Golden Cross Review

Title: Golden Cross
Genre: Drama, Revenge, Romance, Thriller
Episodes: 20
Broadcast period: 2014-Apr to 2014-Jun
Cast: Kim Kang Woo, Lee Si Young, Um Ki Joon, Han Eun Jung, Jeong Bo Seok, Lee Dae Yeon, Jung Ae Ri, Jo Hee Bung

Golden Cross is a shadowy society that dominates the Korean economy and marketplace, with its deep financial power, only 0,2% of the elites know of this secret society. Newly graduated prosecutor Kang Do-Yoon (Kim Kang Woo) gets entangled into one of Golden Cross’ deal, when one of their plot gets his beloved sister brutally murdered, and coldly accused his father for it. Do-Yoon vows to get revenge from Seo Dong Ha (Jeong Bo Seok), the powerful man behind the organization. It only get more complicated when he finds out that Seo Dong Ha is the father of the woman he loves, his colleague, prosecutor Seo Yi Re (Lee Si Young). Despite her father Yi Re is a rightful and truth-seeking prosecutor, who does not leave any doubt in her cases. Meanwhile her father Seo Dong Ha, supports a protégée, businessman Michael Jang (Um Ki Joon), whose greed and ambition soon makes him challenge his mentor for the top spot. A clash of wills, fortunes, and egos commences.


From the beginning I decided not to watch this drama actually, that was because there were a lot of other dramas I wanted to watch instead, and the casting and plot didn’t really interest me so it never got on my list. But recently I read somewhere that Golden Cross was one of Koreas most underrated drama ever, and sometimes it’s true, never trust the Koreans rating system :b Anyway, so I watched it, aaaaaand… Damn, i gotta say, whoever said the drama were underrated spoke the truth. It was really exciting and good. When I watched the few first episodes, I said they destroyed my faith in humanity, and now they have the rest of the drama to restore that faith. I don’t want to spoil anything, but it wasn’t completely restored.
I loved the love story, they make me wonder if it’s possible to love a person that much.
The one I feel the most bad about is Um Ki Joon, ottokaae how is he going to restore his image, omo, he played the most hateful character ever. Here is a fun fact about the drama :b That character was supposed to be played by Park Si Hoo, but because of his scandal KBS decided to replace him. Despite his scandal I would rather have Park Si Hoo play it !

☆☆☆☆½ / 4½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥♥½ / 4½ out of 5 hearts

Poseidon Review

Title: Poseidon
Genre: Action, drama
Episodes: 16
Broadcast period: 2011-Sep to 2011-Nov
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55
Cast: Lee Sung Jae, Choi Siwon and Lee Si Young

Lee Soo Yun (Lee Si Young ) became a coast guard officer after her father goes missing, and dreams of finding out the truth of his dissapearence. Kim Sun Woo (Siwon) is MPCO in the Korean coast guard, after being degraded from the special force unit for an incident that lead to his co-workers death. Kwon Jung Ryul  (Lee Sung Jae) is a CO also of the KCG, he lost his wife in a similar case as the one of Sun Woo where the coworker had the same tattoo mark on her chest as his wife.  That tattoo is known to be from the infamous Choi Hun Goon, the leader of the black trade almost like a ghost. Everyone getting close to him ends up being murdered or disappears.

When Jung Ryul   fails a mission by mistaking a ship for CHG’s ship, he is called up by his boss, who tells him to make a team of police officers that are going to be under the section 9; unit for  unsolved cases. But in reality it’s a section for the search of CHG. The tomboyish and rude Soo Yun, and the Casanova and pretty face Sun Woo get to work together: even though they didn’t see eye to at first, they somehow evolve as partners…

Hmm, I usually like Korean police dramas, they somehow have intrigue and character, but this was just boring. I was yawning most of the time, and even the action, the corruption and the love story didn’t get my attention as it should have. I can’t really put my finger on the reason, but somehow it just became a bad drama. The lead actress was infuriating me, like if you can’t rely on someone else don’t talk big, seriously. And somehow Siwon wasn’t able to overcome his looks, somewhere in the drama I went, oh good acting, but suddenly he would change, and I would get annoyed. As I said the love story was way too shallow, they should have just left it as friends, like it felt like a teenage push and pull game, dumb really.

On the other hand, it has funny moments, where I laughed, Siwon is hot and the story somehow gets your attention, but you’ll lose it with ease, or I did anyways. So if you want light version of the police confusion, this is your pick.

☆☆☆½ / 3½ out of 5 stars

♥♥♥ / 3 out of 5 hearts