Kmuse Top 5 (plus 2) Kdrama Countdown - Favorite Kdrama Drinking Moments

I would first like to thank everyone who has sent me suggestions on what topics I should cover in my Top 5 countdowns!  It has really gotten me excited to work with this segment as well as given me a lot of future ideas.  If you also would like to let us know what Top 5 you would like to see featured in our blog, be sure to leave it in the comments or send us a quick message on our FB page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-crazy-ahjummas/336988683021748?fref=ts).  As I was going through the hundreds of dramas that I have watched trying to pick my favorite drunken kdrama moments, I realized that I might have more than just 5 so you get a few extra bonus moment of hilarious imbibement as a thank you for following our blog.  If there is a top moment that you think I missed be sure to let us know!

#5 Don't Drink and Date- My Secret Hotel

Number five on the list is from the newest show on our recap list (be sure to check it & our recaps out) My Secret Hotel.  Who knew that Yoo In Na could play such a likable drunk.  Her character Sang Hyo goes into despair when she is forced to plan her ex husbands wedding, which leads to a couple drinks, which in turn leads to her flopped on the floor of the hotel, proposing to her boss.  That is one way to get noticed by your hottie boss.

#4 Drink til you are Drunk and Then Some - History of A Salaryman

Next we have a scene from one of my all time favorite dramas "History of a Salaryman".   It is always on the top of my recommend list and one of the most underrated dramas out there.  Bratty chaebol heiress Yeo Chi challenges a local mob boss (and two of her coworkers) to a drink off with the last one standing (or not throwing up) winning a boon of their choice.  Yeo Chi manages to drink everyone under the table and still be sober enough to trick her crush into taking her home.  That is truly a talent worth photographing.

#3 Drunken Possession-The Masters Sun

Nothing screams comedy more than a fun comedic actress becoming a dog due to ghostly possession.  Luckily for Tae Kong Sil (and we viewers), this only happens when she imbibes and her emotional boundaries are down.  Leading man, Joo Joong Won, got an unexpected midnight visitor when Kong Sil comes to visit possessed by the ghost of his dead ex-girlfriend.  And then proceeded to see a whole lot of crazy as she was then possessed by a toddler, a seductive french dancer, and finally a feisty dog.  Needless to say, Kong Sil should be careful to stick to Sprite in the future.

#2 Drink til you Feel the Urge to Reenact ET - My Love From Another Star

Doing something embarrassing while drunk is taken to a whole new level when it comes to our favorite alien.  In a flashback Do Min Joon explains the events that lead to his current need for sobriety.  Unknowingly drinking rice wine during the Joseon period, Min Joon got tipsy and lost his serious demeanor.  Losing it by making things float in the air and taking a horse for a joy ride across the path of the moon.   I guess that if I was alive during a time where they promptly killed anything unknown, I would try to keep my ET moments to a minimum as well.

3 WAY TIE FOR #1

Drunken Seduction - Witch's Romance

I love this scene where the romance really starts to heat up between our leading lady Ji Yeon and her much younger costar Dong Ha.  We get a narration by Ji Yeon's BFF, Na Rae, who explains that somehow her friend always seduces her boyfriends with her drunken crazy persona.  As Na Rae is narrating we see Ji Yeon compliment herself in front of traffic mirrors, fight with banners, and order Dong Ha into her house to have another drink.  The drunken crazy is obviously in full swing.

Poor Dong ha did not have a chance since a drunk Ji Yeon pretty much assaults him with her mouth.  But after a second he is fully involved and they move it to the bedroom.  I will let you all see the next parts via pictures since they truly do the scene better justice than my prose can.

You Drunken Dog You - Reply 1994

This wins my vote for most unexpected reaction to drinking.  Before all of the OTP (one true pairing) wars that this drama created, there was a wonderful drinking scene between the cast as they just hang out in the living room chatting and drinking beer.  But it was when Sung Na-Jung (played by the hilarious Go Ara) started winking that it got truly amusing.  Her roommate, Haetae, starts to tell in a voice over, that whenever Na Jung drinks she turns into a real dog.  We see her walk over to her roommate/brother figure Trash and lean in really close. Just as you think she is going to passionately kiss him, she bites his lip instead.  HAHAHA, truly a funny drama moment and makes you wonder how they filmed it without cracking up laughing.

Unsanitary Drinking - You're Beautiful 

I will never forget one of my first and most memorable kdrama drinking scenes.  This one makes me gag to this day anytime I recall and is truly the grossest drunk moment on our list.  Nun turned kpop idol, Mi-Nam, has her first experience with champagne at a party where she is pretending to be her twin brother.  Feeling dizzy and nauseous, the poor thing heads to the rooftop where she finds her unsuspecting band mate.  Throwing up first in a planter (which is gross enough), she then falls on top of leading man and fellow band member Tae Kyeong.  At which time she promptly throws up again IN HIS MOUTH...  EW EW EW.. There is no amount of sanitizing that could make that poor boys mouth clean.

This concludes my trip down memory lane of my favorite drinking moments.  Remember to send me a quick note if you have a topic for our future countdowns, as well as if you have your own favorite drinking moment that is not already listed.  It is always fun to chat with other kdrama fanatics. 

Kmuse

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***WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD. PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK!***

I'm not sure if I'm quite ready yet to put down into words all of my varied thoughts and feelings on the drama Reply 1994 that I recently finished.  I'll try and do my best, however, to cohesively and coherently present my take on the whole thing.

Let's start at the beginning.  In the beginning I went into it with intrepidation.  Reply 1997 is in my top 3 of all times list.  Those are some mighty big steps to follow in, and we all know how disastrous "sequels" can be.  Not that this was a sequel in the traditional sense.  Different cast of characters (nearly) and different storyline entirely.  But the same kind of concept.  Can you recreate that magic?  Well, when I actually started watching it, I would have answered that question with a relieved and very emphatic "yes!"  This drama was pure gold!  Oh my goodness - I was OBSESSED!  I got maybe 7-8 episodes in and then started to rewatch it.  First time ever I have rewatched while it was still airing, but I just loved it so much and couldn't get enough.  It followed the same concept as its predecessor - the identity of the husband is a mystery and only revealed in the end, so you spend the whole time looking for clues and building theories.

That's where it all went wrong.

The first, what, 15? episodes were amazing.  Just fantastic.  I was enraptured and gushing.  I changed my FB profile pic to represent my allegiances.  I changed the background on my phone.  I was all in.  It was truly a magical and wonderful time.  I thought the world of these writers.  I thought the world of the broadcasting network tvN for bringing us something so original and clever.  Thanks to KMuse, we even had our own theories going and all the evidence strongly supported it.  Oh, we thought we were so smart and had it all figured out.  And we did.  Until the writers turned on us.  That's when it all started to fall apart.

Now before you start pointing fingers and accusing me of just being a sore loser because my guy didn't win in the end, just hear me out for a minute.  That's really not what it was.  Okay, maybe a little, because I really, really, really wanted him to be the one, but there's more to it than that.  Right off the bat I was nervous when I saw that it was scheduled to be 20 episodes.  20 episodes is a   l  o  n  g   time to keep a story like this going.  Think about it.  You have to tell a story for 20 episodes without revealing a very significant role and relationship.  There are a lot of things you have to be careful to avoid.  Rumor has it that, like Reply 1997, even the actors in this drama didn't know who the husband would be until the script for the last episode came out.  Imagine how difficult that would be.  How do you tell a story without knowing the end?  And keep in mind that these weren't normal length episodes either.  They were each about an hour and a half.  There are entire movies that are that length.  So basically you are putting 20 movies together to tell this story.  That's not a whole lot to base so much on, you know?  All this made me nervous.  I wondered how in the world they were going to be able to stretch it out and keep the story interesting.  How long can you drag out a main plotline that rests solely on the identity of one character?  I put my faith in the writers though as the first episodes rolled out beautifully.

And then came the word that should strike fear in any drama fan's heart...extension.  What?!  You are going to tack on an EXTRA episode onto a drama that is already too long for its concept?  This can't end well.  Sure enough, somewhere around episode 16 everything started falling apart.  This beautifully crafted and woven story that they had painstakingly built for 15ish episodes suddenly took a turn, and I would argue, it was a turn for the worst.  It was like they just abandoned everything in order to make a specific ending happen, an ending that truly, and I promise that this is not just sour grapes talking here, didn't fit the rest of the story.  It fell apart.  Like a beautiful masterpiece crumbling under the master's hands as he looks helplessly on, unable to stop it.

Now, this is not to say that I didn't still enjoy the show in some part even after it all started to unravel.  It still had its redeeming qualities.  The cameos by the 1997 crew were awesome.  And even though I was rooting for the other guy, I didn't hate the "winner".  That last episode was a hard one to watch though.  I felt like they ripped our hearts into pieces early on in 21 and then spent the last majority of the episode trying to convince us that what they did was okay.  It wasn't.

So, why exactly was this one a disappointment in the end?  Not because I guessed wrong.  Not simply because my guy lost.  It was the loss of the potential of this drama to do something amazing and different.  Oh man, they had it set up perfectly to just rock the drama world and do what so few dare to do.  It could have been one of the truly memorable genius creations of all drama times.  Instead it just falls in with all the others.  Predictable.  They started out blazing this trail towards something wonderful but then got scared and turned around and went back home to the familiar and the comfortable.  They were about to rock the boat but then sat back down in their seats and put their life vests on.  Nothing is sadder than seeing lost potential.

With all that said, I have to give credit to the cast and crew.  I'm sure that this was a very demanding and difficult experience for them.  They all did a really good job.  My only beef is with those that decided to wuss out and not venture outside of the comfort zone in order to make something special and notable.  In the end, it was just another drama.  Not that that's bad, I mean, I like dramas, obviously.  You have to admit, however, that they are all very predictable in many areas.  For example, from episode one on, you know who will be the OTP.  Even in a drama like this one where technically you didn't know.

I have a hard time recommending this one or even rating it in general.  I LOVED it, but became less enthusiastic towards the end.  And then had my heart broken and my fears regarding the finale realized.  How do you rank something like that?  Do you tell your friends to watch a drama that is so incredible through most of it, even if the ending is disappointing?

That, dear readers, I will have to leave up to you to decide for yourself.

~dongsaeng