Judy and Teresa are feeling ambivalent about episodes 13-14 of “Go Go Waikiki” (으라차차 와이키키), a JTBC drama starring Kim JungHyun, Lee YiKyung, Song SeungWon, Jung InSun, Go WonHee and Lee JooWoo.

The production quality is consistently excellent. Judy loves all the music references and wants to be friends with the drama's music director. We also love all the callbacks to previous episodes, which shows that the staff know how to structure the series to make it fun. 

So how is it that they have to pad out all the good bits with such perplexing and/or boring crap? Donggoo (Kim JungHyun) pretending to be injured so that Yoonah (Jung InSun) has to do stuff for him is super gross. Seojin (Go WonHee) being randomly mean to Joonki (Lee YiKyung) makes us dislike her character. We suspect it's from the fact that they extended this drama from 16 to 20 episodes. 

 

Digressions:

43:25 - Teresa's obsession with pandan (Wikipedia)

55:49 - Seojin unwittingly joins our club

 

Some Korean terms:

똥: [ddong] poo.

빵: [ppang] bread; homonym for Korean onomatopoeia for "bang!".

솔: [sol] pine.

돌아이: [dol-ah-ee] weirdo.

 

Audio credits:

John Williams – “Summon the Heroes”

Leslie Cheung -  “A Better Tomorrow” – Theme song

Hong KwangHo (홍광호) – Jekyll and Hyde (musical) - "This is the Moment" (지금 이순간)

Rupert Gregson-Williams - Wonder Woman (film) - "Wonder Woman's Wrath"

Placido Domingo - Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore" - "Una Furtiva Lagrima"

Um JungHwa (엄정화) – "I Don't Know" (몰라)

Sweet Sorrow (스윗소로우) – "No Matter How I Think About You" (아무리 생각해도 난 너를)

 

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The “Please standby” music is ‘Jazzfrenchy’, by Bensound (www.bensound.com), and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives 4.0 International.

The KDMEO theme music is 'Cute', by Bensound (www.bensound.com), and is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivatives 4.0 International.