Korean Dramas in July, 2013

Preface

 : I don't know how many men in forties like watching TV soap dramas. I don't know why but I just like. Currently the main question is that this drama is good to watch or not. At least 10 years ago, can I watch the drama was also a question to ask. I remember waiting for the drama to show on TV. If I miss it, I pleasantly waited for the re-showing. 

 In this digital era, I don't have much time for it, but many dramas. The question is which drama? 

Drama

1. I hear of your voice(너의 목소리가 들려) - I can say that it's best drama currently in Korea. Well plotted, suspense, twist, very touching and stories. And also it includes the middle aged women for their younger men fantasy. There are several unique perspectives. The first is the hearing voice. Actually it tells how the person with the ability can suffer from it realistically, which means it is not a just ordinary drama. And also it has episode by episode(court cases) based story line with main story between three main characters, the lawyer, the teenager and the criminal. 

 And from the story is very touching.

  

Do you want watch latest hit Korean drama? This is it.

   Rate : ☆☆☆☆☆

   Jenre : Drama, Melo, Law

   Details : yourvoice.sbs.co.kr

2. Sword and Flower(칼과 꽃) - I feel terrible whenever I look at the acting of Mr. Choi who had been a symbol of a tough guy before. I can see no one would dare to say to him that his acting is terrible. It's very important for the drama because he is one of the main characters there. Including him there are several more who act not good. I have to say that the casting is so bad. 

 And the casting and also the directing are very bad.

If you are fans of Mr. Choi Minsu, Um tae Ung, or Lee Jung Shin, you may watch it.

   Rate : ☆☆

   Jenre : Historical, Action

   Details : www.kbs.co.kr/drama/kal/

3. Jungi, the goddess of fire(불의 여신 정이) - Have you ever seen the drama, "Dejanggeum"? It's another version of "Dejanggeum". It's about a girl who grows, suffers and succeed in the male centered society, Chosun Dynasty.

 I can see there are just a few stories left for the historical dramas. It just follows the success points of Dramas such as two main male characters love one main actress and so on.

 That doesn't mean the drama is not that interesting. It shows the art of the ceramics in Korea before. Also it's interesting to watch the girl grows and becomes the best in the ceramics.

If you like a girl's success story through overcoming the obstacles of the social status and the stereo types.

  

   Rate : ☆☆☆

   Jenre : Historical, Growth

   Details : http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/drama/firejung/

4. Majesty of Gold(황금이 제국) - It has a typical story line of the old comic books. Revenge, business, success and love.

  There is one powerful person owing a big company in Korea. They've done so may worse things to be in their position. Now the descendants of the man are struggling to have the power. And one man who suffered from the loss plan to revenge. 

  Don't worry. It's a proven story line. I can join his revenge with pleasure. 

 The main actor, Gogu and the actress, Yowon have a good person face. But they act out as strong persons. Actually they did it well. And also I was very impressed with the acting of Son Hyunju.   

It's good for killing time. Success, betraying, success and so on.

  

   Rate : ☆☆☆

   Jenre : Fantasy Business Drama

   Dtail : http://tv.sbs.co.kr/gold/

5. Watch, the ugly(못난이 주의보) -  Very warm family drama. Yes love over money.

 A daughter of a rich family. She became sick and tire of friends and people just trying to get close to her just for money. And she closed her heart forever. And very nice and good man is shown to her. And her frozen heart becomes unfrozen slowly by him....

This gave me small pleasure and happiness. And I found an actor, Im Juhan. 

 The family drama is very safe in terms of the TV watching rate. 

Warm family drama. If you still believe in love, watch this.

  

   Rate : ☆☆☆☆

   Jenre : Family, drama

   Details :  http://tv.sbs.co.kr/monnani/

This is about our virtue system which can be called "culture" or "ethics" or whatever. Part 2

This is about our virtue system which can be called "culture" or "ethics" or whatever. Part 2

 And as a masculinity, in 1990 so called, 'tough guy' was considered as a good guy. And also widespread notion was that men only cry three times for a whole life. If you agreed on it, or your personal value is the same with it, you would pursue it. But if you didn't agree or your personal value is different from it, you would feel some difficulty between the two values. Here I have to point out that we don't know that almost all men or women agreed on it really. (The actual common value can be revealed only after each person speaks out and record it.) Anyway, in those days, men tried hard to pursue those values(personally supposed common value), pretended not to cry and to be strong.

 What about women, yes. it's all the same with the cases for men. Modesty, obedience, and the beauty were considered valuable for women. And the pure love and virginity were highly valued then(You can see that on the movies and dramas in the 90ties). In those era, many women used lots of resources for that. Of course, so many women spent much much for the so called beauty. 

 It doesn't mean that there is no one who tried other values. There have been people who pursued their own personal values regardless what others' value was.

 We need to study in what process the personal value actually is turned over to be the actual common value(in other words, the personal value became so obvious to anybody and can show it in public). As time goes, when a new value is very needed, a brave person cries out to public even though the personally supposed common value suppressed it. And then others with a personal value very similar with it comes out to show it. And they realize that others also have the similar value with them. And the personal value becomes a actual common value.

 And then why I wrote this, I need to tell you now. I want to show how the media is so that important and how they move and retort the value, especially the personally supposed common value. The candidate election and the so called terrorism were possible through the distorting the common value. In other words, the personal values are suppressed by making powerful personally supposed common value. And also the consensus for the presidential candidates are also distorted for it. This also applies especially to music and entertainment business. If someone successfully make people believe that the song are popular, the song becomes more popular. When people thinks people would like hearing this song, they probable play the song in public more frequently. And the song is exposed to more people than others. Of course, actually so many people like the song. But the survey hasn't been done yet. 
  

 The personally supposed common value can be manipulated very easily by using media. The politicians and the powerful people distort the value using the media and make terror when necessary. Right now when I am writing this(July 31, 2013), they are doing their best to do this. And teenagers are very vulnerable to this. This is why the conservative Koreans are so keen to have the power over the education. And also it directly affects the profit of big companies.

 The big response reacting against the media control is the emerging the Audition TV programs. The current media manipulates the values to make people think that the 'appearance', 'value to be seen and tangible' is everything. Those medias play an important role of the wide-spread 'lookism' in Korea. In other words, the media controls actively the personally supposed common value.

Go to the "This is about our virtue system which can be called "culture" or "ethics" or whatever. Part 1"

This is about our virtue system which can be called "culture" or "ethics" or whatever.

This is about our virtue system which can be called "culture" or "ethics" or whatever. Part 1

Preface : This is going to be updated from time to time. It's not complete yet. I just want to know who would agree with this and how many of them are out there. That is, how far my personal values can reach over the world. Maybe this social theory might have been published already, but it hasn't been borrowed or referred from somewhere else. It just came from my idea.  If you know some publications on it, please let me know.

 Values and value judgement: I divided the values into three categories as followings. 

 Personal Values - the values or judgement standard which is used by a person. The standards or the values are so various. Impossible to find all values of each person.

  Actual common values - The values or judgement standards which all people agree with really. The group of people range from a small group to world. They are different according to the size of the group, the characteristics of the group and so on. If the size of the group is bigger than 100,000 people, it would be very hard to define. If it is about a country, it is almost impossible. 

  Personally supposed Common Values - The common values and value judgement which a person think that almost all people think is right. This is what I am really concerned of. And I want to go further for this study. 

 OK. Let's go find out the relationships between the different values. 

Premises.
 In a historical view, the values changes according to the needs of people who lived in their era. It means the values come from the needs. This may be very hard for religious people or worshipers to accept. I understand that, so keep your ideas or faith if you want. And if you want to know why I think like that, you may refer it to the followings. 

  

The third value affects our behaviors in many ways. A person forms the value after influenced by his or her surrounding people, mass media and so on. In old times, women are supposed to work domestically, to be protected by men and no need to be educated. And really all women agreed with it? In other word, it was the actual common value? No, I don't think so. But they were suppressed not to express their ideas. They were really afraid of expressing it. Maybe there were actually many women, but they couldn't have a chance to meet those girls who have same values. 

 Information technology and the sharing info. affects the process in which a personal value become the seemingly pervasive value, the personal common value. 

 And then, let's talk about the fashion. Many people choose their own clothes considering the above 2 values(Personal values and personally supposed common values). For example, when a person choose a cloth, he or she might choose one as he or she wants but also considers how others would might think of the cloth when he or she wears. Some might compromise in the middle of somewhere, some might choose by putting the personal value over the personally supposed common value. But in case he or she chooses a cloth which are very close to the actually common value, he or she successfully choose the cloth if he or she wants to show off. And also this applied when you choose your opposite sex partner.

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Contact Lens - Free test wearing, the testing and the direct purchase from abroad. Part 2.

Contact Lens - Free test wearing, the testing and the direct purchase from abroad. Part 2.

 - Reviewing the application and the visit.

1. Reviews : In many aspects, the winner is Acuvue. Here are the reasons.

  - Acuvue VS Bausch + Lomb

    a. Acuvue recommends lens according to your life style or use.

     b. There are many optical shops which means you have many geographical options.

     c. Acuvue provides two couples of lens. 

 2. Kindness and convenience.

  : There is no considerable difference in this matter. You don't  need to have your ID card when you visit even on the homepage they ask you to bring it. And Acuvue asks you to bring your glasses but Bausch didn't.

 3. The first impression on the cases.

  - Acuvue VS Bausch + Lomb

   : In this matter, the winner is Bausch. I've got better impression on the case of Bausch. It has a shape with which the two lenses stick together. And it looks better and convenient to carry with. But Acuvue has a kind of pills case. It is more easily detached while carrying them. And also the shape doesn't have a good look.

Contact Lens - Free test wearing, the testing and the direct purchase from abroad. Part 1.

Contact Lens - Free test wearing, the testing and the direct purchase from abroad. Part 1.

Test wearing : If you expected the comfortable contact and no irritating feeling in your eyes, don't wear it. It is just more comfortable than other common lenses.

 For now, I've just tried Acuvue. The following is the lens container. At first try, it was actually more comfortable than other common lenses. It maybe came from my much expectation for the high oxygen transfer rate, but there was still a feeling of alien material on my eyes like others. Of course it was better than the common ones. What I mean is that I just thought I could've wear this without any problem, but it wasn't.

  

One Day Acuvue, True eye.

1. Apply for the test wearing. - It's not that complicated. I can apply through several steps as follows.

  - Acuvue

   a. You are going to see the following page if you click on the "무료 시험착용" among on the menu. You should sign up before you can go on the application.

  b. After choosing the product you want, you will see the following page on which you can select a optical shop near you. It's quite convenient. 

 c. After choosing the location of an optical shop, you are going to see the coupon issuing page as follows. You don't need to print the coupon. You can take just with the SMS message they send after writing your phone number on the page.

 d. The following shows all the procedure you need to take.

    

  - Basch and Romb

  a. Connect to the homepage(http://www.bausch.co.kr/) and click on the menu '시험착용' at the left end of the menu.

 b. You are going to see the following page if you click on it. You should sign up before you can see the page.

c. Choose your local optical shop and the visit date after choosing a product.

d. After that, you are going to see the coupon issuing page. This is the final stage.