My Top 5 Girls' Generation (SNSD) Kdramas - 5 Short Kdrama Reviews
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| Yoona, Hyoyeon, Sooyoung, Sunny, Taeyeon, Yuri, Seohyun and Tiffany. |
Girls' Generation also known as SNSD or Soshi is an 8-member girl group (formerly 9) and right now consists of Taeyeon, Sunny, Tiffany, Hyoyeon, Yuri, Sooyoung, Yoona, and Seohyun. SNSD debuted on August 5, 2007, and in their long career, many of them have acted in Kdramas (Yoona even acted in a Chinese drama). I have been a fan since 2013, I got goosebumps and my eyes welled up the first time I listened to Forever 1 and you can imagine that I watched almost every Kdrama Soshi has appeared in, so, this is my top 5.
5- Fanletter, Please (2022)
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A 2022 4-episode MBC miniseries in which Sooyoung plays top actress Han Kang-Hee, who has a superfan named Bang Yoo-Na (Shin Yeon-Woo). Yoo-Na is in the hospital with leukemia and her source of energy is receiving replies to the letters she sends to Kang-Hee, what she doesn't know is that the person who writes those responses is her single father Bang Jeong-Seok (Yoon Park). Kang-Hee gets into a scandal because she doesn't answer the letters her fans send her. Yoo-Na defends her on video and says that she did get a reply and that leads Kang-Hee to meet with Jeong-Seok...
Fanletter, Please is a short and sweet Kdrama and be prepared to shed some tears, but don't worry because it has a happy ending. Sooyoung does a great job playing a superstar (probably because she is a superstar), but she also does a great job with her more emotional scenes. Yoon Park and Shin Yeon Woo are believable as father and daughter, Yeon Woo did so great in her crying scenes that it made me wonder how can she be so good at crying.
Being so short, this drama is easy to watch and you can watch it in a single day without a problem, so I recommend it if you want to watch something a bit longer than a movie but shorter than a full-length Kdrama.
I can't leave this short review without leaving my favorite scene first.
4- Big Mouth (2022)
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Park Chang-Ho (Lee Jong-Suk) is a lawyer who has an awful 10% winning rate and is known as Big Mouth because he is very talkative and always runs his mouth. Yoona portrays Go Mi-Ho, a nurse who is Chang-Ho's high school sweetheart and his now wife. After Mayor Choi Do-Ha (Kim Joo-Hun) hires Chang-Ho for a case, Chang-Ho is framed as "Big Mouse", a famous criminal who is some sort of Robin Hood. Chang-Ho is arrested and to survive in prison he has to pretend to be Big Mouse while Mi-Ho helps from the outside.
Big Mouth has very good cinematography and a great plot that gets bland suddenly in the end. In my opinion, Yoona gives her best performance to date and portrays Mi-Ho's sadness very well. Lee Jong-Suk does a good job as a man who gets broken down by prison.
A great plot that suffers from what seems to be a rushed ending, but that ending still doesn't completely ruin the rest of the story. Don't watch this drama if you don't like violence because Chang-Ho gets beaten up a lot. Seriously, a lot.
3- Private Lives (2020)
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Private Lives is a 2020 JTBC crime and romance Kdrama with 16 episodes.
Seohyun is Cha Joo-Eun, a lifelong con artist who learned the "profession" when she was young thanks to her parents. After her dad gets arrested in a mega-church scam, Joo-Eun vows to get revenge on Sophia Chung (Kim Hyo-Jin), who also scammed Joo-Eun's father.
Lee Jung-Hwan (Go Kyung-Pyo) is a Team Manager for a big technology company who meets Joo-Eun and falls in love with her but is unaware of her double life as a con artist. On their wedding day, Jung-Hwan suddenly disappears and is later declared dead. What Joo-Eun didn't know is that Jung-Hwan was also leading a double life as a private detective...
A Kdrama that makes you want to binge-watch it but loses momentum towards the end and sadly that seems to be a common disease among Kdramas. Seohyun is super chic and makes every role she plays in this drama believable. She and Go Kyung-Pyo have an amazing chemistry and I hope they work together in another drama in the future.
Watch this if you like mysteries and if you don't mind that the protagonist is a criminal, but remember in every crime Kdrama there is always a bigger -and more criminal- fish.
This drama also contains lots of double-crossing and politics.
Anyway, this is kind of a spoiler if you didn't read this drama synopsis... SPOILER the most interesting part for me was waiting for Joo-Eun to learn that Jung-Hwan was ok SPOILER ENDS
By the way, isn't the poster super cool?????
2- King the Land (2023)
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This time Yoona is Cheon Sa-Rang, a woman who lands her dream job of being a receptionist at King Hotel because she wants to make people happy like she was happy in her memories of being a guest at the hotel with her mother who died. Goo Won (Lee Jun-Ho) is the son of the owner of King Group and is at a war for the inheritance of the group with his older half-sister, Goo Hwa-Ran (Kim Sun-Young). Goo Won hates fake smiles and has abandonment trauma, his father asks him to become the Manager of King Hotel, where he meets Sa-Rang they get off on the wrong foot when he tells her to stop faking her smile and when he sees her genuine smile, Goo Won falls in love...
King the Land is a smooth journey with a predictable plot that works great if what you want is to watch something relaxing. The conflicts in this Kdrama always get resolved quickly and rarely lead to lasting consequences. Yoona and Jun-Ho have good chemistry and I admit that when rumors came out that they were dating in real life, as they say in my country "Me comí la pastilla" (I ate the pill) meaning "I believed it". Sa-Rang has a great friend group and I love the actress who plays her grandmother (Kim Young-Ok).
I recommend this Kdrama if you are feeling under the weather and want to watch something 100% cheesy that reminds you of old Kdramas but without the toxic male lead.
1- Go-Ho's Starry Night (2016)
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Go-Ho's Starry Night is a 2016 web drama, a Chinese-South Korean co-production that aired as 20 episodes with a length of 20 minutes on China's Sohu TV and later as a 4-episode miniseries on South Korea's SBS, also known as Gogh, The Starry Night.
Yuri is Go-Ho a woman who works at an advertising company but also has a side job in which she writes an unpopular column in a webzine. Her Team Manager, Kang Tae-Ho (Kim Young-Kwang) is a very grumpy and bossy man, and to her relief, she gets assigned to another team, but not everything is good for Go-Ho because her new team also gets a new Manager and that manager is her ex-boyfriend Hwang Ji-Hoon (Lee Ji-Hoon). Now suddenly 5 men seem interested in Go-Ho those men are her ex-boyfriend and new Manager Hwang Ji-Hoon, her junior at work Oh Jung-Min (Shin Jae-Ha), the company Director Choi Chang-Seob (Choi Deok-Moon), her older (but not by that much) coworker Park Jin-Woo (Kim Ji-Hoon) and her grumpy ex-Manager Kang Tae-Ho. After noticing all her suitors, she decides to change her column into one where she rates with stars the men who are interested in her.
This Kdrama is like a breeze, it doesn't drag at all and has a really good ending.
The acting in this drama is ok, but probably the reason I ranked this Kdrama so high is because I love Kim Young-Kwang character, Kang Tae-Ho, who is shown to be actually very timid and he had a crush on Go-Ho since he first meet her.
The same as Fanletter, Please, this drama is so short is easy to watch, you'll finish it without noticing.
I Recommend this Kdrama if you like comedies and office romances and also if you want to watch something you don't have to think about too much. I have watched this Kdrama several times and never got bored.
Anyway, Kang Tae-Ho, even though he is bad at expressing himself, he is ★★★★★ for me.
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