When Life gives Tangerines - Just like KPop

I did not watch the whole 4 episodes, just a bit of episode 4.

When it was announced that the Former Owner of Edam Entertainment and Park Bogum were announced, most people expected them to be star crossed lovers, going to hurdles and unbelievable sufferings very common in K-dramas.

However the story didn't follow like that - no big incidents occurred, the characters were married, and the female lead has a daughter, who just happens to look like the Former Owner of Edam Entertainment!

So the real story is about the daugther, not the mother and father played by the Former Owner of Edam Entertainment and park Bogum , but the Former owner of Edam Entertainment and at least 3 actors (which will include Lee Junyoung, who would be her first love but would not marry; at least two more men, one of them possibly Kim Seonho!) who are, I have to say, a bit lesser known than Park Bogum.

That is like the story of KPop.

KPop fans around the world got interested in KPop through their faves, who they thought were the No.1 singers in there.

However, they were shocked to see a certain soloist, who sang songs which did not appeal to foreigners but continued to top something called the Melon Chart, the only digital chart available from Korea before Spotify.

The incalculable damage to KPop the singer who would become the Former Owner of Edam Entertainment cannot be measured . In fact it is probable that she suppressed the rise of Kpop by 7 years.

Fittingly her drama is like that - advertised as a Former of Edam Entertainment - Park Bogum romance, it has become a romance of Former Owner of Edam Entertainment and other actors. That is called, I have to say, false advertising.

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seriously curious what triggers this

does it come like a fart

Lee Jieun has never given up her hostilities against KPop

Her past history shows the insight i need to complete posts.

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Poor writing, by your own standards WhyKnock

Well blame it to the author who claimed it was about IU and Park Bogum but it was actually the story of the daughter

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"I did not watch the whole 4 episodes, just a bit of episode 4."

🙄th

I saw the gist of the other episodes and am even more annoyed

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No, this is not upto your usual standards. The analogy simply does not stick.

As to the promos, they will only tease and not reveal entire things, knowing the write and director, the mere fact that it is a multigeneration story with 2 leads playing the lead character each, only fools would think that this is typical romcom built around just the lead faces.

Most people would have thought that the main story would be about IU and Bogum and the older characters only showing up in the later portion of the story.

Instead the main story, which will start from next week, is about the daughter with at least two men, ee Junyoung and Kim Seonho (who is rumored to be the IU daughter character's husband), not something most people expected.

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So you only saw the trailers.🙄

Plus a few clips going around in youtube

I have heard that the conclusion is an older Geummyoung, probably played by Moon Sori who now plays the older Aesoon, and her child(not known whether son or daughter) attending the concert of a certain singer who used to own Edam Entertainment. It is known that Moon Sori did attend the Hereh concert in Mar 9, 2024.

It appears the Former Owner of Edam Entertainment not showing up in Queen of Tears proved to be a good move after the Kim Soohyun - Kim Saeron fiasco.

The singer who had taken a photo with anchovy, which would have put anchovy into trouble since it is not clear when the photo was taken, was probably aware of KSH's conduct and did not associate herself with him.

People might argue why she did nothing to save Saeron but since the singer who had taken a picture with anchovy never met Saeron and does not know her, how can the singer who had taken a picture with anchovy save her?

And given a photo Saeron had released looked like this

they were making fun of her most famous photo

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Hey WhyKnock your weird theory might be right, but in a different way,

K-phobes like you would have thought that IU's role is done and complete, as she ages into the middle aged Moon Sori, but surprise - IU is also the next generation playing the daughters role.

Just like Kpop, when you thought 3rd gen will retiree IU, she was back competing with them, so much that many fans think she is 3rd gen.

4th gen - nope, still there and even a world tour, breaking into Korean stadiums.

Maybe if they do a sequel to the drama - with granddaughter, great grand daughter etc., it will all still be her.

K-drama reflecting Kpop.

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I did mention it - none of the watchers would have suspected that it was the daughter's story and the daughter just looked like the Former Owner of Edam Entertainment as well

It is said that the ending is the mother and daughter attending the concert of a certain former owner of a company. It is known that Moon Sori, who plays the mother, had attended the concert of the Former Owner of Edam Entertainment on March last year.

And while Lee Junyoung, a former Ukiss member turned actor, also attended it and Kim Seonho, who makes an appearance in an undisclosed role , did not, some people suspect the younger character would marry Junyoung in the end.

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Ah.. that ending would be nice touch - tying the Actress IU to the Singer IU.

And given the reach of dramas are always more than music, across cultures - that would immensely boost Senior Singer's international presence.

After all her first boost came with Hotel Del Luna's success on Netflix.

Then she would never go away.

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It seems the song Shh. was influenced by this drama (which finished filming on 2023), emphasizing mother-daughter relatinship, although how can Tang Wei, who is Chinese, can be the daughter of Lee Jieun is unexpected.

That drama seems to be a retelling KPop's history with her constantly menacing it whenever she could. It appears Eunmyung (the younger brother of Geummyung, the daughter) is going to be hitched with the daughter of the ship owner, who tried to marry the mother and also abused the father. So the mother now has to tolerate the sight of the shipowner and his wife and daughter for the rest of her life.

That is similar to KPop, which seemed to have moved past the digitals, having to reckon with the owner of Edam Entertaintainment, who controls the digitals, and the unsightly shapes of people like Akmu, Day6 and qwer, who now sneak into the ship of Kpop without doing too much to advance, promote or expand it.