haha.. read some of you guys' comments on mine.. We bought the DVDs becos the "Da Jua Geum" aka "Jewels of the Palace" is on 7pm weekdays. At that kind of timing, my wife and I are still at work!!! How to rush home & watch? Bought the DVDs, becos of it's hugh success aroud the region. But it was quite a disappointment.
My personal opinion,
a) Why Jua Geum always managed to gain credits times and times again? It's happened throughout the whole 70 episodes.. e.g during the kitchen mdm competition, Mdm Han were kiddnapped, and Jua Geum won the cooking competition.. all becos of that little book her deceased mum left for her, and her silly story about feeding her mum on berries.
b) Some awhile, I hated that silly grin on Jua Geum's face. Hey, she's already in her early thirties when she made the drama! But throughout the show, she seem to never aged! The only time I think she looked her real age, was during the last DVD, she was the kitchen mdm, she really looked old!
c) And for god sake, at the last espisode, where she performed the ceasean operation for the vargant pregency woman in a cave by the beach, is she the one who invented ceasean operation???
Damn, becos of the incrediable tales of this woman, I did some research and found that the Da Jua Guem drama is very frictional!!! In history, there was no evidence that she was a kitchen helper. The only truth is she's the king's main phyisican. And there were only 10 entries of her in the King's records!!!
Yawn.. the show is a bore. But I like "Lovers in Paris". That show is different. The acting is super, especially the lovelorn young man. I liked alot of those 1-1 scenes e.g.
(a) when the lovelorn young man asked his eldest brother to give up the lady while in a skating ring,
(b) when the lady told the lovelorn young man (while in the same skating ring) that she liked her eldest brother and she only treat the young man as a "nephew" of her lover.
(c) when the lovelorn young man told the lady (in the staircase landing) that he was the one who passed the car design to the coy's main competitor. And then the scene moved on to show that elder brother evadropped on the conversation.
(d)
And best of all, woohoo.. PARIS!!! Looking over the seine river..