#Coffee Prince

[micamicster]

Go Eun Chen... you’re fired.

Coffee Prince (2007)

#coffee prince #the 1st shop of coffee prince #gong yoo #olddramas #kdramaedit #yoon eun hye #coffee prince was having a moment on my dash the other day... anyway heres the beach scene of all time <3

[youknowihavenochingu]

Shirtless male leads in kdramas 🔥

Gong Yoo- Coffee Prince

Park Hyung Sik- High Society

Ahn Hyo Seop- Lovers Of The Red Sky

Ji Chang Wook- The K2

Lee Dong Wook- Bad And Crazy

Woo Do Hwan- My Country The New Age

Park Seo Joon- Midnight Runners

Kim Soo Hyun- It's Okay Not To Be Okay

Ahn Bo Hyun- Military Prosecutor Doberman

Rowoon- The King's Affection

#kdramas #gong yoo #coffee prince #park hyung shik #high society #ahn hyo seop #lovers of the red sky #ji chang wook #the k2 #lee dong wook #bad and crazy #woo do hwan #my country the new age #park seo joon #midnight runners #kim soo hyun #it's okay not to be okay #ahn bo hyun #military prosecutor doberman #rowoon #the king's affection

[mjracles]

gong yoo as choi han-kyul [최한결] in coffee prince (2007)

(source - coffee prince [1×07])

#gong yoo #gongyoo #gong ji cheol #gong jicheol #gongjicheol #공지철 #공유 #k actor #kactor #k drama #kdrama #coffee prince #the 1st shop of coffee prince #커피프린스 #커피프린스 1호점 #choi han kyul #최한결 #mjracles

[lizaluvsthis]

Luigi and Smg3 just havin a chat-

Designs from me- The Coffee Prince and The Frog AU with @shygirl4991 and @alianarepasa

#lizaluv #shygirl4991 #alianrepasa #smg3 #smg4 smg3 #smg4 #my art #the frog prince au #princess and the frog au #frog prince au #princess and the frog inspired #coffee prince and the frog #coffee prince and the frog au #coffee prince

[bitacrytic]

it's always "a man falls in love with a man and is scared of being gay until he realizes that he is actually in love with a woman".

why is it never "a man falls in love with a woman and is convinced he is straight until he finds out the woman is a man and realizes that he is in fact extremely gay and okay with it"?

or... better yet... "a man falls in love with a man who turns out to be a woman and [here's the kicker] he acknowledges that he would have loved her as a man, even though he ALSO loves her as a woman."

#captivating the king #to the beautiful you #you are beautiful #coffee prince #empress ki #etc

[zalrb]

i will forever appreciate coffee prince for giving us gong yoo in a wet white shirt

#coffee prince #gong yoo

[gillianthecat]

also i am so so relieved that eun chan doesn't have a "feminine" makeover so that she's allowed to be with her coffee prince (well, i have five episodes left but i'm assuming if it hasn't happened yet it's not going to). she dresses and looks exactly the same as she always did, he was attracted to her then and he's attracted to her now, the only difference is he knows.

honestly i went into the show assuming it would be inevitable. but they are approaching gender roles so differently than i feared. yes, there was a big transformation/reveal with heels, dress and makeup. But crucially, it was for the wrong guy.

and she never tried to change herself. she just dressed and acted as she wanted to, and other people made assumptions. I have no objections to She's the Man and its ilk (though somehow I've never actually seen it), where someone has to disguise herself as a boy for Plot Reasons, and work at getting it right, but the way Coffee Prince does it is so much more intriguing to me and has much more interesting things to say about gender.

#coffee prince #cp ep 12 #liveblogging other shows #het dramas #or something like that #gtc on coffee prince

[lurkingshan]

Hi....If you don't mind, can I ask, what are your top 10 (or top 7) favorite media (can be books/ manga/ anime/movies/tv series)? Why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before......Thanks....

Thank you for the ask, I don't mind a bit! Though I will say that this particular question sent me into a minor existential crisis, because how on earth could I ever pick just 10 things that I love across all media. I don't know if y'all have picked this up about me yet, but I consume vast amounts of media, like...unbelievable amounts of media, it is my great joy in life. I consulted @bengiyo about how to approach this question, and he suggested a frame to help narrow it down: what are my favorites that someone else recommended to me, that I then felt compelled to recommend to others? Hope you don't mind the tweak! As always, keeping this in the realm of Asian media for this blog, here is what I got:

What Did You Eat Yesterday?

When I met @bengiyo and @waitmyturtles I learned very quickly that this was their all-time favorite, and if I didn't like it we were gonna have a problem (jk but not really). I hadn't watched it on my own because until recently (shoutout to our savior Gagaoolala) it was quite inaccessible and I hadn't yet stumbled onto @isaksbestpillow and found her amazing subs. Luckily, I have impeccable taste and WDYEY is in fact a masterpiece, so they watched me watch it, I lost my mind over how unique and brilliant and technically flawless it was, and we are now all bonded for life over our love for this show, which just returned for a second season and will hopefully continue forever. I love it so much I have even started reading the manga, and I am not a manga girlie by nature (I prefer reading prose), so you can be assured I absolutely will not be shutting up about it anytime soon.

Go Ahead

Credit for this one goes to @ginnymoonbeam for watching it first and then sending up a flare for me as a fellow cdrama enjoyer that this one was worth prioritizing immediately. I love big sprawling family stories that unfold over time, I love digging into intergenerational family trauma, I love good dad characters, I love found family dynamics, and I love a well done romance subplot embedded in a much bigger story, so this show hit so many of my sweet spots. It's #1 on my list of modern cdramas and I would recommend it to anyone.

Mo Dao Zu Shi/The Untamed

Speaking of cdramas, I must give a shoutout to @dangermousie who wrote this post summarizing their favorite danmei novels, which I found when I went looking for recommendations and was trying to figure out a way into this segment of Asian media. I admit I am a bit bougie about my reading material and modality, so I really can't deal with machine translations or reading on html pages, and thus I still have not read some of these as I am patiently waiting for official English translations to become available (me and 2HA are gonna have a party in 2024 I tell you what). I had already heard of The Untamed, of course, because I am a human person who lurks in online spaces, but reading the novel got me significantly more interested, and I quickly fell down a months long rabbit hole that included consuming the novel, the show, and copious amounts of fanfiction. This story is so complex and layered and full of fun mysteries and meaty moral quandaries and interesting family relationships and has an A+ second chance romance and one of my all time favorite characters to boot; it really took over my brain for a minute. And while it hardly needs me to recommend it given how popular it already is, I'm still gonna do it whenever I get the chance.

Mo Du/Silent Reading

And while we're on the subject of danmei, let me give a shoutout to my favorite modern danmei novel, which was recommended to me by an IRL friend who is not on tumblr. Mo Du is a sprawling mystery novel that spans five major interconnected cases, and it centers on an exceedingly competent police captain, Luo Wenzhou, and a young business heir/super genius, Fei Du, who start out with an adversarial relationship (but I bet you can guess what happens next!). The crime stories in this are almost shockingly intricate and every detail comes together in the end without a single loose end, which is impressive enough on its own, but somehow the author (Priest, who some of you will know as the writer of Faraway Wanderers aka Word of Honor) manages to also write a perfectly paced, incredibly compelling love story between the two leads that is layered with complex trauma and psychological hot buttons and secrets and lies that unfold organically alongside the mystery. I am in the middle of re-reading it right now and my love for it only grows stronger. The gif above is from a recent attempt to adapt this into a live-action drama that got quickly canceled, but honestly, the less said about that, the better (though Zhang Xin Cheng will absolutely remain the Fei Du of my heart). With China's censorship laws, there will be no faithful live action version of this story, so I highly recommend reading the novel.

Pachinko

While we're on the subject of novels, I must mention another IRL friend recommendation: Pachinko. This one is a sprawling multi-generational family historical fiction epic that tracks the lives of a Korean family that is forced to migrate to Japan during Japanese occupation in the early 20th Century. Y'all, this book is amazing, and it has now been turned into a television show airing on Hulu that is also quite good (though structured quite differently, but that's another post). I learned a ton of real history in the course of reading this, and I found the journey of Sunja and her family so compelling. The book has a real intersectional lens and digs deep into themes of oppression, racism, class disparity, and sexism, and is rooted in Korean values around filial piety, respect for hard work, religion, moral condemnation, and of course, the importance of food to communicate.

The Great Indian Kitchen

Switching gears, let me give a shoutout to this Indian film that my bestie @neuroticbookworm recently recommended to me and @waitmyturtles. This film is about a modern young woman who enters an arranged marriage with a family of high status (though maybe not of the kind you think) and explores her experience of oppression as a woman in a very patriarchal religious setting. The story is really compelling, I learned about a common experience for women in India, the narrative ended in an unexpected place (in a good way), and I really enjoyed the watch. And this film is on YouTube with good subs which I linked above, so it's quite accessible.

Be Melodramatic

Let's get back to dramas, shall we? I credit this one to @kdramaxoxo, who recommends Be Melodramatic constantly, and thank goodness because otherwise this under appreciated gem would have never landed on my radar. This is a beautiful story about a group of friends who move in together in the wake of personal tragedy and tracks their progress as they heal and move on from their hardships. The themes of grief and growth and change are quite poignant, the relationships, both platonic and romantic, are all very compelling, and the music is beautiful. If you haven't seen it yet, what are you waiting for (@nieves-de-sugui this is definitely a good one to add to your list).

Make it Right

Time for @bengiyo to get another shoutout. This is a Thai bl classic that doesn't get the love it deserves, and he is its number one promoter. I don't know when I would have gotten around to watching this if he hadn't recommended it so highly, and I'm so glad I did. I wrote about this one, why I loved it, and why I think it's under appreciated, and I highly encourage others to give it a try.

Coffee Prince

We will end on an OG kdrama classic, which I watched early on in my kdrama journey thanks to a recommendation from an IRL friend who said it was the best version of the well worn Asian drama genderbend trope that they had ever seen, and my god were they right. Not only was this my first Gong Yoo drama (a life changing experience in and of itself) but this one really took me by surprise for how sharp and progressive it was about gender fluidity, sexual identity, and the struggle toward self-acceptance way back when it aired in 2007. I recommend this one to everyone, and its a great entry point for people who prefer queer media and have (justified) suspicion of mainstream kdrama's treatment of queer narratives.

#what did you eat yesterday? #go ahead #the untamed #mo du #pachinko #the great indian kitchen #be melodramatic #make it right #coffee prince #drama recs #danmei #shan answers

[buddyhollyscurls]

one screenshot doesn't do this scene justice bc the way he's looking at eun chan its so clear he finds her attractive even tho he thinks shes a boy rn

#kdrama #maria watches #coffee prince

[youknowihavenochingu]

Beginners kdrama list

Goblin The Lonely And Great God

Strong Woman Do Bong Soon

Coffee Prince

Reply 1988

What's Wrong With Secretary Kim

Vincenzo

Boys Over Flowers

Crash Landing On You

Healer

Moon Lovers Scarlet Heart Ryeo

#kdramas #goblin the lonely and great god #strong woman do bong soon #coffee prince #reply 1988 #what's wrong with secretary kim #boys over flowers #crash landing on you #healer #moon lovers: scarlet heart ryeo

[mjracles]

gong yoo as choi han-kyul [최한결] in coffee prince (2007)

(source - coffee prince [1×17])

#gong yoo #gongyoo #gong ji cheol #gong jicheol #gongjicheol #공지철 #공유 #k actor #kactor #k drama #kdrama #coffee prince #the 1st shop of coffee prince #커피프린스 #커피프린스 1호점 #choi han kyul #최한결 #oh he is so whipped #boyfriend gong yoo i love you #mjracles

[hagarsays]

Gong Yoo that’s it that’s the caption 💜🫰

#gong yoo #gong ji cheol #train to busan #seok-woo #coffee prince #Choi Han-kyul #guardian the lonely and great god #goblin kdrama #goblin: the lonely and great god #goblin #kim shin #the silent sea #Han yoon-Jae #the salesman #squid game #kdrama #🫰

[gillianthecat]

Also I actually really like this ragtag bunch of coffee princes? I usually get annoyed with the "interfering friend group" but these guys work for me. probably because they do very little actual interfering. Mostly standing and watching as the train wreck happens, but with love and worry. And because what actions they do take seem to stem from their individual characters, rather than the plot need for "interfering friends." This bit with them telling her to text Han Gyul "I love you" crystallized this for me. It's so sweet and supportive and not actually pushy since they let her do it.

I also appreciate how the coffee shop itself feels like a really working coffee shop, and they all seem to be actually working. Another detail that grounds this show. Even their "concert" was something I could totally see the hip young staff of a hip new coffee shop putting on. Just skilled enough to make it fun, but not too much to overly strain credulity.

(I personally preferred the cozy floral look of the original coffee shop, but I agree the rats and cockroaches were de trop. Plus in 2007 the concrete minimalist style was not yet overdone.)

#coffee prince #liveblogging other shows #cp ep 12 #gtc on coffee prince