2012 is a fulfilling year for Korean Drama Series and i must say, i am lucky to watch some of their good award winning dramas that really take the center stage in their entertainment world. Koreans has creating a major impact not just in the Philippines but in some part of the world, thanks to Psy, Big Bang, Super Junior, 2Ne1 and many other Kpop artists that makes people curious about this Kpop, KDrama phenomenon.
For sure, 2013 will be another interesting year for KDrama and I can’t wait to watch some of them. Here are some of the upcoming KDramas that I would not want to miss;
My Flower Boy Neighbor – January 7, 2013
flower boy next door
Looks like this will be another beautiful and funny KDrama starring Yoon Shi Yoon, Park Shin Hye, Kim Ji Hoon, Park Soo Jin
Love Rain is a drama for those hopeless romantic viewers. From the director that brings Endless Love series , Yoon_Seok-Ho creates another masterpiece that every korean drama lovers would definitely watched. Considered as fifth installment for the Endless love series though there are no official words that it was part of it considering that the Endless love drama’s are about the four seasons yet, Love Rain is definitely a different version of the other four because although there is a part that you could not help for your tears to fall, the ending gives justice to make the story something to look forward to.
Love Rain
Aired on KBS2 on March 2012, Love Rain stars the rising actor Jang Keun Suk (your’e my pet) and Girl’s Generation YoonA.
It was a story of a love of two couple from the 1970′s while In Ha (Jang Keun Suk) was walking on the campus met Yoon He (yoona) and suddenly fells in love with her. While accidentally bumping her, he was able to get her diary and learned that her favorite movie is “Love Story” . On a rainy day, he offers to walk with her with his umbrella and from that moment, he feels that there is a bond between the two of them. They agreed to meet again to watch the movie “Love Story” but their love was never fulfilled because she needs to go away for a sickness she was suffering.
At the present time, Seo In Ha’s son, Seo Joon meet Kim Yoon Hee, Jung Ha Na’s daughter on a train at Hokkaido. Ha Na’s cellphone fell on Seo Joon, learning about this, Ha na went to Seo Joon’s place to retrieve her cellphone but misses him for three times, at the last attempt he went to his hotel room only to found out that he was with another woman.
Dumped by her boyfriend before their 100th day anniversary, Ha Young played by Ha Ji Won bent her anger by kicking a softdrink can unfortunately hitting the head of Hyung Joon played by Kim Jaewon causing him to crash his Lexus car. He demands to pay him $3,000 dollars for the damage but escape leaving her wallet behind.
Hyung Joon stalked her on the school and because she has no choice, she agreed to be his slave for 100 days to repay the debt. The “Enslavement agreement” makes her to do various errands and housekeeping tasks for him.
After two actors turned down the role of being the main lead because of personal circumstances and two years of waiting, Lee Min Ho was able to get the part to play as Choi Young, a young fearless warrior and the main guard for King Gongmin (Ryu_Deok-Hwan) who was held hostage in Yuan and marries Princess Nogoog of Yuan. On their journey going back to Goryeo (Korea) assassins attacked their group causing a big injury on the neck of Princess Nogoog, on their attempts to save the Princess, Jang Bin played by Philipp Lee renowned doctor of goryeo said that he would not be able to save her thus the quest for Choi Young to travel through “‘The Heaven’s Gate” was ordered by the King to bring back a doctor that can save the princess.
Lee min ho for Korean Drama Faith
Choi Young enters the portal which leads to the modern world wherein Yoo Eun-soo (Kim Hee Seon) works as a plastic surgeon. Choi Young believes that Yoo Eun Soo is the great doctor that can save their princess and find ways to convince her but Eun Soo refused to go with him thus Cho Young has no other choice but to take out his sword and slashed the neck of the man inside the convention hall, Eun Soo who was shocked of the events, tried her best to save the man. Eun Soo and Choi Young went back on the temple where the portal lies and eventually reached the place where Princess Nogoog was lying almost lifeless. Dr. Eun Soo was able to heal the wound and the princess regain her health.
They travel to Goreo and the journey of knowing the truth begins. Prince Gi Cheol a young and heartless person with great supernatural abilities wishes to get Dr. Eun Soo for himself and plot a sickness for her making Choi Young to defies the King and rob the royal stamp in exchange for a cure for Eun Soo’s sickness knowing in the end that they were only fooled by Prince Gi Cheol and the cure was not really as it was promised to be.
At first, I’m hesitant to watch this Korean Drama because the title , Padam, Padam, the sound of his and her heartbeats” is somehow not interesting to begin with but It makes me curious so i decided to take a look and see what it offers.
A 2011 fantasy melodrama by JTBC starring Jung Woo Sung as Yang Ka Chil , who serves 16 years in prison for a crime that he didn’t commit. His detention was reduced to twelve years because of being a model inmate but he was sentenced for another four years because he was again framed up. Before he is supposed to be release, he suffers a near death experience, only with the help of his guardian angel’ Gook-soo (Kim Bum- Boy’s Over Flowers) he was able to survive it and learned about his three miracles.
A month before his release, he was allowed by the Jail Warden along with Gook-so to go out in the city, in the train, he met Jang Ji-na ( Han Ji- min – Yi San , Rooftop Prince) in unexpected and awkward situation. Roaming around the city, he saw his old acquaintance who is also one of the key people who knew about the incident back on his youth and while running Yang Ka Chil was bumped by a car.
The story begins when Gil Da Ran portrayed by Lee Min-jung (Midas) delivers a bouquet of flowers to a wedding who happens to be her old classmate. Trying to retrieve the bouquet she gets out of balance and fall on her feet where she meets Seo Yoon-jae portrayed by Gong Yoo (1st shop of Coffee Prince, Spy Girl) whom later on becomes her boyfriend who also happens to be a doctor of the hospital she was confined. One month before they were engaged to be married, their relationship sours and she met a young man Gil Choong-shik, (Baek_Sung-hyun) while she was in a bus going to the school where she works as a substitute teacher.
Because of some personal problem, Seo Yoon-jae could not tell to Gil Da Ran, Gil Da Ran thought that his love was changing. A rumor within the campus spreads that she and the new student Gil Choong-shik has a special relationship, when he sees her crying, she grab her hand and bring her to a nearby river.
Yes, I just can’t get over this songs, this is added on my music lists and I’m definitely going to listen to them over and over again. Arang and the Magistrate is something you should watch. A comeback drama series of Lee Joon Gi after serving the military, his handsome and angelic face haunts me and i could not help to think that korean are indeed lucky to have beautiful skin and great features. Not that i am downgrading our features, it just I can’t help myself to admire them. (Do watch out for a review on this Kdrama)
Here’s a beautiful OST of Arang and the Magistrate from the Queen of Korean Soul Music itself, Baek Ji Young. ( ooh, i just made that up since i really do like her songs)
For a moment, for a short moment,
The fact that I let you go was so hard that tears fell
Because it felt like our love was not allowed
So my heart hurts even more and this love makes me dizzy
You smile in front of me when I feel like dying
How I longed for only you
Finally, finally, can you recognize how I feel?
As much as it can’t be filled with the mere words of “I love you,”
This love has grown bigger than destiny
Loving each other and hating each other -
Why are these common things so hard?
Does our relationship always have to fade away like this?
So my heart hurts even more and this love makes me dizzy
You smile in front of me when I feel like dying
How I longed for only you
Finally, finally, can you recognize how I feel?
As much as it can’t be filled with the mere words of “I love you,”
This love has grown bigger than destiny
We live and carry on under the same sky
We cry and laugh with the same heart
My heart is living inside only you
Love and again, my love
My heart has locked up because it hurt and hurt
Can’t you accept this pitiful heart?
As much as it can’t be filled with the mere words of “I love you,”
This love has grown bigger than destiny
Romanized:
Jamsi aju jamsi neol bonaen ge himi deureo nunmuri na
Uri sarang heorakdoeji anheul geot gataseo
Geuraeseo deo gaseum apa sarangi nal eojireophyeo
Jugeul geotman gateun nae apeseo miso jitneun geudae
Eolmana neomaneul naega geuriwoman haesseonneunji
Ijeya ijeya naemam ara bol su inneungeoni
Saranghandaneun mallodo chaewojil su eobseul mankeum keojin
Unmyeongboda unmyeonggateun sarang
Ohh, just imagine that, all my favorite Korean Drama’s OST was sung by this beautiful and talented singer Baek Ji Young, her music plays a big role on the over all music of the drama . Here is Baek Ji Young , “After a long time ” Rooftop Prince OST.
Korean:
maju bomyeo nanudeon yaegideul
uridul man aratdeon yaegideul
jiulsu eobtnabwa
beoril suneobtnabwa
ijjimotanabwa
oraen mane dulleobon georideul
igireul jinal ttaemyeon johahaetdeon gieogi
jakku tteoollaseo balgireul meomchunda
bogosipeoseo deo bogosipeo jyeoseo
geureon naraseo nan neobakke mollaseo
neo eobsi salda boni modeunge
huhoero gadeughadeora
niga eobseoseo
heo jeonhange deo manhaseo
oneuldo balge oreumeun
ijariga geuriwo gaji motago bulleobonda
English Translation
The talks we had as we looked at each other
The stories that only we knew
I guess I can’t erase them,
I can’t throw them away,
I can’t forget them
I look around these streets for the first time in a while
Whenever I pass this street, the good memories
They keep floating up in my head so I stop my footsteps
After a long time, I am here right now
Because I long for that time,
Though I tried to live without knowing,
I keep thinking about it
That’s how I am, it keeps coming into my eyes
The times we spent together, the memories -
they fall like stars
How about you?
The people look only happy
It seems like I’m the only one left in loneliness
I try to pretend that I’m not
but I keep thinking of you
After a long time, I am here right now
Because I long for that time,
Though I tried to live without knowing,
I keep thinking about it
That’s how I am, it keeps coming into my eyes
The times we spent together, the memories -
they fall like stars
Tears fall
If I wait here,
will I be able to see you?
Then will I be able to tell you
how I feel right now?
Because I miss you, because I am missing you
That’s how I am, I only know you
Living without you makes me filled
with regret about everything
Because you’re not here,
because there are so many empty things
Again today, I long for that spot and
my footsteps won’t move and I call out to you
I so love this song from Hyun Bin’s Secret garden and even after two years, this song is still in my phone and when I’m alone i still listen in this song but of course, i do love the songs of Hyun Bin more than anything.
I just love that one woman
I love her wholeheartedly
I follow her around like a shadow everyday
That woman is laughing & crying
Just how much more do I have to
gaze at you alone
This love that came like the wind, this beggar like love
If I continue this way, will you love me?
Just come a little nearer
One step closer but flee with 2 legs
I who love you am next to you now
That woman who comes.
that woman is cautious
that’s why you have to learn to smile
what she can’t tell her best friend
her heart’s full of tears.
that’s why, that woman
when she loved you the same way
yet another fool, yet another fool
can’t you hug me before you go?
i want to receive love
everyday in my heart, just in my heart
i shout and
that woman’s next to me again.
that woman’s not me
its not that she knows
she doesn’t know cause she’s a fool
Just how much more do I have to
gaze at you alone
This love that came like the wind, this beggar like love
If I continue this way, will you love me?
Just come a little nearer
One step closer but flee with 2 legs
I who love you am next to you now
That woman who comes.
First time I laid my eyes on someone like you
I can’t forget the hour, that moment with you
Then I have realized, love is growing deep inside
I feel the beating of my heart
Chorus:
Coz’ every day, every night, I keep looking at the skies
And I’ll pray that someday you will wake up in my arms
And love will never end
We belong together, always and forever
Call my name and I’ll be there. . . . .
Spending my days and nights just thinking if you
How you make me wanna smile with the things that you do
When will I hear you say, love is coming on your way
And that you start to feel the same
Coz’ every day, every night, I keep looking at the skies
And I’ll pray that someday you will wake up in my arms
And love will never end
We belong together, always and forever
Call my name and I’ll be there
Chorus 2:
Coz’ every day, every night, I keep looking at the skies
And I’ll pray that someday you will wake up in my arms
Coz’ every day, every night, I keep looking at the skies
And I’ll pray that someday you will wake up in my arms
And love will never end
We belong together, always and forever
Call my name and I’ll be there
