Panda and Hedgehog

This drama was all over the place. I had no idea what was happening in the begining, and i had to look up episode summaries. I wasnt entirely with the story line until the very end, and even then i must have missed a few important details. The main girl lead, Pan Da Yang, was no necessarily someone I liked. She was no easy, desperate, or anything like that, but she did rely on other peoples money more than I liked. She also got angry over simple things, and she would start saying things taht didnt even make sense. I couldnt keep upwith her logic. The main guy lead Seung-Ji was very cool. He knew exaclty how to act to be exactly the kind of guy a girl falls for. He was cute too, and he cried. is relationship with his grandfather was something for the memory. He went to jail at one point in his life, but he felt bad about it andwas afraid to tell pan da when he fell for her. His grandfather was a character, he cared so much for the guy and really clarified some things.

Anyway, this drama was about a girl who hires a new chef for her parents bakery, then her childhood friend who was also a baker came back from america. The relationships in this were kind of weird, alot that happened was unrealistic, and there was this weird woman who would just grab a piece of cake and eat it despite people needing it for something (to be fair she onlydid it once, but i cant get the ridiculousness of it out of my head). Pa da's childhood friend is a wimp. Anyway, the plot seems shallow on the surface for a while until you find out about this song that the three of them sing about bugs. You find out about the history of this song, about this missing person named min woo, and the reason why pan da's father built the bakery in the first place.

Sometimes I have a hard time writing these reviews because I'm trying to write things that will help me remember what I watched instead of explaining to other people. What i really remmember about this drama was little snipets like the cute relationship between the min guy and his grandfather. I remmember the bug song as a code for something else. I remmember the scene when Seung-ji asks pan da's childhood friend not to tell his grandfather something, and then the flashback from when they were kids. I remmember the childhood friend getting upset that Pan da kept calling Seung-ji her buisness partner, and how he said "my mom did the same thing with my step-father" or something like that. I remmember the childhood friend finally eating cake for the first time (he wouldnt becuase of asecret that is intricately put in with the rest of the secrets). I remmber loving the childhood friend's sister, she was so spunky, loving, and tom-boyish. I remmember the main character saying she would accept Seung-ji no matter what. I did love her for that, if not for anything else. I remmember them going for a date and he didnt know what to do with her so he tried to teach her to drive, which ended in the car getting stolen. I remmeber the former baker vandalising their bakery alot, and then you find out he has a son, and aww I loved his son. I loved the ending, when they are sitting on the bench together and the song comes on, favorite part ever, loved it, perfect. Bravo!

However, I also remmember thinking that nobody seemed to be working all that hard. I thought the main lead girl was random and couldnt figure out why the main guy leads liked her.I remmember thinking also that they were getting nowhere with their work because other people kept stealing the patissier's work.  What else can I say? it was a good drama, but not to personal taste level.

Lyrics to the bug song:
Go-un-jeong-baki Pu-reun-bujeom-nabi
Mo-sigeum-jara-nam Saeng-i-ip-beol-le
Song-got-beolle-sali Nam-jak-maepsi-beol
Eoli-deunge-sali Mung-tuk-maepsi-beol.

Bug song
--Jsparrow

My Girl

Okay, so My girl is about a girl who is very poor because her father gambles their money away a lot. She becomes a tour guide more than once in this movie, which is cool. Of course there is this guy, and his grandfather is dying. His grandfather is dying wish is to see his granddaughter who went missing in some earthquake in japan. So the guy goes looking for his long lost cousin, and when he can't find her, he decides to use some random girl instead. He finds Yoo-rin who is in desperate need for money. She also picks all of his clementines at one point...

So this guy, (his name is gong-chan by the way) hires yoo-rin. When his grandfather thinks he has met his beautiful granddaughter, he makes a miraculous recovery, and now the two of them are stuck in this lie. I should also mention that Yoo-rin knows many different languages, and has traveled a lot with her father. Her fathers runs away all the time. This girl is a bit of a swindler, but she has a limit, and certain morals to the things she does. For instance, she picked all of gong-chan's clementines and sold them on the street, but she wrote his a thank you note and...there was something that made it okay but I cant remember. Anyway, the grandfather learns to love Yoo-rin to death, and she is feeling really guilty but gong-chan promises that this charade is only going to last until he can find his real cousin.

They fall in love. If this fact is a surprise to you then you are a little too oblivious about Korean dramas. ( can i just go over a few Korean drama necessities real quick?) There is always a balcony scene, always a scene where one of the characters is watching the other sleep, there is always a kiss scene, there is always a shopping scene/make-over scene...anyway back to where I was...

One thing that I thought was a cute touch to this story is that yoo-rin didn't know her real birthday, so her father and her joked that her birthday was whenever it snowed. As a result of telling gong-chan, he started buying snow globes for her whenever it snowed. This girl who loved gong-chan found out about the whole "fake cousin" thing and told the grandfather, who was so hurt by the situation that he threw yoo-rin out telling her never to come back. The real cousin was found. Yoo-rin and gong-chan were both separated....SPOILER....

SPOILER: There is a twist though, it seems that yoo-rin's no good father actually saved the real cousin's life. So everything works out.

I thought Gong-chan was cute, I thought their relationship was good. Yoo-rin was also loved by Gong-chan's friend who was a playboy. She got a home and expensive gifts from her fake family. She really learned to love them. Her lying was eventually used to show her sincerity in the end. Good show, but personal taste is still my favorite.

trailer (in Korean)