#ji jin hee

[jung-kyungho]

Ji Jin Hee D.P. 2, Netflix Promotion

[ye-xiu]

I never saw you coming and I will never be the same

[suuho]

damn, that makes me sad, it doesn't have to be like that. if you rewrite your life, may i still play a part?

JI JIN-HEE & SON SUK-KU in DESIGNATED SURVIVOR: 60 DAYS | 60일, 지정생존자 (2019) (insp.)

[sab-teraa]

K dramas are well and truly in their ✨D I L F✨ era

[dramastream]

D.P. Season 2 (2023) | 2.06 — "The Day"

[quarter-lif3crisis]

Move to Heaven (2021)

[giveamadeuschohisownmovie]

I’m watching the Korean version of “Designated Survivor” for the first time. Based on the first episode, it’s…surprisingly better? It follows the story of the original show, but it felt like the Korean team had a better grasp of the story than the Americans. What I mean is:

1) Park Mu-Jin feels more thought out than Tom Kirkman. In this version, you just had a feeling that this guy should NOT be President. Which is not a bad thing, it’s a sign of good character development. Mu-Jin is a good man and extremely intelligent…but he’s clumsy, has severe anxiety, and has no political sense. Don’t get me wrong, Kiefer Sutherland was good, but I never really saw him as the helpless underdog (maybe it’s because I couldn’t see him as anything but Jack Bauer). In the Korean version, you just feel extremely sorry for this guy and that South Korea is screwed under his leadership.

2) The seamless transition to Korean politics. You just get a sense that the Korean team knew how to make their version of the show work. The move from discussing Muslim terrorism to North Korea/the Korean War doesn’t feel forced at all. While not necessarily an improvement on the original, it shows that the writers were thinking hard about how to handle the change in setting and politics.

(Side note: The fear that the Koreas are going to go to war is a LOT scarier than the turmoil in the original show, imo)

3) The slower pace led to better characterization, especially for Park Mu-Jin (see above).

Overall, great first episode.

[gabrielokun]

[andaniellight]

Give it up to Cha Young-jin who acknowledged that italicized 'oh' revelation like he just received some kind of (not urgent, but most certainly) an important phone notification

[mrsabamiso]

General Gu Jawoon

[stuff-diary]

D.P. (Season 2)

TV Shows/Dramas watched in 2023

D.P. (Season 2, 2023, South Korea)

Director: Han Jun Hee

Writers: Kim Bo Tong & Han Jun Hee

Mini-review:

The moment has finally come: Netflix's best Korean Original has made its return with a second season. And these two years of waiting have been more than worth it. It seemed impossible but, somehow, this new season is even better than the first one. It preserves all of its many strengths, and then it takes them to the next level. Both the directing and the writing are amazingly intense. I spent six whole hours on the edge of my seat, biting my nails to the quick, and the last two episodes left me breathless. I also loved the show's attempts at experimenting, like the musicality in episode 3 or the horror undertones in episode 4. As for the acting, is there anything left to say? This is a cast full of incredible actors, and all of them give career-best performances. This time round, Jung Hae In and Son Suk Ku are probably the MVPs, but everyone does a flawless job. To sum up, this second season blew away my sky-high expectations, and I really hope we get a third one, cause TV shows don't get better than this.

P.S. There's a lot of triggering content here, so please be careful with that. Those of you who watched the first season already know this, but I'm saying it just in case.

[ye-xiu]

Is putting national security in danger also part of your political choice?

DESIGNATED SURVIVOR: 60 DAYS / 60일, 지정생존자 (2019) Ep 5: A Good Person, dir. Yoo Jong-sun

[kactors-kpop-kdrama]

[tenderlywicked]

My drawing of Park Mu Jin, the Acting President from Designated Survivor: 60 Days. This series is based on a premise that might be considered fantastic: what happens if a good man accidentally comes to power? And here he is, the good man :)

[namjhyun]

Ji Jin Hee for Marie Claire Korea November 2022

[binging-asian-dramas]

Spring Days 7

Story: 7

Acting: 9

Chemistry: 10

Comparable to: Heaven’s Coin (kdrama)

Considering this is an oldie kdrama, 2005, to be exact, nuttiness and cliche’ness is going to be expected. You know the average amnesia, love triangle, rich boy/poor girl, nasty parent sort of deal. For me I love the old classic dramas so I don’t mind the overdramatic moments which this can seem to be dialed up to a hundred. It’s also nice to see all the actors in their younger years, Jo In Sung was just as brilliant in his early twenties as he is now, as well as Ji Jin Hee, Go Hyun Jung, Han Go Eun. I will add it does have one of the most long LONG looooooong frustrating love triangles ever and the female lead is written in a way where sometimes you just want to throttle her.