OMG - Korean dorama squee

[scottishlass]

I just love, love LOVE Coffee Prince!

So what is the dorama about? The main characters are four people, a former couple, Han Seong (Lee Seon Gyeon) and Yoo-Yu (Chae Jung-Ahn, and good for nothing rich Han Kuyl (Gong Yoo) and tomboy Eun-chan (Yoon Eun-hye).
Han Seong and Yoo-Yu were a couple two years ago, but to advance her career as a painter, she left Han Seong to be the girlfriend of another famous painter in the States. Devastated, Han Seong lives with his dog in the countryside and works on his music (he is a music producer). Han Seong and Han Kuyl are brothers but while one is heart-broken but successful in business, the other, Han Kuyl is a womanizer but a failure with his business ventures.
While Han Kyul is secretly in love with Yoo-Yu he tries to avoid the marriage schemes of his mother and grandmother. By chance he meets Eun-chan who he mistakes as a boy. He hires her to play his gay lover, to get out of the wedding omais his female relatives have set up. After he swarts another marriage attempt, his grandmother forces Han Kyul to become the manager of a run-down cafe which Eun-chan frequents. They work together and while Eun-chan falls in love with Han Kuyl, he after a time questions his sexual orientation, as he only feels trully happy and content when he is together with Eun-chan...

So far so good! The series is set in Seoul with the usual second OTP and some evil/bratty mother/sister thrown in. Watched two eps. now, and I wish I had the whole drama already so I could watch it the whole night. Really a nice little jewel :)



the grandmother and mother of scheming

our hero

our hero(ine)

yum

an indecent proposal

She looks just like a Johnny's Jr.

cute :)

show time

the first kiss

Comments

[nananini.livejournal.com]

OMG! I looked at the pics before reading your note and I thought she was a he :p

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

LOL :)
Yeah YEH really has the best posture/look to post as a boy.

[miss-dian.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeee! I must watch Coffee Prince. The caps look great, and whoa, Eun Hye does look very tomboyish!

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Youshould, I just finished ep4 RAW. It is a really cute series :)

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

I'm loving this too!! I've been checking WithS2 progress page like crazy everyday. I'm dying for more. :P I'm very tempted to watch the raws but I know i should wait. How was episode 3&4?

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

I watched ep 3 and 4 on youtube and I was more than inclined to ffw through the parts with the secondary OTP, or more precise the woman of the secondary OTP. No hinlarious *am I gay* scene yet though :s

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

I don't like the woman in the secondary OTP either. Thankfully the two leads make up for that. I was hoping for *am i gay* scene! *pouts* I guess we will have to wait for bit longer. :D

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we have to wait a bit longer ... though there are already some subconscious signs of jealousy/fondness. I loved the weirded out expression once his hardworking boy was kissed by another man, like: If any guy kisses him, it's me, you moron!

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

LOL, that sounds so cute! I can't wait to see it. I'm still trying hard not to watch the raws. :)

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

I couldn't wait and good thing they are showing two eps per week :)

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

I agree :) I finally saw 3-4 since the subs were released. EEEE! The jealous scene that you told me was so cute! Hopefully subs for 5-6 will be out soon. I really love watching it since it's such a feel good drama. :D

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Oh yes it is :) Watched ep 7 today and waiting for ep8 to come out on youtube right now :) It's addictive :)

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

The subs up to episode 7 just came out! You're right it's so addicting. I'm in the middle of episode 6 right now. It just keeps getting more cute by the moment. I keep squeeing like a little girl. XD

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Yep, me too. I'm desperately waiting for ep 9 and 10 to come out. Ep. 9 should be out by now but so far no such luck on youtube :(
I need my CP fix! *wail*

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

I just finished watching 10. I saw episode 9 last night. I downloaded the chinese hardsub from soompi(i can't read chinese well other then couple characters and numbers lol just it came out fast and medium quality). You can download the HQ that would later work for the subs here:http://mickeybaby.blog.com/

It was a really good two episodes. Very touching!! I never watch raw episodes but Coffee Prince sure broke that rule of mine. :P Dramabeans does a good summary as well. I've been watching the raws and reading her summary side by side:http://www.dramabeans.com/

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the links :D Of course I got to them AFTER watching ep 10 but now I know what is going on better and that helps a lot.

The only time I watch RAW is when it is a Kimutaku dorama, esp. as almost all of his early ones are not subbed, but CP really grabs me. Can't wait for next Monday either, now Mondays are doubly exicting: New SMAPxSMAP ep AND Coffee Prince coming out :)

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. :D

We both make the exception for JE. :) I make the exception for Arashi. I watch their 2 weekly variety shows raw and probably anything else that looks interesting. Though other than that it's my first time for a drama. :) Now I'm tempted to read the translation for episode 10 but i'm bit spoiler chicken..

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

You should read it ... it isn't too bad :)

As for the exception - true ... I guess J-boys have that kind of effect. Do you know that except for about 6 eps I have ALL SmaSma eps of 1996? And the following years look about the same for the exception of years 2004 and 2005 where I have only a handful of eps. Atm I'm trying to get all eps of 2006 together. And they are almost all RAW *slaps palm to head*
I also watched all early doramas of Kimura RAW, like Otouto, Hajimete no Natsu, Isu no Odorikko. Baka, ne? :)

[allbloomedout.livejournal.com]

Wow!! That's amazing that you've seen that many SmaSma. Sometimes I want to see all of Arashi's old shows but there's about 100 episodes per show so I only pick random ones to watch sometimes. Nah, not baka. You just love Kimura. :) I can't blame you either since he's so pretty and talented!

[barefootatkheb.livejournal.com]

sounds interesting, I have to check it out when I come home from my trip :)

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

You should - it's really a surprise this season :)

[barefootatkheb.livejournal.com]

I actually think I caught a bit of it here, as I was watching Korean tv ^^ but I didn't really understand what was going on ;D

[scottishlass.livejournal.com]

Yeah I can imaigne. This series is one of those where you really have to watch every ep or you don't know what is going on as it is very well paced. It's one of those rare few Korean dramas that is not draggy at all (like Goong, Loveholic and others).

[barefootatkheb.livejournal.com]

ahh, sounds really good, I will dwf. check it out when I get back ^^