Fashion King (2012)

ok, i know there are many ways to make a bad ending of dramas... but so far (among all dramas that i have watched), this is the worst ending. i dont really understand what's going on there? ok, i have to admit all the actors/actresses are doing their great job to portray their characters but the storyline has a very serious problem, i cant see any fashion element that has been seriously described in this drama other than the dragging and nonsense love square. therefore, the title fashion king is a big misleading. i do hope to see some serious great fashion sense in this drama but oh gosh, look at the boutique greedy ahjumma with her super wrong fashion sense.... worst among the worst. the cast are great but the plot really makes me sick. baby-faced beauty(another fashion related drama) is so much better in the plot despite an average cast and slow beginning. one thing i learn from this drama, plot is more important than the acting + face of the cast. the cast is great, good looking and great acting skill, but the plot ruin everything, it does ruin the cast's image too. i usually can accept the poor plot but this is too much. i reckon dont waste your time to watch this 'not clever' drama like i did.

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ok at the beginning i like this drama but when i saw more i just like skip a lot of parts. I didn't like it anymore, i was really going to give up this drama but i wanted to see the ending. Now when i got to the ending, final ep.,i watched it all without skipping any parts, hoping something exciting would happen at the end but not thing.The only thing that impressed me was the last think.When some guy comes and kills Yuong Gul. I hated this drama the most because it didn't have a very clear vision for me to tell what would happen in the future. Will the girl ever forgive Gul and love Jae Kyuk? So many question were left to answer about this drama. Never had a drama disappointed me like this one. Even though other dramas rap-up the story qickly, at least they may have a clue to want may happen in the future. This drama was not worth seeing it, I waited for the darma to be completed to see it. But when i finish seeing it, it wasn't really worth waiting for and watching. Now i'm thinking of seeing Rooftop Prince, i hope this one doesn't disappoint me either, because i won't take it anymore. i really hate when people try to rap-up the dramas. because when they do that, i never get the end just like, K-pop unlimitied Audition. Hope this is help to you people.

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What a mess!

One of the most frustrating shows I ever watched. I know the female lead was supposed to be young and naive, but she was one of the most wishy-washy characters I ever saw. She kept going back and forth between the male leads at the slightest reason -- so many times, I lost count! -- even when they both treated her badly. Most of the time, all that happened was the leads having meetings in their offices where they threatened each other. The writers had the characters almost never happy, so the whole show was extremely depressing. Both the male leads were written to be total jerks, and the only half likable characters were the seamstresses, but even they spent most of their time gossiping loud enough for the female lead to hear everything, which made them kind of jerks too. This show was just a complete mess with very little good about it, and I ended up using the "jump ahead 10 seconds" button A LOT while the characters were brooding, crying, throwing fits and having flashbacks. I watched the show until the end, only because I like Yoo Ah In, Lee Je Hoon and Shin Se Kyung so much, but their characters were so bad, I couldn't enjoy their acting at all.

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Okay so, I think I just discovered the true meaning of guilty pleasure lol cause I'm not sure why but I kept watching! It starts out terrible, like okay way more cringey in the beginning. Yoo Ah In was being way too exaggerated and well Shin Se Kyung I have yet not discovered the actual reason for her getting ANY role since she cannot get a human emotion on her face let alone act! But I gotta say Lee Je Hoon somehow even in such a mess maintained subtlety throughout. That said he is so handsome! both male leads I absolutely loved the fan service scenes. Yoo Ah In gets better acting wise as the drama progresses. And even manages to deliver a somewhat like able performance. But I gotta admit I was way more into Jung Jae Hyuk than Yong Gul. Maybe because Lee Je Hoon made it believable ig. I did totally cry for Yong Gul (Yoo Ah In ) until they got deported. But he sort of lost me as anyone's knight in shining armor when she gets beat up and he remained hiding. Worse when the woman who was her worse nightmare he forced her to work with her. It really was like Jae Hyuk said, she was nothing more than menial labor to him. He basically destroyed her career and didn't even have a relationship with her! Kept treating her as a side thing and the way he was so into Anna. Look I like messed up stories ok, so that's not an issue. I was even fine with the ending. I was entertained! But then around episode 10 it started to drag and nothing at all was happening. The same old repeated scenes. I absolutely love makjang innocent man is my favorite and no one in this drama came close to the kind of messed up things that main lead did but till the end I was still rooting for him. Still crying. Another thing that made me lose my connection to the characters was especially in Yoo Ah Ins case his character they never let you properly grieve for him because when something bad happens either we cut to some other character or they added comedy which just took away the emotional connection. Anyway just my thoughts.

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I had been warned about this one but as a fangirl of YAI, reading that he felt this was a character he felt was close to how he sees himself, I decided to try it. I was actually surprised that it wasn’t the worst. In fact, for much of the show I liked it! But… It really fell victim to sloppy writing and maybe either bad acting or directing. Big chunks of the show I felt myself thinking, “I don’t like any of these characters” or "why are they acting like this when it's polar opposite of how they were in the last scene." Then they would suddenly behave in a normal way and be redeemed…for a few episodes at least.

It is a character study (which I enjoy despite them sometimes being difficult) but sadly, the writing was just messy and the characters behaved in ways that became tiresome and confusing. I felt the male leads did a fantastic job. The SFL was more interesting than the MFL but again, could be writing, directing, or just her being a new actress? Not sure. Hard to watch at times. Though, ironically, she’s maybe the most consistent (consistently frustrating in her inability to be upfront and honest..but I digress) character overall until the end. The supporting cast was fabulous. Where’s a show with those ajummas!?

The ending was absolute crap. Seriously stupid and uselessly sad and “what the heck!?”. Overall, when the writers let the characters BE who they seemed to be writing them to be instead of inventing things for them to misunderstand, the show is amazing! Those fleeting moments made watching the other episodes (where I actually face-palmed at the insanity) worth suffering through, mostly, sometimes. Won’t watch the whole thing again but also wouldn’t say it wasn’t worth a watch.

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