#yoon do joon

[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.

[mushiemadarame]

real friends grab each other by the scruff of the neck

⇢ Cha Seo Won as Yoon Tae Joon and Han Do Woo as Kim Dong Hee (Unintentional Love Story, 2023)

for @khaotunq

+ bonus, a sack of potatoes:

[trendingdrama]

" Are you ever going to show up on time? "

[S02.E01] THE UNCANNY COUNTER (2023)

[larrikin-is-a-himbo]

Things I loved about "All of us are dead" in no particular order

Realistic portrayal of how teenagers would act during an apocalypse

Dumbass ideas but ingenious creativity

Ready to throw down at anytime

How the ugliest side of classism comes out during the midst of a crisis

The found family stays together and don't go their own ways after the disaster has been resolved.

The female friendships. The sibling relationships. The male friendships. It was so so well portrayed and so many good examples of how one should be.

The euphemism of using a Zombie Apocalypse to portray how society and elders and adults constantly let down the younger generation, leaving them to fend for themselves, ultimately leading to the new generation turning bitter. But ultimately the ones im power are either completely unaware of the consequences of their actions, or they do not care.

[leedongwook]

“What’s this? This is a look I’ve never seen on your face. I can’t believe that’s her face when she was 20. Do you know her? Did you meet her? When? What? In 20 years time.”

Reborn Rich 재벌집 막내아들  // Episode 3

[gxngjae]

LIKE????!

[neovallense]

Concrete Utopia (id, 2023)

[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.

[theinfinitedivides]

oh F*CK there's a scene MBC cut out from part one that they left in the TV special and they uploaded it to YouTube but it has no subs. they're at the kibang after Jang Hyun returns from the brink of death with smallpox it's the extended version of their meal RYANG EUM IS SINGING WITH MY HEART WHILE LOOKING STRAIGHT AT JANG HYUN AGAIN WTF

[epicrox]

WARNING: slight spoiler for The Glory

NGL I genuinely assumed that they were going to make Jeon Jae Joon, from the The Glory, the male lead or one of the love interests. Since he was a bystander to the brutal bullying of Moon Dong Eun and was not seen participating physically in it (which is just as bad).

I thought they were going to make his character similar to Rui Hanazawa/Yoon Ji-Hoo from Hana Yori Dango/Boys over Flowers. Someone who was friends with bullies but didn't do much to stop it. I'm glad they didn't go through this route. I never liked the idea of it.

In the first episode, it looked like he might have felt guilty or sympathetic towards Moon Dong Eun while she was being tortured in the assembly hall. But nope, I was wrong. This man didn't give a crap at what his friends were doing and might have found the whole thing uninteresting and never his problem.

Like the man had the money and power to stop it, compared to other students, he just didn't. Like he wasn't going to lose anything from stopping it.

As the show progressed, it became clear that Jeon Jae Joon shared the same violent tendencies as his friends.

I'm currently on ep 6 so I don't how his character is going to evolve (or devolve) in the next two episodes and in Season 2.

Hopefully they criticise him for being a bystander. There could be a scene where Jeon Jae Joon is like: Why are you going after me?! I didn't do anything to you!

And Moon Dong Eun is like: You stood and watched while I screamed as they burned me. You're just as guilty as they are.

Maybe he did physically hurt her and we aren't shown it yet.

Maybe he is involved in the murder of the previous bullied victim (So-hee was it? Don't remember her name). We saw how violently he reacted when his classmate made fun of his colour-blindness.

So-hee might have angered him (NOT HER FAULT) resulting in him pushing to her death. But on second thoughts, there isn't any signs to show that he was involved in it and was probably Park Yeon Jin. Maybe he was and has gotten over it. He didn't feel any remorse for Dong Eun so why would he feel the same way for So-Hee. Probably just happy he got away with it.

This was supposed to be a much shorter post but I just rambled my thoughts. Sorry if it didn't make sense. Quite sleepy actually.

That's it.

EDIT: finished the show. I was wrong, Jae Joon also tormented her. Should’ve watched the whole show before writing this. Oh well.

was also wrong about So-Hee’s murder. Park Yeon Jin was guilty all along apparently

[moviemosaics]

Concrete Utopia

directed by Um Tae-hwa, 2023

[ohmycenchaheart]

Song Joong Ki in glasses is very, very distracting. 

In kdrama parlance, my heart flutters..

[blmpff]

imbc_news on twt 14.04.2023

[whumpily-ever-after]

9 Alternate endings for Reborn Rich

I just finished the last two episodes of Reborn Rich and oh boy.

This post is going to contain spoilers for this show, so skip this if you don't want to know what happened.

So if you are not familiar with Reborn Rich I will start with a summary.

Reborn Rich is a Korean show that centers around this guy:

Yoon Hyun Woo is a man who worked his way up from poverty to become a secretary for the Jin family, the owners of the lucrative Soonyang Group. Hyun Woo worked with a philosophy of never questioning his orders or thinking for himself. This way of working allowed Hyun Woo to make his way up the cooperate ladder and he dedicated his life and loyalty to the Jin family. This philosophy also became his downfall.

The Jin family set Hyun Woo up to take the fall for embezzlement and ultimately led to Hyun Woo being murdered after he was sent on a job by the Vice Chairman of the Soonyang Group.

(Right before Hyun Woo is shot in the head and falls off a cliff.)

Hyun Woo dies and then he wakes up in the body of a child who happens to be the youngest grandson of the Jin family, Jin Do Jun.

(Young Do Jun. This young actor did an excellent job in the two episodes he was in)

He finds himself thirty years in the past as a different person but with all of the memories of his past life. Do Jun then sets out to find out who was responsible for his murder and to destroy the chance for any of the Jin heirs to take control of the company and the wealth that goes along with it.

So, my first sentence was a lie. This show actually centers around Jin Do Jun who was once but is no longer Yoon Hyun Woo.

(Jin Do Jun who looks exactly like Yoon Hyun Woo to the audience, but not to any of the characters in the show apparently)

However, all of Do Jun’s actions are influenced by his previous life. But the show spends so much time in the past that finding out who was responsible for his murder no longer seems so important.

Now for the real reason for this post. Episode 16.

This post is going to get long and spoiler-y so I will continue under the cut...

So episode 15 ends with our male lead Jin Do Jun in a fatal accident. (this accident happens in 2002) At the beginning of episode 16, we are in a hospital in what I believe is Turkey but we are not with Jin Do Jun.

The show jumped back to 2022 and to Yoon Hyun Woo, who apparently did not die when he was shot in the head and fell off a cliff. He was somehow saved by Seo Min Young (the love interest of Jin Do Jun and the prosecutor fighting against the Jin family) who wants to use him to finally take down the Jin family.

We find out with Hyun Woo what happened in the past (kind of). The takedown of the Jin family happens with the testimony of Hyun Woo but not for their attempted murder of Hyun Woo. No, he was an accomplice to Jin Do Jun's murder and recorded a conversation that implicated the oldest son.

Ultimately, an unsatisfying ending that made the last 14 episodes pointless.

I am calling the next part of this post:

(9) Alternate endings for Reborn Rich that would have been significantly less dumb and not ruined the last 14 episodes

1.Grandpa didn’t die a year before Do Jun’s supposed death. Grandpa’s assistant spirits Do Jun away after the accident to where Grandpa is hiding. They pretend Do Jun is dead and the three of them continue to work to put Soonyang in Do Jun’s hands.

2. Do Jun doesn’t die in the accident but those who are on his side pretend he is dead. His recovery and plans take 20 years and everyone is surprised to see him return.

3. Do Jun’s spirit enters into Yoon Hyun Woo when he dies from the accident and that is why he was reborn as a Jin. The two of them are tied together and will continue with this cycle until the Jin family is taken down.

4. Do Jun doesn’t die but still loses everything he worked for and ends up being the one responsible for Yoon Hyun Woo’s death because he needs him to start again as Do Jun (they are in some sort of time loop, similar to the last scenario).

5. Do Jun dies in the car accident but Hyun Woo and Do Jun are actually physically identical. The Jin family is shocked when they see Hyun Woo show up to take them down. The return of their late nephew/cousin unnerves them and they make even more mistakes than they already did. (I know that Hyun Woo worked for the Jin family for a long time and someone would have noticed a while ago that he looks like the youngest grandson, but with the way this show was written, this totally would have worked)

6. The accident is less serious but still happens and the people responsible kidnap Do Jun until the management rights are officially assigned. They make sure that Do Jun will be unable to get those rights in the future. But Do Jun planned for something like this and with the help of Seo Min Young and Oh Se Hyun, they take down the Jin family.

7. Do Jun goes to the hospital after the accident but when he recovers the hospital staff drugs him so he is unable to leave. The Jin family member responsible for the accident keeps Do Jun in this state and tells the world that he died in the accident. He eventually escapes and takes down the family.

8. Do Jun is rescued after the accident but is seriously injured. Seo Min Young and Oh Se Hyun take care of him and continue the takedown of the Soonyang Group.

9. Yoon Hyun Woo was working for Do Jun all along and he went under deep cover and risked his life to take down the Jin family.

All of these are absolutely ridiculous but I had fun coming up with them. Are they really any more ridiculous than the ending we got?

If you watched the show, please add your own alternate ending in the comments.

[undisclosedmemoirs]

My guess? Young Ki is responsible for the accident and Sung Jun knows about it. Do Joon will eventually be out of the picture and Young Ki is going to get the CEO position in the end, so we will have to wait for the board meeting to see how that will happen.

I am not ready to see the downfall of Jin Yang Cheol. By downfall I mean going from a strong and imposing business man to a frail and weak old man. Nothing wrong with that, it's life and he has serious health issues, but looking at the preview and seeing him showing signs of dementia is truly heartbreaking (LEE SUNG MIN WITH HIS GENIUS ACTING).

I know he is not the best man around but the show really made us actually care for him a bit. All in all he is the antagonist of the show, but not really. He is an emperor who built his empire from scratch and wants someone to understand that. To understand the struggles he went through and what it takes to mantain that empire. Unfortunately, his first son and grandson can't grasp that idea, the second son only wants affection but does not have what it takes to take over, his only daugther is automatically out of the race and his fourth son was practically disowned. However, his youngest grandson does get it and their interactions are getting increasingly precious, even after knowing how ruthless JYC can be.

[leedongwook]

“Mr. Shin. Why are you here? Mr. Shin. Why in the world ... why are you doing this to me?”

Reborn Rich  재벌집 막내아들  // Episode 1