Kimchi Achaar

Over the years, Korean dramas have followed a very predictable routine and hence it is a breath of fresh air when you find a drama that does not follow the predictable format.W-Two Worlds falls into that refreshing-breath-of-air category. But most of the time I am catching my breath because I have no clue what is going to happen. It's already 13 episodes and yet I have no clue how this would end? But something that would help me pass my time till the finale comes in is to watch each episode so I can swoon at every one of Lee Jong Suk's expression. Also I love how naughty he is. I have always seen Lee Jong Suk in a "goodie goodie" role and I absolutely adore that he has a slight adult naughty side to his character in W.  W is one of those dramas that has so many loop holes that each one of them have a logic of their own. That is the best part of a fantasy drama. You create your own rules. But though W has a new set of logic, writer Song Jae-jung has thought ou...

Unless you have been living under a rock, you could not have missed the craze around Descendants of the Sun. An avid Kdrama viewer sees this happening almost every year. Boys Over Flowers, You Who came from the Stars were 2 of the dramas that comes to mind. This year DOTS has taken over the K-Drama wave and have sky rocketed our two stars into crazy stardom. So much that DOTS has a sequel coming out and a movie? Though no concrete news has been said about the sequel and movie, we do know that the DOTS season 2 will premiere in 2017. But while we wait for the sequel and movie news, lets look back at the most interesting scenes in Descendants of the sun and in the process stare at Song Joong Ki. 1) The Meet What I like about this scene is the Captain Yoo Shi Jin's clear surprise when Kang Mo Yeong totally ignored him and followed by a fake cry for help. 2) The Movie Date that never happened So Kang Mo Yeong got stood up but I totally adored the interaction between the tw...

We fans of Korean dramas obsess over every single minute details in a drama that we know the catch phrases, OST and clothes. I recently made a list of medical terms I came across in non-medical dramas . And now I make a list of landmarks I have come to know only through such dramas. 1)  N Seoul Tower  /  Namsang Tower: I first came across this beautiful structure in Boys over Flowers. But over the years, i have seen this crop up in movies and dramas including You Who Came From the Star s . This is usually the place where our OTPs make a promise of undying love and promptly break up a few episodes later. 2) Han River Bridge: Again another spot seen in numerous dramas. Usually a pretty site needs to be used more often for a kiss scene. But then again K-dramas do things differently. Usually a scene here leads to a break up or one of our leads finding out some tragic truth. Whatever the reason, the river has witnessed many of our pretty boys and girls shed tears. ...

I was watching episode 12 of my current crack Secret (with Ji Sung, Hwang Jung Eum) and it made me wonder about the Korean drama Kiss Concepts. I realized that kissing in kdramas is not as simple as in real life. Cause in real life a kiss is just a kiss, right?  In kdramaland every kiss has a history, a tale to tell and, unfortunately, one the following standard MOPs. 1) The accidental kiss ( ‘coz nothing is more attractive than a klutz)  2)  The should’ve -would’ve-but-couldn’t kiss (‘coz I’m too lazy to try harder) 3) The sleeping beauty kiss (aka the I-can’t-risk-getting-slapped-kiss) 4) The cardboard kiss 5) The deer-in-head-lights kiss 6) But then there is the hot kiss. Very rare! This kind of kiss is an art form in itself.

Chinese Dramas (C-Dramas) is an area where I have never really ventured before. I have seen quite a few Taiwanese dramas, but never a C-Drama. So I was mildly surprised when I came across a new genre to obsess over. My first drama Boss and Me/Shan Shan Comes to Eat was pleasant and addictive.  It stars  Zhang Han as   Feng Teng  a.k.a The Boss  whose only family is his sister who has a rare blood type. His family has a tradition of hiring an employee who shares the same blood type so incase of any emergency, they have someone who can help them out. And guess who shares the blood type? Shan Shan is from a small town and whose main talent is eating.... eating lots and lots of food. So she is surprised to be hired by the multinational corporation but is happy just the same. She makes her move to Shanghai where her adventure begins. I have to mention, I could not take my eyes of her face. She is adorably cute and has the biggest and most innocent eyes I h...

Korean Dramas goes through phases. 2013 was the year of time travel dramas, 2014 was for medical dramas and 2015 is the year of the vampires. There were vampire dramas previously like Prosecutor vampire I and II, but none like we had this year. After Blood and Orange Marmalade, Scholar who walks the night joined the club. Scholar also is a manhwa adaptation. Scholar had a few advantages over the other vampire dramas, namely Lee Jun Ki and Lee Soo Hyuk. If you want to pick a vampire drama to drool over this weekend, Scholar is definitely a good choice. Spoilers ahead. Plot: Here is a short version. Kingdom is ruled by a evil and bored vampire, Gwi (Lee Soo Hyuk). And the crown prince has written down the secret plan to kill Gwi in his dairy. His Best friend (Lee jun Ki) gets bitten and gets the power of the gaurdian vampire. Now with everyone from his generation killed including his lady love, he has become Flirty, cold and generous soul, looking Uber sexy! 120 Years later,...

With a star studded cast of Kim Soo Hyun, Cha Tae Hyun, Gong Hyo Jin and UI, The Producers had me interested from the get go. Based on the life of the KBS Variety Show PDs, we get to see the inside story behind popular and unpopular shows and what a PD needs to do to make sure the show goes on. Also included in the storyline a peek at the life of a K-Pop Idol, played by UI. Ra Joon Moon (Cha Tae Hyun) and Tak Ye Ji (Gong Hyo Jin) are PDs at KBS. They are also childhood friends, secretly in love with each other and also secretly living together. While Joon Moon handles the sinking 1 Night 2 Days Variety show, Ye Ji is PD of the very popular Music Bank which gets all the top Idols. Enter rookie PD,  Baek Seung Chan (Kim Soo Hyun) assigned to the show 1 Night 2 Days. He is a nerd, in love with his senior from college and thinks everything works by the book. He researches the history of shows and mathematically predicts ratings. So basically he is just asking to be taught...