Kim Young-gwang excelled at showing how his character’s disease was affecting him psychologically, making us feel first-hand the vulnerability that he did — which is saying a lot for a rom-com illness trope. Normally, it would exist for comedy and a little bit of pathos only, but in ...
A reformed mobster who is a novice in love falls head over heels for a woman who is a children's content creator. She's bubbly, cute, and hangs all her childhood happiness on the memories of a neighborhood boy who was kind to her. Will she ever run into him again? Genre: rom-com ...
That thread is a thing of beauty. I think my favorite example from my own life of an abuser who magically pretends to have no idea what the problem is was with a guy I never even dated, but people tell me he held me up as his romantic ideal for a ...
I will say one positive thing about the boys — and yes, I’m intentionally calling them boys instead of men after their shenanigans — and that is that their behavior is a nice subversion of a K-drama trope that usually saves the exaggerated love-triangle theatrics for when it’s two w...
And while she’s not a servant of step-sisters, Gal-hee is not only a slave to her boss, but also to her little sister, who she’s determined to educate so she can become part of the 1%. The glass slipper angle is there, too, in the contrast between the giant clunky shoes she ...