Category Archives: Movies

Detective K: Secret Of Virtuous Widow; a movie rather than a series. Features Kim Myung-Min (King of Dramas, Bad Family) as Detective K, a brilliant though sometimes clumsy Sherlockian investigator with incredible fighting skills, charged with a secret investigation into murders of government officials and government corruption. Myung-Min is a brilliant actor, just outstanding, and a treat [...]

MARY STAYED OUT ALL NIGHT – also called Marry Me, Mary- it’s strictly frothy romantic comedy.   I can’t exactly recommend this one because the plot is insanely unbelievable and the writing is a tangled mess, BUT man, it was fun to watch anyway.   It’s kind of like Boys Over Flowers that way. I could [...]

Boys Over Flowers is also known as Boys Before Flowers.  It was originally a Japanese Manga, and then a Japanese drama called Hana Yori Dango, which you can watch online, too.  It was also done as animation, and there are Chinese and Taiwanese versions, too, though I don’t know anything about them.  I did watch [...]

Padam Padam, which I watched because it features Kim Bum as Gook Soo, the most adorable Guardian Angel in training ever in a ponytail and tennis shoes. He’s a sunny, offbeat, slightly deranged, maybe a little bit slow, total sweetheart. He also beats up Yang Kang Chil, his charge, in order to keep him out [...]

That Winter the Wind Blows: Wow. I loved this while I watched it, and I did not expect to like it at all. It’s a melo, which I do not do (click through the link to see why). That Winter hurts my heart, makes me tense, and gives me a lot of adorable, cute, and [...]

Recently some of the progeny were trying to decide on a movie to watch. At some point, the Boy told his sisters that he didn’t really have anything against their movie suggestions as such, it’s just that they all lacked something. That something, he informed them, is adrenaline. Iris is a K-drama, and it’s a [...]

  Places to watch Korean Dramas: Hulu.com- pretty easy and straightforward.  You need to know the title of the show you want. http://www.viki.com/ Has other ‘foreign’ television programs, too, not just Korean (this may be true of the others as well, I haven’t looked. That info is on the front page with viki).  If you [...]