마지막 춤은 나와 함께

(courtesy of yesasia.com)

I just finished watching the final episode of Save the Last Dance and I must say that I am sad to see it end.
Characters:
The lovely Eun Soo, the girl next door with a heart so true,
The pretty Soo Jin, brought up as a Princess and expecting to marry her Prince Hyun Woo,
Hyun Woo--who wants to be an artist but must take over the family business empire. Even dark Tae Min has a side of him that is good, making him a more complex person than a cowboy with a black Stetson.

The story, like a roller coaster ride, was predictable from its memory loss beginning to the all embracing end, yet contained enough twists and turns that it makes you want to line up and ride again. It's love, the feelings that are pulled out of us as we watch Eun Soo and Chang Ho/Hyun Woo draw close and then be ripped apart and the desire to see them enjoined once more. It's the pain we feel for Soo Jin as she fights to grab hold of Hyun Woo only to watch him slip through her fingers like running water, most of us havng at one time or another loved someone who doesn't return that love. Perhaps this is what makes this drama so appealing, the pleasure of being made young again through these intrepid lovers.

The music is simply wonderful, after watching a few shows, the tunes bringing back the feelings with each song, the different scenes play on a mental movie screen with each note played.

My Secret Pasttime

It is actually getting alittle alarming but I am secretly addicted to this K-Drama forum... constantly need to get my fix of star studded fodder.
Maybe it is the voyeuristic streak in us speaking..the need to prob and pry into the life of a complete stranger.... or the need to break out of the mundane cycle of nomality we are largely stuck in.

Fairy Tales and Korean Dramas

Fairy tales & Korean Dramas

Korean Dramas are unhealthy. Pointless, save for raising one's hopes and spirits just to have them come crashing again when faced with reality. You see, in stories Snow White always finds her Prince and they ride off into the sunset. A picture perfect setting. Now, in reality Snow White finds her Prince, gets scared off by the fact that she found him or finds herself embroiled in a web of intrigue involving the ghosts of ex-girlfriends and various other love triangles. Or simply Prince Charming is just the solemn malcontent fellow who is unable to adequately express his feelings. Either way, she gets tired of waiting for him and leaves his charming ass and by the time the realisation hits -- she is a complete moron. Its to late. The prince is already dating a gorgeous porcelain-faced supermodel type from another kingdom. But wait, you say, it's not over. There could still be a happy ending. Can Snow White win back the Prince? That is the question. In the tale she probably gets drenched in the falling rain inevitably catching a terrible cold or collapses out of sheer exhaustion and he comes to her rescue on horseback. Now back to reality. There are no dragons and, unless you are into equestrians, not many guys are riding around on horses. The truth is nothing ever really works out the way you thought it would when you were a child and few to none actually get a love narrative worth writing about. Unless its titled "The prince who never called" or "The princess and her friday night alone", I think that at the heart of this issue, no matter how progressive society is and how empowered women are there lies at the core -- a little girl's fear that their biography will be about a bitter old woman that lives alone with her cats. Tell me... how many people's life stories end with the magical phrase "Happily Ever After"?