IRON FAMILY: So far, this show has set up the most amount of fleshed out characters who are flawed, and yet have sympathetic motivations. The complexity of the interdependence of people who are seeking some semblance of their own lives and happiness has made this show the most interesting drama in a long time. I hope they can keep this up.
NGNL: I know there is a spin off coming with the second couple. However, I can’t ship them. As much as Lee Sang Yi makes a character sympathetic and likeable through his soft charm, the malicious and hurtful comments he made when he was working out his mommy issues are serious red flags. The scene that most stuck with me this week was Ja Yeon’s hurt by those comments when going over them at the police station. A person who is willing to say such hurtful things to another human being who did nothing to do him needs a lot of self-reflection and therapy before he would be a good boyfriend. Just because he carried her to the hospital doesn’t make his serious anger issues related to sexuality and relationships go away. What are they doing here?
I haven’t watched today’s episode yet but I am with you here. I do not ship them yet. I cannot. I did not like how be behaved with her when she threw the apology letter. It almost seemed like he was upset she didn’t accept his apology. No, she doesn’t owe you forgiveness. You have to earn it. May be she will never forgive you and you have to be ok with it.
I don’t think he fully realizes the gravity of what he has done. The show hasn’t convinced me that he has.
Team Ha-joon! Not only do they match better and she likes him, but he’s the CEO in her web novel that the spin-off is based off of, so I don’t know why Gyu-hyun ends up being the main character.
MY SWEET MOBSTER: Putting aside the storyline for now, the cinematography in Episode 13 was especially beautiful. The use of colors and lighting was noticeably stunning in a lot of shots.
Yang Hyun Min, the actor who plays Jae Soo, doing voices of all the characters in My Sweet Mobster may be the Kahi balm I needed to soothe over the problems I had with the show this week.
My Sweet Mobster: Besides the sweet romance, the comedy, especially the physical comedy, has been so great. Also, the other characters imitating Ji Hwan—his voice, his run—in Ep. 10 was just a chef’s kiss.
MY SWEET MOBSTER: There may be some noble idiocy going on, but wow, the acting by Um Tae Gu and Han Sun Hwa in Episode 8 was so, so good. So nuanced and yet powerful in showing how first Ji Hwan needed to distance Eun Ha from him, but how painful it was for him, and then how Eun Ha in being so emphathetic and sympathetic came to realize that he needed to distance himself from her and their shared memories. The subtle, but very much felt emotions between the two of them this episode packed a punch. Such mature, heartfelt acting in the midst of what can seem like a cartoony, cutesy show makes this show so impactful.
but also, the entire mobster fam was great. especially waiting like puppies on the stairs :-((( really like abandoned puppies. and feeling kicked away.
I hope the prosecutor told her after all otherwise he is scum.
Ji Hwan is feeling ashamed but peoples lives change. he is no lesser person for it. the preview calms my heart
My Sweet Mobster: The casting of Um Tae Goo and Han Sun Hwa is pure genius. Charisma, charm and heart in every scene, especially together. Their acting range from silly to poignant is amazing in how fully committed and spot on it is. It allows me to enjoy the ridiculous (hello, the housegang dressed in animal costumes singing and dancing!) and have the feels and squeals. This show has unexpectedly stolen my heart—no, I give it freely.
My Sweet Mobster: The voices make this show. Ji Hwan’s deep textured whisper voice and Mini Unni?Eun Ha’s bright yet fully-rounded reassuring voice. When they talk to each other, it’s magic.
I was just reflecting that between Uhm Tae-gu in Lovely Mobster, Choi Jin-hyuk in Night and Day, and L in Dare to Love Me, there are THREE gorgeous voices I get to listen to weekly! 🥰 I love your description of Ji-hwan’s “deep textured whisper” – it’s soooooo nice 😍👌✨️ Dark, sweet, and nuanced, like dark chocolate. (And I enjoy Eun-ha’s voice too)
I understand a part of his interview. Kim Hye-Yoon had to play Sol at different stades of her life. She has the perfect energy for the young and bubbly Sol. But 34 years old Sol was older than KHY and I guess the PD wanted a more feminin and collected image. You often see actors/actresses monitoring their performance to see if the angle of their face is the best during a kiss scene or things like that. So I guess, it’s what he was expecting from her.
The issue is why he needed to be harsh about it? I mean he’s the PD he just could ask politely or explaining to her. She nailed the acting part, so he could have been grateful for that instead to be a jerk.
“But Kim Hye Yoon carried the whole show on her back, no? Yoon should’ve paid more attention to directing the male lead’s acting. Also… If we’re going to talk about appearances, it’s not like the male lead is all that breathtaking either.”
That director is disgusting. I can’t believe he continue to be disrespectful to Kim Hye Yoon when she was the most amazing actor among the cast. I am glad he doesnt know when to shut his mouth and showed the world he is awful.
His privilege, ignorance and arrogance are in full display. Women are just pieces of meat and are ornamental at best. This is what misogyny is all about. We never ever hear such comments about men whether it is in SK or elsewhere. These views and comments are reserved for women so that they can be belittled and reminded that men have the upper hand. This creep is deliberately humiliating her publicly as well because he believes he can get away with it. May he be proven wrong.
Ew WTF?! Again it might be translation but when he goes from she was a daughter to me but now woman sounds really gross. She’s an actor doing her job not his fucking muse. Ew
“But Kim Hye Yoon carried the whole show on her back, no? Yoon should’ve paid more attention to directing the male lead’s acting. Also… If we’re going to talk about appearances, it’s not like the male lead is all that breathtaking either.”
This was exactly my reaction. How harsh was he to his male actors? Or all they had to do is to saunter on the sets? KHY shone in everything she did so far in her career, and she looked feminine enough in all of them, while BSW was barely noticeable in anything before this. SMH. Wow!
The bold part at the beginning about him being harsh to her… this knetz reaction seems like the typical case of blowing up a non existent issue…
What the director seems to say is that 19 yr old and 34 yr old have to come out different… 19 yr old girl is a girl, daughter… 34 has to be mature woman.. and FL had to transform to convince the same..
Seems like he is talking about the process of doing that and he is praising the actress to take the feedback and work on it.
It is apparent in BTS clips that the ambience was a happy ambience… you can’t give your best if you are unhappy..that too for a project in making for 3 years
Forget about the “Knetz”. Did you read the PD’s comments? This is my last reply to you but his interview is replete with denigrating and hateful comments about KHY looks and how he regards her. Thinking critically is a useful skill. Try and develop it.
You should have read the original comment to see what part i referenced.. no need to act so rude just because i am not buying your narrative
I have clearly mentioned what i referenced.. i am not sure if you are reading something extra which is forming your opinion .. if so go ahead and share it..
But, i would appreciate you refraining from name calling .. because the 1 para i see does not convince me of your narrative and given it is a translation there is a reasonable doubt of people blowing it out of proportion ( what i understood , i have already mentioned… and i didn’t see any ill intent but him saying that 19 yr old has to be diff. from 34 yr old)
Sol began as a 34 year old fan. She did just fine being both without the director’s misogynistic take on her ‘beauty and femininity’. Did the director forget that Sol was 19 only in very few selected frames (most notably in that cringe video and a few scenes where she ran away from Sunjae) and she did it so effortlessly that we had no issues differentiating both even though she was in same clothes and same make up? The high point was that bus scene where she pretends to be 19 year old but we as audience know she had not travelled back, that she was only pretending.
In fact, there were many scenes where it was hard to differentiate between the 19 Sun and 34 Sun because he behaved the same in both cases. It was easy to set them apart because they dressed him up only in coats and suits as the older Sunjae, where as they did very little to set Sol apart. I am happy for BWS but KHY definitely didn’t need to doll up or look feminine. I do not know what he was smoking or even directing at this point. It was a weird interview.
Me too. I have been ropeable since I read his revolting comments. To mistreat and disrespect her publicly and privately while BWS is being feted all over the place is the epitome of misogyny.
Oh my gosh I can’t believe I forgot THAT 🙃 Wi Ha-joon (and the other two interns) were my favorite parts of this show, so maybe I blocked out that coat 😂
Lovely Runner: Give Byun Woo Seok his due—he deserves it. However, Ep. 9 was Kim Hye Yoon\’s. Her acting was so good: her despair, desperation and love of Sun Jae plus the physical comedy, all A+.
She is exceptional and what a breathtaking range. If there is any artistic justice anywhere, she should receive as much if not more praise and many good offers/endorsements than BWS who has been very good in this and a delight.
I’ve been wondering why BWS was top-billed, when KHY is the more seasoned actor (is KHY considered the more senior actor?). Or because BWS accepted the role when many didn’t?
Bingo! This is the essence of gender bias and systemic patriarchal oppression of women. She would most certainty gotten paid less and as we have seen he is appearing on variety shows, fans are turning up yelling “Sunjeaya” passionately and she is being left behind because not onky her new management for whatever reason is not promoting her, the bloody public recognition is absent. Once again, I recognise that actors are not the most downtrodden and exploited in SK. I worry and think about poor people who can’t afford to live anywhere but in basement apartments, those kids without parents or other care givers, single mother who are ostracised and those people who are being excluded for various reasons including racism from the Korean polity but gender bias is also relevant to actors and it should be talked about by the fans until cows come home. On this website that we spend so much time on, BWS has been valorised in a staff post but a dedicated one to KHY didn’t show up. It is profoundly disappointing to me in more ways than one.
In a few days when I get a little break from work, I am going to write a post dedicated to KHY and would love other kindred Beanies to add their knowledge which I lack to my draft. I will post it on my fan wall.
Lovely Runner: A brilliant thing about this show is how in the midst of comedy and chaos they put in poignant, emotionally true moments that go straight to the heart. Such great acting by both leads.
Lovely Runner: How does this show continue to charm and capture my heart as it moves through different times even though I don\’t really understand how the time travel works? Matters not–shine on.
Why are you so charming and funny LOVELY RUNNER? The comedic timing of the two leads is great–the fingers up the nose was so silly yet so well done. Thank you for reviving me out of my Kdrama slump
😂 Kdrama has made me doubt everything but I was pretty sure this show wasn’t going to flop in the final episodes.
It was fantastic here. A little too much haze for the shadow band phenomenon, but everything else was amazing. Totality is indescribably awe-inspiring.
Hah! It was really cool to watch the eclipse this afternoon and then sit down to watch the first episode of “Runner”. Very clever and fun for those of us who saw the eclipse today!
Hi! I’m sure you’re having a great time there which is great, but can I ask you something? Where did you take pictures of these poems/verses? Are they just there in the park or somewhere else?
Gum Shoe
October 17, 2024 at 8:52 AM
IRON FAMILY: So far, this show has set up the most amount of fleshed out characters who are flawed, and yet have sympathetic motivations. The complexity of the interdependence of people who are seeking some semblance of their own lives and happiness has made this show the most interesting drama in a long time. I hope they can keep this up.
Gum Shoe
September 10, 2024 at 8:10 AM
NGNL: I know there is a spin off coming with the second couple. However, I can’t ship them. As much as Lee Sang Yi makes a character sympathetic and likeable through his soft charm, the malicious and hurtful comments he made when he was working out his mommy issues are serious red flags. The scene that most stuck with me this week was Ja Yeon’s hurt by those comments when going over them at the police station. A person who is willing to say such hurtful things to another human being who did nothing to do him needs a lot of self-reflection and therapy before he would be a good boyfriend. Just because he carried her to the hospital doesn’t make his serious anger issues related to sexuality and relationships go away. What are they doing here?
Blue (@mayhemf)
September 10, 2024 at 8:44 AM
I haven’t watched today’s episode yet but I am with you here. I do not ship them yet. I cannot. I did not like how be behaved with her when she threw the apology letter. It almost seemed like he was upset she didn’t accept his apology. No, she doesn’t owe you forgiveness. You have to earn it. May be she will never forgive you and you have to be ok with it.
I don’t think he fully realizes the gravity of what he has done. The show hasn’t convinced me that he has.
panshel
September 10, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Team Ha-joon! Not only do they match better and she likes him, but he’s the CEO in her web novel that the spin-off is based off of, so I don’t know why Gyu-hyun ends up being the main character.
Blue (@mayhemf)
September 10, 2024 at 11:07 AM
They are so cute together!! and age matched too:)
Gum Shoe
July 25, 2024 at 2:51 PM
MY SWEET MOBSTER: Putting aside the storyline for now, the cinematography in Episode 13 was especially beautiful. The use of colors and lighting was noticeably stunning in a lot of shots.
Gum Shoe
July 20, 2024 at 4:33 AM
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C9mJxzmPncJ/?igsh=c3V0bzJsNG1lZTll
Yang Hyun Min, the actor who plays Jae Soo, doing voices of all the characters in My Sweet Mobster may be the Kahi balm I needed to soothe over the problems I had with the show this week.
🌸 Seeker 🌸
July 21, 2024 at 7:30 AM
Gosh how super cute can he be. No wonder he’s @enriquequierecagar‘s favorite Deerling.
tabong
July 21, 2024 at 2:55 PM
💯
He’s so much fun and adorbs. I love him.
🌸 Seeker 🌸
July 21, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Obviously all actors are taught voice modulation but to do this!! 😅😂
It is a rare talent indeed.
Gum Shoe
July 17, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Shogun got the most Emmy nominations with 25 this year, including Best Actress for Anna Sawai and Best Actor Hiroyuki Samara. Well deserved!
bbstl 🧹
July 17, 2024 at 3:13 PM
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 YAY!!! I’m so glad about this! It is truly at another level.
Blue (@mayhemf)
July 17, 2024 at 3:49 PM
This is great!!! Well deserved. Hope it wins too.
🌸 Seeker 🌸
July 20, 2024 at 9:11 AM
This is awesome. 🙌💪
Gum Shoe
July 11, 2024 at 3:50 PM
My Sweet Mobster: Besides the sweet romance, the comedy, especially the physical comedy, has been so great. Also, the other characters imitating Ji Hwan—his voice, his run—in Ep. 10 was just a chef’s kiss.
dramaDee
July 11, 2024 at 9:53 PM
His run was just adorkable🤣
🌸 Seeker 🌸
July 12, 2024 at 12:12 AM
How is this drama becoming more and more sweet each week.
Gum Shoe
July 4, 2024 at 11:49 AM
MY SWEET MOBSTER: There may be some noble idiocy going on, but wow, the acting by Um Tae Gu and Han Sun Hwa in Episode 8 was so, so good. So nuanced and yet powerful in showing how first Ji Hwan needed to distance Eun Ha from him, but how painful it was for him, and then how Eun Ha in being so emphathetic and sympathetic came to realize that he needed to distance himself from her and their shared memories. The subtle, but very much felt emotions between the two of them this episode packed a punch. Such mature, heartfelt acting in the midst of what can seem like a cartoony, cutesy show makes this show so impactful.
redfox
July 4, 2024 at 12:28 PM
but also, the entire mobster fam was great. especially waiting like puppies on the stairs :-((( really like abandoned puppies. and feeling kicked away.
I hope the prosecutor told her after all otherwise he is scum.
Ji Hwan is feeling ashamed but peoples lives change. he is no lesser person for it. the preview calms my heart
Gum Shoe
June 26, 2024 at 1:59 PM
My Sweet Mobster: The casting of Um Tae Goo and Han Sun Hwa is pure genius. Charisma, charm and heart in every scene, especially together. Their acting range from silly to poignant is amazing in how fully committed and spot on it is. It allows me to enjoy the ridiculous (hello, the housegang dressed in animal costumes singing and dancing!) and have the feels and squeals. This show has unexpectedly stolen my heart—no, I give it freely.
Isa is always time travelling
June 26, 2024 at 2:48 PM
It hasn’t stolen my heart yet, but I appreciate this new and funny take on Snow White and the Seven dwarfs.
🌸 Seeker 🌸
June 26, 2024 at 11:22 PM
You mean One Gentle Giant and six dwarfs!! 🤭🤣🤣🤣
Gum Shoe
June 19, 2024 at 1:50 PM
My Sweet Mobster: The voices make this show. Ji Hwan’s deep textured whisper voice and Mini Unni?Eun Ha’s bright yet fully-rounded reassuring voice. When they talk to each other, it’s magic.
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦞
June 19, 2024 at 3:09 PM
I was just reflecting that between Uhm Tae-gu in Lovely Mobster, Choi Jin-hyuk in Night and Day, and L in Dare to Love Me, there are THREE gorgeous voices I get to listen to weekly! 🥰 I love your description of Ji-hwan’s “deep textured whisper” – it’s soooooo nice 😍👌✨️ Dark, sweet, and nuanced, like dark chocolate. (And I enjoy Eun-ha’s voice too)
🌸 Seeker 🌸
June 19, 2024 at 5:28 PM
💯❤👌👏
Gum Shoe
June 2, 2024 at 11:54 AM
Lovely Runner: https://www.koreaboo.com/news/lovely-runner-director-yoon-jongho-criticism-interview-misogyny-kim-hyeyoon/. This makes me so angry that Kim Hye Yoon had to put up with this.
Midnight
June 2, 2024 at 12:52 PM
When a dumb man gets jealous for attention and opens his mouth 😑
Midnight
June 2, 2024 at 12:54 PM
It is ironic that nobody had told on him, and he did it himself!
zindigo
June 2, 2024 at 1:05 PM
If the translations of his comments are accurate, that is just shocking.
DancingEmma
June 3, 2024 at 11:56 PM
I think they are given the disgusted reactions of those Korean commenters.
Kurama
June 2, 2024 at 1:16 PM
I understand a part of his interview. Kim Hye-Yoon had to play Sol at different stades of her life. She has the perfect energy for the young and bubbly Sol. But 34 years old Sol was older than KHY and I guess the PD wanted a more feminin and collected image. You often see actors/actresses monitoring their performance to see if the angle of their face is the best during a kiss scene or things like that. So I guess, it’s what he was expecting from her.
The issue is why he needed to be harsh about it? I mean he’s the PD he just could ask politely or explaining to her. She nailed the acting part, so he could have been grateful for that instead to be a jerk.
panshel
June 2, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Damn, this knetz went OFF.
bunnylita
June 2, 2024 at 2:29 PM
What the hell?
Nothingmuch
June 2, 2024 at 3:16 PM
That’s repulsive
Nothingmuch
June 2, 2024 at 3:20 PM
and creepy.
jillian
June 2, 2024 at 5:15 PM
That director is disgusting. I can’t believe he continue to be disrespectful to Kim Hye Yoon when she was the most amazing actor among the cast. I am glad he doesnt know when to shut his mouth and showed the world he is awful.
DancingEmma
June 4, 2024 at 12:03 AM
His privilege, ignorance and arrogance are in full display. Women are just pieces of meat and are ornamental at best. This is what misogyny is all about. We never ever hear such comments about men whether it is in SK or elsewhere. These views and comments are reserved for women so that they can be belittled and reminded that men have the upper hand. This creep is deliberately humiliating her publicly as well because he believes he can get away with it. May he be proven wrong.
Linarrick
June 2, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Ew WTF?! Again it might be translation but when he goes from she was a daughter to me but now woman sounds really gross. She’s an actor doing her job not his fucking muse. Ew
🌸 Seeker 🌸
June 2, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Gosh here I was all for praising PD and this is what he does. 🤷♀️ Why am I surprised anymore.
Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
June 3, 2024 at 6:54 AM
Thanks so much for this.
This was exactly my reaction. How harsh was he to his male actors? Or all they had to do is to saunter on the sets? KHY shone in everything she did so far in her career, and she looked feminine enough in all of them, while BSW was barely noticeable in anything before this. SMH. Wow!
alasecond
June 3, 2024 at 8:23 AM
The bold part at the beginning about him being harsh to her… this knetz reaction seems like the typical case of blowing up a non existent issue…
What the director seems to say is that 19 yr old and 34 yr old have to come out different… 19 yr old girl is a girl, daughter… 34 has to be mature woman.. and FL had to transform to convince the same..
Seems like he is talking about the process of doing that and he is praising the actress to take the feedback and work on it.
It is apparent in BTS clips that the ambience was a happy ambience… you can’t give your best if you are unhappy..that too for a project in making for 3 years
DancingEmma
June 4, 2024 at 12:07 AM
Oh, yep. Just ordinary, common place misogyny. Just the “Knetz” overreacting. Why worry about such a small problem. SMDH.
alasecond
June 4, 2024 at 1:04 AM
What misogyny…
This is not new when knetz, or netz.. or people online tend to misinterpret things…
DancingEmma
June 4, 2024 at 3:56 PM
Forget about the “Knetz”. Did you read the PD’s comments? This is my last reply to you but his interview is replete with denigrating and hateful comments about KHY looks and how he regards her. Thinking critically is a useful skill. Try and develop it.
alasecond
June 5, 2024 at 3:38 AM
You should have read the original comment to see what part i referenced.. no need to act so rude just because i am not buying your narrative
I have clearly mentioned what i referenced.. i am not sure if you are reading something extra which is forming your opinion .. if so go ahead and share it..
But, i would appreciate you refraining from name calling .. because the 1 para i see does not convince me of your narrative and given it is a translation there is a reasonable doubt of people blowing it out of proportion ( what i understood , i have already mentioned… and i didn’t see any ill intent but him saying that 19 yr old has to be diff. from 34 yr old)
Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
June 4, 2024 at 5:45 AM
Sol began as a 34 year old fan. She did just fine being both without the director’s misogynistic take on her ‘beauty and femininity’. Did the director forget that Sol was 19 only in very few selected frames (most notably in that cringe video and a few scenes where she ran away from Sunjae) and she did it so effortlessly that we had no issues differentiating both even though she was in same clothes and same make up? The high point was that bus scene where she pretends to be 19 year old but we as audience know she had not travelled back, that she was only pretending.
In fact, there were many scenes where it was hard to differentiate between the 19 Sun and 34 Sun because he behaved the same in both cases. It was easy to set them apart because they dressed him up only in coats and suits as the older Sunjae, where as they did very little to set Sol apart. I am happy for BWS but KHY definitely didn’t need to doll up or look feminine. I do not know what he was smoking or even directing at this point. It was a weird interview.
alasecond
June 5, 2024 at 3:39 AM
Comment was deleted
alasecond
June 5, 2024 at 3:43 AM
:3 .. where are you guys reading it.. i just see 1 para where SJ actor is not even referenced
DancingEmma
June 3, 2024 at 11:55 PM
Me too. I have been ropeable since I read his revolting comments. To mistreat and disrespect her publicly and privately while BWS is being feted all over the place is the epitome of misogyny.
Gum Shoe
May 11, 2024 at 12:31 PM
Gum Shoe
May 11, 2024 at 12:30 PM
HopefulRomantic 🦋 Tigermoth 🦞
May 11, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Oh my gosh I can’t believe I forgot THAT 🙃 Wi Ha-joon (and the other two interns) were my favorite parts of this show, so maybe I blocked out that coat 😂
Blue (@mayhemf)
May 11, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Oh dear. The Valentino coat that shook the beandom
korfan
May 11, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Years later, that coat continues to be a visual assault.
Minnie🫘👩🏻🚀Pioneer and Teacher 👩🏻🏫🌱🏹
May 12, 2024 at 6:19 AM
Oh right! NOW I remember. I remember at that time I had thought – why is he wearing a curtain….nevermind 😂
Gum Shoe
May 6, 2024 at 10:29 AM
Lovely Runner: Give Byun Woo Seok his due—he deserves it. However, Ep. 9 was Kim Hye Yoon\’s. Her acting was so good: her despair, desperation and love of Sun Jae plus the physical comedy, all A+.
🌸 Seeker 🌸
May 6, 2024 at 11:21 AM
His eyes spoke a million words. 😊
When he “recognized” her,
When he saw her dance,
When he asked if she hated him,
When she sang his song!!
DancingEmma
May 6, 2024 at 11:34 AM
She is exceptional and what a breathtaking range. If there is any artistic justice anywhere, she should receive as much if not more praise and many good offers/endorsements than BWS who has been very good in this and a delight.
chokulit
May 8, 2024 at 8:02 PM
I’ve been wondering why BWS was top-billed, when KHY is the more seasoned actor (is KHY considered the more senior actor?). Or because BWS accepted the role when many didn’t?
DancingEmma
May 8, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Bingo! This is the essence of gender bias and systemic patriarchal oppression of women. She would most certainty gotten paid less and as we have seen he is appearing on variety shows, fans are turning up yelling “Sunjeaya” passionately and she is being left behind because not onky her new management for whatever reason is not promoting her, the bloody public recognition is absent. Once again, I recognise that actors are not the most downtrodden and exploited in SK. I worry and think about poor people who can’t afford to live anywhere but in basement apartments, those kids without parents or other care givers, single mother who are ostracised and those people who are being excluded for various reasons including racism from the Korean polity but gender bias is also relevant to actors and it should be talked about by the fans until cows come home. On this website that we spend so much time on, BWS has been valorised in a staff post but a dedicated one to KHY didn’t show up. It is profoundly disappointing to me in more ways than one.
DancingEmma
May 8, 2024 at 9:12 PM
In a few days when I get a little break from work, I am going to write a post dedicated to KHY and would love other kindred Beanies to add their knowledge which I lack to my draft. I will post it on my fan wall.
Gum Shoe
April 30, 2024 at 10:55 AM
Lovely Runner: A brilliant thing about this show is how in the midst of comedy and chaos they put in poignant, emotionally true moments that go straight to the heart. Such great acting by both leads.
🌸 Seeker 🌸
May 3, 2024 at 6:23 AM
Both leads have been quite good in other roles. But here, together they are 🔥 🔥 🔥 also 😭 and *squee* maximus!!
Gum Shoe
April 29, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Lovely Runner: How does this show continue to charm and capture my heart as it moves through different times even though I don\’t really understand how the time travel works? Matters not–shine on.
bbstl 🧹
April 29, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Yeah, honestly I’m confused and therefore already starting to check out of trying to follow time lines.
Gum Shoe
April 17, 2024 at 3:30 AM
Anna Sawai as Mariko in the Crimson Sky episode of Shogun just ate that up and left no crumbs. Such a masterful and moving performance.
larelle79
April 17, 2024 at 8:36 AM
If she is not winning all the awards this season, the awards are a joke. She has been absolutely fantastic since episode one.
bbstl 🧹
April 17, 2024 at 8:52 AM
She was fantastic! Just a WOW.
Gum Shoe
April 9, 2024 at 12:23 PM
Why are you so charming and funny LOVELY RUNNER? The comedic timing of the two leads is great–the fingers up the nose was so silly yet so well done. Thank you for reviving me out of my Kdrama slump
lapislazulii
April 9, 2024 at 6:16 PM
I’m with you, felt the exact same way!! Charming and funny is the perfect description for this week’s episodes!
Gum Shoe
April 8, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Watching the eclipse. Hoping it sticks the landing.
Blue (@mayhemf)
April 8, 2024 at 12:31 PM
😅 90% it did for us.
Elinor, Team Glasses team co-captain
April 8, 2024 at 1:17 PM
😂 Kdrama has made me doubt everything but I was pretty sure this show wasn’t going to flop in the final episodes.
It was fantastic here. A little too much haze for the shadow band phenomenon, but everything else was amazing. Totality is indescribably awe-inspiring.
sonai
April 8, 2024 at 1:41 PM
… yet, here I am, wondering if this is all somehow a reference to “Pick up Sunjae and run/Lovely Runner”…
😂
DK-Drama 🫘 Giffing n Space Cadetting🍉🌱
April 8, 2024 at 5:45 PM
So did I
zindigo
April 8, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Hah! It was really cool to watch the eclipse this afternoon and then sit down to watch the first episode of “Runner”. Very clever and fun for those of us who saw the eclipse today!
Elinor, Team Glasses team co-captain
April 8, 2024 at 7:23 PM
I was wondering how far ahead the producers planned to have the premiere coincide with the real-life eclipse!
🌸 Seeker 🌸
April 9, 2024 at 1:02 AM
☺ Same!!
Perfect destined gif!
Gum Shoe
March 13, 2024 at 1:07 AM
Last one—the ending.
mmmmm
March 13, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Hi! I’m sure you’re having a great time there which is great, but can I ask you something? Where did you take pictures of these poems/verses? Are they just there in the park or somewhere else?
Gum Shoe
March 13, 2024 at 1:36 PM
It is in the courtyard of the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice.
Gum Shoe
March 13, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Full bench poem—full drama plot.