What Are We Watching in April 2024?

These new dramas caught my eye. 1. Parasyte: The Grey Three things you should know about this kdrama: One, adapted from a Japanese manga. I get the sense that Korean screenwriters/directors have a different worldview from their Japanese counterparts when it comes to good vs evil. In many Korean post-apocalyptic dramas, the objective is for […]

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Happy Easter!

Alleluia! Alleluia! Jesus Christ is risen today! Alleluia! From the gospel of Luke… They found the stone rolled away from the tomb; but when they entered, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were puzzling over this, behold, two men in dazzling garments appeared to them. They were terrified and bowed […]

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Queen of Tears: Ep 5 Quick Takes

I’ll write more in-depth about this episode perhaps later this week. But for now, I want to leave this out here so readers of this blog don’t miss a few important points. Especially in the emotional ending of this episode, I don’t want you to dismiss it as nothing but makjang. No, it isn’t. Remember […]

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Queen of Tears: Ep 3 My Brief Notes

I must write this quickly in order to begin Episode 4 before this weekend. 1. The flashback Do you recall that old saying that life flashes before your eyes just before you die? Well, when HaeIn was about to be gored by the boar, what flashed in her mind was the day HyunWoo took her […]

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Queen of Tears: Ep 2 My Notes

Another entertaining episode. 1. HaeIn’s illness Don’t you just love how kdramas always manage to find one outlandish disease, either factual or fictional, to move the plot? Her cloud cytoma disease appears to be fictional. According to her physician, the tumor cells are dispersed throughout her cranial nerves, but the most concentration is found near […]

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Queen of Tears: Ep 1 First Impressions

Great first episode. 1. The Mr. Cinderella story seems ripped from the headlines. In case you don’t know… The Samsung Group heiress Lee Boo-Jin married her bodyguard, Lim Woo-Jae, in 1999 and divorced him in 2015. During the divorce proceedings, it was revealed how Mr. Cinderella’s married life closely imitated a kdrama. For instance, it […]

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