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ye-xiu · 20 days

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AL'S DRAMA RECS VOL.1: these recs will solely focus on the writing of the shows, which to me comes down to two things: how well does the plot accomplish what it set out to do in the beginning? and how compelling are the characters written, no matter if their character arc means they become better or worse through the story or even remain who they are? my favourite dramas usually succeed in giving us a satisfying answer to both questions and these are the ones you will see on this list!

★★★★★ dramas (aka the greatest hits):

SECRET FOREST / STRANGER (2017-2021): the pinnacle of all dramas. follows the duo of no-nonsense prosecutor hwang si-mok (the acting star turn of he century by cho seung-woo) and police detective han yeo-jin (the ever-exceptional bae doo-na) investigating a murder case that blows open several scandals in the prosecution. season 2 follows several cases leading to an internal investigation on police bribery. it just does not get better than this and i fear it won't ever will. this drama has the understated styling of nordic noir, the classic shenanigans of an unlikely leading kdrama duo, and one of the tightest scripts ever seen in any tv show ever. | genre: thriller, melodrama, crime procedural

MY LIBERATION NOTES (2022): following the yeom family's three siblings living in the small town of sanpo on the outskirts of seoul, and the stranger moving into the house next door to theirs, this story navigates questions of sibling-hood and family, the purpose of life, as well as the sacrifices we make for the relationships in our life as well as our own happiness. this show earned its hype from the central love story between mr. gu and yeom mi-jeong (son seok-ku and kim ji-won acting the house down) but every one of the three main storylines is well-paced, gives the main actors moments to shine and grow, and ties neatly into the overarching plot to render you either moved or comforted, or even both. | genre: slice of life, melodrama

VINCENZO (2020): at this point are there still followers on this blog who haven't at least seen me talk about vincenzo? the writing of this show is maybe the peak of genre-blending done in kdrama, a culmination of years refining this skill to sharp perfection in a biting black comedy. vincenzo cassano (song joong-ki), consiglieri of a mafia clan he got adopted into, goes back to south korea to recover a frankly unholy amount of gold and fights a gigantic conglomerate (babel) to get there. if you watch past episode four, you will finish this drama, because everything ensuing from then on is just one iconic story beat after another. | genre: black comedy / satire, crime, romance

HOSPITAL PLAYLIST (2020-2022): a medical drama beyond reproach. this show is on this list for the way it wrote its characters and achieved the most satisfying character arcs in any kdrama, maybe, ever. a group of five friends in their fourties all working at the same hospital and navigating their professional and private lives, this drama doesn't shy away from eclectic backstories (and the leads all playing music together in a band) as well as truly heart-tearing moments of friendship and romance. never have i seen character growth done as well as i have seen it in the characters of yang seok-hyeong and kim-jun-wan. | genre: medical, slice of life, rom-com

D.P. / DESERTER PURSUIT (2021-2023): d.p. to me is a no-notes kind of show. it depicts the work of the military police pursuing army deserters through freshly enlisted ahn jun-ho (jung hae-in playing years below his age and leagues above many his actual age) who ends up empathizing and working to help and save the deserters he and his team partner han ho-yeol (an exceptional koo kyo-hwan) are meant to bring back to the army instead of incriminating them further. d.p. is much better for its tone, its writing and the risks it takes in its no-nonsense approach than some of the drivel revered solely for being more flashy and showy in this genre. | genre: military drama, action

★★★★☆ dramas (aka near-perfection):

PRISON PLAYBOOK (2017): the perfect prototype of the bromance as romance formula and one of the best found family dramas that really focuses on that. star baseball player kim je-hyuk (park hae-soo in his career-defining role) loses his career and lands in prison after he assaults the ex-boyfriend of his younger sister to protect her. the show centers on je-hyuk's time in prison, where he reunites with his childhood best-friend-now-prison-guard lee jun-ho (a supreme jung kyung-ho) and assimilates himself with the people he meets in his cell. this show hits all the beats so well from a stellar supporting cast to a great comeback kid narrative for je-hyuk from his time in prison to being released. glaring flaw: the age-gap / childhood friends romance, the conclusion of hanyang's story arc, who gets the short end of the stick while being the one out gay character in the show. | genre: black comedy, found family, slice of life

GOBLIN: THE LONELY AND GREAT GOD (2017): the defining kdrama for many. it may be the one drama that really delivers in answering its plot's defining question twice over and then some. goblin kim shin (gong yoo), cursed to immortality, gets his life upended once a grim reaper (lee dong-wook as wang yeo, a performance never to be seen or repeated again since) and the young woman (kim go-eun as ji eun-tak) who turns out to be his fated bride enter his life. an immortal man resigned on life finds purpose while knowing he will fatally die once the woman he falls in love with cures him of his curse. glaring flaw: the age gap romance between eun-tak and kim shin. could she have not been in college at least? | genre: melodrama, romance, fantasy

CRASH LANDING ON YOU (2019): the romance drama that could, and did. based on a real life incident, ceo yoon se-ri (son ye-jin, an acting veteran near beyond reproach imo) accidentally crash lands in north korea after a paragliding flight gone wrong. there she meets active duty soldier captain ri jeong-hyeok (hyun bin, thank you for your service) and has to stay with him and his military company. the fated love story starts there, but neither of them know they have met before, and already changed the courses of each other's lives before doing so again. minor flaw: is this drama romanticising the military? or is depicting of that on screen just that and nothing more? that is up to you to decide. | genre: melodrama, romance

HOMETOWN CHA CHA CHA (2021): the series remake of a korean rom-com film of the early aughts, this remains my favourite romance drama over all. dentist yoon hye-jin (shin min-a blessing our screens) moves to rural gongjin, a seaside village where nothing happens at all, after her professional life in seoul goes up in flames. it's not all sunshine in gongjin either as ye-jin meets hong du-sik (kim seon-ho),a handyman who is called chief hong by everyone and fixes all the big and small fires in the village. the two start as enemies that eventually fall in love. the romance is well-handled and paced and the second lead (lee sang-yi) is the best i have ever seen in a show, especially because of the arc written for him. minor flaw: the plot is not as tight as the respective character arcs, so sometimes sacrifices are made for the sake of a more emotional scenes. | genre: rom-com, slice of life

THE GLORY (2022): when you put the revenge in revenge drama, this is what you can get. song hye-ko returns to small screen brilliance in an incomparable performance as moon dong-eun, a woman who decides to infiltrate the lives of her school bullies and take them down one by one. this show delivers on plot even more than on characters, following through on every step of moon dong-eun's revenge without shying away from how gruesome or painful that path of vengeance can be. dong-eun gets help from plastic surgeon joo yeo-jeong (a delightful lee do-hyun), and the main cast is rounded out by lim ji-yeon and jung sung-il as dong-eun's grown up tormentor and her reluctant husband respectively. minor flaw: the show does spend a big chunk of its time on the group of school bullies and their interpersonal relations, which sometimes takes time away from the main plot. | genre: psychological thriller, revenge drama

♡ more specific genre watches (beware: usually crime):

LIFE (2018): written by the writers of secret forest, life is another thriller with understated direction and a more sombre tone. i would have put it in the greatest hits category, but watching it with other people made me realise how niche it actually is in genre. a corporate hospital thriller, the show revolves around the newly-minted ceo of sangkook university hospital, gu seung-hyo (a once again flawless cho seung-woo) and a dedicated ER doctor (lee dong-wook, stellar as ever) who depict the two sides of the patient care vs. profit conflict in the hospital. i can't even say more about the show because every other plot point is basically a spoiler. sharply directed and written, this is one of the best genre pieces i have ever watched, and is mildly reminiscent of hbo prestige television of the decade before. | genre: medical drama, corporate thriller

THE WORST OF EVIL (2023): are you even surprised? this was the drama of 2023 for me, one of the most stellar scripts i have seen. the worst of evil is very firmly a noir show and you have to treat what you are watching as such. it is heavily entrenched into its genre tropes and arcs, even more than most crime shows i have seen, and that can be off-putting for people unfamiliar with the genre, but if you are up for it, you will not be disappointed. opportune violent crime detective park jun-mo (ji chang wook, korea's finest new gen action actor) infiltrates a drug ring lead by jung gi-cheol ( fantastic and emotional tour de force by wi ha joon) and the lines begin to blur when neither of them knows if what they bargained for is actually what they want. the show lets its main plot dictate the pace, focusing on park jun-mo's descent into crime, and it is all the more better for it. | genre: noir, crime thriller, action

BEYOND EVIL (2020): the story about dejected and grieving small-town detective lee dong-sik (baeksang-awarded veteran actor shin ha-kyun) being partnered with elite detective and spinster seoulite han joo-won (child actor prodigy turned actor to watch du jour) has made its waves online for its very apparent gay subtext, but to reduce beyond evil to this would be a crime in itself. following lee dong-sik and han joo-won as they are tasked to solve a reoccurring serial killer case, the framing plot then fans open the age-old wound of dong-sik losing his twin sister and being blamed for her disappearance with joo-won having taken an obsessive fascination with the case. the two crime cases are exceptionally interwoven and the stories of the people in the small town of manyang, and how they all somehow tie back to dong-sik, is the perfect example of turning the small centrepiece of a plot into the binding force of every thread. | genre: procedural, psychological thriller

OUR BELOVED SUMMER (2021): i put this into the genre-piece category because obl is majorly focused on its main trope. romantic dramas can easily be trite to me, as this obvious list of crime shows doesn't tell you, but our beloved summer is one of the few that did everything right. it plays out the best trope ever done - exes to lovers - and does not back down from embracing the whole shebang to the nth degree. high school / college sweethearts choi woong (known beloved actor on ye-xiu tumblr dot com, choi woo-shik) and kook yeun-soo (the ever great kim da-mi) have to unite to replicate, or rather continue, the viral high school documentary they filmed years ago. the show shimmies its way from one moment of reconnection to another, culminating in the best kdrama kiss to ever be put to screen, and concludes in one of the most satisfying and, yes, romantic endings ever. the things a show can do when it just sticks to its main narrative, huh. | genre: rom-com, coming of age

#AHHHHHH HERE WE GO #i don't really know what to tag this ...#al's drama recs #drama recommendation #beware: i mainly watch crime / action and this is what is majorly featured on this list #i do want to make one for best acted shows too bc the list would ..... differ a lot juzghujiko #so if anybody is up for it just lmk (or i will subject my followers to it for the hell of it anyway)

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urmelodysblog · 9 months

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🌹ღRed velvet Reaction to you Sitting on Their lapꨄ

✳Contains fluff and fluff and fluff✳

Irene/ Bae Ju-Hyun 🌹

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Irene's a really muture person so I don't see her freaking out about you sitting on her lap (on the outside at least, internally panicking tho ☠️.)

She'd probably blush a little bit while putting her arms around your waist to make sure you don't fall; but she'd definitely like you sitting in her lap when you guys were alone,but if you try to sit in her lap infront of the other members Irene would go full mom mode and scold you and tell you how it was Innapropriate in front of the kids,members

Kang Seulgi 🌹

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Seulgi would definitely, definitely 100% start blushing like crazy.

Speciflly if it was infront of the members then you best believe she'd start going completrly red while wrapping an arm around you and hidding her face in the crook of your neck as the other members teased her. But that didn't mean she didn't like it.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

But even if you guys were alone she'd still be really flustered and shy ;she'd never really get used to it but she did really loved it when you sat on her lap.

Wendy/Son Seung-Wan 🌹

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like Seulgi, Wendy would be really flustered but unlike Seulgi she would respond really quickly to it by wrapping her hand around your waist. Trying to act as if it didn't even shock her one bit. Infact she might even tease you by saying something along the lines of,"You just can't resist me can you?". Which resulted in you trying to get of her lap but being unsuccessful because of her grip on your waist.

Moral of the story she really loved when you sat on her lap in public or not, it didn't matter.

Joy/Park Soo-Young 🌹

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Like all the other members Joy would get flustered but she'd immediately start giggling at your adordable action as she wrapped her hand around your waist and probably wouldn't let you go for at least a few hours☠️. And if you tired to get up she'd use all of her strength to pull you back down, but if she was incapable of doing so; then she'd pout until you gave in and sat on her lap.

Yeri/Kim Ye-Rim 🌹

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Yeri would be the most flustered out of all the members like she would be completely red, giggling while trying not to make eye contact because this would all be really new to Yeri .

You would probably try to sit on the couch to tease Yeri because you knew that she liked having you so close to her. And when Yeri asked you why you wanted to sit on the couch while still stuttering and blushing. You decided to tease her even more by saying "I don't wanna bother you" , as an attempt to get her to admit she liked having you on her lap.

#Rv #red velvet #Seulgi #Yeri #Irene #Joy #Wendy #Kpop #Fanfiction #ff #Hc #reactions #hc #Redvelvet #rv #Rv x reader #red velvet #red velvet x reader

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dear-indies · 3 months

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Hey, how are you? First of all, free palestine!!

Thank you for your beautiful work, I'm always learning more about and spreading the word with my friends. I don't know if I can ask you for this, but I'm looking for korean fcs in their 35~40's or more.

Women:

Amerie (1980) African-American / Korean - is pro Palestine!

Kim So Yeon (1980) Korean.

Ali Ahn (1981) Korean.

Song Hye Kyo (1981) Korean.

Yoo In Na (1982) Korean.

Kim Min Hee (1982) Korean.

Greta Lee (1983) Korean.

Jamie Chung (1983) Korean.

Catherine Haena Kim (1984) Korean.

Seo Ji Hye (1984) Korean.

Lee Da Hee (1985) Korean.

Jung Eun Chae (1986) Korean.

Song Ha Yoon (1986) Korean.

Han Hyo Joo (1987) Korean.

Han Eu Ddeum (1987) Korean.

Song Hae Na (1987) Korean.

Ryu Abel (1988) Korean.

Men:

Gong Yoo (1979) Korean.

Jang Seung Jo (1981) Korean.

Miyavi (1981) Korean / Japanese.

Lee Dong Wook (1981) Korean.

Hyun Bin (1982) Korean.

Son Suk Ku (1983) Korean.

Kim Jae Wook (1983) Korean.

Yoon Jong Hoon (1984) Korean.

Yoon Hyun Min (1985) Korean.

Jake Choi (1985) Korean - is sexually fluid.

Song Joong Ki (1985) Korean.

Yoo Ah In (1986) Korean.

Han Geon Yu (1986) Korean.

Eugene Lee Yang (1986) Korean - is gay - is pro Palestine!

Seo In Guk (1987) Korean.

Joel Kim Booster (1988) Korean - is gay and has bipolar disorder - is pro Palestine!

Jung Hae In (1988) Korean.

Park Seo Joon (1988) Korean.

Lee Shin Ki (1988) Korean.

Yim Si Wan (1988) Korean.

Ok Taec Yeon (1988) Korean.

Ahn Bo Hyun (1988) Korean.

Non-binary:

Charlyne Yi (1986) Yuki, Kapampangan Filipino, Korean, Mexican, Spanish, Irish, French, and German - non-binary (they/them).

Hope this helps, anon!

#fc help #rph #rpc #korean fc #olderfcs

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korean-dreams-girls · 2 months

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Wendy (Red Velvet) - Selcas

#Wendy #Son Seung Wan #Red Velvet #Selca

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elysiankrp · 5 months

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The following list is Elysian's most wanted for female idols: [ part 2 ]

VIVZ

Jung Eunbi ; Hwang Eunbi (SinB) ; Kim Yewon (Umji)

Kard

Jeon So-min ; Jeon Ji-woo

Red Velvet

Bae Ju Hyun (Irene) ; Kang Seul Gi ; Son Seung Wan (Wendy) ; Park Soo Young (Joy) ; Kim Ye Rim (Yeri)

Fromis_9

Lee Sae Rom ; Song Ha Young ; Park Ji Won ; Roh Ji Sun ; Lee Seo Yeon ; Lee Chae Young ; Lee Na Gyung ; Baek Ji Heon

Dreamcatcher

Kim Min Ji (JiU) ; Kim Bo Ra (SuA) ; Lee Si Yeon ; Han Dong ; Kim Yoo Hyeon ; Lee Yu Bin (Dami) ; Lee Ga Hyeon

#elysian ; most wanted #mewe rp #krp #mewerp #gen krp #gen rp #idol rp #kpop roleplay #krpv #roleplay #find krp #rp #kpop #mewe krp #mewe based #krp gen #krp ad #krp lit #mewe roleplay

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ofwendyz · 6 months

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Wendy, Son. 🦢

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GENERAL INFORMATION

BIRTH NAME: Shon Seung-wan

HANGUL: 손승완

NICKNAME(S): Olaf

BIRTH DATE: February 21, 1994 (age 29)

BIRTH PLACE: Seongbuk-dong, Seoul, South Korea

HEIGHT: 160.3 cm (5 ft 3 in)[1]

WEIGHT: 46 kg (101 lb)

BLOOD TYPE: O

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OCCUPATION

JOB: Singer, Songwriter, Actress

POSITION: Main Vocalist

COLOR: Blue

YEARS ACTIVE: 2014–present

AGENCY: SM Entertainment

ASSOCIATED ACTS: Red Velvet, SM Rookies

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Do everything to your best ability with a positive mindset.

-WENDY

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Shon Seung-wan (Hangul:손승완; born February 21, 1994), better known as Wendy (Hangul: 웬디), is a South Korean singer, songwriter, and actress. She is the main vocalist of the South Korean girl group Red Velvet.

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Wendy was born as Shon Seung-wan in Seongbuk-dong, Seoul, South Korea. Her family consists of her parents, an affluent couple whose names haven't been revealed to the public, and her sister, Son Seung-hee, who is three years Wendy's senior. Wendy spent most of her childhood years in Cheongju, South Korea.

Wendy aspired to become a singer from the age of six and throughout her life trained to fulfill this goal. She also learned to play the saxophone, piano, flute, and guitar.

At the age of 12, Wendy and her sister moved to live in Canada, and later the USA. Whilst living in North America, Wendy began using the name Wendy Shon and learned to speak English, as well as some French and Spanish. For her education in these countries, she attended Shattuck St Mary's School in Minnesota, USA, and Richmond Hill High School in Ontario, Canada.

After graduating high school in 2012, she moved to South Korea to establish a professional singing career. Prior to this in 2010, she auditioned for the "Koreaboo: Cube Entertainment Global Auditions 2011" with an online audition and was picked from over 5,000 videos by Koreaboo and Cube Entertainment to continue to the final round in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. G.NA personally picked the 15 finalists with Koreaboo to open for her first solo showcase, held in Vancouver, BC, Canada. In 2012, she auditioned at the SM Global Audition in Canada and was recognized for her musicality, being able to play several instruments, as well as having strong vocal skills.

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Career

2014: Pre-debut activities

She trained for less than two years before she was introduced as a member of SM Entertainment's pre-debut trainees team SM Rookies on March 14, 2014

As part of SM Rookies, Wendy released the song "Because I Love You" for the soundtrack of the Mnet drama Mimi, which was one of the soundtracks of the Mnet drama series, Mimi, which labelmate Changmin starred in, appearing in the music video as well. A clip of Wendy singing a cover of Taylor Swift's "Speak Now" was released on SM Entertainment's official YouTube channel.

2014–2019: Debut with Red Velvet, stage accident

In late-July 2014, Wendy was assigned to represent the color blue and chosen to be the main vocalist of Red Velvet, which debuted on August 1, 2014 with the single "Happiness".

Wendy collaborated with rapper Yuk Ji-dam for the song "Return", one of the OSTs of KBS2's drama Who Are You: School 2015. The song was released on June 8, 2015 and debuted at #31 on the Gaon Singles Chart. She released another song "Let You Know" for the soundtrack of the JTBC drama D-Day on October 16. On January 9, 2016, she became a panelist on We Got Married. On King of Mask Singer (episode 43 aired on January 24, 2016), she participated as a contestant with the stage name "Space Beauty Maetel". Wendy released a collaboration single with Eric Nam titled "Spring Love" on March 4, 2016, as part of SM Entertainment's SM Station project.

On December 25, 2019, Wendy fell from a raised stage while rehearsing for a performance on the year-end show SBS Gayo Daejeon. She fell approximately 2.5 meters (8.2ft) and received multiple injuries, including a broken wrist, fractured pelvis, a cracked cheekbone, and other unspecified facial and bodily injuries. Wendy was subsequently on hiatus for over a year while she recovered.

2021: Return to activities, Wendy's Youngstreet, GOT the beat

On January 1, 2021, Wendy's health hiatus official ended and she returned to idol activities.

On July 12, 2021, Wendy became the DJ host for SBS Power FM's radio show Wendy's Youngstreet, adopting the DJ name "WanD". The show ran for almost two years, until July 2, 2023.

On December 27, 2021, Wendy was revealed alongside Seulgi as one of the members of GOT the beat, the first unit of the project group Girls On Top.[2] The unit debuted on January 3, 2022 with the digital single "Step Back".

2023: First musical role

On June 19, 2023, Wendy confirmed that she had been cast in the role of "I" in the musical Rebecca. She performed from August 19–November 19, 2023.

Filmography

Since her debut, Wendy has appeared on the variety shows, We Got Married, King of Masked Singer, Trick and True, Raid the Convenience Store and Battle Trip. She made a cameo in the series, Descendants of the Sun and made an appearance in the documentary, SMTown: The Stage.

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