Let's try to manifest a world where some of the biggest Korean actresses were cast in major full-length GL kdramas.
COP + CRIMINAL
Esom (Because This Is My First Life) and Lee Da-hee (Search: WWW) play partners and besties, who both fall for their respective suspects for a crime spree against the patriarchy. (Think: Evening the pay gap at a major company; exposing scandals of sexist politicians; and chemically castrating sex offenders). Esom's love interest is Park Eun-bin (Extraordinary Attorney Woo), and Da-hee's love interest is Seo Yea-ji (It's Okay to Not Be Okay). It's a romantic crime thriller.
FRIENDS to LOVERS
Seol In-ah (Business Proposal) plays a new-money rich girl who hires a former old-money rich girl, played by Yoo In-na (Touch Your Heart), to be her personal assistant out of pity, but pretends she doesn't know her backstory. And Yoo helps Seol navigate rich society. Their conflict is that Seol's family bankrupted Yoo's family, and is getting the life Yoo was supposed to have, including the fiancee, the job, and the house. It's a sweet romantic comedy.
BOSS + EMPLOYEE
Kim Ji-won (Fight My Way) starts a job at a family law firm and works hard to get one of the partners, played by Son Ye-jin (Crash Landing on You), to be her mentor, but only because she wants her job. She starts off as a frenemie before Ye-Jin's hard edges rub off, and Ji-won develops a crush. Their obstacles are that Ye-Jin is married and in the closet, and Ji-won might be too ambitious to let go of her goals. It's a slow-burn romantic legal drama.
COOL GIRL + DORK
Park Shin-hye (Heirs & Pinocchio) plays a cold fashion house designer who hires an unlikely candidate to be her muse, played by Moon Ga-young (True Beauty). And what starts off as a toxic relationship blooms into a supportive one. Park Bo-young (Strong Girl Bong-soon) plays her head of design, who befriends Ga-young's bestie-turned-manager, played by Kim Seul-gi (Oh My Ghostess). They're the softer side couple. It's a romantic workplace dramedy.
FRIENDS to ENEMIES to LOVERS
Seo Hyun-jin (Why Her?) and Gong Hyo-jin (When the Camellia Blooms) were friends in college, but they had a falling out after a misunderstanding about a guy. They have a tense reunion as adults when Hyo-jin is setting up her nuptials at the wedding hall Hyun-jin manages. It's a slowburn romantic drama.
ONE-SIDED OBSESSION
Shin Min-a (Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha) plays the wife of a very powerful and abusive man and Hwang Jung-eum (She Was Pretty) plays the maid who is secretly in love with her and helps her escape. They go to Jung-eum's hometown where everyone assumes she's bringing her girlfriend home for the first time, because she didn't have the heart to tell them she got dumped after running away to be with her. Min-a decides to pretend to be the woman to pay her back, and they fall in love. The conflict being when Jung-eum's ex, played by Park Min-young (What's Wrong with Secretary Kim), returns to get her back.
Hello there! Yes, I'm starting something else, because as of now, nothing that I'm currently watching is really a treat for me. I know this drama aired a few years ago, but I have been wanting to watch it for quite some time already and there we go. I have high hopes for it, I heard it's really good, so hopefully... this is going to be my reward for those two others that aren't all that interesting to me!
Weol-ju is the kind daughter of a shaman and she possesses the power to help people through their dreams. She happily helps anyone in need and gets a reputation for it which reaches the ears of the Queen. As her son, the Crown Prince is sickly and nothing will heal him, she summons Weol-ju to the palace and have her treat the prince. Doing so, they fall in love, which spreads a lot of rumours in town about Weol-ju and leads to her mom's death as she pretended to be Weol-ju and sent her away to protect her. However, Weol-ju, filled with hatred, curses everyone before hanging herself on the branches of the sacred tree. The pin her mom gave her falls down and something magic seems to be happening, but what? Who knows?
So, for having hung up herself at the sacred tree, Weol-ju was punished to help 1000 or was it 10,000 souls through dreams. It's also a 500 years sentence. As of now, she needs to help 10 more people and runs a street bar to lure customers in and reveal their worries to her so she can help. However, as of lately, business hasn't been doing as well as in the past, since delivery services cause customers to be lesser and lesser and people are more open about their feelings on the internet instead of in person. For the last 6 months, she wasn't able to help anyone.
Han Kangbae is a young worker in a store. Whenever he touches someone else, these people pour out their heart to him and say whatever they're really thinking. So he tries to avoid contact as much as possible. One day, at the store, a client treats badly her colleague, who has a great reputation since she won the best employee award five months in a row. Weol-ju also happened to be there and she went on a rampage to punish that arrogant man, which puts Mi Ran (best employee) in trouble at work. Kangbae tries to speak up for her, but the manager goes by the customer is king rule.
Later that night, Kangbae sees Mi Ran jumping in front of a car and he jumps in to protect her from the impact. Fortunately, the drivers stops in time and they're both safe. Kangbae suggests that they go to the street bar across the street to have some food. There, when Mi Ran touches his hand by accident, she reveals that the manager at the store has been harassing her, which is why she wanted to die. Weol-ju sends Kangbae away and serves the sleeping alcohol to Mi Ran so she can fulfill her wish in her dream. When Kangbae comes back, he can see the bar that no one else sees and ends up joining the dream. They punish the manager and convince Mi Ran to stand up for herself in real life too.
The next day, Kangbae thinks it was all a dream until he finds Weol-ju's hairpin on the rooftop at work. He remembers she promised that she could help someone change their personality, so he goes to find her. Meanwhile, she gets a warning that she's having only one month left to finish her task, else she's going to hell. So she remembers of Kangbae's abilities and decides to have him help her to complete her punishment in time. She agrees to help him on the condition that he gives his body to her. Meaning she'll possess him or that she wants him to use his empathy abilities for her? We'll see next episode.
So far, I'm very happy with this. The main lead is a powerful woman with a lot of personality. I adore her. She funny and feisty, it's a nice change from who she was when she was alive too. Really loved it. I'm waiting a little bit more to see who Kangbae really is, but so far it's nice to have a guy that is a little bit softer than domineering. And there's also Gwi something something, that I haven't mentioned in the summary, but I'm pretty sure I'm going to love this guy too. Really looking forward the next episode! I will have to restrain myself, because I can't wait to watch another and yet I've got other stuff to do today.
FML, I don't have the time and it wasn't what I was planning to rewatch but I am rewatching Secret now aaaaaaa I only took one peek and I am sucked in!!!
THIS is how you do a perfect makjang for me. I mean, I enjoyed PMR and MMH but they ain't got nothing on this perfect baby!
UYARI : Yazılar genel olarak spoiler içerebilir. İçermeyedebilir.
İmdb puanı: 8
Benim puanım: 8
Drama: Mystic Pop-up Bar / Ssanggab Cart Bar
Hangul: 쌍갑포차
Director: Jeon Chang-Geun
Writer: Bae Hye-Soo (webcomic), Ha Yoon-A
Episodes: 12
Date: 2020
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea
Cast: Hwang Jung Eum, Yook Sung Jae ve Choi Won Young
Ssang gap pocha adlı webtoondan uyarlanan Pop-up Bar her bölümde farklı hikayeler anlatan, çerezlik bir dizi gibi görünüyor. Weol Ju, geçmişte işlediği bir suç nedeni ile cezalandırılır. Yaptığı hata kendisi ile birlikte 100.000 ruhun da acı çekmesine neden olduğu için cezası; 100.000 ruhun acısını dindirip teselli etmektir. Aksi takdirde cehenneme gidecek ve tekrar doğamayacaktır. Başrolümüz bir türlü verilen cezayı istenilen sürede tamamlayamaz ve sürekli süresini uzatır. Bu şekilde 500 yıl geçmiştir, hala tamamlayamadığı için sonunda süre sınırlaması getirilir.
500. yılda cezası için verilen süre bitecek ve cehenneme gidecektir, reenkarne olmasına izin verilmeyecektir. 500 yılın bitmesine 1 ay kalmıştır ve yalnızca 10 kişi daha kurtarması gerekmektedir. Karakterimiz yardım ettiği insanları çok da umursamıyormuş gibi görünse de aslında bu cezayı kabul etmesinde yatan farklı nedenleri dizi ilerledikçe öğreniyoruz.
Weol Ju'nun yanında birde yardımcısı var. Daha önce ahiret bürosunda dedektif olan Gwi, Weol Ju'ya yardım etmek ile görevlidir. İtiraf etmeliyim ki, başrolü Weol Ju'dan çok Gwi olarak izledim. Bu iki karakter, Kore'de bolca bulunan Pop-up Barlardan birini işletiyorlar. Bu barlar meydanlara kurulan ve akşamları hizmet veren çadır bar şeklinde içkili salaş mekanlar. Böylece, akşam herhangi bir dertten dolayı içmeye gelen kişileri konuşmaya ikna edip, sonrada derdini çözerek cezayı tamamlamaya çalışıyorlar. Bir nevi satış stratejisi yapmışlar.
Diğer tarafta ise ailesi olmayan genç bir delikanlımız var. Han Kang-Bae, bu karakterimizin ise doğuştan bir gücü var. İnsanlara dokunduğu anda, karşısındakinin dertlerini ve gerçek düşüncelerini anlatmasını sağlıyor. Bu nedenle de kimseye dokunmadan hayatının büyük çoğunluğunu yalnız geçirerek büyümüş. Bir akşam bütün karakterlerimiz bir araya geliyor ve Kang-Bae'nin aslında Weol Ju için biçilmiş kaftan olduğunu hep beraber görüyoruz. Weol Ju, Kang-Bae'ye 1 ayda 10 kişiyi kurtarmasına yardım ederse insanlara dokunamamasına neden olan bu laneti kaldırabileceğini söylüyor ve anlaşma teklif ediyor.
Böylece dizinin hikayesi başlamış oluyor. Yormayan ama sırları olan bu dizide her bölümde farklı bir hikayeye tanıklık ediyoruz. Bu sayede dizi tekdüze olmaktan sıyrılıyor. Aynı zamanda arka planda ilerleyen karakterlerin hikayeleri de diziyi tatlandırıyor. İlk başlarda komedi unsurlarına ağırlık vermiş olsalar da bölümler ilerledikçe karakterlerinde dramları ön plana çıkıyor. Sonunda ise neyse ki havada kalan izleyiciyi delirten bir nokta olmuyor.
Üçlünün arasında diğer Kore dizilerinde olduğu gibi yoğun bir aşk hikayesi olmaması başta çekici gelmese bile bence farklı olması nedeniyle keyifliydi. Ayrıca son olarak ufak bir not eklemem gerekirse, oyuncu olarak Hwang Jung Eum’a hiç ısınamadım. Onun yerine daha sempatik bir oyuncu oynasaydı, çok daha eğlenceli bir dizi olabilirdi.
With all the weird shit that happened previously in this show (scooby-doo masks, crazy wigs that nobody questions, THE ISLAND, realistically impossible surgeries, etc) I shouldn't have been so surprised about the fake leg.