Asian Drama Addict

Those of you who follow me on Twitter might have noticed my posts lately about Boys Before Flowers.  It is based on Japanese shōjo manga series, Boys Over Flowers, written by Yoko Kamio. The Korean series, that I watched, is actually the fifth television adaptation of the manga – but from reviews I have seen of the others, it’s the best.

I actually stated watching this show over a year ago, and ended up taking a break from it.  It’s one of those shows that is written beautifully, but has an extremely frustrating story line.  I had to step away as to not spend a solid week watching all the episodes at once.  Well… it found it’s way into my list of recommended shows on Hulu again… so I had a small obsessive moment and watched all of it.  Well worth my time.

The Story Line is Great

It’s a pretty common starting point, something from a fairy tale.  Poor girl meets rich boy and they fall for each other.  Of course, there has to be more to the story to make it worth 25 full hour long episodes.  Our poor girl, Geum JanDi, has a lot of character, she’s caring, hard-working, and very outspoken.  It causes a lot of issues for her when she originally meets her leading man, Goo JunPyo.  Why?  He’s your typical plutocrat, who looks down on those who aren’t of his class… and he’s a bit of a jerk – just like the rest of his friends the F4 (or Flower Four).  Without giving away too much, the story starts out with the daughter of a dry cleaner dropping off a suit to a fancy private school, where she proceeds to save a boy who is trying to commit suicide by jumping off the roof – and of course, F4 are to blame for giving him such a hard time.  By saving the boy’s life she ends up getting a scholarship to attend the school, and the vengeance of F4.  The story develops from there as she fights with them, and eventually wins them over.  But winning the F4 over isn’t enough.  It wouldn’t be a Korean Drama without a horrible mother who thinks you aren’t good enough.  And on top of the evil mother, all sorts of circumstances develop to keep them apart.  It was frustrating – I yelled at my computer screen a lot – but still worth watching, as long as you don’t mind subtitles.

The Fashion

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As you may have noticed from my Fashion Fridays posts, I like fashion, and this show has a lot of it.  There’s not a ton of fashion I love on the women, but the men is another story entirely.  Now, I know that my husband won’t be wearing suits everyday in this lifetime.  I’m lucky that he owns one (he wears it to weddings).   But a girl can dream right?  And what better way to dream to to see some very attractive men wear 200+ suits in 25 episodes.

The Music

Ok, this isn’t American Idol, so why watch the show for the music?  It’s full of great pop music.  And, no, I don’t normally listen to pop music, but there’s something about K-Pop (Korean Pop)  – and J-Pop … and really any Asian Pop – which is amazing.  It will get stuck in your head for days.  And this show has quite a bit of good K-Pop.  The show has 3 official soundtracks.  Music on them includes: