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Gong Yoo silent fan here K-drama in times of ECQ part 2

The first time I watched Gong Yoo (GY) was in Coffee Prince when it was shown here in the Philippines in 2008. It was a typical love story but not quite. Typical because it was a love story between a boss and an employee and the struggles in a regular relationship. Not quite ordinary because the girl Yoon Eun-hye needed to pretend he was a guy in the coffee shop that GY owned and because of this, it softly touches on how society looks at gender issues particularly on relationships.

Generally, it was a good K-drama but not enough for me to be curious about the actors.  I have watched other Rom Com K-drama series and back then, I find them pretty much the same because before most of the K-drama series shown here were about love and relationship.  

Fast forward to these ECQ days that we all need to stay at home and do something in order to not go crazy. So I went back to watching K-drama series, old and new ones and like the rest of his fans worldwide I was smitten by GY!

A back story: A K-drama that I watched when I was still single which really led me to joining the official fans club here in the Philippines was Princess Hours also starring Yoon Eun-hye and Ju Ji-hoon.  How far did I go?  I went to the heights of finding the official fans of JJH here. I went out to meet them in Makati one Saturday afternoon and I felt some kinda weirdness. It was totally different when you just meet them in the chat group. We met at coffee shop and I was able to see the admins of the chat group.  I already forgot their names (actually I forgot my pen name in that chat group as well). They told stories about JJH, about going to Korea just to take a glimpse of the agency of JJH and taking a shot if in case he would be there so that they could meet him.  I remember we wrote letters to him and compiled it to a book and sent that to Korea to his agency.

I realized how it were to be a fan and not just a fan, a fan of an actor abroad! Hahaha I wondered if he ever did get or read our letters. It was too much! I said to myself I think I can’t bear to be a fan.

And now that we are in the mature years (I think =p) I am back in that couch in love with that man who played Goblin lol. But I said and realized that I am on a different level of maturity because unlike before, I just left the infatuation feeling to those who could and would. I was so curious to see how was GY’s acting, how he has evolved from that jerk boss turned sweet boyfriend in Coffee Prince to that dashing immortal Goblin who sought for that life to end and needed his bride to accomplish that.   I would say it was a thousand fold improvements. The emotional scenes would really move you. I specially loved the scenes with GY and Yoo In Na who played as his sister as well as the scenes involving Grim Reaper played by Lee Dong Wok when he is meeting the souls in a room filled with tea cups. I wonder if in real life there is such a creature like the Grim Reaper who would be there when you die and meet you at the tea room. And of course who will not rave about the scenes between GY and Kim Go-eun. My favorite scene of them was the first time they met while they were walking. Actually they did not even meet; they just passed by each other. You know how in K-dramas that they do that slow-motion effect plus the musical scoring. I just loved the simple serendipity effect. Another favorite is when KGE passed away and was in the tea room (another tea room scene).

GY and KGE will make you laugh, cry well not at the same time but really in a fascinating way. It was a love story untold before so I am just purely amazed.

After watching Goblin, I became so curious of GY’s other Kdramas series. So I researched and found Big which he starred with Lee Min-jung.  Hmmm it is in between Coffee Prince and Goblin so I would say out of 10 I would give it a 6.  The story is about a girl with a dream of becoming a teacher and a boy from the US who transferred to Korea when his mother passed away. The boy and the girl (LMJ) met at the school where LMJ works. The boy met an accident with a man (GY), coincidentally was LMJ’s boyfriend. Their souls interchanged so when the man (GY) woke up, it was the boy’s soul inside him. Before the accident, they were having problems actually they were supposed to meet when the accident happened. I guess the problem I had here was that the ending was complicated. The sequence was not clear that in the end the boy’s soul would remain in GY’s body.  

After watching his Kdrama series, I feel that GY is stereo-typed in these roles the boyfriend, the good looking boyfriend who would love you forever and ever. I sometimes think that I guess it is what the market is looking for, stories that would make your heart flutter and I was thinking if GY would accept other roles which is not stereo-typed, I guess he would not be as popular as he is now.  I hope to see him portray a different but still cool role in K-drama series. I heard there are talks that GY will be joining a new series which will start shooting this August and it is a sci-fi story so this is something to watch out, I think that wish of mine was easily granted lol.

Acting-wise, I believe that GY has improved a lot. To be fair, the stories also differ as the love stories are also matched with action, comedy and important scenes which totally builds up the uniqueness of each story.  Not to forget the co-actors who are equally great and in parallel with GY. Oh well I think I will stop here as I have not yet written about GY’s movies which is on a totally different level.

To all the GY fans here, hello! I hope you are all safe and healthy nowadays and that life keeps you busy. Let us enjoy this simple life while we can and the best that we can.  Thank you to this annoyingly handsome guy who keeps us smiling. See you around!

As of today, I am trying to watch One Fine Day which was aired in 2006. I would really love to see all GY’s K-drama series  but some of them are hard to find already so I will leave it at that for now. 

[kekekq]

Everyday..

with bitter regret!!

I longed for you..

because I was foolish.

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