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Was very pleased to find it on Netflix finally!   As with other shows that have sequels, we get different views about whether Part 2 lives up to expectations or comes off worse than Part 1 and so on.  I found Part 2 as entertaining and crazy!   The leads The actors/characters were not equally entertaining, crazy and amusing, though.  Some people were raving about Kim Seon-ho but this is how I would rank them in terms of being funny (after all, this is a comedy). Lee Yi-kyung (Jun-ki) Kim Ye-won (Yu-ri) Shin Hyun-soo (Ki-bong) Kim Seon-ho (U-sik)  Moon Ga-young (Soo-yeon) Ahn So-hee (Jeong-eun) so pretty... adding some stardust to Waikiki This is not to say that Seon-ho didn’t act well.  It says that Yi-kyung, Ye-won, Hyun-soo and their characters are made for comedies.  Seon-ho’s character is more balanced – U-sik has funny parts but he also has many emotional, ‘normal’ scenes, and Seon-ho carries them off fine.  I foun...

Another forever friends kind of plot and it was my Covid show!  I completed it fairly fast because there wasn’t much else to do when one just needed something not too taxing while resting and recovering. TKD and MMA are really not my kind of thing but I got interested when I saw Hwang Bo-ra (playing Chan-sook) in the trailer.  Just looking at her makes me smile and she did not fail me here – she’s funny and memorable, although a minor character.  Then I realised that Gong Min-jung is here too, playing a ‘friend from the past’.  And then, there is Kim Ji-won … The two actors that stood out for me were Park Seo-jun (playing Dong-man) and Kwak Si-yang (playing Nam-il).  I found them the most natural actors.   The coach and fellow trainees also did well and Kim Tak-su (played by Kim Gun-woo) was a hilarious villain.   The parents were occasionally amusing and Ae-ra’s mother Hwang Bok-hee (Jin He-kyung) was particularly inter...

An entertaining look at the media world, although the plot and acting (thankfully) weren’t melodramatic! There was some drama over relationships but overall, ‘good friends’ is the prevailing vibe and at the end, you almost want to shout  友谊万岁   (friendship forever). all their living room chats and meals; Eun-jung's brother's home garb and robes! There is also Eun-jung’s other friend, who is a gem, so for me, this show is mainly about friendship.   It is wonderful how everyone moves in because they are concerned for Eun-jung (Jeon Yeo-been). Her grief and healing are movingly portrayed, and Yeo-been’s acting and Eun-jung’s storyline eclipsed that of the main character.  Eun-jung is beautiful, smart and tragic.   heartbreak she gets along so well with her cameraman Han-joo (Han Ji-eun – Ae-wol !) is cute, smart and tragic.  They both work responsibly and seriously, treat others with respect and deserve the success and opportunities that come th...

When watching the couple of  Little Women  episodes set in Singapore, I was a little amused about Singapore being used as a money stopover.  Little did I know then that it was a prelude to a real money laundering case that broke into the news!  Did the producers know something about feeding ill-gotten gains here that many Singaporeans weren’t aware of?! (This was my first time seeing our $1000 notes!)   Generally, I found the Singapore episodes rather funny.  I could not help laughing when Adrian Pang explained the Fullerton Hotel’s orchid suite and such in his pseudo ang moh accent.  I hope Koreans know that most of us don’t speak like that.  And why is Bridget Fernandez a “Mrs Foster”?  It would have been better to give her a more typical Eurasian name, no?  For example, she could be Mrs de Souza, Paglar, Pereira… or Fernandez.  I liked how Bridget tried saying “Mr Choi” in a Korean way, t...