Arts Awards - May 13, 2021

Best Director (Kim Cheol-Kyu)

İzleme listemde en yüksek puana sahip diziye başlamaya karar verince karşıma çıkan dizi Flower of Evil oldu. Dizi hakkında hiçbir şey bilmeden, oyuncuları daha önce hiçbir yerde izlemeden başladım. İlk bölüm biraz çekingen geçti. Aslında 1.bölümde su altı bir sahnesi ile başladıkları için, olayların oraya nasıl geldiğine dair merak aşılayıp bahsi yüksekten açtılar. Öncesinde izlediğim diziler daha soft bir yapıya sahip olduğu için bu diziye adapte olmam 2 bölüm sürdü.

Dizi ile ilgili tanıtım okuduysanız, dedektif olan bir kadının çözmeye çalıştığı davalardan birinde kocasından şüphelenmesini konu aldığını zaten biliyorsunuzdur. Şartlanmış bir şekilde izlemeye başlamamanızı tavsiye ederim. Kısaca bahsedeyim; Baek Hee-Sung (Lee Joon-Gi), mükemmel bir aile babasıdır. Mutlu bir evliliği, dünyalar tatlısı bir kızı vardır. Evde yemekleri kendisi yapan, kızını okula bırakan ve etrafındaki herkese saygılı bir adamdır. Tek sorunu ailesi olarak görünmektedir. Bize gösterdikleri kadarı ile zengin bir ailenin oğlu olarak annesi ve babası ile aralarında bir husumet olduğudur. Aile ne gelinlerini ne de torunlarını sevmemektedir. Bunu da bize gergin bir akşam yemeği ile net bir şekilde anlatırlar. Cha Ji-Won (Moon Chae-Won) ise kocasını çok seven cinayet masası dedektifidir. Karşılaştığı davalardan birinde 14 yıl önce birçok insanı öldürdükten sonra intihar etmiş olan seri katil Do Min-Seok (Choi Byung-Mo) davası gündeme gelir. Do Min-Seok intihar etmeseydi ortaya çıkmayacak olan suçu şüphe çekerken, oğlu Do Hyun-Soo da onun suç ortağı olması ihtimali konuşulmaktadır. İntihardan kısa bir süre sonra mahallenin muhtarı öldürülmüş ve bütün deliller Do Hyun-Soo’yu göstermektedir. Kayıplara karışan oğlu 14 yıldır aranmaktadır. Bir şekilde günümüzdeki dava ile benzerliklerinden dolayı şüpheler muhtar cinayetinden aranan Do Hyun-Soo’ya bağlanır. Davanın detaylarına girmeye başladıkça da Cha Ji-Won merceğini kocasına çevirir. Baek Hee-Sung’un mükemmel eş/baba imajı yavaş yavaş çatlamaya başlar.

Dizi ile ilgili tek eleştirimi baştan söyleyeyim, senarist her şeyi kendi içinde yaşamış. Bütün olaylar, konuşmalar ve gerçekler izleyiciden o kadar saklanıyor ki… Bir süre sonra sinir bozucu olmaya başlıyor. Sürekli ekranda şöyle bir sahne izliyoruz; “Haa o olay mı? Yaa o konu mu? Demek ondan olmuş. Hadi canım onu mu demek istemiş..” Büyük bir kısımda “Ne olmuş!!!NE! , HANGİ OLAY??, BİZE DE SÖYLE” diye çırpınırken buldum kendimi. Ben dizi karakteri değilim ki benden niye saklıyorsun. Anlat işte, güzel güzel izleyelim. Sayın senarist çok başarılı gizem yaratmışsın da biraz dozunu kaçırmışsın sanki.

3.bölümden sonra dizi akmaya başlıyor. İlk iki bölüm belki de benden kaynaklı biraz ağır aksak geçti. 3.bölümde tam anlamı ile hikayenin içine girdim. Lee Joon-Gi!! O nasıl bir oyunculuk arkadaş. Hiç tanımıyordum, fotoğraflarını görünce adama burun kıvırıyordum. İzleyince bir utandım bir utandım sormayın. Jeosonghamnida Joon-Gi. Şaka bir yana, Park Seo-joon’dan sonra oyunculuk anlamında en beğendiğim isim oldu. Mimikleri olsun, duygu geçişleri olsun, rolünün hakkını vermesi olsun inanılmaz başarılıydı. Dizinin başarılı olmasını bir kenara koyarsak, sadece oyuncu için bile izlenebilir.

Dediğim gibi izleyiciden çok şey saklanıyor olmasının verdiği gizem ve merak hikayeyi fazla dinç tutuyor. Biraz bunaltıcı olsa da heyecan yaratmayı da başarmış. Yaratılan gizemler 1-2 bölüm içerisinde cevaplanıyor. Ben çok beğendim. Oyuncuları, oyunculukları, yönetmen, çekimler, kurgu her biri kendi alanında başarılıydı. Dizi genel yapısı olarak görsel bir şölen sunmuyor. Buna rağmen mekanlar, ışık kullanımları, çekim açıları kesinlikle profesyoneldi.

Dizinin her bölümü bir başka “aa böylemiymiş” şeklinde aydınlanma yaşanması muhtemel hikayeye sahip olduğundan ve spoiler vermek bütün tadını kaçıracağından genel hatlar üzerinden yorumlarımı yazıyorum. Bir diğer beni şaşırtan ve çok başarılı bulduğum nokta, Lee Joon-Gi’nin karakterinin gençliğini oynayan oyuncu Park Hyun-Joon oldu. Bu kadar benzer oyuncu seçimiyle ilk defa karşılaşıyorum, çok etkilendim.

Toparlayacak olursak, bir gizem dizisinin büyüsünü kaçırmamak için kendimi çok frenledim. Diziyi sadece Lee Joon-Gi için izleyebilirsiniz. Onun yanında başarılı bir hikaye ve kaliteli bir yapım da bonus olarak geliyor. Bu diziden sonra Lee Joon-Gi’nin Moon Lovers dizisini önüme aldım. Yine sıralamayı ters yapmış olsam da böylesi bile güzel oldu.

OST:

Doka - Psycho

Raven Melus

BAŞKA NELER VAR ?

FOTOĞRAFLAR

[academyofbrokenhearts]

I legit cheered out loud when Moo-jin called out unfather on his bullshit, and then cheered again when he stopped him from killing himself, because why would unfather get to choose the easy way out when none of his son's victims ever got that chance?

I never really hated Moo-jin except maybe during the first episodes. But considering the environment he grew up in (horror village where exorcisms are condoned) and the trauma he suffered, is there any wonder that he dealt with his guilt as a teen in an incredibly unhealthy way?

Glad he got the chance to redeem himself.

So, we finally find out what was on that tape and yikes! Honestly, this episode made me really pity Moo Jin. He is also a victim of DMS even if not to the extent DMS’ children or murder victims are. No wonder he lost it when DMS was uncovered as a serial killer and set his relationship with the children on fire - he had to have been haunted by the fact that he saw a victim but didn’t know that is what it was, and so DMS could proceed with murder (and DMS relying on the fact that no sane person could comprehend what is going on.)

Also, he saved noona, woooooo! (BHS didn’t need to smear the wall btw - it’s a sheer taunt!)

Poor man. Fine drama, you win, I like Moo Jin now and if the drama ends with him and Hae Su being an item, I am fine.

His scene at the Baeks’ was amazing! He is just so freaking WEARY of this, and he is actually not even scared being menaced by the unfather. And who knew - unfather really loved his awful kid. Both the unparents did; but it doesn’t matter, being a serial killer is not something you can fix.

I can’t believe I am saying it, but bravo, Moo Jin! (And he even compared himself to unfather - in culpability - I love it.)

[quack-quack-snacks]

Star Crossed - Prologue

| Prologue | Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 | Chapter 6 | Chapter 7 | Chapter 8 | Chapter 9 | Chapter 10 |

The Star Crossed Masterlist

My All Of Us Are Dead Masterlist

My Navigation and Masterlist

Warnings: Rude behavior from a non-canon character, Su-hyeok being the best little lovely boy that he is, lmk if there are any more! Word Count: 2,437

Being the little sister of one of the biggest bullies in the school was not the best for your life in the classrooms. Although there were some benefits like nobody messing with you and getting protection from the rest of the bullies in the school, you were lonely. Nobody messing with you also meant nobody wanted to get near you in fear of your brother. Every day, you would watch the students of the school gather in their groups for lunch and laugh together and the lonely, empty feeling you had would grow. 

You were a sophomore now but the treatment from the people around you wasn’t new. Being a year younger than your brother also meant that he had involved himself in the bullying before you had even joined the school yet. You were outcasted from the very beginning. 

Although you technically always had a seat at lunch with your brother and his friends, you didn’t want to be any more associated with them than you had to. You loved your brother, of course, he’d been the one there for you since the beginning especially since your mother was absent and your father hardly gave the two of you the time of day, but you couldn’t stand the fact that he involved himself in that crowd, especially when he himself just got pushed around by the people within it. 

You never had any friends…

Until him.

Lee Su-hyeok.

One day, when you were sitting by yourself at lunch, headphones plugged in with your music playing loudly to keep the noises of the students in the cafeteria room having fun - and you not being involved - at bay, you didn’t notice the boy approaching your table until he sat down across from you. He gave you a small but genuine smile when you looked up at him in shock before pointing to your headphones and motioning for you to take them out. You took them out hesitantly, unsure of what he wanted from you. 

You weren’t oblivious to who he was. After all, he was friends with your brother and, therefore friends with the school’s bullies. The whole school pretty much knew who he was, and although he was different from the rest of the group, kinder and never really fighting unless they deserved it, you still weren’t sure of him. 

“Hi,” he started with an unsure tone to his voice.

“Hi,” you replied, your voice practically miming his with your own unsureness peeking through. 

“Sorry, this might be weird. I just…” he scratched the back of his neck as he looked away sheepishly, obviously not planning past the point of sitting next to you. 

‘Cute,’ you thought before scolding yourself as you remembered who exactly he was. 

His hand suddenly shot out in front of him toward you. “I’m Su-hyeok,” he said in a way that made it seem like he was trying to convince you it was his name. 

You let out a small laugh before extending your own hand to shake his, “I believe you.”

He blushed but let out a small grin.

“I’m (Y/n).”

“It’s nice to meet yo-"

“Oi! Su-hyeok!” He got cut off by his name being called from across the cafeteria. The both of you looked over to see Son Myeong-hwan calling out to him with your brother, Gwi-nam, standing next to him with an annoyed look on his face. 

“It’s okay,” you started before he could even open his mouth when he looked back at you. You gave him a small, reassuring smile, but you could tell he could see the disappointment lingering beneath it. “You should probably get back to your friends. I’ll see you around, yeah?” With that, you put your headphones back in and went back to eating, ignoring the way the small spark of remaining hope in your soul diminished when he got up and walked away. 

As you watched him sit down at the table where his friends were, rolling your eyes when Gwi-nam smacked him over the back of the head, that spark reflamed when he turned around to look at you and gave you a smile and a secret wave when he saw you already looking. 

Ever since that day, you saw him more and more often. You found yourself looking for him in the halls and noticing he had more than a few classes with you. Every day, without fail, he would give you your favorite snack right after your first class ended. 

“I overheard you telling your brother once that you were always hungry in our second class so I used to just leave these on your desk but now I think just giving them to you might be better.”

“B-but, I started getting those months ago?” You questioned him in confusion.

He just smiled before walking away.

It was so surprising to figure out he noticed you before you even officially met and even more surprising that he seemed to care enough to make sure you stayed fed. 

He was like a drop of rain during a drought. It had been so long since you’d had a friend that you forgot what it was like to have someone other than your brother care about you. 

It was refreshing.

When Su-hyeok finally got the courage to leave Myeong-hwan and his friend group, you were so relieved. The two of you had spent countless nights staying up way past your bedtimes spending hours on the phone talking and one night he confessed that he actually didn’t want to be in the group. He just didn’t really have anyone else. He entered the school alone and was instantly seen by Myeong-hwan who took him in. 

You’d wished he would be able to get out ever since you met, so when he told you he had made another friend you were ecstatic. You were so happy for him until you realized what that meant. 

You would be alone again. 

It’s not like he would bother sticking around now that he had actual friends outside of you, right?

You couldn’t have been more wrong. 

The day after he told you, you had spent the morning sulking and trying your best to avoid him, not wanting him to feel pressured to keep your friendship alive now that he had real friends. When lunch came, however, he sat down at your usual table where you always spent lunch alone. When you were about to get up and leave, he grabbed your wrist gently and looked at you with a sad pleading gaze. 

“Why have you been avoiding me? Did I do something?” He looked so sad as he asked and you felt so guilty.

Looking down and picking at your food, you told him. “I just didn’t want you to have to go through the trouble of telling me you don’t want to be friends with me now that you have your own friends.” You raised your head to look him in the eyes. “Su-hyeok, you don’t have to feel pressured to hang around me.”

His mouth hung open in disbelief and he sputtered before deciding to stand up and move to your side of the table.

“(Y/n), did it ever occur to you that I was friends with you because I wanted to and because I liked being your friend?”

The look of pure shock that you gave him broke his heart. He sighed and wrapped his arms around you, embracing you in a hug - something you hadn’t had in a long time. 

Although Gwi-nam was a good brother, he wasn’t a touchy one, so hugs were off the table. 

After the hug ended, Su-hyeok invited you to go over and sit with his friends but you couldn’t bring yourself to agree. You knew what your reputation was. How it made you seem to be: spoiled; rude; entitled. Despite no one - besides your brother and his friend group as well as Su-hyeok - actually knowing you, they all assumed the worst of you. Despite knowing Su-hyeok had his own reputation, you couldn’t find it in you to bring him down with yours. 

That was a little less than a year ago. Although you and Su-hyeok continued to remain friends, you refused to be around him in public and continued to stick to yourself when in school. 

“You’ll just drag yourself down if you hang around me, I don’t want that for you,” you would tell him every time he tried to change your mind. No matter how much convincing he did, he was never successful at changing your mind. 

In order to try to change the minds of your fellow students without the help of anyone else, you tried joining the Student Council.

There, you met Choi Nam-ra.

Although she had told you that her spot as Student President was just being paid for by her mother, you didn’t let it change the way you saw her. There was so much more to her than what met the eye and to be honest it didn’t surprise you. You knew what reputations and rumors did to how people were perceived considering you yourself were a victim of said reputations and rumors. Although awkward and blunt at times, she turned out to be a very kind and caring person who didn’t hesitate to call anyone out if they talked shit about you behind your back.

She would say the same for you. 

Nobody could speak badly about Nam-ra and get away with it in your presence. Although you were not a violent person by any means, you had a glare that rivaled that of your brother’s. Not to mention the tone you used with them if they were being a dick. 

Some people were scared shitless of you - not even just because of your reputation as the youngest of the Yoon family. 

Which is why you were surprised to figure out that you had been elected as the Student Vice President a few months after meeting Nam-ra.

She'd told you the news with a small smile on her face and gave you a quick hug, telling you how proud she was of you. She never told you but you were sure that she used some form of her Student Body President powers to get the position. Regardless, you were happier than ever to have a friend and a role in the school that didn’t consist of only being known as the bully’s younger sister. 

Your new status consisting of being the Vice President didn’t change the untouchability that came with the old one, if anything it just gave you more untouchability.

However, not all people saw it like that. 

One day, After walking down the hallway to your locker, you were approached by a boy whom you recognized from your first and fourth-period class. He had shaggy dark brown hair that went just past his eyes and he kept shaking his head to keep it out of his eyes. His cheeks were pink as he tapped on your shoulder to grab your attention and scratched the top of his head while you took your headphones out.

“Um… hi?” You whispered out hesitantly. 

“Hi, my name is Yoo Jaehyun. I’m in your first and fourth classes.” He shot his hand out, almost smacking you in the face so you jumped back before hesitantly shaking his hand. 

“It’s… nice to meet you Jaehyun, I’m-”

“I know who you are, (Y/n). Everyone in school knows who you are,” he told you as if it was a compliment but you just frowned and tried to take your hand out of his grip when he tightened his grip. You tried again and looked at him uncomfortably but he just seemed to ignore you as he kept talking. “I just wanted to introduce myself to you and tell you that I would like you to be my girlfriend. I like you and I think we would look good together.”

Finally yanking your hand out of his grasp, your elbow slammed into the lockers behind you painfully. You winced and held your elbow with your other hand as you gave him a slightly apologetic but mainly confused smile.

“But we don’t know each other?” You told him quietly. 

“I don’t need to know you I just like how hot you are. So what do you say, (Y/n)? Will you be my girlfriend?” He asked arrogantly.

You stood there and just looked at him, mortified. The way he said the words sounded more like catcalling than they did as a compliment and you found yourself feeling disgusted at where his palm touched your own just moments before. 

“Um… no… sorry,” you told him, though you were not sorry at all. 

“What? Why?” He asked, his tone becoming louder and more aggressive. 

“I… I just don’t-”

“You know, I always knew you were just a selfish bitch who didn’t care about anyone but herself and her fucking brother. No wonder no one talks to you,” he interrupted you again. “I was just trying to be nice but now that I know your personality is as fake as your spot as Vice President I don’t even want to anymore. You were ugly anyways.”

With that, he walked away. Leaving you to stare at the spot he once stood at and let the tears leave wet streaks down your cheeks as you furiously tried to wipe them away in the empty hallway. Completely giving up on being able to go to class, you decided to go to the girls’ bathroom and spend the rest of the class in there. Luckily it was the last class of the day anyways so you would be able to go home straight away afterward. You would just have to calm yourself down before you saw Gwi-nam or Su-hyeok.

Luckily you had another hour to do that. Texting a lame excuse to Su-hyeok and Nam-ra about why you weren’t in class, you decided to just gather your belongings and just head home alone. 

The next day, word had gotten around to Su-hyeok and Gwi-nam both about the situation. Someone who had been walking by had heard the conversation and started spreading it around. Unfortunately for the boy, Gwi-nam had gotten to him first. Su-hyeok had arrived at the scene just before you did, leading you away as he exchanged a slight nod with Gwi-nam. It seemed people forgot who you really were; who you knew. 

Even after going their separate ways and despising each other, they both could agree on one thing.

No one hurt you and got away with it.

[kdramaaaaa]

Don't touch me!

[sab-teraa]

K dramas are well and truly in their ✨D I L F✨ era

[inafieldofdaisies]

"I promised, remember? I promised I'd protect you." - Jang Yeo-hee

Tale of the Nine Tailed 1938 | Tale of the Nine Tailed Season 2, Episodes 7 & 8 | Favorite scenes | Peak Lee Rang x Jang Yeo-hee moments 🦊🧡🧜‍♀️

This song is probably my favorite from the season 🧡*my heart*

I'm honestly living on the breadcrumbs from these two in every single episode. The scene where Yeo-hee barges in and uses her powers gives me chills each time without fail, no matter how many times I've seen it so far, same for her singing. I adore her as a character and their dynamic with Rang. And can I just say...she looks stunning in every outfit, but that gold dress was on another level.

[gabrielokun]

[k-star-holic]

Kim Jong-min flirts with Songhai?

[passionforfiction]

Queen of Tears

This series is not perfect, but it is still good. It has a solid storyline, and great characters. Hong Hae In and Baek Hyun Woo have been married for 3 years and the love that had united them at the beginning seems to have disappeared in their distance and silence after a miscarriage that broke their hearts. When Baek Hyun Woo finally has the courage to present the divorce papers to Hong Hae In, she tells him she has a tumor and doesn't have much time left. His decision to stay with her gives them an unexpected chance at finding that love that had united them once. Family interactions between their very different families questions dynamics and help characters grow.

I like the fact that they didn't take the easy way out with our main antagonist. The story in itself is really good and I loved it, however, production was a bit careless with details that were too big to miss: Hae In's operation - how can a person with a brain tumor have a surgery with her hair intact. Or Hyun Woo's neck injury suddenly disappearing in a second, ext. These kind of details show some careless oversight. But we can forgive them - we laugh it off and keep watching to see what happens next.

I liked it and recommend it.

[academyofbrokenhearts]

Excellent psycho? For sure.

Excellent killer? Hmmmm, not so much, considering that Mi-sook, Hae-soo and Hyun-soo all survive by the end.

BHS’ hubris is going to be (hopefully literally) the death of him. Like - it doesn’t even occur to him that it’s weird for a policewoman to not be armed and just plead.

Jesus, this is not a tutorial! (PS It’s pretty clear that Unmother’s hopes to the contrary, he ain’t even gonna stop killing.)

(OK, he really looks alien here.)

Ohhhh, noona!

I love the delighted look on his face because to him this is “ahahaha I did not screw up, it was not because I made a mistake, I am still an excellent killer psycho, hooray!”

[stuff-diary]

My Demon

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

My Demon (2023/24, South Korea)

Director: Kim Jang Han

Writer: Choi Ah Il

Mini-review:

Look, I'm not gonna lie. I started this drama for a very superficial reason: Kim Yoo Jung and Song Kang are one of the most gorgeous couples I've ever seen. And tbh, that's one of the things that kept me watching until the end. The first half was pretty fun, thanks to their will-they-won't-they dynamic and some really funny supporting characters and recurring gags. Unfortunately, it began to drag around the middle part, and then it got more and more boring with each passing episode. By the time the final episode came out, I no longer cared about the plot, the characters or anything else (although the ending itself was quite nice). With all that in mind, I can't help but think My Demon would have worked much better as a movie.

[taekwondolifemagazine]

Two (2) From Well Go USA

June 22, 2024 (NYC)– Two (2) from Well Go USA.   A Look at Two new international films, originating in South Korea,  distributed by Well Go USA, and hitting digital on June 25th.   Here is a synopsis and review of these Well Go USA Entertainment releases. HOPELESS Synopsis:       After spending his entire childhood in a town riddled with crime and violence, a teenage boy saves up his money in…

[thasorns-moved]

PANDORA: BENEATH THE PARADISE (2023) 판도라: 조작된 낙원 dir. Choi Young Hoon

[namjhyun]

DRAMA REVIEW | Queen of Tears (2024)

Queen of Tears strongest point are the performances, directing and cinematography, there's no doubt about this. Scriptwriter Park Ji Eun has a talent for teaming up with great talents, particular actors, and that's in my opinion the main reason why her drama are usually so successful. She manages to write really interesting and endearing characters, and put them in entertaining situations that grasp the attention of the viewer.

The casting director did a particular excellent job on this one because every single character was cast to perfection, every actor and actress fitting into the role as if it was written for them.

I am fascinated by the way scriptwriter Park Ji Eun has managed to mix genres in one drama, because Queen of Tears is a dark comedy, makjang, comedy, romance and melodrama all in one. This screenwriter is not stranger to making a successful and entertaining kdrama, but if you are looking for something that will dwell into the deeper reasons as to why the leads' marriage crumble, logic and cohesive editing, this story might not be for you.

Queen of Tears strongest point is the way both families come together, learning to respect and love each other but apart from that the drama is developed at a surface level. The scripts lean hard on the other genres which is perfectly fine but there were times when I was frustrated at the desiciones being made, the complete waste of time when the families are running against the clock to save one of their own AND the family's business, etc. This is when I think Queen of Tears is a lot like other Park Si Eun's kdramas: they start strong but run out of material towards the second half of the episode, almost as if she introduce a bunch of plotlines with proper solutions to a few of them.

Overall, I found Queen of Tears to be a really entertaining watch to disconnect from reality.

[afictionalgirl]

You don't believe in love But can't you say that you've been thinking of us? 'Cause you've been my god, my god And when you're gone, I'm godless, I'm godless