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Great drama! Now let's start with the review!
The story - The plot was great and this drama was a great idea! But i have to be honest, that the writer and the director of this drama failed! I think everyone else did their job perfectly. The story itself is very good and i loved it ,but it was going more slowly than i expected ,so when the drama ended i was like "Wait it ended?". The story was more focused on the romance than anyting else which i didn't like. I was more interested in the movie making process.
Acting/Cast - The cast was a 10/10, some of the actors that appreared helped this drama becoming a succsess and not flopping. The main leads were perfect, and so were all the other actors. D.O was the reason i watched this drama because i was interested to see how he will do in a comedy-romance and i'm glad he did well it was funny to see him funny for once XD! I was suprised to see Lee Jong Suk's family in "W" being in this drama i recognized them when i saw who was playing the father lol!
Music- Was it just me or the music for this drama was so calming. I really liked the music but when i listened to it, i couldnt help but ask myself why didnt they make D.O sing some good songs for this drama, were they that short on money that they cant pay a good songwriter. If this drama really is for some kind of commercial for phones i can understand why they didnt invest as much as for a normal drama. So if that's true they did great...
Rewatch Value - I would watch it again of course! Why not! Considering soon i'm gonna be a university student - 8hours a day watching k drama's, like i do now?...impossible... so this drama is perfect for college or university students who cant afford to watch even 1 episode of k drama a day.
I strongly recommend this drama, i know i will watch it again.
Overall- This kind of plot is not for a short web drama. If it was 20 episodes the drama could have been better. But i liked it anyway. Its perfect for people who dont have the time to watch the 60 minute long episodes of regular drama's. I really hope the cast can act together again in some other drama because the chemistry and acting was great! If you are thinking of watching, it you should, because for a short drama its great!!!

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To tell the truth I loved this drama. When I saw the last episode I was sitting in my bedroom and suddenly all I could do was cry. I think I won't be able to foget this drama for a long long time.

The cast was spectacular (especially Lee Joon gi who plays the character of the fourth prince Wang So), and definitely gave an added value to the story.
And the soundtrack was great too, except for some modern songs which are out of context.
You can't even imagine what the song "Will be back" performed by IIm Sun-hye has done to me. You can watch scarlet heart with your eyes closed and when u hear this song u will find yourself crying, 'cause you will know there's someone dying.

I don't want to talk about all the characters 'cause they are too many, but I want to spend a few words on my favourite character, Wang So (the 4th Prince). He was the best character, and I have appreciated the fact that he has tried with all his strenght and for all the time to protect himself from the desire of power. As you can se, power can be a heavy load to bear with. And even when he became king, the only thing he tried to do was protect his beloved ones.

The only thing I can say about the end of the drama is: Sometimes things need to be let go of. If it's mean to be you'll find each other again. And I hope this is the case. I want a second season!!!!

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I know, my rating are all 10's but there may be some bias here. This was the second K-Drama I ever watched only a few years ago. This is a very long drama with 164 episodes but it really needed every single one. My kids thought I was crazy I was so obsessed. It was infuriating but I still loved how humble Kyung Seo was in the beginning. We started calling Hye Ran Evilene, because she was just that evil and she played that part to the max. I will only say this for Jae Yong, he truly loved Kyun Seo. This is a must-see masterpiece. Try to watch only a couple of episodes a week. You will soon find yourself watching at breakfast, on your lunch break, during dinner, on your tablet in bed.

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I love how original and cool of the plot that this drama has. Having a world inside of webtoon. wow! Hahah so ok, 'W' was an originally sci-fi drama because it was about having a world inside of a webtoon or a comicbook. But actually it was not just a sci fi, the drama also has other ingridients such as love story, suspense, comedy, and melodrama scenes. This was not another typical drama so if you're not into sci fi or fantasy genre type of movies and dramas, well this is not your cup of tea because the story was kinda' complicated and messy.

The first half of the drama will make your heart beats twice on its regular beating and will move your butt on your seat like there was something inside on it. That's how thrilling and electrifying this drama was.

The second half of this drama was kinda' complicated. At first I'm not into it just like other drama addicts but since I watched a lot of sci fi hollywood movies and dramas as well, I didn't drop this. I continue watching and surprisingly, the fall down of the story had make sense after watching few more episodes. I thought they just want to extend it but it doesn't seems like it. They were trying to put some twist on the drama that would make it different than any other and I want to congratulate them because they didn't fail! The story didn't go totally down the drain because it rose up again and was higher than the first half.

What I hate about this was they didn't elaborate completely what happened to the other characters of the webtoon.

The acting of Lee Jung Seuk was great as always. But Han Hyu Joo have made another type of acting. She did the "underacting" technique. Maybe she was been told about it or it was on the script. You can see that her character was so lame but knowing her previous shows, I know she was a good actress. Kim Ei Sung was the best actor in this drama for me. He can instantly change one character to another with completely different personality. He deserves a recogntion for this.

Overall this is a good drama! if you want something different, something extraordinary, then watch this. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

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Go ahead read the plot and you'll know what you going to get, a weird type drama that you shouldn't take the story seriously, it is hilarious most of the time but MEH!! sometimes. Imagine yakuza guys suddenly barge into your place because some men were after them and then they force you to hide them and as an exchange he will cook good food for you. I see a lot of young people could relate to this drama especially that our main character is about to graduate from college and is experiencing hardships looking for his first job. Now the question is how this drama connects yakuza and food? Well that is WTF-JAPAN-SERIOUSLY for you.

THE GOOD

What I like is the formula for each episode, like out of nowhere the yakuza boss will cook a dish, he will explain the proper way to prepare each dish which I am sure most people don't know. While they are eating the yakuza boss will explain what he did to make it delicious then our loser protagonist will make a commentary about the food while wearing his hilarious face LMAO, and as if it's not enough, after they were done eating, the yakuza boss will throw a meaningful comment that will connect the food to the lives of our characters LOL.

Those dishes in this drama are not that hard to do as some ingredients are pretty common and sometimes the yakuza boss improvised if some ingredients were not available.

THE BAD

Although the story has a nice twist at the end, it is still disappointing. I said this because the first episodes are good and it seems it is going to be a great drama but as the main story progress it didn't end up quite well, the plot got messed up and I'm quite annoyed when they forced that romance which in my opinion was so unnecessary.
Too much slapstick comedy as if they want to reiterate how loser the main character is, we got it, he is a loser and it's not even funny sometimes.

CHARACTERS

I like the chemistry between our 3 characters, it is a food drama anyway and it damn funny seeing their hilarious face while namase was explaining with his straight face. Main character has interesting group of friends, I said interesting cause they are the types who are most likely won't get along, rich kid, hardcore otaku(tho they had to cut his character in the middle cause it seems the actor did some sh*t in real life), BL manga lover and your typical loser main guy.

I've seen a lot of jdramas with stupid plots and I hadn't thought that this type of drama could be informative but ironically it is. I learned a lot like how to properly cook rice, the best way to drink beer, better way to cook fried rice, using yakisoba noodles for spaghetti and some methods that I didn't know exist.

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let me tell u that i never used to watch any dramas but one days i just found it nd normally watched it for a time pass, nd before i realised i kept on watching more n more , nd since then i started watching j dramas , this an absolute comedy , about 6 people working in a convenience store nd all r wierd in their own way, the best part for me was the manager he always tries to think his best about how to increase his customers ,nd buyes out wierd samples nd even before tring out them he just orders a lot like 2000 pcks or so already . and the best past wast the demonstration he gives for selling sqid ink chocolates where there is just 1% chocolate ! LOL. nd he already ordered alot .

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this story is absolutely fun, the woman here who is as young as all the boys in this story fit to be a sister or a girfriend instead ends up being their mother, their father left some stuff for the inheritence after his death, so as the story goes on , it turns out to be a great and funny adventur also sort of a puzzel game to find more things one after other using small hints nd secret doors and stuff .The brothers were not united at the begining when the story starts but one after the another full of fun episodes they unite and become a true family as well along with solving those puzzels using crazing invented toys made by their father .And oh yes the ending song is just superb.

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DO NOT LISTEN TO THE BAD REVIEWS HATING ON THE LIP SYNCHING. It's not that bad, I actually think Park Shin Hye did a great job acting as the female lead. I was so hesitant on watching this drama because of the negative reviews but i'm so glad that I gave it a try... I wish I would have sooner. I laughed and cried so much. I've watched over 40 dramas and this is one of my new favorites. (: Please watch at least 3 episodes. Also all of the actors and actresses did an amazing job. I wanted to watch this drama so bad because it had my two favorite female actresses in the. My Korean one and my Taiwanese one! Tia Li and Shin Hye! ((: I CANT EXPRESS MY LOVE FOR THIS ENOUGH. I will definitely rewatch this drama i the future! DM me on insta if you have any questions! @annyeongkala

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It's a good series, actually. I love the weird plot, yes, the plot is quite weird for me. Music wise, this is really an A. I just love the opening song like yeahhhh, it's LITT for me. I had an LSS for that one, hahaha. For the actors, uhm, not that good nor not that bad, I think they just started their career. So in short, the acting needs some improvement. There are also weird characters in this series, like why are they even in the series in the first place? :3, but still they're like a spice to this series. I love that there is little BL love here, hahaha, yeahh, sorry not sorry I lobe BL so much. So overall, it's a good series, and I hope or the next projects of the actors in this series, they would do a much better acting ! Fighting, War of Convent!

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“I'm not a human, I'm a mother.”

If a Kdrama wants to focus on marriage they will focus on marriage. Mostly the bad and the ugly it seems, in this drama. Fake marriages, arranged marriages, adultery, marriages of convenience, divorces, what marriage does to a family what marriage doesn’t do to a family, etc.
This is definitely not your stereotypical romance. This is story. And it's unpredictable. And characters' motivations make sense.
The first ¾ of the drama were pretty good but then it really got into ridiculous, drawn-out territory. The last couple of episodes, you just want to die.
But things get interesting between the secondary character couples two episodes from the end, so watch for that to get you through.
This drama is kind of shocking with how relationships form and fall apart and form. It's a real whirlwind. And it makes me feel quite confused at how I view the characters.
The show also shows how motherhood can be all consuming. Cha Ki Young is such a normal person when she doesn't have a child.
The drama also pokes fun at the strangeness of dysfunctional families.

Ki Young – female lead
I really love how straight forward she is. And how honest and vulnerable she allows herself to be without being shy about the way she feels. She owns her personality.
And I have not seen a woman like her so unmoved. She has a great control on her emotions.
It was interesting seeing her not exactly becoming motherly to her co-host, but how she understood him more and didn't look at him with such disdain.
I really loved that the heroine completely owns the show. She makes her decisions, she faces down her adversaries and she solves her own problems. Until the end, then things get a bit finicky.
I feel like Ki Young really is the best when it comes to being unfazed by personal attacks. She is so cool.

Small Rant about Sex in Kdramas
Why can't we get sexy scenes from people we actually care about?
It's like Korean dramas just won't give us that mind blowing stuff when we want to see it.

Tae Yun
“Hey! You crazy pregnant woman! Take the elevator!”
He is not the greatest guy. But he's just kind of ridiculous and you don't always get that kind of Kdrama man who really is good for nothing. He's a guy who doesn't have all the answers. He reacts before he thinks and he makes a ton of mistakes. He doesn't know what he's doing but he tries.
I actually warmed up to Tae Yun by episode 3.
I didn't expect him to man up, not for a long time. I was impressed for a while. But then he went back to his temper tantrums and his cluelessness about life.

Tae Yun's sister's storyline with her fake husband was a lot of fun. I like that she's jumpy when she gets a sudden approach from guys. Pedro's storyline was actually pretty good. I found him and the sister to be so cute.

Eun Cha
As per usual, Kdramas throw us some crazy characters to deal with and Eun Cha is one of the wildest. He's a pervert but he's also kind of funny. I was shocked at how my perspective of him changed and how he himself changed even while keeping his sexism.

Myung Yi
Despite her scheming, she does get a bit of the short end of the stick. Tae Yun is such a brat with her.
It was interesting how she started off as a somewhat innocent kid and then turned into one of those high society women. I also found her relationship with Tae Yun to be a little scary but also fascinating. I kind of liked her poise and how she knew her rights. She'd go through hell for what she wanted.
And she was so heartless with everything, but she had her weaknesses.
In the end, she was the one person Tae Yun could be honest with.

Yun Hee – best friend

“I picked a cool man because you were so patriarchal. But I think a cool man is more difficult.”

I ended up really loving Yun Hee and her husband and their dramas haha.

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I wasn't a fan of either IU and LJK coming into this roller coaster ride(Didn't see any of there previous works).
But after watching the series and completing it i can now say i am a big big fan of both actors the way the series carried itself over the streches of 3 to 5 episodes showed a different side to them and you were on the edge of your seat with there acting as was the rest of the cast.

When some of there motives and emotions start to show the show really grabs at you and doesn't let go untl the end of the ride.

The music and ost of this drama is really excellent one of my favorites along side Who are you 2015

Its truelly a shame this didn't do well in korea and i for the life of me can't figure out why IU was critised for her acting in it props to all the cast for the amazing roller coaster and well done this instanly made it into my top 10 dramas and found myself 2 new of my favorite actors in the process i am glad at least on the international stage it did well and it receive the real love it deserver a great fantasy history drama.

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I would love to say that this version is very on par with the Taiwanese and Japanese versions, which were both equally well done for different reasons. Each version sheds a little more light into the characters and I love each one for different reasons (except for the Korean version, but we're not talking about that right now). While I can certainly enjoy it as a drama, there are things about this version that made it really hard for me to connect to it.

Unfortunately, Kiss Me decided on some major structural changes to the story that I'm really not pleased with. This adaptation is definitely the most loose with the story in comparison to the others, but there are certain things that happen in their lives sooner in this version than in the other versions that are a major detriment to the story. Most of this is around TenTen's decision to become a doctor and how they go about that journey. It's radically different from the source material, and unfortunately I think it really messes with the potential story of any potential season 2.

Season 2 is consistently my favorite part of their story, as I enjoy this story so much more because you get to see their lives and how they go through the challenges of their marriage. That is a much more interesting story for me, and the structural changes that they've made to their respective careers are going to have a major impact on how they can even tell the story of their marriage. Almost to the point that I don't even think they will do it. Which really drops this version's value in my eyes.

But what really hurt it the most for me is what another review by babysmurf highlighted really well: why their relationship even exists. Both of them actually need each other to be the best versions of themselves.

For Irie, she straight up gives him a reason for living and getting up each morning to go to work and do what he does. This version doesn't even touch the depression that he goes through when he legit can't figure out what to do with his life and the strain of the expectations his family has on him. Kotoko can give him that clarity of direction and sees him as the best version of himself to give him that guidance. Furthermore, she gives him that connection with others to make him a more empathetic person. Most criticize the story because Irie is too cold, but if he's not cold then you don't really see the changes that Kotoko has made to him and his character. Here he's just a guy that's in love with a girl, but is really really bad at showing it and understanding his feelings. Dude, if that's the case she really should have ended up with King, because he has a hell of a lot more going for him.

For Kotoko, his honest belief that she can do better than she expects of herself makes her a better person and gives her the direction in life that she has. This version touched on this, but not incredibly well. Admittedly this is something that neither the TW or the J versions did very well either, but this version was horrible. He sets that bar high for her, and she has the determination to reach every goal he sets for her. He is proud of her, but this version didn't show that in the slightest and that was a super bummer for me.

Now the good:

I really have to look at this outside of the other versions and kinda outside the source material to understand enjoying it. When I do, it's really a great story. Very much your standard drama, with a few additions (a decent side couple for one) that make it a fun story. I thought the story (as a standalone and without a potential Season 2) was really well thought out and I think some of the changes they made make it a lot easier for people to enjoy these characters. He's cold, but not too cold. Man does he have a melted golden center of goo for Taliw in this version. I adored that they were "fated from childhood" to be together. I thought that was a really great addition to the story. Taliw isn't the brightest in the room, but clearly more average and has a great group of friends around her.

King is fantastic. I think the decision to make him a cuter looking character has a lot to do with this. As the macho friend who loves her and fawns over her it can be hard to believe in his love and it comes off as very comical and artificial. But King is a great character by being much more cute and average, and his wide eyes of happiness any time Taliw shows her happiness toward him definitely sell that even more.

I also loved the bond that Taliw and the little brother had in this version. It's a refreshing change to the strong disdain he has of her in the other versions. It was kinda fun to see him also rooting for Taliw, even though it meant the brother bonding scenes weren't as strong where Irie would make a discovery about why he loves Kotoko through his chats with his brother.

The OST was great. I loved most of the songs and am happy to add them to my OST Playlist.

Mike and Aom were great, have great chemistry, and I look forward to seeing them in Full House. The rest of the cast was also pretty strong, with King being the most notable strong point. I enjoyed this side couple a lot over the traditional version of this side couple. P'Dan was awesome and I really want to see him in other things now.

Rewatch value: Nope. Much of what I love about this story is totally gone from this version, so while it is cute I don't really want to turn around and watch it again to see if I can catch the things that I might have missed or rewatch those moments of discovery. Them realizing they can be more than what they are through each other is really my favorite part. Since that's not present I don't feel the need to watch this version over again.

The only thing that could make it better I would have to see in Season 2. But again, even though it's been announced the story changes they made make me think that I'm probably going to be even more angry with that version of Season 2 than I am with the changes they made to Season 1. And that they probably shouldn't have one.

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