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 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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Queen of Tears: List of OSTs

I’ll gather all the OSTs here for our convenience. 1. “The Reasons of My Smiles”  by Seventeen Translation from genius.com Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh Ooh, ooh [Verse 1] Following my beating heart My steps towards you It’s like flying above the clouds Like the times in my dream Only if you are waiting for […]

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Queen of Tears: Mark Your Calendars

Saturday, March 9 — as if we didn’t know already. This kdrama is so heavily publicized by Netflix. I don’t mind spoilers. In fact, I welcome them so that I can: a. focus my attention on the other 10,001 moving parts of the story, b. relax and not fret about plot twists, and c. decide […]

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