On the boss-employee end of the spectrum is Taiwanese drama “ Just You“! Germaphobe Qi Yi ( Aaron Yan) moves back to Taiwan from New York, and becomes the proud new owner of GAZE marketing design company and a new house. Complicating it all is the fact that when Ji Sung Joon tried to find her, she convinced beautiful friend Min Ha Ri ( Go Jun Hee) pretend to be her… Conversely, formerly chubby and bullied Ji Sung Joon is now both handsome and successful. The problem? She’s too embarrassed to let him know who she is because she is no longer the rich pretty girl from when they were young, due to both family difficulties and a skin condition. In K-drama “ She Was Pretty,” Kim Hye Jin ( Hwang Jung Eum) ends up working at the same magazine as childhood sweetheart Ji Sung Joon ( Park Seo Joon). In drama-land though, work isn’t complete unless there is a secret relationship, either between coworker-coworker or boss-employee romances, both of which have their own particular difficulties and comedic moments. Oh, office flirtations. We’ve all had that one handsome or cute coworker or boss, but nine times out of ten, no real moves are made. The Chinese government decided to ban “time travel” plots and so after filming the sequel, which was set in modern times, they completely reshuffled the drama and cut out any portion to do with time travel (so… a good chunk of it). BUT! Do NOT watch the sequel!!!! I repeat, do not watch the sequel. All I can say is, watch it! The success of this drama actually spawned a succession of Qing dynasty time travel dramas. In C-drama “ Scarlet Heart (Bu Bu Jing Xin),” modern woman Zhang Xiao ( Liu Shi Shi), who accidentally travels back in time to the Qing Dynasty and into the body of Ma’ertai Ruoxi, the second daughter of a Manchu general, actually has the power to change the dynastic succession and Chinese history. Jin Hyuk ( Song Seung Heon), who somehow travels back in time to the Joseon era, it is actually a matter of life or death. If you end up in the past, would you dare to use your knowledge of the future and new technologies to change or improve wherever you were? In K-drama “ Dr. Apparently, the copious amount of cleavage in the drama were too much for the censors, and as a result, they started showing the actresses from the neck up only! For some laughs, check out before and after pictures and admire the tremendous effort the Chinese government put into making sure no hint of cleavage remained. There’s also gorgeous historical C-drama “ The Empress of China.” I started watching it not because it focused on the most famous empress in China, Wu Mei Niang ( Fan Bingbing), but because of a more scandalous reason. Based on the life of the first female ruler of Silla, one of the three ancient kingdoms of Korea, it has some pretty heart wrenching stuff, especially the tragic love triangle (don’t worry, no spoilers here). While many palace dramas these days tend to focus on harem politics, there are also some dramas about famous female rulers (rare in ancient Asia since the patriarchy game was so strong). On the Korean side of things, “ The Great Queen Seon Deok” is amazing.
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