Coolgardy: THE NEXT INVASION

Every weekday nights over at the free TV, one can watch the antics of the above couple. Yes, my dear folks, its back to the good old Korean dramas dished out to us viewers. Day in day out, the above topics always talk about love and hate, hate and love and then, both seemingly odd couple turns out to be the perfect couple. Ok, what am I talking about? Its this drama....

Yup, its called MY GIRL or should it be re-titled "MY SASSY GIRL??" Storyline, ok here it goes folks, don't get confused here...the plot is very simple, even a 5 year old kid will tell you who will end up with who at the end.

So, the plot here is poor girl from bad background meets up with rich guy (who happens to be dashing and good looking too) and from earlier experience, they seem to be at the wrong paths most of the time. However, as twists of fate turns out, sassy girl happens to resemble rich guy's grandpa's long lost grand daughter. Oh, only in TV land can they turn out such twists.

But, grandpa's about to die you know, and being the filial grandson (oh by the way, did you know that the Koreans subscribed to our Confucius way of life more intently than the Chinese themselves), gets sassy girl to impersonate as the grand daughter. Simple plot yes, but like all dramas, you will have the sub-plots like how sassy girl have to help out real dad who is a gambler pay off the dues and she has to resort stealing oranges from rich man's garden to do so. Ok, nothing is free in this world, so sassy girl agrees to impersonate for a fee...hence we have this drama.

In between the plots, rich guy suddenly finds himself attracted to sassy girl and then worse of all, he thinks he might be falling in love with her. Typical of odd couples making out in the end, right? See, no need to take a drama course or get a degree on it, anyone can be a producer in Korean dramas per se...just ensure you have good looking people acting in it. Then you will have something like a fairy tale storyline to suite the "tai tai's", aunties or even simply put it, the general masses...I mean for the other community, its the looks of the male actor that counts, so that too will pour in the coffers to these producers.

Therefore, the age old question...does beauty sell? Yes of course it does, look at all the other Korean dramas dished out...its all romantic and so fairy tale type, no doubt the Japanese who were once colonial masters of Korea has now been so called colonized by these new generation of dramas from the Land of the Morning Calm.

From what I know, this craze has not only hit our shores but have taken the whole region in such a scream that even traditional regions like Hong Kong or Taiwan and to a larger extent Japan, have been hit by this tsunami wave like craze. Even in Thailand, Indonesia or the great US of A, this seem to be a cult following especially in terms of Korean dramas or anything Korean.

So, from the smirk above, we can have another wave of Korean or anything Korean which will eventually hit us before we all know it. As I speak, I know of one lady in my office (name withheld), she is actually still single but has this adulation for the actor above.

His name is Lee Dong Wook and one can access his files from here:-

http://asianfanatics.net/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t185950.html

just go up and check him out. Anyway, back to my spinster lady co-worker, she shuts off her pc sharp every day on the dote, mind you just to be back on time to watch her knight in shining armor....I'm like, wow, ok, go ahead sister, if that makes you happy!!

As for me, I have not been a avid fan must confess that I have missed already several episodes, so in true fan sense, I'm not, but I'm bloggin this because I think it deserves to be blogged. So here are more pictures from the drama...