#kim yeong sang

[teashh]

I am so glad the new kdramas are bringing back the specific brand of loser men. You know which brand I'm talking about. The Ahn "min min" Minhyuk brand of loser men and I'm loving it. The "I worship this goddess and I'm so in love with her and I can't believe I get to love her. Oh my gods I love her so much" brand of loser men. And we're being fed so well with lovely runner, love next door, no gain no love, my demon, Cinderella at 2am, Hierarchy, Midnight Romance in Hagwon, doctor slump, Queen of tears, welcome to samdal-ri and even good partner (yes it's one sided but the dedication and yuri's couple too).

We need more fictional loser men who worship women to satiate our eldest independent daughter desires.

[nunafilms]

Forget about formality. As of this moment, I'm no longer your employee.

No Gain, No Love | Episode 10 손해 보기 싫어서 dir. Kim Jung Shik

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The cast of XO, Kitty cast their votes for their favorite ships and pose for the yearbook.

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[kdram-chjh]

Kdrama: No Gain, No Love (2024)

This scene was hilarious 🤣🤣 #nogainnolove #shinminah #kimyoungdae #kdrama

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[tokyohobi]

after rewatching bloodhounds again, of all the deaths in ep. 6, duyeong's & his wife's still gets me the most...he was so happy that he was about to become a father 🥺

[roadtophantom]

omg kim so hyun and son jun ho in the house!!!

with jeon dong seok, yoon young-seok, and lee sang joon 🥹🥹🥹

[neovallense]

La novelista y su película (So-seol-ga-ui Yeong-hwa, 2022)

[park-king-lot]

xo kitty is literally midsummer night's dream coded. the tangled web of love stories is so fun and chaotic!

[stuff-diary]

Bloodhounds

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2023

Bloodhounds (2023, South Korea)

Director & Writer: Kim Joo Hwan (based on the webtoon by Jeong Chan)

Mini-review:

I'm gonna be honest: I'm not usually a big fan of these type of movies/shows and I only started this one because of the wonderful Woo Do Hwan. However, color me surprised, cause I ended up loving Bloodhounds. Sure, this story has been told a million times before, but the bromance, the incredibly lovable characters (and incredibly hateful villains!) and the showstopping action scenes take this show to the next level. I'm telling you, it's a really enjoyable experience.

On top of that, the cast absolutely delivers. The show is filled with knockout (pun intended) performances, there's not a single weak link. You can tell just how hard these actors worked to prepare for all the fights and action sequences. Oh, and I can't leave out Kim Joo Hwan's propulsive directing, which left me breathless in several episodes. I do think the final scene cut off way too suddenly, and the sort-of-time-jump in episode 7 is also rather awkward, but I guess it's understandable, considering all the trouble the show went through during post-production. Anyway, Bloodhounds took me by surprise, and I think most people who like action movies/shows focused on hand-to-hand combat will love this.

[quillinhand]

ep 6 of bloodhounds was fucked up.

[kakashi-fangirl-ita-blog]

Bonjour guys, look at this beautiful family tree I made💅

The fact that Sang-Chul and Kousuke look almost identical except for the hair color has ALWAYS bothered me- like- WHY ARE THEIR EYES SO SIMILAR??? AND THEIR SKIN TONE?? AND ALSO THEIR EYEBROWS EXCEPT FOR THE COLOR?? The way their jaw is so morbid(??) compared to Nol and Rand's???

I can't think of Kousuke being the son of that🤢 man🤮 like- he's the son of both Yui and Young-Chul?? DUDE, HOW UNLUCKY CAN YOU BE.

Caption on the left: "I don't think that Sang-chul is Yui's son though"

Caption on the right: "The problem is that... It would make so muh sense"

[nunafilms]

A handwritten apology letter won't excuse you from trying to kill me with those hate comments. I didn't write them with such malice. So you meant for the comments to be hurtful, not fatal? Am I supposed to respect your intent and forgive you while licking my wounds? Don't send me apology letters. I have no intention of forgiving you, or settling.

[teafiend]

Thoroughly enjoyed the shamanism/shamanistic, folkloric and supernatural horror base of the show. The mysteries were quite engaging as well. Performances were obviously top-notch, and storylines wonderfully coherent and solid too.

Skipped parts of the last three episodes but due to bits and pieces here, got most of the storyline still. Ended beautifully and hopeful.

A superb 8.0-8.2.

The themes the show touched on varies and fascinatingly relevant, and I thought weaved into the folkloric and shamanistic aspects well. Human greed, wickedness, the sociopathy of the rich/powerful, will-to-live/survive, family/generational trauma, economic hardship, a sprinkle of socio-economic issues in South Korea were threaded logically and with sensitivity.

That said, the emotions about those issues could be better provoked. This was a mostly cerebral show for me, and moved me more in the mind than heart. Still excellent though.

I think one could write reams of paper on the issues brought up here though, no least the sociological aspects of the folkloric and supernatural as it pertains to human activities and emotions. Am sure there are already studies/research about those, but the show weaved them together fascinatingly.

Could not help but feel for poor Lee Hyang-Gi and her younger sister - Mok Dan - too. They were innocents in this, and hard to fault the poor girl for doing what she did after everything she had to go through. All blame were on the older Yeoms (and the shaman; even to an extent, the parents and villagers) and their greed and wickedness (which is par for the course of the privileged, especially). And of course, girls are always - commonly - the first to be sacrificed 😡🤬😭😭😭

The more sobering fact is the show and its world is considered “reality” in certain parts of the world, and not merely fiction. The use of the supernatural to further one’s ambitions, unwholesome intentions etc are common for some people. Not that I personally think they work, just that some people certainly swear by its effectiveness.

All said though, nothing wins over “The Guest” for me personally. To be fair, while both shows share certain themes, they are quite different, and I have enjoyed both, though my heart will always remain with TG. I mean, I am still shipping the characters from TG even when I have to do it alone. The shipping potential for “Revenant” is definitely there as well, and I have read a few lovely fanfic for San Yeong/Hae Sang, so there is that. San Yeong and Hong Sae would be sweet too.

Glad I finally jumped in and completed the show. Well worth the time spent on it.

Mini-rant:

Me and SBS non-Romance dramas: 왜❓(Wae/Why?!)

What is it with SBS and the non-shippable vibes of some of its shows?

I started “Revenant” with a ship (already read a few fics) and came out the other end 😅🤔🫠 This is not the first time either. Non-Romances usually have some good chemistry too, yet 😬🫥

Solid writing, memorable performances and beautiful directing with a sleek feel etc, yet the chemistry stayed firmly platonic (for me). Why???

There must be something in the “sauce” of SBS dramas which blocks my shipping-vibes antennae. Just a roundly weird phenomenon 🫠😭😔😥

[kdram-chjh]

Kdrama: No Gain, No Love (2024)

Узнала что подруга встречается с ее босом.

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The XO, Kitty cast hanging out in Korea 2022 while filming via some of the casts Instagram