Having already watched Coffee Prince and not wanting to watch it again, I’ve started this week watching two episodes of Pasta. I also wanted to watch this drama because I love pasta and food and also for alex chu who is a character in this drama. So far I like it even though it was a bit slow in the first episode for my taste. I’m surprised I’m even caring about this drama because I tend to love dramas with more “eye candy” like boys before flowers, the Korean version however the plot and characters themselves make up for it. For instance, alex chu’s character, Kim San, who I didn’t know the name of until I wiki the drama, is not even introduced thoroughly in the drama. Unless I totally missed out on a part of the two episodes, I believe they don’t even talk about his character that much and how he is related to the main girl, yu-keyong. I kinda like that even though it bothers me not knowing who he is but as the story unfolds, I think it will be surprising to find out how they all connect.
By the end of the second episode, we see that the girl who is “friends” or girlfriend of Kim San (I’m uncertain of her character and alex’s character relationship) which I assume that she might be the girl who used to the chef’s girlfriend. If you remember her fastbacks when she runs in the health club, she thinks about the chef and when they trained together to become chefs. Also, the expression of the chef’s face once he saw her was a total giveaway. From then, Korean drama veterans can sense that there might be the 4 way love triangle or some other complicated love triangle soon in the drama. These love triangles are so typical but I don’t know why I never get tired of watching how they work out in the end.
I would also like to agree with Brigitte that the main girl’s hair is sooo outdated. I was watching and became horrified after seeing her bangs when she was out shopping at the fish market. However, this is an indication of her character who is kinda plain in looks but is strong and cares more about her love of pasta than how she looks like. The total opposite is the other actress, the television chef, who is more put together and more modern.
Also, the chef always says there will be no women in my kitchen, obviously an after effect from his relationship with his previous girlfriend. Though, what happened between them? How did their relationship end?
I can’t wait to start watching ep 3 and 4 after I finish some of my other homework @_@!
Yes, the drama is very interesting, continue you will enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteCoffee prince EP 1&2
ReplyDeleteThis drama used typical Korean drama plot which means poor girl and rich guy always showed up at the same time. However, the drama deals with about homosexual love lightly. Actually Korean is under Confucianism that represents conservative society, so homosexual love on T.V is a kind of taboo in Korean society atmospheres.
In first and second episodes, eun chan is struggling to support their family. Even though her mom and younger sister could work for themselves, they depend on eun chan’s salary. Surprisingly, eun chan don’t complain to their family, she just is working for them and herself. In Korea, getting job for women is more difficult than man, so eun chan pretend to be a guy to get job easily. Later, the pretending a guy give her to get a part time job with hankyul as acting homosexual partner.
Han kyul comes from very rich family who owned huge food company called ‘jaebul’ ,but he isn’t interested in their company successor, he just focus on toy designing during studying abroad in the U.S.
When he comes back to Korea after study, their parents force to get him arranged marriage with upper class women, but han kyul doesn’t want to do that because he still has pain about his first lover. That’s why he is willing to pretend gay couple with eun chan!