you’re beautiful…BECAUSE I SAID SO ♥

Spoilers alert!!!

If you haven’t watched “Minami Shineyo – You’re Beautiful” or are in the middle of watching this drama then you shouldn’t read this post cuz i’m just gonna be blabbering on about my thoughts and stuff of it xD.

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Titles: You’re Beautiful (English), Minami Shineyo 미남이시요 (Korean)

Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy

Synopsis: A band called A.N.JELL are looking for a new member for their group (or rather, Manager Ahn has already decided on the new member). Go Mi Nam happens to be the new member of the group but Hwang Tae Kyung (the leader of A.N.JELL, played by Jang Geun Suk) does not want to accept this fact because he is a bit egocentric and only wants someone who can sing his songs so he refuses to believe that Mi Nam has the voice of an angel (Manager Ahn speaks really highly of Mi Nam, played by Park Shin Hye).

Before Mi Nam even enters the scene however, he is supposedly over in America getting treatment for eye surgery gone wrong. Mi Nam’s manager, Mr. Ma steps in and finds Go Mi Nyu (Mi Nam’s younger twin sister who is also played by Park Shin Hye) who is a nun in training. At first Mi Nyu does not want to pretend to be Mi Nam but after Manager Ma being so persistent and telling Mi Nyu the reason for Mi Nam wanting to be in A.N.JELL, Mi Nyu finally accepts her new fate and agrees to be Mi Nam until he returns.

The drama then continues on about the struggles of Mi Nyu (who is now Mi Nam) being accepted as the new member of A.N.JELL and also keeping her identity a secret. Not only that, people from the past such as Tae Kyung’s mother keep surfacing and many problems starts occurring as Mi Nam tries to keep her feelings for Tae Kyung under wraps.

Tae Kyung is also trying to fight his own feelings for Mi Nam as he tries to help her  keep her identity a secret albeit reluctantly, going as far as pretending to date the Korean Fairy superstar Yoo He Yi so that she will be quiet about the real Mi Nam.

Yoo He Yi accidentally finds out Mi Nam is actually Mi Nyu from Wang Kko Di who knows everything from Manager Ma who mistakes He Yi as Tae Kyung’s real lover so she tells He Yi everything she knows about him, thinking that He Yi is very sweet and innocent when in fact He Yi is very manipulative and two-faced.

He Yi then concocts many plans to get rid of Mi Nam by trying to expose her at every point possible because He Yi is actually in love with Tae Kyung but is very jealous that Tae Kyung pays so much attention to Mi Nam.  She hates how Tae Kyung doesn’t regard her at all whenever Mi Nam is around and how everyone treats Mi Nam as the princess while He Yi should be treated that way. She doesn’t understand why everyone always pays so much attention to Mi Nam and hates Mi Nam even more for this factor.

Jung Yong Hwa who plays Kang Shin Woo also adds to the list of drama happening. He actually finds out about Mi Nam’s identity very early on in the drama and from then he is always looking out for Mi Nam like a good “hyung”. Mi Nam of course does not know this and is oblivious to anything that Shin Woo tells her about his love which is in fact Mi Nam.

The drama is very comedic and at times very light hearted thanks to supporting actor Lee Hong Ki who is portraying the character of Jeremy. It’s hard not to love Jeremy because of his exotically bleached blonde hair and bubbly yet sometimes childish personality. Like the other members, Jeremy is secretly in love with Mi Nam but he doesn’t find out about Mi Nam’s identity until later on during a premier. All this time Jeremy thinks that Mi Nam is a guy and he was getting scared of his feelings because he is also a guy so he shouldn’t have these feelings at all. When he does find out Mi Nam is a girl however he is very ecstatic.

Overall i think that the actors portray their characters well and this drama was very fun to watch thanks to the childish shenanigans of Jeremy, the ever building love triangles-rectangles from the characters and also the mysterious pasts of Tae Kyung and Mi Nam. Not to mention that the cast is good looking with a superb soundtrack to boot. The episodes left me wanting to know what would happen next and the storyline was not overly cliched. It is a must watch!!

Cast

Jang Geun Suk as Hwang Tae Kyung
Park Shin Hye Go Mi Nam (Male) / Go Mi Nyu (Female)
Lee Hong Ki as Kang On Yu / Jeremy
Jung Yong Hwa as Kang Shin Woo

Extended cast

UEE as Yoo He Yi
Bae Geu Rin as Sa Yu Ri (Fan club president)
Kim In Kwon as Ma Hoon Yi (Mi Nam’s manager)
Choi Ran as Choi Mi Ja (Mi Nam & Mi Nyu’s aunt)
Kim Sung Ryung as Mo Hwa Ran
Jung Chan as President Ahn
Choi Soo Eun as Wang Kko Di
Tae Hwang as staff
Yoo Seung Ho (cameo, ep9)

MAJOR SPOILERS ALERT xD

So I recently watched the Kdrama of “Minami Shineyo – You’re Beautiful” and I’ve got to say, this was one drama i was sad to finish. Usually i really hate watching Kdrama’s to the end because they drag the storyline into 30 something episodes where the main character & the love interest go through sooooo many FUCKING DIVERSITY that by the 29th episode i know they will stay  together in the 30th and live happily ever after. But this drama, my god, it was so good that i found myself actually pacing myself to finish the 16 episodes. Usually i would watch 6 episodes max, then jump to the last episode to see if the main characters would end up together but with “You’re Beautiful” i just found myself enjoying every minute of the drama.

I thought that the actors were well picked. Kudos to the producers for making such a good choice on the cast (Y). They were superb~! I really liked Jeremy whom Lee Hong Ki (from FT ISLAND) played!! He was really funny and I couldn’t help but love him from the start! Kudos to Hong Ki for being so funny at the correct times. I felt kinda sorry for him though since he was in love with Mi Nam (or Mi Nyu so confusing to refer back to Mi Nyu since the whole time in the drama everyone referred to her as Mi Nam. Shin Hye plays both the male & female counterparts of the twins so it doesn’t really matter xD) but Mi Nam never once thought that way of him. When he found out Mi Nam was in love with Tae Kyung he was so devastated it hurt to watch! Then he sang “very good words” on his “treasure bus” (he was choking and crying, trying to hold back his emotions and trying to still be the fun loving Jeremy for the listeners) i found myself very sad and near tears and then when he got off the bus and reverted to the old playful Jeremy like nothing had happened i was soooo totally in love with him!!! Ahhhh Hong Ki!! You did a very good job indeed for the role of Jeremy!!!

Shin Woo who was played by Jung Yong Hwa did a good job too. He knew right from the first (or was it second? lol i’m just trying to think back at the top of my head) episode that Mi Nam was a girl. Of course he had to keep quiet for it and he supported Mi Nam in every way possible. It was quite cute how he helped her out when she was in the men’s showers and tried not to look at any of the guys in there as she tried to escape. Hahaha that scene was funny how Mi Nam was envisioning the guys as babies but Jeremy had to take her out of her reverie by whipping his towel off and saying something funny. Shin Woo helped her snap out of her shocked state by putting a towel over her head and leading her out of the locker room. Of course she was still dazed and ran into Tae Kyung dun dun dunnnnn.

Tae Kyung was played by Jang Geun Suk and he’s such a hottie!!! I really liked how he portrayed Tae Kyung. He even lost weight!! Poor guy. Though he didn’t look anorexic to me. He even wore eyeliner and had a unique hairstyle & fashion sense the whole drama. So bold and daring! Haha.

Tae Kyung and Mi Nam have a love hate relationship though. At times he was a bit cruel to her since he didn’t want to be involved in her secret thing. He found out about her real identity when he was having a webcam chat to Manager Ma who left the webcam on in his office while he was going to get the schedule for Tae Kyung. Mi Nam and the clothes/make-up coordinator (something along those lines, i forget what she is LOL) came in to fix Mi Nam’s erhhhh “balls” ahaha and Tae Kyung couldn’t believe it himself until he came into the dance studio and hugged Mi Nam to test. Ahhhhh he was very surprised to find out Mi Nam was a girl.

As i wrote before Tae Kyung is a bit egocentric and not to mention a very neat freak. He hates people touching him without his permission and his room is so neat and tidy that everything has its own place and he knows when something has been moved. He moved out of the group’s apartment because he couldn’t stand Mi Nam who came into his room and accidentally spat in it to put out a candle. She ultimately messed up his room while trying to say sorry to him. At the time Tae Kyung was in the bathroom taking a shower and she was setting down tea for him when the scented candle she was holding spilt onto the floor. She tried to clean it up but somehow bumped into his CD shelf (man was it big lol) and she was trying to hold it up, although by this time his room was a total mess, and tried to put out the candle’s fire but the papers were flying around because the fan was turned on accidentally. So she resorted to spitting and when Tae Kyung steps out of the shower he sees a gob of spit flying from her mouth to the candle. The candle was put out and so was Tae Kyung. Haha the guy nearly DIED of a heart attack when he saw what Mi Nam was doing.

Go Mi Nam & Go Mi Nyu was played by Park Shin Hye. That’s why i always refer to Mi Nam because she plays both and because she was always called Mi Nam by the others in the drama. It’s just easier for me to remember :P.

Anyways, the love triangles/rectangle was to be expected. Mi Nam’s character is lovable just like Jeremy’s. She’s so innocent and kind that she isn’t swayed by much except for maybe Tae Kyung. I love how Managaer Ma taught her “pressure points” and she actually believed it and everytime she couldn’t contain her feelings for Tae Kyung she would make the piggy nose. So cute whenever she did that though because it was tough for her to shut away her feelings. She was beginning to think herself foolish and ashamed of the feelings :( poor girl. I also loved how Mi Nam was always thinking of the Mother Superior whenever she was stuck on something or had troubles. It’s funny how the Nun would show up in her visions and point her in the right directions xD.

I also can’t believe how Mi Nam did not have a clue all this time to how Shin Woo was feeling. As he pointed out he felt like she had rejected him a 100 times over. Shin Woo was always trying to confess to Mi Nam but everytime he does Mi Nam is with Tae Kyung or some problem crops up but mostly it was cuz of Tae Kyung lol.

The side story of Tae Kyung’s mother really saddened me since he was abandoned when he was young. Tae Kyung’s mother is a famous singer Hwa Mo Ran and she was in love with Mi Nam’s father who was a music composer. Even then there was a love triangle between Mo Ran and Mi Nam’s parents. I can’t believe how cruel Mo Ran was, abandoning her only son and ultimately ruining Mi Nam’s parents lives. She also ultimately ruins Tae Kyung’s and Mi Nam’s relationship after all they went through and after Tae Kyung even gave up his pride to tell Mi Nam that he liked her (she had to go and confuse him by saying it’s ok if she could be his fan lol). He gave her permission to like him and found out why she did that piggy nose thing. I don’t know why he couldn’t just confess to her straight out that he could like her but of course this is the egocentric Tae Kyung so of course he has to be like this.

I love the way Geun Suk says “Go Mi Nam”. It’s sooooo cute. Everytime he says it i’m like omg omg omg ahahaha his voice is so nice !! I also loved how they made a reference to the stars. It was nice but it kinda reminded me of Boys Over Flowers a bit. Oh and even Jang Geun Suk reminded me a bit of T.O.P from Big Bang the whole time since he always had the eyeliner on and the half pony tail hair style. I really liked his hair and eyes in the movie ahahah. They exuded mystery and fiercness and i could see so much emotion put forth <3

Needless to say Tae Kyung was my favourite character. Then it’s Jeremy because gosh without Jeremy i don’t think the drama would work very much. Jeremy brought in the laughter and funny moments. I loved how he thought he was turning gay because he didn’t know Mi Nam was actually a girl. Ahhh i don’t know, he reminds me of a 5 year old who is excited about everything. So cute. Manager Ahn also brought in a few laughs for me. I thought it was funny how he would always slip in a few English words in every sentence of his like “Jackpot” and “nature calls me” ahahaha it was sometimes random too but it was funny and it gave him a laid back type of personality.

Man i can go on and on about what happened in the drama. It was THAT memorable that i had to write a long blog for it xD but I’m sad that the drama ended, hoping that they make a second season with all of the original cast. Except for UEE, god i really hated her character. So manipulative and bitchy and two faced. She brang in spice to the drama but it really annoyed me every time she came on screen. I don’t know why. I guess i’m just biased xD.

I felt that the drama was kinda rushed though since they didn’t touch much on the prior subject of Hwang Tae Kyung’s vocal problems. They mentioned it in the beginning and that was the whole reason to adding a new member to A.N.JELL because there was something wrong with Tae Kyung’s throat but as the drama continued nothing was mentioned about this problem. The problem they seemed more focused on was Tae Kyung’s mysterious birth & also Go Mi Nam’s parents. I guess they just forgot? Lol.

Also the ending was rushed ): not much of an ending since Tae Kyung just sang Mi Nam’s mother’s song to her and tried to look for her in the crowd of fans. He couldn’t find her since he has poor night vision. It’s too dark where she is and there’s too much light where he is so he can’t see her and then he shouts in the crowd for her to show herself, stay where he can see her etc. Then Shin Woo (poor guy, he was in love with Mi Nam all this time but Mi Nam never even knew since she liked Tae Kyung) told lighting to close stage lights and open the fan lights. Tae Kyung sees Mi Nam and runs to her side. He grabs her and hugs her tightly and says in her ear: “I’m going to tell you this  everyday…I love you” (cheesy i know but the way Geun Suk – the actor – delivered this line, it wasn’t as cheesy as you read it xD) and then cut to the next scene where they have a banter about liking each other. Tae Kyung pretends he caught her a star and shows her the necklace he was supposed to give her a few eps back and she likes it. Then he hugs her and Mi Nam talks about how she finally found her star and will always cherish it. Tae Kyung replies saying that’s right and he will always shine for her. Okay, so when i recap it that way it seems that there was a lot going on for the ending but in truth this was all in 9-10 minutes of footage and half of it was when Tae Kyung was singing “What Can I Do?”

Jang Geun Suk & Park Shin Hye make a very good couple!! They were so cute together in behind the scenes. I never noticed it but Shin Hye is really cute and pretty!! She’s one of my fav Korean actresses now. She was really good at portraying her character too but i thought that she still looked girly when she was being a guy. Can’t help it though since she has a babyish face. But yeahhh those two are sooo cute together.

I’m just happy that there was a happy ending with Tae Kyung and Mi Nyu in the end. After all i do love happy endings haha. The soundtrack is really good too! I wished the band A.N.JELL really did exist. Think of all the cool songs they would make!! Haha wishful thinking again.

Anyways, this post toook sooo long for me to write. 2 hours of recapping ahahah. Anyone who stumbles upon this post be grateful i did a long synopsis, even if it does reveal a bit too much since when i was searching for the synopsis on other sites theirs consisted of one freaking paragraph. But thats just me. I don’t get straight to the point but rather dance around the subject xD.

Anywhooooo time for other stuff hahah.

here’s the list of songs from the OST:

December 1, 2009 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: A.N.JELL, Korean Drama You're Beautiful, Minami Shineyo, You're Beautiful, You're Beautiful Spoilers, You're Beautiful Synopsis | 2 Comments »