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aaaand it's finally my all time favourite and the best
our beloved summer
bringing to us from the witch, kim dami and choi wooshik. and damn, do they look cute together.
our beloved summer is about growing up, problems of a distracted mind, and problems of am overly focused one. it describes how despite all hardships in life, sometimes all you need is someone to push you through those difficult times.
picture twenty five twenty one, but with a happier ending.
we have choi ung, the artist. kook yeon su, the strict one, and ji ung, the one sided pining lover (the horse boy from vincenzo 😭).
i. the acting. dear heavens. keep in mind, this was one of the first dramas i watched. i was completely unimpressed by ung's hairstyles and mannerisms and yeon su's coldness. ji ung seemed expressionless and i was not hooked at all. BUT THEN, like a saviour, came the salt and water scene. it was actually then that i understood - the show isn't going to be known for its grand gestures or huge confessions. it's going to be known for the little things, the deeply buried doubt and insecurities of both ung and yeon su.
ii. there's a constant shift between the past and the present, in both of which they're shooting a documentary. typically, there's no reason for such a documentary to be shot again. but once we see the nostalgia of the producer, it all makes sense. from the immature kids they were in high school to the still maturing adults they are. nothing beats yeon su saying she wants a guy who's mature and ung waving a broom from behind. yes ma'am this is the guy you ordered
iii. emotion management top tier. as someone who's lived in the constant struggle to be liked and to stay on the top, yeon su's multi layered character gave me a sense of comfort. as a distracted mind, always here and there for acceptance and finding something that makes me truly happy, i found my home in ung. there's no grand confession that makes everything happy and dandy. it made me wonder if these gestures are overrated after all.
this was such a long rant.
ive had longer reviews than this, but i think if i stretch this longer you're gonna get bored.
to all my people who got bored and left this drama halfway between - give it a chance. try to not see it as a kdrama with quirky music and funny leads but as real people, through layers of experiences and failures.
if you still don't like it, watch the wooga squads review live review of obs 🔪
9/10
top 10 kdrama bromances to feed your empty heart
if you scroll through my page, you can already guess number 1.
#10 - our beloved summer : choi ung and kim ji ung
beautiful beautiful men choi woo shik and kim sung cheol played ung bros for life in this beautiful beautiful drama. one of the best handled love triangles ive seen. they were there for each other through thick and thin, and helped each other through sm. best. on the tenth spot because they could've expanded on it more :(
#9 - what's wrong with secretary kim? : lee young joon and park yoo sik
i could never make it through the series. i left it behind on ep9/10 i think, and primarily because i physically cannot digest how emotionless park min young is. BUT, kudos to the hilarious office best bromance by the great park seo joon and kang ki young. ps - why is kang ki young the pankaj tripathi of korean dramas?
#8 - strong girl do bong soon : ahn min hyuk and in gook du
can we ever forget the legendary wink? or the dream where min hyuk is dressed as a woman? i think not. this was more of a frenemy type bromance, united by their love for bong soon and ironically divided by it, too. i refuse to acknowledge this as a love triangle tho. bong soon was astronomical in not hurting gook du and i will not take any criticism. is it a bromance if one of them is pretending to be gay? (and no, we will not discuss any sort of iTs pRoBLeMaTiC debates here.)
#7 - tale of the nine tailed : lee yeon and koo shin ju
don't come at me with the lee rang comments. rang was his half brother, related by blood. their relationship was top tier, but the stay at home husband yeon and working husband shin ju was too cute to not be classified as a bromance. in the beginning, i saw their relationship as shin ju serving yeon, a dynamic that they both seemed to embody. but as the show progresses, yeon baby we know you love shin ju just as much :*
#6 - alchemy of souls : jang uk and seo yul
song joon ki seems to have an attachment to bromances. han seo had the best character arc of the ENTIRE kdrama universe fight me. that court scene where vincenzo pats han seo's cheek was max bro cuteness. still not over his death. he deserved better.
#5 - vincenzo : vincenzo cassano and jang han seo
even though i didn't very much like the show's first couple, bromance delivered well. hospital scene peaked, complete true beauty sameness. it was pretty hard to understand who was the superior officer in this tbh initially, since their comraderie was so cool, shi jin was kid to soldier in a split second. loved how they chose not to unnecessarily exaggerate the love triangle initially bec i was only rooting for the second couple.
#4 - descendants of the sun : yoo shi jin and seo dae young
business proposal was the first kdrama i saw. i finished it in a three day trip, and i remember thinking more about the bromance than the romance. i was NOT used to the clumsiness of kdramas in general, like wattpad fics incarnated. the bromance delivered well, made me root for the second couple, and was the only initial indicator of kang tae moo being human instead of archaeopteryx. that word was a nightmare to spell.
#3 - business proposal : kang tae moo and cha sung hoon
the most wolfstar bromance if I ever saw one. and NO, i do not ship wolfstar just like i do not ship these two. they are totally adorable, and specially since their personalities seemed to switch from when they were children. yeong turned all serious face and lee gon got fun. love their years of friendship sm, their wordless communication and yeong in general. the acting was amazing.
#2 - the king - eternal monarch : lee gon and jo yeong
#1 - guardian - the lonely and great god : kim shin aka goblin and wang yeo aka grim reaper
yes, i know I'm missing a lot of iconic ones. unfortunately, i haven't seen alot of kdramas and have left alot in bw (like true beauty bec i couldn't see second lead hurt).
spring onion slays ^
told ya, if u follow me u already knew what the first one was gonna be. being the simp i am for the goblin and grim reaper, these two achieved the max points for their bromance. that slow dynamic of goblin calling reaper's hat tacky to fighting with knives to that iconic 'saranghae' to 'HOW DARE YOU' to goblin boiling eggs with his powers while reaper chills the beer. they know each other so well. love love love them and you should too 🔪
in my heart, the trio of our boys beats nothing (except for the gookdu-minhyuk relationship of the crown prince and uk). but instead of choosing the frenemy thing, i decided to love yul and uk more. yul was such a quiet character, with incredible potential in him for me to hate him, but then...(the guy is literally too sweet and beautiful and nice i can ramble for days). and uk, man, our power baby who loves every version of our beautiful but slow girl, needed so much emotional support. uk and yul were not afraid to show their affection for each other, a trait i admired in all the three boys (jang uk, seo yul and park dang gu).
OUR BELOVED SUMMER Ep. 12
she cited her source !
the our beloved summer webtoon is so cute and giving us more insight into what they were like in high school hehehehe
i keep thinking about how it would make so much more sense for jiung to have a crush on ung rather than yeonsu because half of jiung and yeonsu’s conversations are about ung anyway 😭
ep 14 was so short and no previews 😞😞😞 i’m scared u guys !!!! yeonsu pls open up to ung he wants the best for u
that whole episode was amazing it genuinely felt like we just saw their happily ever after im so glad they all grew as people and became the best version of themselves AHAJSOSKD SCREAMING CRYING!!!!