Big Man 빅맨 Episode 9 Review: Jung So Min 정소민 Warns Han Sang Jin “I’ll Kill You If You Harm Kang Ji Hwan”

Big Man Episode 9 Review: Jung So Min Warns Han Sang Jin “I’ll Kill You If You Harm Kang Ji Hwan”

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In Big Man, episode 9, Kang Jin Ah(played by Jung So Min) warned Do Sang Ho(played by Han Sang Jin) not to harm Kim Ji Hyuk(played by Kang Ji Hwan).  

Jin Ah found out that Ji Hyuk was not her real brother and went to America to live with him. When she arrived, she realized he was not there, and freaked out. She came back to Korea and ran away from home. 

She went to Ji Hyuk’s house and found him there. She hugged him and asked, “Why didn’t you go to America?” Ji Hyuk answered, “You and I, your family and I should no longer get involved with each other.

 Go home.” However, Jin Ah said, “I got kicked out from home. I’m hungry.” Ji Hyuk eventually allowed her to stay at his house.  Later, Jin Ah said to Sang Ho, “You’re the one who lied that he went to America, right? Don’t you dare try to harm him. I’ll kill you.”

[Recaps] Jung So Min- JTBC Drama “CAN WE GET MARRIED?” Episode 1

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EPISODE 1

The show opens with Chef Ki Joong (Kim Young Kwang) grilling a dish in the kitchen. The dish is brought to the table of our main couple, Hye Yoon (Jung So Min) and Jung Hoon (Sung Joon).

Hye Yoon takes the reigns of the story, and as she narrates, she looks on lovingly at Jung Hoon.

After greeting his patrons, Ki Joong saunters over to Hye Yoon and Jung Hoon’s table. He gives Jung Hoon a knowing look and winks at him. Ki Joong then presents Hye Yoon the highlight of their meal—ice cream? She’s vocal about her disappointment with the dessert, but she’ll soon be in on that tacit glance between the boys.

Jung Hoon watches her nervously as she takes a bite of her ice cream, but the expression on his face is replaced with panic when Hye Yoon begins to choke. Ki Joong and her photographer friend Dong Bi (Han Groo) rush to their aid. Dong Bi is unsuccessful with the Heimlich maneuver, but Jung Hoon takes a shot at it, and a ring ejects from Hye Yoon’s mouth and jounces on the floor. Hye Yoon pushes a concerned Jung Hoon and doesn’t seem to notice the ring, as she gasps for breath.

Plan A for operation proposal is a bust, but Jung Hoon’s a smart guy, coming up with a plan B.

The young lovers arrive at a posh hotel (or apartment?), where Hye Yoon is pleasantly surprised with flowers and a heart-shaped cake. On the bed, a bouquet of roses, bathrobes, and matching PJs rouse a smile on Hye Yoon’s face. She turns to Jung Hoon, and a tear trickles down her cheek. 

He gets down on his knee, presents her with the choking hazard ring, and proposes. Of course, she’ll say yes! 

He slips the ring on her finger, and she rewards him with, “I love you”. They seal their engagement with a real kiss that only cable channels are willing to simulate. The first ten minutes of this show has already outpaced Playful Kiss and Standby with the physical intimacy. 

Their friends Ki Joong and Dong Bi may be getting lucky that night, too. They’re all over each other as soon as they enter Ki Joong’s apartment, frantically stripping off their clothes. As he lays her down on the couch, however, Dong Bi’s hand knocks down a lamp. 

That kills the mood for Ki Joong, who bitches about the broken lamp. Even though Dong Bi apologizes, the situation escalates into an argument, and clearly it becomes more than just about the lamp. (I’m pretty sure Jung Hoon’s proposal to Hye Yoon comes up during their discussion.) Something Ki Joong says hits Dong Bi hard, and she cries.

Back at the hotel, the newly engaged Jung Hoon and Hye Yoon cuddle under the sheets. Is this supposed to be afterglow? But they’re in their matching pajamas …

She holds up the ring on her finger, and it appears she asks about it. His reply doesn’t seem to satisfy her, and she moves to the living area, where they continue their discussion. I think they may be talking about his ice cream proposal. The conversation devolves into an argument, with Hye Yoon clearly not putting up with any crap.

At this time, Deul Rae (Choi Hwa Jung), who’s probably Hye Yoon’s aunt, is introduced when Dong Bi drops by for a visit. They sneak into the darkened house, tiptoeing in to the kitchen. Deul Rae accidentally slams a cupboard door, and that wakes up sister Deul Ja (Lee Mi Sook).

Trying to avoid any questions from sis, Deul Rae quickly scuttles Dong Bi out of the house, but it’s too late. Mama gets her question in and becomes suspicious. I think she may be wondering about Hye Yoon’s whereabouts.

As Hye Yoon and Jung Hoon step out from the hotel elevator, Hye Yoon receives a call from Deul Ja. It appears she placates mom with some excuse.

Hye Yoon still seems cross with Jung Hoon, but instantly, they’re back to being cute and on sweet terms.

Hmm, perhaps Hye Yoon’s excuse didn’t fly with mom (or maybe didn’t fit Dong Bi’s cover story for her friend), as Deul Ja pushes Deul Rae and Dong Bi out of the house, scolding and beating them on the way to the car.

As the women drive, mom phones older daughter Hye Jin (Jung Ae Yeon), piling her on with distress nagging about Hye Yoon.

Meanwhile, Hye Yoon and Jung Hoon are back in their hotel room, both just having finished a shower and dressed in their bathrobes. The couple hug, and Jung Hoon playfully kisses her neck, making her squeal.

Just as he’s carrying her to the bed, Hye Yoon receives a call from older sis, warning her about Deul Ja’s upcoming raid. Hye Jin would be familiar with this situation, her romantic interlude with her then-lover-now-husband having been interrupted by mom’s hotel bust.

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Jung So Min's StandBy: Highlight Recap for Episode 87

I know StandBy have already shot their last episodes and its kinda sad to see the sitcom

 end especially its the comeback project of MinMin after Playful Kiss

Now, I know one of the MinMin's highlights in the show was Episode 87 which tackles the "love story" of Im Siwan and MinMin in Joseon period.

And most of us even though we dont know Korean language that much we still watch the drama raw. So now we got some recap from dramabeans to gives us more light on how the episode goes.

Below is the repost from dramabeans.

credits: dramabeans.com

StandBy: Episode 87 (Highlight)
by: javabeans

The episode kicks off with Shi-wan seeing how noona So-min’s still crushing on Ki-woo, and in his quietly disappointed way, he just sighs.  And while I’ve never felt too invested in his crush on her, I do think his reaction is just as much if not more out of concern for So-min than himself since he can see she’s just going to come out of it with disappointed hopes. He sees Kim Yeon-woo working on a screenplay at the restaurant, intent on sending it in to an open competition. He says it’s cathartic to work on his real-life issues in a fictional script (and with all the stress he faces at the office, one imagines there’s a lot of that), which gives Shi-wan an idea to try exorcising his own frustrations in fiction. And thus “The Story of Mong-ryong” is born. Based on the famous folktale of Chun-hyang, Shi-wan’s version just does what all those fusion sageuk projects of the present day are doing: Take the familiar and give it a small twist. In Delightful Girl Chun-hyang did the modernized version, The Story of Hyang Danmade Chun-hyang’s servant girl the heroine, ero-sageuk movie Bang-ja Chronicle did the same with the hero’s servant. Anyway. You get the point. In this version, Shi-wan is Mong-ryong, the carefree young man who drinks with gisaengs (Ye-won) and tells his uptight, studious, brainy (pfffft) buddy Kyung-pyo to loosen up and live a little.   Since we can never let the Moon/Sun parodies die, ever, Shi-wan/Mong-ryong shines with inner light and the ladies literally fall at the sight of his beauty. Contrast that to his haggard-looking servant Bang-ja, who’s a year younger than he is (snerk) despite looking like his grandfather. As a result, lazy Bang-ja has something of an addiction to health tonics, and sneaks them whenever he can. Mong-ryong thus has a bit of an inflated ego, knowing he’s a hot catch. So when he bumps into a servant girl who’s wistfully looking at a table of hair ornaments, he assumes it was just a ploy to get close to him. ‘Cause, you know, she’s only like the ten-thousandth girl to use that excuse.   So-min plays the character of Hyang-dan, which makes this episode’s interpretation closer to The Story of Hyang Dan (although, really, the tale is so well-known that it’s like saying one Cinderella story is similar to another). Mong-ryong acts like it’s SO ROUGH being so in demand, but he finds Hyang-dan attractive and requests a rendezvous. Hyang-dan sees him for the playboy he is and turns him down flat—and when she falls and he accidentally unties her jeogeori ribbon trying to hold her up, she slaps him in outrage. She storms off thinking the worst of him, and he’s intrigued. He spends the next few days lost in thought, distracted from his usual pursuits. Thing is, Mong-ryong is engaged to the lady Chun-hyang (Soo-hyun), who happens to be loud, mannerless, and excessively tall. (The sight gag between them is a nice highlight.) His father Jin-haeng (which, aww) is much sterner than the doofus we know—though no less anal about straightening and cleanliness—and proceeds with the arrangements. Mong-ryong realizes who Hyang-dan is when meeting Chun-hyang for a proper date, and finagles an excuse to talk to her privately. He has been carrying around a message for days, in the off chance he should run into her again, and hands it over now. Hopefully this will prove that he’s serious about her, and not just dallying for pleasure. So-min unfolds the letter, and finds a drawing of herself.  He’s written a note by it, which says that even when he tries to stop thinking of her, his mind automatically turns to her anyway. So-min is touched, wondering if perhaps he’s sincere after all… but tells herself no, he can’t be. He’ll marry Chun-hyang, and she’s still the servant girl.   Except… then she hears that Mong-ryong called off the engagement, leaving Chun-hyang wailing at the humiliation. But there’s nothing to be done, because he’s firm and unbudging. Daddy Jin-haeng is furious, and decides to send Mong-ryong to the capital. Not (only) as punishment, but to turn his focus to his studies and do something worthwhile. That convinces Hyang-dan that Mong-ryong was sincere about his declaration, and she rushes off that night to find him. Mong-ryong admits that he’s unable to do anything for her now, but he intends pass the civil service exam and become a man with some power. Then he’ll return for her; he asks her to wait for him. By way of answer, she hands him a message of her own—a drawing of his face and the accompanying note: “I give my heart to you, so even if it’s from afar, please think of me.” As a token of his affection, Mong-ryong kisses her on the forehead. Then one cheek, and the other. There, he says, he’s provided her with her bridal rouge (the dots worn on the forehead and cheeks for a wedding), “So you must marry me. Will you do that?” She nods, and he kisses her again. It’s sweet. Three months pass, and we find that a new magistrate has arrived in town: It’s Ki-woo, playing the part of (famously wicked and corrupt, HAHA) Byun Hak-do.  I love that Shi-wan’s screenplay makes Ki-woo the villain. Magistrate Byun is misusing his time and funding today by holding a “girlfriend audition,” which, hee. Nasally assistant Suk-jin presides over the event, and calls forward all local hopefuls to show their talent and seek the magistrate’s favor. Simon D does a little intro rap (“Oppa’n Joseon Style!”) and then, lady Chun-hyang is called forward.   Chun-hyang declares that after losing out on prime husband material with Mong-ryong, she’s going to reel in the magistrate for sure. But her gawky attempt at seduction falls flat and Magistrate Byun orders her sent back home. Suk-jin leans in to say that she’s actually just his style—so if the magistrate doesn’t want her… can he have a try at courting her? Aw, Suk-jin. Well, they say love is blind. But Chun-hyang doesn’t want to be discarded, so she doubles her efforts and shows him her horse dance, and he grumps that she should be sent to jail instead. His officer grabs her arm, and Hyang-dan darts forward to help her mistress. But that just makes Magistrate Byun take interest in the servant girl, and orders her brought to him. He propositions her to be his girlfriend, offering to elevate her out of the slave class, but she staunchly refuses. He first assumes she’s just playing hard to get (’cause how could anybody possibly refuse him?, goes his logic), but his persistence makes Hyang-dan more resistant, and she challenges him to be ashamed of himself. Not bloody likely, that. He has her tied up and interrogated like she’s just committed a capital offense (for refusing His Hotness!). Then he forces her to make a choice: be my girlfriend or be beaten. Oh, honey, when you put it that way…   Hyang-dan rattles off a classical edict to explain her refusal, which of course goes right over the brutes’ heads. She declares that she has a sweetheart, and Magistrate Byun accuses her of leading him on and being dishonest. On with the beating! That’s when the proceedings are interrupted by the undercover inspector sent by the capital to investigate misdeeds within local governments. Like Internal Affairs, Joseon style. The inspector has heard of Magistrate Byun’s widespread corruption and charges him with his crimes. Hilariously, he cowers, which just makes Shi-wan seem cuter for writing his fantasy in such extremes. Hee. Mong-ryong has the wicked officials carted off, and while keeping his face covered, he turns to Hyang-dan. She refused the magistrate’s advances, but what about his? He offers her more in return, citing his greater power and assets. Hyang-dan remains firm and states that her heart is claimed. He points out that feelings can change, or that her man could fall in love with another. She answers that he left her with a token of his love, and therefore, “I will wait until I die.”   He asks if she gave a token to her lover in return, and she answers yes, beginning to recite the note she’d written—which he finishes for her. Finally revealing himself, he assures her, “Even from afar, I thought of you.” Mong-ryong frees Hyang-dan and apologizes for taking so long. She tells him, “No, it is fine because you are here.” He asks, “Will you be mine, staying by my side for the rest of your life?” She answers, “I will.”

Jung So Min's Stand By: Episodes 5-14 (Highlights) by Dramabeans

After a week of hiatus, got to catch up that is anything related to MinMin 

and of course Stand By!

Been watching and reading about Stand By and

 happy to note that the story 

seems to be flowing smoothly as ever!

And got to read the article of javabeans about Stand By,

 its kinda sad that she won't be recapping Stand By 

but hopefully in the next episodes of Stand By 

she will be able to post her favorite scenes in the show!

And glad that we both have the fave highlights of the show! ^_^

For the meantime below is the article of javabeans that notes all the highlights of Stand By!

credits: javabeans of dramabeans.com

Standby: Episodes 5-14 (Highlights)

by javabeans 

More Standby!

So here’s the deal: I won’t be recapping (or weecapping) MBC daily sitcom Standby on a regular basis, because that’s just a level of commitment I’m not ready to make. Furthermore, the show is a pretty simple watch, and not always worth examining on a deeper level… ’cause I’m not sure it HAS a deeper level. Ha. Not that shallow is bad. Shallow gives us glorious abs and bro-bonding and silly pettiness—no complaints here.

On the other hand, I’ve been following it daily, and every once in a while there’s a hilarious moment that makes me giggle, or snort, or clutch my sides cracking up. But since not every episode is memorable, I’m pulling out some favorite moments for a highlight reel, so to speak. I may do this again for future weeks, or I may not if there are no scenes worth highlighting. We’ll play it by ear.

Highlight #1: So-min & Ki-woo

Episode 6. So-min offers to buy Ki-woo dinner to make up for eating his noodles, falling in his lap, and dumping water on him. He plays a prank on her, purposely ordering up a storm while knowing she’s on a small budget, just to see how she’ll react. He ends up paying anyway—he’s a prankster, not an ass—and that makes her feel bad for all the leftover food. So she downs a pitcher of beer (he only drinks milk, natch), and gets drunk.

Mountain girl So-min is an agile tree-climber, as she demonstrated previously when rescuing a child’s balloon from a branch. She stumbles out of the restaurant and squints up at a tree, arrested by the sight of a hat hanging from it… and climbs Ki-woo, the human tree. HAHA.

 
Highlight #2: Shi-wan & Kyung-pyo

Episode 10. Idiot Trio leader Kyung-pyo is constantly cutting class to play games, so noona Soo-hyun asks new classmate Shi-wan to keep an eye on Kyung-pyo at school and prevent him from ditching. Shi-wan takes his job seriously, blocking Kyung-pyo from leaving campus and getting stern—which includes wrist-grabbing, shoulder-shaking, and falling on top of him (accidentally, pulling him out of a motorcyclist’s path).

Thus Kyung-pyo, who’d initially scoffed at Shi-wan’s feminine looks (read: weak and puny), now sees him in a different light. A masculine, forceful, attractive light. Suddenly, Kyung-pyo is flung into the throes of indecision—could he, gasp, actually have a crush on Shi-wan? Omg.

 

The storyline’s kind of awesome, not because it’s funny—though it’s funny—but because this is the rare occasion where sexual-identity crisis plays out in a way that isn’t a total cop-out. As in, Korean dramas love to flirt with gay subtext, but it’s always in an ultimately “safe” context—a wink-wink, We know this is just a joke scenario.

Consider all the bromancing that occurs between idol boys, variety show regulars, and even drama characters—all the rampant homoeroticism is, when all is said and done, not treated as real. It’s cheeky, or joke (or slashfic) fodder. Like in Personal Taste, where the two boys crack jokes about the assumption that they’re gay, or in The Moon That Embraces the Sun, where the king purposely plays up the gay rumors about him and Woon, because it amuses him.

 

The closest I’ve seen a show explore sexual-identity confusion is in Coffee Prince, which did a strong job with the hero’s inner turmoil… although it all turns out fine in the end because the object of his affections is actually a girl. Same with You’re Beautiful’s Jeremy.

So far this show hasn’t explored the Kyung-pyo confusion much, and frankly I wouldn’t get my hopes super-high that Standby means to take this anywhere progressive. But I’m impressed that they bothered to do it in the first place. Gay text instead of subtext—who knew, K-dramas?

 
Highlight #3: Moon/Sun parody

Episode 11. This one’s not really much of a highlight, but it’s a Moon/Sun reference and it ties in to Highlight #2, so in it goes. Kyung-pyo is so rattled by his sudden attraction to Shi-wan that he agrees to date Ye-won, who has been pestering him for ages… only to find that she’s also recently discovered Shi-wan’s masculine charms and has transferred her crush to him. Ha, beard attempt fail.

Shi-wan rejects her advances, but she’s persistent and drags him out to dress up as Yeom, since that’s the drama character he resembles, wink-wink. She dresses up as Princess Min-hwa, which doesn’t seem like the ideal model for a romantic relationship, but I suppose they’re not working with a lot of options…

 
Highlight #4: Ki-woo & Suk-jin

Episode 11. Here’s what I mean by homoerotic subtext used as joke fodder. (Which, by the way, is not a denouncement—I’ll take it.) Suk-jin becomes antsy when Ki-woo comments on his resemblance to his high school classmate, Su-do—a geeky, uptight kid with bad teeth and an allergy to raw garlic that once made him crap his pants. In class. Because of a prank Ki-woo played on him.

So now, Suk-jin harbors a lingering grudge (he keeps a running tally of the times Ki-woo pisses him off), but he can’t cop to being Su-do and revisiting that shameful past. Therefore, when Ki-woo’s co-workers urge him to bring in a photo of this funny guy Su-do so they can see the resemblance, Suk-jin panics. Must. Intercept. Photo!

That prompts Suk-jin to make friendly overtures, like going out for drinks after work and pretending to get drunk, so that Ki-woo would take him home for the night—giving him a chance to snatch the photo.

That doesn’t work since Ki-woo takes him back to the station instead, and another attempt gets them both nekkid and sharing a sauna. Rawr. Hold on. I need a minute to get my staring fix in.

The sauna trip is wasted (for Suk-jin, that is, not for us), so Suk-jin asks his new “friend” Ki-woo to put him up for a night while his apartment is being worked on. Ki-woo puts his photo away to take to work with him, and in a fit of I-don’t-know-how-else-to-steal-it, Suk-jin grabs Ki-woo in a massive backhug, which Ki-woo takes for an expression of affection. Ha.

(Suk-jin gets his photo and dumps Ki-woo as friend, resuming their former prickliness, saying they’re too different to get along. Heh.)

 
Highlight #5: Aerobicizing Ryu Jin

Episode 12. Jin-haeng, in ajumma shorts and flower-print tights, jazzercizing away. No explanation needed.

 
Highlight #6: More So-min & Ki-woo

Episode 13. This is still my favorite pairing and storyline. So-min finds out that Ki-woo has been jerking her chain this whole time and vows to tell him off. But he has a way of twisting any conversation into a joke, and she needs a way to express her displeasure without getting thrown off-track. So her roommate Soo-hyun offers the advice to change up her image: Go cold and haughty.

They role-play the scenario, with Soo-hyun directing So-min how to talk. If Ki-woo tries to cut her off, hold out her hand and yell, “Stop right there!”

But So-min gets so nervous that she writes a cheat sheet on her hand, and in the midst of her flustered tirade, she yells, “Stop right there!” with the wrong hand. Ki-woo reads her whole speech and teases her some more, which ruins the whole effect.

So-min declares she won’t let him trick her anymore, so the next day when he’s sent to pick up Soo-hyun’s suit for a TV segment, So-min refuses to let him take it. No sense giving the boy who cried wolf free access, right?

Ki-woo takes the suit anyway, leading So-min to grapple with him (rawr) and chase him out. Sadly, the suit is the casualty in the tussle (spliiiiiit!)

 
Highlight #7: Even more So-min & Ki-woo

Episode 14. Insufferably, now Ki-woo is teasing So-min about crushing on him—you know, since she enjoyed that backhug a little too much and keeps running into him. Could she be staking out his movements to plan their encounters? Ki-woo: “I don’t mean to brag, but I am pretty popular with the ladies.” He’s clearly teasing, but she’s so aggravated that she wants to find a way to get him back, and good.

She finds out that Ki-woo has also been pranking Shi-wan: He pretends that a collision with Shi-wan injured his arm, wears a cast, then guilts Shi-wan into acting as his servant. Shi-wan agrees to join her in revenge, and suggests the means: a booby trap with a bucket of flour, a tripwire, and a pool of water.

Thing is, Shi-wan finds out that Ki-woo faked the injury as an excuse to lend Shi-wan his laptop (in “payment” for his servant duties). Shi-wan has been excessively stiff and formal with the Ryu family, declining their offers of help or money, not wanting to incur any debt against them. Now that he sees how far Ki-woo went to give him what he needed, he thanks him and accepts the laptop… and then realizes Ki-woo’s headed straight for the booby trap.

Shi-wan races there first and finds himself the victim of his own trap. On the upside: So-min and Shi-wan are able to play it off as an accident, so Ki-woo doesn’t know what they were plotting, and both of them decide that Ki-woo’s not such a bad guy, and that they should let their grudges slide.

But on the downside, Ki-woo is incorrigible as always, and teases So-min endlessly about her crush on him, offering her “tips” on where to find him to plan their chance encounters. So-min fumes, and I sit in glee, awaiting the day when Ki-woo will find himself falling for So-min. ‘Cause with that level of cockiness he’s got to fall first, right? And it will be sweet.