I Miss You

This drama was intense and sucked me in on the first episode. Especially, when you see how the two children connect and become friends even though everyone discriminates the girl for being a murderer's daughter. It was very interesting and the child actors did an amazing job in the beginning few episodes. They were extremely cute and outstanding in this drama making me ache for them and fall in love with their relationship with one another. This drama has a lot of sad moments and also some intense moments throughout the drama. Not to mention, the OST is amazingly good and so full of emotion. 

Synopsis:

           This story starts with when our main characters were teenagers (15 years old). Su Yeon is the girl. She is well-known around her area and is bullied at school because she is the daughter of a murderer. Students avoid her and they act as if she isn't there. They are also scared of her and humiliated of the fact that she attends their school. So she's a very quiet girl and she's never called by her real name by other students. Han Jung Woo came from the states and meets her at their neighborhood park at night. He calls her by her name leaving her stunned and as it was raining, she got him an umbrella. He just so happened to start attending her school and was going to return the umbrella when he saw a group of kids, refusing to go into a room because of the murderer's daughter. Upon seeing this, he refuses to get close to her also which hurts  Su Yeon's feeling but she was expecting it in a way.

           However, feeling ashamed of the way he acted towards Su Yeon, he goes to find her in their neighborhood. When he found her, he saw the victim's mother come and fight with Su Yeon's mother. He sees chaos and Su Yeon's pain that she had to deal with after what her father had done. With this, the two become close friends. He always tries to protect her from bullies buts she didn't want him to get bullied either and so she stood up for herself many times. Su Yeon and Jung Woo start crushing on each other. However, one day when Jung Woo was getting kidnapped by other people, Su Yeon ran after the people. The two people both got kidnapped. Jung  Woo was beaten up and Su Yeon was raped and traumatized. Jung Woo left  Su Yeon alone as he escaped to get help. Su Yeon believed that she was abandoned managed to leave also and almost got hit by a car. With this accident, the two separate and go different ways.  Everyone believed that Su Yeon was dead. However, Su Yeon called Jung Woo once and it made Jung Woo realize she wasn't dead and he was determined to find her. 

   They become adults and Su Yeon has a boyfriend and a new identity of Zoe.She is now a fashion designer who seems to have a bright personality but still has a lot of scars from her painful memories of her past. She is also constantly brainwashed by her new boyfriend who knows of her past and who also knew her when they were children, because he kept saying that if they cared about her, they wouldn't have left her alone in that house and abandon her. Meanwhile, Jung Woo is now a detective, still trying to find Su Yeon. They meet again through destiny. Harry, Su Yeon's lover, was the boy that Jung Woo and Su Yeon had helped back when they were children. Harry appears to be gentle, warm, and kind. He also appears to be caring. He has a desperate need to hold on to Su Yeon even though he knows that Su Yeon still likes Jung Woo. In extreme measures, he does whatever he can to take vengeance upon Jung Woo even if it means using Su Yeon and making her appear guilty. Harry is a pretty scary character. However, this was a very intense/interesting drama.
                                                

Nice Guy/Innocent Man

Great drama! To those who didn't watch this yet, you really should. This was a really good drama and I enjoyed it. I felt the ending could've been a little better but nonetheless it was a cute drama. Song Joong Ki and Moon Chae Won did a great job and they look like a real couple on camera. The chemistry was great but there was a lot of intense moments throughout the drama and I felt our main leads did a great job. The actress who played Han  Jae Hee (the bad lady) also did a great job in acting because she really made you hate her. I felt bad for attorney Park because he never got the girl in the end.
Alright, enough of my opinions on actors and the drama, I'll give you a synopsis:



              The background information of how this drama continues starts when Maru was still with Han Jae Hee. Maru, a promising medical student and already in the third year of medical school, lives with his younger sister Kang  Choco and his friend Jae Gil. His sister Choco has poor health. Maru and Han Jae Hee share a relationship. They are both from poor family backgrounds, try hard to achieve their dreams, and they love each other. Maru wants to become a doctor and Han Jae Hee wants to be an anchorwoman and is currently working as a reporter at HBS Broadcasting Company. Maru was hopelessly in love with Han Jae  Hee and would do anything for his first love. One day, she calls him on the phone, frantic, asking him to come save a man. When he does, he immediately rushes over to help, even leaving his sick sister alone. However, when he found Jae Hee, she was scared and there was a dead man lying there on the floor. She had killed the man. Maru told her to go turn herself in but she refused to as it would ruin her career. Maru, then ended up taking the blame for Jae Hee.
           Eun Gi, is the smart, accomplished successor to her family's company. Her family owns a large corporation called Taesan. She shows little emotions and started working as a businesswoman at a young age. Her father had even thrown away all her dolls when she was a little saying that the path she is going to take isn't one for a girl. So she's a pretty strong and cold character in business. Jae Hee ends up marrying Eun Gi's father. Jae Hee told Eun  Gi that she did the unthinkable to protect Taesan and that what she did harmed the man that she loved the most. However, Eun  Gi is still unable to accept Jae Hee and afterwards, her son, that she had with Eun Gi's dad. Eun Gi treated them as if they weren't even human, being cold, harsh, and mean.
            Six years later, Maru travels to Aomori, Japan after a 5 year prison sentence. He goes to Japan to get the money from a woman who had tricked his friend Jae Gil. Maru seduces the woman and retrives the money stolen from his friend. At that same moment, Eun Gi and Jae Hee were also in Aomori, Japan. Maru and Jae Hee met on the plane when Eun Gi collapses. Her condition worsens and people were asking for a doctor on flight. Maru comes up saying that he isn't a doctor but he dropped out of medical school in his third year. He helps Eun Gi and also meets Jae Hee who says that she is Eun Gi's mother.
          From then on, Eun Gi and Maru met a few times. Eun Gi fell in love with Maru.  However, Maru was confusing as he was still in love with Jae Hee and was kind of using Eun Gi to get revenge on Jae Hee. The share a lot of memories. However, it was later revealed to Eun Gi that Maru had had a relationship with Jae Hee. Eun Gi's father also died because of Jae Hee. With that all happening, while she was driving in one direction and Maru going the other direction in opposite lanes, Eun Gi changes lanes and accelerated at Maru's car, resulting in a car accident.
        Both suffered from brain injuries. Maru was severe but it didn't affect him much but his doctor kept saying that he should get surgery. Eun Gi, lost all her memories and her brain was also damaged and she had to start all over and learn how to write and everything. She didn't even know what her own name was and her personality was different. Eun Gi goes to find Maru after seeing a picture of them together on her camera. Then with the help of Attorney  Park (who secretly likes Eun Gi and always by her side) they devise a plan to bring Eun Gi back to Taesan to take over the company that is now run by Jae Hee.

        Maru plays her fiancé in this act. At first, he used Eun Gi to get revenge on Jae Hee. However, he slowly finds himself falling for her. The two share a really sweet connection. However, Eun Gi started getting her memories back and everything. Once, Jae Hee was telling Eun Gi that Maru was just using her and it reminded Eun Gi of past memories of when Jae Hee had said that to her too. With that, she falls as a lot of memories flood to her. Maru takes her to the hospital, but Eun Gi had another breakdown where she couldn't recognize Maru. Maru actually started crying in the bathroom by himself. However, afterwards, she gets all her memories back and they both start pretending to love each other while both knowing the truth of one another (Maru knowing that she had gotten her memories back but was just acting and Eun Gi knowing of his past relationship with Jae Hee).
       However, the two ended up truly giving in to their true feelings at the end. The ending was cute as it showed all the characters and how their life became. However, I felt the Maru-Eun Gi couple could've had a better and longer ending. Great drama though!!!

Brown Sugar Macchiato

If you want a humorous drama to watch that has to do with love, hate, comedy, and takes places in a school, this may just be the drama for you. This is called Brown Sugar Macchiato and it has been out for a long time now. This is a Taiwanese drama and it was really humorous and cute.

           There are six main characters in this drama, since it talks about all of them. These six main characters are boys with different personalities, backgrounds, likes and dislikes, and so forth. One loves motorcycles, another loves his sports car, another loves music, one is childish, and another loves his bicycle, and so forth. They find out that they are actually half-brothers and that they share the same father. The father, apparently, had a lot of affairs. The father gathered all six together and through his video he tells them that they are all entitled to a huge inheritance. However, in order to be qualified to receive that inheritance, they must attend the same school and live together in the same house for a year. They are total strangers to each other and two of the brothers even often get into fights. With the help of their adorable maid, Ya Tou, with her child voice, they get used to life in the new house. This drama is called Brown Sugar Macchiato because Ya Tou always made brown sugar macchiato for them in the morning.
          In the beginning, none of them were used to anything. Ya  Tou went over how everyone had their own toothbrush and everything through a speaker and you can see the six brothers being utterly confused. Like one guy, was brushing his teeth and went to flush the toilet. When he did so, his toothbrush fell in...so he took someone else's and then that dropped in the toilet too. Two other brothers wore each other's school uniforms and much more. The six brothers get to know each other and adapt according to the situation. They began to get closer.
          However, they were faced with more problems at their new school. In the school it is ruled by ten girls that are extremely mean and manipulative towards the boys in the school. Their names are Da Ya, Gui Gui, Tong  Tong, Xiao Xun, Xiao Man, Apple, Mei Mei, Xiao  Jie, and Ke En, and Ya Tou is also a part of them although she isn't as mean. Ya Tou is a part of them because they all attend the same class and they also considered another girl a part of their team just because she was the cousin of one of the girl's. However, no one knows that Ya Tou is actually the housekeeper of the six guys and their mansion.

         So the girls did what they always did, they went to go bother the six brothers. Gui Gui was the first to bother them. She pretended to be a strict teacher even punishing them to do squats just because of the way they looked. The girls were determined to make school life a living hell for the six brothers. Despite all these problems, they continue to stick together to get that inheritance. However, someone else is after their inheritance and trying to make them break their contract and sending people to the school to do so during the process.
         The brothers begin to become closer and they all share a strong bond, often helping each other out, and everything. They also fall in love with people in the school (mostly the girls that had bullied them in the beginning). This was a really cute drama and it is definitely worth a watch because I enjoyed watching it :)

Playful Kiss

This came out after the Taiwanese version of this, It Started With a Kiss (I done a review/synopsis previously). Playful Kiss was better in terms of visuals since the scenery was always so colorful and bright. It also had its own humorous moments. However, I felt, in terms of acting, It Started With a Kiss was better. So why not check out both and decide for yourself?


            Our main character is named Oh Ha Ni. She is in the bottom of her class and not very smart yet she has a crush on Baek Seung Jo. Seung Jo is a genius and extremely popular. She wrote him a love letter to confess her feelings but was rejected and Seung Jo even tells her that he dislikes stupid girls and the sad part about it was that he corrected all the mistakes in her letter before returning it back to her. Talk about embarrassing!
            Then Oh Ha Ni's home gets destroyed by an earthquake. Oh Ha Ni's father managed to meet up with his old friend and they allowed the two to live with them. However, it turned out the friend of Oh Ha Ni's father's, was actually Seung Jo's father. During the time at Seung Jo's home, she falls in love all over again even though he was cold to her and they often had disputes. The mom, like in It Started With a Kiss, continuously tried to get the two together and helped Ha  Ni a lot.
           He helps her in school and her grades increase. They get to know each other and he gets to understand her a bit more. The two then continue on to university and Seung Jo meets a girl named Yoon Hae Ra. She is a genius also and gorgeous. This made Oh Ha Ni feel threatened and upset. Bong Joon Gu who has been friends/classmates with Oh Ha Ni liked her and continued to like her even though she never reciprocated those feelings. I always feel bad for the guy who plays this character. Then more things occur that bring Hae Ra and Seung Jo together. When Seung Jo's father went to the hospital, he took over his father's gaming company for the time being. He was then introduced to the investor's granddaughter who just happened to be the seemingly perfect Yoon Hae Ra.
          Oh Ha Ni starts to lose all hope as she cannot possibly win over Hae Ra. At the SAME TIME, Bong Joon Gu proposes to Oh Ha Ni. Seung Jo hears of this and waits in the rain asking what her answer was. She doesn't tell him asking him why he wants to know when he should be minding his own business with Yoon Hae Ra. The two start arguing and then Baek Seung Jo kisses her. Ooh lala! Then they go home and Seung Jo says that he wants to marry her. They get married.
        In It Started With A Kiss, after the marriage, the season 2 which is They Kiss Again, they go into details on their honeymoon and marriage life. In this one, it kind of put everything together. They go to the honeymoon and encountered another couple. The girl started flirting with Seung Jo making Oh Ha Ni left out...on her honeymoon! The girl went further, pretending to be sick after hearing Seung Jo majored in the medical area in college. This made Oh Ha Ni jealous and Seung Jo gets upset saying that if she can't handle him aiding another woman maybe they shouldn't be together. This made Ha Ni upset and she runs out of the room. When he finds out that the woman was only trying to flirt and have alone time with him, he immediately leaves to go find Ha Ni. The two get back together again and are back to being in a good relationship.
        Towards the end, a foreigner who is half Korean comes. She begins to crush on Boon Gu who refuses to accept her feelings as he swore that he only had feelings for Ha Ni. Ha Ni, wanting to be with Seung Jo, transfers to the major of nursing. She keeps working hard to try to get into that major but she wasn't that good considering that she's not academically smart. Then on a date, she witnessed an accident which needed CPR and decided to save the person even if there is a risk that she might not do it correctly and the person dies ands he'd get arrested. She actually manages to save the person and when she got back to the date, she was late, but the guy was waiting for her which was really cute. Then it kind of briefs the ending on what happened for each character. For example, Boon Gu finds himself start to fall for the foreigner. Hae Ra falls in love too with a guy that liked her for a long time and even visits him as he does his military service. Basically, our main character lived happily ever after. However, I wished that Hyun  Joong who acted as Seung Jo put a bit more emotion into it like the guy did in It Started With a Kiss. In Playful  Kiss, you couldn't really tell if he liked Ha Ni or not. In It Started With A Kiss, you notice a change.

Either way, you people should just watch both versions and decide for yourself.

Time Slip Dr. Jin

Song Seung Hun was in this drama. He played the role of Jin Hyuk. He is a brilliant neurosurgeon. The drama starts off with him waking up in a forest and seeing a battle between people dressed in historical clothing. He wonders if they are doing a drama shooting and as he runs away from the fighting and everything, he nearly falls of a cliff but gets saved by a man. He passes out when he is saved and it goes back to modern day to show how he came to go back in time.

          It all started when a patient came in with a severe brain injury. Jin Hyuk does the operation, to find that inside the brain, was a tiny fetus. He puts it into a jar for further examination later on. However, upon finding this fetus, he has a sharp pain in his head (headache) that passes and then goes away. After that, he celebrates his birthday with his girlfriend, Mina (played by Min Young). On the day that he wanted to propose to Mina, a child got a brain injury and then died. Mina was watching over the two children (one of the child getting injured) and she got angry at Jin Hyuk for not saving the child. Jin Hyuk explained that the child was going to die even with an operation. Angry, Mina goes and drives off, to cool off. He watches her go, letting her have some space to deal with this tragic loss. However, he came to witness her get into a car accident just as she left. She goes into surgery with her last words saying that they will meet again. However, after the surgery, Mina goes into a coma.
         Later that day, he goes on the roof, depressed, and is just sitting there thinking about the events that happened. Then a patient walked out on to the roof. It was the patient that Jin Hyuk had done brain surgery on and removed the fetus from.  That patient was about to jump off the roof with the fetus in the jar. In the struggle, Jin  Hyuk managed to push the patient away but the fetus fell over the building. In attempt to grab the fetus, he falls off the building. The fetus in the jar then turns into a porthole that sends him back in time. He begins to follow the man that had saved him from falling to his death.  He was wanted for murdering an official and was in trouble and he was easy to detect from his clothes since he was wearing a doctor's uniform. The man that he was following, was willing to help him, and quickly got him new clothes to disguise himself as a normal commoner. His medical knowledge wins the trust of the Joseon people especially since he knew how to save them during desperate times such as when a guy chokes.  
            During the time in the Joseon era, he came across a young woman named Hong Young Rae who looked exactly like his girlfriend Mina. Hong Young Rae is extremely skilled in needlework and is from a noble family. She is smart and kind-hearted. However, she is betrothed to her brother's friend,  Kim Kyung Tak, yet she does not love him. Kim Kyung Tak, however does. In the meantime, Jin Hyuk is being hunted by an officer/magistrate. (The magistrate was played by JYJ's Jaejoong, by the way). Jin Hyuk also found out that the man who helped him was related to the royal family.  Hong Young Rae and Ji Hyuk managed to meet one another when Ji Hyuk found Hong Young Rae's brother out in the street, injured. Upon that, he begins treating people of the era and he even had to develop medical devices and medicine by himself and find new ways to help aid the sick. He managed to become a real doctor with the help of Hong Young Rae. The two start to form a romantic relationship and it is a very odd relationship as the two are from different eras. However, his actions begin to interfere with history and new characters are revealed showing that there are a lot of time travelers. For example, Choon Hong is a mysterious gisaeng who is a time traveler. She falls in love with Jin and she recognizes him from modern time. He had saved her when she was a child (she was the girl with the Rubix cube in the beginning of the drama).

To be honest, this drama bored me at times. So I skimmed through a few episodes. But after watching it, I still felt that it was an okay drama. Also I took into account that there were many people who liked this drama so I don't mean to offend anyone when  I say that this didn't make my favorite dramas list.

Secret Garden

So, today, as you can see, we are doing a drama synopsis on Secret Garden.

         The main characters of this drama are Gil Ra Im and Kim Joo Won. Gil Ra Im is a stunt woman. She has a lot of bruises from her stunts. Kim Joo Won is an arrogant CEO who has a really odd fashion sense. They have a bickering relationship. They didn't get along and yet they kept meeting each other over and over again. Joo Won starts to have an idea that he might be in love with this woman. However, he didn't expect what happened between them to occur. The two went into the mountains once and entered a strange house and ate chocolate that was offered to them. The next day, they found that they had swapped bodies. They became closer and there were humorous moments when both were telling the other not to look at their body. It was also amusing when Joo Won was like, "Do you call this a woman's body? Look at all these bruises." The relationship between the two was mistaken by other people. With this incident they got closer and began to fall in love with one another. This was a rather romantic love story with different twists that you didn't expect. Most people like this drama and it got pretty high ratings.

By the way, a lot of their kiss scenes were really cute. There were a lot of cute moments like when he was doing the sit ups and whenever he completed one, they would be face to face. It had a lot of romantic scenes.

However, in all honesty,  I didn't see what the hype was about. This drama was extremely popular among many people but I wasn't that invested in this drama and it was not my favorite.

Beijing Youth

This started off to be a really interesting drama. It was good in the beginning.  However, it got  a little bit weird when the four cousins all decide to quit their jobs to go out into the world to figure things out. I mean...they had such good jobs and they just quit them like that even though their parents disapproved that and even got mad at them. All the cousins form relationships and afterwards return back to their jobs, but the process in between was what this drama is about. It was really funny during their journey because they were going around to different places and met all sorts of different things like finding new jobs and also having a girl who was a little bit crazy follow them. They also had a lot of love connections which was really cute.  The acting was really nice though for most of the actors. I just felt the story line needed improvement. This drama was really good and humorous and I enjoyed watching it.
                 The four cousins are out to find out what is more to their life and want to travel around China and experience new things. The four cousins are called He Dong, He Xi, He Nan, and He Bei. At first, it was only the oldest cousin who wanted to do this. His name is He Dong. However, he managed to get his other cousins all tangled up with him. The four cousins set out on a journey followed by the girlfriend of He Bei. They also found a young girl who was a bit crazy after being dumped by her love and the girl began to follow around one of the cousins named He Xi thinking that he was her boyfriend. He Xi, however, was in love with a doctor from work and didn't know what to do with one girl always following him around. He Bei sometimes had problems with his girlfriend but the both are still in love. As the cousins are out finding meaning to their lives, they face problems, understanding what was better, and also falling in love. This was a really good drama because all the brothers have a distinct personality. However, I did not like one of the cousins because he didn't act that well. I think he was called He Nan.
            The girls also had their own problems as they find themselves falling for the guys that they liked. He Dong was going to get married when he called it off saying that he wanted to find more meaning. The girl cut her hair and began trying to find a new life in a way. Then she began to tag along with He Dong and the two fall in love all over again. The doctor with He Xi faced a heartbreak before in which the guy dumped her before they got married and wasn't able to trust again until she found He Xi. As for the crazy girl, Ren Zhi  Liao, she was holding on to a love that left her all alone in a place by herself after she cut ties with her family for him. She went crazy and afterwards had to go to a mental hospital and got better. She became everyone's good friend after she got better and moved on with her life. Either way, this drama was pretty interesting to watch with a unique storyline.  The characters were all rather distinct. The ending was also really sweet also and the actors and actresses suffered in the cold for that scene because they actually went to climb a snow mountain, and then had to wear dresses and act happy. I admired their hard work in trying to complete this series.

It shows that sometimes change can be a good thing as you experience new things.