Skip Beat

        "Skip Beat!" is a TV series based on the same name Japanese manga. It aired on TV on 2011. Honestly, I watched this drama just because of the manga at first, but I really like it after all. The main actress really made the character alive just like the manga.

         The drama is about a girl, Gong Xi who abandoned by her mother since she was small in an spring water hotel and the owners of the hotel took care of her and trained her to be a model housewife in order to make her and their only son, Bu Po Shang get married when they grow up. She loves Shang since they was small and follows him everywhere. After they graduated from high school, Shang asks Gong Xi to go to Taipei to chase for his dream, becoming a famous artist. Gong Xi agrees immediately without thinking a bit. In Taipei, Gong Xi works three jobs in the same time to support their household and to let Shang stays home and composes songs. He becomes a famous singer right after his first debut and he starts to avoiding Gong Xi because he thinks that she is an old-fashion girl. One day, Gong Xi goes to Shang's company to deliver lunch for him and she overheard Shang says to his manager that he just sees Gong Xi as to maid. Gong Xi pisses off and swears that she will take her revenge on him by becoming a artist that more famous than him. She uses all ways to get into the Taiwan largest talent agency where she meets Lian, the most favorite artist voted by audiences of whole country. Lian pays attention on Gong Xi right at the beginning when she tries to get into the company because he thinks that she is weird and interesting. Gong Xi fails when she attends the test to get in the training program of the company but the chairman of the company lets her join the company in a new department, Love Me club, that is created because of her. Her job is accomplish the order that whoever asks her to get the scores so she can debut as an artist. Lian is picking on her at first because he doesn't agree with her purpose, taking revenge on Bu Po Shang. However, after he sees all of her fortitude and recognize her talent at acting, he changes his point of view about her and starts to help her to improve her acting career. While they are filming a TV series together, Lian discover his love for Gong Xi and he tries to resist it because he always thinks that he doesn't deserve to love or to be loved by anyone. Gong Xi is the one that make him starts to open his heart to feel love and care. 

       I love this drama and all the characters in the drama. There is some people who always picking on others to get what they want but they are not bad. They just to childish and stubborn to accept their deficiencies. I love the manga more, of course, but this drama is good enough in my opinion. The main actress portrayed the character impressively. 

My Name is Kim Sam Soon

           My name is Kim Sam Soon is a Korean drama produced in 2005. This drama is a big hit when it aired on TV with a 37.6%  average viewership rating and make is the 26th highest rated Korean drama of all time. the drama also won a lot of awards, not only the drama itself but the actors also. The main actress in the drama is Kim Sun Ah who gained 15 pounds just to fit the character in the drama. This is known as the Korean version of Bridget Jones Dairy. 
          The drama is about Kim Sam Soon, a 30 years old lady who has a brash and straight forward personality. She always feels less self-esteem about her weight and her old-fashion name, Sam Soon. She has been making fun of by others when they know her name. Her biggest passion is pastry and she is a really talented baker. She saved up money to go France to be trained to be a patisserie. She was dumped by her boyfriend and lost her job at the same day on Christmas Eve. When she feels humiliated and lost, she bumps in Jin Heon, one of the witness of her break up scene in male restroom. After a few misunderstanding, he discovers her talent and hires her to be pastry chef in his upscale French restaurant. Under the pressure of Jin Heon's mother, he convinces Sam Soon to sign a contract to be his pretend girlfriend to avoid all the blind dated arranges whom his mother makes him go. Because Sam Soon needs money to save her mother house, she decides to sign the contract. Like all the motif of love story, they are attracted to each other after a while spending time together. But when they think things is working out between them, Jin Heon's ex-girlfriend come back from the U.S and wants him back. After a lot of tears and explaining, they are back together. However, Jin Heon finally knows that where his heart belong to, that the one he actually in love is Sam Soon. He confesses his love to Sam Soon and proves for her mother and sister that he is really love her. They are dating happily together. 

        This drama is really really hilarious. I could not stop laughing when I watched it. This is a really really good drama, not only I love it, people who I know love it too, really!! 

You're Beautiful

       "You're Beautiful" is the hottest Korean drama in the end of the year 2009 till 2010. This drama is so famous that brings the whole starring artists are known by fans in other Southeast Asian countries. This drama also are remade in Japanese version in 2011 and recently in Taiwanese version on May 2013.
      The drama is about a young girl who lived in a church when she was little till grown up. Her dream is going to Rome to become a actual nun. Her twin brother who looks like her from appearance to voice dreams to become a famous singer therefore their mom will see him on TV and find for them. Her brother is successfully win the audition to join the famous music band "AN Jell", but he need to go to the U.S to correct a botched plastic surgery. That's why his manager begs his twin sister to disguise him to sign the contract and join the band while his absence. After she join the band for a few days, the leader of the band discovers her truth gender and force her to go because he doesn't like her since the first time they met and he always gives her hard time. However, she makes him change his decision with her efforts. She proves that she isn't join the band for bad reason or just for famous to the leader. He helps her hide her secret until the day her brother come back. In that time, while working and living together, they fall in love. The two other members of the band also like and care for her a lot. Especially the one who plays guitar. He knows about her secret even earlier than the leader but he keeps the secret with him and protects her in silence. I like this character a lot.
      Like i said in the previous blog, the reason I love the show so much because of the actress in the show. Park Shin Hye.

I love her smile a lot. 

The Flower Boy Next Door

       "The flower boys next door" is the fourth drama in my favorite list. The drama just on aired earlier on February, 2013 in Korean cable channel. The drama has total 16 episodes. I kinda love those lovely puppy love story so I was very excited when I waited every Monday for the new episode come out online. Another reason that I love this drama a lot is the main actress in the drama, Park Shin Hye. She just looks so pure and cute. I like her since the previous drama ,which I will write about it later, she played in. 
       The drama is about a girl name Go Dok Mi who always stays in her apartment and refuses to interact with other people as much as she can. She works as a freelance copy editor. She only goes out when she really really need things that she doesn't have at her apartment. Everyday She opens her door once in the morning to pick up a carton of milk which has post-it paper with a little drawing stuck on it by her neighbor who in love with her secretly. She wakes up every morning and use a binocular to peek at the man, who she was fallen in love since the last time she went out and met, lives in the apartment across the street. One day she was caught by that man's cousin who come from Spain to visit. The cousin's name is Enrique Guem who is a computer genius and invented a successful video game in the age of 17. He has a very bright personality, very talkative, and very active. Since he discovered Dok Mi's acts, he starts to wonder why she avoids to interact with others. He comes to her apartment everyday to try to get her out of her home. Since she met him, her world is changing everyday. Enrique pulls her out of her shell to feel the world even it's bad and terrible sometimes but there's still many beautiful things happen everyday around us. 
      I know this drama isn't the best choice for many people and a lot of people don't like it. They said it's a really unrealistic drama but hey, most of the drama is unrealistic. Don't we have had enough too real things happen to us. Let's just flow with a little dreamy drama sometimes to refresh our soul.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YM5fBJjaHE

Coffee Prince

      

     

The third of my favorite dramas is the "Coffee Prince" drama. It's a Korean drama produced in 2007. The drama is based on a novel written by Lee Sun Mi ( a Korean writer) with the same name. The drama has total 17 episodes with 60 minutes for each episode.

This drama is about a hard-working girl named Eun-chan who normally dresses up like a guy to get temp jobs easier. She needs to work a lot of different jobs to take care of her childish mother and her troublemaker younger sister. She delivers milk in the early morning and after that she teaches Taewondo class for kids since she's really good at it. In the afternoon, she works at a Chinese noodle restaurant as a delivery person. Because she dress up like a guy, almost everyone who see her usually misunderstands that she is guy. The main male character who named Han-gyul misunderstood her too at first and he offered her a job as his gay lover to prevent his blind-date arranged by his grandmother. After he get an ultimatum from his grandmother, Han-gyul takes over an old coffee shop. He hire only good-looking guys to work for him in order to attract female customers. Eun-chan who needs money to pay rent decides to hide her real gender to work at Han-gyul's coffee shop. After working together awhile, Han-gyul starts to question about his sexuality when he has feelings toward Eun-chan. I really love the quote he said to Eun-chan in the drama. He kissed her said " I like you whether you are a guy or an alien. None of that matters. It's just too hard to get over you so let's go through with this. Let's give it a shot." That was extremely romantic to me.

I love the drama too much that I watched over and over four times. This drama is the first starts of a bunch of tomboy girl drama which is a big hit in around Asia at that time. If you guys have time or just curious about it, you should give it a try. That's a really good drama.

Hana Kimi

   

       The second of my ten favorite drama is "Hana Kimi", a Japanese drama which is also a live action of a famous manga in Japan. It also has a Taiwanese and Korean version of this manga, but the Japanese version is the best obviously. Japan is known as a country with a very awesome culture, and also very weird. That's why things are weirder in their manga since they can draw whatever they can imagine. Therefore, this drama has many weird things in it, but that's the reason make it awesome.
      This drama is about a high school girl who originally lived in the U.S. One time, she was rescued by a high jump competitor out of a group of bad guys. Unfortunately, he got hurt on his foot when they was running, so he couldn't continue his competition. He gave up his high jump dream. She felt very bad and decided going back to Japan to help him back to his dream. However, the school he attend in is an all-boy school, so she cut her long hair and disguise herself as a guy to attend this school. Luckily, after attending this school, she lives in a same dorm room with the athlete guy she's looking for. Sano, the name of the athlete guy, accidentally discovers out that Mizuki (the name of that girl) is a girl, but he does not tell anyone about her secret. This drama isn't only about love, it's about friendship and relationship between people.
     Although there is many weird things in the drama, I can see an appropriate circumstances in it. Everything is reasonable. Those weird things are just for entertain viewers. The main reason I love this drama is because the actor, Oguri Shun who portrayed the Sano character. He the best actor in my world. He's not the best-looking actor or a super talented actor, but with every character that he plays, he becomes that character. It likes that character just walked out the script and right there in front of you. 

(this is my best actor ever)

It started with a kiss

    
      I love dramas, especially Taiwanese and Korean dramas.
The drama I love the most is a Taiwanese drama called "It started with a kiss." It is a live action of a Japanese manga called "Itazura Na Kiss."

   It is one of the most famous idol drama in Taiwan back in 2005, and this is the best drama ever for me. I was spending almost three days to finish this drama without any sleep. It is very addictive. 
  The story in the drama is about a high school girl, who is not very intelligent and very clumsy, attends in a class which all the bad graded students in the school called " F class." She has a crush on a guy who is a genius with an IQ of 200. It is very obvious that they are from two totally different worlds. However, the magic of life is that you will never know what tomorrow will bring to you. This girl's dad and this guy's parents were friend since college but lost contact in several years. In an earthquake, this girl and her dad lost their house and have no place to stay. Coincidentally, this guy's parents saw this girl and her dad on the news and they invite them to stay in their house while finding another house. Since then, they live under the same roof together. At first, this guy feels very annoyed by this girl. Constantly, many things happen, many misunderstanding is solved. This guy finally realizes that he love this silly and clumsy girl. They get married at the end of the drama.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecaqHlBaZKk (this is the ost of the drama)

  It is a quite long drama. It has total 30 episodes and each episode take 70 minutes. 
  It also continued with a second season called " They kiss again." 
  There is also a rumor that they will have the third season of this drama. I'm very excited and looking forward for it to be confirmed.