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The First Shop of Coffee Prince.

I'm obsessed with Korean Shows and Korean Actors in the month of February every year. Last year it was Dae Jang Geum. If you've read this blog regularly, you would know that I thought then that she was the Prettiest Asian (not including Indians) woman I ever laid eyes on.

Nowadays, my big crush is on Gong Yoo of Coffee Prince. This 29 year old South Korean Actor has got me to put aside my dislike for Dog Eating humans i.e. Koreans, and consider them as a potential candidate for a future date.

Here's a pic to illustrate my point. You must ofcourse watch the show(I've seen it three times in the last week, 50 hours) to truly appreciate his charm.



The storyline of Coffee Prince is truly brilliant. Basically you have a smart playboy(Gong Yoo), who loves to design toys, but since he is born into a big business family, he is asked by his family to come back to Korea (from NY). He comes back with the intention of going back to NY to design toys after a holiday. However, his grandma, whom he is awfully fond of, convinces him to run a coffee shop to show that he has some sense of responsibility. He takes her promise that if he triples the profits in three months, he gets to go back to NY to follow his dream of being a toy designer.

Since he is 29, his family decides its time he got married. They try and set him up on blind dates with women of similar privileged background. To avoid these dates he hires Yoon Eun-hye (a poor girl he mistakes to be a boy-they meet when she catches the thief who tries to rob the girl Gong Yoo is out with one night, and demands a reward from him) to be his Gay lover. After that he hires her as one of the male waiters at his shop - Coffee Prince. Soon he finds himself falling in love with him(her), and thinks he is losing his mind(since he still thinks her as a boy)...

The show is hilarious and ends beautifully. It ran only for two months in Korea (a mini series) and just finished airing its last episode in Singapore a week back.

There are various angles to this show, that I don't want to get into. Sufficient to say, this show has beaten 'Buffy - first season' in terms of my pure obsession. It has also beaten Dae Jang Geum, in terms of the number of times I have watched each episode(Dae Jang Geum by the way is running in India on DD under the name: Ghar ka Chirag. Catch it if you'll have the time )

I suggest you get your hands on this show. I justify repeated viewing(to myself) saying I am trying to improve my Mandarin(I watch the mandarin version). I would have watched it even if I wasn't. Sweety is already forgetting going to mass, while watching this show. Liz has so far avoided my sales pitch, but has come around to the fact that there is substance, its not all frill (Gave her some jazz on how well each character is crafted and how relationship issues are handled so well.)

Here's a pic of Yoon Eun-hye and the entire gang. Thank you for bringing romance back into my life:)




I am back from my trip to Batam, Indonesia. Pics are up on Facebook.

Labels: Korean Shows