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Post by soapygrams on Oct 27, 2008 12:52:38 GMT -5
Well, GinnyCat, I think you've pointed out the problem with almost ALL of the K-dramas. People just do not talk to each other about the problems they are facing. It makes sense to all of us that a simple explanation about WHY they decided to cancel the honeymoon so SY could finish her project, which could lead to a career for her and money for all of them; Mr. Professor sure isn't helping any by keeping his yap shut and just saying I'm sorry and/or more or less - don't worry about it . . . Drives me up a wall. Sometimes I want to scream at all of the actors on the screen to say what's on your mind - - bu of course, we all know that will never happen. Oh well . . . we keep watching anyway, don't we???
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Post by puppy on Oct 27, 2008 16:14:17 GMT -5
I'm with you, Soapy.
I watched a drama (can't remember which) where the MIL asks the DIL to do something. Then the grandma comes along and tells the DIL to do something different. The DIL tries to explain but grandma yells at her so she obeys grandma. MIL comes home and is PISSED! DIL hangs her head and says, "I'm sorry."
I know one is supposed to respect one's elders but it seems to me respect is being honest so the elder knows the real deal thereby not going off half-cocked looking like a fool.
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Post by brooklyn on Oct 27, 2008 21:13:10 GMT -5
And we've seen many times when they try express themselves, all they're met with from the elders is how disrespectful they are or the famous question of What did you just say? I get on Sabby and the other weaklings in dramas for not standing up for themselves but it's no use because their feelings aren't important. Frustrating to see that, yet here I am! lol
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Post by tinkerbell on Oct 28, 2008 16:19:56 GMT -5
My first reaction to this situation was, "here's another honeymoon ruined." Something usually happens or comes up to spoil it and most of the time it's work. Even the romantic evening between Subin's parents was spoiled because "something came up at work." Couldn't Soyeong have worked on her script on the honeymoon? Don't you lose your money if you cancel your flight at the last minute? What about the hotel reservations? The scene with Taeyeong's parents showing up at the hotel was horrible. Soyeong had noodles pasted around her mouth and the parents were flipping out. Disgusting! Maybe it was meant to be funny but it wasn't. Didn't Subin's mother give them the money for the honeymoon? I guess Taeyeong's mom will be mean and hateful to Soyeong for awhile just like she was to Saebyeok. Ridiculous.
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Post by ginnycat5 on Oct 28, 2008 20:09:03 GMT -5
SY might be winning over her MIL. There they are having a family meeting, and SY looks around and points out that Sabyeong isn't there. Didn't MIL look pleased at that? ;D But that Grandmother! She's so awful: Sabbie shouldn't be there, she doesn't belong as part of the family. (Hosae's mother is mean, too. She is nasty about Sabby because she's nothing, just an orphan, like that's her fault and a flaw besides. What a rotten MIL she'd make for Sabby.)
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Post by Lucy on Oct 29, 2008 12:46:29 GMT -5
I'm with you on the noodle scene, tink. That was gross; I literally looked away. I haven't commented on the storyline for a while because the "ruined honeymoon" theme is such a turnoff to me.
But now that they're back, I do want to say how much I like the way Taeyoung treats his "nuna." Sooo respectful! Even when he's comforting her, he just sits with her and touches her while looking earnestly into her eyes, as if he's respecting her personal space and status as a grownup woman.
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Post by tinkerbell on Oct 29, 2008 16:16:05 GMT -5
Taeyoung is so nice and cute. I know they act like teenagers but this is the first time being in love for both of them.
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Post by puppy on Oct 29, 2008 16:30:36 GMT -5
Hi. Tink! Nice pic. Just how much older is Soyeong supposed to be? She looks the same age as Taeyeong.
And brooklyn, here's something else that hurts my teeth: "Why are you taking his/her side?" In one scene, Grandma says something nasty and untrue about Soyeong and her son tells her to calm down. Then she accuses him of taking Soyeong's side. The same thing happened with Hosae and his mom. She practically pushed Sabyeok into oncoming traffic (or something like that) and he said, "Gee mon, that wasn't cool." And she snapped. "Don't you dare take her side."
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Post by tinkerbell on Oct 29, 2008 16:53:41 GMT -5
I don't know puppy. All I've ever heard them say was how old Soyeong was. They consider approaching 30 old. They have to be around the same age if they went to school together, right?
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Post by Lucy on Oct 29, 2008 17:38:47 GMT -5
I think I know the answer to this, puppy. It's part and parcel with the "not talking back to elders" thing. It has to do with relations between the daughter-in-law and the rest of the family. She's supposed to obey the mother (and grandmother, if there is one), and when a woman marries into a family, she becomes like an apprentice to the mother. Her husband is not supposed to get in between them. Otherwise, he's undermining the mother's authority. You see it a lot in the Korean soaps where the young bride gets into even more trouble when the husband tries to intervene if his mother gets abusive to her. That only makes matters worse, because both of the "kids" are supposed to be subordinate to the parents; if they gang up together and stick up for each other, it undermines the power structure.
Same thing with Hosae and his mother, except in this case it's more a case of not contradicting your elders.
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Post by Soju on Oct 29, 2008 20:05:10 GMT -5
I forget the exact ages, but I think they said that when Taeyoeng was a young adolescent (maybe twelve?) he had a crush on the "Older woman" Soyeong, who was maybe seventeen or eighteen.
And wasn't it through a church youth group, rather than school? And Soyeong was the church organist or something like that? I'd have to go back and check on that, though.
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Post by PippiBella on Oct 29, 2008 20:53:42 GMT -5
Taeyoung is so nice and cute. I know they act like teenagers but this is the first time being in love for both of them. I LOVE this actor!! He is CUTE!!
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Post by Lucy on Nov 26, 2008 13:48:02 GMT -5
Soyeong is acting like an idiot these days. Why didn't she just tell Grandma she isn't pregnant? I know she wants time to do her work, but she's being infantile (ironically enough). And I think it's somewhat immoral to lie about something so serious to Grandma, though she's kind of asking for it by being such a bully.
They don't need another baby in that family; they already have Grandma, who acts like one.
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Post by soapygrams on Nov 26, 2008 22:51:19 GMT -5
Tinkerbell;. what is the name of the actor whose picture you've posted here? Lee Pilmo is the actor playing the role of Taeyoung - He was also in Here Comes Ajumma - He has that ability to be romantic and comic at the same time - But I sure don't recognize him in that picture if that is who it's supposed to be??? I am now very confused - okay - yeah - even more so than usual LOL . . .
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Post by tinkerbell on Nov 27, 2008 21:37:09 GMT -5
It really is Lee Pilmo soapygrams, honest. This is him too.
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