My Girl with Pictures

[lesbiassparrow]

This is our hero, Gong-chan. When Gong-chan is not paying people to impersonate his cousin, managing hotels, and angsting over his forbidden love for his fake cousin he likes to make his own jackets from the upholstery of the ugliest furniture he can find.




This is the secondary male lead, Jung-woo. You may have heard him referred to on this journal (and elsewhere) as Girlyman. He has awesome kung-fu skills and is rather nice. As, however, he is not listed first on the credits he will not get the girl. As recompense for this the director made sure to light him very well as he angsted about this fact in every bar in Seoul.


This is Tennis Girl of Lip Gloss Excess (TGoLGE). You can clearly see she is evil even if the lip gloss is not as thick as she normally smears it on. I frequently wanted to kick her down stairs, but never more that when she moaned that the hero was really mean to her. Well, what did you expect? YOU HAVE CRUSHED HIS HOPES AND DREAMS, YOU HIDEOUS BINT. Ahem. Nor do I care about you redeeming yourself in the last episode. Anyway in this picture she is probably wondering why the sun does not revolve around her and thinking about crying over the unfairness of this.


Gong-chan and the heroine, Yoo-rin. You can see that Gong-chan, not content with making his own clothes, has decided to also start in on female clothing and Yoo-rin was too polite to say no.


Hero with his aunt and uncle-in-law. I loved these two, who are, I believe, the only two middle-age people allowed to marry and have sex on a Kdrama without it causing horrific angst and tragedy. They have a very cute baby too.


Gong-chan once more attired in a terrifying jacket. The heroine is probably trying to not go blind as she faces it head on


Secretary Yoon. I loved her even though she was also afflicted with the same fashion 'sense' as the hero. I don't have a screen cap but there was a particularly horrifying little rain cape thing that she wore... Anyway, I was really happy that she found love with other Girlyman who became a famous model and treasured the tangerine she gave him.

And they all lived happily ever after. Except for Jung-Woo. But as dangermousie pointed out, he went on to become an astonishingly hot and messed up cop who infiltrates the mob. (See proof here). I am sure that was happiness of a sort.

Comments

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

LOL. Best post ever. Btw, did you end up liking Gong-Chan or no?

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I loved this series but however dressed the cast has got to be blind. And all of those awful metallic ties!

I ended up really liking Gong-chan. I never hated him, just wasn't amazingly fond of him. But he did angst very well and sobbed fetchingly enough to melt my stone heart. Not as fetchingly as Girlyman, though.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

You think this is bad fashion? Heh. I am so used to kdrama fashion, I didn't even notice his coats until you pointed them out :) But then kdrama fashions are a scary world apart. I am watching Loveholic now and the male lead (an ex-con, no less) wears these v-necked shirts that I would consider too girly for myself.

Re: Gong-Chan. He does angst well. That scene in the airport is probably one of my favorite angsty kdrama bits. Ohhhhh. I ended up really hating the grandfather. Though I suppose Gong-Chan ended up lucky, he could have been born into the Bali family instead...

[calixa.livejournal.com]

I loved Secretary Yoon/Other Girlyman. They were the cutest of the whole lot.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I loved the whole thing with the tangerine she gave him which got squashed. I commended his craft skills in trying to sew it back together but taking two years to woo her seemed a bit excessive even by kdrama standards. Move faster Girlyman!

[calixa.livejournal.com]

Oh god, I TOTALLY forgot about him trying to SEW it back together.

I think we have to call him Girlyboy or something to distinguish him from the original Girlyman (Lee Jun Ki). Because Lee Jun Ki is somehow manlier despite actually looking MORE like a girl. No tangerine sewing for him!!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Lee Jun Ki did have (the perhaps) unfair advantage of being introduced as a kung-fu fighting world level player.

[oxymoronassoc.livejournal.com]

I always enjoy the clothes in Kdramas. You have to wonder what sort of glue the Korean designers were sniffing when they came up with some of these combos.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I am not sure that these people inhabit the same planet as the rest of humanity. They seem to view Kdrama heroes as some experimental playground for hideous designs.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed this post immensely. And nothing is better then dorama fashions (only their haircuts). :D

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Dorama and fashion should never really be used in the same sentence...

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

You have reminded me of my extreme bitterness that Gong-Chan said he was going home to play with the baby what we didn't see it.

I never realized how bad the jackets were until you put so many of them in one place...

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I didn't screen cap any of the early ones either. There was something that appeared to be made out of tinfoil crossed with carpet. I pitied the actor.

[zandra-x.livejournal.com]

I think the reason Yoo-rin isn't appalled by the furry, girly upholstery coat is that her pink, ruffled collar is cutting off her oxygen. She's not thinking straight.

And Tennis Girl of Lip Gloss Excess looks a lot like Lana on "Smallville", the same cranky expression and all.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

You may be right about Yoo-rin. Come to think of it, they kept swaddling her in scarves. Maybe she was permanently oxygen deprived?

I never noticed the Lana resemblance before now. *ponders*

[fivil.livejournal.com]

YOU HAVE CRUSHED HIS HOPES AND DREAMS, YOU HIDEOUS BINT.
Ahahahahahaha.

Glad you enjoyed it. It is indeed a fine kdrama, totally one of the best I've seen (and managed to wade through). :D

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I hated that character with a fiery passion.

I really did enjoy this and some of the fantasy sequences were the funniest things I've ever seen on any show.

[shangri--la.livejournal.com]

Any idea as to where I can view this movie? Where it's available? I don't see it on Netflix.

Thanks!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

It's actually a TV miniseries (16 episodes). If you want you could get it from jdramas (http://community.livejournal.com/jdramas/profile), which has it subtitled (good subtitles, too, not the mad ones I post about - those come from DVDs of dubious origin I buy at a video store). You have to join and then check their tags for 'My Girl.' It's all up there except episode 9.
They also have a film starring the secondary male lead as a cross-dressing clown whom a Korean king falls in love with. I am looking forward to that will glee and excitement.

[shangri--la.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much!

[princess-dexter.livejournal.com]

Here via dorama_chat: I just finished watching My Girl myself and you've said everything I wanted to say with great snark and eloquence. The beautiful (if sloooooooow) love story between Secretary Yoon and Other Girlyman was possibly the most awesome (and slowest) secondary (tertiary?) relationship I've ever seen in an Asian drama.

You're spot on with the fashion critiques - why must they always dress like that?!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Kdrama fashion exists in its own special universe of strangeness. I've never seen Goong but the 'fashions' from that one seem to make My Girl look restrained. Maybe the costume designers hate pretty people? Or all the clothes are made by untalented relatives of the producers???