To The Beautiful You Review

Title: To The Beautiful You

AKA: For You In Full Blossom

Genre: School, Teen, Romantic Comedy, Sports, Gender switch

Episodes: 16

Broadcast period: Aug-2012 to Oct-2012

Cast: Choi Sulli, Choi Min Ho, Lee Hyun Woo, Kim Ji Won, Suh Joon Young, Kang Ha Neul, Ki Tae Young, Hwang Kwang Hee, Julien Kang, and Kim Woo Bin.

The story starts with Goo Jae Hee (Choi Sulli) a young girl living in America having problems fitting into the American society. Everything changes when she one day sees athlete Kang Tae Joon (Choi Min Ho) on TV doing high jump and setting a record. Few months later she hears that he hurt his leg and is unable to do sports anymore. So Jae Hee decides to move to Korea and attended his school in order to help him in any way possible. The only problem is: he goes to an all-boys school. So she decides to dress up as a boy and enroll. Arriving at the school she is treated as ‘the new kid’ and put through several of tests, except from Cha Eun Kyul (Lee Hyun Woo) who becomes her close friend.

With a luck of faith she is put in the same room as Tae Joon, but her hero is not as she had expected him to be, and every day she has to struggle not to be found out…

Another Hana Kimi drama with another group of popular idols. Compared to the other two (Japanese and Taiwanese) this is the exact copy of the Taiwanese, except that the melo has a capital M. Simply put I watched it till the end because it reminded me of the very first drama I had watched, but it also reminded me why I never re-watched it. This drama is basically a girl going to a boy school where the pretty boys (every boys is pretty by the way) all dress as if they just stepped out of a magazine, because of an unreasonable idea of thinking she can help her idol, and surprisingly some of the boys fall for her. Oh and also she ends up in situations where the lead has to save her all the time. Min Ho and Sulli I can’t even look at them without face palming myself, mainly because the characters are too easy to act and basically have 0 depth. Though Min Ho has grown an inch since the last time I’ve seen him act.

It is a popular genre, but I have grown too old and too bored with these dramas, so don’t ask me whether or not I recommend it.

☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥ / 3 out of 5 hearts

Creating Destiny Review

Title: Creating Destiny
AKA: Making Destiny / Making Fate
Genre: Romance, Family, Comedy
Episodes: 31
Broadcasr period: 2009-Oct to 2010-Jan
Cast: Eugene, Ki Tae Young, Kim Jung Nan, Jung Suk Won, Lee Sung Min, Byun Woo Min and Ryu Sang Wook.

After loosing his wife Han Kyung Tae (Kang Nam Gil) leaves Korea, emigrating to Australia, with his two daughters Han Sang Eun (Eugene) and Han Hyo Eun (Kang Byul), and father-in-law Yoon Suk Joo (Im Hyun Sik). One day, 20 years later, his oldest daughter, Sang Eun, comes home with an American boyfriend telling her father and grandfather that she wants to marry him. Her father disapproves, and decides, behind Sang Eun’s back, to call a childhood-friend Kim Taek Soo (Choi Sang Hoon ), whom he has in Korea, to set up an engagement for his daughter and Kim Tae Soo’s son, Kim Yeo Joon (Ki Tae Young). He sends Sang Eun to Korean, saying that if she stays there one year he will agree to the wedding with her American boyfriend. Nor seeing any other options, Sang Eun, unwillingly, meets Yeo Jun, who is the ultimate bachelor and doctor that doesn’t date women, saying he has no interests in them. The both bump heads, and refuse to date each other, even though his family, his mother, his father Kim Tae Soo, his grandmother, his uncle and his sister Kim Yoo Hee(Kim Jung Nan), who has a 7 year old daughter, try their best to make them coupled.
Tired of their families involvement, Sang Eun and Yeo Jun, form a alience to pretend to date, in order to shut them up, much to Kang Se Won’s (Ryu Sang Wook ),( a former classmate of Sang Eun, and brother to Kang Hae Sung(Byun Woo Min ), former flame of Yoo Hee and father of her daughter, who left them (unknowing he had a daughter) because of his fathers dissaprovel) who has fallen in love with her. But he isn’t the only one against it; Shim Hyo Rim (Lee Sung Min), the stepsister of Jung Kyu Han (Jung Suk Won), best friend of Yeo Jun, is in love with Yeo Jun, and tries her best to make her leave..

Honestly, after waiting for so long and wishing for so long, the drama of my imagination came. I usually like to make my own dramas, and make stories about them, and this drama is the first one that reminds me of, one of my made up ones. Yeah, it’s typical and completely Korean, but it has so many different stories muddled up, and mixed together that you completely don’t notice that you are in a different story. I liked that the focus shifted from the main couple to the sister of the main actor and her love story, and that the supporting actors, male and female, didn’t have a shot at breaking them up. Though I got annoyed at the “I’m an elder, that’s why I’m allowed to decide your life” kind of annoyed me, a lot. Ill never fit in the Korean society.. :S
But to be honest, I REALLY enjoyed it, even though it had 31 episodes, every episode was good. Thumps up!

☆☆☆☆½ / 4,5 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥½ / 4½ out of 5 hearts