Synopsis: Can today’s rock ’n roll find harmony with traditional Korean folk music? Lee Shin (Jung Yong Hwa, of the rock band CN Blue) is lead vocalist and guitarist for a rock band. Lee Gyu Won (Park Shin Hye) is a traditional gayageum (Korean zither-like instrument with 12 strings) player and a progeny of Korean traditional music. Their worlds collide at a performing arts college, where he is majoring in Western Music and she in Korean Traditional Music. Shin, a moody and aloof city boy, is initially smitten with dance professor Jung Yoon Soo (So Yi Hyun), but that quickly changes when he meets the feisty Gyu Won, who can be said to be Korean folk music royalty. Both Shin and Gyu Won care about their respective musical styles at the exclusion of all else in their lives, but can the two divergent passions be reconciled? The two lead actors previously starred together in the 2009 drama “You’re Beautiful.” (via viki.com)
Lucky me! This time I even found the teasers!!
Apparently there was a rumor of a second series, but I checked and there's none.
To watch this series I recommend this two websites (click and you'll be directed to the drama's first episode):
On youtube there are tons of videos showing Heartstrings's making, NGs included!
For the playlist, click here. (None of the video content is mine, just to make sure)
In the My Drama List page I recently created I promised that I was going to post something more about each drama that I had listed. The only problem with this, however, layed in the fact that I'm a failure at making reviews. I tried a million times already and I always failed.
On the other hand, I just started this blog and I'm already running out of ideas for my posts, so I thought about it for a while and finally found a solution.
How was the saying?
To kill two birds with one stone.
I, indeed, suck at reviewing but this is not going to stop me from giving at least a little bit of information about the drama such as the synopsis, the number of episodes, the genres, airing date and status.
At the same time, I thought it would be nice to add extra features like openings, endings, OSTs, links to Behind The Scenes videos and much more.
Everyone wants to earn money and looks for a different way to do it, right?
Well, because to find a job you are supposed to have knowledge on the field, which makes sense, many people are having it quite hard to find an occupation.
I totally understand, I, myself, don't have any kind of experience or knowledge on any specific matter either.
This is why many people give up on getting a decent paying job and stick up instead with humble ones.
Recently, however, youtube has become the solution to all this problems.
It is well known that a nice youtube channel with a descreete number of subscribers would grant you a decent pay and, in certain fortunate cases, a huge load of money.
The problem, though, is choosing what to make the channel you want to create about. As time goes on there are more and more channels with similar videos and it might become harder and harder to get subscribers, especially when the first youtubers have now millions of people watching their videos.
I guess at this point in life, someone was short of money and, after he tried to apply in every company and was rejected everytime, he thought "You know what if I have to die of starvation, at least let me eat like I've never seen food before in my life" and then again "oh, and let the people see. The world should be warned of the struggle of poor people."
So that's what he did: he bought a mountain of food, sat in front of a webcam, and started streaming himself eating. But, because he was very frustrated, he started talking, commenting on the food, complainig about life etc.
He never expected what happened next.
People were actually watching his live stream, listening, commenting and subscribing to him. The watching crowd grew bigger until he found himself with thousands of subscribers that were now even chatting with him.
At the end of the month he had earnt more that three thousand dollars and started a new trend on the internet: the talking & eating shows, also called mukbangs.
NOTE: THIS IS NOT A TRUE STORY. I MADE IT UP COMPLETELY. ORIGINALLY I WASN'T PLANNING TO, BUT IT SOON BECAME KINDA FUNNY SO I KEPT GOING. I DO NOT KNOW HOW EXACTLY THE TREND STARTED, I ONLY KNOW IT ORIGINATES FROM SOUTH KOREA, FOR MORE INFO GOOGLE IT.
What is true, though, is that a lot of people earn thousands of dollars every month for eating in front of a camera and I think whoever started the thing is a flipping genius.
I am a total fan of mukbangs.
My mom doesn't understand why I spend my time watching other people eat and talk about random stuff, but it is actually really entertaining and educative, I mean you get to see all kinds of food, if that's not education than what is it.
So, to sum it up, if you're good at eating and you think you can manage talking to a camera without sounding super awkward, why not give it a shot?
If you want to learn from experienced people here are a few videos:
Have you just started learning a new language?
Didn't hear you, I don't have special powers you know..
Ok, that was lame.
BUT! If you're feeling lost wandering through all those faboulous blogs full of wisdom just like I was up to a few days ago, then I think there's something I should show you: a magic tool that will help you begin your own adventure.
1..2..3..PUFF!!
Error 404 Whoops, looks like this is BS.
Tsk, whatever...
Weird intro apart, today I want to share with you a tool, that will help you in learning new vocabulary.
Memrise has lots of different courses, languages and difficulty levels and thanks to this it is really easy to find your own starting point.
The interface is simple and the teaching method is highly effective. First it shows you the new words you are going to memorize and you can hear the pronunciation as many times as you want. Secondly, memrise makes you write it again, recognize it mixed in other words, spell it etc.
I must admit that at the beginning I was very skeptical; I didn't think that it could really help me remember words because I've always been slow at memorizing things. Therefore, I was very surprised when, indeed, it worked and I was so excited that I decided to share it with you.
The following are a few screenshots I took the other day (click on the image to enlarge it).
As I said, there are loads of courses available
Anyone else learning korean?
A level in the course above (Korean 1)
You can even choose how many words to learn at a time etc.
I hope this was helpful in some way and good luck with wathever language you're learning!
Everything started out of curiosity. I was supposed to study for my exams and as usual I was doing everything BUT studing, spending every second of the day on Youtube. Just like that, at a certain point, when I couldn't see anything interesting in the related videos section, I grew bored.
I wanted, or more like needed, something to do instead of doing my homeworks. Anything would have done the job, really, that's how I learnt to appreciate extraction videos.
Just to show how desperate I was.
Unsure on what to do, I remembered some videos I used to watch about vocaloid dances and flashmobs. At the time I also had just started listening to kpop so, even though I'm not good at maths, I did one plus one equals two and looked up kpop street dance.
Just like that my journey started: from outdoors single dances to organized flashmobs to indoors dancing to school performances.
I kept watching, going by related videos, and I haven't really stopped yet. This are the moments when you start to get an idea of how much stuff there actually is on the internet.
I still watch new ones that I occasionally find or I go back and re-watch my favourite ones.
They are just that good.
What I like the most about them is listening to the crowd's reaction because all the cheering and screaming pumps me up.
Obviously some performances are good some others are kinda awful, but hey, they all have my respect for even only mastering the courage to perform in front of that many people because, truthfully, I would probably just faint and make a fool of myself.
That being said, here are some performances that totally hyped me up and contributed to my let's-not-study program, helping me with spending my time in such a productive way so that I nearly failed all my exams, hurray! NUMBER FIVE: Korea Night 2016 K-pop Performance Oregon State University
This girls were great, they all looked gorgeous and danced well. What I really liked though, something that always makes me chuckle, was when the two guys danced Up & Down by EXID. They were just too cute.
NUMBER FOUR: FCF| International Assembly [SK/한국]
Energy. Like, lots of it. This guys were lit!
I still don't think I'd ever be able to move even half of what they were moving in here!
The moves, the coordination and the happiness. Everything was INCREDIBLE. Plus, the smiling and laughing was adorable.
NUMBER THREE: MILPITAS HIGH LUNAR SHOW 2016: Korean Dance Team (KDT) KPOP PERFORMANCE
This guys were the funniest, in a good way.
I liked that they all wore similar colors and that they made the crowd roar in more than one occasion. Nice song choice and, once again, good dancers.
NUMBER TWO: [Homestead High School KREW] Senior Farewell Rally
I have to say, this was probably the first video of the kind that I have seen. I didn't stop to count but the club is pretty big, isn't it? And still, they were able to make an awesome performance. The key to success for this guys? Coordination. They were ON POINT.
NUMBER ONE: BTS Kpop MashUp Dance Cover
This last-but-actually-first video is love.
The guys' dance was on point, as for the girls... it's a pity the crowd wasn't as hyped as I was because they were great!
BUT, what really got me was the little accident with one of the guys' tank top, the girl that took off his clothes was savage (lol). Did you notice it too?
Apart from the ones I listed above, there are tons of other awesome videos to be seen and appreciated and if you think there's a kpop school performance dance that I might not have seen, comment down, I'll gladly use it as an excuse not to do school-related stuff.
