#yoon sang-hwa

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"Kind, funny dad with big arms (he's the one in front in the picture).."

[junkobato]

Upcoming Kdrama April 2023 💚

10/4: Paper Moon with Kim Seo Hyung, Lee Chun Hee, Lee Shi Woo. 10 episodes; thriller, mystery, romance. Trailer

12/4: Bora! Deborah with Yoo In Na, Yoon Hyun Min, Joo Sang Wook, Hwang Chan Sung. 14 episodes; rom-com. Trailer

12/4: Stealer: the Treasure Keeper with Joo Won, Lee Joo Woo. 12 episodes; action, mystery, comedy. Trailer

14/4: Queenmaker with Kim Hee Ae, Moon So Ri, Ok Ja Yeon. 12 episodes; political, drama. Trailer

15/4: Doctor Cha with Uhm Jung Hwa, Kim Byung Chul, Min Woo Hyuk. 16 episodes; medical, comedy. Trailer

17/4: Family with Jang Na Ra, Jang Hyuk, Chae Jung An. 12 episodes; action, comedy, thriller. Trailer

26/4: the Good Bad Mother with Lee Do Hyun, Ra Mi Ran, Yoo In Soo, Ahn Eun Jin. 14 episodes; family, life. Trailer

28/4: Romantic Doctor, Teacher Kim 3 with Han Suk Kyu, Ahn Hyo Seop, Lee Sung Kyung. 16 episodes; medical, drama. Trailer

So excited for JangJang couple reunion!!!

Which one are you going to watch? 😆

*REBLOG FOR UPDATES*

[teafiend]

GIFs credited to @Nungchae (Twitter/X)

[binging-asian-dramas]

My Demon. 8

Story: 8

Acting: 10

Chemistry: 10

Comparable to: Goblin (kdrama); Tale of the Nine Tailed (kdrama); Doom at Your Service (kdrama)

If you’re familiar to the dramas above then you’ll probably absolutely love this drama. It’s a cheesy romcom fantasy that you switch your brain off. You squee, you giggle, you roll your eyes at the ridiculous dialogue and setups the characters are in/deliver but secretly love it too. I will not stop laughing and squeezing over that kiss garden. Totally ridiculous, totally cute. Oh and yeah chemistry in this, top tier.

[chocolatnoir]

[gregor-samsung]

소설가의 영화 [The Novelist's Film] (Hong Sang-soo, 2022)

[namjhyun]

DRAMA REVIEW | Not Others (2023)

This drama was a pleasant surprise. It's not that common to see a kdrama that has as leads a single mother and her grown daughter, mostly because of the stigma this kind of family stills carries in South Korea.

Thankfully, Not Others manages to not make it all about the stigma of teen pregnancy or single motherhood, it finds a good balance between every day life events, criminal investigation and rom-com. Particularly because Mom and Daughter are so unbothered by it that they carry on with a "it sounds like a you problem" when someone points out they are, within their society, wildly unconventional.

At the heart of it, there's a story of two women making their way in the world through hardships, love and growing pains. About how it's possible to choose your family and make that unit be whatever you want, not what it's expected.

My favourite part of this drama was the performances. Jeon Hye Jin and Soo-young shine as the outspoken Mother-Daughter duo. Their characters are kind, smart and brave about their life choices. They have great chemistry with each other and make you feel everything.

The rest of the cast delivers solid support. Kim Hye Eun plays the rich, cool aunt and she's a hoot in every scene she's in. Park Sung-hoon in a great counterpart for Soo-young and Ahn Jae Wook delivers as the lovable fool supporting whatever his ladies wish for.

There's also a murder mystery surrounding the central story that manages to keep it all very centered and makes all the characters interact with each other making their world better developed.

Don't miss out on this found family! Their affection it's the real deal.

[simply-whump]

Exhuma (파묘) - Whump List

Whumpee : Yoon Bong Gil played by Lee Do Hyun

Synopsis : After suffering from serial paranormal events, a wealthy family summons a young rising shaman duo Hwa Rim and Bong Gil to save the newborn of the family. A dark shadow of their ancestor has latched on the family in a so-called 'Grave Calling'. In order to exhume the grave and relieve the ancestor, Hwa Rim seeks help from top-notch geomancer Sang Deok and mortician Yeong Geun. To their dismay, the four find the grave at a shady location in a remote village in Korea. Unaware of the consequences, the exhumation is carried out, unleashing a malevolent force buried underneath. (MDL)

Genres : Thriller, Mystery, Horror, Supernatural

Warning! Possible spoilers below!

Yoon Bong Gil

(52:00) - Possessed by an old spirit (on purpose), sweating, held back, vomiting blood, back to himself, heavy breathing

(01:17:30) - Stepped on, sweating, having a “nightmare”

(01:23:53) - Steps in front of a monster to protect someone, head grabbed and squeezed, weak, monster digs his hand into his body, collapses, bleeding out, spitting blood, dying, concern for him

(01:27:55) - In surgery, concern for him, doctor says he lost a lot of blood, has damaged organs and spine

(01:32:35) - Unconscious in hospital bed

(01:34:05) - Ritual performed, talking while possessed, sweating 

(01:43:40) - Still unconscious in hospital bed, agitated, concern for him, wound treated

(01:53:42) - Possessed, eyes bloodshot 

(01:59:40) - Still possessed, screaming in pain

(02:02:50) - Spitting a lot of blood

(02:04:30) - Finally freed from the possession, exhausted 

(02:06:24) - Walking with a crutch

>> More Whump Lists

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Masterlist - Sweet Home

All - Ticking Time Bomb

Cha Hyun-Su - Coming Soon

Lee Eun-Hyuk - Coming Soon

Lee Eun-Yu - Coming Soon

Pyeon Sang-Wook - Coming Soon

Seo Yi-Kyeong - Coming Soon

Jung Jae-Hoon - Coming Soon

Yoon Ji-Soo - Coming Soon

Park Chan-Young - Coming Soon

Kim Yeong-Hu - Coming Soon

Tak In-Hwan - Coming Soon

Min Seo-Jin - Coming Soon

Kang Seok-Chan - Coming Soon

Lee Dong-Jun - Coming Soon

Ha-ni - Coming Soon

Jung Ye-seul - Coming Soon

Father Peter - Coming Soon

Bong Sun-Hwa - Coming Soon

[fake-married-my-dead-fiance]

Categorizing Parent-related Trauma for male and female leads in Kdramas:

Orphans: Lee Hong-jo (Destined With You) Moon Gang-tae (It's Okay to Not be Okay) Moon Sang-tae (It's Okay to Not be Okay) Ha-ru (Extraordinary You) Naksu/Cho Yeong (Alchemy of Souls) Tak Dong-kyung (Doom at Your Service) Nam Ji-ah* (Tale of the Nine Tailed) Cheon Sa-Rang (King the Land) Jang Man-wol (Hotel del Luna) Yoon Yi-seo (100 Days My Price) Kang Young-hwa (Moon in the Day) Kim Do-ha (Moon in the Day) So Mun (The Uncanny Counter) Do Ha-na (The Uncanny Counter) Kang Tae-moo (Business Proposal) Kang Tae-ha (The Story of Park's Marriage Contract, present version) Lee Heon (The Forbidden Marriage) Do Do-hee (My Demon) Ji Eun-tak (Guardian: The Great and Lonely God) Na Bong-seon (Oh My Ghost) Kang Cheol (W: Two Worlds) Do Da-hae (The Atypical Family) Yeom Hae-sang (Revenant) Jeong Ji-an (A Shop for Killers) Shin Jae-rim (Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale) Kim Ji-uk**** (No Gain No Love)

Half Orphans with loving remaining parent: Eun Dan-oh (Extraordinary You) Koo Chan-sung (Hotel del Luna) Ye So-ran (The Forbidden Marriage) Nam Ha-neul (Doctor Slump) Yu Ji-hyck (Marry My Husband) Kang Hee-soo (Captivating the King) Choi Yi-jae (Death's Game) Im Sol (Lovely Runner) Ryu Sun-jae (Lovely Runner) Lee Chang (Kingdom) Lee Geum, Prince Yeoning (Haechi) Gu San-yeong (Revenant) Son Hae-yeong (No Gain No Love)

Half Orphan + Remaining Parent is THE WORST: Jang Uk (Alchemy of Souls) Kim Do-ha (My Lovely Liar) Lee Yul (100 Days My Price) Ahn Min-hyuk (Strong Woman Bong-Soon) Seo Mok-ha (Castaway Diva) Gong Tae-seong (Sh**ting Stars) Kang Tae-ha (The Story of Park's Marriage Contract, past version) Yi In (Captivating the King) Kang Ji-won (Marry My Husband) Kang Sun-woo (Oh My Ghost)

Parents (at least one) are THE WORST but Both Are Still Alive: Jang Shin-yu (Destined With You) Han Yi-joo (Perfect Marriage Revenge) Ko Mun-young** (It's Okay to Not be Okay) Mok Sol-hee (My Lovely Liar) Gu Won (King the Land) Crown Prince Lee Hwi/Dam-yi/Yeon-seon (The King's Affection) Do Bong-soon (Strong Woman Bong-Soon) Woo Young-woo (Extraordinary Attorney Woo)*** Jung Ji-woon (The King's Affection) Kang Bo-geol/Lee Ki-ho (Castaway Diva) Yeo Jeong-woo (Doctor Slump) Hong Hae-in (Queen of Tears) On Eun-yoo (Twinkling Watermelon) Oh Yeon-joo (W: Two Worlds) Yoon Ji-ho (Because This Is My First Life) Nam Se-hee (Because This Is My First Life) Bok Gwi-ju (The Atypical Family) Moon Cha-min (Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale)

Immortal Being that Still Somehow has Parent Issues: Myul Mang/Doom (Doom at your Service) Lee Yeon & Lee Rang (Tale of the Nine Tailed) Jeong Gu-won (My Demon)

Added trauma flavour: Parent was murdered in front of them (**Still counts if they survived the murder Parent tried to murder them Dying from seemingly incurable disease which makes their parents/guardian sad (If your parents are alive, you must pay for it by dying yourself) Adoptive parent/stepparent is THE WORST

Somehow has normal, alive parents: Lee Jun-ho (Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Has no backstory at all. We only meet his older sister and hear nothing about his childhood.) Shin Ha-ri (Business Proposal, her family is refreshingly normal, right down to her brother being sent out to find her when she's drunk) Oh Han-byeol (Sh**ting Stars, Again, we know almost nothing about her family, only that she has twin sisters. But she doesn't appear to have childhood trauma.) Park Yeon-woo (The Story of Park's Marriage Contract, her mom being annoyed at her for something that is a crime doesn't count as bad parenting) Lee Young-joon/Sung-hyun (What's Wrong with Secretary Kim, his trauma comes from a kidnapper, his parents faced a pretty impossible situation and did their best. They clearly love their kids) Baek Hyun-woo (Queen of Tears, nothing wrong with them out of the ordinary and they are in the drama a significant amount.) Ha Eun-gyeol (Twinkling Watermelon, very loving parents and the deafness and their reliance on him is not anyone's fault)

*Counting her as an orphan even though she gets her parents back after 20 years, she spent her childhood orphaned. ***This character is tricky because I understand why her mother wanted nothing to do with her, but her trying to manipulate the dad and also saying he didn't raise her properly made me so angry. ****This character is tricky because he was explicitly raised as an orphan by his grandma, his father didn't sign his birth certificate (Korean equivalent of this), and he's registered as the child of his grandmother, not his actual mom. His grandma is dead by the beginning of the series and he is living alone without family, so I think he counts as an orphan.

Uncatagorized due to lack of clarity on parents: Soundtrack #1, Hospital Playlist, Happiness

[pb-dot]

Film Friday: Exhuma

As last week's edition of this little column succumbed to a bad case of the painbrain, I've taken steps to ensure this wouldn't happen again. This is to say I'm writing this thing ahead of time. Today, we'll be looking at a movie that combines two things I like a lot. Spooky scary hauntings with cultural relevance and procedural.

Exhuma is a Korean ghost story, and features a small entourage of spiritual experts, chiefly professional shaman Lee Hwa-rim, her assistant Yoon Bong-gil, Geomancer Kim Sang-deok and his business partner/might as well be regular partner, Burials Guy Go Yeong-geun. They're pulled together to solve an unusual problem, the spirit of a deceased grandfather coming to take his relations back to the world of the dead with him, which turns out to be the top layer of problems in a layered cake of historic and spiritual atrocities.

Exhuma is interesting in that it seems to cast the audience as the primary sceptic of the film. In a more typical ghost story there'd be some smart-aleck personal assistant or distant relative that needed to get the hows and whys of the spirit world, and probably tells the audience he doesn't believe in all that nonsense just to tell us the audience not to get attached as he is practically mincemeat already.

No, Exhuma has a very low-key approach to the supernatural. For the opening act of the movie, it's all shop talk. Hwa-Rim diagnoses the problem, Sang-Deok gets seriously bad vibes to the burial site, they come up with a shaman hack that theoretically could solve the problem but has never been field tested, and so on. The movie doesn't really exert itself to sell the supernatural stuff right away, but it clearly has a cinematographic sympathetic eye to the concept.

This isn't to say the movie holds back or tries to make things ambigious once the hauntings start, though. As soon as a freak rainshower postpones the planned cremation of the problem body and the whole spectral kit and caboodle gets unleashed from its former final resting space, the haunt is ON. A particular set of scares where the thoroughly pissed-off ghost goes to town on his family are simple but very effective, including a pretty fun phone-based scare that's basically all acting and timing, but WOW does it work.

Uncovering the true underlying source of spiritual problems, as these things often do, include digging around in some history some people would rather you'd forget. In Exhuma's case, the tale is connected to the notoriously brutal Japanese occupation of Korea and, by extension, some Japanese ghosts. It turns out they make the ghosts meaner over there, which if the ghost stories are any indication, might very well be true. It's one of those Act 3 escalations that makes both thematic and practical sense, but I personally would never have guessed at. I do find myself wondering if this spiritual occupation was an attempt at prolonging the Japanese soldier's reign of terror, or just a particularly wacky idea someone had. This might be one of those cultural ideas that I don't get, though.

Exhuma is an interesting take on the ghost story, and while it's not as scary as other, more explicit stories, it does serve up a delicious mix of spooks and specialists unwinding an elaborate and complicated mystery. Whenever I can get that without having to sympathize with a cop, I'm generally having a great time of things, and if you're anything like me on this you should give it a watch.

[utsukurou]

What if DR3 had a Korean dub?- Using Genshin Impact voices

(I didn't do Tengan because he's too old to fit anyone <3)

Kyosuke Munakata- Pyo Yeong-Jae (Zhongli)

Juzo Sakakura- Gwon Chang-Uk (Wriothesley)

Chisa Yukizome- Jeong Hye-Eun (Navia)

Ruruka Ando- Jo Gyeong-I (Yanfei)

Sonosuke Izayoi- Jeon Seung-Hwa (Alhaitham)

Seiko Kimura- Kim Seon-Hye (Ganyu)

Miaya Gekkogahara (HC voice!)- Iseul (Qiqi)

Ryota Mitarai- Lee Gyong-Tae (Aether)

Koichi Kizakura- NOBODY IN GENSHIN IS OLD ENOUGH TO BE AN OLD MAN IN HIS MID-LATE 40'S UGHHHHH

Great Gozu- Kwak Yoon-Sang (Neuvillette)

Daisaku Bandai- Bang Yeon-Ji (Klee)

[binging-asian-dramas]

Bo Rah! Deborah. 7

Story: 8

Acting: 10

Chemistry: 10

Comparable to: A Business Proposal (kdrama); Touch Your Heart (kdrama); Yumi’s Cells (kdrama)

So it’s your typical cliché classic romcom with a certain flair to it with a stellar cast. Unfortunately, it does suffer like most dramas do nowadays. It starts out excellent and starts to decline towards the end. I suppose the writers wanted to draw it out more creating more unnecessary angst. Granted I do love angst to my dramas, but when it is inserted towards the end, especially the last two episodes (everything seemed way too bloated in the last one) I tend to get grumpy. Nevertheless the romcom still feels classic, it just depends on how you watch it.

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

My fancast for the upcoming American adaptation of “Train to Busan” (Last Train to New York):

1) Robert Pattinson as Thomas Greene, a fund manager whose wife left him because of his selfishness (Seok-woo)

2) Violet McGraw as Joyce Greene, Thomas’ daughter (Su-an)

3) Tenoch Huerta as Javier Guerrero, an expecting father and Maria’s husband (Yoon Sang-hwa)

4) Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Maria Guerrero, Javier’s pregnant wife (Seong-kyeong)

5) Aramis Knight as Sameer Khan, a high school baseball player (Min Yong-guk)

6) Amybeth McNulty as Kara Parker, a cheerleader and Sameer’s love interest (Kim Jin-hee)

7) Michael McElhatton as John Barnes, a ruthless, arrogant business executive (Yon-suk)

8) Rob Morgan as the homeless man

9) Ross Butler as Raymond, the train attendant (Ki-chul)

10) Angela Bassett as Marcia, Cora’s older sister (In-gil)

11) Vanessa Estelle Williams as Cora, Marcia’s younger sister (Jong-gil)

12) Jacob Vargas as the train conductor

13) Gong Yoo makes a cameo appearance as the captain of the soldiers who save the remaining survivors at the end of the movie

[adamwatchesmovies]

Train to Busan (2016)

Train to Busan makes great use of the familiar elements of a zombie movie by centering its plot on a single location and injecting societal commentary into its plot. While this 2016 horror film does not reinvent the wheel, what it does, it does well.

Seo Seok-woo (Gong Yoo), the divorced, workaholic absentee father of Su-an (Kim Su-an), agrees to bring his daughter to Busan so she can visit her mother. Onboard the train, a young woman suddenly bites one of the attendants. Soon, an infectious disease has reduced most of the passengers to gnashing ghouls. Those who remain must work together to survive.

After introducing Seok-woo and Su-an at their home, nearly all of the story takes place inside the titular train to Busan. We get a couple of stops along the way but these are at a train station and at a terminal, which are extensions of the train itself. On top of the usual fears of having to face possessed loved ones and rampant infection, we also deal with claustrophobia. The space inside the train is already small and it keeps getting smaller. When someone becomes infected, everyone rushes to the next compartment and blocks the entrance. The safe space has shrunk. Sometimes, people are forced to hide in the tiny bathrooms, holding the door shut as best they can while fingernails scrape the other side. The limited space and ressources requires ingenuity - both from the characters and the filmmakers. This is one of those movies where you can tell writer Park Joo-suk sat down and wrote every aspect of the train he could use. Tunnels, the bathrooms, luggage, doors, passengers, etc. You feel a certain satisfaction whenever he ticks off one of these boxes - you were just wondering how the characters would deal with X. They need to use their wits to survive and you’re glad to see that they’re all pretty sharp.

You can also tell care was put in the writing by the number of well-rounded characters. Not everyone gets equal amounts of screentime but you get to know many passengers. They’re not just bodies waiting to get infected. There’s character development and growth. You understand what makes these people tick. This is also where the movie injects some commentary about our society (or Korea’s, I guess). If there’s an antagonist - besides the zombies - it’s a rich businessman called Yon-suk (Kim Eui-sung). You can see he might represent Seok-woo's future. Both are well-paid tie-wearing men who are all about their jobs, and nothing else. Both are disconnected from the world, as evidenced by their treatment of the other passengers. Unlike the altruistic blue-collar Yoon Sang-hwa (Ma Dong-seok), they hesitate to help anyone. With his relation to his daughter already strained, you can picture Seok-woo becoming exactly like the older man - and you hate that guy. He’s a worm but he’s also got power. The attendants and the train’s captain all turn to him - the rich guy - rather than the common people when a crisis arises. They don't realize he only cares about himself. Everyone is scared but his fear threatens to doom everyone. We’re used to this idea that “the worst monsters are the people” in zombie movies so it doesn’t feel out of place, and it gives you something to think about too.

The picture maintains a steady level of suspense throughout. Whenever you get a reprieve, it’s either to set up somethig even bigger or allow you to get to know the characters. Now that you care about them that much more, the stakes feel bigger than before. The body count grows, the number of people shrinks, those who remain you’re even more determined to see survive. Best of all, you’re not sure who will make will live and who won't.

Train To Busan is one of the better zombie films in recent years. It’s got the right amount of gore and suspense to keep horror fanatics happy and it shows restraint when needed to make it nice and accessible to the rest too. (Original Korean with English subtitles, April 2, 2021)

[loveseriesnmovies]

Under the queen's umbrella

Cast

Kim Hye-soo as Queen Hwa Ryeong

Kim Hae-sook as Queen Dowager

Choi Won-young as King Yi Ho

Bae In-hyuk as Crown Prince

Moon Sang-min as Grand Prince Seongnam / Crown Prince

Yoo Seon-ho as Grand Prince Gyeseong

Yoon Sang-hyun as Grand Prince Muan

Park Ha-jun as Grand Prince Ilyeong

Kang Chan-hee as Prince Uiseong

Also:

Kim Min-gi as Prince Bogeom

Moon Sung-hyun as Prince Simso

Ok Ja-yeon as Royal Consort Gwi-in Hwang

Kim Ga-eun as Royal Consort So-yong Tae

Woo Jung-won as Royal Consort Gwi-in Go

Seo Yi-sook as Deposed Queen Yoon

Kim Eui-sung as Hwang Won-hyeong

Jang Hyun-sung as Yoon Soo-kwang

Han Dong-hee as Crown Princess Min

Park Jun-myun as Court Lady Shin

Kim Jae-bum as Physician Kwon / Yi Ik-hyeon

Kwon Hae-hyo as Master Toji / Yoo Sang-uk

Oh Ye-ju as Lady Yoon Cheong-ha / Crown Princess

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Synopsis

This KDrama was aired on October 15 of 2022, going for 16 episodes.This drama is set on a fictional Joseon dynasty, with a strong queen who would give up all protocols as she struggles to make her trouble making sons into princes.

Opinion

This is a very good series, I binge watched it in a few days. I loved the queen! How strong, resourceful, and independent she was. I loved all the characters, especially the queen and prince Seongnam. I also loved how the king was very supportive of her. The series had a lot of different topics, from motherhood to sexuality. It's a drama series. There are no gore or sex scenes. I recommend this series to anyone who likes history dramas.

You can watch on Netflix