Since Dae Jo Young is shown only twice a week now, the Wed-Fri 6-7.30pm slot had been taken by “Thank You”, a drama that AZN tv had already shown previously. Ya, AZN is so cheap that they have to really get their money worth by showing a series twice.
This has happened to Thank You, Someday, My Name is Kim Sam Soon (I think this has been shown at least 3 times), etc.
By the way, that series Thank You probably sparked a “Choco Pie” revolution. Even Ranch99 here is carrying it.
OK, I admit it…I bought a box just to try them out!
Anyway, Thank You has been replaced by Coffee Prince. When my sister and I went to Disneyland last September, this series was being shown by the korean channel in the Anaheim hotel.
Coffee Prince is about a tom-boy girl (Ko Eun Chan) working really hard at odd jobs to support her family…her mom and sister. Along come this rich guy (Korean drama deja-vu…it’s almost always a rich guy, poor girl story. Look for other version below.), and his family wants him to get married.
They set him up on blind dates (another Korean drama deja-vu…blind dates at 5 star hotels) and he finds them sooo boring.
He “hires” the girl, thinking that she’s a HE, to be his lover….Can’t he see that she has no Adam’s apple??
Anyway, they have fun pretending to be lovers, driving his blind dates crazy.
Meanwhile, his grandma (they’re in the coffee business) puts him to work at this coffee shop that’s really run down and dirty and tells him to turn it around.
That’s pretty much the first 2 episodes that has been shown. So if you haven’t started watching it yet, you can catch it on Weds to Fridays at 6-7.30pm PST.
The other Korean drama being shown on AZN is Love Truly. Love Truly was the replacement drama after Air City ended. It is shown Mon-Fri from 7.30-9pm PST.
Love Truly is about a poor, naive country girl (this is the other version I talked about, heheee), Yeo Bong Soon, who rescues this guy who was unconcious after falling while hiking in the woods.
This guy turns out to be the Korean President’s son. Chang Joon Won is married but his wife is suffering from dementia and has a daughter.
The Blue House (this is Korea’s White House) sends a Blue House guard (their Secret Service I guess), Nam Bong Gi, to drive Chang Joon Won back to Seoul since he was injured and couldn’t drive.
This is how the 3 of them met.
This drama has gone past the normal 16 episodes so I’m quite surprised.
Anyway, Yeo Bong Soon likes Chang Joon Won who likes her back but he is married!!! It’s all still very harmless but nevertheless, the girl likes a married man and he likes her back.
Their relationship has dragged on…to the annoying point for me. She cries over him, he looks like a lost puppy. She declared that she will be his sister and yet, she has tears in her eyes when she sees him.
But I really like the scenes between Nam Bong Gi and Yeo Bong Soon. And I love the talking teddy bear. It’s sooo cute!
He obviously likes her though he calls her “Chun-ta” (hillbilly). He has also referred to her as a chicken. She has called him “fat head”. These are the “affectionate” terms they use on each other.
Nam Bong Gi has really grown on me. At first, he was this annoying, whining guy who talks a lot. Now he’s funny, hilarious sometimes, caring and protective. He really cracks me up.
There is actually another Korean drama being shown by AZN. It is “Hello Ajumma”. It is only 30 minutes long and shown Mon-Fri from 1-1.30pm I think.
I have seen a few episodes but it has not caught on with me. The characters are all annoying, even the supposedly heroine of the story. Maybe it’s supposed to cater to an older audience but I can’t really stand it.