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At the beginning of What's Wrong With Secretary Kim's 6th episode, Park Seo Joon is seen eyeing his phone while fake-reading 혼자 있는 시간의 힘 by Takashi Saito, specifically the ISBN 9788960869271 edition.

The title can be translated as "The power of alone time", which is ironic considering that while reading the book, our dear chaebol is anxiously waiting for Kim Mi So to text him back.

From the promotional material, it looks like the small dust jacket / banner? was an integral part to this edition.

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This Japanese workbook featured in What's Wrong With Secretary Kim, episode 4, does not seem to exist. I've looked for 일본어 한걸음에 떼기 on Google, GoodReads and Naver and nothing comes up.

It's possible that the dust jacket was custom-made for the show (the design looks quite generic) to hide an actual Japanese workbook. Notice the blue page he is looking at (in the photo above) and the colour scheme of the exercises below, which match each other but not the dustjacket.

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What's Wrong With Secretary Kim?, episode 4

I was surprised to find out that this book, mentioned various times in WWWSK is an actual book!

Kim Mi So's favourite books is 모든 순간이 너였다 (Every Moment With You), by 하태완. From what I can tell, it's a collection of short poems/essays. This is the ISBN: 9791162202913 edition.

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Bond Girls on Vogue (Part 1)

Ursula Andress

British Vogue, April 15, 1966, by Duffy

Vogue Paris, June/July 1972, by Rene Chateau

Tania Mallet

British Vogue, July 1961, by Eugene Vernier

British Vogue, July 1962, by Henry Clarke

British Vogue, October 1, 1963, by Duffy

British Vogue, April 15, 1964, by David Bailey

Claudine Auger

Vogue Paris, November 1971, by Henry Clarke

Britt Ekland

British Vogue, June 1966, by David Bailey

Vogue Italy, July 1967, by David Bailey

American Vogue, April 15, 1969, by Gianni Penati

British Vogue, September 1969, by Barry Lategan

Maude Adams

British Vogue, September 15, 1966, by Saul Leiter

Barbara Bach

American Vogue, July 1966, by Richard Avedon

Carole Bouquet

Vogue Paris, May 1994, by Dominique Issermann

Talisa Soto

British Vogue, September 1983, by Patrick Demarchelier

British Vogue, December 1983, by Albert Watson

Vogue Germany, December 1983, by Albert Watson

Vogue Italy, May 1984, by Hiro

British Vogue, August 1984, by Albert Watson

British Vogue, September 1984, by Paul Lange

British Vogue, February 1986, by Lord Snowdon

American Vogue, April 1989, by Patrick Demarchelier

Vogue Spain, May 1988, by Eric Boman

Famke Janssen

Vogue Italy, March 1987, by Hiro

Michelle Yeoh

Vogue China, October 2022, by Agnes Lloyd-Platt

Vogue Taiwan, November 2022, by Agnes Lloyd-Platt

Sophie Marceau

Vogue Paris, August 2003, by Inez & Vinoodh

Vogue Paris, May 2007, by Mario Testino

Vogue Paris, May 2014, by Mario Testino

Vogue France, April 2024, by Quentin de Briey

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Kudos for using the canonic Cosmopolitan Issue.

HOW TO LIVE LIFE LIKE ELLE WOODS FROM CBBYZAC.COM

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The 1999 movie Fight Club features a battered up copy of Movieline's July 1995 issue. Drew Berrymore is on the cover.

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Well, this is an unusual one. In the webtoon "One-of-a-Kind Romance" by Dooboo, episodes 89 & 90, we see the characters reading a fashion magazine. And it's a cartoon rendition of the real December 2018 Vogue issue! What a fun Easter Egg.

I think the author Dooboo must really like cats...

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In the first episode of "Please Feel At Ease Mr Ling" (一不小心捡到爱, 2021), we can see some mangas and fashion magazines inside Gu An Xin (Zhao Lu Si)'s house.

The mangas are volumes 8, 10 and 20 of Black Butler (黒執事) by Yana Toboso.

I wasn't able to ID the magazines.

I'm quite certain this is a copy of Elle China (the logo checks out) but after looking through the covers from Oct 2016 to May 2021 (when the first episode aired) I wasn't able to find the right issue. Same with the other magazine, presumably a Grazia China issue, I've looked at all the covers posted on the official Instagram account between August 2020 and August 2019 but nothing. How old are these issues???

A clue in case anyone wants to dig into their Chinese magazine collection and find out: according to chinesedrama.info, "Filming began on May 23, 2020 and wrapped in August 2020" + the red writing on the Elle magazine says "the Spirit" in the Latin alphabet.

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Harper’s Bazaar (U.K. edition) covers, March to May 1969

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In episode 2 (or 4, depending on the way you are counting them) of The Secret Life of My Secretary, actress Jin Ki Joo visits a manga cafè in Seoul and is seen reading 2 mangas.

I wasn't able to identify the first one (the title should starts with 스타스키 but Google just gives me Starsky and Hutch content in Korean), but the second is quite easy: Your Lie in April by Naoshi Arakawa, volume 11 (the last one), Korean version.

In that same episode, actress Kim Ji Min is seen reading The Tell-Tale Brain, which presumably is the 2010 nonfiction book by V. S. Ramachandra, but I wasn't able to find the correct edition. Perhaps it's a Korea-only edition?

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Later on in the same episode, she is also seen reading Volume 7 during a make-over montage.

In episode 3 of Hometown Cha Cha Cha, Pyo Mi Seon (Gong Min Jeung) is seen eating a snack while reading a manwha. It's the 4th volume of Four Daughters of Armian (아르미안의 네딸들) by Il Sook Shin. The first volume came out in 1986.

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In episode 3 of Hometown Cha Cha Cha, Pyo Mi Seon (Gong Min Jeung) is seen eating a snack while reading a manwha. It's the 4th volume of Four Daughters of Armian (아르미안의 네딸들) by Il Sook Shin. The first volume came out in 1986.

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Book in Main Hoon Na

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Main Hoon Na (2004) is a fantastic Hindi movie in which Shah Rukh Khan plays a socially awkward super soldier.

During the titular song "Main Hoon Na", Sanjana (Amrita Rao) is seen reading a book in the university library.

The book is "The Brontës and their world", by Phyllis Bentley, a biography of the Brontë sisters first published in 1969.

While this is a perfect book to find in a university library (50 years out of date and covered by cellophane), why was Sanjana reading a book on English literature? Every single character in the movie attended STEM classes!

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Fashion Magazines in Kabhi Khushi Khabie Gham (2001)

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Kabhi Khushi Khabie Gham (2001) is a cult Hindi movie (Hindi, not Indie, enunciate the H). If you haven't watched it yet, run!

One of the main characters, Pooja, is a university student who is really, really, really into fashion. It makes sense, then, that when she first appears on the screen, she is literally surrounded by fashion magazines.

Next to her lay 8 magazines! All from a variety of publications and not even a duplicate. I'm impressed! Tracking them all down took me a good 2 hours, tho...

Some parameters:

The movie was shot starting on 16 October 2000 and was released in India on 14 December 2001.

The movie is set in both India and the UK, with this scene, in particular, being set in London so I'm assuming most of the magazines will be UK edition.

Ok, now we are ready to start.

From the left:

Harpers & Queen - May 2001

Cover model: Yasmin Le Bon (source1, source2)

This is not, in fact, an Harper's Bazaar issue, because Harper's Bazaar UK didn't exist at the time! According to Wikipedia: "In November 1970, New York City-based Hearst Communications amalgamated it with Queen magazine (which dated from 1862) to form Harpers & Queen. [...] In March 2006, it was renamed Harper's Bazaar, bringing it in line with its international sister titles."

Cosmopolitan UK - June 2001

Cover Model: Alison Meisonne (source)

Harpers & Queen - March 2001

Cover model: Sarah Jessica Parker

Tatler - August 1998

Cover model: Jemima Khan

Elle US - June 2001

Cover model: Fernanda Tavares (source)

You can find more info on the features of this issue on The Fashion Spot. (I think I've found my people)

Vogue UK - June 1998

Cover model: Kate Moss (source)

Harpers & Queen - April 2001

Cover model: Rachel Weisz (source)

Vogue UK - April 2001

Cover Model: Gisele Bundchen (source)

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In case you need a recap:

Harpers & Queen - May 2001

Cosmopolitan UK - June 2001

Harpers & Queen - March 2001

Tatler - August 1998

Elle US - June 2001

Vogue UK - June 1998

Harpers & Queen - April 2001

Vogue UK - April 2001

This tells us that this scene was shot during of after June 2001.

Most of the magazines are from around that time, but two of them are from 3 years before, 1998! I wonder how they found them? It's not like you can waltz in any store and get 3 years old fashion magazines!

And most importantly, a US edition of Elle?? Of the issue of that same month? How?? They didn't shoot in the US at all!

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What I do when I try to identify fashion magazines shown in movies but in a much bigger and more intriguing scale.

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Fashion magazines in Classic Hollywood

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In "Third Finger, Left Hand" (1940), Myrna Loy plays a New York fashion magazine editor AND is seen reading a magazine too!

It is Harper's Bazaar, the 15th September 1938 issue.

There aren't many eBay listings for 1930s magazine issues but I was able to find the original cover on the blog "light color sounds" through Pinterest, so thank you very much for your service, various internet users!

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Fashion Magazines in The Rookie #2

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In The Rookie, 2x11, Tim Bradford is seen reading the magazine "Teen Rebel".

This is not an actual magazine.

Just like the magazines shown in 1x14, this is a prop from Studio Graphics. It's the same exact cover as can be found on their website, only the name of the magazine is "Trendy Girl Magazine". (btw, I think Studio Graphics might be a section of ISS Props)

Tim also says that inside the magazine there is a quiz "Which BTS member is your soulmate?" but that spread is not shown on camera, so who knows.