Marrying High School Girl-Movie

This movie reminds me of Sassy Girl, Choon Hyang, because the setting and the characters were in High School and they both have tales from the past.

The story is hilarious since the female character is desperately pursuing the man destined to save her from a curse...and when she starts running after him, a real riot begins...

Here's a Preview of the story:(from:http://www.redrival.com/coolstuffmovie/preview/marry.html)

First-time director Oh Duk Hwan helms High School Girl Get Married, a teen romantic comedy starring Lim Eun Kyung (Resurrection of Little Match Girl, The Doll Master) in her first comedic role! Joining her in his first screen role is Eun Ji Won, formerly of the popular band Sechskies, and now a solo hip-hop artist. Together, the two star in an "inspired by Korean legend" tale about a high school bad girl who must get married before her sixteenth birthday…or she'll die! Kyung-Gang (Lim Eun Kyung) is a notorious bad girl, renowned in her high school for being one scary, tough cookie. But when she visits a fortune teller, she's told that she has to get married before she turns sixteen, or she'll suffer the consequences: death! Immediately, Kyung-Gang sets out to find a guy, but her reputation as the resident bad girl makes every high school guy steer clear. But there's a transfer student: On Dal (Eun Ji Won), who still isn't wise to Kyung-Gang's rep. Luckily, Kyung-Gang is easy on the eyes. Unluckily, she's still one scary girl. Even worse, On Dal is scheduled to leave for the U.S. before Kyung-Gang's sixteenth birthday! Can the beauty stop being a beast before her prince hightails it for the horizon?

More..Choon Hyang Bloopers

I've seen these bloopers in You Tube...I think I could never really get tired of watching this.
The bloopers are really funny... :D




Here are the links:

http://www.youtube.com/?v=4i-BWgfOACQ

http://www.youtube.com/?v=GphNKXohgKg

http://www.youtube.com/?v=EIFH_ZXieFs

http://www.youtube.com/?v=320uPIDHFDA

http://www.youtube.com/?v=PepNVEFTsDw

http://www.youtube.com/?v=gndpAgv1Jb4

http://www.youtube.com/?v=JPFrYnmOgnM

http://www.youtube.com/?v=LUUIxm1hvuk

http://www.youtube.com/?v=B2wiuHJiWa8

http://www.youtube.com/?v=NIgiFkD-NQU

...Meteor Garden...

Come to think of it, I still don't have anything about Meteor Garden yet(in my blog)...hehehe :D

It's all because of this series why Asian Novels are famous here in the Philippines...it gave way to all the Asian dramas I'm enjoying right now.




The meteor fever still lives....







Here's some info:(I got this fromhttp://www.geocities.com/novyp/index.html)
Meteor Garden was released in 2001 based on japanese manga titled "Hana Yori Dango". The producer [Chai Zhi Ping] who was really interested on that manga, determined to make the tv series version. And so she searched for the right boys to play as the member of F4. With hard efforts from different kind of places, she managed to collect Jerry Yen, Vic Zhou, Ken Zhu and Vaness Wu to play the drama which will then given the titled "Liu Xing Hua Yuan [Meteor Garden]".The success of the drama has made the F4 as one of the famous music group in the year and they made the album "Meteor Rain" even before they finished the drama.Meteor Garden is a story about a poor and tough girl San Chai [Barbie Hsu] who study in the Ing Te university which is the university for rich people founded and funded by the F4's family. No one in university could be safe if mess up with F4 which consists of the leader Tao Ming Se [Jerry Yen], the calm and serious Hua Ce Lei [Vic Zhou Yu Ming], the playboy Xi Men [Ken Zhu], and the party freaks Mei Zhuo [Vanness Wu]. San Chai used to be brave and protected for her friends, but since in the university, she managed to stay away from trouble even if it's against her heart. Until someday she couldn't help herself on defending her best friend in the university who was accidentally made the leader of F4 : Tao Ming Se mad. Coz of that, she got the F4's red tag "You'll be dead" which make her life so miserable. But she is the wildgrass "San Chai", so she didn't want to just give up. She even declares war with F4.When San Chai is being punished by Tao Ming Se by sending people to disturb her, Hua Ce Lei always comes out to help her. And this made San Chai has a crush for Hua Ce Lei. But Hua Ce Lei is already giving his heart for his older friend of his childhood Tan Teng Cing (An Tin). Things turn to be more complicated when Tao Ming Se falls in love to San Chai.

Sassy Girl, Choon Hyang's NGs

Finally!!! ( I thought it would be impossible to find the bloopers...:D)

Here are the links for the NGs or Bloopers of this series...it's sooo funny, especially Jae Hee! hehehe... Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/?v=YvAVm3277IQ

http://www.youtube.com/?v=9XcBlN9JFzU

Crazed

I've already watched this series("Sassy Girl, Choon Hyang") for about 5 times...and still crazy over it!

I really like the drama, specially the actors. (good looking Jae Hee and pretty Han Chae Young)

I got this pic from a forum (i think this is some of their behind the scene photos)

The Outsiders- Dou Yu

It's a Taiwanese Drama series that I have watched last year. The story is about a gangster's life, which is full of violence and drama. It's a very unique story which makes it worthwhile to watch.

Here's a synopsis of the story: from Drama Wiki

Story revolves around three sworn brothers namely Yu Hao (Dylan Kuo), Shan Zi (Lan Cheng Long) and Yang Xiong Qi (Michael Zhang). They are delinquents, fighting to gain what they want, though they have never officially joined any triads yet. Their leader Hao falls for Xiao Yan Zi (An Yi Xuan), who is the opposite of everything that the boys are. She is from a family with very good background and has a bright future as a budding pianist. An ambush on Hao by a rival gang brings them together when Yan Zi saves Hao.
So the story revolves around how they fall in love and how Hao, in a bid to protect Yan Zi, ends up joining the triads in order to get protection. Yan Zi gets raped and this causes her to change such that she later becomes a part of the triads much to Hao's displeasure. The story ends with a third party, two deaths but still an ending that is far from gloomy.

Here's some clips from Dou Yu Part I & II:(from www.youtube.com)

http://www.youtube.com/?v=b5hr-yenX-c

http://www.youtube.com/?v=fJBaajwFfiE

Winter Sonata Forever!

I really fell in love with this story, it's just so simple and pure. It's all about one's first love and true love. I think the story made a great impression on the audience on life, love, and family. The team up of Bae Yong Jun and Choi Ji Woo is great, I think they are meant playing the role of Jun Sang and Yu Jin.

I got this article from www.koreanfilm.org/tvdramas/,by Diana Lee, which tackles why Winter Sonata is such A huge hit in Asia:
What is it about Winter Sonata that touches so many women of all ages throughout Asia? Upon a closer scrutiny, this Korean TV drama series offers more than a complex love story, intriguing plot twists, good acting, memorable scenes and lines, not to mention, breathtaking winter scenery backed up by melancholic music tunes. Under the crafty direction of Yun Seok Ho, the series presented a mastery of cinematic techniques tugging at one's heartstrings, like the sound and visual effects of a big screen effectively capturing one's imagination. Moreover, it addressed the perennial theme of love in all its complexity in our ever-changing society.
Unlike most tragedies with a sad ending, Winter Sonata reached a bittersweet conclusion even though everyone who had intimate connection with the two main characters paid the heavy price of emotional and mental agony. The story opened with Joon Sang portrayed by Bae Yong Jun in his finest performance and Yu Jin, played by the talented Choi Ji Woo, as two high school students who fell in love for the first time. Unfortunately, their ill-fated love suffered a cruel blow as our hero soon died in a car accident, leaving our heroine heart-broken and dispirited. Ten years later, Yu Jin found herself working on a ski resort project with Min Yeong who looked exactly like Joon Sang. Oddly enough, he was courting Yu Jin's high school rival, Chae Lin, deftly played by Park Sol Mi. Consequently, Yu Jin's uncontrollable attraction to Min Yeong jeopardized her engagement to her childhood admirer, Sang Hyuk, played by Park Yong Ha, who in conspiracy with Chae Lin, tried everything to separate the two destined lovers. When the truth came out that Min Yeong and Joon Sang were the same person and worse still, the suspicion that Joon Sang and Yu Jin were half-brother and sister, everyone involved was thrown into utter confusion, resulting in grief and detrimental pain.
Following the success of directing the TV drama series, Autumn Tales, Yun Seok Ho demonstrated his supremacy in making melodramas using symbolism, parallelism, repetition, and timing, as provocative ways to stir emotions and draw tears from the audience. The main symbols in Winter Sonata -- the star Polaris (representing Joon Sang), the missing puzzle piece (representing Yu Jin in Joon Sang's life), and the first snowfall of winter (representing the meeting of the two lovers) -- appeared repetitively throughout the melodrama to hammer the point of their significance they contributed to the story. Furthermore, the excellent use of parallelism and repetition compounded the dramatic effects in scenes -- whenever Yu Jin and Sang Hyuk were fighting, Min Yeong and Chae Lin were also arguing; when Yu Jin and Min Yeong strolled through their high school, each taking a different path, unaware of one another's presence; and when Yu Jin tried to tail whom she thought was Joon Sang in the crowd and later Sang Hyuk attempted to follow whom he thought was Yu Jin in the streets.
Although the drama is basically a love story, it tackled many contemporary themes: 1) character duality -- Joon Sang personified the dark side and Ming Yeong, the bright side; 2) identity problems -- Joon Sang searched for the identity of his father and later Min Yeong questioned his own identity; 3) different reactions to the loss of love -- Yu Jin's sad disposition, Joon Sang's escapes to America, San Hyuk's suicide attempt, and Chae Lin's drinking binge; 4) incestuous love remained a taboo in modern age; and 5) fate prevailed no matter what others did to prevent the destined lovers from getting together.
The main reason for Winter Sonata's popularity could be attributed to its bold exposition of the various aspects of love: 1) puppy love; 2) first love; 3) possessive love; 4) lost love; 5) parental love; and 6) true love. Everyone in the audience has experienced at least one or more of these different shades of love, where he or she could empathize with any of the characters at one time or another in this melodrama.
In high school, Choi Ji Woo and Bae Yong Jun in their roles convincingly demonstrated the beauty of innocence and sweetness of puppy love as they helped and defended each other. Then the puppy love blossomed into first love when their most impressionable memories consisted of things they did together for the first time. It was through this love that the gloom and anger in Joon Sang faded away when he was in the presence of Yu Jin.
The series also showed the negative impact of possessive love -- Sang Hyuk for Yu Jin and Chae Lin for Min Yeong -- in which Sang Hyuk and Chae Lin would do anything to keep their loved ones to themselves, including lying, scheming, and hurting others. When they finally lost their beloveds to the destined pair, they marched down a familiar path of self-destruction -- Sang Hyuk tried to commit suicide and Chae Lin slumped into a drinking stupor. However, mature love requires making sacrifices -- putting the beloved's happiness above everything else -- as seen in Sang Hyuk's release of Yu Jin to the revived Joon Sang, in Chae Lin's suggestion to Joon Sang to elope with Yu Jin despite everyone's disapproval of their marriage, in Joon Sang's decisions to place Yu Jin's well-being above all his needs, and in Yu Jin's respect for Joon Sang's resolution to bid their last farewell.
Even in modern times, family plays a dominant role in Asian culture. At the beginning, Joon Sang desperately sought parental love from a father he never knew, and later he could forgive his mother for all the wrongs she had done him. Suppressing her feelings, Yu Jin chose Sang Hyuk over Min Yeong to abide the wishes of Sang Hyuk's family and her own mother. As the drama unfolded, the meddling of three families -- Sang Hyuk's parents, Joon Sang's mother and Yu Jin's mother -- caused more harm than good with endless sorrow and tragic consequences to their offsprings.
Like all great love stories, true love as written in the stars exists in the one and only couple made for one another. Obviously, Joon Sang and Yu Jin were destined to be together, for they both fell in love with each other, not once but twice and could love no one else.
In conclusion, Winter Sonata delivered a tearjerker with a moving tale and unforgettable characters. It brought a paragon mate for a modern woman to life, exemplified by Joon Sang -- handsome, sensitive, intelligent, and successful in life. More importantly, he was able to love a woman with complete gentleness and understanding, even at the risk of his own welfare and happiness. In addition, the drama series successfully revealed the manifestations of love in real life, to which everyone in the audience could relate. As Winter Sonata makes its appearance around Asia, its popularity will certainly grow, for it possesses all the elements of a classic drama.

Here's a music video of this drama: http://www.youtube.com/?v=SoNqyhIXOdM

The Wedding

I enjoy watching this series...It's not so typical fairy tale story but rather a much more complicated situation of two people getting married.
It's a story of an arranged marriage of two totally different person... it's quite intresting. :)

Here's the description of the story: (from KBS Website)

“Wedding” is one of those rare stories that provide a glimpse into the “lived-happily-ever-after” life of a newlywed couple. The series begins with the wedding ceremony of the two main characters.A daughter of a rich family and a music college graduate, Se-na (played by Jang Nara) works as a house manager at a theater, and is one day introduced to Seung-woo (played by Ryoo Shi-won), a diplomat. Soon, the two tie the knot only because they “fit” each other, but as time goes by, they clash over virtually every issue due to their widely different backgrounds and life values. As the marital discord grows, Seung-woo gradually falls in love with Yun-soo (played by Myung Se-bin), his childhood sweetheart, who is so much different from his reckless wife Se-na. But watching Seung-woo grow aloof from her, Se-na, on the contrary, starts feeling attracted to him and decides to do her utmost to captivate his heart for good.

Here's a film clip from the series: http://www.youtube.com/?v=VIKEvrksXpk

Wonderful Life

This drama is simply touching... I really cried alot while watching this. I think the drama focused more on family, love and responsibility.

It's a very commendable drama for families to watch, its also an eye-opener for early marriage and responsibilty.

It's one of the best dramas I've ever watched. The cute daughter is really convincing, I could say that her role affected the other characters of the story. Eugene and Jae Won is really good in portraying their role as well.

All in all, the drama is good...it has excellent plot, great characters and wonderful settings.

Conclusion: Ice Girl

The KBS mini series, Ice gil, ended last Monday...

The ending was quite sad because Jaehui(the girl who came from life after being treated in cryogenics) died because of the complications and side effects of the cryogenics process.

She would want to live for a long time but it's quite impossible. She felt betrayed by fate and time, it made her feel like she was a living dead, although there were a lot of people who loved her, and it's her only consolation.

So she made 5 wishes to fulfill her dreams for the last time...She would have wanted everything to be back on the right places before she die, it's really heartbreaking!! Everyone is acting cool not pretending to be so sad in front of her. This really made me cry a lot.

The story had emphasized that we cannot go against nature...and love will always prevail.

Sassy Girl

Here's the wedding scene(it's the last episode)...

The last episode is very memorable, it's really cute until the end :)

It's a good thing the writers end the story well...whew...:D

Sassy Girl, Chun Hyang

I recently finished watching this Korean Drama, and I'm really hooked with it. I think it's the best comedy/romatic drama I've ever seen. The actors are just great....I think that they have portrayed their part so well that you might not realized that you're watching a drama...i't's so good to be true.

Han Chae Young and Jae Hee are quite a cute couple...their characters are really lovable. :)

This drama will surely make anyone feel good about life and love as well!!!

Here's the synopsis of the series which I got from DramaWiki:

"Sassy Girl, Choon-hyang" is the 2005 interpretation of the "Legend of Choon-hyang". The story begins when Lee Mong-ryong is transferred from Seoul to a high school in Namwon, North Jeolla Province. Chun-hyang does her best to help Mong-ryong, her first love and the son of the Namwon Police Station chief, to enter a prestigious university. However, after meeting with Mong-ryong’s first love, Chae-rin, Mong-ryong’s love toward Chun-hyang is shattered, although Chun-hyang’s love remains unwavering.
One day, Byeon Hak-do, CEO of a famous entertainment company, appears in her life. He exudes confidence that he can make any woman fall for him. But as Chun-hyang shows no interest in him, his self-esteem is damaged profoundly. Byeon Hak-do is determined to make her love him.

Ice Girl

Recently, I'm really hooked with this series...I guess I'm quite curious of the story.
It's quite different from what i've watched. Imagine, a girl back to life after being frozen for 25 years??!!!

It is shown at KBS World every Mondays and Tuesdays @ 9pm (Phils.)

Here's a photo of the protagonist...hehe...they looked cute together!!!