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WATASHI NO OTTO TO KEKKON SHITE (2025) dir. Ahn Gil Ho 

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just finished marry my husband japan and although i dont like how reina k word herself overall its a spectacular adaptation!

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Watashi no Otto to Kekkon Shite (2025) Ep. 2 ⇢ Their First Love 🐢 dir. Ahn Gilho

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Wacky relationship dynamics that I love:

Edit to add:

Alchemy of Souls, Doom at Your Service, Extraordinary You, Moon in the Day, Marry My Husband, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, Oh My Ghost, W: Two Worlds, Lovely Runner, The Judge from Hell, When the Phone Rings

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"I've been wanting to ask, why does the bird wear a tiny hat?" "I made it for the tiger but the bird keeps taking it." KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025)

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BAI JINGTING 白敬亭 as Sang Yan THE FIRST FROST 难哄 (2025) dir. Chu Yu Ning .

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THE FIRST FROST 难哄 · 2025 Episode 22: [Opportunity is for you.]

Anyway, I've already been saving money. You can't keep doing this. Okay.

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Its actively disheartening to have seen so many reactions to Wen Yifan in the first frost be 'shes constantly being saved' or declarations that Sang Yan is healing her.

Sang Yan as a character is aware that he cannot heal her, he hasnt even been able to fully Access her at this point — including the times they were in highschool. TFF has been making a point to show that he's always been good to her, but goodness and kindness can't "heal" a person, especially one who genuinely feels as though they can't recieve it.

And that loops right back into that very aggravating first point, that Yifan is always being saved and has no agency. In every way that matters, Yifan has saved herself. Shes managed to extricate herself from her familys grasp, even through abuse and grief she managed to keep her scores high, she managed to make it to university and build a career from the ground up, she's even managed to stand up against these family members that have traumatized and retraumatized her repeatedly.

Whsn she doesnt ask Sang Yan for help and he has to rush in and help her its not just a dashing romantic moment, its also her doing what she does best. Saving herself alone. The main crux of Wen Yifans arc isnt whether she can to be saved and fixed, its that constantly saving herself is what's been beating her down and her reception of new love is being hindered by it.

The drama makes it a point to show that she is consistently being harmed in places Sang Yan cant even access, like her workplace and her home, and that she has been taking every Correct Step advised and it still hasnt helped her. She's a victim of familial abuse, literal incest (presumedly), and several forms of harassment from a number of places. Her being on survival mode is whats forcing her hand in being unable to connect with people, and as a woman theres many ways in which that Cannot change without societal reform.

Very depressing to see a character whos arc and hurt is being dealt with so delicately recieve responses in this way.. Sang Yan wanting to support her and be there for her is something of a wish fulfillment fantasy but its also a plead for rest. Yifan is so busy saving herself that its chipping away at her soul. She is constantly on guard, she can't even shower without waiting for that hand to creep around the curtain. Romance is not a vehicle to "return" people to what they were, instead the show is pleading for her to truly try trusting all the people in her circle so that she can finally find new joy and create new happiness.

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THE FIRST FROST 难哄 (2025) dir. Chu Yu Ning

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THE FIRST FROST 难哄 (2025) dir. Chu Yu Ning

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so I started watching The First Frost (on Netflix, how dreadful) and the translators just refused to translate the episode titles ??? Like why? It's clearly important and the writers put effort into them, so why this "creative" choice to just neglect it?

So here I will write down all the starting and ending titles (because I'm a sucker for these things) as I go through the eps, so I can help my fellow viewers out as well as my future self (ik she will re-watch this).

Episode Titles below:

Goodbye, Sang Yan ; Goodbye, Wen Yifan

Your Name ; Your Name is Written on my Heart

Everyone Needs a Romantic Interest ; Everyone Needs a Romantic Interest, You are my Romantic Interest

Rumors ; I'll Dispel the Rumors for You

Get Closer ; Get Closer, Would You?

I will always be with you ; I will always be with you, Will you always be with me?

A Secret... ; A Secret... that can't be kept

The Sun in the Rain ; The Sun in the Rain, Dazzling and Warm

False of Heart ; False of Heart, Honest in Action

You Forgot ; You forgot but I still remember

Take care of to yourself ; Take care of yourself, I'm always here

How to be happy? ; How to be happy? Staying with you

We made a promise ; We made a promise, I want to be with you

Can't let go ; Can't let go of my feelings for you

Marks ; Marks left by you

Happy Birthday ; Happy Birthday. Contented

The Farthest Distance ; The Farthest Distance is an Unspoken "I Love You"

On my way to you ; On my way to you, wait for me

Bai Jiang ; Bai Jiang doesn't mean I'm a loser but that I only lost to you, Wen Shuangjiang

I want to quietly slip into your soul ; To catch you every time you feel vulnerable

Where is Hope? ; Where is hope? Hope is everywhere with you in the future

Opportunity ; Opportunity is for you

Hide ; Where to hide?

The reason I left ; The reason I left, is that I didn't want to be a storm in your life

Where are you? ; No matter where you are I'll find you

The Promise ; This time, I won't break the promise

I accept ; I accept my imperfections

I want a second chance ; I want a second chance, if there's one

Love means ; Love means being each other's light

Relying ; Relying: Trusting you in weakness, chosen by you firmly

Back to the first day we met ; Loving you from the first day to forever

I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death. It's you.

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The First Frost | Love

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❄ The First Frost 难哄 (2025) — Episode. 15   

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THE FIRST FROST 难哄 · 2025

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WHEN LIFE GIVES YOU TANGERINES (2025) dir. KIM WON-SEOK There was a girl in the boy's life. All his life, the boy kept the girl's world safe. - Thank you, honey. You've lived a good life. A truly great life. - Was it all right? Was our time together good? - It was more than perfect. I was so wonderful that I couldn't have asked for more.

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You're a whistle. A human whistle.

When life gives you Tangerines, Ep 4, Gwan-sik calls Ae-sun a human whistle and I wondered what he meant by it. I probably didn't understand the meaning behind it when I was watching the fourth episode but after completing 12 of them, I finally understand what he meant. If you've cooked something in a pressure cooker, you'd get it even better. Have you noticed how the whiste sits on the top of the lid, held in the pressure, weighed by the silence initially when there's a strom stirring inside the pot and finally the whistle pierces the silence.

Ae-sun embodies endurance- the quiet strength of holding through pressure (her whole life has been a series of challenges), through moments where silence feels better than speaking out (she chose to not complain about her in-laws to Gwan-sik to protect the peace in her family). It's like carrying a weight of a lifetime on your chest, tension building with every breath, yet staying composed, holding it all inside. She endured, patiently, through the noise of the world, the expectations, the doubts, the harships, the challenges, the taunts, the failures.

But there comes a moment, when the pressure becomes too much to bear, when the silence you've kept no longer feels like strength but like restraint. I love how the director showed all the instances where Ae-sun screams and runs to save Gwan-sik when people mistreat him beyond.

In such moments, the whistle bursts forth- not with fury, but with the release of eveything you've carried. It's not rash or uncontrolled, it's the echo of someone who has weathered enough storm.

She's a human whistle, a whistle doesn't falter. It calls out when something must be heard. To endure with grace, knowing there's a time to hold back and a time when speaking, after all that pressure, is the most powerful thing to save your people.

Thank you for reading my half-witTED TALK.