Flower Boy Next Door Review

Title: Flower Boy Next Door

AKA: My Neighbor Flower Boy / The Pretty Boy next Door / My Flower Boy Neighbor

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Episodes: 16

Broadcast period: 2013-Jan to 2013-Feb

Cast: Park Shin Hye, Yoon Shi Yoon, Kim Ji Hoon, Park Soo Jin, Go Kyung Pyo, Mizuta Kouki and Kim Jung San.

After some traumatic event in her younger days Go Dok Mi (Park Shin Hye) locked herself in her apartment, and only goes out once every other season, becoming a hermit. She has made her apartment her sacred place, where she lives alone, does work as an editor, and prefers not to go outside. Across the building of hers, she occasionally peeps into her neighbor Han Tae Joon’s (Kim Jung San) house whom she has had a crush on for some time. Next door, lives a webtoon artist Oh Jin Rak (Kim Ji Hoon) and his assistant Yoo Dong Hoon (Go Kyung Pyo), who never bothered her, and Jin Rak even helps her with situations she doesn’t want to deal with, and secretly loves her by the sideline.

Everything suddenly changes when a famous young game creator Enrique Geum (Yoon Shi Yoon) comes to Korea to help his childhood friend, who happens to be his first love and his brother Tae Joon get together.

Enrique catches her peeping from her apartment, and runs to confront her, basically forcing her to interact with people, which she fears. Things get more chaotic when Cha Do Hwi (Park Soo Jin), who is part of Dok Mi’s past, arrives to live in the same apartment blocks…

The drama has heart, and depth, but why doesn’t it work for me? Hmm, I honestly didn’t fall for the love triangle, nor did I fall for the lead couple. I thought that everyone did a good job, but I really didn’t feel it. Maybe I am tired of these dramas with storylines that are too typical. And omg, this one I didn’t even understand why the supporting actors where in it. They didn’t even seem worth the screen time. Anyways, yes they are flower boys, yes it is funny, and yes 80% of people watching this will love it. But I just thought it was okay.

☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥½ / 3½ out of 5 hearts

Flower Boy Ramyun Shop Review

Title: Flower Boy Ramen Shop

Genre: Romance, comedy

Episodes: 16

Broadcast period: 2011-Oct to 2011-Dec

Cast: Jung Il Woo, Lee Chung Ah and Lee Ki Woo

Yang Eun Bi (Lee Chung Ah) is basically a failure at everything. She failed her teachers test a couple of times, and she busted her first love and boyfriend cheating on her after waiting for him 2 years, to get out of the military. On that same day she meets Cha Chi Soo (Jung Il Woo), a rich fella, who not only has loads of money, but only has the looks. Eun Bi falls for him, and decides to confess to him. On the day she is to start her teaching practice she meets him on the way up to the high school, where she embarrassingly confesses to him, only to find out that he is her student. Not only her student to the founder and funder of the school’s only son…

Let me sum up this drama: a rich brat falling for the person who doesn’t care for his wealth, the teacher not noticing it, and an idiotic third wheel. Or something like that. It’s confusing, because these Koreans are so obsessive, to the point of madness, seriously. This drama somehow ended up as an Japanese Shouju manga live action, maan.. But Jung Il Woo is cute, like my suga pie :P The main reason for me to watch, and its funny, like ridiculous funny, but not all the time though. I would not really recommend it, even though the screenplay was good sometime, but it just becomes too looooooong, like yeah 16 episodes, but that’s it. Like 16 episodes of push and pull (or 14 episodes of that the two last ones are the typical, ‘Can’t be with you/I want you so bad’).

☆☆☆ / 3 out of 5 stars

♥♥♥ / 3 out of 5 hearts