Boys Before Flowers/ Boys Over Flowers

Title: Boys Before Flowers
Episodes: 25
Year Produced: 2009
Country: Korea

Main Actors:
Koo Hye Sun as Geum Jan Di
Lee Min Ho as Gu Jun Pyo
Kim Hyun Joong as Yoon Ji Hoo
Kim Bum as So Yi Jung
Kim Joon as Song Woo Bin

*Photo and Info. taken from
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Boys_Before_Flowers

Synopsis:
Geum Jan Di [Koo Hye Sun] is a poor and ordinary girl that helps her family in their dry cleaning business. With it being located near the renown Shinhwa high school and college, her life changes when she goes to the school to delivers a boy’s uniform. In the process of delivering a male student’s uniform to the owner, she had to save the boy from jumping off the rooftop of the school instead. She learned that it was a famously known group called F4 (Flower 4) that drove the boy to commit suicide. After learning this, she started to despise the F4 because she cannot tolerate people picking on the weak. The F4 are known for their good looks, riches, and juvenile behavior towards the other students. In the group, Gu Jun Pyo [Lee Min Ho] is the leader with 3 other boys as his friends and followers including Yoon Ji Hoo [ Kim Hyun Joong], So Yi Jung [Kim Bum], and Song Woo Bin [Kim Joon]. In order to calm the society’s reaction to the school’s big news, they admitted Geum Jan Di as a student to the school. From her first day onward, she tries to avoid interacting with the F4 group. Soon, Geum Jan Di realizes that fate has a different path set for her that crosses paths with the F4. While everyone is afraid to stand up against the F4, Jan Di rises to the challenge in attempt to stop their juvenile actions. How will the F4 respond to her stance against them? Will they start to bully her as well or will they just ignore her? How will Jan Di attempt to change their ways? Will the F4 and Jan Di’s relationship stay as enemies or is it possible for them to become friends?

Find out by watching! This drama is based on the manga Boys Over Flowers.

Mika’s Ratings:
**** = SATISFYING!

TOUCHINGLY ROMANTIC!

Mika’s Opinion: The drama was sweet and romantic with gorgeous guys! All four of the F4 members are HOTT, which explains why they are called the Flower 4. An important lesson taught in this series is that there is more to life than money because there are some things that money cannot buy. Overall, I genuinely enjoyed the series until the last few episodes because the storyline became redundant. Some of the scenes felt like déjà vu, which made me feel that they were dragging out the storyline. Despite that, I still loved the drama!

Leave me comments on what you thought about the series!

~ Mika ~

POLL:
Who is your favorite F4 member?
A.Gu Jun Pyo
B.Yoon Ji Hoo
C.So Yi Jung
D.Song Woo Bin

*** My favorite F4 member is So Yi Jung because he may be a player and is too conceited for his own good, but he has a beautiful heart that is secretly hoping to find true love. He puts on a cool act in order to protect his heart from getting hurt.

Save the Last Dance for Me

Picture Taken from:
http://www.sakaix.net/contribute/movie/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/stl.jpg

Title: Save the Last Dance for Me
Episode: 20
Year Produced: 2004
Country: Korean

Main Actors:
Eugene: Ji Eun Soo
Ji Sung: Kang Hyun Woo
Le Bo Young: Yee Soo Jin
Ryu Soo Young: Jung Tae Min

Synopsis:
Eun Soo[Eugene]is a country girl that lives with her father and runs a vacation inn called “Dreaming Forest”. Her life changes when fate brought Hyun Woo into her life. With his memory lost, she nicknamed him “Baek Chung Ho” and he lived with her family for a while. During that time, the two fall in love and even gets married in the back of their inn. Due to a twist of fate, Eun Soo’s father dies the night of their wedding and a few days later Chung Ho disappears. After waiting about a year for Chung Ho’s return, she goes into the city (Seoul) to stay with her best friend. On the first day of her stay in Seoul, she crosses paths with a transformed Chung Ho. It turns out that, Chung Ho named Kang Hyun Woo lost his memory of her and is in line to inherit a renown company called Global. As if this is not enough, he is engaged to the artist, Soo Jin [Le Bo Young] and his best friend almost like a brother, Tae Min [Ryu Soo Young] is secretly planning to ruin him. By becoming an employee of Global, will Eun Soo be able to help Hyun Woo regain his memory of their love? Will Soo Jin give up Hyun Woo to Eun Soo without a fight? How will Tae Min be stopped?
Watch the drama to find out! =)

Mika’s Rating:
***** = AWESOMEEE!
TOUCHINGLY ROMANTIC!

Mika's Opinion:
This is one of my favorite dramas because the storyline teaches something important about love and the actors acted their roles out beautifully. The drama’s soundtrack is amazing; you will like all the songs as well! I have to admit that I had a box of tissue with me because I cried like a baby. Enjoy!

Leave me comments and feedback on what you think of the drama! Hope to hear from you soon! :D

~ Mika ~

Asian Dramas Make My Life Go Round

Hi everyone,

One of my own self-given nicknames is Mika, so you guys can address me as Mika. It is awesome to share my interest with ya. To briefly describe myself, I am a lil Chinese girl who is a junior in college and loves to associate with people. My personality is bubbly, outgoing, and positive, so that means I try to make the best out of what life throws at me. I enjoy meeting people, so comment or add me as a friend anytime!

To get to the point, I created this blog to share with everyone in cyberspace my love for watching Asian dramas. I watch a range of Asian dramas when I find the time away from school. Mainly, I watch Korean, Taiwanese, Hong Kong, and Japanese (very few) romance dramas. From today onwards, I will post up reviews about the dramas I watch in hopes that I will get everyone's feedback on it as well. Just as a warning, I watch dramas in a sporadic order, so it does not mean that I will watch a series as they are released chronologically. Okies... Let's start Asian drama sharing!

P.S. Leave me a comment if you have any questions or comments!

~ Mika