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Post by latina on Sept 19, 2012 14:20:44 GMT -5
grace, I don't think there are the same age, I guess they didn't have Polaroid back them, so, they don't know that at least they are a year a part, but k-dramaland everything is possible. Taebong's mom is a maid that has live 15 years with the doctor(Seol Doan). Taebong lives in Seoul as well his prosecutor friend who is a stepson of Myeongju, I guess she is a widow.... I don't know why, but I think Gobpa, the was who is married to the rich short guy/ichy feet , has something to do with the guy of the Hope Clinic...
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Post by poodlepal on Sept 19, 2012 16:02:19 GMT -5
I think in Asian cultures people don't celebrate their birthdays on their actual birthday, but change their age on January 1st. I am not Asian, however, so if I am mistaken in that, feel free to correct me. They are also very fluid (on K dramas, at least) about birth certificates and wedding licenses.
So, I guess it went down like this. The family must have moved to a cabin in Jejudo after they were left the baby, Serious Daughter (Seunghui?). They hid there for several years, until Shallow Singing Daughter (Seunhja?) was born. They remained there until the girls were about 3 or 4, and could sort of pass for the same age. They wouldn't fool anyone if Seunja was 1 month and Seunhui was 10 months, for example, but after a few years, maybe. Then they moved back to wherever this drama takes place, wrote the younger daughter's birthday as the same as her sisters, stamped it with a seal, and then it was official as far as everyone in K-drama land was concerned. Remember, in K-drama land, the US INS can keep you out of the country if your daughter has a stepfather she wants to get close to, so there is a different set of rules for official documents and the like.
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Post by dodgerman on Sept 19, 2012 16:14:59 GMT -5
I think all the "serious" dramas are too short for 5 nights a week. All the good dramas I have seen online were about 20 episodes which is only a month if it is on every night. These goofy kdramas seem to be over 120 episodes long and last 6 months--they have more leeway to bring characters in and have multiple plot lines.
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Post by grace on Sept 19, 2012 16:27:03 GMT -5
Latina and poodlepal...I think your explanations are both viable. They had to stay away until the girls were a bit grown to pass them off as "fraternal" twins at least. OR they could have said they were born a year apart. I happens you know, some women get pregnant right away..but its K-Drama Land...I should know better. :0)
Latina...how do you remember all the names??!!!! OMG...I don't know any names yet, and probably won't till maybe episode 119!...lol...
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Post by mara on Sept 19, 2012 17:46:45 GMT -5
Well, thanks everyone - I think I sort of have it figured out now...lol...
I don't think they live in Seoul - they are speaking a different dialect than the usual kdramas - a lot of it doesn't sound familiar at all or rather sounds a bit different.......after all these years of watching kdrama I can understand a little bit, enough to know it's different...lol....
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Post by Linda on Sept 19, 2012 21:50:48 GMT -5
Not a looker in the bunch, guy-wise, haha.
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Post by Linda on Sept 19, 2012 21:58:24 GMT -5
Oh, Poodlepal, I think the aging thing is that they start counting from conception, so when you're born, you're already 10 months old or whatever. Hahaha, shows how much I know too.
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Post by latina on Sept 20, 2012 8:09:23 GMT -5
Guys, lets remember they were born in 1950, I think in third world country, like mine, most of the birth were at home some time you won't even get a birth certificate, if you want one you need to go to the City hall and said any date, you didn't need to bring with you the child, they believed that you were saying the truth.
grace, I remember the name because this is the time of the day that the kids are in bed I can lay down and put all my attention on the TV, lol. I'm from the capital were I come from, but my husband is from Central America, he came during his country civil war in the 1980's (remember the Contras) he was born and raised in a farm, they didn't have bathroom, just letrin, he didn't own a pair of shoe until he was 7 years old, his mother wash their clothes on the river, in the 1970's, so I kind of see how they live like that in Korea on that time....
mara, the Hong family live in a small town Damiol(sic), Seunghui said that means rice fields, but Neog...(prosecutor) lives in Seoul, he asked Taebeom when he was coming back to Seoul.
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Post by poodlepal on Sept 20, 2012 17:43:16 GMT -5
Very interesting information. When we see the modern dramas (will we ever again on WMBC? It doesn't look like it), they live pretty much as Americans, except for the semi-arranged marriages and the lower-middle class or poor people sleeping on the floor. But they wear western clothes, have cell phones, cars, etc. It seems like in the 60s and 70s even they were still quite a bit behind where America was then. S. Korea can't really be considered a developing country any more, where some of these Latin American countries still are, I believe.
I think both guys are cute. However, the middle-aged women I think are being played by actresses too young. They look the same age as the grown kids.
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Post by Linda on Sept 20, 2012 21:52:30 GMT -5
Yeah, I take my previous comment back about not a looker in the bunch, the prosecutor is actually handsome.
In the opening credits, the last set of people shown, which are the kids, that taller girl to the left, have we met her yet? Is she Gopdan's daughter? This drama isn't short of disgusting brats; so far, every family has one. Gopdan's husband is Obok's crooked father from Happiness in the Wind, isn't he?
Seunghui looks good with the prosecutor, in the preview, but if they fall in love, and someone brought it up already, they can't marry because they'll be considered related. I don't know who and who to ship for yet.
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Post by myoko on Sept 20, 2012 22:04:34 GMT -5
Well the art shop scene and thereafter were exciting. I really like Seunghui, I like that she's not a doormat or softee even though she's the nice one. I want her and Taebeom together but the poster pic for this series dictates otherwise, boo. I like that the father didn't scold her either lol, and Granny, what a face! She reminds me of a Disney cat but I can't remember which one LOL. And why do they call Granny's brother Grandpa?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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Post by latina on Sept 21, 2012 11:24:37 GMT -5
Linda, YES! he's Obok's father!.
myoko, I guess he is like a grandpa, he is granny's brother, seen this dramas I have realized how their culture is so similar in some thing to hispanic culture. If there is somebody in the family like in this case they don't have a grandfather, but is closed enough to the family and has filled that position as a granfather figure as of respect you have to call him grandpa. The same we refere to stepchildres as our childrenand stepsiblings as our siblings.
Yes, it is amaizing how rural Korea was in the 70's, and now they're so industrial and ahead in tecnology. Latinoamerica, is far so behind, maybe just except Brazil and Chile...
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Post by dodgerman on Sept 21, 2012 17:01:11 GMT -5
yes he was Obok crooked Dad and played the same character in SIGN which I saw online. Back in the 30's & 40's in Hollywood actors & actresses were signed by a specific studio and were in almost every movie the studio made. Maybe it is the same in Korea because we tend to see familiar actors in every show we see. It also is because the shows seem not be be on for years and years.
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Post by myoko on Sept 21, 2012 21:35:21 GMT -5
Thanks latina my husband said something similar about closeness and fitting into a role and such.
-That's interesting dodgerman and would explain a lot.
-I hope that's it with Taebeom and the police.
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Post by Linda on Sept 21, 2012 22:31:58 GMT -5
Hahaha, that last scene was hilarious with Seunghui making the phone call to her bio-mother. How would the woman even know her name? And the last name is common so I don't know why they made that the last scene like it's going to be some big suspenseful lead-up or whatever. FAIL, we've been through this too many times to even get excited.
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