Kim Soo-hyun and Na Young-hee

Kim Soo-hyun and Na Young-hee have played son-in-law and mother-in-law in at least three popular dramas. They were in The Producers with IU. They were in My Love From the Star with Jun Ji-hyun. They were in Queen of Tears with Kim Ji-won. These two actors are the most comical and heartwarming son and mother-in-law

Queen of Tears

How did Queen of Tears achieve the highest viewership rating among TVN dramas, overtaking the highly popular Crash Landing On You? Well, it ticked all the right boxes in the KDrama formula.  QOT has a well-written script. It has all the elements: rich girl-poor boy, families with opposite personalities, chaebol power struggle, illness, money, amnesia,

Jeon Bae-soo, The Abeoji

Jeon Bae-soo is the KDrama dad who always catches his KDrama daughter in a compromising position. In Queen of Tears, he catches daughter-in-law Hae-in in Hyun-woo’s room. In Extraordinary Attorney Woo, he catches Young-woo kissing Jun-ho outside their house. In Fight For My Way, he catches Ae-ra with Dong-man. In Mr. Queen, he catches So-yong

Park Ji-Eun Bullet

You know it’s a Park Ji-eun drama when she writes a scene of the lead character taking a bullet for their loved one. This usually happens at the end of the episode so that you have to wait one entire week for what happens next. In Queen of Tears, Baek Hyun-woo takes a bullet for

What to Watch After Queen of Tears

My KDrama followers will surely ask me what to watch now that Queen of Tears is over. If you want to follow the actors, here’s a list of their other works.  Kim Ji-won (Hong Hae-in) Kim Soo-hyun (Baek Hyun-woo) Park Sung-hoon (Yoon Eun-sung) Kwak Dong-yeon (Hong Soo-cheol) Writer Park Ji-eun Director Kim Hee-won

Park Ji-eun Pink

You know it’s a Park Ji-eun drama when she writes a scene with the main character wearing hot pink doing a power move. Here’s Hong Hae-in (Kim Ji-won) in the divorce scene in Queen of Tears. Here’s Yoon Se-ri (Son Ye-jin) in Crash Landing On You giving the boys her black credit card so they

Product Placement in Queen of Tears

We haven’t waited for the next episode of a KDrama so eagerly since Crash Landing on You. Fans are impatiently waiting for Saturday and Sunday to see what happens next to Hyun-woo and Hae-in. The ratings are high, surpassing almost all of TVN’s dramas. It might even break the record set by CLOY. This makes

Jeon Bae-soo, Father of Two Brilliant Lawyers

Actor Jeon Bae-soo is our favorite dad of lawyers in KDrama. He is the dad of Young-woo (Park Eun-bin) in Extraordinary Attorney Woo. He is also the dad of Hyun-woo (Kim Soo-hyun) in Queen of Tears.  But wait, there’s more! He’s also the dad of Kim Ji-won, a lowly department store employee in Fight For

Song Joong-ki Cameo in Queen of Tears

Episode 8 is the best one yet. It starts off with the most anticipated cameo: Song Joong-ki channeling his Vincenzo character and playing the role of divorce lawyer for Hae-in (Kim Ji-won). SJK and KJW have previously worked together in the 2016 fan-favorite romcom Descendants of the Sun and the 2019 fantasy drama Arthdal Chronicles.

Queen of Tears Inspired by Real-Life Events?

There’s been speculation that the love story of Hae-in (Kim Ji-won) and Hyun-woo (Kim Soo-hyun) was loosely based on the story of Samsung heiress Lee Boo-jin. Lee Boo-jin is the daughter of the late billionaire chairman of Samsung. She has two brothers who are now chairmen of Samsung subsidiaries, while she is the president and