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YOO YEON SEOK & CHAE SOO BIN as BAEK SA EON & HONG HEE JO WHEN THE PHONE RINGS 지금 거신 전화는 (2024) dir. Park Sang Woo

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THE JUDGE FROM HELL dir. Park Jin Pyo (2024)

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WOO DO HWAN in MR. PLANKTON — EP 01 Mr. 플랑크톤 (2024) | dir. Hong Jong-Chan

The Story Of Pearl Girl (2024) 1.01

Dude, she did not agree to that! She said "No." How did you not expect this?

My fave thing about this was when she said "bitch stop making plans without me didn't u learn by now this shit doesnt work"

accepting the silly argan oil plot simply because they both look SO good in this scene

Ok so who's writing the fix-it fic where they run over the kidnapper with their car and the final episode is them talking through the whole his dad was the reason the accident happened (but he has nothing to do with that shit because he was a boy and living without a name in some remote fishing spot, having no idea they even exist), maybe getting some therapy, getting married again and half of thes story is them getting ready for the housewarming party and the party itself? We keep the ring fetish and the roleplaying ofc.

The Argan plot was unnecessary like wtf? Heejoo going to a war zone to find him and he finds her as a hostage? (the meeting was amazing, I didn't expect less than that, the talking about the feelings, the kiss, the bed scene) but guys? These minutes of the drama should be used in other way, idk. The main characters could fix everything talking and then being happy with their new marriage and other stuff.

Despite that, it is a good show. I loved to wait for every episode and be a little obesssed with them.

All the cast members were perfect, and the main actors were amazing, they have such a wonderful chemistry (okay Korea, you have to put these two to work together again in a romcom, pls).

I’m just going to say it

If it was Hee-Joo driving that car she would’ve run him over and the drama would be over

Baek Sa-eon can't really comprehend that Hong Hee-joo is willing to match his freak, so she is demonstrating it through her actions:

Hong Hee-joo, the woman that you are!! A true ride or die❤️

Manifesting more female leads like this in kdramas moving into 2025.

baek sa-eon: reveals big family secrets

baek sa-eon: BUT THAT’S NOT IMPORTANT. YOU CAN BASH ME OR MY FAMILY ABOUT THIS, THE HELL I CARE. MY ONLY PRIORITY IS FINDING MY WIFE AND LIVE HAPPILY WITH HER. THAT SHOULD BE YOUR PRIORITY, TOO.

he really spent five seconds exposing his family secrets and five hours publicly confessing and begging everyone to help him find the loml.

he’s like, “i can handle all these issues and problems, but i need my wife by my side first.”

When The Phone Rings X Text Posts pt.4

Our male lead intentionally renouncing his very powerful 'adopted' identity and giving no name for himself—except that of Hong Heejoo's husband—has HUGE implications in Korean culture.

Due to their deep-seated Confucian beliefs throughout their history, women were rarely known by their actual names both in public and in private. They were know only by names of the men in their lives (this man's daughter, this man's wife, this man's mother) or by the title of their status or occupation. That still exists today to a certain extent. Also, women were very restricted on when and where they could go places publicly and had to hide their faces when they went out. The individual identity of women was therefore hidden from the world since they were not allowed to be truly seen or spoken about in a way where their unique defining personal attributes could be known.

So when our male lead denies his adopted name and powerful family status and then proceeds to publicly proclaim all his wife's personal attributes that uniquely define her—including a large picture of her face—while only defining himself as her husband, he flipped the traditional Confucian gender roles on their head.