Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryou Review

Title: Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryou

Genre: Historical, Romance, Time-travel 

Episodes: 20

Broadcast Period: Aug-2016 to Nov-2016

Cast: Lee Jun Ki, IU, Kang Ha Neul, Hong Jong Hyun, Kim San Ho, Yoon Sun Woo, Byun Baek Hyun, Nam Joo Hyuk, Ji Soo, 

During a total eclipse of the sun, a 25-year-old 21st century woman, Go Ha Jin (IU), is transported back in time to Goryeo Dynasty. She wakes up in the year 941, in the body of 16-year-old Hae Soo and there, she encounters the many royal princes of the ruling family. She initially falls in love with the gentle and warm 8th Prince Wang Wook (Kang Ha Neul), and later Wang So (Lee Joon Gi), the fearsome 4th Prince who hides his face behind a mask and is given the derogatory label "wolf dog". Meanwhile, rivalry and politics ensue among the princes, in a fight for the throne, as Hae Soo finds herself unwittingly caught between it all.

Throughout the drama I had a lot of problems with the plot, like major problems. One of them is the total neglecting of Go Ha jin/Hae su is from the future. We can’t really categorize this as a time-travelling drama, since the only factor about it is in the first episode where she went back in time. After that… NOTHING. Some other problems came along too, but somehow when I finished the drama, and started thinking about it, I couldn’t have felt more satisfied and in love with it. There is something about it, that kept me watching till the end, and got me hooked week after week, just waiting for a new episode. So yes, those problems I had just vanished after a while, and Moon Lovers got a special place in my heart. The actors were all so good! I loved them all, I had some problems with one of them (Ehm-Baekhyun-Ehm), but he matured throughout the drama and some character growths. Lee Jun Ki and IU became one of my favorite drama-couple this year, they had a magical chemistry that’s rare to find, maybe it’s all the tragic, dark and bloodthirsty surroundings that enhanced it all. This drama is also another drama I would recommend to everyone, saeguk fan or not! 

☆☆☆☆☆ / 5 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥♥ / 5 out of 5 hearts

Misaeng Review

Title: Misaeng
AKA: Incomplete Life, Not Yet Alive
Genre: Drama
Episodes: 20
Broadcast Period: Oct-2014 to Dec-2014
Cast: Im Si Wan, Kang So Ra, Kang Ha Neul, Byun Yo Han, Yoon Jong Hoon, Yeo Eui Joo, Lee Sung Min, Shin Eung Jung

Jang Geu Rae (Im Siwan) is a lonely, quiet young man. He’s been working parttime jobs to support his mum. When his dad passed away, he had to stop achieving his dream of becoming the best Baduk player, now he is 26 and has no meaning in life. Somehow, he gets a job as an intern at a company One International, there he faces new struggles which he has never imagined. He starts a week after the other interns, and that’s why they all jumped to conclusions that he got the job via connections, therefor he is stamped by everyone as a loser. Even the manager treats him badly, now he has to start from scratch for his mums sake to stay at the company. Ahn Young Yi (Kang So Ra) is an intelligent young women, she speaks multiple languages and is an eagle when it comes to her job. Unfortunately there is a lot of discrimination around her. This drama will show the hardships and different difficulties there is in an office at a company.

I really wasn’t planning on watching this drama, but somehow here I am. This drama really had a serious real-life problem to deal with, so who am I to judge this drama. I can only say that it wasn’t horrific, but I one way or another got scared of it. I don’t know how to interpertate it in a good way, but if that’s how real work environment in South Korea is, I don’t wanna work there. Everytime  the characters went through hardships I kept thinking “now he is commiting suicide”, even though they’re not, but in my head that was the only conclusion to that misery. That was my first impression in the first few episodes, it got better towards the end. For the drama, it does a wonderful job of bringing everything full circle, and sucking you in so that you forget all about that circle until they smack you in the face with it again. There were no villains or angels, just regular people hurting and healing each other in different ways, for different reasons. I also enjoyed the fact that every episode, regardless of how sad it was included some humour. That touch was very true-to-life for me; people laugh and act ridiculous in almost any situation, no matter how miserable. As I was filling out the ratings, I thought I was being a tad ridiculous, but my heart and soul wouldn’t let me put anything lower.

☆☆☆☆☆ / 5 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥♥ / 5 out of 5 hearts

Mourning Grave Movie Review

Title: Mourning Grave
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Origin: South Korea
Release Date: 03 July 2014
Cast: Kang Ha Neul, Kim So-Eun, Kim Jung Tae, Han Hye-Rin, Park Doo Sik, Kwak Jung Wook, Joo Min Ha, Joo Da Young

A story about a high school kid, In-Soo (Kang Ha Neul) who isolated himself from everyone because of his special gift, which makes him special from everyone else. He comes from a family filled with successful exorcists, the reason behind that is that they can see ghosts, but they are not the nice ghosts. One In-soo moves to a rural area outside Seoul with his also-seeing-ghost uncle, there he befriend a special girl. Soon after abnormal activities happens at his school…


I am not a fan of horror, no, I like horror, but I can’t watch them without getting scared of everything. So I try to stay away from them. Until I accidently discovered this movie, at first I didn’t want to watch it, but the story and star-filled cast was really tempting. So here I am, a Saturday night and scarred as hell. Okay, about the movie; it was very good aka very scary! They did a good job with the ghost makeup, but also the editing, the way they made the ghost pop out of nowhere really made a big impact. The actors were good too, Kang Ha neul and Kim so-eun were so cute together, I hope they will be casted together in a drama one day. The story were also very interesting, I was really surprised at the sudden twist in the middle, didn’t see that coming at all, in my opinion that is the most important of a movie; the story. I’m going to look for more Kang Ha Neul movies now :b

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts

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