Fifth Year of Watching KDrama

This week marks my fifth year of watching KDrama. I slowed down a little because of a tragic event earlier this year. I’ve started watching again but I’ve become more picky. I find myself falling asleep if the story is not compelling enough. I don’t feel guilty anymore dropping a drama when it becomes too

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 Umbrella

You know it’s a Park Ji-eun drama when she writes a rain scene with the lead guy holding an umbrella over the lead girl. He will be holding it in such a way that the girl will be totally protected from the rain, while his own broad shoulders get drenched. Come to think of it,

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

Supporting Actors (Part 4)

In case you’re wondering where you’ve seen these Queen of Tears actors before, they were part of the cast of Money Heist: Korea. Jang Yoon-ju who plays Mi-seon in QOT, Hyun-woo’s countrified sister, was the arrogant Nairobi in Money Heist. Lee Joo-bin who plays Da-hye in QOT, the swindler wife of Soo-cheol, was the hostage

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