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making-sweetness Wonderful Season...
Sunday, April 27, 2014 making-sweetness Back to the top

Contrary to popular belief, this drama queen has been on hiatus from drama watching till the past couple of weeks, making that almost a year of being free from dramas.

BUT, I've recently started watching Wonderful Season on KBSworld's youtube channel and am loving it! It's a 50-episode family weekend drama about what happens when the 2nd son (Kang Dong Seok) comes back to his hometown as a successful prosecutor after 15 years of not really contacting his family. I know there's some criminal activity/mystery thing involved about the town's bigshot, whom that 2nd son has been sent to investigate...but that's actually the least of my concern. I'm much more interested in the family dynamics and the side stories involving the different family members.

I'm at episode 15 now and here's the bits I love...
1) Youngest son, Kang Dong Hui and his twin children
So he became a father at a young age and the children's mother left the twins to the care of Dong Hui and his family. However, Dong hui's mum registered the children under her name (so as not to ruin Dong Hui's future or something) instead, hence the twins think that their father is their older brother. At this point in the show, Dong Hui is trying hard to control his temper (and fighting) to be a good fatherly example, while the smarter twin has figured out bits of their birth secret and ran away to try to find their 'real parents'. Can't wait to see how this mess is going to get resolved and how the father-children relationship will be restored. While I wish that Dong Hui was played by a better actor than 2pm's Taecyeon, at least he is improving.....slooooooowly....and becoming less painful to watch.

2) Sister, Kang Dong Ok and the new doctor in town
She's got some mental disability following a childhood incident (that hasn't been revealed at this point in the show), but she's the most innocent and sweetest character in this whole drama. =) Love her interactions with the new doctor that has arrived in their town, Min Woo Jin. He seems like a GP-ST from Seoul who wants to do rural GP. Heh.

3) GRANDPAAAAA
Anything with the family's grandpa and his weird comments/actions just brighten up the mood instantly.

4) Teacher Mari
She's teaches children (including Dong Hui's twins) at the local primary school by daytime, but is actually a crazy fangirl by night. The writer has definitely got a great sense of humour as Mari is a major fangirl of "3pm", i.e. the fictional parody of the group "2pm" that Taecyeon (aka the guy who plays Dong Hui) is from. Considering that Mari and Dong Hui are most likely going to be coupled together.....it'll be a "dream come true" for her.  

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About the future plot developments....there's quite a number of conflicts to resolve and a scoundrel to catch before our main leads can get their happy ending. I'm just hoping that these plot developments come sooner, but without affecting the current character growth. In particular, I'm just hoping the 2 leads will JOIN FORCES earlier to find evidence against the main baddie instead of working alone or sacrifice themselves to "protect the other person". The conflict between the families of the leads is already substantial enough without needing this extra evil baddie killing off people left and right to provide additional tension. And it's not like I care about the whole businessy corruption storyline in this drama anyway. Heh.

That said....writer-nim, please continue to write logical, heart-warming dramas that make sense AND PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do NOT go the way of Wang's family in terms of craziness. And please give us all a nice happy ending!!! Kthnxbye! ^^

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making-sweetness Spring songs!
Tuesday, April 22, 2014 making-sweetness Back to the top

In the couple of months that I've neglected my blog to study (and watch the occasional show), winter has come and gone....leaving us with wonderful spring!!! It's been wonderful for the past few days anyway, with the warm sunshine, clear blue skies and blooming springtime flora! However, knowing the temperamental Scottish weather, I'm sure it's going to return to the not-so-wonderful cold spring rain soon. -.- HOW TYPICAL.

Anyway, here's a couple of songs suited for the spring weather! Kpop artistes seem to release different types of songs depending on the season: Tough dance-like songs in summer, Ballads in autumn, Christmassy songs in winter and Cute breezy songs in spring. Not that I mind; upbeat springtime songs make for awesome mugging music.

First up, Can't stop by CNBLUE. Other than cnblue being my all-time favourite kpop band, I chose to start my list with this as it gives the perfect transition between winter and spring as it moves from the emotional part in the verses, to the freshness of spring in the chorus. Love that twist!

Next, Drawing the line by Royal Pirates. Just grouping the bands together! They write their own music as well, but lyrics mean something totally different to the above song. The fact that they have an English version of this song (they are from the US btw) gives them extra brownie points!

Continuing with the upbeat feel, it's Ooh Ooh by Eric Nam. Yet another US-born Korean singer, but I think he took part in some korean singing reality show. Either way, loving the jazzy, finger-snapping vibe of the song!

And how can I leave out songs about innocent one-sided love when talking about springtime kpop songs? It seems to be a feature of the industry there. Here's 200% by Akdong Musician, the talented sibling songwriters who are MUCH younger than me! Feel super tempted to buy their new album since I like all the songs there....
Bonus: Galaxy, aka my favourite song from their album

Last but not least, there's 봄,사랑,벚꽃 말고 (Not Spring, Love or Cherry Blossoms) by High4 and IU. The description in the MV says it is a "Spring song for singles"....i.e. a not so subtle message to stop reminding singles of their 'loneliness' through springtime love songs. Hahaha...I'm just joking!

That's all I have for now.....so will you excuse me as I go back to writing up my last case with these songs as my BGM.

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