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Post by poodlepal on Jul 10, 2014 18:14:16 GMT -5
Thanks for the information about Korean Law School. LOL, First Love jumped ahead so often, I thought Chan Woo had completed a bachelor's degree! That was a confusing show. You're right, it could be about a 3 or 4 year difference. If they went straight to law school after high school, they would be 23 and Deulim could be about 20--that makes sense. She might be too young to know about women with big bellies, etc. and would accept a baby just appearing one day. If she's 5 or 6 or above, you couldn't pull that off. If they boys met Suim in college they might not have met Deulim (especially if they lived in a dorm) and maybe Suim just never mentioned her or maybe Deulim is like Jennifer (or lately, Sarah or Emma or Kaitlin)--maybe everyone has a sister named Deulim! OK, you convinced me. The show is more plausible than I thought
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Post by poodlepal on Jul 12, 2014 9:03:28 GMT -5
Was up till 1:00 last night and saw a rerun of Smile Again Donghae episode 4. It's much slower and seems less glamorous than Melody of Love. I forgot some of the details of the show, like who was parents to whom. It was the episode where Anna had the reaction to the peanuts that Bongi put in her soup (I think it was soup, anyway).
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Post by mara on Jul 12, 2014 11:21:49 GMT -5
Was up till 1:00 last night and saw a rerun of Smile Again Donghae episode 4. It's much slower and seems less glamorous than Melody of Love. I forgot some of the details of the show, like who was parents to whom. It was the episode where Anna had the reaction to the peanuts that Bongi put in her soup (I think it was soup, anyway). Do you mean on WMBC? Wow, they are zooming along backwards....lol..... Concerning M of L, after 5 weeks I must say I am okay with it - except for the musical part....;-) It does have the usual plot elements - rich vs. poor family, confused births.....everyone telling lies....I lost track of Deulim and her aunt giving out wrong names...lol....
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Post by sara79 on Jul 13, 2014 7:14:39 GMT -5
Talking about "Smile Again" I could not understand why Donghae's mother Anna, who was adopted as a child and sent to America never uttered an English word in the whole show. In 'Melody of Love' it consists of hip, young and well educated characters and hardly anyone using any English.I noticed that there is an aversion to the usage of English in Korean dramas. By the way if you recall the assistant chef in the hotel in "Smile Again" was Yeongju from Eunhui.
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Post by poodlepal on Jul 13, 2014 11:20:41 GMT -5
Well, I guess it makes sense in Melody of Love, a show in which Korean characters speak their native language to each other. I assume that the educated characters are supposed to be pretty good English speakers, but they don't need to use it with each other when they are giving each other fake names, lying, telling each other off, or singing big ballads, LOL! You can do all those activities quite well in Korean.
As for Carl--that was ridiculous. The actor had a couple of scenes early on where he was supposed to speak English and he was not believable as a native speaker. Bongi was better than he was (or the actress that played her, anyway).
Every drama has one major premise you have to sort of accept, even though it doesn't make sense. In Smile Donghae it was that a boy raised in by non-Korean grandparents in the United States would identify so completely and instantly with Korean culture and seem to have no ties to the United States, the English language or anything else back home. In Eunhui it was that someone so plain and timid would have three men madly in love with her at first sight. In Melody of Love, it's that people have gone their whole lives without hearing the name of or meeting their best friend's siblings.
Having said that, I am liking Melody of Love and liked Smile Again Donghae a lot. Don't know if I can stay up until 1:30, though, even though I don't have to go back to work until August!
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Post by dodgerman on Jul 13, 2014 19:11:53 GMT -5
I have noticed than even when there are Non Koreans speaking English, it still sound stilted and funny. In A New leaf there was a Non Korean prof testifying in English & I could barely understand what he was saying.
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Post by poodlepal on Jul 13, 2014 22:28:21 GMT -5
They speak like language teachers in a language tape. I remember hearing cadence like that in the language lab when I was in high school, or watching bad movies. I suspect they get them to speak like that so that some of the fans in Korea are like, "Oh, I know what he's saying! I remember when I took English back in 9th grade!"
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Post by mara on Jul 14, 2014 12:14:24 GMT -5
..... Having said that, I am liking Melody of Love and liked Smile Again Donghae a lot. Don't know if I can stay up until 1:30, though, even though I don't have to go back to work until August! Donghae is on Dramafever.....under name of Smile Dong Hae.....all 159 episodes.....
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Post by dodgerman on Jul 14, 2014 15:55:27 GMT -5
Remember in First Love when Chan Woo was in the casino and he spoke in English to the crazed gunman?? I did not realize that it was English.
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Post by mara on Jul 15, 2014 15:24:30 GMT -5
Monday - Ep 26 - it seemed that the judge was a bit upset when Hyeonu told him about his case involving a husband claiming his wife did not inform him that he was not the father of the expected baby when they got married - at least that's what I think was going on. So maybe that's the story of Hyeonu......
Poor Deulim - how horrible it must have been to learn that she is adopted from an overheard conversation - but she does seem to take after her father....
I wish Suim would get over Hyeonu - Taegyeong seems like he would be a much better husband....
And the aunt - don't know what to say - she is so entangled with her lies - the teacher has no idea that she was married twice and has two kids - does she know that he is her son's teacher....can't remember.....
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Post by dodgerman on Jul 15, 2014 18:28:26 GMT -5
She knows he is her son's teacher and that is why she was avoiding him at first
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Post by mara on Jul 15, 2014 19:12:27 GMT -5
She knows he is her son's teacher and that is why she was avoiding him at first Thanks! But he doesn't know that the kid is her son etc....he just thinks she is working in the restaurant and has a past....
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Post by mara on Jul 15, 2014 21:17:30 GMT -5
I'm not adopted and don't recall knowing anyone who is....but I can't see the big deal - they brought Deulim up - her real parents are deceased they said - so why should the truth be such a terrible thing.....please explain it...;-)
Almost funny tonight Ep 27 - Hyeonu consoling Deulim and we know that he is in a similar situation.....
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Post by sara79 on Jul 16, 2014 20:51:00 GMT -5
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Post by poodlepal on Jul 16, 2014 21:45:21 GMT -5
It seems like in Asian cultures it's somehow not respectable to raise a child that's not related to you. This has come up on a couple of dramas before. There was one show (High as the Sky back in 2007) where the son didn't tell his in-laws about the boy who was raised as his brother for many years because he was a foster child. I don't think he was allowed to go to the wedding.
Is this realistic, or is it a trope of dramas? I hope it's the latter, but I think it's the former. I've heard many Korean orphans (in the past) actually had living mothers, but they had to lose the kids if they wanted to get remarried, because a good man wouldn't raise a stepchild.
Anyway: What a cavalcade of B----es!One mother won't go to see her daughter's show and yells all the time, one won't pick up after the dog or let her daughter nap or watch tv, the third is just a snob. At least Mrs. Cleaner came around in the end.
The dry cleaner dad showed himself to be a gentleman, and Doc Botox has a soft side, too. The middle aged men are definitely nicer than the women on this show, with the possible exception of the judge. But even he is coming around.
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