#Song Seung heon

[junkobato]

Upcoming Kdrama June 2024 🧡

3/6: Player 2: Master of Swindlers with Song Seung Heon, Oh Yeon Seo, Lee Si On. 12 episodes; action, thriller, comedy.

7/6: Hierarchy with Roh Jeong Hui, Lee Chae Min, Kim Jae Won. 7 episodes; thriller, mystery, romance.

12/6: My Sweet Mobster with Uhm Tae Goo, Han Sun Hwa, Kwon Yool. 16 episodes; rom-com.

15/6: Miss Night and Day with Jung Eun Ji, Choi Jin Hyuk, Lee Jung Eun. 16 episodes; rom-com, fantasy.

22/6: DNA lover with Choi Si Won, Jung In Sun, Lee Tae Hwan. 16 episodes; rom-com, melodrama.

28/6: the Whirlwind with Kim Soo Ae, Sol Gyung Gu. 12 episodes; political.

Uhm Tae Goo in a rom-com?! It was about time! 😍

[dreamaze]

he saw his chance and he took it

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BLACK KNIGHT | S01E03

Korean Drama - 2023, 6 episodes  

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[ladywatereton]

“I can't live without you. I can't sleep. I can't eat and... I can't breathe. It's so suffocating I can't live.”

10 Years of Obsessed.

🎥 Obsessed (2014).

🎶 Poison Tree, Liz Harris.

[hug-kiss-marry-kill]

[somanykdramas]

THE PLAYER 2: MASTER OF SWINDLERS

GENRES: Action, Drama, Comedy

SUMMARY: The players are at it again, seeking both personal revenge and national justice.

THIS SHOW HAS EVERYTHING: Gourmet eats, sham gallery owners, despicable real estate dealers, sadist millionaires, car chases, chaotic punches, stabbings, bombs, idols, drugs, grey suits, and conflicted Presidents.

HOT TAKE: The first season of this show, just like this second season, was silly action fun with some decent cast chemistry thrown in as a nice bow. Nothing too adventurous to worry about--the lead is handsome, the tough guy is unbeatable, the hacker is the best in the world, and their driver can hold her own wherever she goes.

Did we need another season? Not really, but I'm not going to complain that we did. Are we getting another one after this? You betcha.

[fansof-heo]

Alert! A new drama preparing! And a picture with Sung-tae? 👀 The talented actors come together with 2 new cast for Season 2 of the crime drama, Player 🤩. Hope you all have a fun time filming and I'm excited for the updates 💖

Player 2: The War Of The Trapper. Coming soon! I suggest watching Season 1 first 😎

[thenoonachronicles]

The Black Knight is a must watch!

[kotsu-mix]

[yejuhyuns]

Woo Dohee x Kim Haekyung from Dinner Mate (2020) fancam edit

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BLACK KNIGHT | S01E04

Korean Drama - 2023, 6 episodes  

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[songseungheon007]

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Song Seung Heon

[junkobato]

Stills from the upcoming series Black Knight starring Kim Woo Bin, Esom, Song Seung Heon. Premiere on May 12.

[welcome-to-the-cafe]

Obsessed (2014) and Decision to Leave (2022)

If I had a dollar for every time a disaffected married Korean man with a respected job no longer has any love for his wife and instead falls for a mysterious Chinese woman who likes birds, I'd have two dollars, which could probably buy 1 lamb skewer in Flushing.

(Top: Decision to Leave, Bottom: Obsessed)

Both are heavy in symbolism, both mostly follow the perspective of the man, both have him go through an existential crisis as result of his affair, and both end in tragedy. Only one of them actually uses a Chinese actress though, Tang Wei, who is as frightening as ever. It almost seemed like her character in Lust Caution survived execution and grew to become a real killer.

What is interesting to me is that Korean media seems to regard Chinese women, and maybe Chinese people in general, with a kind of uncouthness, roughness, and danger that is nevertheless alluring and exotic. I think of how much Koreans love Twice's Tzuyu. In both these movies, the Chinese woman is looked down upon by Korean society at large, which in turn forces her under the care of exploitative men. Shunned by society externally, she becomes connected to a sensitive Korean man who begins to reject the society internally. The man becomes obsessed with the beautiful foreigner, the obsession driven by the taboo nature. Their affair (steamy or metaphorical) causes both to enter a downward spiral that ends in disaster and death. I will say, the execution of this affair is a lot better in Decision to Leave; the reason for demise is not a straightforward "heartbreak", but a more complex mutually parasitic/destructive relationship. Tang Wei's character claims she didn't truly begin to love the detective until he had violated his convictions as a law enforcer to allow her to escape justice for the crime he just solved. In contrast, Lim Ji-yeon's Chinese woman is very...passive. She resigns herself to her role in the society, though it was brave of her to refuse the colonel's final advances. Sometimes it takes courage to be unromantic.

These two subdued Chinese beauties also remind me of Shu Qi's character in "I Married A Gangster", who is a ill-tempered kungfu fighting bad b*tch who is in Korea for some reason. I didn't continue the movie after 5 minutes because the sword dance she was doing in the beginning that ended in her massacring the attending mafia felt very cringe and stereotypical.

This instance in turn brings up Detective Ma in Extreme Job, the relentless (male) cop who displays an arsenal of surprising talents, one of which is speaking Chinese (which is barely discernable to me) to a group of drug-selling Chinese gangsters.

We can go into all sorts of analysis about where these archetypes come from, but I won't do that; I'm just gonna admit it's a little fun being seen as vaguely unwholesome.