Pearl Harbor

I brought this point over and again but crazy fanatics just shot me down.... I am someone of Soek Ryu 's age and is working in America. Let's assume Greip as Google.... because the level they gave to Greip sounded like that.... Google's pay is unimaginable and it is not easy to get into Google. She had worked there for some 13+ years.... Google is a company who pays the children 's education fee of employees if they die while working there ( you can Google this fact ...lol).... So insurance covers most of it. Also, while she was getting treated for a year then she would have gotten 70% of the salary. California govt also pays..... So she would have earned a lot while she was in America, so this thing always bothered me as to why she financially didn't help her parents despite seeing how her mom was folding to-go boxes while having pain relief patch on her hand.... Not once she offered help. Her parents are taking care of 2 unemployment children despite their restaurant not doing well..... I couldn't understand this from get go.....

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I was so excited when this drama was announced and about the cast..... I always found mesmerizing and exotic when love booms beyond a country's border..... But this drama is weird.... Couldn't establish the chemistry though the leads are super established and famous.... I felt their feelings were forced and dialogues were weird and didn't make much sense........

Funny thing was how her busy broom hair becomes super straight in Korea.....lol..... Is that stereotyping......ahem ahem....

Ofcourse he would...talk about perks of being a FL..... Also, he didn't reach this stage in 1-2 years....he has worked hard.... Despite so many years into this , and he is still passionate.... imagine, how he would have been in the beginning of his career..... ofcourse, she bought a French cooking book, but don't forget she just slept off in the middle....they showed it in a romantic way but that is not the point here

I think you didn't read my comment properly...I said, they have thrown her cooking class or cooking stuff randomly here and there....no much improvement after that..... Have you seen the ML, he keeps going to some competitions or whenever he talks about some projects, you can feel his passion... unlike FL, which is still not convincing.

Should she be working even harder to prove them wrong or show her passion. It didn't make much sense when she was cooking some French dish when she is going for Korean basic cooking classes.

That's what her parents have been saying that it's not that easy in this profession.....she got their approval because of her past cancer battle or else they would have never agreed because they know how difficult this profession is and how her father has struggled to meet the ends. Isn't it why she worked hard in the past

I like such dramas where all the characters are good.....no particular character is there to tick you off.... But still I have a complaint about FL's passion for cooking....I mean, her cooking scenes are again randomly thrown here and there. She doesn't look that passionate. I mean, she is going to make this as her profession but she doesn't look that serious...it's been a while, her parents have accepted her new thing but not once she has cooked a meal for her family...she is going for traditional Korean cooking class but never made anything for her parents..... I mean, ofcourse she is taking it slow, health is important etc etc but money is also important. Anything can happen tomorrow....her parents might fall sick, she can or brother can. Now, there is no fixed income in the family so her passion isn't coming across as something serious

I totally agree with you. Rape itself cannot justified that too on a child .... I do not want to imagine.....those culprits are not human....they are animals... actually animals are also innocent....these worms should be squished.....

How can a pedo be reformed? So many innocents get affected and so many officer's life are put in danger just by setting one scumbag out in the free....It surprises me every time to see how South Korean Judiciary is kinda joke. These heinous crimes including murders get only 20 years of prison. People with power won't even get punished. South Koreans should come as a society together and raise this questions to reform their justice system.
If these demons had to be release into the society then castrate and then let them go

You have to say it out explicitly or else the opposite person will not know.... Like, I love you, I miss you, I am hurt, be with me, I am alone etc..... we all are busy in our own lives and ofcourse nobody reads between the lines.....so the opposite person will now feel guilty for the rest of his/ her lives for missing out on the signals. Ofcourse, here Soek Ryu turned out to be fine. We know how life threatening cancer can be....she could have died. If something like that had happened then ML and her parents would have only blamed themselves for the rest of their lives......

So, we should ask for help if we need. Not make out scenarios in our heads..if we don't then nobody will know

Not supporting the brother here but who isn't selfish in this world or in the drama world ....lol.... If Soek Ryu was not sick then her mom and dad would have still pushed her for getting a job till the end refusing to understand...... I hate this troupe where everything disappears when ML/FL has some terminal disease.....her mom will magically support her now being a cook/chef.....

According to me an evil guy is someone who deliberately/ purposely does something bad to others.... Like, park sung hoon's characters in both the glory and queen of tears..... Rest all I can take it because it's correctable. Even the brother will become responsible at the end of the drama....while those evil guys in the drama mentioned just died because they justified their evilness

I agree with you about being a lazy bum.....I was just describing his character/ nature.....a good natured lazy bum who is unemployed

I am surprised and kinda liking how all the men in this drama are GREEN flags......damn...... ML, the ex fiance, ML's dad, 2ML ( journalist), FL's dad, ML's company 's co- CEO, ML's company 's intern/ employee, even FL's brother 's gym trainer/coach except for the brother ( but he is more naive than evil so we can say he is a good guy too)...... Aishhhhh, I am angry that I am not getting to curse any guy here , lol and don't want to curse a woman because it hurts my pride to curse at a fellow woman ....lol .....

Ofcourse I understand, but don't you think the writers usually aim for a certain audience group. Who knows, like me there could be other people out there who could be relating to the set up of Soek Ryu.... What I am trying to say here is most of the same age group women/men think almost same....it comes with the age....we cannot help it. I cannot understand what a 40 year old woman is thinking. I know circumstances are different but that thinking will be more or less same. That is why I have problem with how women are portrayed in this drama. It is shown as if only women of different age groups are annoying or fickle or cheating.....

My my my..... Like when I said, I have same events happened like Soek Ryu..... I have an younger sibling who is an overachiever so in every point in life I had to prove myself though I am drawing more salary than her. I am an Asian too, older child, female, 34 years old, international student, working in the US, learned cooking when I came to the US now I am a better cook than my mom ...office politics , had to move companies, teams as well .... This is what made me stick to this drama till now ... So, I don't want to debate with someone who doesn't understand how stuff works.... anyway, all the best for your future....lol....you are funny

Sorry to disappoint you but I have gone through the same events as Soek Ryu and I am of the same age as Soek Ryu..... International student in the US, graduated and working in the US for 10+ years..... So I guess I can stand by whatever I typed more than you my dear..... Looks like you are still in the fairy world and sorry to disappoint you that real world doesn't work like this .... And looks like you are fine how they are portraying a woman in the series....Soek Ryu, Soek Ryu 's Mom , ML's mom.....

"Dream is not the thing you see in sleep but is that thing that doesn't let you sleep" is attributed to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the former President of India and renowned scientist.

If you are truly passionate about something then you do not have to look for that in your childhood dairy or ask your friends.....FL looking for her dreams in her school dairy or in a park looked really childish. I found it really hilarious still i wanted to keep watching this show because the chemistry between the leads (main leads and the 2nd leads) clicked for me. But, i really want to give up after last week's episodes.

Why K drama writers always show FLs as bitchy......who loves attention from men......sorry for my language but that's how it looked. She is now aware that both the guys have feelings for her and are pursuing her so she should have been considerate of them as she had/has relationship with both of them. ML was being considerate by offering his office kitchen for her to practice so when her ex fiance insisted on staying back, she should have told him they can catch up later and this is someone else's workplace. This action made her look like someone who is enjoying the attention from the opposite sex and she is enjoying the sight of them fighting for her. This was disrespectful and rude of her towards both the men.

ML was firm when he drew the line when his ex tried to flirt with him infornt of Soek Ryu. Soek Ryu is already wavering and she has feelings for the ML. This alone shows that her feelings for her ex is no longer the same. So, she should have just firmly said no to him and not dilly dallying and waste his time.
Kdrama writers, by doing this you are only showing how fickle a FL is......Her attending UC Berkley or working in Griep doesn't show that she is a smart woman ...these kinda behaviour define her character.....arrrggghhhh

I am someone who falls into that category "where the leads take time into falling for each other so there is no breakup in the later episodes"rather than " fall in love within the 1st 3-4 episodes, date for an episode, misunderstanding for another episode, breakup for next two episodes and makeup in the last 2 episodes"..... So I was fine with the pace of the drama despite having couple of issues with the FL character..... Her character is super fickle.... I thought I would let it slide or it might become better as the drama progresses but damn!!! She is getting worse......

1) If she was/is planning to keep her disease from her parents and friends then she should have stayed back in the US. She had all the more reasons to not to go back to her country. It's not that she is staying in a different house far from her parents. She is living in the same house as her parents. Her mom is super nosy and her neighbors are gossipy. Now , ML 's father is a doctor and looks like she has been taken to the same hospital where ML's dad work so I don't know what was her plan all along...... US is a Dreamland for immigrants. It gives equal opportunity to people who work hard. So she could have still quit her job and started something in the US itself..... Being an authentic Korean chef in the US would have given her more opportunities in the US than opening a restaurant in her country and fighting with other competition for customers like her dad said.....

2) she is unintentionally playing push and pull with both the men. I don't hate her ex. , just like I don't hate ML's ex. They are not crossing any lines nor creating any misunderstandings. ML, drew a line with his ex whenever she tried to flirt with him Infront of soek ryu but Soek Ryu is keeping both the men on hook. Neither accepting nor rejecting both. She is in a confrontational mood now.... confronting her parents, she had a couple of rows with the ML as well, so she is totally capable of cutting off an tie with her ex if she wanted....now at this point of time, it is coming across as if she is liking the idea of being chased by both the men...ML was being nice and offered her his office kitchen to practice and now she has got her ex into his office and not even telling him to leave. I thought it was rude of her to keep her ex around in the ML's office and now she knows his feelings for him...I mean, how can one be so shameless and inconsiderate.. In the preview it looks like the ex is going to propose. I don't think it's the flashback because she was wearing the same gray sweater as she wore for her cooking class.