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Entertaining enough but some gripes stop me from taking it too seriously
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty is definitely a watchable romcom drama. I'm not the biggest fan of romcoms but picked this up because of the premise, which is very appropriate for modern Korean culture. I just couldn't help but notice a couple glaring issues and inconsistencies that stopped me from really loving it. Overall, it falls suspect to a lot of Korean romcom tropes and inconsistent characterization.1) In the very first episode, the chad is automatically drawn to the main female character for no reason. The whole premise is that he is NOT superficial nor really interested in most girls. So there is no reason for him to even look at her. Somehow, she is special JUST BECAUSE
2) Guys are made to look like assholes and creeps. Younger ones are desperate, older ones are ruthlessly superficial
3) Chad (main love interest) has a dull personality. Hes just good looking. His three modus operanti are to stand still, walk like a runway model, and act protective.
4) Probably unintentional, but the girls are just as badly portrayed as the men in this show. Most of the girls are drawn to Chad only for his looks and treat the other guys like they are invisible or clowns
5) They are clearly trying to paint one of the characters as the villain, but it feels forced. In one episode, the villain invites the “orc” bully from middle school to help instigate a scene with the MC. No real explanation into her motivations aside from the obvious (she likes chad also)
6) The whole things where chad’s mom was the one that stopped the MC from committing suicide is the stupidest thing ever. There are almost 10 million people living in Seoul, and she just happened to be in the same place at the same time?
7) Chad acts like looks aren’t everything and lectures the MC on not judging people on looks. Yet, he’s unaware that he is privileged because of his good looks (and family's status and money). Its like a tall handsome guy telling a shorter, ugly guy "dude just be confident! Just be yourself. Looks don't matter"
8) Chad has very shaky moral standards, despite his character being one who never lies, etc. Chad gets on guys for any little reason (protective chad), yet tells his little sister “getting bad grades isn’t a bad thing.” No, that's wrong. Being an underachiever is a terrible thing!
9) Very woke teachings. “Its okay for men to cry!” They are making chad's dad look like a bad parent for trying to toughen his son up. In reality, this is exactly how men are expected to behave in society. Men who cry all the time are not taken seriously.
10) EVERYONE in the school is gossiping about either SUA, MC or Chad. Its like their lives revolve around these three people. None of these people are celebrities or accomplished anything amazing
11) Older sunbae (Chan Woo) gets younger students together and tries to haze them in broad daylight, and is not expelled. This would never happen in reality.
12) Chad’s mom lost her sense of smell (and her career) because her olfactory nerve got damaged during a domestic altercation. Domestic abuse is wrong, and I get why the show is trying to portray it as such, but one slap isn’t going to stop someone from smelling stuff.
13) The “comic” duo: not sure why the shorter one is still hanging out with the taller one, who’s creepy, mean and bossy.
14) Characters who are legitimately pretty, like the shorter best friend, or the tomboy, are never pointed out to be pretty.
15) The show is teaching us that it wrong to fat shame women to meet men's standards, yet in the chubby girl's side story, she is trying to pair up with one of the taller good looking sunbaes. This sunbae of course is not allowed to judge her based on her looks.
16) MC's actor is pretty limited. Most of the time her expression is to look like a surprised goldfish
17) Chan woo is SADLY the best character of this show, having a genuine redemption arc while also comically trolling the **** out of side characters (tokbokki feeding scene with chubby girl and her sunbae)
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I mainly started to watch this drama because my bias from ASTRO, Cha Eun-Woo, is in this drama and the plot genuinely sounded quite interesting! JTBC dramas never fail to satisfy me with their acting, plot, and their style of cinematography! Hello, My Twenties is my ultimate favorite drama and its from JTBC! This drama has been really good so far in my opinion. Although I have never read the webtoon and I have only been a few episode into the series, the characters seem to fit the roles they were meant to played in my eyes, and the acting is also great too! I recommend giving this drama a try, maybe because I really have a bias towards JTBC dramas, hehe!
P.S. The song that plays in the credit roll, True - By: RUNY is a super fun and catchy song, can't wait till the whole OST is released and available because I really love this song, and I want to hear more!
Update: I read the webtoon up until the very latest chapter which I believe is 61 and now that I can sort of compare the webtoon with the few episodes I've watched I would say I really like the additions/changes the drama made to the webtoon to make this drama, I feel like it will add more to the series!
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The show could be better but in lots of the scene you fail to feel the sadness becaise of the male lead
Im sorry he is a kind soul and his look is no joke, but his acting is way too awful. Overall, the story is quite okay. And it brings a good message too
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could've been better
although there was so much potential considering the strong plot, in my opinion the female lead showed zero character development until the very end. i couldn't exactly feel the romance between the main couple. although the male lead was heads over heels for the female lead, i couldn't feel the same emotions on the female lead's part which was really sad. however, the story kept me invested and i was eager to see how sua's fakeness would unfold in the end...overall it was a satisfying ending
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FACT: This is not a flop drama.
First of all, I would like to thank directors, writers, editors, and staffs. They did amazing on making this webtoon live-action better! I'm a really fan of many webtoon drama adaption and this Gangnam Beauty was one of them. I love every character here they are all have achieved the 'character developments' throughout the drama.In fact, whenever YouTube recommend some MIIGB recommend their OST on my wall. I always end up binge-watching it again up to their behind the scenes T_T
THE LEAD ACTORS ARE PERFECTLY FIT!
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"You think we're products displayed in a showroom?"
This drama was such a swirl of feelings for me. I loved the message and the overall story that it tells of loving yourself and finding the beauty in YOU, but I feel like it took a long time to even come off with that message if it even did at all... While you never see her old face, it takes until literally episode 15 for her to accept that she looks the way she does and feel comfortable in showing that to everyone. So it doesn't even feel like in the entirety of the show that she truly loved herself. It just screamed the message looks are everything and if you don't like yours change it. I wish we could've gotten her finding love for herself and keeping that, or even realizing that looks aren't everything in a person even if it's your own looks.The acting in this drama is also such a hit or miss. While I can see that she is playing an awkward character who has never been in social situations like these before... I just found the acting of the FL super flat. She never really shows any range of emotions, it's always linear and no emotion almost. I'll have to check out some of the other dramas she was in to see if that is her or just how she was playing Mi Rae.
I did love Eun Woo's acting in this a ton, even if he also just stares and has a quiet and shy character as well. He showed more range of emotions and definitely was the piece that got me invested in the overall story. I loved seeing this after I watched Island because you can really see how much he has grown as an actor.
There were such good messages written into the script though about body image and how people view women and the way they look. I wish that was pushed more instead of the plastic surgery aspect of the story. One of them that really stuck with me was: "We're all forcing ourselves to cheer up and carry on."
Overall, I think this drama was a pretty good watch but I wouldn't rewatch it. Just beware that really nobody in this drama has character development at all, it's all just settled and moved on from to finish the show on a happy note.
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where you can watch in hindi
hi everyone this drama is so good if you want to watch in hindi you can watch it on MXplayer for free . read till this much because this app is saying I should write 500 letters so I will write something only thank u for reading my review. yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjj yfjshdkdbdkjehfjdhfjdhdjhfhxjsjdjdjjjjjjjdjdhdkfjekdhodfbhfhttttttttttbbdkenrbodjejdkjjWas this review helpful to you?
I know the acting is not good, I have seen a lot of korean drama and Cha Eun Woo is definitely not the best. The acting is stiff, the emotion is not being delivered well, every scene he gives the same face, even I had 0 intention to watch rookie historian goo-hae-ryung because of him. The FL is not that good either, maybe she is slightly better on delivering emotions, but the awkwardness between both of them is very cringy. The side character story also quite boring, especially Do Kyung Soek's sister, did not care about her at all.
But somehow the story always brings me back to watch this series all over again. I love the story so much and I can feel the main character's insecurities. The story brings out the reality in the current situation. How the beauty standard is playing a large part in one's life and how we need to accept ourselves without thinking about what people think, how society needs to shut up and stop giving anyone pressure about appearances.
Well I hope the portrayal of such a strong story had been given to stronger actors, but this series is all I get and I will keep getting back to it anyway.
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not bad but not good-Jisoo
Not bad but not good, as Jisoo from BLACKPINK said.Is a mediocre drama but is not the worst, I actually liked the last episode, it was interesting and you could see development for some characters. The main idea of the series is lost and contradicts itself. They could have done much better with this main idea. It was hard to watch because sometimes it was soo boring but even so I continued watching and it was not worthed it. The best character was Sua, she really had a development (though only in the last ep) and a history. The main character and the male were kinda boring and without a personality too. Personally I dont recommend it, but idk, the ost was good :) The only reason I watched was because of eun woo haha.
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I've been watched this for 5th times, I just finished the 6th times h h h h h
I've been watched this for 5th times already, I just finished the 6th times h h h h hThis drama was my "during pandemic drama." So it has a special place in my heart.
The story depicts the society we are in as of today. From the overly beauty standards that have been set and those judgements that will receive for those people who will not meet those standards. I enjoyed it! This was the first drama I saw Cha Eun Woo act and I must say that he did well. Im Soo Hyang, one of my favorite actresses, did so well portraying Kang Mi Rae, from cautios and insecure to confident and inlove lady. Interesting story plot and characters! Kudos!
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