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Joan Vos MacDonald

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Can Real Men Compete With Robots For K-Drama Romance?

May 30, 2019 by Joan Vos MacDonald

My Absolute Boyfriend is the latest robot-themed romance to debut in k-dramaland, following Are You Human Too? in 2018 and I'm Not A Robot in 2017. In this girl-meets-robot story, Young Goo, played by Yeo Jin Goo, is a love robot, designed to give …

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Children of Nobody: Unspeakable Acts Under The Moonlight

January 20, 2019 by Joan Vos MacDonald

Whenever someone mysteriously dies in the drama Children of Nobody, the police find fragments of a poem, poetry that is lovely, but at the same time sinister, hinting at dark and unspeakable acts under the moonlight. The poetry is a good metaphor …

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Will Park Bo Gum Free Song Hye Kyo From Her Icy Tower In Encounter?

December 3, 2018 by Joan Vos MacDonald

It's easy to guess that Encounter will be a Cinderella story from the opening credits, and if you still missed that visual clue, Song Hye Kyo's character, a cool aloof CEO, also entrusts her shoes to the freewheeling young traveler, played by Park Bo …

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Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment Echoes in Bad Papa

November 2, 2018 by Joan Vos MacDonald

The solution to all of Jang Hyuk’s problems in Bad Papa seem to be money, but every time he makes the choice to take the money, despite the risks, he ignores the potential for his choice to end badly. His character Yoo Ji Cheol grew up poor and …

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Are You Human Too? It’s A Good Question

July 11, 2018 by Joan Vos MacDonald

  When I first interviewed Seo Kang Joon on the DramaFever Awards Ceremony red carpet, he didn't strike me as leading man material. Recently debuted with the actor-idol group 5urprise, the newbie actor had not yet made his mark on drama land. …

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