Ha Suk Jin + "sweet romance and adult coming-of-age"
Assa~ :D !!!

Both dramas on my list! Perfect contrasting styles.

Also, cleaning house is very attractive. Ji Ho fell for Se He watching him take out the recycling.

A drama that will make me want to clean?

I'm up for that.

That Mr. Sunshine poster is both hilarious and terrible 😲 lol

I'm in for both but I'm not sure whether I'll be with it for the long haul.

Am I the only beanie who thinks of the "Rising Sun" Japanese flag when they think about the title Mr. Sunshine? I need to get that out of my head!

I'm all in for Mr. Sunshine. I read that the production budget was something like ‎₩40 billion! The stills and teasers have looked fantastic, worthy of any movie.

Just noticed that the vacuum is not a Dyson. They're on every other drama, why would they not sponsor a cleaning drama? Missed opportunity.

If I had a housekeeper who looked (and sounded!) like Ha Seok-jin, who cleaned up not only my house, but my life, he would be my Mr. Sunshine!

I'm so glad that we're getting a light, healing drama to help us recuperate from the heart-wrenching watch that Mr. Sunshine is sure to be.

I see that Mr. Sunshine has been added to the "currently recapping" list-- no surprise there, but I don't take recaps for granted anymore, so thanks for recapping it! It's the kind of ride that should be shared!

One couple is inhaling the scent of freshly washed bed sheet and another is raising the stink.

Choose the Perfect Partner - Your House Helper.

To be honest, kim eun sook's pieces were never on my favorite drama list. I kind of feel her dramas are overrated and maintain to achieved high ratings because of the pd works (his direction absolutely beautiful) and beautiful actors. When news about me sunshine comes out i have no excitement at all. But suddenly, yo yeon sok and byun yo han confirmed to work in it. How can i resist to not watch them? And when i watch the highlight i could feel their hardwork and totality to potraying they role. Yo yeon sok holding a sword and byun yo han playing a melancoly playboy are enough for me to watch this show. Hopefully this time her drama will live up the hype.

The housekeeping one i'll probably watch Mr. Sunshine i will definitely skip. Cannot stand LBH he seems so smarmy all the time.

Definitely checking out both. I feel bad for any show that is up against Mr. Sunshine, though. I feel like it will take all the ratings in Korea.

I hope it becomes an international mega hit. I was on a Kdrama break when Descended and Goblin came out so I missed out on all the super big obsessive live watch fun!

If this one isn't a hit, then hopefully Memories of Alhambria is. I just want to be in the live watch mood for whatever hit there is. Hwayugi live watch was a lot of fun, but it wasn't a super big crazy international hit.

Goblin’s premier was surpassed expectations, so I wouldn’t expect any less with Mr. Sunshine with the biggest budget in the history of kdramas.

i’m excited to maybe catch ha suk jin’s bc i like him for some odd reason even though i dont know much from him but 1% of anything which is one of the worst things i’ve ever watched. there r some underdog dramas from kbs that i honestly love (suspicious partners!!!) so.

also: i’m....lol. i hated goblin (i couldnt concentrate because of the horrid age gap) and lee byung hun is atrocious and it SUCKS because kim tae ri is such a fucking force. i hope she gets a lot more work and ones that i can watch because shes so incredible. i am wondering if the show will end up being more nationalist leaning, which would be a concern for me if i was going to watch it buuuut im not. i hope people enjoy her though shes so *_*

So I guess KBS is officially doing the split episode thing, huh? Took me a while to realize they did it with Are You Human Too? because I watch on dramafever. It's such a bummer because even though I believe that them airing more of my favorite dramas in 2017 than SBS or MBC is still because of the overall quality of those dramas, I also suspect that them keeping the standard hour-long format really made for, well, more memorable episodes.

Hmmnn...Will you not be recapping Your House Helper? T_T

I’ll be watching Mr. Sunshine but only for Yoo Yeon Suk and Byun Yo Han. The age gap between the leads seriously erks me out. He looks like her dad to me.

The ratings for Mr. Sunshine's premiere are going to be HUGE. What's Wrong with Secretary Kim also on tvN is already pulling over 8%.

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Not really up for the hype . Part of me wishing for not a mega hit ratings because i want jo seung woo's Life be the main with steady ratings.

As a linguist one of my favourite things to do while watching dramas is to pay attention to what dialect of Korean each character is using and I've been watching dramas long enough that I can spot certain sounds, words, intonation patterns, or ways of conjugating verbs that are specific to different dialects. Of course this I can't always spot them as I've never formally studied Korean but it's very easy for English as I've been using it for most of my life. So a thing that takes me right out of a show is when characters have lived abroad (usually in English speaking countries) but their language accent and style don't match how the language is actually spoken in that particular foreign country. Since dramas have such a short turnover cycle, there might not be enough time for the actors to learn the foreign accents. But for Mr. Sunshine, with it's enormous budget, I wonder how much attention will be paid to getting the language to be accurately represented. Not only the accent but also the things like sentence structure and word choice. Especially for the hero who's lived in an English-speaking country since he was a child... what will his English be like, which dialect of North American English will they use in the show. This applies to his Korean as well... will he speak it as someone not used to speaking Korean on a regular basis, will he have an English accent while speaking Korean, etc...

Not trying to be ageist but Ha Suk Jin is a tad too old for that 'adult coming of age' tag no? Unless that one is for the heroine which I guess this one also has a huge age gap between leads?
I having a hard time sticking to a drama but this 2 also didnt excite me.... which I guess I should just go back to my webtoons
haha

I'm more excited for Helper than Sunshine... actually wanted to skip Sunshine as I'm not much of a fan of the writer (I admit I did enjoy Secret Garden though 🙂 despite its limits)... but that time period is very interesting... plus Yoo Yeonseok and Byun Yohan 😍😍😍

Soooo .... Yoo Yeon Seok is in this show and he posted a teaser photo of the cast and I was blown away but this stupendously hot Japanese bandit/ronin looking dude in the photo with scruffy bear, thin moustache, tousled bangs almost over his eyes and then I very, very slowly realized ... it was him.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bkm_LZmjkbu/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=17k8990m7eqj1

and then I was like, "No, this hotness must be a fluke" so he doubled down with a black & white close up

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkrsA5dDgrC/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=h7skbu48huz4

Like, DAMN boy. You may have found your Hot Look.

" Is there a cleaning equivalent of food porn? "

I think there is, i'm following a lot of instagram accounts that posts about cleaning and organizing stuff and guess what? they're mostly koreans and japanese.

Oh no... Otokke??? I like them both!!!! But I need to start swimming again. I need to lose weight, and my doctor order 50 physiotherapy gymnastics sessions for me.... what will I do??????????😱😱😱😱😱

@javabeans & @girlfriday, I sincerely hope one of you two will be recapping Mr. Sunshine. Come back to recapping for this; we beanies need your expertise!

Mr Sunshine is on Netflix in Canada. Your House helper is on Viki. Thank you streaming gods.

A new Kim Eun-sook drama.

Bring me out of hiding when it's over.

Lee Byun Heon has been the man for me since 2002 when all of Korea and Japan was crazy for Korean Harry Potter looking Joon sama so it's fabulous to see him older wiser and sexier.!lol

I'm so unsure as to if I should watch Mr. sunshine, I loved Goblin because it was both funny and serious. And had an intricate fantasy storyline, this drama just looks as if serious and depressing had a baby and I am never in a mood for dramas like that no matter how critically acclaimed, kinda like My Ajusshi, I don't really choose to suffer lol I can't get past the depressing feel of a show it just makes me feel like crap.