Dream High Review

Title: Dream High
Genre: School, Romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcast period: 2011-Jan to 2011-Feb
Cast: Soo Hyun, Suzy, Taecyeon, Eunjung, IU, Wooyoung and JYP.

Go Hye Me (Suzy) and Yoon Baek Hee (Eunjung) have been friends for a long time, but it was more Baek Hee being a follower of Hye Mi rather than a best friend. Even though Baek Hee acts like a fan; Hye Mi somehow treats her like a little sister, since she has no other friends. Being a great singer and performing with known opera singer, has made Hye Mi arrogant, also made her believe that she is basically perfect and it has given her somewhat groundless pride. When her father goes bankrupt, the loan sharks demand that she pays back, offering her a deal. If she joins Kirin High School, a school for musical artists, and debuts early she can in three years pay it all off. She at refuses at first due to her belief that anyone who joins Kirin is a talentless fool with silly hopes of becoming a star, but when she is left without any choice she decides to participate in an audition, completely confident that she will pass. Her friend Baek Hee decides to join to give Hye Mi moral support, and also to be with Hye Mi.
Hyun Shi Hyuk (Taecyeon), aka Jin Guk, loves dancing, but he has never gotten any support from his father. He has had an interest in Hye Mi ever since they met for the first time several years ago. He follows Hye Mi to Kirin High School to see whether or not she will get accepted, there he catches the eye of the director.
Another person auditioning is Jason (Wooyoung) who’s a genius and a natural, also extremely popular and charming. A charm Kim Pil Suk (IU) has fallen for. Pil Suk has always been degraded because of her looks, so she auditioned in a costume, and caught Jason attention.
As Hye Mi and Baek Hee perform together, Hye Mi tries to over shine Baek Hee, but what happens is that the director picks Baek Hee over Hye Mi. This furies Hye Mi, and ends up calling Baek Hee a third grade person, which ends their relationship.
After Hye Mi returns home, both she and her younger sister are thrown out of their home and the loan sharks are after Hye Mi for failing the audition. Hye Mi’s father tells her to look up a friend of his, who happens to be a teacher at Kirin High. The two meet up, and the teacher runs away, only to find out that he is to be laid off his job. The director gives him a chance: if he can get three specially picked students to come to the school within the time given, he can keep his job.
The three students happen to be Jin Guk, Hye Mi and a student called Song Sam Dong (Kim Soo Hyun) a student that has made the director notice him some time back.
The teacher finds Hye Mi, and as she overhears the teachers’ conversation with his sister about Sam Dong and how she can lose her spot in Kirin High School if he doesn’t find him, she decides to go and find him.
After some time of pursuing and lying to him, he falls for her and comes to Kirin High, also at the same time Jin Guk has been persuaded by the teacher, so the three students join the opening of Kirin High School.
But due to the special treatment of the three, everyone, including the vice-director (only after the director leaves) is against them joining. So they are thrown in a special class, in hopes they would give up and leave quietly…

This drama has taken me like almost forever to watch, because it’s extremely draggy, especially if you’ve seen spoilers. Only the last 3 episodes are actually worth watching, the rest is as said draggy.
My reason for watching this was mainly Jason and Pil Suk aka Wooyoung and IU. Even though their screen time was limited and their acting average, it was defiantly worth it. Taecyeon and Eunjung were good as well, occasionally Soo Hyun acted well but his character was silly. On the other hand Suzy, not even worth mentioning. Her character honestly needed a strong actress, or else you just end up finding her self-centered, that’s what Suzy couldn’t deliver. The most annoying thing in this drama was the fact that both male leads had to suffer in order to get her attention, silly. Looks like the director really didn’t like either Taec or Soo Hyun.. tsk.. Most of the scenes were either typical or just simply silly… Not my type of drama…
Lol, on the other hand, I was actually pleasantly surprised by JYP, funny like real funny, laughed out loud many times…

☆☆☆ / 3 out of 5 stars

♥♥½ / 2½ out of 5 hearts

Cinderella's Sister Review

Title: Cinderella's Sister
AKA: Cinderella Unni / A Modern Story of Revenge
Genre: Romance, melodrama
Episodes: 20
Broadcast period: 2010-Mar-31 to 2010-Jun-03
Cast: Moon Geun Young, Seo Woo, Chun Jung Myung, Taecyeon aso.

Song Eun Jo and her mother have always been moving around, they survive with the money of the mother's men. Then one day the mother meets a man whose daughter wants her as her mother because she lost her mother when she was a child and cause the man owns a rice wine fabric and got money the mother thinks its a great opportunity for them so she agrees to get married with the man. Eun Jo's new stepsister is like really crazy about her like "unni, unni, unni.." all the time. And Eun Jo hates it so she is like being mean to her all the time and tries to push her away but she doesnt give up until Eun Jo pretends to steal the guy she likes at their school. In the mean time Eun Jo is developing feelings for a young guy Ki Hoon who works at the fabric for her stepfather. But she's a girl that doesnt really show feelings and people see her as cold, but the guy is being nice to her, he is also the girl's home tutor. Anyway the guy goes of to serve army duty and Eun Jo then tries to run away but her stepfather is like the nicest man and he convinces her to stay. Then 8 years pass and they get a little brother.. Eun Jo has become a woman who's like got really great education and is successful and the fabric is all doing really well and but there are still problems within the family especially between the two sisters. Then Ki Hoon comes back and he asks Eun Jo why didnt she stop him from going, and didnt she get his letter(her stepsister hid it). But Eun Jo is ignoring him and pretending like she doesnt even know him. And then Jung Woo (taec) comes to work at the fabric too. Eun Jo doesnt recognize him at first but then she finds out and Jung Woo he is like really hardworking cause he wants Eun Jo to be with him so he is like always helping her and being there for her. Then the fabric gets lots of problems and the father gets sick and they all get sick and problematic and the problems never stop and everything is like GAAAAAH! I dont wanna expose the whole thing so ill end it here or... yeah.

This is one of those really sad dramas. It like gets really complicated. And i like sad dramas but not that sad. Hahahah or well. Its okay that its sad but i dont like loong sad dramas (yes 20 is long for me) i guess i've gotten use to those really short Japanese dramas. Korean dramas are in my opinion reaaally complicated like.. aiyaa.. And this girl Eun Jo she like cant express her feelings so we get nowhere. The whole drama is about her and her stepsister's relationship and how the finally gives in and actually acts nice to her and then again its only because she starts feeling sorry for her because their mother was only nice to her because of her father's money but later on the father isnt there so she gets really mean. I think it was a bit to much, it took really long for them to get close to each other but i guess that's just wht the whole drama is about. Other than that its really good and like REALLY emotional. Its definitely one of those good korean dramas and its one of those u gotta watch. And its a good idea.. like seeing it from 'cinderella''s sister's point of view. A totally different story than the original cinderella. And actually the main character is my favorite korean actress. MmmHm! And not to mention taec. Now im not a big fan of him. But what u see in the drama aint bad! :P But at first i didnt like the guy Ki Hoon AT ALL! not until like.. the end. Mayb like,, when Eun Jo started accepting him then i did too, haha.

☆☆☆☆½ /4½ out of 5¨

♥♥♥♥/ 4 out of 5 hearts

Bunji's Verdict

I honestly promised myself never to watch this drama, mainly because I knew it was one of the heaviest dramas ever made, and I wasn’t into the entire Cinderella’s sister thing. But after watching Glory Jane, I had to watch Chun Jung Myung’s drama again, he’s kind a lovable. And I didn’t mind Moon Geun Young at all, so why not?

Tbh, it really is one heavy cry after cry drama; it’s to the point of you getting depressed! Like if I would’ve gotten paid for every single crying scene, I wouldn’t need a job, ever! And you know those leads where you just feel like shaking them so hard just to make some freaking progress? Yup, I felt like that every 5 minutes. I have to admit though, I really enjoyed the sister rivalry; the showdowns were brilliant! And there were times when I liked the supporting actress more, but honestly they were both so freaking annoying!

Hmm, on the other hand, this drama has EVERYTHING, from an amazing script, amazing actors to amazing screenplay and realistic people… Like even Cinderella got fed up :P hehe.. 

If you are wondering about Taec, well, I don’t really remember his character, only when he would salute :/

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts