Korean TV is so sad. Yesterday it was all about how terribly husbands and wives act when they get older. Today it's all young people sitcoms about love and stuff. I think the one I am watching now is called "Love in the City" and is about this guy, Sung Wook, who falls for a girl, Hee Joo, whom he passes by in a novelty store. He rushes home to tell his best friend all about her. Later, he finds her working at a book store and hastily gets a job working with her. They get along great and then end up out on a date-- where she confesses she is in love with his best friend, Beum Seok, whom she met at her academy. Only, Beum Seok is sort of a book worm and doesn't care about girls. Now Hee Joo is wailing and crying because Beum Seok doesn't love her and Sung Wook is about ready to punch his best friend for not recognizing such a wonderful girl. Ah-HA! Sung Wook, in times past, told Beum Seok that no girl would fall for a logical, bookish-type guy like him so now, Beum Seok thinks any advances made by girls are fake and that he shouldn't hold on to false hopes... then... wondering why Sung Wook is so angry, he realizes-- IT'S THE SAME GIRL! Okay.... I gotta post and publish or I'll never find out how this ends. Mind you, I noticed that this is Episode 42 so I doubt much of a resolution will occur.
Yep, I was right. Hee Joo is broken hearted but Sung Wook is arranging flowers, alone, and contemplating who is better off-- Hee Joo who tried and lost, or him, who never spoke his feelings aloud. At least nobody died in this show, like they always do in Korean music videos. The Korean phrase for this type of love is ´ß»ì (Dak-Sal) Translated, it means 'chicken skin' which is a surprisingly close resemblance to its meaning in English-- 'Goose Bumps'. While in the West, it's used for when something is scary, here it is used to reference something that is too romantic, sappy, or sickeningly sweet.
Now it's on to another documentary on temples.
Sunday, October 21, 2001
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