The Hallyu visitor

 Love is spread all over the world. Love is something where two people meet to reach their dreams and then all the fucking world around needs to go into that only two-person business and give their opinion and damage it by their personal beliefs and moods. Loveholic, my 109th step, is a love story where someone meets her other part and she abandons everything, mainly, her ethics because he is her pupil and an 8 year previous love story with a prosecutor who guarantees her future. Maybe these two are the reasons why the series is dug in the oblivion: Something a little off the Korean social etiquette. There are many other things in the series that are off this social pressure, a little example: The loving classmate to him who avoids or boycotts all the suns (a sun is a prearranged-by-the-parents meeting in a coffee shop or a restaurant of two well-off parties with an aim: marriage) because she loves him and do not want to lose to the teacher. She is the one that establishes at the e...

 Happy season! As I am watching my 108th step, The silent sea, a new series in Netflix, I found many mistakes from the scientific point of view. But a fatal one is done in chapter 4. How can you be testing an unknown substance, virus, bacteria,  or else, without the main Laboratory's Good Practice guidance. Googles are mandatory in any such study, They do not use googles. A mistake, Big mistake! as established in Pretty Woman by Richard Gere. Several comments are pending about my previous steps. One of these days I will write about them, above all about Navillera, maybe the Korean series I have enjoyed the most of all and I am talking about real chef d'oeuvres as Mother or My Mister or Dear, My Friends or Iris or Descendants of the Sun.

 How someone can make something as beautiful as the ending in the 8th chapter of Navillera? I have never found a better moment to remember the final discourse of Rutger Hauer in Bladerunner. It is that beautiful that all the words in the world fit in the best of all the possible poems could not describe what I felt while watching it. And that is the real reason I live, to find those beautiful little pieces of human ingenuity that form the beauty in this Universe. I am speechless, tearful and moved up the root of the deepest part of my reptilian brain. My 106th step, Navillera, has already justified the time I have invested watching it. By a lot!

My 104th step was Chief of Staff, there, in Netflix. The main character, Jang Tae Joon, is played by Lee Jung Jae and I discovered to Shin Min Ah as a congresswoman who thinks she is there by her capacity and not by the fact that her father is a bank owner and so she is a chaebol who is occupying a expensively bought by his father chair in the Korean National Assembly. Lee Jung Jae is widely known nowadays because Squid game, my 92nd step, series I saw because it was recommended by my students. He looks sick all the time for me. It is not the beautiful flower boy of other K-doramas and he plays his character outstandingly. In a comment to this series I read "At last, a series for adults". Clearly, this commentator is not in the trend of Korean pop culture. They are looking for teenagers and young adults for their market and even if there are series addressed to more mature audiences, a big chunk of the market is fulfilled by series for these young viewers. Chief of Staff is a...

There is a woman who wants to pursue only her career. Once in a time she takes care of her best friend's daughter and suddenly she realized an internal non previously expressed dream by having this epiphany: "I want a child". This could happen to anyone. But for her is a new quest and only another step to climb in her career, the only thing she really cares. So, she decides to get pregnant from superior genes and start looking the best man in Korea who will be only a sperm donor, like a fish passing through falling eggs by in the middle of the ocean. At the end, she got her objective but then the Greek gods appear and punish her by her personal violence, her hybris. Foetus hides a tumorous tissue who is growing like a twin in the uterus of our hybrised woman. So goes the story in Bad Couple. I already finish my 103rd step, my 103rd watched Korean series, Bad Couple, and I have to establish that the second part is by far a lot more interesting that the first part. Although...

Well, this is kind of confusing. You can skip this paragraph if maths are a headache for you. I have my rule to watch Korean series and it is a 1-2-3 rule. So, I am watching at anytime at the same time three series. The oldest one is being watched as 3 chapters in a row and the newest one is being watched as a single chapter. The oldest one is finished and the newest one matures and eventually becomes the oldest one, so it has its stages, the newest one is being watched as a single chapter, the middle one is being watched as a pair of chapters and you already know how the oldest one is being watched. And so we arrived at what I was going to say. I finished Attic cat before Bad couple and so Attic cat is really the 102nd series in my Hallyu promenade and not Bad couple as it was stablished in the previous staircase. Attic cat was selected because Jung Da Bin. I met her firstly in She is nineteen, my 100th watched series. In that series I was really surprised to find the most dainty and ...

This is a blog where I will enregister thoughts as I am watching Korean series. I am in my 102nd visit. So I am not new to Korean series in length but I am new in time. Now I visit my new chosen series not for others' recommendation but for particular interests. Please do not read this if you have not seen the series and you are planning to see it because I really forward the plot. I am not going to apologize for doing so. I started watching Bad couple because Choi Jung Yoon. And I am surprised how the plot just slide from the screenwriter's hands out to her. For me the Han Young's, Jung Yoon character, story is by a lot more interesting that the main plot. The main plot is kind of boring. A professor, played by Ryu Soo Young whom I saw in Seoul 1945, an excellent account of the two Koreas forming, facing his first love with a very nine-tailed fox lady is not a nice thing to see. It has good moments of course and the fox's feeling of not being enough is kind of sad but ...