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LilMeggs

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LilMeggs

San Jose, CA
My ID Is Gangnam Beauty korean drama review
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My ID Is Gangnam Beauty
2 people found this review helpful
by LilMeggs
Aug 30, 2019
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 10.0
I don't think they could have picked a better "theme" song for this drama. Literally. This was literally a drama about first love and two mains who had zero experience in being with someone else, so a majority of the time they would just stare at each other and say, "what" and "huh?" The mains were cute and dorky and I truly felt the realness of how cringy it is to try and figure out what to do in your first relationship. I typically hate those cringy moments in dramas, but this one really hit home for me as someone who tends to ignore obvious advances because of doubts in my mind that no one would hit on me because I believe that I am not good enough. But that is past tense. I also believe that is also why I couldn't give this a 10/10 (as well as because of the staring contest between the two mains that made up 50% of the drama.) I felt like the main character never fully loved herself - I thought it was going to be a generic drama ending where the girl who has felt ugly her whole life, would at the end find out that she was always beautiful. Maybe even a cheesy ending where we would finally get to see a non-blurred out photo of her as a child (every photo of her as a child was blurred out,) but we didn't get that. It made me feel like the main character didn't get to that point of loving herself fully. Yes, the climax of this drama was her finally realizing that she deserves to be happy as much as everyone else, and she will do the things that will make her happy, like date the guy she likes, but that's it. I do appreciate this drama though because it isn't something that'll happen overnight. It isn't a switch where she can switch on and off. That it'll probably take awhile for her to feel comfortable with her past because her present is filled with the people she loves and that love her back. I also liked how every character in this drama was battling something internally. Mostly it was about these college girls constantly being told that they aren't "ideal types" even though they were perfectly happy with who they were. I do appreciate how different everyone's endings were - not everyone got with the guy they were crushing on the whole drama or found someone who loved them who they were from day one even if that character didn't know it. It was about these characters going through their own internal battle (some more intense than others) and finding happiness within themselves and expressing that to others. I will say though that Yoo Eun and Jang Won Ho are the best. Yoo Eun, the freshman leader, was always a homie towards everyone, even the villain knowing that something was wrong and she wanted to help. She never gave up on anyone. Jan Won Ho was just the cutest freshman who picked up on all the wrong signals and fell for the wrong girl. Honestly, if I was in this drama, I would have loved to date Jang Won Ho. I liked the second love interest, but the moment he told her the reason why he liked her was because she was pretty, I was like...dammit, I was rooting for you! You never lead with that. That is why I liked Do Kyung Suk. When he was asked the question if he liked her because she was pretty, he had said that he liked Kang Mi Rae because she was her. He was in love her soul and her bravery and her dancing skills. Overall, I loved this drama more than I thought I would and would def watch again.
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