Korean Drama

So, I as a black woman grew up trying to up lift my people and trying to promote only black power and supporting your black business. I know there is a lot of work to be done and I don't have any resources right now for a none profit, I feel we gotta start standing for something more. We are desperate for money because we have struggled so much. It is a generational cycle that continues on and on, I am working on it.

With that I must discuss my television experiences that I have had lately. Of course reality television which I have no shame for sorry, it's a new form of entertainment and you know people don't fight that much in real life it's just something mindless to pass the time.

So here is what I have been watching of interest to get myself out of endless maze of reality shows. Before last season ended: Outsourced, 30 Rock, don't know where they are right now. 30 rock will probably be a midseason replacement for something. This season I am continuing on with the office minus Steve Carell, so far so good. I have added New Girl it's pretty good.

Finally, my new obsession is Korean drama. What's up Fox and Young Love Jae In (Glory Jane), formally man of honor. All on hulu and dramafever(the network). What's up Fox was a little taboo. The main character reporter Go or was the main character and her sister's pesky little brother, forgot his name. I am bad with remembering the names because of the language barrior. It's like watching Spanish soap operas and not knowing what is going on. Two languages I am going to have to learn soon because I am tired of subtitles, but at least they give you subtitles for these Korean shows. I have not invested a lot of time on Charming by the day, but that is another good one that I am watching. There will be more to come.

First I watched every episode of What's up Fox and asked myself what was I doing in 2005. I was becoming a mother at 25. The main character was 30 and in a place where I was only a year before that. She was a single woman running around wondering what more she could find for her life. She ended up having a lot of embarrsassing run ins with her sister's younger brother, Chul Soo. From my observance of the culture, if there is a large age difference, not even 10 years that older is considered an elder. One you must address formally, so when Reporter Go and Chul Soo have a crazy night of sorts, they try to block it out of there mind because it would be considered a little shameful. In the end of course they run off together and they live happily ever after with no worries of what their families and friends, think.

Finally I am deep into Young Love Jae in. The main character has no memory of an accident when she was younger that caused Bae in the father of Kim Young Kwang, to send her to an orphanage, while he takes the money to open up a Noodle Shop from the Vice President of the company he drove for, who becomes the President. Jae in's father was the President who died from an accident that occurred before the accident Jae in was in. Flash Forward to modern times and we have Kim Young Kwang. He had previously met her and the bane of his existence In Woo when his father a driver took him to a fancy "smancy" party at the Presidents home. Young Kwang bragged about playing baseball to In Woo, but he was horrible. Jae in spoke encouraging words and they promised to marry each other over him playing baseball when they got older. they meet again in the hospital, but don't recognize each other.Later she shows up at their house thinking she is Bae in's daughter throwing Young Kwangs mother into a horrible fit, his youngest of two sister angry to the bone, but the understanding grandmother takes her in. Also, Bae in is killed before he can clean up the mess that he allowed to happen. He was a humble man always bowing and apologizing for other's mistakes even taking the blame for the president's death as the driver. while Bae in or In Bae-S0rry got his name mixed up...While In Bae was obviously a humble and good husband and father, I guess desparation is what caused him to make a deal with the devil, the vice president. To keep quiet about what really happened to Jae in's family, and to open the noodle restaurant he always wanted. Those were ruthless people he was dealing with so it was a big mistake that made his family suffer and in the end did no good for anyone.

One moment that really made me want to write about this is how the people have such pride. Respect your elders. They speak in riddles and have high morals about such things. Most seem to have a good work ethic and they are very traditional. In one scene Young Kwang is trying to win over the VP for a job position and he does chinese riddles and then he begins making insults about a person in a high position. Then they new president laughs at the idea of a small person doing better then he. He had fooled the new pres. into laughing and everyone was a witness too it, so the pres. was forced to by the product that he was selling.

Anyway, the shows are really amazing and I feel like I am reading a book that I can't put down. I am recommending people to watch a few. I even recommended the network to my beauty supply store merchant. I think he gets home sick, so I told him that watching those shows might be fun and help him although he has been here quite a few years.

I just wanted to say that because when things get tough a lot of the characters say things like 'fighting" before they go a tend to their daily task, or you can be like Jae in he puts her fist up and says "cheers" in Korean before she handles a situation and it seems that she feels everything will work out despite the odds. Through all her obstacles it does seem to be paying off for her.