#Luna Hyun

[elisxxbeth]

I hate praising men but damn Kim Soo Hyun every time he's in a drama, he just eats. EVERY. TIME. He even ate the cameo in Hotel Del Luna, neva settle for awful acting I'm sorry 😞

[j-ut-da-e]

I'm in love with him, your honor

[kdramaspace]

POTW: BEST HONG SISTERS DRAMA (as voted by our members and followers)

Hotel Del Luna (2019) Dir. Oh Choong-hwan

[prbni]

Chemistry between actors was amazing, but the storyline tho... in KDrama

Kang Sora as Oh Hara and Jung Seungjo as Goo Eun Beom in Strangers Again: the story ruined everything

Lee Jaewook as Baek Kyung and Kim Hye Yoon as Eun Dan Oh in Extraordinary You:only if Baek Kyung wasn't written as a red flag by the manhwa writer

Jeon Doyeon as Gil Bok Soon and Koo Kyo hwan as Han Hee Seong in Kill Bok Soon: the storyline was good for a crime thriller but unfortunate for them

Moon Sangmin as Lee Jihan and Jeon Jong Seo as Na Ah Jung in Wedding Impossible :they get happy ending but the storyline was messy imo

Lee Jaewook as Han Tae Oh and Choi Hee Jin as Kang Hee Joo in The Impossible Heir : yall know why. Everything in this drama was messed up except the chemistry between these two actors

Ki Do Hoon as Yangcha and Kim Ji Won as Tanya in Arthdal Chronicles: basically Kim Ji Won has chemistry with everyone she acts alongside

Lee Jae In as Lee Yoon Seo and Cha Woo Min as Ko Kyung Jun in Night Has Come: honestly I didn't even consider them before I saw all those edits on YT

Go Youn Jung as Jung Jisoo and Seo In Guk as Kim Seong Hyeop in Death's Game: even the smallest moments between them was enough to establish how beautiful chemistry they had

Lee Dohyun as Go Chang Myung and IU as Jang Man Wol in Hotel Del Luna: one of the best pairings in a KDrama to exist

[jangman-wol]

IF I'M ON FIRE, YOU'LL BE MADE OF ASHES TOO.

HOTEL DEL LUNA (2019)

[msmed08]

Here's another fanfic recommendation! I honestly have not seen Hotel del Luna, but this one here is a cross over fic between the two! I know KSH also had a cameo in this kdrama, and i just might watch after reading this. I think that's where the connection lies - Baek Hyunwoo becoming the guy he cameos because of regrets in his life in QoT. Goodness, the angst, the pain, the torture...! Plus give me a supernatural/persephone/hades type of fic and i am game! Seriously guys DO NOT skip this! Read, Enjoy, Follow and Bookmark! Happy reading!

[inksandpensblog]

🗣️

🗣 what’s a thing you can talk for hours about without interruption?

Body language. It’s everything in this series.

Orange and the animator are the only characters to speak with text (I’m not counting Victim’s comic-book-cursing, or the tiny little “yeet” that someone snuck into a frame of The Chosen One’s Return, or Yellow’s help-windows to Alan in Showdown), and until the color gang all started doing “illustrated dialogue” during season three of AvM, the only way to understand them was through charades.

It’s in the fight choreography, and how the characters move around each other and handle different weapons and handle the same weapons differently. It’s in the slice-of-life moments, and how they express themselves and emote through posture and gesture.

Aside from the personal hobbies of each stick, it’s the only way we have to determine anything about their personalities, and because this is a well-scripted series it’s more than sufficient.

Even other stickfigure fighting series make use of dialogue via text at some point or another in their characters’ stories. From what I’ve seen, GildedGuy and AvA are the only stickfigure series that try to get the story across through body language and environmental context clues alone. (And to that point, I find it really intriguing that the one instance in AvA where dialogue is expected is in a relationship between creator and creation.)

I have a hypotheses that most of those other series sink the majority of their animation effort and budget into the fight scenes, so using dialogue in moments where the fighting has stopped is a way to save time and energy (which is completely okay; a lot of those videos are done by single animators). Since AvA isn’t all fight scenes, though, (and now has a team of animators working on it instead of just Alan,) the makers of that series have more time and energy to put into animating movement in even the more domestic moments.

It almost makes me think of the days of silent black-and-white film. It’s magical.

[goawaywithjae]

I know there are some people who are unhappy with the way “Queen of Tears” ended. I’m not one of them. In fact, I truly loved it.

It’s easy to create a happily ever after finale that makes viewers satisfied at that moment. But after they move onto the next K-drama, it’s forgotten.

This show’s bittersweet ending will remain with viewers long after the credits have rolled. Honestly? I can still feel the poignancy of those final few moments, which encapsulated how beautiful even a complicated relationship can be — and also how lonely one can feel when it’s all over.

[namjhyun]

Lee Do Hyun for Louis Vuitton in Esquire Korea April 2023

[whumpily-ever-after]

Hotel del Luna Whump List

Summary: (from MDL) "Nestled deep in the heart of Seoul’s thriving downtown sits a curious hotel, the like of which no one has ever seen before...Running this hotel is Jang Man Wol, a greedy, suspicious soul who has spent the past thousand years acting as the establishment’s CEO. Bound to the hotel by a deity who keeps her there to save her from going berserk and self-destruction with rage, hatred and thirst for revenge. Her only hope of escape is if she could let go of her resentment and hatred, and find love. Trapped in her resentment for a betrayal, Man Wol is doomed to spend all of the eternity running this odd establishment, catering to the needs of the most peculiar clientele.

Things take an interesting turn when Goo Chan Sung shows up. Once the youngest assistant manager ever to work at a multinational hotel corporation, Chan Sung finds himself forced to manage the Hotel del Luna because of a deal his father made with Man Wol years ago. Excellent with managing money, he starts to put Jang's excessive spending and disastrous finance situation in order, that may be exactly what this odd establishment and its cursed CEO needs."

Watch it on: Netflix, Viki

This one was not as whumpy as I hoped it would be, but it had some good moments.

Possible spoilers ahead...

Whumpee: Goo Chan Sung played by Yeo Jin Goo

*Note: bold words go with following image*

Episode 1: Father sells him (in twenty years) in order to stay alive, scared, pain in his eyes, given the ability to see ghosts

Episode 2: Chased, knocked to the ground, hits his back on a pillar, struggles to push himself up, knocked to the ground again, backing up in fear, saved, passes out

Episode 3: (Flashback) Unconscious, possessed, hit in the head (to get the ghost out), fall on a couch, still unconscious

Episode 4: Let’s a ghost take over his body, knuckles scabbed over, set up by the hotel staff, sent to a ghost that will make him insane, saved

Episodes 5-6: None

Episode 7: Knocked to the ground, holding his chest in pain

Episode 8: Concern for him, absorbs a curse into his body, grabbing his chest, collapses, grunting in pain, passes out, unconscious, wakes up gasping, told he slept for three days, abandoned

Episode 9: Told his soul is probably seriously hurt, says he’s fine because he was protected

Episode 10: Discovers that his mother (who abandoned him) died and that she wanted to hide his existence from her family, sees his mother off to the afterlife

Episode 11: None

Episode 12 *self-harm and suicide warning*: Cut on the cheek with a needle, in a fight, punched in the face, concern for him, presumed dead, blood on his forehead, threatened with a needle, bruised knuckles, wounds tended to, cursed

Episode 13: Trapped in a tunnel, concern for him, stumbling, breathing heavily, struggling to stay awake, possessed

Episode 14: Betrayed, teary-eyed, thrown into a gate, falls to the ground, struggles to push himself up, thrown again, wobbling, grabbed by the throat, pushed against a pipe, crying

Episode 15: None

Episode 16: Crying

Whumpee: Go Chung Myung played by Lee Do Hyun

Episodes 1-2: None

Episode 3: Ambushed, jumps off his horse, hit in the head with a rock, kicked in the side, bound with rope, kicked off his horse, groaning in pain, grabbed by the chin, knocked out, kicked in the side

Episodes 4-11: None

Episode 12: Sacrifices himself so his loved one may live

Episode 13: In a sword fight, breathing heavily, slashed on the back, sword held to his neck, crying, impales himself with a sword, stumbles back, collapses to the flood, bleeding from the mouth, dies

Episodes 14-16: None

[survivalistghost]

hotel del luna

hotel del luna was just what i needed after doom at your service. iu as an amazing hotel owner with kickass fashion sense and yeo jin gu as a goofy cutie pie.

i. perfect example of started this show for the guy and continued for the girl. as much as i loved ku chan seong, jang man weol was an all rounder package, truly. she was sparkly, beautiful, vulnerable, soldier, warrior, fighter, lover all in one. ku chan seong, an amazing character which allowed man weol to shine so much while keeping her in check? definition of man written by women.

ii. our little hotel del luna family, beginning from mr. noh, ji hyun joon, ms. choi, mr. kim, chan seong, yu na and man weol, gave me so many feels. loved how truly deep man weol's bond with each of them went. she's not truly heartless, after all.

iii. loved how each individual character, from sanchez to every hotel staff was explored so in depth and beautifully, in a way that never felt forced. it all flowed in a very natural way that never makes you want to fast forward to the main characters.

iv. what was up with ma go. genuinely did not understand the sisters. also, faced an important question - does the interior of the hotel change with the current trend, man weol's financial status or the blooming of the flowers? because we saw the interior being the same when they shifted, despite the house being cheaper.

v. the friendship between each character. like the time when the staff finally involved chan seong in their "hwaiting!" thing, or when man weol was the only one who could convince hyun joon to meet his enemy. the end scene between ms. choi and man weol was so wholesome and made me cry more than man weol and chan seong. even man weol and mr. kim love-hate relationship was so cute. sanchez and his kindheartedness, my heart broke for the guy with veronica.

overall, this drama was a perfect fantasy show, enough to keep you intrigued. the main leads have everything, from chemistry, banter, fights, jokes and sharing power dynamic.

8/10

[solitudeandseclusion]

my guy lee do hyun has amazing chemistry with my girl lee ji eun. put them together in another show 😭

[grimsae]

✨Life as of late✨

Been playing lately and been having a blast, here is a few screenshots. Missed y’all ❤️

[gabrielokun]

[prbni]

My controversial Kdrama opinions

1. Ko Moon Young was just a psychologically messed up girl. She isn't the 'girlpower' or 'badass' that the Kdrama fandom likes to dub her into.

2. In 'Hotel del Luna', they could've just chucked the entire character of Gu Chansung out of the window and gave Chang Myung a rebirth/rebirths,make him go through various trials and tribulations to repent and earn Man Wol's forgiveness. Didn't have to make it unnecessarily tragic.

3. Unnecessarily tragic reminds me, the 'realistic' ending of 2521 was a JOKE. There was NO point of developing such a power couple if they were to break up for such a mundane reason.

4. Romance genre isn't Song Kang's 'thing'. He shines better as an actor in non-romance genres.

5. Had they focused on developing Ju Kyung as an individual character who finally learns how to completely take a stand for herself instead of dangling her between Suho and Seojun, 'True Beauty' would've become a more popular and appreciated drama.

6. The love line between Hwang InYeop and Seo Hyun Jin's character in 'Why her: Oh Soo Jae' was absolutely unnecessary and awkward.

7. Jo Bo Ah and Ahn Bo Hyun and an amazing chemistry in 'Military Prosecutor: Do Bae Man'. However, they could've developed a slowburn romance between them instead of abruptly putting a kiss sequence in the last episode out of nowhere.

8. In 'Snowdrop', Eun Young Ro forgiving Soo Ho later on didn't make sense. Their kiss sequence was purely fan service,nothing else.

9. Individual acting aside,Kim Hye Yoon had more chemistry with Lee Jae Wook(2nd lead) than Rowoon(main lead) in 'Extraordinary You'.

10. Writers are overusing 'Let's kill off the main character and make the show tragically memorable' trope wayyy too much.

11. As much as it physically hurts me given the chemistry of the actors,Choi Do Il and Oh In Joo not having any proper romantic sequence till the end of 'Little Women' makes sense to the storyline(the shipper me might've wanted a hug though).

12. Also the writers should stop doing the 'lets make the second lead better than the main lead'. Its annoying to see one person actually making sincere effort for the girl but the girl ends up totally ignoring their effort and like the ML. Not in just Kdramas but in all sorts of dramas. I actually saw a Chinese drama where the second lead finally turned into a villain. I LITERALLY commented 'good for him' lmao.

13. Sunho in 'Cheer Up' is problematic. Neither his sad backstory nor his sincere feelings for Haeyi changes that fact.

14. The Heirs(2013) drama wasted an opportunity to pair Young Do(Kim Woobin) with Yoo Rachel(Kim Jiwon). No, they didn't need to be 'siblings'. I'd have chosen the two heartbroken yet sassy and tough people romance over the sappy romance of the main couple in a heartbeat. And the actors would've NAILED it.

15. Jojo not ending up with Sunho in 'Love Alarm' finally broke the 'Cinderella and Prince Charming' fairytale trope of Kdramas. That girl was too messed up in the head . She didn't need the rich,fierce and impulsive lover, but the quite,patient and thoughtful one. So don't go ahead and say the ending sucked. Maybe they could've made things more coherent, but no the ending didn't suck.

16. Moon Dong Eun should have remained single, with the last episode ending with him crossing paths with Do Yeong, with Yeonjin & gang & all the revenge agenda gone, she could hv offered him a smile and a game of Go, keeping an open ending for them. Lee Do Hyun was fabulous in playing Yeojeong and their chemistry was amazing. But they could hv just been partners in crime with their teamwork without the romantic plot between them.

17. No. Ryu Shi Oh doesn't give second lead syndrome. Byun Woo Seok is a very good actor but he plays the villain in 'Strong Woman Kang Nam Soon' and not anti-hero. Lee Yoo Mi and him should be paired opposite to e/o in some other project in the future but Shi Oh and Nam Soon ain't the 'enemies to lovers' you think it is.

18. After Byun Woo Seok's popularity skyrocketed with 'Lovely Runner', many people dug up his previous works & lamented over not noticing him earlier. People even felt sad that he got his recognition late. But honestly, he wasn't very noticeable as an actor in his earlier stages imo. He kept working hard on his acting skills to get to where he is now. What I applaud about him is not giving up & putting the efforts in all right places but he didn't start from a 100.

[candiedstarss]

Chung Myung extends his hand out to Man-Wol.

(he knows she will not take it)

--because I may be three years late but someone had to write about how Chung Myung must’ve felt the whole time, and why he would’ve reached out his hand