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Potential My Girl reunion in MBC’s upcoming Hotel King

javabeans: So apparently Lee Da-hae is looking at new dramas, like this new tidbit about her considering an MBC weekender called Hotel King. Wait, that sounds familiar… Hey, is that the Lee Dong-wook…?

girlfriday: MY GIRL!!! …Redux?

javabeans: OH RIGHT. Wait! What? Ooh! Huh? I need a second to gather my thoughts.

girlfriday: So… Lee Da-hae might be reuniting with Lee Dong-wook in a drama where he plays the exact same character as he did in My Girl?

javabeans: Screw the drama, I just want them to fall in love and date and maybe get married now. There were whisperings that they dated after My Girl wrapped, and I choose to purposely not delve into that story because I would rather just believe it happened. Maybe this will be their second chance at happiness.

girlfriday: Maybe it’s better that they didn’t date the first time around, because then that would just be awkward.

javabeans: Orrrrr… if they DID date, it would just shorten the dancing-around period and cut right to the chase where they just get married or whatever.

girlfriday: But the dance is fun!

javabeans: They can dance all they want in the DRAMA, in real life I want results, pronto. Also I have been waiting eight years apparently.

girlfriday: Clearly what we really want is a meta drama where they’re actors falling in love behind the scenes.

javabeans: See the thing is, My Girl isn’t my favorite drama of all time and I actually think Lee Da-hae and Lee Dong-wook have been way better in other shows, but for whatever reason I have SUCH a huge soft spot for that drama, and specifically them together in that drama, and that carries over into the rest of their work and lives (obviously, based on this post, although to be fair I didn’t actually realize how much I wanted them to be together until this post).

girlfriday: Do you need a moment?

javabeans: Carry on without me. *fans self* *dreams of the My Girl epilogue that should have happened, because dammit if that 5-minute ending wasn’t enough* Okay I’m back.

girlfriday: Should we maybe talk about this show now?

javabeans: …fine.

girlfriday: Wait, is this a mystery drama?

javabeans: Whaaa? Well, I guess that’s my fault for not bothering to read before getting lost in fantasies of My Girl: The Married Years. So apparently the hero is a guy abandoned by his father, which turns him cold, and then he becomes a successful hotelier.

girlfriday: Cold chaebol, check. Is our heroine a tour guide, a professional liar, or cousin-impersonator, by any chance?

javabeans: The stories tell us nothing. NOTHING! I guess we only have our imaginations to rely upon. Apparently Lee Yubi is another casting contender for the lead, and okay, I actually like her more than Lee Da-hae, BUT NOT THIS TIME. Lee Yubi can go do something else and leave my fantasies alone.

girlfriday: Hahaha. Clearly reason has no place here.

javabeans: I think really, this story has just proven (rather surprisingly, in fact) that I like My Girl a whole lot more than I thought I did. I don’t really care about this story at all, as it turns out, I just want it to happen, with these two leads. Now if Lee Da-hae declines (Lee Dong-wook appears to be fixed), then all bets are off. Otherwise I’ll see you all here on MBC weekends, beginning March 29. Not that I promise recaps or anything, or at least recaps that are about Hotel King and not My Girl.

girlfriday: I think we just discovered the one thing you’d actually write fanfiction about.

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Now all we need is a hot Lee Jun Ki

Ah, but I want him to save the country or something like that..

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Oh, I forgot My Girl was my introduction to Lee Jun Ki. I remember when he first appeared on screen my first thought was "Oh you are wayyyy too pretty for your own good." He's matured well since then--still pretty but in a masculine way.

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Omg! I remember the first time you see him on screen, he's on a bed with a Caucasian woman, and my first thought was: "oh, a lesbian couple" and: "that girl (LJK) is not very good-looking".. Ah ah XD

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*dead and gone* omg, lmao!!!

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omg that's hilarious! my mom thought so too!

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oh god, i thought the same! then lee jun ki started kicking and beating everyone up and i thought the way this person moves, this is a guy!

I think the long(ish) sleek hair made him look feminine

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LOL I thought he was a girl too! It took me five minutes to realize and I had to replay the scene to confirm that he was a man...

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omg same thoughts hilarious now since his army comeback

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Is... JB actually SHIPPING non-existing (at least, as of yet unproven) couples that don't involve her in any way???

I never thought I'd see this day.

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if the chaebol is cold, let the girl design sweaters.

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bazinga

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And pretend to be his cousin...

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I thought the rumor was that she was dating Lee Junki during/after/whenever My Girl... They certainly had better chemistry, IMO.

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That's what I thought too! They looked so cute together off screen.

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I thought Lee Junki was gay so it couldn't have happen. I think there is something going on with LDH & LDW. They just looks comfortable with each other like a couple.

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Except from the hairstyles in my girl, LJK movements are more manly than LDW. And still now, ldw is a weak muscular guy who can't have an action drama unlike lee jun ki who can do great kicks in all his projects ;)

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Lee Dong Wook exercises like crazy. He joined like 6 different baseball clubs per day. He lost a lot of weight and obviously is exercising alot. I would say he's pretty fit.

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Wait, I thought the rumors said Lee Dong Wook and Lee Jun Ki were the ones dating each other?

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Oops. Sorry, I got confused with reality and fanfiction again.

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Oh! My first drama, it seems ages ago! I thought I would die from the cheese & melodramatic melodrama at times, but then it was so cute and fun! Good times!
I don't know if I would still like it now.. But I'm definitely excited about a LDW / LDH pairing!!

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I have watched it, but I don´t remember ANYTHING

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The one scene that stuck out in my head was the kiss scene where after he kissed her she looked disappointed (as was the rest of us), and then he came in for another (better) kiss. I thought that was adorable.

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Yeah that was good...

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One of my favorite scenes from My Girl was when she fell down "naked" in the bathroom and he proceeded to wrap her body in a blanket to take her to the hospital.

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One of my favourite scenes: at the jewellery store when he plays keep away by holding up the complimentary ring in the air and she tries to jump up to grab it. (Poor LJK looking on with sad eyes)

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One of my favorite scenes from My Girl was when he was in a meeting at the office, and she sent him a pic message and he just couldn't concentrate on the meeting and his staff just looked at him like he's nuts. :D

My Girl and Delightful Girl Chun-hyang were the beginning of my love story with Korean rom-coms.

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Remember the scene where Yoo-rin scolded the lights by the roadside for shining so bright like Gong chan? Hahaha. Still laughing whenever I think of that scene to this day. And when she sang that 'certainly' song.

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oh come onnn....how can you not remember the horrible fashion in that one? ....

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I obsessed about finding several of the wardrobe pieces that Lee Da-Hae (as Joo Yoo-Rin) wore and changing my style to something similar like hers.

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I never seen My Girl my friends keep telling me to watch it but I always 4get LOL but seeing all the hype and...... its just being mentioned ..... I might put on some effort to watch it ?

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And let's be honest. How many of us are going to go rewatch My Girl because of this post? :)

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Not gonna lie I totally just did.

(I'm not positive the cutesy jokesiness holds up over the years but man the memoriiiieeeeees.)

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LOL. There's gonna be an increase in views on all the major sites thanks to this.

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I would have, but Man from the star....

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hahahaa.

Im not sure if My Girl holds up over the (9) years or gets better after repeated watches. I realize although it was very cute and everyone was fond of it, it did have some crazy plotlines that make you go wut?
Good part about having watched a show already is that you can FF to all the cute parts.

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I watched it in one sitting years ago. And I CAN DO IT AGAIN.
-fist pump-

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I am at work right now and was planning to watch My Girl as soon as I get back home. My Girl was my first love of Kdramas. I have watched it 11 times - 4 times when I was alone at home with nothing better to do and 7 times whenever a friend of mine stayed over at my apartment. I have watched better dramas since then. But it will always have a special place in my heart. Glad to see others feeling the same way :) And I am not sure if I will watch this Hotel King - the actors have indeed matured and will not be the adorable Gong Chan - Yoo Rin couple anymore. :(

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I definitely am. I remember I had such a problem starting this drama because Lee Da-Hee made me cringe at first in that opening airplane scene, but SOMEHOW I ended up adoring her character so much. And then when Lee Dong-Wook began softening I was just a puddle. They are so cute together. A part of me is iffy about this drama because I don't want them to ruin it. Somehow I'm afraid that their character's won't live up to my love of their original My Girl characters. But if they throw a few good kisses in there then I won't complain!

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Haha YES.

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my girl n delightfull chunhyang still the best rom com korean drama i ever watch, even the plot of this new drama haven't really attract me but i'll watch this because i like them in my girl

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It was also my first drama and have very fond memories of it. Although it got way too dramatic towards the end, if I remember correctly. Sigh...I'm ambivalent about them together in a drama again. Their My Girl characters are too fixed in my brain, I might have a hard time adjusting.

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Javabeans, I am so down with you on My Girl. The show that captured my heart years before I even signed on to the whole K-wave proper. Also the reason I have an eternal soft spot for Lee Dong-wook and Lee Jun-ki. I would definitely check out a show with Lee Dong-wook and Lee Da-hae in it just to see how their chemi's changed.

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My first thought: JB is drunk.

My second thought: Nah... She can't possibly typed then.

My third thought: Ah.... maybe it was GF.

My fourth thought: Both are drunk and it was all those monkeys they mentioned all the time that did it.

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Oh totally forgot. I am all for My Girl reunion. In fact I never watch Lee Da-Hae in anything else after My Girl.

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Same here. Only drama I've watch LDH in. In fact the same with LDW.

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Oh, but she was so cute in Hello Miss! Go watch it. :)

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'My Girl' is my one of my classics. I swear I rewatch this drama every 2 year. Just like JB, I have a huge soft spot for this drama. :3

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OMG, My Girl was my first drama and still one of my all-time faves. I would be so thrilled to have a reunion between LDW and LDH, especially since we so rarely get reunion pairings in kdramas. I really hope LDH accepts.

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Yeah actually can anyone think of any reunions that have happened before?

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Robber of My Heart / Bad Guy (2008)
Jang Hyuk and Lee Da-Hae

Chuno (aka The Slave Hunters) 2010
Jang Hyuk and Lee Da-Hae

IRIS 2 (2013)
Jang Hyuk and Lee Da-Hae

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This drama gives me so many childhood flashbacks and nostalgia. I can't believe it's been so long since I watched this.

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Almost all (if not all) Hong sisters drama have ah-mazing main leads chemistry that I tend to ship them all in RL. Like JGS-PSH, LSG-SMA, SJS-GHJ, etc. Haven't seen My Girl yet since I'm not a fan of Lee Da-hae, but damn I've never seen JB ship so hard for a real life couple lol. That in itself makes me wanna see the drama.

Lee Yu-bi is awesome though. So if she doesn't end up doing this, I really really want her star as a main lead in another one soon.

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My Girl made me want to flip tables, SO BAD! (In a good way, though!) I was so invested in it, and it was one of the first dramas I watched. The angst killed me! :)

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Awesome post.

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I'm one of the few who liked Lee Dong-wook better than Lee Jun-ki in My Girl (I still do) and would love a drama reunion for LDW and Lee Da-hae.

I'm also one of the few who liked My Girl more than DGCH maybe because I watched it first and because I hated the villain more in DGCH than in MG. Maybe that's why I still see UTW until now as that hated villain and don't watch any of his dramas. So if LDH declines, may I call on The Hong Sisters and the dramagods to make another drama for these two please?

If I didn't see LDW with Song Ji-hyo in Running Man, I would've shipped him with Lee Da-hae 100%. But I saw those two, and whether or not SJH has a boyfriend in real life, I like her with LDW. Sorry to those who are shipping him with his SoaW costar Kim Sun-ah, but it's either Da-hae or Ji-hyo for me. ;)

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I feel the exact same way as you - I prefer LDW to LJK and My Girl to DGCH, and I haaaated UTW's character in DGCH. I can only think of one drama character that I've ever hated more, and that was Liu Xiang in Miracle Healers (cdrama). I feel sort of bad that I still cringe whenever I see UTW because I'm sure he's a nice person irl, and I'm not usually the sort of person who can't separate actors and their characters, but I hated the character so much I just can't get rid of the negative associations.

I think that is why My Girl works better for me as a drama, because in in DGCH the main leads were kept apart solely by the endless plotting of the evil secondaries, and in My Girl it was their own white lie spiralling out of control which kept them apart. And although I know there's nothing realistic about a chaebol hiring a con artist to pretend to be his cousin, that conflict felt more organic to me. Not that I don't still love DGCH as well, but I feel that in My Girl the Hong Sisters took what was good about DGCH and refined its weak spots to create a drama that was almost perfect.

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Ok first off I had to google DGCH-
But WTH? Um Tae Woong was the hateful villain in that drama?! Wuaha I can't imagine that for the life... no no

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I did NOT like Lee Jun-ki in My Girl. Seol Gong-chan 4eva!

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I'm not sure what's better right now: this pair reuniting or @javabeans going nutso about it. It's kind of awesome. And I'm with you on the Seol Gong Chan.

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Aw yeah I've loved Lee Jun-ki in recent years, but I remember in that drama he was always switching from playboy-mode to angst-mode. Whenever I go and watch My Girl, I always feel the need to watch a bit of Arang after it because My Girl just doesn't fulfill my LJK love.

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OOOOF regarding the UTW issue, yeah. I've always had that same problem. Can We Love? is slowly healing me and he's growing on me more and more, but I do feel like my love for him is very affected by DGCH and always will be. It's like I have respect for him, but I can never get myself to fan-girl over him.

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HAHAHAHAHA JB is being a delusional fangirl. I seriously never thought I would see the day. She sounds like me when I am talking about Chaeki (Moon Chae Won and Song Joong Ki). I wonder what other couples JB and GF secretly ship. Tell us your secrets....

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I'm pretty sure almost every Hong Sister's pairing...I wonder what that means for Gong Hyo-Jin...

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Aw man. But My Girl was really crack, though. O__O I remember being hooked on it. In fact that was my first exposure and beginning of my love for Lee Dong Wook !!

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Man, for a minute, there, I was mistaking 'My Girl' for 'My Sassy Girl,' and it really didn't seem like light romantic material.

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bring it on . love LDH and LDW . both of them have the loveee chemistry. i can feel it when i watched my girl

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Love these two together. Now, can we just change the promise of the story to cater to these.

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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MAKE IT HAPPEN DRAMA GODS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Hahahaha….never thought I'd see the day when Javabeans is massively fangirling over something she didn't think she was going to fangirl over. Loved Girlfriday's closing statement.

Haven't watched My Girl but maybe now I will? Considering JB liked the main couple so much….my only issue is that I have to see one of my favoritest oppa (Lee Jun Ki) delegated to second lead….and that's pretty much why I didn't watch this drama before. Hmm...

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ahh.. the good ol' days, when LDH was still looking mighty cute and had chubby cheeks. I like her looked back then.

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I was really obsessed with her then. Hello! Miss was like an extension of her My Girl character. LDH is exceptional in rom coms (waay better than those melos she's been in).

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Yeah, the botox or whatever she's been doing has really zapped her face of its personality. :-(

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My Girl was my first kdrama and one of my all time favorite! LDW was the first korean actor I've known and still the top in my fav list. This drama was what hooked me to watch kdramas (not so much now though, i just read recaps). If LDW & LDH should team up once more then I'll definitely find time to watch it.

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Drama reunion dreams do come true! My Girl was pretty ridiculous but these two made it cute and worth watching. I can still hear the OST in my head. I hope she confirms soon!

And what's left for me is to see Gong Yoo and Yoon Eun Hye.

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I squeeeealed. I dunno, but I just hold this fond memories of My Girl, it was really enjoyable. I marathoned it like craaaazy, it caused me sleepless nights...:D

I totally, totally completely crushed on Lee Dong Wook! Pffff <3<3 Aaah good times.

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Omg I was watching My Girl last night and thinking that I wish LDH and LDW would reunite in a newer drama!!! I really hope she signs on!!!

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My Girl is one of my all time favorite Kdramas. I just absolutely love it. :)

It introduced me to Lee Jun-Ki, Lee Da-Hae, and Lee Dong-Wook. I wonder and think of them working together again each time I read casting news about projects they are considering or have signed on for.

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Loved them in My Girl..It would be great if they reunite!

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Haha. I didn't realize how common the My Girl love was around here, but i guess it makes sense. Yea it was also one of my first dramas too and I loved it to bits, it's also why I have a strange never ending love for Lee Da Hae. I'll watch the first few episodes of any drama she's in (recently it wad Iris 2 and Miss Ripley) but sadly I just wasn't feeling the storylines. Buf omg if these two get back together for a drama I will storm through non-sensical and makjang filled plots just to see them get (another) happy ending.

Come on drama gods, make it happen!

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Yay!!!!
My fav couple back to rock?????well one of my fav couple....
the first hong sisters drama i watched and loved it...
both of them have great chem between!

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This can be a My Girl part deux, where the female lead came back with a different face so the hotel chaebol can't recognize her at first.

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Temptation of My Girl

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omg yes yes yes!!!!

THIS DRAMA IS GONNA BE PERFFFFF :)

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come on MBC, make this happen for all of us.

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I remember my friend was all over LJK whilst for me it was all about LDW...Funny how a manly haircut and a millitary stint can change a girl's mind! Team LJK oppa for life ;)

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Omigosh omigosh! Make this happen now! Shipping these 2 like crazy!

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My Girl Reloaded! I'm totally on board this ship! They're one of the cutest drama couples ever.

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my girl was not the best drama out there, but definitely was my fave too (that soft spot as you said). their chemistry was undyingly awesome :') if they do reunite again, i'm all in!!!

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By God, my answers have been answered!

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Woopsie, "questions", not "answers". Too excited here!

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I mean prayers! Long day ><

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Oh dear Wookie :-)

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I'm coming out of hibernation just to SQUEEEEEE at the top of my lungs for this post!

I'm flooded with all the memories of spazzing out in ye olden days watching My Girl. This has got to happen. Like yesterday.

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Oh JB, you'd watch this just for the pairing!? Seriously? You are not high (when you typed this up), right?

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Let's not forget the OST - I had it on a loop in my iPod for ages! Made me Google the original classical instrumental piece that features in one of the key songs. I've forgotten what it is, so if Beanies could help, I'd be grateful!

My Girl was the first (and only) boxed K-drama set that I ever bought. Ah, memories: Yoorin in Jeju trying to sell Gongchan his very own mandarins, the lift kiss, the snow globe...

@javabeans, now you need to write a My Girl K-drama memory lane post!

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I thought that I'm kinda strange as a 22 years old grown girl or woman that still hoping for God to make my fav actors to date in real live, but reading this post I realize that I'm as normal as the owner of this Site.
Should I thank God for this?

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Aawww sweet. This was my third ever drama. And I love it so. Whenever I cant figure out what to watch, I cue up a random ep of this and carry on with life.

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Hope this is all true. I am so excited MG was my first KD loved it

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LOL JB getting all spazz-worthy about this pairing.
This is cute.

But both have changed so much i wonder if the chemistry still holds up after a decade. Probably gonna check this project out, but it's a weekender? Those scare me.

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GOSH! Same with JB! I shipped the My Girl couple so hard during those days and I even made them date in my role playing game world LOL. My Girl is one of my classics. I remember everything about that drama, especially that snowglobe, about how Yoorin's birthday is when it snowing, and that time when Yoorin said that love is not a lie. I definitely want to see them together again.

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DAMN IT! I need to stop commenting. I need to go watch. My Girl has always been fairly high up on my list in terms of favorite Hong Sister's dramas simply because I enjoyed the couple so much. I could care less about the couples from HGD, FC, YAB, and even Best Love getting together in real life, but I was always oddly passionate about these two.

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They're confirmed!!!! Stoked.

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