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Hi everyone, just a question regarding WeTV, are the episodes available offline, like Netflix?
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I’ve seen quite a handful of reviews painting the drama in a not so positive light. Reading further though, it seems a lot of the issues stems from it being totally different to their storyline from TMOPB.
By the looks of it, many people who are commenting aren’t aware this one doesnt follow through their story from TMOPB.
I’ve also seen comments saying they found it boring. Isn’t it a bit too premature to be judging this already? After all, it won’t finish airing until the beginning of March - still a whole month to go.
For me personally, it took a lot of episodes to get into TMOPB and found the story really started to pick up midway. I haven’t read the Pillowbook novel (and I intend to keep it this way at least until I watched and finished this drama) so Im not sure if the people who’ve read the novel agrees with other viewers who apparently finds this disappointing.
I’m hoping this isn’t the case and the drama proves them wrong later on. I was so thrilled to find out they had Dh and FJ’s story made into their own drama. I really liked watching them in Peach Blossoms.
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3 hours ago, rapo65 said:
Nope, it means that it airs every week, 1, 2, 3 days or more, depending on how they decided.
thank you. I just saw it being mentioned that it may be airing twice a week. But from what Ive seen in the Cdramas I watched, they tend to air them everyday-
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On 1/2/2020 at 8:36 PM, rapo65 said:
60 episodes, weekly drama on Tencent
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Omy that kiss
the clearest one! Out of all the photos to include, its so strange that they decided to include that one not that im complaining -
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8 hours ago, oldschooler said:
nk you @ann04 for sharing about your trip to Korea and the "pilgrimage" too! Wow you were at the place where they shook hands! The railway! The special bar! I wish I could go there too and take a few pictures and retrace their footsteps. When I was younger and starry-eyed, I used to "retrace" the footsteps of mad poets on some famous street I knew they had walked down before. Where have those days gone? My Ahjusshi awakened something in me to be real again.
If you ever get a chance, it would be amazing to visit! I even saw a couple of young guys taking a picture of the railway place too. I dont know if its because of the drama too but it definitely isn’t a place you’d just stumble into! But it was so beautiful. Hearing the warning sounds when the barriers come down transported me back to the drama. Plus the neighbourhood was just so nice and peaceful in general. It was like a cozy haven inside a bustling city. I hope you get to visit one day
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Nice to see a lot of people are back
I visited Korea a few days ago and managed to go to a fee of the filming sites of My Ahjussi. It felt surreal seeing it in person I especially loved the railway line and the special bar they spent a lot of their time together in.
I went to where the coffee shop was but I think it’s shut down already from the looks of it. There were two other coffee shops in what seem to be in place of that one ☹️.
I managed to take a picture of where they shook hands though.
Seeing the actual filming sites in person gave me a new perspective, in terms of how intentional the details the director put in the drama were.
Where they shook hands and walked their separate ways, I saw how the pedestrian lights werent really facing the camera. Meaning it must have been captured at such an angle to show that changing of the red man into the green walking man.
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Its been a year already! It feels both like it’s been a long time and also like it was just yesterday since MA aired. ❤️
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On 3/18/2019 at 6:53 AM, Joseph Lim said:
Aww I hope they remain close and if Lee Sun Kyun confirms his appearance in the new drama then theyll both be appearing in a new drama, almost at the same time. I wish wish wish theyd reunite someday.
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On 1/24/2019 at 4:27 PM, justamom said:
Maxim’s longing for her deepens into a passion that he’s never experienced and dares not name.”
This one.
On 1/17/2019 at 9:36 AM, sadiesmith said:Is anyone watching Memories of Alhambra? Many viewers are very unhappy with the way Park Sin Hye's character is written as it is severely underdeveloped. In a recent interview, the writer of that drama confessed that she originally pictured that character to be like IU's Lee Ji An. Something obviously went wrong in the writing because that character is nothing like LJA. But I'm so pleased that even drama writers are inspired by My Ajusshi.
She was actually doing great with the saviour part in the beginning. I think she let herself get distracted by the casting. Truly opposite to My Mister where the actors became the characters, she tried making a character that fits the actors. I wish she just carried on with what she intended to do in the beginning.
The first few episodes were really great and exciting but the pressure to do more romance might have gotten to her. A shame though. I really liked the subtle but compelling relationship that was developing between them.
My Mister isn’t labeled as ‘romance’ but it got people saying otherwise.
Thats why My Ahjussi remains so unparalleled. Really THE best drama.
And has anyone else been catching up on SKY Castle? Officially the highest rating cable program now. Such an amazing feat.
Im on episode 9 at the moment but its taking longer for me to get hooked. Im still going to finish this regardless though.
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On 10/30/2018 at 4:15 PM, oldschooler said:
Hi, hope it's not too late to answer this, since I'm an ahjussi fan I guess it is compulsory
For me it was every time he did not take the opportunity to deny outright he did not like her. Second are the times when he stared at his phone for a long time, for example (1) the first time she asked him for a meal, he stared at his phone from "bukchon" to ... their station (I forgot the name! Time flies...) (2) After her confession he sat on the bed and considered the phone for a long time.
Thanks @popai5for bringing up all the possibilities for a Japanese version. Sorry I'm not familiar with most of the Japanese names, will check them out! How about Satoshi Tsumabuki for ahjussi, is he too baby looking.
I'm so happy to see MA winning awards!!! @widala I guess it's ok for LSK and LJE to walk hand in hand right? After all he did that with KSH before, I guess it would be ok??? Though my personal preference is for LSK to walk hand in hand with his wife and to mention Jeon Hye Jin in his acceptance speech.
Sorry this is getting to be a very long post! I was writing something a while ago, needed to express my feelings... thanks for your patience with this long post:
Seeing through a glass, darkly
Glass is hard yet transparent. It blocks entry, but at the same time allows us to peer into the space it shelters. Looking through a glass window or door, we see without touching. We are able to watch and scan every object, action and expression, but we should not be fooled for there is still an invisible barrier that shuts us out. And sometimes, if we look carefully, we see our own reflection. My Mister is a drama about glass. The characters saw others and themselves through a medium—barroom, car and train windows, platform screen doors, mirrors in a restaurant or lift, a pair of shades. It was as though reality was too glaring to bear direct scrutiny, to be acknowledged in person. It was as though our characters, in their shy opacity, chose to see or be seen indirectly, to shield their vunerabilities from too much exposure, to be intimate without touching.
Park Dong Hoon was happy drunk when he caught sight of a girl wearing short socks in the winter. He was intrigued not only because she was underdressed for the weather, but also because she seemed familiar. He tried locate who it was by looking at the face reflected in the train window. This was his first real sight of Lee JiAn – dark and pitiful.
A few episodes later, through her reflection in a platform screen, he indirectly saw the same face looking at him intensely. He looked back at her in person, and acknowledged her uncomfortably. By then, he had found out that she was not only sharp tongued and guarded, but was also a kind girl who took care of her grandmother. Progressing from knowing her as an undefined shadow, he was now holding real conversations and dining with her.
DH had thus far looked at JA indirectly and hesitantly, but JA had no qualms about staring at DH directly in his face. When he received a bribe and when he said he had never beaten a woman before, she had stared directly at him through her shades. Just like when she wiretapped him, she was able to scan him thoroughly while remaining inscrutable herself.
After JA had heard from JY that “if he dines and drinks with you, he likes you,” her reflections on their relationship were likewise modulated by the dark train windows. It was as though JA’s contemplations were unacceptable and had to emerge from an alternate, darker self. Likewise, DH’s reflection in the train window as he thought about the director’s ploy to bring JY down through him was equally dark.
So much had happened when DH, JA and their colleagues ran for the last train to the tune of the OST, “A Reflection of My Heart”. Their colleagues were a step too late, and had waved vainly at them as the train departed from the station. Alone, DH asked JA why she had stayed back to work overtime, and she replied she had learned well from his admonition, to work well with the others, to be socially acceptable. Then, panning to her reflection in the window, Ji An’s dark self confessed, “I missed you so I waited for you.”
She frankly described the nature of their relationship of mutual empathy and perhaps, love. He was dumb because he could not deny or agree with it on principle. It was then that JA saw the private investigator who secretly took their pictures. She walked away from DH, through door after door until she felt they had a safe enough distance between them. But DH would not have it. He pursued the PI, through the same layers of doors, until he reached JA again, and there he planted himself next to her. We see the train continuing its journey, DH and JA looking out of the glass door. But were they looking out? I later realised from the angle of their faces and eyes, that they were actually looking at each others’ reflection, JA shyly and DH, frazzled, confused, angrily. DH had come face to face with his own dark reflection next to hers.
Many times we see DH and JA’s eating and drinking sessions alternately from within the restaurant itself and from the outside, through a glass window. When JA broke the news about going to Busan, for example, the separate frames in which JA and DH were captured foreshadowed their imminent separation.
Their communion was a world so intimate it had to be protected from intruders. Ki Hoon could not figure out what his brother was doing with a girl wearing sunglasses at night. Gwang Il could not believe his eyes that JA was hobnobbing with a crumpled middle-aged man. Team 3 was not privy to the scandalous conversation that DH had with JA when he warned her about taking liberties with him. When DH found JA after she had run away, their charged reunion could only be observed by the dear janitor from a side window to his shed.
This was true not only for DH and JA. We are obliged to see not only through the cameraman’s lenses and our tv screen, but with an additional layer of glass windows when DH told the Chairman the whole story about his wife’s infidelity, JY’s schemes, and how JA had saved him. The same privacy was given to Gwang Il when he heard JA’s words about his earlier kindness to her and his dilemma that she killed his father. Like Ki Hoon who would like to break into the TV, we want to be as near as we could get to the world that has stolen our hearts. But then we are reminded that our characters needed shielding and to maintain some face-saving distance, precisely because of the explosive nature of their pent up personalities. But I’d also like to think that this is a VIP world where the only special pass is love given and received. The random couples in Kojubang had licence of entry into the special restaurant where DH and JA met regularly. Unless we know love and are touched by it, we have no business transgressing into their world.
Seeing through a glass darkly, we see each other imperfectly. Even if we were to understand each other closely, such as the level of knowing that DH and JA had of each other, we still have barriers that prevent complete expression and communion. My Mister is a story about making a moral choice between the rightful and the wrongful way to satisfy our needs, whether it be a transgression of forbidden boundaries that inevitably hurts others, or holding back just enough to be intimate without violating the sanctity of rightful relationships. Therefore, the barriers that shield an unprepared and vulnerable soul, or which separates a rightful from a wrongful relationship, should not be lamented but is to be treated with gentleness and respect. Ironically, because “good fences a good neighbour make”, the barriers that DH erected between himself and JA allowed for the further development of their relationship at the right time. I believe this drama is appealing to so many of us because it fleshes out our thwarted longing for full understanding, expression and communion in our relationships. “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”
JA finds DH through an open café door
This was so beautifully written!!
On 10/30/2018 at 4:15 PM, oldschooler said:Ironically, because “good fences a good neighbour make”, the barriers that DH erected between himself and JA allowed for the further development of their relationship at the right time
This was so subtly written but the meaning is there. This and that open door in the end, wow, everything in this drama was so carefully woven together.
On 10/30/2018 at 4:15 PM, oldschooler said:But I’d also like to think that this is a VIP world where the only special pass is love given and received. The random couples in Kojubang had licence of entry into the special restaurant where DH and JA met regularly.
I like to think this, plus all the ones I’ve quoted and probably missed in your analysis all leads to the conclusion of them actually being together in the end. It probably isn’t the only intention of what you’ve written but it certainly drove home that one point. The way you’ve managed to express yourself with this is amazing. Reading this with a neutral mind, anyone would be convinced that what they had certainly isn’t platonic. And you’ve done it seeming so effortlessly as well.
I really missed reading long posts like this and your one is one more eye opener. When you thought there’s nothing more to notice, a post like this comes along.
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Guys they won!!!!!!!!!!!!
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18 hours ago, sadiesmith said:
Thanks for posting this @widala. There should be no doubt My Ajusshi has become an influential drama this year.
Oh I love how IU looked whilst the piano was playing. She looked lost in it and completely looked the way she did when she first saw DH in the cafe. Now I truly get how much she meant it when she said she couldn’t even listen to the osts after filming. She looked like she was about to cry here any minute.
Andddd Im so happy about the awards - truly satisfying, they all deserved it. I’m not going to even talk about LSG and the Daesang. I just wish he gets a form of recognition somehow through awards. Are there any other awards ceremonies My Mister is up for?
Nice to see others posting more here - I still check on this site time and again. And what a good time for Joon Gi-IU fans - theyve guested together at Knowing Brothers. Now, if we can only get a follow up project from LSG and IU. All these lingering feelings would be satisfied.
But well done and Im so happy that Kim Won Seuk is recognised. As Mr Sunshine is a heavy contender, the award feels even more sweet. Who would’ve thought this drama would end up getting awards or even nominated after all that talk? I feel so proud and happy
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Hi everyone things have quietened down but definitely checking this often still. I’ve watched a handful of dramas already. They were good in their own ways but this drama really is different. The more I watch the more it highlights that for me.
Im really trying not to rewatch clips but I failed again
I feel like rewatching the whole thing but I don’t want to feel down - we need to move on lol. Consolation is Im happy to see them nominated in some awards :). Im not expecting much but Id feel so ecstatic if they win just one atleast. They really deserve it-
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I just wanted to pop back in and say My Mister osts album is available on itunes!! I got so excited, all 33 songs/music are there
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Hello everyone. Just saw some people on twitter linking back to the fansite. One called it a “gold mine” and that’s so true. Imagine just stumbling upon analysis after analysis about the drama and soo many more insights, I would have felt so overwhelmed and mind blowned. I feel so lucky for them, everything collated in one organised site to be devoured. Like an extension of the drama. So again, well done to everyone who helped/helping with the fansite and thanks for your work, it looks amazing
22 hours ago, oldschooler said:tried watching non-korean non-drama, like the movie Beirut. Even that reminded me of something familiar (1) despairing ahjusshi who drinks (2) spy who went rogue
Tell me about it
there’s so many scenes I see from other dramas and when they come up, I automatically think of those ones in MA. What is this.
On 8/18/2018 at 10:06 PM, sadiesmith said:wish someone would do a character analysis on Do Joon Young. He is a pathetic jerk, but that doesn't mean he is not funny. He is amusingly pitiful and very entertaining.
Yes he is. And also everything that comes out of his mouth, esp. about women liking DH and about DH himself, sounds so matter of fact. Maybe it’s because he doesn’t like him and yet he says these things about DH’s way of showing he likes someone. He’d eat/drink with that person. We saw how many times he had refused the chairman. His confusion about why women likes DH and the way the women in his life acts in regards to him. He knows so much about DH despite not liking him. He’s like the third person in the drama, he’s removed from the attachment of everyone else so he sees it for what it is. Jian liking DH. This was one of the areas of ambiguity. We know she likes him as a person but does it mean she likes him as a man also? After a few meetings with Jian, JY would always stare at her in a knowing, suspicious way. There was one instance where he said Jian was getting talkative. He was staring at her with that knowledge in his head that this woman was there for something other than what they agreed on.
That makes his statements in that regard reliable. He hits him where it hurts Because he knows where DH will hurt: YH, his senior position despite DH’s seniority over him and ofcourse, through Jian. Throughout the drama, we’ve been given hints at how much JY and DH knew about each other. The writer/pd was so clever to put him not only as the bad one but also someone to fill in more gaps about who DH is.
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10 minutes ago, widala said:
It's been three months since the drama ended, but no sign of moving on here
Youre not alone
58 minutes ago, ladyrini said:To be honest, if one day LSK gets to act with someone younger as IU or anyone else with this kind of "MM chemistry", I will be jealous to the max. In my mind, I can only imagine LSK with IU. Omg, I just fell into the rabbit hole. Help...Hahaha!!!
Nooo
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On 8/11/2018 at 8:20 AM, oldschooler said:
Hi here is a post on the river scene, I have adapted from a previous post. My apology, the name of the bridge is Hangang, and not Mapo as I mentioned in an earlier post. It appears both of them have comforting words written on the railing to prevent suicide.
Hangang Bridge
This scenic bridge has been featured in a few Korean dramas (link to: https://koreandramaland.com/listings/hangang-bridge/). Because Park Donghoon’s (Lee Sun Kyun) character is portrayed with subdued subtlety, and does not betray his true thoughts and feelings to others easily, clues to his inner life are conveyed indirectly through external associations. The Hangang Bridge is the exact location which the production team chooses to portray the state of Donghoon’s mind the day after discovering his wife’s infidelity.
Park Donghoon has been wandering through the streets of Seoul for half a day, after leaving the morning football team in a huff. It is late afternoon, and the sun is setting when he plants himself in the middle of Hangang Bridge. There are comforting words written on the bridge railing to his left, but the panel where he is standing is blank. There is no fanfare, no extreme show of emotion, and any sound he makes is drowned by passing traffic. His sight pans to the river below.
But when the scene shifts to Lee Jian, we sense the urgency of the matter. All is not well. This is the Hangang Bridge. Underneath the external calm, Park Donghoon’s breathing is ragged and laboured. There is no doubt as to his thoughts during that exact moment.
Hangang Bridge
Her bus stops abruptly by a random roadside and she runs to him, and does not stop running until she gets him in her line-of-sight, seeing him being found by his brothers. To drive the point home, Donghoon’s brothers ask him repeatedly, “Where have you been?” He does not answer: they must not know.
Portraying suicide in films and dramas is controversial, especially when using a certain location associated with this topic. However there is a need to lift the taboo surrounding suicide, an understated problem among middle-aged and elderly men. I believe the production team does not use the location just for dramatic effect, but also as a potent anti-suicide message: when driven to the brink, we can choose to bravely walk away from the temptation to end our lives, even if the only barrier between us and the false comfort that we seek is a bridge railing. Following the rest of Park Donghoon’s life, we find that he has continued to live a full life, and that it is worthwhile to persevere through the indignity we suffer. However, at this moment, the Hangang Bridge scene conveys the full extent of Donghoon’s heartbreak – muted, barely noticeable, but very lethal.
I was also wrong in an earlier post on drawers, stating that Ki Hoon was the one who mentioned DongHoon was always slipping things through the cracks of his drawer. Actually, it was Sang Hoon, the one who is always wrong about Dong Hoon
I have to say wow this was vey well written. It really does take me back to those moments in the drama and also makes me think deeper about the scenes you mentioned. Three months on and I still haven’t moved on
but Ive definitely slowly eased into other dramas now. It’s just that MA will always have that special place
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39 minutes ago, h2ogirl said:
@ann04 If you've read @justamom's translation of the HaruHana interview, then yes, she did say something along those lines. And LSK called IU his Lee Ji An. I basically died there.
Here's the translated interview: https://givemeslippers.wordpress.com/2018/08/03/lee-seon-gyun-shes-my-lee-ji-an/
Yes I have read that post thank you
what I meant was the one in the link, there was those individual quotes and that’s one of them. Im annoyed I didn’t take a screenshot of it but I couldn't quite believe what I read. Hopefully we get the rest of the translation of the magazine when it comes out
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8 hours ago, Joseph Lim said:
I keep trying the links but I think theyre broken/deleted due to magazing copyright. But I do remember seeing a translated quote in one of the pics, IU said along these lines, “DH is a man you can’t help to fall in love with.” I just wanted to verify if that was actually what was said? I mean if it’s correct, that’s like ittttt already
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4 hours ago, sadiesmith said:
would have liked it better if he's the one hugging/touching her. And wearing a better shirt.
I think that would have been too much of a give away
We’ll probably see those haters come back alive if they did that lol. Would have loved to see that too
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3 hours ago, arctichare said:
Umm????
Honestly the pose is so awkward but!!!
This makes me soo happy. If only he wasn’t wearing those clothes though, but that pose. I didn’t think theyd do something like this lol
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57 minutes ago, arctichare said:
This post is my kryptonite.
Another of my favourites is this scene in ep 9.
The fact that Dong Hoon purposely didn't go home cause he was hoping to run into Ji An still gets me. The few moments where he's just watching her before she notices him. She's the one being observed now instead of him (even if just for a moment). The look on their faces when they finally see each other, the background music, the fact that the traffic light has to turn green before he can join her.
Why is this show so good?!!
Same here!!! I was meaning to post a few screenshots of this one a long while ago. I remember a few people posting about chinese numbers and their meaning. In this scene, number 4 was highlighted a lot. It was the first thing they show when DH was coming out of the station. The analysation was that number 4 signifies death and for DH, this means like the death of his old, passive self? I dont know if anyone else noticed, but when DH was about to cross the road to get to JA, there was a poster with a number 4 in it.
When they met eyes, it was then that the lights turned green indicating “You may now cross” or something to that effect.
Whether intentional or not by the director/writer, this remains to be one of my favourite scenes. DH also had that look on his face.
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These posts are so amusing
and it’s amusing that we still manage to find these tiny details here and there when it seemed like everything’s been dissected already. Thank you for feeding my MA longing. I don’t know what to say about that not so innocent tempura analysis . I guess Ill pretend I havent seen that haha.
And a kind request if anyone can oblige, I remember @justamom collected the best links to DC inside posts, hopefully that could all get translated one day and be put on the fansite please. Im really interested to read them with the proper translation. Thank you
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the clearest one! Out of all the photos to include, its so strange that they decided to include that one 
not that im complaining 
I especially loved the railway line and the special bar they spent a lot of their time together in. 
I feel like rewatching the whole thing but I don’t want to feel down - we need to move on lol. Consolation is Im happy to see them nominated in some awards :). Im not expecting much but Id feel so ecstatic if they win just one atleast. They really deserve it
atleast let them act together again!! Please 
[Drama 2018] My Mister, 나의 아저씨 - Best Drama at 2019 (55th) BaekSang Arts Awards
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Suddenly missing this drama again and Im happy a lot more people get to see it too! And it’s also amusing the different views we have towards the relationship between PDH and LJA but that we all agree, whatever it is, is that its a beautiful and unique one.
I also stumbled upon this article, again showcasing how we have different views in regards to their relationship.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.scmp.com/magazines/style/celebrity/article/3074258/mr-sunshine-goblin-and-3-other-korean-may-december