[Drama 2012] Answer me 1997 응답하라 1997

lemonsorbet

im sure this has already been asked... just got RIDICULOUSLY addicted to this drama! 

does anyone do live recaps+ provide live spoilers for this show? if so, please point me in the right direction. 

thanks!

confuqued

The way this show is being subbed is so frustrating! But kudos to Dramafever for always being the first to sub it. Hoping I can watch episode 10 subbed before episode 11 & 12 air.

chopsticksandspoon

Just want to share a few things while we're waiting for Episodes 11 and 12 to air tonight. 

The firs one is an article about putting Junhee as a character on the show and I think it tells us a lot of what we've already praised about the drama here. It's a great read! 

The second one are two videos that I thought you guys might find entertaining. They are videos of Hoya, the actor who plays Junhee, with his group covering two of the songs featured in the show - one from Shiwon's idols H.O.T and the other one from the rival idol group Sechskies :D

1. [NEWS] 120825 - ‘Reply’ Shin Wonho PD “The real reason for putting in homosexuality although it can be criticized”

“There was only one story that we wanted to tell. ‘So and so likes so and so’ this was it.”

tN’s ‘Reply 1997’ (script writer LeeWoojung/director Shin Wonho), that teens to those in their fifties can relate to, have one thing that is hard to find on the ground wave. It is nineteen-year-old boy Kang Joonhee’s (Hoya) loving one-sided feeling towards Yoon Yoonjae (Seo Inguk), a boy boy love line. Brothers Yoon Yoonjae and Yoon Taewoong’s (Song Jongho) love for Sung Siwon (Jung Eunji) is another heart wrenching painful story about love that the drama displays. Why would they choose ‘homosexuality’ out of all the things?

About this Shin Wonho PD recently responded in an interview with Newsen “At the planning level while we were thinking of all these different characters I thought of this. I heard that in the 1990s, among the girls there was the culture of homosexuality. They said that there were friends who liked girls with a sense of masculinity. Because I heard that so much from the writer, I decided to put it in.”

It was just ‘Kang Junhee likes Yoon Yoonjae,’ it was not the idea of a boy liking a boy.

He continued to explain, “Although we started off like that we didn’t start off with a certain type of ‘homosexuality.’ It was just ‘Kang Junhee likes Yoon Yoonjae,’ it was not the idea of a boy liking a boy. Never once did we say that it was about ‘homosexuality’ or about being ‘gay.’ Even during our staff meeting we only said ‘Junhee likes Yoonjae..’ and the words ‘homosexuality’ or ‘gay’ never came out. The story that we wanted to tell was ‘so and so likes so and so.’ I myself like those warm things so I selected it.”

Like Shin PD’s words, in ‘Reply 1997’ there are no emotions such as hatred and displeasure that you see in other different dramas. Just Sung Siwon likes HOT’s Tony, Mo Yoojung (Shin Soyool) likes Sechs Kies and Do Hakchan (Eun Jiwon), and Sung Dongil (Sung Dongil) and Lee Ilhwa (Lee Ilhwa) love one another while fighting. Like this, Shin PD only wanted to display the main characters in a four way love relationship (Yoon Taewoong Yoon Yoonjae Sung Siwon Kang Junhee) and various warm beautiful sides of ‘love.’ Kang Junhee’s love also had that meaning.

"Honestly I also heard things like ‘If you put this in wrong you’ll get criticized!’"

Shin PD emphasized, “On the viewer board there were some replies that had a violent meaning but, although I don’t know the exact sides of these people, I thought I don’t have to think hard about it. Honestly I also heard things like ‘If you put this in wrong you’ll get criticized!’ But it wasn’t to interpret with a social view and essentially nitpick homosexuality. It’s simple. We just wanted to say Kang Junhe likes Yoon Yoonjae. With those feelings if we were in a time period where it was stricter, then wouldn’t it have been harder? Because it was a generation where it was more unacceptable, it became a more heart breaking one sided love story. It was nothing like reasoning every detail in the story, narrow-minded viewpoint, or let’s break all the bias on homosexuality. We just wanted to do ‘liking.’ Because then there would be nothing that’s hard.”

“To be honest I treasure Kang Junhee and Yoon Yoonjae’s love line the most."

Which couple’s story does Shin PD value the most in ‘Reply 1997.’ Shin PD surprisingly replied by saying Kang Junhee’s one-sided love. Shin PD said “To be honest I treasure Kang Junhee and Yoon Yoonjae’s love line the most. Even while editing it, my heart hurt so much. Especially the scene when Kang Junhee confessed to Yoon Yoonjae, I looked at it for a long time and said ‘What should I do with this?’ It’s to the point where even while filming, the staff know that Junhee’s story is my favorite.”

Shin PD is not the only one that values Kang Junhee and Yoon Yoonjae’s love line. Female viewers who have seen the model student boy with the quiet and neat personality, Junhee, looking at Yoon Yoonjae with a depressing love and worrying have said “Don’t make Junhee cry.”

Shin PD said that some reactions were so agitated that “There are even replies on the board that make it seem like they would be in a fanfic such as ‘They say that Sung Siwon will become the surrogate mother and Kang Junhee and Yoon Yoonjae will continue on,’ ‘They say Kang Junhee and Yoon Yoonjae will get married.’”

At the question “could that be possible” Shin PD replied, “To take it like that would be hard. I wondered ‘what is this love’s end’ but I want to end it very calmly so Junhee won’t get hurt. I want to end it so that Junhee’s beautiful feelings won’t be damaged. Junhee could be hurt till the end or he cannot be hurt. But I plan to finish it so that it’s ordinary and calm. If it becomes like that I feel like because it’s calm it might be a more heart breaking love.”

“The process of Junhee’s casting being difficult was because 

I had said I don’t want a feminine person to be casted.”

Likewise the process casting of the important character Kang Junhee was different as well. While casting the actor for Kang Junhee Shin PD had put a very particular order. Shin PD said, “The process of Junhee’s casting being difficult was because I had said I don’t want a feminine person to be casted.”

Shin Wonho spoke his mind by saying “If he’s feminine isn’t it too obvious. I thought that if a feminine friend did the delicate acting it would become the boring character that everyone has seen already. If a feminine imaged actor acted as Junhee then it would become too much. I needed an actor who could over come that and could do detailed and delicate acting. But it was really hard to find an actor like that. Even during the audition a lot of people with a lovely line.  That why I said ‘if it continues like this it will be really boring.’” 

In the end, the actor became Infinite member Hoya. Hoya who was born in Kyungnam Changwon, able to speak in satoori*, and had a manly imagine, was qualified. ‘Hawk’s eye’ Shin PD thought this choice was ‘daebak**’ Hoya, not only as Infinite, but as an actor to the general public, left a deep stamp. Despite only having a few lines because of Kang Junhee’s quiet personality, Hoya’s acting of loving sad feeling has made the viewers fall in love. 

Shin PD complimented him by saying, “I was constantly looking for a friend that had both sides but then I met Hoya. As soon as I saw the kid I felt that he can speak in satoori and is manly. While asking, he said that in his group they call him ‘real man’ these days. When talking to Hoya, he is like said, a real man. But when acting he displayed sides of delicateness and innocence as well as many other heart lines well. That is why I thought he was fit exactly with Junhee’s part so I casted him.” 

t/n *satoori is the dialect of Korean

t/n **daebak is like best 

trans. cr; hyome @ infinite updates | source cr; newsen

2. HOYA (Junhee) with INFINITE covering HOT and SECHSKIES old songs featured in the show.

a) CANDY by H.O.T

show: Episode 1, opening scene with Shiwon & her parents at the noraebang

cover: 100726 - tvN's Music Show Newton

b. COUPLE by SECHSKIES

show: Episode 9, when Shiwon's dad gave her mom the letter

cover: 120702 SBS You and I (they were a little breathless here cause they just performed about 4 other songs before this)

confuqued

Dramafever has heard my cries!! Episode 10 is now up. =DDDD!!!

Lyna

chopsticksandspoon said:

“To be honest I treasure Kang Junhee and Yoon Yoonjae’s love line the most."

 

@ chopsticksandspoon - thanks for the awesome article ... I love everything little bit of that article and just the sentence above makes me squeal in delight because I am on the same ship as the PD. Junhee being my favorite!

And I am extremely happy that they focus on Junhee liking Yoon Yoonjae to the smallest detail which makes Junhee one-side love the most heartbreaking out of the group. And now reading this article, it just makes me more excited to see how the Junhee one-side will be finish at the very end ..

Selecting Hoya for the role was a daebak choice because honestly the way he was portray I wouldn't have expected him to like Yoonjae until his confession surprises me.

*giddy* I'm going to have to re-read the article one more time.

payel

LOVE STORY ' PART 1 ' All For You'  released

The drama  thanks  fans with a Duet remake project, ’ LOVE STORY.  New beautiful remake Duet song  to reinvent the story of love, this project is designed with the intention of P A R T 1 and  2 . An official of the agency, said, "This project  is to thank the viewers for their support.

Source

‘Reply 1997’s Seo In Guk and Jung Eun Ji Finally Get Together

At least, for their drama OST that is.

Rising stars Seo In Guk and A Pink’s Jung Eun Ji of tvN’s Reply 1997 have come together to record a duet track for the drama’s OST.

The two singers recorded a cover of Cool’s popular single, All For You for the drama OST, Love Story Part 1 – All For You.

A representative for the drama’s OST production shared on the Love Story project saying, “Love Story is a project to remake some of the former memorable love songs inserted into Reply 1997. This duet project was planned to show our gratitude to the drama fans’ support.”

The representative added that two parts are planned for the project with the second part aimed to be released in two weeks.

All For You featuring Seo In Guk and Jung Eun Ji will be released online on August 28.

Source

sparkzy

This drama has me feeling SO nostalgic... I've revisited 90s kpop for the past hour on youtube!

I can almost hear our Shiwon screaming in this clip!!

nileyfan1

 Seo In Guk and Eun Ji's song the song is sooooo prettyyyy

minyu17

KYAAAA!!! Finally OST is released. I very addict with this drama and wait for OST, but until now, song in drama is the song from other GB or BB. But Finally, Eun Ji and In Guk duet :D

JoluxiFairy

MV is out! 

nileyfan1

^^^ EEEKK they are sooo cutee togetherr I love them !!!!! I wish there was an HD version!

lemonsorbet

nileyfan1 said:

 Seo In Guk and Eun Ji's song the song is sooooo prettyyyy

sigh. shows how old i am... but this song is a remake of a song by a group called kul. very nostalgic indeed :) and surprisingly i think i love the remake more!

 

nileyfan1

I just finished episode 10....such a good episode. Joon Hee was amazing dancer in this episode and so sweet. I love his confession and then Yoon Jae laughing hahahaa awww I wonder he will come out and say he's gay to the guys cause Shin Won only seems to know. And I hope Shin Won and Yoon Jae get together soon they are too cute together. 

pinky-jay

i don't know if this is can help you...but i download it in a HD ver. from this channel in YT

<iframe width="1280" height="720" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Q_GyneFGQ74" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

minyu17

download mp3 here^^

http://recap-koreandrama.blogspot.com/2012/08/reply-1997-love-story-ost-part1-all-for.html

pinky-jay

I root for tonight episodes of Reply 1997....pleaseeeee~~~ i hope Shiwon will end up with YoonJae and not TaeWoong....

chopsticksandspoon

THE MV IS OUT!!!!! 

Available in 1080p from this channel! Use Keepvid if you want to download it :)

It's Cool's song, All for You! Watch it on the original channel so they'd know that a lot of people are watching the video, not the ones that are re-uploaded on other channels!

ALL MY EUNJI FEELINGS. 

How adorable and cuter and ultra pretty is Eunji, really? I'm not an avid fan of A-Pink or anything but she's always been my favorite of her group because of her voice and because of her great live singing, now her acting too~ And she and Seo Inguk are just adorable together!!!!

And if you want, tweet the PDs at the show's official Twitter to tell them how awesome the MV is!

sheza

Eunji's voice is beautiful!!!!

PJupiter

I've been in a drama slump lately, so I was more than pleasantly surprised by "Answer Me 1997." I must admit, I also had some reservations about the main cast being heavily idols, but after catching up to episode 10 in just two afternoons, I can confidently say that my fears were misplaced. Each and every character is carefully and convincingly portrayed by each repsective actor. And of course, the writing is exceptional. This writer creates a story that is filled with realistic, thoughtful and endearing characters, and the plot is smart, surprising, and heartfelt. My praise may be premature, but at the rate it's going, this drama (and writer) may very well make it to my top 5 personal favorites!

minyu17

if lyrics and translate is out, please share :) :)
beautiful Song :)