First Post, First Drama, First Review

I started watching Korean dramas in December of 2010 all because my best friend hated Baek Seung Jo from "Playful Kiss"/"Mischievous Kiss." Don't take that last statement lightly. She HATED him. Just to see what she was talking about, I started to watch it, and I finished it in two days. For those new to Korean dramas, that's about 16, hour long, episodes. I got sucked in and there has been very few weeks in which I have not watched a drama.

So now I am going to share all of the dramas that I have watched and give a short impression on each one so you can decide if you want to see it for yourself or if you even agree with my opinion.

And now for my first review: Playful Kiss AKA Mischievous Kiss



Synopsis from Viki.com:
How can a girl at the bottom of her high school class ever hope to capture the attention of the smartest, most popular boy? Ha Ni (Jung So Min) is smitten with Seung Jo (Kim Hyun Joong) from the moment she lays eyes on him on the first day of school. He is the total package – tall, athletic, good-looking, and the envy of all the students because he always gets a perfect score on all his exams. But Ha Ni’s affections are not returned, despite her energetic efforts to get his attention. Fate throws them under one roof when an earthquake destroys Ha Ni’s family home, and they live temporarily in the home of her father’s childhood friend, who turns out to be Seung Jo’s father. Will Ha Ni ever be able to get Seung Jo to think of her as anything more than a nuisance? “Playful Kiss” is a 2010 South Korean drama, that is based on the Japanese manga “Itazura Na Kiss” (“Mischievous Kiss”), which also has been adapted in Taiwan as “It Started With a Kiss” and its sequel “They Kiss Again."

Rank out of 5:
4

What I didn't like:
HER. Ha Ni. I did not like her. Even though she is the female protagonist, I did not like her very much. Why? She is a mess if he even looks at her wrong. She gets depressed very easily, and it can get to the point where she can barely function. Why does this happen? Because her life basically revolves around him.

So why is this a 4/5?:
Despite my qualms with her, there are other characters and parts of the story that make up for it, and she does get better. She does eventually realize that he is not the center of the universe. Even though he is cold towards her at first, he definitely knows how to handle her in the latter half of the series, and that helps her to progress to that realization. I also gave it a 4 because it is the drama that sucked me into it all (I'm a bit sentimental, so sue me [not literally, please]).

If you've seen it, did you like it?