All six episodes will be released on Friday, Sept 25. I assume however that this is going to be a two-season kdrama like “Kingdom.” They’ll show the first 6-episode series this year, all at once on the same day, then release the next 6-episode series sometime next year IF the first series garners positive ratings.
It stars Nam Joo Hyuk (male lead in “Weight Lifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo” and “Bride of Habaek”) and Jung Yoo Mi (sorry, never heard of her before). There’s an 11 year age gap between the two in real life, but I don’t care if she’s his noona as long as the kdrama itself doesn’t make a big deal of it… like those Jung Haein’s dramas, “Something in the Rain,” and “One Spring Night.”
Here’s the synopsis from Asianwiki.
An Eun-Young (Jung Yu-Mi) is a new nurse teacher at school. She has a special ability to see jelly like monsters that are made from residue of human desire and she can also eradicate these jellies. She uses a toy knife and a BB gun to take out the jellies. She senses that a mysterious event takes place at her school
Hong In-Pyo (Nam Joo-Hyuk) is a Chinese language teacher at the same school. Hong In-Pyo has a special energy. In order to protect the students, An Eun-Young and Hong In-Pyo work together to eradicate these jellies.
source: Asianwiki
Here are the trailers.
It looks like fun, doesn’t it?
Already laughing at the trailers. I could use a comedy.
ah yes Jung Yu-Mi – haven’t seen Train to Busan but I enjoyed the drama Que Sera Sera because of her. @packmule3 if you watch the epilogue of the very last episode of Reply 1994 her character has a cute encounter with Chilbong 🙂
yup, adding this to my list
I can’t wait to watch it too. I read the book already. Hopefully the adaptation will be more fun. I heard the drama is written by the author, too.
Where did you read the book? 👻
Thanks @pkml3. I’ll reserve judgement on this until I watch it, if I watch it. I have watched both the leads in other shows and was not convinced by them. Still I give shows and actors more than one chance.
I love Jung Yumi! She was in my first Korean drama Que Sera Sera. Eric Moon and her formed a great couple in this drama and in Discovery of Love. The drama Live about cops was pretty good too. She was great in Kim Ji-Young: Born 1982 with Gong Yoo (their 3rd movie together).
I’m not a big fan of NJH. Start-up looks pretty boring.
This drama looks so fun and unique. I’m really excited!
There is a translated excerpt here
https://koreanliteraturenow.com/fiction/excerpts/chung-serang-school-nurse-ahn-eun-young?platform=hootsuite
but where to find a full translated version of it?
Dear friends, how are you?.
I’ve been watching “Unsung Cinderella”, a Japanese Drama about the work of pharmacists in a clinic, it has been interesting as a workplace drama but it seems to me as a comment on how restrictive roles can be in several occasions and how much more work must be put to get things done inside rigid structures… it is a good thing that characters can still find happiness and a balance in spite of it all.
“Monsters Share House” is still a good J-Drama for me despite its silliness since they show the Youkai not as fixed entities nailed to their lore (which is also explained) but as breathing and very funny archetypes. The Gyaru Yamamba buying merchandise in Onizon got me in stitches XD.
Both are recommended.
Changing topics, for you lovers of “Crash landing on You” there is this little gem of an actual North Korean defector lady talking about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031hSpajP6s
Ms. Yeonmi Park makes sure to show how it was living there, but I will not spoil it 😉
Love to all (especially @GB, @PM3 and @Barbrey) and hope to be reunited with all of you soon in another Drama!!!
Hi there dear FGB4877, good to know you’re keeping up with dramas.
I’m still in the mood for silly, light and romantic stuff in between my heavier viewing. I just picked yet another cdrama rom-com, “Way Back Into Love” to tide me over while waiting for more subs for “Dating in the Kitchen”.
The thing about many modern cdramas that have work or the workplace as the setting, is that they really get into the ins and outs of work life or give us practically slice-of-life workplace scenes, and the romance is somewhat off to the side and not the main event. That’s pretty good too, considering that we get a romance/sweetness overload from kdramas – and sometimes, inappropriately too, (Alice [2020] comes to mind).
I find that these modern cdramas take a practical view of romance. It happens but it’s in the course of living and living is important.
“Way Back Into Love” is an office romance between a rigid nit-picking male boss and his ex-school mate with whom he had a misunderstanding. This show gives about 50:50 attention to work and to the romance, with the de rigueur side characters to add variety and give us added info on other aspects of the leads.
I was watching “Missing: the Other Side”, but for some reason (maybe it’s been preempted?) there were no new episodes over the weekend. That show turned out to be getting better than Alice (while Alice was getting worse), although, I guess, it’s less popular. At least there’s no inappropriate romance and the ‘mother’-son relationship is troubled but natural, and likely to be touching sometime down the road.
Yes, @FGB4877, do keep in touch over here and may we meet on the same show thread again!
Dear @GB, mmmm… I am getting sold on the “Dating in the Kitchen” idea. Generally speaking since I live in another pseudocommunist country I tend to avoid their Dramas, so I haven’t payed much attention to Chinese Dramas. I hate misplaced jingoism and if I feel I am getting preached on the virtues of the misery I am living in… then I am out.
But ironically even if sometimes I love to have some food for thought sometimes (like in “Flowers for my Life”… hur hur), usually I tend to look for escapism like the fluff that usually comes from these countries. It is strange as hell =D .
But if you tell me that certain C-Dramas let the romance go in the backburner while getting the most of everyday life, then it piques my interest.
Thanks again, will try it off!!!
Hi @FGB4877 … so as to be clearer now that I’ve watched more or all episodes.
These are all cdramas set in work places.
We are All Alone – has the most focus on the jobs (entertainment agent and lawyer) and the romance just sort of slipped in without fanfare. I watched all of it over a long stretch of time. Can be boring but gives a realistic view of the in and outs, struggles and successes in the world of entertainment.
Dating in the Kitchen – has great food porn and the romance develops because the guy insists on having food cooked by the girl. It does devolve into some silliness though and less emphasis on the work. I’m waiting to watch more to see if it’s more romance or more work or 50:50.
Le Coup de Foudre – had a youth romance that continued into adulthood. The company startup ups and downs and what the leads did to solve their problems took centre stage in the 2nd half of the show, and the romance was reasonable. I watched the whole thing. Our comments are here in BoD.
Way Back into Love – I’ve only watched the first 12 episodes and this one has more empahsis on the romance than on work, but it’s interesting what the startup company tries to do as it starts to launch it’s own app. A point of interest is that the ML does not know that he looks serious and uninterested when in actual fact he feels the opposite. This, of course, leads to misunderstanding. I’m watching to see if he gets more appropriately expressive after they become a couple.
There was another show revolving around real estate agents, but I didn’t like it and dropped it, and I’ve even forgotten the title! 😀
The first three minutes of this drama shows us a young girl experiencing existential angst. Before continuing this comment, I checked with Professor Wikipedia to get a bearing on Existentialism. I believe this phrase in the article describes what the young lady is feeling at the moment we meet her: :…a sense of disorientation, confusion, or anxiety in the face of an apparently meaningless or absurd world.” Here’s what she tells us herself in her voiceover: “The world I see is a secret. And I was destined from birth to help others in secret. Fuck.” Because she simultaneously lives in two worlds–one seen by others, and one only she sees–she must develop skills to maneuver between the two in order to survive. The absurdity of her existence rises because what she does in her secret world to help others in her real world is unrecognized by those she helps. She’s had a unique gift since birth, the ability to see “jellies,” and she must balance her role as a helper–what gives significance to her life–with the realization that the efforts, risks, and sacrifices she undertakes will be unknown.
I find it interesting she doesn’t question that her uniqueness is meant to help others, rather than be suppressed or used for self-enrichment.
@Packmule3, please check your email. I’ve sent you my notes on ep. 1. Do with them what you will. I don’t promise to be as thorough with all six episodes.