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,

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

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

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

First Look at Queen of Tears

If you’ve been waiting for a romcom drama that’s similar to Crash Landing on You, then this is it! Queen of Tears comes from writer Park Ji-eun, the same writer of CLOY and My Love From the Star, so it has the same vibe.  Hyun-woo (Kim Soo-hyun) is a simple company employee who falls for

Crash Landing On You (Episode 10)

(Originally published on January 20, 2020) I was going to wait until the end of the series before I wrote a positive review of Crash Landing On You. But the epilogue of episode 10 was just too much – there’s a surprise cameo by Kim Soo Hyun! You know you’ve been watching too many KDramas

One Ordinary Day (Episode 1)

Omo! Kim Soo-hyun is back in a very interesting role. One Ordinary Day is based on the BBC series Criminal Justice. Kim Soo-hyun plays a college student who finds himself accused of murder after a drunken night with a random woman. He wakes up and finds her dead from violent stab wounds. At the end