literature recommendation: "Fettnäpfchenführer Korea" (eng:To avoid unpleasent situations in Korea)

literature recommendation: "Fettnäpfchenführer Korea" (eng:To avoid unpleasent situations in Korea)

by Rosalie 

 

 click for german version!!

Hi Lovelies,

at the moment I have summer vacations and in this time I am able to read more often. While I read this book I thought about you and now I will do a short book recommendation for you. I hope you are interested in literatur about asia?? :)

I plan on writing more about book's with the content of Korea and Japan, since I always wanted to travel to Korea one day.

So it was one of these fine day's when I wanted to start doing something for my plan. Because of money and not beeing fluent in language I am a bit inhibited so I decided I shoulld start my plans with buying a guidebook. At the book store I found this book to avoid unpleasant situations, wich is kind of written as a storry. I was so excited that I bought it right away... :D

Text on the backside of the book:
It can happen that in Korea people trow salt at you, or your boss is feeding you or some strangers in public transportations will take away your bag - all neat thing's, these people simply wanna make you more compfortable. Men with make up are not rare, but dog's  to eat are not common. Andyou should always take your deodorant with you on a trip to Korea because you will be the only person hwo needs this. Korea is a unknown place for us (in this situation I think he means the german people haha) and it is absolutely common for us to get into unpleasant situations. Also collage student Julia and internshipmen Nico are really bballi bballi as the korean people would say be because of the every day life in Korea. They come from temple to wedding to burial to red-light district. In these situation's it is pretty normal to do something wrong. But luckily the korean people are really friendly and forgive these mistakes. Because you also know: even a monkey can fall from a tree.




 It's a bigger book serie where each book is about a different country. In the picture abouf you can see as an example the China version and I also have read the book about Japan. 

 

In total there are two story's, from Julia and from Nico. And I think they have they're problems in the beginning but in the end they have grown a lot and are able to understand the korean people so much better. They are so sad after they have left Korea.

 

This book is written in german language, but I don't really know if you can buy it in english, too. If you know please let me know!! Or do you have similar book's in your country's language??

In the beginning of the book is also an map of Korea, where you can follow in the story and see where our hero's are right now.

In the following you can see how the capitle is: 

In the end it is always interesting to see wich mistakes Julia or Nico have done. Sometimes you realize that they have done something wrong but couldn't say how to make it correct. The writer of the book also has 3 different headlines for "good job" "you can make it betther" and "everything went wrong" in korean language. It's really fun.

In general korean people are different to german people in lifestyle, speaking, family, wedding, culture, history... but especially in the last point I also could see that there are some similarity's. The people there are always nice to Julia and Nico. They help them and forgive mistake's. Because of this book I am more and more willing to travelk to Korea one day but time and everything... who can know this right now??? :D
But I will inform you about everything! <333

Also I am planning on reading more book's of this row. I am really interested in Vietnam and Thailand. I hope these book's are as much fun to read as this book was.
 

I hope you like this literature recommendation. If you also want to recommend me some book's just let me know. I want to write about the Japan and China book as well so not miss this post make shure to follow me on  facebook and twitter. <33


 

K-Drama Recommendation: "Strong Woman Do Bong Soon"

K-Drama Recommendation: "Strong Woman Do Bong Soon"

by Rosalie

 

 

Hi Lovelies,
today I want to write about a korean Drama I was watching recently.

I really wanted to watch a new drama, and after watching "HWARANG" I feld in love with the actor Park Hyung Sik, so I was searching for some dramas, where he is playing a main role. And I found This drama "Strong Woman Do Bong Soon". I have seen that this is the latest drama where he is in so I decided to watch it! harhar<3333

But I really have to say that this drama is one of my favourites out of all I have watched. I had seen that this is comedy and romance, so I was expecting a chilly story and a handsome actor. But really, the story was so like OMO please!!! This is to much for my pure kpop heart! :D Beside the usual love story there was so much happening. I was watching it at night and really got scared! Ok, I should say I really can't watch horror movies, but hwo is expecting this at a kdrama? :D SO DEEEEEEEP! 

Ji Soo, Park Boyoung, Park Hyungsik

The 3 main actors are:

-Park Boyoung as DO BONG SOON (girl, who has super strong power, very naive, in love with her childhoodfriend)

-Park Hyungsik as AHN MINHYUK (own a game company, is super arrogant but got blackmails, don't trust the police)

-Ji Soo as IN GOOKDOO (Childhoodfriend of Bong Soon, doesn't know about her power, working as a policeman)

release date : 24.02.2017 - 15.04.2017

16 Episodes

released at JTBC

gengre: romance, comedy 

Looking at the OST there are some really awesome actors, like Park Hyungsik, Mamamoo, Vromance and Jeong Eunji. I really like the music, listening at it gives me much energy (as Bong soon has haha!!)

*You are my super power girl* lalala <3  

If you want to watch the drama, you should stop right here with reading, I don't wanna spoile you!! But if you are interested in the acors and a bit of the story I will go on! <3

Now I want to talk about the story:

Bong Soon taking care about the drunken boys.

Minhyuk, falling in love with his bodyguard Bong Soon.

Do Bong Soon is a woman in her 20's. She is a really cute and tiny girl, but she has strong super power. Like she can lift up everything and punsh gangster. This sounds great first, but the only thing Bong Soon wishes for is, to be normal and make In Gookdoo fall in love with her. They know each other from childhood, but now he has a girlfriend and Bong Soon is trying really hard to be sweet and girly.

Bing Soon and Minhyuk at the library, can you feel the kdrama romance?? *__*

Bong Soon protecting Minhyuk while both are beeing in danger because of the blackmailer.

But they also can have fun with each other! :D

Bong Soon's mom and grandmother also has this power, it is like only woman in the family has this power. Bong Soons Twin brother doesn't has this power. The mother always sais that Bong Soon is the strong but naive one and her brother is the intelligent one, because he is a doctor now and she doesn't have a job or anything as the story started. The mother has lost her power because she has used it ony for herself, to be bether than any other in sport competitions. So if you want to keep hat power you should always help the ones who need the help.

Minhyuk and Gookdoo fighting because of Bong Soon.

I love how pissed of Bong Soon is at the beginning of the story because of her arrogant boss. She was only taking the empolyment because he promised after getting the blackmailer she would have a normal job at the company.

As Bong Soon was fighting with some bad guys on the street Ahn Minhyuk, owner of a game company, saw the fight and the power of her. As he was receiving some blackmail calls and got pushed, he decided that Bong Soon should be his bodyguard. I guess you can expect how strange it looks to have this tiny girl protecting a tall handsome men. haha

Within the first half of the drama this blackmailer thing get solved but beside this there is the childhoodfriend Gookdoo, who is a police man. Around the living area of Bong Soon there is a kidnapper, who only kidnap young and thin woman. The first victim even was killed by the kidnapper. In the story there are always these scenes where you see the dark selfmade prison with the woman in it. He tried to get 8 woman and marry them, he really is crazy. He also observe the woman with cameras, has cameras at the police station and on public places, wich really makes it hard for the police to solve this problem. Of course Bong Soon interfere into this and tries to help the woman, because her best friend also got kidnapped.

The kidnapper, tryingto get into the company building of Minhyuk to take revenge on Bong Soon.

The kidnapper, he really can mask himself to run away from police.

One of the kidnapped woman.

Beside this scary story there is the love story between Bong Soon and Minhyuk, who knows that she is in love with the police man but regardless fall in love with Bong Soon. As the story goes on She is also more and more in love with her boss (!!!!) and forget about the love to her childhood friend Gookdoo. Gookdoo's girlfriend broke up with him because of Bong Soons brother, because o this he is taking more action into this triangular relationship and makes it more and more complicatedfor everyone, saying he was in love with Bong Soon since childhood, too. Hm, this is really some kdrama sh***... sry, but WHY? Why is Gookdoo making things so hard for Bong Soon to get a boyfriend she likes? Her mother isn't a help, too, since she wanted from the beginning of her employment that Bong Soon should marry Minhyuk.

Bong Soon and Minhyuk at a lovey dovey picnik. I really am happy for both to have a nice time together.

Minhyuk and Bong Soon marrying? :P

Really, all in all this is only a bit of the story can tell you know. It's so much, like every episode is full of actions. Plus I don't want to tell who Bong Soon will be together with in the end. I always shipped Bong Soon and Minhyuk, because with him, she can be how she really is and say what she really thinkgs, because he knows her secret power. Plus they are really cute fighting at the beginning and falling in love after this bad start haha! And I love the character of Hyungsik, he is super arrogant and rich and always makes fun about Bong Soon. 

But all actors are super handsome, and I am in love with Bong Soons hair style! <333333

The end of the story is a bit fast, full of new informations and things happening.

If you are searching for a nice kdrama full of emotions and with a nice story, you really should watch this drama, since this story is amazing!!!

If you have kdramas, you love, please feel free to share them with me, since I am interested and always searching for a new good drama to watch. Also tell me what you think about the drama if you have watched it. Do you like it, too?

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