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Lawd, lawd! So here I am on the Arirang website trying to pull down some more episodes of Let's Speak Korean only to discover that the links no longer work. The website is still there but the videos are disabled. For two days I'm like, What the heck?! until I randomly search the pull down menu and see "Let's Speak Korean (Season 4)". Um, ok. I'm not sure why you need a new season to teach the same thing again or why that means the old season has to disappear...


Lisa Kelley is still the host but this season she's joined by Kim YoungChul, a really wacky comedian that I could sware I've seen before but don't remember where. In other news, it appears that this season will include a mini drama called "Homestay Story" and we all know I love me some drama! It's terribly corny but I'll probably remember the vocabulary better. Here's to starting over...again...

Y'all, Spring Waltz is SLOOOOOWWW.

I'm talking try-to-do-the-Running-Man-in-3-feet-of-water kind of slow.

It is so painful that after two episodes, even Daniel Henney can't keep me coming back for more.

Watching his 30-second Bean Pole commercials in repeat for an hour would be far less irritating.

*sigh*

My favorite:

No. 1
This movie was weak.

No. 2
This movie was weak.

No. 3
Lee Dong Gun still looks like a Korean Lance Bass.

No. 4
This movie was weak.

The most interesting part of My Boyfriend is Type B is how LDG managed to look so innocent while being such an ass. My friend was dating a guy like that once. It took me a bit to realize what an absolute moocher he was. They broke up and got back together over and over for about a year or so before she gave him his walking papers. Like the character in the film, she hadn't really had a boyfriend before and she was a traditional Asian girl accustomed to doing whatever she was told to do.

That premise alone is enough for the movie not to resonate with me even if it had been a little better written. (There was hardly any conflict much like Seducing Mr. Perfect in which Daniel Henny was the only saving grace.) Characters who refuse to stand up for themselves always grate my nerves. If it wasn't for my inability to not watch something with Rain in it, I wouldn't have made it through Full House for precisely the same reason...