#shim eun-kyung

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Seoul Station (2016)

Seoul Station is a prequel to Train to Busan and feels like it. I mean that this is a cheap-looking, uninspired and forgettable cash-grab made only because the original film was successful. If you saw this animated movie first, you wouldn’t be interested in seeing more - live-action or not.

Former prostitute Hye-sun (voiced by Ryu Seung-ryong) learns her boyfriend Ki-woong wants to pimp her out online. She runs away from him, just as a mysterious disease begins spreading among the homeless people of Seoul. As soon as one of them dies, they come back as crazed flesh-eaters that attack anyone in sight. When Ki-woong (voiced by Lee Joon) is confronted by Hye-sun’s father, he and Suk-gyu (voiced by Ryu Seung-ryong) begin searching.

There’s nothing wrong with making an animated horror zombie movie but “Seoul Station” never takes advantage of its medium. In fact, the only reason it doesn’t feature live actors appears to be so it could re-use assets. Look carefully at any scene and you’ll spot the same one-armed ghoul multiple times with - at best his shirt colour-swapped. As Suk-gyu and Ki-woong frantically drive down the streets of Seoul, there isn’t another vehicle in sight. There’s no trash either and no pedestrians walking. The city’s so clean, it practically sparkles even once the apocalypse begins. The backgrounds look fine but the characters move stiffly and unnaturally, as if they’re assets from a video game someone’s hacked to create a movie.

There’s an admirable attempt to start a conversation about Korea’s lowest class: the homeless and women who are in abusive relationships or forced into prostitution. Unfortunately, the conversation goes nowhere. So what if the first people infected were homeless? It’s not like going to a hospital and getting the best medical care money can buy would prevent you from succumbing to the disease. So Hye-sun’s troubled background puts her at risk of getting bitten by the undead. It’s not like the same couldn’t be said about every other person in the country. All this cast of characters offers us are unlikeable, weepy people in a zombie movie that does NOTHING new. Keyw ord is weepy. There are almost as many tears shed as blood. You understand it’s a traumatic experience, that these people don’t know they’re in a horror movie, but come on. Over and over, they make dumb mistakes. The most common is forgetting to shut doors behind them. If you liked these people, you might get annoyed. Since you don’t care if they live or die, you hope they get what they deserve and wind up ghoul chow.

There’s a twist at the end of the film so unbelievable I have to talk about it. When Hye-Sun, Ki-woong, and Suk-gyu finally reunite, the woman is horrified. He’s not her father… he's her former pimp! You didn't see it coming but let's go over a couple of things to make sure we understand it all properly. In the middle of the literal end of the world, Suk-gyu decided to go to a hospital whose entire population was turned into monsters, confront the police and army, climb up a building with gnashing teeth at his heels, and run people over… for what? a couple of hundred bucks a woman stole from him? Even if it was a lot of money, did he think she would be carrying them in her nonexistent pockets and purse? It’s preposterous; a twist for a twist’s sake.

Even if this was a good-looking movie, if you could latch onto the characters and if it were genuinely frightening… there would still be no reason to see Seoul Station. Unlike Train to Busan, which made the familiar genre feel new with an innovative location, this movie is content with the basics and nothing more. You’ve already seen this movie a thousand times. (Original Korean with English subtitles, May 21, 2021)

[kaipanzero]

Seven Secretaries: The Movie

七人の秘書 THE MOVIE (2022)

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[filmbook21]

[whenlovetriestoleave]

park min-ji, euddeum shim, jang eun sil, & hwang bityeoul by lee gyuwon for w korea hair by kyung min jung, makeup by bom lee

[binging-asian-dramas]

The One and Only. 8

Story: 8

Acting: 10

Chemistry: 10

Comparable to: If You Wish Upon Me (kdrama) ; Doom at Your Service (kdrama) ; May I Help You (kdrama)

Definitely need a box of tissues handy for this one, even the synopsis should give you fair warning before diving in. It’s a bit of a depressing drama throughout really, nothing upbeat at all, but It’s well written and extremely well acted, both main leads were fantastic.

[junkobato]

[splinteredsoul]

Masquerade (2012)

dir. Choo Chang-min

[stuff-diary]

Revenant

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2024

Revenant (2023, South Korea)

Directors: Lee Jung Rim & Kim Jae Hong

Writer: Kim Eun Hee

Mini-review:

I finally got the chance to watch this, and it didn't disappoint at all. I love me a good horror thriller, a genre that's very in rare in the world of k-dramas, and this one ticks all the boxes for me. Sure, it's not super scary or anything, but it does know how to be creepy as hell. And while it was the central mystery that kept me hooked from beginning to end, I also appreciated the way they used individual "cases" to build up the main plot, especially during the first half. On top of that, the show is superbly acted, with Kim Tae Ri being particularly excellent in a sort of dual role. But really, I don't think I have a single complaint. Revenant is truly that good, and I will certainly add it to my favorite dramas list.

P.S. There is a lot of triggering content throughout its twelve episodes, so be careful with that and make sure to check warnings.

[teafiend]

Let me make a detour from my usual KDrama rare pairs to fangirl scream about this pairing. This show has tropes galore to make a shipper like me go squeeing to high heavens. Love this for me and the show, truly❣️

While not wholly a rare pair as this pairing from the drama itself has a number of high quality FMVs to fangirl over - and the overwhelmingly more popular ship with viewers - and there exists a tiny amount of fics in Korean, on Ao3, the fics (in English) for this pairing is basically nonexistent. A sad state of affairs, certainly, but the main female character is generally beloved, and the number of FMVs enough to tide me over for a time, so all in all, this is a very wonderful ship for me to have fun with.

Compared to some of my other rare pairs, this ship is unironically a major, major comfort! There is extremely little frustration to be had although fan content is not in abundance either. A lovely, sexy and peaceful ship 🥰🥹

[k-star-holic]

'Romanticism Doctor Kim Master' Season4 Suggestion? Seo Hyun-jin Comeback Ending ⁇ Trauma Center Budget Received

[spiderliliez]

Kaho 夏帆 (as Yuka Sunada) Shim Eun-Kyung シム・ウンギョン (as Asami Kiyoura) From Yuko Hakota’s wonderful directorial debut. She also wrote the script, and it was brilliant.

BLUE HOUR  ブルーアワーにぶっ飛ばす [2019]

[crazyasianlove]

Hyakuman-kai Ieba Yokatta Ep. 5 (Sub. Esp)

DESCARGAR O VER ONLINE AQUÍ

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[1ongvacation]

머니게임 (2020)

[finemaleactors]

Shim Eun-kyung and Lee Jin-wook