summer light watch - BIG

Hi there, haven't been writing much on here, but if you follow me on tumblr or twitter or instragram, then you probably is aware of the fact that I am currently in Taiwan and has been taking a temporary break from the kpop world. This is my third week living with my grandma (just us). One of the things we have in common is that we both are K-drama watchers. During our spare time (which is like, four hours a day), we watch dramas. So despite the fact that this blog is called "Kpoping", I guess now I will be reviewing some k-drama stuff that I am currently into. To be honest I am never really a fan of the typical k-drama format/plot whether is the two girls two boys relationships or the oh-so evil mother in laws, the same kind of old shits are over-used so much to a point where it's too easy to predict what's going to happen next. But this summer "BIG" starring Gong Yoo and Lee Min jung really got me addicted. Have to admit that Gong Yoo's character in Coffee Prince didn't really got me the chill. I thought he was an average, good looking, well maintain guy but he just wasn't my type. Gong Yoo's character in Big, however, attracted me in the most practical way. He is just such a husband material. A doctor, attracted, caring, and super down to earth (the Yoon-jae after the car accident). I did my research (googling) and found out more about him.

According to many reliable resources, this is the first work of him after he came back from the army. Well, must say he was trained pretty good. The muscles he built on himself : Simply gorgeous. Check that body out ALL THE TIME. Enough fangirling about him. The drama is "good" due to various reasons, one of them being that there are very complete developments of each character in terms of internal growth. (*WARNING: spoiler alert)

Gong yoo's character, for example, after switching souls with the 18 years old, turned into boy who is supposedly more childish and immature). But after a year to America "recovering" from the side effects of the car accident, Yoon-jae's character transformed into a more mature and unique individual that's different from the uptight Dr. yoon-jae. There's some really good acting because technically there are three personalities that the actor needs to demonstrate to the viewers, and I definitely give credits to Gong-yoo for doing such an amazing job for keeping the three distinctive and easily identify as the drama goes on. He really keeps it cool in the most casual way a Korean actor can possibly do.

Now on to Lee min jun's part. Honestly really like her character in this drama. Her role is the typical kind of leading girl who gets scolded for the most ridiculous things ever. But somehow the way she portrayed her doesn't make me feel slightest of cliche sympathy for her character at all. She is some how strong in a feminine way that makes her really tough and likable. For me it's all about girls-power and although she doesn't fully represent that in the drama, I still sense the vibe from her and can totally bear with her throughout even the crying scenes.

And there is of course, Suzy's character. I am only going to say that her character is my least favorite in the drama. And let's just leave it to that for now.

Personally having a really good feeling about this drama. It is currently airing right now and it's almost half way through. My six sense is telling me that it will not disappoint. With Gong yoo's acting and his amazing chemistry with Lee min-jung, I am pretty sure it will have a great ending. This drama really kind of reminds of "Protect the boss", the drama yet to be finished. It is casual, funny, and really easy to watch. Anyways, definitely expecting another review/post about the final episode on this blog, I sure will vent my heart away!

XO, J.

calm down.

Haven't been into Kpop that much lately (hence the lack of continuity for posting in this blog). The topic in the corner in my opinion is definitely SM's new found love group EXO. Whether K or M, both seemed to be doing wonderful job in both the Chinese and Korean markets. SM Entertainment is really known for the good looks of the artists/idols they produced, and when these boys start coming out one by one, my little fragile heart started to shattered into pieces (well, I mean the boys are fineeeeeeee.....) and the next thing you know is my daily consumption of anything EXO related on tumblr and such. I mean, where do they find these people?! I guess SM do really have the magic power to turn some random boy on the street of Seoul into a hot "the-boy-next-door". Since there are 12 of them (more options, right?), fans around the world can pick their favorites. I personally think that all of them are very good looking young men and I generally love gorgeous people, but THIS particualr guy caught my attention when I was browsing over some teaser photos:

I was like, "heyyyyyyyy there."  O/////O b

(This is the right time be let out my inner reserved little asian fan girl side)

Something about this member just gives me the butterflies in the stomach (cliche, i know, but that was literally what it felt like). So I did a little googling, and found out more about him. 

Name: Lay

  Sub-Group: EXO-M

         Nationality: Chinese (kinda a surprise there)

Training period: 3 years

Function in the group: dance

Symbol/sign: unicorn (SCORE!)

I then made up my mind that he will be my bias of EXO-M (this whole K and M thing is kind of confusing. Since they are technically separated, does it mean that I can have more than two biases from each group?). Anyways, let's not get into that topic for now. Back to Lay, personally love how Lay is really just the lay back figure of the group. He is not Kris who gets all these attention due to his leadership and foreign languages (and of course the good looks). He is not Lu-Han who is known for pretty much the cutesy-ass face. He doesn't get hype the two korean members in the group do. And he doesn't practice kiss-ass martial art shit like Tao does. He just chill and be there and that's what I like about him. He can remained quiet, talked when it's his turn, and occasionally showed off some dance moves when he got cued. I just LOOOVVVVEEEEE his role in the group! And yet then there is the little creation of FANtasy going on in the fandom known as "Krispy Lays" (gotta give some credit to whoever came up with this, it's really clever actually) which makes me giggle like a 11 years old. Not to mention later when I found out he's the "unicorn" of the group (supposedly symbolic of peace, quietness, and the ability to heal) I literally declared that I'm going to dedicated my next few months (summer possibly included) to his guy. I have a strange obsession with unicorns and everything about him just makes perfect sense to me. SM did a good job or shall I say Lay did a good job if he ever picked it to be his "symbol" in the first place.

Did I mention that EXO's fans are called "Exotics"? like how dopeee is that?! I wanna be "exotic"! As a side note, the rookie groups during recent years all have fairly interesting fan club names such as Infinite's Inspirit (I guess it makes sense), BAP's baby (totally convenient when they are on stage calling their fans), TeenTop's Andromeda (wah?), Boyfriend's bestfriend (well, yeah....) and BTOB's Melodies (go.....figure). Sometimes I just had to sit back to my chair, and stare in the wall for a good five minutes to let my amazment and awe at people's creativity sink in. Having creative fan club names is nothing new in the world of kpop (ex. ELF, blackjack, KissMe, Shawols, STAR1, Bea2ty to just name a few) but sometimes they just blows my mind like, HOW? Really?! really. I love kpop.

 

 

XOXO,

Joyce

 

WTF.

I promise this is going to be my last MV review of the day, but seriously though, major brain-fart kpop moment of the day definitely has to go to EXO-K's MAMA music video. I didn't watch any teaser for it because I was just so impatient with the bazillion teasers SM released I gave up on number twelve. So then finally I was like, "alright let's give this single a try." AND OMG THE INTRO, killin' me.

That thingy does not make any freakin' sense. All I got all of it was, there was a tree and the twelve guys have super powers.....cool? SM I get it, it's a "new" idea that kpop idols can have some fictional supernatural powers and they have their own "signs/logos" so there is some extra cool factor, but whyyyyyyy? SO RANDOM. like where did you even come up with the idea?! But fine, I digressed simply due to the K-boys lookin' hella fine in their music video. And just right about when I was going to sit back and enjoy the rest of the video, the lines start poppin up and I cringed big times.

"careless, careless, shoot anonymous, anonymous...." WTF. I literally went "nfrjwhtugfjkgdlnufdkgnwerjekf......"

the engrish, HELL NO SM Entertainment and its english usage, oh my, headache.

Not to mention they didn't even pronounce "anonymous" right.

Same thing goes to EXO-M, the m-boys look hot too, but dear lord someone please tell President Yang to hire some english speakers who are fluent in the English department. I cannot stand this nonsense anymore. UGH.

But thank goodness the boys are sooooo good-looking, so I guess that helped.

ok I'm done.

XOXO, J.

 



lime.

Talkin' about hair, although I was a little taken aback by the vibrant hair colors kpop idols tend to have these days, I found this Lime girl's hair extremely fresh and stands out from the sea of colorful hair kpop artists. It is surely a pastel minty color, almost to a point white, which I truly dig. Beside the name is "lime", I mean, come one, that's like a free giveaway.

Dear Kpop, if you want to dye hair, please consider pastel colors just because it is so IN this season, and also platinum blond is seriously out of date (2009 G-Dragon style hello?) so please, please PLEASE just let it go.

Thank YOU.

Yours truely, J



da hair.

watched myself some good bad ass rookie B.A.P empowerment music video 3a.m. in the morning. Actually don't know their names but this kid (i know for a fact hes the youngest - like 15yrs old or somethin') got himself some real swag. Especially the hair. For once the stylists did them right. Washed-out baby pink hair suits him just perfect. Except the next time he made an appearance the hair color suddenly changed, i don't even wanna know what happened there. But nevertheless he looks hot (for his age, of course).

oh and am I the only one who thinks the rabbit head is kinda creepy in a good way? like it's all modern but I wonder if an additional secret member is hidden under that large, glowing thingy......hummmm.

any thoughts or guesses?

XOXO, J.

sunny sunday

So here is a fancam completion of Taeyang's original sushi dance:

 

And here is a picture of Taeyang praying before a meal while shirtless:

Happy Sunday dear readers!

 

XOXO, J.

 

 

my love for this guy and sushi.

To infinite and beyond.......

oh dear heaven....

Ms. Lee Hyori, nuff' said.



feelin' the BLUE.

Back in the day when our Tabi used to have those long, black hair, heck, even bangs that covered half of his young, careless face. And then he went from that to some goddamn white/silver hair during the gd-top promotion. Even though I wasn't one of the haters, I was neither too particular in favor of the color. Besides, doesn't it really reminds you of CNN's Anderson Cooper? Seriously though only the anchor can properly own that hair for life. IT IS, however, when our beloved uncle T.O.P. decided to go with the minty green color for recent "ALIVE" comeback that I can't help but completely gave him my full attention. He really really challenged himself on the ability to be able to rocked out any sorts of color in any shades that exist on planet earth. And he succeeded. The minty hair, I must say, is too clever, almost too brilliant to be true. And we kpopers all know that uncle TOP is too cool for school anyways. Whatever he does, it just works.



candies.

so although Kim-So-Hyun is supposed to be the "new face" of Bean Pole, the female model right next to him caught my attention (ashmed to admit she came out before our Prince Kim from Moon Embraces the Sun). I don't know what it is but her face somehow stands out in this whole 'outdoor' theme photoshoot. Is it high fashion or what? I don't know. She is Korean but I also felt the strong western-model vibe from her quite much, and now I just can't take my eyes off her face whenever I reviwed this photoshoot. Ugh, talkin about perfection.

XOXO, J.

suns.

Currently addicted to k-drama "Moon Embraces The Sun" and oh how I missed the younger cast of the younger version characters. They could almost be called as the 'flower boys' with four handsome young men with great friendship/bromance. To me they are four bright blazing Suns that are shining through the K-drama industry. Can't wait for more future project these boys!

XO, J.

sunflower.

The great romance between the Sun and the sunflower.

It is so happening.

You go Taeyang, Yangbae.

All about the BANG.

The Kings.

For VIPs around the world, this week and the incoming few weeks are insane, by definition of insanity, may I allow to say nights of youtubing BIGBANG comeback, including the concert footage, various variety shows they attended, and the weekly music charts, music bank, inkigayo, etc. Not to mention their messages to fans and behind the scene leaks, oh, and twitter where the members directly sending messages to fans out there, I think it is indeed a busy hectic week for any VIP who wants to keep on track of their fave artists. Needless to say, certain sacrifices need to be make along with the comeback. For example, the lack of sleep and getting "bigbang-high" as daily routine, or obsessive google imaged taeyang's hot bod with new tat or a "blonde-chained-Daesung" is getting a little out of control. But we will digress. The hotness, just keep it comin'. 

 

XO. J

 

MY BAD BOY.

that moment when you know who your baby's daddy is going to be.

blasting ALIVE album 24/7. Crazy week for VIPs here we go!



how it feel.

so Teen Top's new music video release - They are called "teen" top for a reason. All I see is a guy following a girl he admired while the rest of his good buddies followed him. Yeah, like if I were the girl I wouldn't be freaking out more having major WTF moment. I am pretty sure they get a pass for it being "teens", but that's just not how you pick up girls in adult life. I like the pretty sunset scenary though - as a girl I would buy that.

J.



guys who cook.

I was totally obsessed with the show more than anything the first time watching it mainly due to all these glory set upon the so-called "flower boys" and of course, RAMEN. I did stopped watching the drama around ep12 (sorry, I put up with it, but I simply don't get these stupid elementary love triangle games people played in the drama), however, I still do follow the flower boys (actors) in real life. For example, Park Min-woo, my new "the guy next door", has officially made it on my list of young guns with the most potential for a major break out in the K-acting industry. He is so adorable and fresh. I will admit it, korean boys are reaaallly fine, but when it comes to individuality, it is often hard to distinguish between two good looking people or even actors. My babe min-woo (allow me to give him the title) has a really unique chrisma that just sets him apart from the rest. Maybe the curly 'ajjima' hairdo? looks good on him anyways. He still has a tash of korean-boy-ness on him, but he is just different, that's all I can say.