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Young Lady and Gentleman aka Positive Parasite

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Young Lady and Gentleman is a weekly Korean drama that is currently airing on KBS on Saturdays and Sundays. American fans, like me, can catch the episodes on Viki.com, with English subtitles complete by Monday or Tuesday.

It stars Ji Hyun Woo as the widower and father of 3 Lee Young Kook, and Lee Se Hee as the bright young tutor who’s down on her luck Park Dan Dan.

It’s a classic Korean tale of interwoven familial relationships.

Unbeknownst to anyone, Park Dan Dan & her father & her brother get tangled up into both personal and professional relationships with different members of Lee Young Kook’s family. Once Park Dan Dan starts working as a tutor she discovers that her father has been recently hired as the driver, and then later they discover that her brother has begun a romantic relationship with Lee Young Kook’s sister.

It turned into a Parasite situation real quick!

The only difference being – Park Dan Dan’s family is really, really nice!

They’re all good people, with strong moral conviction (so far at least!) and have had no intention of taking advantage of this rich family. That’s why it’s Positive Parasite! 🙂

What’s really fun is that the show knows that it’s being similar to Parasite and says so a couple of times. That’s why things kind of do blow up when their familial relations are revealed.

I am thoroughly enjoying this show and terribly excited by the fact that it is going to have 50 episodes!!! You heard me right! 50 episodes! It’s really tough waiting every week for new episodes though!

The one thing I’ve noticed about Ji Hyun Woo’s shows is that they always have really good cliffhangers. Seriously, in every show every episode ends on a major cliffhanger! Which is great 😀 and horrible (cause of the waiting!!).

The only thing so far that has been not my favorite has been the soundtrack. I don’t dislike it, but it’s been more funny then breathtaking. Love in Sadness for example had an awesome soundtrack. The music was it’s own character. The music in this show is a character too, just more of a silly clown than anything else.

But even so, I can promise you that I am going to watch every one of those 50 episodes!:)

If you want to watch it too, then just head on over to Viki.com.

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Book Recommendation: NARNIA!

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by CS Lewis.

This is one of the first books I ever read!

It’s a great book to read at any age, whether you’re 7 or 77.

It follows the lives of siblings Peter, Susan, Edmond and Lucy and their adventures in the magical world on the other side of a dusty old wardrobe.

The world of Narnia – where there are fauns and talking beavers and terrifying witches. It’s a place where, when the children first arrive in it, it is always winter but never Christmas.

The arrival of the 2 sons of Adam and 2 daughters of Eve is the sign that the return of Christmas, spring and Aslan and then end of the White Witch’s reign is near.

CS Lewis is such a good writer!!

Each chapter is only about 10 pages long and, though he’s writing for children, there is no condescending going on. He respects the intelligence of the reader and delivers a story that is – simply put, a classic.

Everybody should read The Chronicles of Narnia.

Everybody.

100/10!

Also, if you’re only prior exposure to Narnia was the live action disney movies then please – FORGET THOSE!!

The books are a thousand times better AND there’s a cartoon movie from 1979 that is PHENOMENAL!! Go find and watch that – PLEASE!

Thank you! 🙂

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Drama Recommendation: I Am Not A Robot

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One of the best feel good happy drama’s out there, MBC’s 2017 kdrama I Am Not A Robot starring Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin, will make you laugh, smile and cry.

It follows Kim Min Kyu (played by Yoo Seung Ho) a, for lack of a better word, rich boy CEO that has a serious, life threatening allergy – to people. If he touches or is touched by another person, or eats food prepared or handled by another person or even gets breathed on by another person, his body will break out in horrible hives, shut down, his lungs will close and he will die.

Despite all of this he’s managed to live the quarantine life to its fullest! Being a rich chaebol can allow for that, but he does get lonely.

It also follows Jo Ji A (played by Chae Soo Bin) who is a struggling inventor/entrepreneur that is starting up business after business, working non-stop, while praying for her lucky break. A pile of failed inventions though means a pile of unpaid debts, so when an ex-boyfriend offers to pay her $10K to pretend to be a robot for a day she agrees, totally unaware that the client she’ll be fooling is an ex-client of her own previous delivery service, an exchange that did not end pleasantly for either of them.

A boy that can’t touch humans and a girl that’s pretending to be not-human. Will their story have a happy ending or will the lies destroy more than an allergy to humans ever could?

Idk about my synopsis hahah!!

Basically, it’s a very sweet drama! I absolutely fell in love with this couple 🙂 Yoo Seung Ho and Chae Soo Bin have amazing chemistry and the show is so bright and light but has just enough heart-wrenching depth to pull your heartstrings right out of your chest! And then return them to you later with a smile and a warm hug. ❤

Also, I happened to watch it for the first time right at the start of quarantine back in early 2020 so it felt very appropriate and relatable! xD

You can find the complete drama on Viki, or *cough**cough* some other less reputable sites. But, if you’re interested in kdramas at all, Viki really is the place to go. You can watch some shows for free with ads or, pay a well-worth-it subscription fee to access all the shows with no ads. Not sponsored by the way, just really like Viki.

Let me know if you watch the show and then what your favorite part is. 🙂 My favorite part is the confession scene – the big one! You’ll know what I mean 😉

Writer OUT!

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