#kim hye jin

[samireads]

Some more Korean reads 🇰🇷📚

난 요즘 많이 좋아 😌

#the dog who dared to dream #sun mi hwang #human acts #han kang #please look after mother #kyung sook shin #almond #won pyung sohn #the plotters #un su Kim #concerning my daughter #kim hye jin #miss Kim knows #cho nam joo #korean lit #korean literature #books #reading #bookblr #bookstagram #read

[kdram-chjh]

Kdrama: She Was Pretty (2015)

K-Drama | Sung-Joon & Hye-Jin | She Was Pretty #youtubeshorts #ytshorts #youtube #kdrama

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uPhrtOQOvQo

#She Was Pretty #그녀는 예뻤다 #Geunyeoneun Yebbeossda #She Was Beautiful #Puzzled Lovers #Geunyeoneun Yeppeodda #2015 #MBC #youtube #cdrama #chinese drama #shorts #short video #Hwang Jung Eum #Kim Hye Jin #Park Seo Joon #Ji Sung Jun

[heretocrioverfiction]

you gave me childhood friends to lovers and best friends to lovers in the same drama and somehow i was expected to choose ???

#kim shin hyuk #she was pretty #she was pretty 2015 #park seo joon #kim hye jin #kdrama

[hastalahamon]

how am i supposed to root for this??

ok, admittedly, the situation is a little fucked, and she's not blameless, but...

he serioulsy just left her at the airport

he bullies her all the time

he's even worse than a bully, he's a victim of bullying turned bully

and on top of that, her friend knows EXACTLY how he treats her and she's still having feelings for him??? if a dude did that to my friend they would never find his body. there would be no body to find.

when will these women learn to pick the second dude. kim shin hyuk does not deserve to be rejected over a wet dirty sock that is ji sung jun.

ok, fair, i'm only 3.5 episodes in, but this is han seo jun all over again. why do these women always piCK THE WRONG ONE!!!

#she was pretty #ji sung jun #kim hye jin #min ha ri #kim shin hyuk #yea yeah park seo jun is hot #but so is si won

[warningsine]

The best-selling Korean writer Kim Hye-jin’s first novel to be translated into English, “Concerning My Daughter,” begins with an awkward question. Eating udon noodles with her mother, a 30-year-old daughter asks if she and her girlfriend, Lane, can move into the mother’s house. The daughter (who is only ever referred to by Lane’s nickname for her, “Green”) can’t afford a flat of her own because of her unpredictable work as an “itinerant” university lecturer. The mother — our narrator, also unnamed — agrees reluctantly, needing extra income to supplement what she earns caring for dementia patients. She also recognizes that her only daughter needs help, even if that means helping Lane too, whom the mother despises on principle because she is not a man. The mother wrestles with her disapproval of her daughter’s life choices both in private and with her patient Jen, a successful and well-traveled woman who never had children, and now has no family to care for her.

A middle-aged woman with an unglamorous job, the narrator is both scrutinizing (of her daughter) and scrutinized by a society that has not fulfilled its duty to support her. Kim plays close attention to the precariousness — bodily, financial, social — of not only the mother, but also her daughter and Jen. The lesbian daughter has been born into a generation with few job prospects; and Jen’s mind and body have deteriorated too much for her to take care of herself.

This is an admirably nuanced portrait of prejudice. The mother’s greatest anxiety is how other people will perceive her daughter, not only because she is socially conservative, but also because she fears her daughter will not have children, and will end up in old age in the same situation as Jen, with no one to visit or tend to her. Jamie Chang’s precise, pared-back translation conveys the mother’s internal struggle between her biases and her love for her daughter in a careful, balanced way, so that the reader is able to understand her position without being asked to endorse it. The mother understands that her outbursts are unacceptable (“How can you do this unless you’re out to make me suffer,” she asks her daughter, “you don’t care even the tiniest bit what your old mother thinks, now, do you?”), but she cannot prevent them. “My emotions carry me away to a place of no return,” she thinks. Wisely, Kim chooses to report rather than directly quote the mother’s worst homophobic tirade, against Lane. We learn only that the mother “let the words burn in the flames of disgust, resentment and hate.”

As the novel goes on, the daughter is badly injured at a protest against the firing of her university colleagues for their sexuality; and budget constraints at the nursing home lead the mother to bring Jen into her own home to see out the end of her life. The daughter’s vulnerability, combined with Lane’s tender care and the proximity of death, helps the mother start to see the errors in her thinking; but no promises are made. This is not a redemption story, nor does it aspire to be. The mother wants to be able to tell her daughter that she doesn’t care whether she likes men or women, that she believes her daughter and Lane should be treated with equal respect by society — but she doesn’t tell her these things. “Will the time come when I will be able to say these things out loud?” she wonders.

There is the occasional tendency to lay on too thickly the resonances between the mother’s relationships with Jen and with her daughter. “Am I seeing myself in her because I’ve given up hope of depending on my daughter in old age?” she asks herself about Jen. But it’s generally a tightly conceived and executed work, and one that boldly takes on the daunting task of humanizing someone whose prejudice has made her cruel.

#concerning my daughter #Kim Hye-jin #Kim Hye jin #books #lit #q

[anticurses]

Kim Hye-jin, Concerning My Daughter (translated by Jamie Chang)

[ID: In any case, now is the time for sleep. When I wake up, I will have the energy to get through the next bit of life ahead of me. I am not thinking about what’s coming far off in the future, but what I face now. I think to myself that I will only think about what needs to be done today and get it done without incident. All I can do is believe that I will make it through the long stretch of tomorrows. / End ID]

#kim hye jin #concerning my daughter #jamie chang #02 #*

[mangodelorean]

Lee Dong Wook as Jeong Jinman and Kim Hye Jun as Jeong Jian in A Shop for Killers [2024]

dir. Lee Kwon

#a shop for killers #lee dong wook #lee dongwook #jeong jinman #jeong jin man #kdramaedit #kdramagifs #kdramadaily #disney+ #kim hye jun #jeong jian #tvgifs #the killer's shopping mall #킬러들의 쇼핑몰 #이동욱 #dorama #김혜준 #lee kwon

[andaniellight]

"i am neither your mom or your dad, and i can never be" i know. but do you realize that your murdered brother, my dead father, named me a name monophonic to yours despite of you being missing for seven years and a half? and i somehow just knew under the bed wasn't the answer when i saw your friend who you called after you went away and came in to secure my safety got killed by uninvited guests through the slight gap of my bedroom door, it's actually the fall from the window that'd kept the murderer away from me. and i was only seven at the time, but even the evil, evil man said "you are definitely his family by blood" and "the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree" when i chose to hurt myself just to get away from them, just to keep on living because you said you'd come back.

and you did come back.

#2 episodes in and i already cried two fuckin times #A Shop for Killers #Shopping Mall for Killers #KDrama #Lee Dong Wook #Jeong Jinman #Jeong Jian #킬러들의 쇼핑몰 #Korean Drama #Kim Hye Jun #Lee Dongwook #Kim Hyejun #Jeong Jin-man #Jeong Ji-an #chosen family always has my entire heart

[ds29gurl2]

Seeing all these sadistic m*ther f*ckers get theirs, cleansed my soul, watered my garden and cleared my skin.

I finished season 2 in one day and it was an awesome time!

#the glory #suck it bitches #korean drama #moon dong eun #joo yeo jeong #park yeon jin #choi hye jeong #ha do yeong #lee sa ra #kim gun woo #park sunghoon #yeom hye ran #stills #k drama #netflix kdrama

[ishipjindok]

Short moment drawing from Ao3 story

You Make Me Feel. by: One_Week375

Highly recommended 🫣

#kim dokja #omniscient reader's viewpoint #jindok #orv x solo levelling #kim dokja x sung jin woo #solo leveling #crossover #sung jin woo #crossover ship #only i level up #sung jinah #sung jin ah #Park Kyung-Hye

[scorpi14]

My Theories for the Finale of A Shop For Killers

Jeong Jinman is not dead (duh).

Like many others have said, there's just no way stupid hacker fuckboy tricked him into killing himself. The whole thing is suspicious af with the video cutting out and Jinman being so well prepared for everything else. And there's no way he'd kill himself if Jian was actually in danger. He knows Babylon and Bale are incapable of keeping their word on anything.

I think he faked his death to draw out Babylon and Bale once and for all because they started coming after him more aggressively and Jian was finally old/strong enough to withstand being the bait.

2. Jian is going to call his name 3 times.

There has been SO MUCH emphasis the entire show about her doing this. They keep bringing it up. How she's rarely done it, but how each time was important. Jinman's made a joke about her doing it and she scoffed at him. He confirmed he injured her boss and she didn't believe him.

And let me tell you about good storytelling... You don't bring up the potential of a badass character being called 3 times and MAYBE he'll show up this often without delivering on it.

I think in the last episode, Jian is going to get in a bind so bad she'll call Jinman's name 3 times. Maybe against Seongjo, or Bale himself. Like I said, she's never believed he'd show up when she did it before, which is probably part of why she rarely did it. But I think she's going to do it to comfort herself, or to try and give herself a last bit of strength like she's been doing with the "Listen up, Jian".

Only this time, when she does it, he's going to actually show up like he did the first time when she was locked in that storage thing at school. And I just 😭

If this actually happens, I'm gonna scream at my TV.

#a shop for killers #kdrama #jeong jin man #jeong ji an #lee dong wook #kim hye jun

[samireads]

What a year 2023 was! Here are my favourite reads 📚💕

#idol burning #rin usami #concerning my daughter #kim hye jin #i want to die but i want to eat tteokbokki #baek se hee #the pachinko parlour #Elisa shua dusapin #almond #won pyung sohn #boy swallows universe #trent dalton #2023 reads #favourites #book recommendations #books #reading #bookblr #book shelf #korean lit #korean literature #japanese lit #japanese literature #australian literature

[kdram-chjh]

Kdrama: She Was Pretty (2015)

She was pretty | second lead syndrome 😭 | kdrama

Watch this video on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4xqoeWYJS2o

#She Was Pretty #그녀는 예뻤다 #Geunyeoneun Yeppeossda #2015 #kdrama #Korean drama #MBC #youtube #shorts #short video #Hwang Jung Eum #Kim Hye Jin #Park Seo Joon #Ji Sung Joon #Go Joon Hee #Min Ha Ri #Choi Si Won #Si Won #Kim Si Hyuk

[psalm40speakstome]

See You In My 19th Life: We thought I killed you but I was trying to protect you

Destined With You: I did kill you but it was to protect you

Moon In The Day: I killed you. But I was protecting you from a version of yourself you never wanted to be

#because I love you #see you in my 19th life #destined with you #moon in the day #kdrama #my kdrama rambles #shin hye sun #ahn bo hyun #jo bo ah #kim seok woo #row on #kim young dae #pyo ye jin #can’t get that #last one to flow right #but posting anyway

[gaymer-hag-stan]

WAKE UP ITS THE GIRLS

JeA shared this along with a Polaroid of each of the other three girls on her IG stories and a photo of her new recording studio 😭😭😭

#Brown Eyed Girls #JeA #Gain #Narsha #Miryo #Kim Hyo-jin #Son Ga-in #Park Hyo-jin #Jo Mi-hye #K-pop #Girl Groups

[junkobato]

Upcoming Kdrama April 2024 💚

5/4: Parasyte: the Grey with Jeon So Nee, Koo Kyo Hwan. 6 episodes; mystery, horror, sci-fi.

8/4: Lovely Runner with Byun Woo Suk, Kim Hye Yoon. 12 episodes; fantasy, rom-com.

10/4: Blood Free with Han Hyo Joo, Joo Ji Hoon, Lee Hee Joon. 10 episodes; thriller, sci-fi.

13/4: Missing Crown Prince with Soo Ho, Hong Yeji, Kim Min Gyu. 20 episodes; historical, rom-com.

19/4: Chief Detective 1958 with Lee Je Hoon, Lee Dong Hwi, Seo Eun Soo. 10 episodes; action, thriller, comedy.

26/4: Goodbye Earth with Ahn Eun Jin, Yoo Ah In, Jeon Sung Woo. 12 episodes; thriller, sci-fi.

Lee Je Hoon is back!

#upcoming kdrama #parasyte: the grey #lovely runner #blood free #missing crown prince #chief detective 1958 #goodbye earth #jeon so nee #koo kyo hwan #byun woo suk #kim hye yoon #han hyo joo #joo ji hoon #soo ho #lee je hoon #lee dong hwi #ahn eun jin