i tried watching the first episode but couldn't get into it ... the main actress just looks a bit weird ...

anyway i am watching city hunter and IRIS concurrently both also super nice and has really good rating!

49 days one of the best drama this year wor..you dun like it? Anyway, on 1st episode, the main actress is not the main one...she later will just be 2nd lead when the main actress appeared i.e that poor lady that stay inside a poor ppl apartment & got possessed by the soul of the so clled 1st ep main actress. That's the correct main actress haha

sounds interesting lolz! will give it another go after i finished IRIS and City hunter

hell still having depression after finished watching most of YEH series, want to see more of her funny acting ... gonna get both of her movies and watch vineyard man later (last one to go) ...

Sung Ji Hyun is cute, just don't like Sung Yi Kyung so much, especially in the beginning where she was in a devastated state. Watched through until 11-12, still no tears from me (but the main character just got her first).

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Added on November 14, 2011, 8:10 pmI'm wondering, is there things such as different dialect in Korean as in Hokkean, Hakka and others in Chinese? Because although I don't understand Korean, I found some dialogues in some of the dramas weird. For example, dialogue used by Kim Sa Rang in A Love to Kill.

This post has been edited by GEFORCEXTREME: Nov 14 2011, 08:10 PM

Totally agreed. Patience in understand the whole story and you'll enjoy it.

Anyway i'm aiming to purchase their OST 49 Days Premium Package but very pricey... USD 32.99

Right now waiting for Poisedon e15 & e16 subs.

I also notice some Korean pronunciation contains Hakka, Mandarin, Hokkien dialects

Not some..exactly the same liao haha...The counting system also a mixture of mandarin, cantonese, & hakka..such as: il (1-mandarin), yi (2-cantonese) sam (3- ' cantonese), sa (4- diff here), gu (5- mandarin), yuk (6- hakka/canto), chil (mandarin), pal (8- mandarin), gu (9 - abit hakka?) , sip (10 -Hakka)

beh- (hundred-hokkien), cheong (thousand- Cantonese), Man (10,000 - Cantonese)

And lotsa others as well such as Aigoo - Hokkien/M'sian - Aiyoo!, chinchiak - (Just like Hokkien for "really). Shin Nian, Shim bu (Groom & Bride similar as Mandarin-hokkien); putao - Grape - mandarin; Anyway almost 60% of Korean noun borrowed from Chinese lor..that's why sometime we can know what they talking about..The only diff is Korean own expression which is entirely alien to Chinese such as they ending sound like Hamida, simida, yo & etc...non chinese at all haha

yep i am chinese educated and on and off i can get some of the chinese words being used but somehow they have messed up the pronunciation to their own style

This post has been edited by Hou_JaI: Nov 15 2011, 04:50 PM

juz finished greatest love yesterday... really enjoyed it a lot!!!
dokko jin with his hilarious and crazy laugh... mind control time... heartbreak.. Ding Dong!

Sometime it makes me wonder are koreans came from china? They write chinese calligraphy too.

Yeah, there are a lot of similarities in the language, and yeah, from Hwang Jin Yi, I also found that they write chinese caligraphy.

But what I mean is sometimes their dialogue doesn't seem like the usual Korean with lots of hamida, and other common words. Watch A Love to Kill and you know what I mean.

Surprisingly they have Cheusok Special, on that particular time, if not mistaken we chinese have special meaning for that day too.

Anyway finish watching Poisedon... rating? 3/10! Ending way too easy. Worse part is filming and directing error... How the heck during car chase, out of the blue it turns NIGHT and DARK! You'll LOL!

Next up, Secret Garden... wonder how nice is it since it receive lots of votes.

Omg im watching Athena Goddess of War now. its damn dman damn damn good! the first Korean drama i watch with REAL SEXY TIME!!!!!!

Well, the similarities are on the vocabulary only-lah but not grammatic. Korean athough using Chinese characters in the past, adopting lotsa chinese culture (old buildings, palaces & even temples) & value including their strict confucious value. but interm of languarge. Only ~50-60% vocab borrowed from Chinese. The others are their distinct languarge which is actually Turk-Altaic related which is amost similar category as Manchurian, Mongolian, Siberian & to lesser extent, Japanese.

You can only identify some similar chinese borrowed words but not the whole sentence buiding.for eg:

English: I like eating grape
Chinese: Wor sihuang cher putao
Korean (Informal maybe as google translate using formal haha) - Na putao chuwa eh. (Hehe learn from kdrama )

So you can see, chinese & English sharing almost similar grammar style whereas, korean, the grape or putao is in front & the chuwa or like is at the back.
The only chinese borrowed vocab there is na/wor and putao ..and probably chuwa from hokkien/malay- suka

This post has been edited by stimix: Nov 16 2011, 08:59 AM

Sound like Star Wars Master Yoda also came frm Korea since he also speak like tat.

haha..true also like Master Yoda.

Those vocab wth perfect matching include SNSD & kdrama- Secret garden

SNSD - So Nyeo Shi Dae in Korean and Siao Ni She Dai in Mandarin
Secret Garden - pimi gyongwon in Korean and pimi hwayen in Mandarin

Scent of Woman starting soon on Astro One HD. One of the best this year after Secret garden, 49days, & city hunter

BTW, lotsa nice review & super funny kdrama showing now i.e Flower Boy Ramyun shop....Very tempting..probably starting this soon.. ..The lead actress (Lee Chung Ah) cute & energetic..I like her character when she acted as the sister to the lead actor in "That's fool"

Finally got the order for "The princess' man" original OST CD. But too bad the drama DVD is still not yet released. Waiting~~~~~

Remember him?

Among the handsome actors in Korea.

Yoo Geon; at a glance like Won Bin.






'Hello God' [2006]



Among my early K-Drama on KBS World; encore in 2008.

He did appear on 'KBS Drama Special' this year.


Kim Ok Bin was so cute in 'Hello God'.



This post has been edited by Raikkonen: Nov 21 2011, 09:38 AM

darn gay spotted haha..just joking