World Best of TV 2012

   Four shows in total made it to the finals from South Korea. Including - our all-time favorite Seonggyungwan Scandal^^

Ban-ready dramas

Dear Commission for Pissing Off Normal Viewers!

I prepared the list (with help of some readers here) of dramas, that your board may take under the consideration of banning. And when you're on it, ban peppero sticks (phallic symbols), ice-creams (OMG!!), lollipops etc. and create the enforce law that would put everyone under zen meditation to get rid of all emotions. Oh noez, I forgot, it was already done. The movie was called Equilibrium, there was a drug  injection. You remember how it ended, dear Cosmic Bullshit Commision?

Drama Festival

   Website of the event: http://www.kdfo.org/2011/eng/main/index.asp

Oh, and I find it funny how butthurt some fans can be. I wrote the comment that I don't find Secret Garden all that good, and the reply I got was: "Sssh, go back to your Mary Mary show, and PLEASE, just shut up!" I find it hilarious because I don't usually get so worked up when someone criticize dramas I love (it's a natural phenomena), and here someone was so painfully hurt. And the person has chosen the most inadequate drama ever. Because I'm not really sure if there is any drama worse than Bury Me Mary. Oh, I used so multilettered words? You mad?

38th Korea Broadcasting Awards

The most noticeable Awards are:
Featured Drama - Giant
Short Drama - Seonggyungwan Scandal
Popular Radio Show - Cultwo Show (Radio)
Popular TV Show - Happy Sunday 1 Night 2 Days segment.
Mr. Cha Seungwon was also awarded.
More than happy to see SKKS showered with awards.

2011 Seoul International Drama Awards

   

   Uhmm, not that I have anything against... Actually no, scratch that. I have a lot against some choices. But still, the fact it's POPULARITY that was taken under the consideration, I have no other choice but scream my lungs out in a fury. This proves the blind loyalty of fan(girls) for whom not the quality but the fanservice is all that counts. "Hallyu Drama Top Excellence" award went to Mary Should Stayed In Hell And Never Appear Again. And to all reading this blog, or just knowing me from other places, it is no surprise I am not pleased. More, I'm furious. MMM is a plain Crap, with capital, golden, bling-bling, horrendous C!! In mediocre dramas there is always something that is worth small praising, usually. Be it 8th-plan actor, table cloth or nice motorbike in remote scenery. In this drama, there was nothing. It was so bad it gave "sh*t" a new meaning. Now, if you are looking for a metaphor or artistic comparison, you may say: "as bad as MMM".

Seoul Drama Award 2011 nominees

   

   I voted last year and even though I cheated, Kim Namgil-nim didn't win. Wonder whether... oh, wait, SKKS is on the list! So we meet again, conscience... and bye!

Main Website

I planned to do something contructive this evening (night) and maybe translate another short story, but I was given some koan. And I bet no one from the great zen masters couldn't produce the answer. The koan is: "Why Marry Me Mary?". Well, I am not a zen master (and I'm sometimes faaar from being zen, organic and all that hipster talk), but I sense a satori coming my way. Yes, this satori is sparkling. A blinding light...

Chajatta!

   Ok, I'm not a big fan of this song, yes, it has nice lyrics, yes, Yucheon can sing, but his song for Miss Ripley is much, much better. But Chajatta won the first place in the The Seoul International Drama Awards (SDA) part OST, I wrote about that right here along with listing the nominees. Was it the best song? No. Was it worth winning? Yes. Why? So all broadcasts, SMEnt, Avex and who knows who else may feel totally bitch-slapped!

Finally, after all what happened to JYJ lately (and Yucheon's health problems too), some nice news.

Seoul Drama Awards - OST Awards

   From June 29th to July 20th, the Seoul Drama Awards Organizing Committee (SDAOC) will be open to vote for the most popular drama OST of the dramas between April 1st and April 30th. Bad news is - you need to have an account on cyworld, or I didn't quite figure out how to cheat.
And my usual rant - someplace I saw they nominated IU? Well, who da hell is IU when Queen Seondeok OST had Hong Kwangho??

Also, there are 40 nominees, so forgive me I didn't romanized them all here. I'm lazy, yes.
Update: in my last comment I romanized all the remaining dramas.

Acting Idol awards for the first half of 2011

It's been a long time since I went to Allkpop, but hey, I can find there now some information, not just a whirlpool of hysteria! Still, nothing can force me to go to soompi. Unless they start on age ban.

Sports Seoul recently surveyed 100 idol group members, to see who the best ‘idol actor/actress’ and ‘variety idol’ was for the first half of 2011. Through this survey, the public was able to see the idol’s talent and skills shown in other areas rather than just performances on stage.

47th Baeksang Awards

47th Baeksang Awards 2011

Yucheon got 2, and Ha Jungwoo got 1. I'm heppey, yess...

Oh, and just to bitch over the "Best Drama" category. Personally I couldn't finish, and probably never will Secret Garden. 2010 had few better drama than this, and I seriously don't understand the hype. It wasn't bad drama, no, but you see, I'm on 36th episode of Gisaeng... and waiting impatiently for another episode, and it took me a month to move from episode 10 to 12 in SG. Gumiho: Tale of the Fox Child was by far better than this, Life Is Beautiful was better, hell, SKKS was better. Just don't get it.

Now you can throw rocks.

Premises

   

   I was thinking (yes, it happens sometimes to me. Extremely painful. Kids, don't do that at home!) of my lost chances in life. But instead of depressing myself and reaching Mariana Trench of self-esteem piercing, I looked down on the bright side of it. Ironically there is one. And what's more ironic in it - it started (not, not with a kiss) with SKKS. Even though Park Yucheon was my little darling in DBSK, I have sworn I would never watch any drama with an idol after suffering whole 30 minutes of Heading to the Ground. So this was on my ME-NOT-WATCHIN-AND-DO-NOT-PERSUADE list. Gender-bender and pretty, pretty Park Minyeong as a fake boy was just a big extra reason for it.

The scale of my mistake I understood somewhere in the middle of the first episode.

So I said to myself: Do not judge the book by its cover! So that you won't have any regrets!

So I did. 

SKKS - Oricon

A good drama is a good drama. Period.

SKKS DVD has topped in first five n Oricon charts.

Plus some news on JYJ? Their tour has started (Taipei) and from what I read thousands of fans watched the first concert. Next stop - US and Canada from May.

10 Best Couples

  Accoding to Entertainment Weekly, episode aired today. Well, the place nr 1 isn't exactly the biggest surprise mehehe...

List gathered with pics by yours truly.

Song Junggi on SKKS

I just got this in my KBS newsletter. I checked the website, and voila!

The boy is cute and kinda honest about his work. But I must say - Dirty Carnival? With your face?? 

And I'm not naive, I don't believe either in SKKS 2 or a movie. Would be nice to have another opportunity to drool over Yucheon in robes and gat, but I know it won't happen.

Article for petto and Kang Dongwon lovers out there, keke...

2010 - R.I.P.

   I think I should do this beforehand, but somehow it wasn't my first thought few days ago. 2010 ended, and I'm glad. Months after March were bad and deteriorated quickly. Maybe it's because I'm getting older and bitter? I'm alive and I should be grateful for that, but partly I'm grateful to myself, because I toned down my reckless behavior, and started to, at least, act cautious every few days.

   I'm grateful for few beautiful souls out there I was given to meet. For all my Thorns and Queens of Lus... Luscious Words. I'm happy I spent so much time on many, many topics with them. That kept me sane, in a way.

As for other things: career-wise and interest-wise. My so called "research career" got accelerated. I went to few (ok, so far 2) conferences and it was nice. This year will be even busier, I can see it even now.

I started to blog. I remember myself saying that blogging is a stripping, an exhibitionistic behavior, but somehow I figured that one doesn't have to write about personal feelings and poison the world with another Weltschmerz. Stating the opinion is completely different than writing about "oh how world does hate me and I have no reason to live". So do it and stop whining, I'd say!
And I'm happy few people found this blog useful. To all readers - thank you and stay tuned^^

Drama-wise...

2010 KBS Drama Awards

    

I want to thank my sister who wrote me everything but the right list, and I was depressed SKKS won nothing. In fact, this drama won 5 awards. But I appreciate the effort, have no idea where she went to get me some info on it. Sweet^^

And I want to add here (cause D-A may turn into hell) that, in my opinion, Yu Ah-in didn't deserve the award for the newcomer. I love the boy, but he didn't.

I will wait for the next role of one nice gentleman, named Park Yucheon. Prove yourself, boy.

2010 10Asia's Awards: SKKS and Chuno

Remember the table I had so much troubles to fit all letters there?

No? That's ok.

And because I love 10Asia, an article from their website.

Articles on: drama, director, actor, writer and "Thank You" list. There was also "No, Thank You" list, but I don't see it somehow, keke...

Park Yucheon - interview on scandal

Ahaha, catchy title, right? Actually this is about the rumor that he was "close" *wink* with Park Min-yeong. Well, the chemistry between those was right there, but I think people see more than there is, in fact.

Annoying.

KBS Drama Awards - voting

Omo, omo... what was the password for my account on KBS again? Daamn!
http://www.kbs.co.kr/drama/2010award/plan/intro/
Vote, good villagers, who have travelled from near and far.
Don't lend me your ears...

Buzzwords of Year 2010 in Pop Culture

Article found on KBS Global, keke.