#yeom ki jeong

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WHEN I TELL YOU THAT I GASPED WHEN I SAW KANG KI-YOUNG I AM NOT JOKING 

HE WENT FROM “Excuse me, can you please kneel?”

To “Kneel. Now.”

I feel offended that they kept this from me. I do. Another man who is older than me and already has my heart. 

AND HIS EVIL ERA!!!!! I AM HERE FOR IT!!!!

But honestly, it should be illegal for all of them to look this good. 

I need a lot of hobi water in order to continue watching this. 

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AL'S DRAMA RECS VOL.1: these recs will solely focus on the writing of the shows, which to me comes down to two things: how well does the plot accomplish what it set out to do in the beginning? and how compelling are the characters written, no matter if their character arc means they become better or worse through the story or even remain who they are? my favourite dramas usually succeed in giving us a satisfying answer to both questions and these are the ones you will see on this list!

★★★★★ dramas (aka the greatest hits):

SECRET FOREST / STRANGER (2017-2021): the pinnacle of all dramas. follows the duo of no-nonsense prosecutor hwang si-mok (the acting star turn of he century by cho seung-woo) and police detective han yeo-jin (the ever-exceptional bae doo-na) investigating a murder case that blows open several scandals in the prosecution. season 2 follows several cases leading to an internal investigation on police bribery. it just does not get better than this and i fear it won't ever will. this drama has the understated styling of nordic noir, the classic shenanigans of an unlikely leading kdrama duo, and one of the tightest scripts ever seen in any tv show ever. | genre: thriller, melodrama, crime procedural

MY LIBERATION NOTES (2022): following the yeom family's three siblings living in the small town of sanpo on the outskirts of seoul, and the stranger moving into the house next door to theirs, this story navigates questions of sibling-hood and family, the purpose of life, as well as the sacrifices we make for the relationships in our life as well as our own happiness. this show earned its hype from the central love story between mr. gu and yeom mi-jeong (son seok-ku and kim ji-won acting the house down) but every one of the three main storylines is well-paced, gives the main actors moments to shine and grow, and ties neatly into the overarching plot to render you either moved or comforted, or even both. | genre: slice of life, melodrama

VINCENZO (2020): at this point are there still followers on this blog who haven't at least seen me talk about vincenzo? the writing of this show is maybe the peak of genre-blending done in kdrama, a culmination of years refining this skill to sharp perfection in a biting black comedy. vincenzo cassano (song joong-ki), consiglieri of a mafia clan he got adopted into, goes back to south korea to recover a frankly unholy amount of gold and fights a gigantic conglomerate (babel) to get there. if you watch past episode four, you will finish this drama, because everything ensuing from then on is just one iconic story beat after another. | genre: black comedy / satire, crime, romance

HOSPITAL PLAYLIST (2020-2022): a medical drama beyond reproach. this show is on this list for the way it wrote its characters and achieved the most satisfying character arcs in any kdrama, maybe, ever. a group of five friends in their fourties all working at the same hospital and navigating their professional and private lives, this drama doesn't shy away from eclectic backstories (and the leads all playing music together in a band) as well as truly heart-tearing moments of friendship and romance. never have i seen character growth done as well as i have seen it in the characters of yang seok-hyeong and kim-jun-wan. | genre: medical, slice of life, rom-com

D.P. / DESERTER PURSUIT (2021-2023): d.p. to me is a no-notes kind of show. it depicts the work of the military police pursuing army deserters through freshly enlisted ahn jun-ho (jung hae-in playing years below his age and leagues above many his actual age) who ends up empathizing and working to help and save the deserters he and his team partner han ho-yeol (an exceptional koo kyo-hwan) are meant to bring back to the army instead of incriminating them further. d.p. is much better for its tone, its writing and the risks it takes in its no-nonsense approach than some of the drivel revered solely for being more flashy and showy in this genre. | genre: military drama, action

★★★★☆ dramas (aka near-perfection):

PRISON PLAYBOOK (2017): the perfect prototype of the bromance as romance formula and one of the best found family dramas that really focuses on that. star baseball player kim je-hyuk (park hae-soo in his career-defining role) loses his career and lands in prison after he assaults the ex-boyfriend of his younger sister to protect her. the show centers on je-hyuk's time in prison, where he reunites with his childhood best-friend-now-prison-guard lee jun-ho (a supreme jung kyung-ho) and assimilates himself with the people he meets in his cell. this show hits all the beats so well from a stellar supporting cast to a great comeback kid narrative for je-hyuk from his time in prison to being released. glaring flaw: the age-gap / childhood friends romance, the conclusion of hanyang's story arc, who gets the short end of the stick while being the one out gay character in the show. | genre: black comedy, found family, slice of life

GOBLIN: THE LONELY AND GREAT GOD (2017): the defining kdrama for many. it may be the one drama that really delivers in answering its plot's defining question twice over and then some. goblin kim shin (gong yoo), cursed to immortality, gets his life upended once a grim reaper (lee dong-wook as wang yeo, a performance never to be seen or repeated again since) and the young woman (kim go-eun as ji eun-tak) who turns out to be his fated bride enter his life. an immortal man resigned on life finds purpose while knowing he will fatally die once the woman he falls in love with cures him of his curse. glaring flaw: the age gap romance between eun-tak and kim shin. could she have not been in college at least? | genre: melodrama, romance, fantasy

CRASH LANDING ON YOU (2019): the romance drama that could, and did. based on a real life incident, ceo yoon se-ri (son ye-jin, an acting veteran near beyond reproach imo) accidentally crash lands in north korea after a paragliding flight gone wrong. there she meets active duty soldier captain ri jeong-hyeok (hyun bin, thank you for your service) and has to stay with him and his military company. the fated love story starts there, but neither of them know they have met before, and already changed the courses of each other's lives before doing so again. minor flaw: is this drama romanticising the military? or is depicting of that on screen just that and nothing more? that is up to you to decide. | genre: melodrama, romance

HOMETOWN CHA CHA CHA (2021): the series remake of a korean rom-com film of the early aughts, this remains my favourite romance drama over all. dentist yoon hye-jin (shin min-a blessing our screens) moves to rural gongjin, a seaside village where nothing happens at all, after her professional life in seoul goes up in flames. it's not all sunshine in gongjin either as ye-jin meets hong du-sik (kim seon-ho),a handyman who is called chief hong by everyone and fixes all the big and small fires in the village. the two start as enemies that eventually fall in love. the romance is well-handled and paced and the second lead (lee sang-yi) is the best i have ever seen in a show, especially because of the arc written for him. minor flaw: the plot is not as tight as the respective character arcs, so sometimes sacrifices are made for the sake of a more emotional scenes. | genre: rom-com, slice of life

THE GLORY (2022): when you put the revenge in revenge drama, this is what you can get. song hye-ko returns to small screen brilliance in an incomparable performance as moon dong-eun, a woman who decides to infiltrate the lives of her school bullies and take them down one by one. this show delivers on plot even more than on characters, following through on every step of moon dong-eun's revenge without shying away from how gruesome or painful that path of vengeance can be. dong-eun gets help from plastic surgeon joo yeo-jeong (a delightful lee do-hyun), and the main cast is rounded out by lim ji-yeon and jung sung-il as dong-eun's grown up tormentor and her reluctant husband respectively. minor flaw: the show does spend a big chunk of its time on the group of school bullies and their interpersonal relations, which sometimes takes time away from the main plot. | genre: psychological thriller, revenge drama

♡ more specific genre watches (beware: usually crime):

LIFE (2018): written by the writers of secret forest, life is another thriller with understated direction and a more sombre tone. i would have put it in the greatest hits category, but watching it with other people made me realise how niche it actually is in genre. a corporate hospital thriller, the show revolves around the newly-minted ceo of sangkook university hospital, gu seung-hyo (a once again flawless cho seung-woo) and a dedicated ER doctor (lee dong-wook, stellar as ever) who depict the two sides of the patient care vs. profit conflict in the hospital. i can't even say more about the show because every other plot point is basically a spoiler. sharply directed and written, this is one of the best genre pieces i have ever watched, and is mildly reminiscent of hbo prestige television of the decade before. | genre: medical drama, corporate thriller

THE WORST OF EVIL (2023): are you even surprised? this was the drama of 2023 for me, one of the most stellar scripts i have seen. the worst of evil is very firmly a noir show and you have to treat what you are watching as such. it is heavily entrenched into its genre tropes and arcs, even more than most crime shows i have seen, and that can be off-putting for people unfamiliar with the genre, but if you are up for it, you will not be disappointed. opportune violent crime detective park jun-mo (ji chang wook, korea's finest new gen action actor) infiltrates a drug ring lead by jung gi-cheol ( fantastic and emotional tour de force by wi ha joon) and the lines begin to blur when neither of them knows if what they bargained for is actually what they want. the show lets its main plot dictate the pace, focusing on park jun-mo's descent into crime, and it is all the more better for it. | genre: noir, crime thriller, action

BEYOND EVIL (2020): the story about dejected and grieving small-town detective lee dong-sik (baeksang-awarded veteran actor shin ha-kyun) being partnered with elite detective and spinster seoulite han joo-won (child actor prodigy turned actor to watch du jour) has made its waves online for its very apparent gay subtext, but to reduce beyond evil to this would be a crime in itself. following lee dong-sik and han joo-won as they are tasked to solve a reoccurring serial killer case, the framing plot then fans open the age-old wound of dong-sik losing his twin sister and being blamed for her disappearance with joo-won having taken an obsessive fascination with the case. the two crime cases are exceptionally interwoven and the stories of the people in the small town of manyang, and how they all somehow tie back to dong-sik, is the perfect example of turning the small centrepiece of a plot into the binding force of every thread. | genre: procedural, psychological thriller

OUR BELOVED SUMMER (2021): i put this into the genre-piece category because obl is majorly focused on its main trope. romantic dramas can easily be trite to me, as this obvious list of crime shows doesn't tell you, but our beloved summer is one of the few that did everything right. it plays out the best trope ever done - exes to lovers - and does not back down from embracing the whole shebang to the nth degree. high school / college sweethearts choi woong (known beloved actor on ye-xiu tumblr dot com, choi woo-shik) and kook yeun-soo (the ever great kim da-mi) have to unite to replicate, or rather continue, the viral high school documentary they filmed years ago. the show shimmies its way from one moment of reconnection to another, culminating in the best kdrama kiss to ever be put to screen, and concludes in one of the most satisfying and, yes, romantic endings ever. the things a show can do when it just sticks to its main narrative, huh. | genre: rom-com, coming of age

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Categorizing Parent-related Trauma for male and female leads in Kdramas:

Orphans: Lee Hong-jo (Destined With You) Moon Gang-tae (It's Okay to Not be Okay) Moon Sang-tae (It's Okay to Not be Okay) Ha-ru (Extraordinary You) Naksu/Cho Yeong (Alchemy of Souls) Tak Dong-kyung (Doom at Your Service) Nam Ji-ah* (Tale of the Nine Tailed) Cheon Sa-Rang (King the Land) Jang Man-wol (Hotel del Luna) Yoon Yi-seo (100 Days My Price) Kang Young-hwa (Moon in the Day) Kim Do-ha (Moon in the Day) So Mun (The Uncanny Counter) Do Ha-na (The Uncanny Counter) Kang Tae-moo (Business Proposal) Kang Tae-ha (The Story of Park's Marriage Contract, present version) Lee Heon (The Forbidden Marriage) Do Do-hee (My Demon) Ji Eun-tak (Guardian: The Great and Lonely God) Na Bong-seon (Oh My Ghost) Kang Cheol (W: Two Worlds) Do Da-hae (The Atypical Family) Yeom Hae-sang (Revenant) Jeong Ji-an (A Shop for Killers) Shin Jae-rim (Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale)

Half Orphans with loving remaining parent: Eun Dan-oh (Extraordinary You) Koo Chan-sung (Hotel del Luna) Ye So-ran (The Forbidden Marriage) Nam Ha-neul (Doctor Slump) Yu Ji-hyck (Marry My Husband) Kang Hee-soo (Captivating the King) Choi Yi-jae (Death's Game) Im Sol (Lovely Runner) Ryu Sun-jae (Lovely Runner) Lee Chang (Kingdom) Lee Geum, Prince Yeoning (Haechi) Gu San-yeong (Revenant)

Half Orphan + Remaining Parent is THE WORST: Jang Uk (Alchemy of Souls) Kim Do-ha (My Lovely Liar) Lee Yul (100 Days My Price) Ahn Min-hyuk (Strong Woman Bong-Soon) Seo Mok-ha (Castaway Diva) Gong Tae-seong (Sh**ting Stars) Kang Tae-ha (The Story of Park's Marriage Contract, past version) Yi In (Captivating the King) Kang Ji-won (Marry My Husband) Kang Sun-woo (Oh My Ghost)

Parents (at least one) are THE WORST but Both Are Still Alive: Jang Shin-yu (Destined With You) Han Yi-joo (Perfect Marriage Revenge) Ko Mun-young** (It's Okay to Not be Okay) Mok Sol-hee (My Lovely Liar) Gu Won (King the Land) Crown Prince Lee Hwi/Dam-yi/Yeon-seon (The King's Affection) Do Bong-soon (Strong Woman Bong-Soon) Woo Young-woo (Extraordinary Attorney Woo)*** Jung Ji-woon (The King's Affection) Kang Bo-geol/Lee Ki-ho (Castaway Diva) Yeo Jeong-woo (Doctor Slump) Hong Hae-in (Queen of Tears) On Eun-yoo (Twinkling Watermelon) Oh Yeon-joo (W: Two Worlds) Yoon Ji-ho (Because This Is My First Life) Nam Se-hee (Because This Is My First Life) Bok Gwi-ju (The Atypical Family) Moon Cha-min (Dreaming of a Freaking Fairytale)

Immortal Being that Still Somehow has Parent Issues: Myul Mang/Doom (Doom at your Service) Lee Yeon & Lee Rang (Tale of the Nine Tailed) Jeong Gu-won (My Demon)

Added trauma flavour: Parent was murdered in front of them (**Still counts if they survived the murder Parent tried to murder them Dying from seemingly incurable disease which makes their parents/guardian sad (If your parents are alive, you must pay for it by dying yourself) Adoptive parent/stepparent is THE WORST

Somehow has normal, alive parents: Lee Jun-ho (Extraordinary Attorney Woo, Has no backstory at all. We only meet his older sister and hear nothing about his childhood.) Shin Ha-ri (Business Proposal, her family is refreshingly normal, right down to her brother being sent out to find her when she's drunk) Oh Han-byeol (Sh**ting Stars, Again, we know almost nothing about her family, only that she has twin sisters. But she doesn't appear to have childhood trauma.) Park Yeon-woo (The Story of Park's Marriage Contract, her mom being annoyed at her for something that is a crime doesn't count as bad parenting) Lee Young-joon/Sung-hyun (What's Wrong with Secretary Kim, his trauma comes from a kidnapper, his parents faced a pretty impossible situation and did their best. They clearly love their kids) Baek Hyun-woo (Queen of Tears, nothing wrong with them out of the ordinary and they are in the drama a significant amount.) Ha Eun-gyeol (Twinkling Watermelon, very loving parents and the deafness and their reliance on him is not anyone's fault)

*Counting her as an orphan even though she gets her parents back after 20 years, she spent her childhood orphaned. ***This character is tricky because I understand why her mother wanted nothing to do with her, but her trying to manipulate the dad and also saying he didn't raise her properly made me so angry. Uncatagorized due to lack of clarity on parents: Soundtrack #1, Hospital Playlist, Happiness

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My Liberation Notes (2022)

Rating: 9.5/10.0

It took me awhile to watch this one. I usually finish an 16-episode drama in less than a week but I finished this one for about 2 weeks despite having a 1-week break from work.

I have been curious about this drama since last year due to the female lead's personality which is the same as mine, who is often judged as a cool person but really is only an introverted one.

This drama has a good story and I like how the emotions were conveyed. It has a really slow-pacing halfway but that's how life is. It's really boring and it makes this drama realistic. At first, I thought I was like Yeom Mi-jeong who is really timid and does not react despite seeing everything. At some point, I'm like Yeom Chang Hee who is so materialistic and ambitious but in reality, he was just not in the right place. I also felt like Yeom Ki-Jeong who is so judgmental and desperate to find love but is so picky.

Other characters like Mr. Gu, the parents of the 3 characters, and their friends have their own stories to tell - their failures and scars.

This is what makes this drama relatable. It does not show something like people's success stories but rather, it shows how people find the right path after being lost for a long time. It's really heartwarming and like a slap to reality which is something I really need as a lost one too. Life is imperfect and this drama showed how it really is.

I don't want to give it a perfect rating because this is not for everyone. It might stress other people out. Haha.

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JacksonWang “Oxygen” from ARFILM_OJUN on Vimeo.

"Oxygen" Official [M/V] ARTIST : Jackson Wang 2019.04 / Alexa mini / 3min 37sec a film by ARFILM ( Always Run film )

Directed by OJun Kwon ( 권오준 )

music prod. BOYTOY

1st AD. Jeong jiwon 2nd AD. Choi yu chan 3rd AD. Jo Joo Yeong PA. Cocky yun

DOP. Lee hangyeol Focus puller. Ha jooyoung 2nd AC. Kim ki hun 3rd AC. Park sungjun Data manager. Lee youngwoo

Techno-crane. Hwang yonggeun Choi taehyun Lee sungjun Kim doyoun An junhwan

Gaffer. Yoon Seungnam Assistant. Park Hyuk Lee Seongil Kim Mincheol Choi Hanwook

2D&3D. Locus / Adeo Jo Lee seungyeon Park sangdon

M/V Title design. Sooyoung Kwon

DI. Lucid Colour / Colorist. Ko wonseok Colorist crew / Kwak haewon, Yeom jiyun, Yeon hyunsoo

Set design. A:We / Ok shin Assistant. Park heeju han ina

Special effect make-up Sso art / So jihun Assistant. Lee seonmin Yoo yeonjoo

Special effect Ha seungnam Kim hyojin An chiseop

Stylist. Kang songdo Assistant. Lee mingyu

female model. Ko songmi

Artist make-up. The J

TEAM WANG He kun Xu Xinjun Kim Beomhee

Behind scene photography. Lee donggun

Behind scene video. NDVisual / Lee hyungjoo, Jeong jiwon

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TV Binge: The Uncanny Counter 2: Counterpunch (2023)

TV Binge: The Uncanny Counter 2: Counterpunch (2023) #TheUncannyCounterS2 #Counterpunch #Netflix #TV #KoreanTV #Review

The Uncanny Counter 2: Counterpunch (2023) Director: Yoo Seon Dong Cast: Cho Byeong-Kyu, Yu Jun-sang, Kim Se-Jeong, Yeom Hye-ran, Ahn Seok-hwan, Jin Sun-kyu, Kang Ki-young, Kim Hieora, Yoo In-Soo, Moon Sook, Choi Yoon-young, Lee Hong-nae Evil spirits from the afterlife arrive on Earth in search of an immortal existence. The story follows a group of counters who are tasked with catching these…

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Sau thành công xuất sắc cùng với Hò hẹn vùng văn phòng công sở, Kim Se Jeong vẫn chóng vánh tái xuất màn hình họa nhỏ cùng với dự án Bất Động Sản Webtoon dòng tôi. Song, kiệt tác đó lại thất bại toàn tập cùng với nấc rating u ám 2,6%. Dẫu vậy vào nửa trong thời điểm cuối năm 2023, Hotgirl 26 tuổi hứa hứa sẽ khởi tạo nên một cơn bão bên trên màn hình họa nhỏ nhờ có mùa 2 của bộ phim truyền hình Nghệ thuật thẩm mỹ săn quỷ và nấu nướng mỳ. Sinh sống mùa đi đầu, cho dù Kim Se Jeong lúc này còn không có tiếng như lúc này tuy nhiên kiệt tác này vẫn đạt kết quả một cách khách quan: Rating tầm ngay sát 7,8% và với 3,257 triệu con người theo dõi tập cuối.Những khuôn mặt tiếp tục góp mặt trong đợt 2 của bộ phim truyền hình Nghệ thuật thẩm mỹ săn quỷ và nấu nướng mỳ - mối cung cấp: NetflixBên cạnh Kim Se Jeong, Nghệ thuật thẩm mỹ săn quỷ và nấu nướng mỳ mùa 2 vẫn với sự góp mặt của cặp đôi ngôi sao sáng The glory là Yeom Hye Ran (vai Kang Hyun Phái nam) và Kim Hieora (vai Lee Sa Ra). Gần đó, ko thể bỏ lỡ sự hiện hữu của Jang Ki Young. Nói theo một cách khác, anh là 1 trong những trong mỗi chàng trạng sư mới ra năm 2022 lúc thủ vai Jung Myeong Seok sinh sống tuyệt phẩm khét tiếng Phái đẹp trạng sư kỳ kỳ lạ Woo Young Woo.Mang đến những ai chưa chắc chắn, Nghệ thuật thẩm mỹ săn quỷ và nấu nướng mỳ là bộ phim truyền hình nằm trong chuyên mục hành vi - túng bấn dấu - siêu tự nhiên, nói đến trận đấu Một trong những vong hồn tới Trái Khu đất nhằm mò tìm sự sinh sống vĩnh... website tin : afamily.vn #Kim #Jeong #tái #xuất #hợp #tác #cùng với #ngôi #sao #Glory

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My Liberation Notes further emphasises my bias towards side characters/secondary MCs in a well-written story. While Mi-Jeong is definitely the lead, most relatable to the audience, I cannot wait to see how her siblings' stories unfold instead... And Mr. Gu, of course.

Mi-jeong is a very layered character, feels trapped in the rigmarole called life and has a visceral need to get liberated, that much is evident. But her story, at least for now, ends there. She is, at the moment, only showing growth in her scenes with Mr. Gu. Neither her lone friend, Hyeon-a, nor her colleagues or family, add any value to her storyline in the present narrative (I know, I know, we’re only 4 episodes in).

Ki-Jeong & Chang-Hee on the other hand, there’s mystery still around them. They have that big chaotic energy(TM), more character to their personalities, and are more flawed than Mi-Jeong. Of course, there’s also the one subjective trait—stronger performances from Lee El & Lee Min-Ki respectively. 

Now, I’ll be honest, I’ve never liked Lee Min-Ki in the few series that I’ve watched of his (well, one really, that I dropped because I was turned off by his flat acting), but here, he surprisingly brings Chang-Hee to life. This is the first time I’m actually seeing him act and act well, and that comes as a pleasant surprise. It makes Chang-Hee more endearing to me. I also relate to his low self-confidence and just general social anxiety. He wishes he were more approachable, but doesn’t know how. I actually don’t find him to be obnoxious, but more like that stuck-in-the middle sibling, who is trying to find himself in (and a way out from) a brazen elder sister and a mature/moody younger sister sandwich.

Coming to Lee El, she is the most compelling to me, to be honest. She has a MAGNETIC screen presence that I don’t see in the other two. I think the only one who matches it, is Son Seok-Koo (interesting trivia, they’ve acted together in another series, although I don’t think they were paired in it). She is full of herself, judgmental (he is your best friend’s younger brother and a single father, you don’t want to get into this), doesn’t read the room well enough, which often lands her in trouble, keeps whinging about love and men, wants to look pretty (don’t we all?), and wants something to happen to her for once. Hidden under these antagonistic traits is a pure heart that does not want to intentionally hurt anyone or think ill of anyone, it just wants to beat. It’s the little things the writers have done right with her character that make for a fascinating watch.

I want to see how the other two siblings get on, more than I am interested in Mi-Jeong. Then there’s Mr. Gu, who warrants a whole post for himself <3

[samuoni]

i love how each one of the yeom siblings is relatable but in completely different ways. and relatable not in the "i do this (sometimes)" sense but "it feels like someone ripped open my chest and looked inside" sense.

there's gi jeong with her irrational fear of embarrassment, driving her to the point of faking an accident. nothing makes me feel more seen than the visual representation of me wanting to get hit by a truck every time i feel like i've been perceived. why can't you, the world, shut your eyes off to me existing? feeling tired to the core, all day every day without a valid reason to back it up. wanting to take off your arms and legs for a moment, wishing for someone to carry you and scrub your back. analogies that never sit right with anyone. i'm sorry i told you that i would pick up my lover's severed head, do you still think i'm hot? guilt soaring so high in your system that you're on your knees, bowing down to what? you don't know yourself. but bowing down nonetheless - i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry - as the moonlight creeps in.

chang hee with his lack of direction in life, living from one day to the next in itself can be be a chore at times and he's felt it. how do you expect me to peer into the future when i barely managed to survive today? why can't that be enough? realization dawning upon you that you might be the very thing you hate and wanting to slap the wits out of yourself because of it. in constant search for an elder male figure to validate you because you never received any from the one whose blood and bones are your very own. tell me i worked hard. tell me to rest. giving up on persuing romantic interests because you know, just know, that you will not be enough.

and mi jeong. mi jeong my beloved. no character has touched the inner workings of my soul as much as her. not feeling like you belong in public settings, forcing yourself to smile and nod because that's what they've told you will make you worthy of acceptance. wondering how people living on top of the world don't just jump off, thunderstorms making you comfortable because all you've ever wanted is for the world to end. never finding the strength in yourself to fight back, never being able to free yourself from the familiarity of attachments, never feeling complete. she's exactly what the personification of daily life existentialism would look like, neither happy nor sad, stuck in a repetitive state of being. how do you not want to coddle her in your arms? frogs getting torn to shreds, bad-mouthing your senior at work, biting into the flesh of what you adore - discovering that loving is listening, loving is saying out loud whatever comes to mind.

i will take this reassurance - you, too, can live the life of a main character - down to my grave.

[sadnessconnoisseur]

Damn straight up facts!!!

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Kdrama family portraits 🤍

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OUCH