May was quite the exciting month for me. Not like anything largely monumental happened, but it was a good month for many reasons that you can guess from the title. Now, let’s get started!
K-DRAMA REVIEW: Strong Woman Do Bong Soon // a girl with superhuman strength + the cutest romance ever!!
Title: Strong Woman Do Bong Soon
Hangul: 힘쎈여자 도봉순
Network: JTBC
Genre: Fantasy, Thriller, Rom-Com
Episodes: 16
Broadcasting Dates: February 24, 2017 to April 15, 2017
Language: Korean
Source: Watched on Netflix
Synopsis: Do Bong-soon (Park Bo-young) was born with superhuman strength. Her strength is hereditary and passed along only to the women in her family. Her dream is to create a video game with herself as the main character. She desperately wants to become a willowy and elegant woman, which is the ideal type of her crush, In Guk-doo (Ji Soo), a police officer. Thanks to her strength, she gets the job of a bodyguard to a rich heir Ahn Min-hyuk (Park Hyung-sik), the CEO of a gaming company, Ainsoft. Contrary to Guk-doo, Min-hyuk is an odd man who is playful, a little spoiled, has no regard for rules, and dislikes policemen. He has recently received anonymous threats, blackmails, and has even been stalked at an occasion. Read More
My Favorite Korean Singers // me fangirling & sharing heavenly vocals
As y’all know, I’m a huge fan of K-Pop and K-Dramas, and really Korean food and culture as a whole. I have a lot of post ideas but I didn’t feel like typing up any of the posts until I thought about this idea and although it’s not book-related I decided that I’d go ahead and share some of my favorite Korean singers. Read More
February Monthly Wrap-Up // my twitter hiatus, university hunting & bettering myself
February was more of a hectic month than January, I think, but also a wonderful month overall. Wonderful because I did so many things to better improve myself mentally and physically, and I’ve been working really hard to strive for perfection in school. I’m overall excited to write this wrap-up! Read More
K-DRAMA REVIEW: Part-Time Idol // untalented k-pop trainees becoming idols & lots of G-Dragon love
Title: Part-Time Idol
Hangul: 비정규직 아이돌
Network: SBS
Genre: Music, Drama
Episodes: 5
Broadcasting Dates: All episodes released Nov 27, 2017
Language: Korean
Source: Watched on Netflix
Synopsis: The storyline takes place at an entertainment agency. After creating a bunch of famous idols, a producer begins to question the whole process of making a star, so he goes on a break for a few years. Once he returns to the company, he gathers some trainees left on the back burner and tries to launch a co-ed idol group. The trainees undergo some peculiar training to debut in this group.
K-DRAMA REVIEW: Descendants of the Sun // military setting & two of the best couples i’ve ever seen in a kdrama
Title: Descendants of the Sun
Hangul: 태양의 후예
Network: KBS
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcasting Dates: February 24 – April 22, 2016
Language: Korean
Source: Watched on Netflix
Synopsis: A love story develops between Captain Yoo Shi Jin, from South Korean Special Forces and Doctor Kang Mo Yeon, who works as a Surgeon at Haesung Hospital in Seoul. They will find themselves in the middle of great events and deadly dangers, both in their Motherland and in the fictitious, war-torn country of Urk.
K-DRAMA REVIEW: Oh My Ghostess // a hilarious mix between the supernatural and modern-day romance
Title: Oh My Ghostess
Hangul: 오 나의 귀신님
Network: tvN
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Supernatural
Episodes: 16
Broadcasting Dates: July 3, 2015 – August 22, 2015
Language: Korean
Source: Watched on Netflix
Synopsis: Na Bong-sun (Park Bo-young) has an extremely timid personality and low self-esteem, doesn’t have any close friends, and is constantly getting reprimanded at her job as an assistant chef at Sun Restaurant. She also occasionally sees ghosts, thanks to a shaman grandmother. One day, Bong-sun gets possessed by a lustful virgin ghost named Shin Soon-ae (Kim Seul-gie). To make up for the lack of romance in her short life and believing that only by losing her virginity will she be able to “resolve her grudge” and move on to the afterlife, Soon-ae is determined to seduce as many men as she can by possessing various women, and she finds the perfect vessel in Bong-sun. Read More
K-DRAMA REVIEW: Reply 1997
Today I decided to do something a little different. Some of y’all might know by now that I’m a K-Drama watcher. If you don’t already know, K-Dramas are Korean Dramas. They usually only have one season and they are pure awesomeness. Now, onto my review!
MINI-REVIEW: I Believe In A Thing Called Love *Spoiler-Free*
Title: I Believe In A Thing Called Love
Author: Maurene Goo
Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Format: Hardcover
Page Count: 170
Monthly Spotlight: May
Hello everybody! As you all know I decided to stop doing monthly wrap ups. This is just because it takes me forever to compose those posts and I honestly don’t enjoy writing them so I decided to stop making them. Read More
