im loving your open threads sarah!! so insightful and its fun to read all the comments.im so glad there are more people who like austen, P&P is one my faves. ive had my share of people who cant enjoy it because of the baggage. but i find her writing really nice. i like bronte sisters works too.
nice book suggestions. i must read again too. last book i read was time traveller's wife. i want to read this classis the other bolyn girl. its gonna be made into a movie.
anybody see becoming jane? what did u guys think? im waiting for it too come out here or borrow a dvd.

btw, who wrote everything is illuminated?

Id say ep2 wasnt as good as ep1 but its not too bad. hehehe
Im still looking forward to this. and it does get better i feel in the next eppies.. :)
i love the ost btw.. hehehe no matter how they used the budget more for that..
i think they still got a good story here.. i like the non draggy way things are also. look forward to the next eps. i liked them better.

I LOVE HIM!

me too i ditto Yeonhee and Ilwoo is a great combo together..
though it may seem Yeonhee is quite shy around him..
and i love Ilwoo so... heheheh
he is just so meltingly handsome and cute..

I love the Wonder Girls. However, I sometimes feel a bit uncomfortable watching their performances. They are just so young. I guess you can blame Britney or Christina for starting this whole “lolita” thing. But looking back at their choreography, I think they were 18 by the time their choreography got really sexy. In any case, 16 yr. old Britney wasn’t doing lap dances like SNSD, Wonder Girls, and Kara just did at the M.net festival.

^Anonymous, I totally agree with your assessment of Sang Woo. To me, he has a bit of a sleazy side, and is rather cowardly. Episodes three and four also highlight the fact that he's rather stuck-up and foolish. (Am I the only one who's sort of half-hoping for In Soon and the teacher to get together?)

And it doesn't help that I think that Kim Min Joon's acting is very awkward. He has a weird sort of rhythm in his delivery, and has this weird pattern of overacting, then underacting, and overacting again. Sorry to all the fans out there, but to me, he's just not selling the character of Sang Woo very well at all. Thank goodness the writer and director are pitching in wherever he needs help.

As for episode two...I rather liked it, although yes, it wasn't as good as episode one. I think it was because it isn't focusing purely on In Soon anymore, and is delving more into the other characters. It was really the final scene in episode two that made me cry and touched me the most, with In Soon's reflection on wanting someone to call her name. Maybe I liked episode two merely because of that one scene...I don't know.

For me, it was episodes three and four that were rather more lackluster than episode two...although they do introduce some interesting developments in the older characters. Maybe episode five will get things really rolling...I guess we'll see.

I don't really understand all the fuss around Yoo Seung Ho... Honestly he's good but I was not really drawn to his performance...

I prefered the acting of Baek Sung Hyun as Young Jang Bo Go in Emperor of the Sea. It was the only time I really apreciated looking at the childhood of the main characters in a drama. He was awesome, for a 15 years old boy at the time, he certainly had one hell of a charisma.

Coming back to your comment that's also something that's been bothering me. I already can't bear singers and actresses wearing overly revealing clothes and exposing themselves almost naked, I feel sick seeing they put so much make-up on these girls and make them act like they're not their age.
Talent is good yes but living your childhood to the fullest is also important.

When I was 12/13 years old, girls putting make up like that where seen, excuse me for the word, as "slut". Now it's like it's become the norm and young girls acting simply their age and not disguising themselves as adult are laughed at by the others. And who can blame them? With this kind of images on TV, there's no way young girls who are at an influential age can't be badly influence.

I'm also in awe when I see young children's excellent acting ( I've taken a linking to Shim Eun Kyung, seen her in several dramas she's just too cute. Must be the dimples, I'm week against them) but they should not rush in turning them into adults. There's a limit.

Worst case must be Park Shin Hye. They do so much stuff to make her look older and act old character, please give her a role her age or around it. Can't believe she's 4 years younger than me, feels like the opposite.

Dunno If somebody has already pointed this out, but I just noticed that the song "Cleaning" by Kirots in the first pack is actually the korean version of the opening song of the anime Mahou Sensei Negima: "Happy Material" .

Personnally I have a preference to the japanese ver, much more "punchy", it has also been declined in several versions. For the curious you can always download it on irc://irc.rizon.net/nipponsei or by Bittorrent on their tracker here :http://nipponsei.minglong.org/index.php?section=Tracker&search=Mahou+sensei+Happy+material
[easier on the archive bot on IRC as the files are old]

It's a bit late but I downloaded all the Coffee Prince packs without listening to them...
Hope this post doesn't get unnoticed

can't believe the girls in the girl groups are my age! i know girls generally mature faster but still... i agree with u javabeans