Jung Il woo will forever be my favorite. He was my first Kdrama crush. I always will talk about Flower Boy Ramen Shop as it was my first drama and Jung Il Woo left a huge impression on me...so much that I watched The Moon Embracing the Sun and 49Days. AND I WILL FINISH Golden Rainbow even through it is too much like an American Drama to me. Jung Il Woo is a great actor. He can be serious and he can be very funny with his talk lanky self. His facial expressions are seriously Aegyo too!!!
Jung Woo Sung
Jung Woo Sung OMG what can I say about this Man.... OMG his role in "A Good Rain Knows" where he spoke English the whole time #YASSSSSS but the role that really got me well the 2 roles... His characters in A Moment to Remember and Sad Movie. If you ever have a moment check out these movies and remember your tissues, you'll need a whole box. If you want action then check out Musa or The Good, The Bad and The Weird.... He is a true Oppa tho he might even be an Ahjussi LOL (he is a little bit old)
Kim Soo Hyun
Do Min JOON!!!! LOL My Love From The Star was on of the best dramas of 2014. But I first saw this guy in The Moon Embracing the Sun! He was amazing! Plus he is super cute in a puppy dog way.
Kim Woo Bin... This guy came into my life as Choi Young Do the Second Male lead who you really wanted to get the girl. Kim Woo Bin has an excellent look he can either be a school boy like in the Drama School 2013 or become a Gangster like in Friends 2. He started as a model so that's why he know's how to werk the camera.
Also starring in Heirs.... Kang Ha Neul!! His storyline was quite odd as he was in love with his tutor and the main story line follow the characters played by Lee Min Ho (who will not be on this list) and Park Shin Hye and the lovely guy above. Hopefully I will get to watch the movie he did with 2pm's Jun Ho. Looking at him makes me think that my taste for Korean Idols are those who are more manly than flower boy....
Here is a bonus pic of Jun Ho. >>>>
He is a cutie too!
And now....
Song Jae Rim who I first paid attention to him in Moon Embracing the Sun as the King's great protector. Apparently he was in Flower Boy Ramen Shop I later saw him in Inspiring Generation... Kim Hyun Joong's last Drama before his like went well... Baby Mama Drama... smh. He's been in a few other Drama's and was on a season of We Got Married! Song Jae Rim is a low key actor....
Well that is just one list of awesome actors I am sure that there are many more I can mention now but I will save them for later!!!
If you thought Cinderella's step-mother was the worst, KDrama moms make her look like Mary Poppins. I re-read that sentence and thought: "Am I exaggerating," and realized no I am not.
First let me just state this, starting this blog and attempting to work on it the way that I really want to made me realize I haven't watched enough Kdramas. I am trying to figure out how I can watch more so that I can provide better examples, because one day we will all be tired of references to "Boys Over Flowers."
SIKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah Right "Boys Over Flowers give Drama-addicts life!
So let's start there:
Goo Jun Pyo's (Lee Min Ho) mother... Kang Hee-soo aka President Kang. Seriously this woman is known for some of the most down right awful situations. Her son Goo Jun Pyo, the rich boy, meets Geum Jan Di, the poor (I would say middle class because they were making it, to me I think it is ok for a teen to have a job, makes for good work ethic skills, regardless she was quite poor for the likes of President Kang). Kang was very controlling of Goo Jun Pyo anyway, but then he had to go and fall in love with the poor girl. Mother couldn't have this. She put so many obstacles in from of Goo Jun Pyo and Geum Jan Di, like how about the time she had her kidnapped.Or the fact that she had kept her husband who was in a coma but alive in a secret place, but told everyone include her children that he was dead, which really drove both of her children to literally hate her. As the K-Drama audience we kind of hate her, but it it wasn't for her the main characters really wouldn't have any obstacles that literally make the show worth while (aside from the sexy F4).
2013's drama That Winter The Wind Blows (starring the super handsome oppa Jo In Sung and one of our beloved F4 members Kim Bum), is another drama with an Evil Matriarch.Wang Hye-ji – Officially a secretary, she runs the company and is Oh Young's caretaker. She is not really her mother but step's into the role after years of being in an affair with the father. Of course Oh Young was sort of a "bitter blind b*tch" as she wasn't very kind to this secretary, but Ms. Wang deserved it as she knew the condition Oh Young was in with having something on the brain causing her blindness but never had it taken care of with a simple surgery. This made Oh Young rely on Ms. Wang even though she didn't fully trust Wang. That's a pretty difficult life to live to be blind and know the person caring for you is the reason you are blind and behind the divorce of your parents.
We see evil mothers and step mothers but how about grandmothers? In Moon Embracing the Sun, there was, Queen Dowager Jung-hui,
Mother of King Sungjo and Grandmother of Lee Hwon (Played by Kim Hyun Soo who was in the recent hit "You Who Came From the Stars") Talk about Bad Grandma...this lady put a hit out on the girl her grandson had fallen for, because of political reasons. Luckily the "shaman" who was ask to take the little girl out had been asked by her late sister to keep the girl safe. So instead of killing her she made it seem like the girl died then hid her for many years. But Karma is can be a bigger b*tch than these evil mothers. Let's just the Queen didn't fair so well in the end.
Other mothers aren't evil so much as they have just made poor decisions or good decisions that their son or daughter mistook for a poor decision such as in the drama Padam Padam, where we the character Yang Kang-chil, played by sexy Oppa Jung Woo Sung (go to Netflix and watch his movies you laugh, you will cry, and you will fall in love with him) calls his mom for help and watches her basically hang up on him. He took it as his mother didn't love him and abandoned him, come to find out his mother only didn't want him around as there was a detective that came around looking for him and mom was trying to protect him.
There are MANY other evil mothers, but this sort of gives you a clue about the evil mothers of Kdrama. We hate them but let's face it without them we wouldn't have the obstacles that out beloved main characters must get thru during the storyline.
If you are a veteran K-Drama viewer than you are familiar with the Male Lead on a K-Drama. If you are a newbie than you need to get familiar with him.
First understand that there are actually two types of the Male Lead. Type A and Type B, right now let's focus on Type A.
The Famous Goo Jun Pyo total type A!!!
Type A is the most arrogant, and cruel jerk that the female lead will always fall for eventually if not immediately.
Also as the meme above says they are ridiculously rich. For instance K-Drama god, Goo Jun Pyo, Male Lead Type A of Boys Over Flowers, was the Heir to the Shinhwa Group, a huge conglomerate.
And of course as mentioned before Cha Chi Soo was another arrogant Richie Rich, who was the Heir of the Cha Group.
Even Lee Yoon Sung from the action romance thriller, City Hunter, was arrogant and rather rich, even though his storyline and reasons for existence are tad different from the flower boy characters above. (Lee Yoon Sung actually got his hands dirty).
Through the course of the drama the Type A will eventually learn to be kind and that money doesn't define him or love. He will only care about the female lead's well-being and making a way for them to be together, whether that means going against parents orders (that is another big theme) or going against another male lead (best known as the second male lead another theme) or they have to get over themselves, such as the biggest jerk (to me) Baek Seung Jo of Playful Kiss. It took 15 episodes for him to get over himself and tell Oh Ha Ni how he really felt. AISH!!!! Thinking about it angers me. I love Kim Hyun Joong (obviously) but that character AIGOO, he infuriates me (ok so he reminds me an ex no need to re-hash). Even after he expressed his feelings he still doesn't treat poor Oh Ha Ni very well, I mean his lines before their first time was not very caring.
Do Min Joon Saving Cheon Song Yi
The Male Lead that we don't usually talk about (probably because we lump them in one catorgory) is what I will call Type B. He is of course gorgeous just as his counterpart. Type B may or may not have money. If he is rich than having the money is no big deal, in other words it doesn't define him. Sometimes the female lead (who they have fallen for) has money. Type B is often not as big of a jerk as Type A. He may be a jerk, but this maybe due to different circumstances, than having been born with a silver spoon in his mouth. Take the current drama "My Love from Another Star" and the male lead, Do Min Joon. He tries to be uncaring towards Cheon Song-yi, but just in words and not in actions. Many times Type B has a mysterious or reckless past. For instance, Kim Tan, male lead from the recent hit K-drama The Heirs, was sent to America, because of his illegitimate status as a son/heir. Although this character is similar to Goo Jun Pyo, Kim Tan is not a jerk toward his love interest. Also in My Love from Another Star, Do Min Joon just so happens to be a 400 year old alien, and has watched Korea develop over that time, of course this means in order to keep people from being suspicious he's had to have false deaths. Then there are those who have a reckless past such as the male lead in "When A Man Loves," Tae-sang, who was once the right hand man to a mob boss, is able to turn his life around and becomes a successful business man, pining for a young girl's heart. Similar characters can be seen in Jung Woo Sung's "Padam, Padam" and Jo In Sung's "That Winter That Wind Blows" where the male lead ha been a thug or is seen as a thug but is very caring and is trying to live differently. There is also the unknowing type B lead. This can be seen in 49 Days with the characters, Han Kang and The Scheduler (who although is not the male lead is a huge presence and deserves to be mentioned.) In both situations they seem unknowing of what's really going on. Especially poor Scheduler. (Oh how I could cry.)
Scheduler and Song Yi-kyung (not the main couple but still male lead worthy to be discussed
No matter the circumstance the Male Lead, type A or type B is really just sort of a tragic hero (he just usually doesn't die). He starts as a person we really don't like at least we don't like his personality. This is his flaw. Then something happens to him and this evokes pity (or in the case of a K-Drama fan, love). Unfortunately its been a long time since my High School Honors English class and also a long time since I studied Aristotle so all I can say is in the end the female lead (and us) fall madly in love with the Male Lead. We fall in love because of all of the above. NUMBER ONE these guys are like way HAWT!!! I mean come on they are usually gorgeous. Oh yeah and he has money DUH!!! Now I'm not saying I'm a goldigger, but look at all the fancy trips they take (usually to JeJu Islands), the cars they drive, and the make-overs they give (to the female lead). In addition to good looks and money, once the male lead is in love with the female lead he does anything he can to have her. Goo Jun Pyo couldn't swim, but learned to swim for Geum Jandi. Why? Because he never wanted to have to see another man save his Jandi. Cha Chi Soo, gave up the Cha name, lost his inheritance and went AWOL from the military to have his Eun Bi. Eventually we have no choice, but to fall in love with The Male Lead, that is if we don't fall head over heels for the Second Male Lead. (Yoon Ji Hoo Saranghaeyo)
Kang Ha Neul!! His storyline was quite odd as he was in love with his tutor and the main story line follow the characters played by Lee Min Ho (who will not be on this list) and Park Shin Hye and the lovely guy above. Hopefully I will get to watch the movie he did with 2pm's Jun Ho. Looking at him makes me think that my taste for Korean Idols are those who are more manly than flower boy....
Here is a bonus pic of Jun Ho. >>>>
