"Tree of heaven" or LeeWan, Lee Wan, Lee Wan. Pic spam of Lee Wan. Lee Wan in "Lets go to the beach"

[alexandral]

Tree of heaven
This is a sign of a serious obsession – it is Sunday evening and all I can think of is my new Korean drama obsession "Tree of Heaven". ;D It is just fabulous beyond words and it is pushing all my favourite buttons all at once. I am swooning non-stop.

1. A hero with the dark past who wants to stay away from the love of his life because he doesn't want to hurt her - Check
2. A hero brought to redemption by the power of his love – Check
3. Snow fights - Check
4. Million Red Roses that the hero gets for the heroine – Check
6. Incredibly stylish black garb our hero is dressed in - Check
5. Bare feet and exemplary abdominal muscles – Check


A scene that gets me so much that I had to go for a jog around the park after watching it, or symbolical feet washing

Oh, this was so intense that it send me into spin: Yon Suh has a notion that "If your feel aren't cold, how will your heart can be hot" and because of it he goes around with bare feet to stop his heart from been so dark and cold and he never quite manages to get rid of this freezing feeling in his heart. So he goes around barefoot. But when he meets Hana again she buys him socks and tells him that his heart will never be cold again because they are together. And she puts them on for him. ** swoon **












And then he looks at her like this:



And he looks at her like that. (And I would have been passing out at this minute already if I was Hana)



And this is a symbolical feet washing and so much "my thing".



And when he looks at her like this I have to stop watching and go out for a jog around the park. This drama will be so good for my fitness level.





But of course, the main thing about "Tree of heaven" for me is the male protagonist Yoon Suh played by Lee Wan who possesses a wonderful combination of masculinity, angst and boyishness. Plus he has a "speaking" face..



Pictures of Lee Wan, oh I swoon again!! Pictures are taken from soompi forums mostly. Thank you, soompi!!!









































Let's go to the beach
I am looking forward to Lee Wan's previous drama "Let's go to the beach". It looks like something happy and bright, but I am sure that it will have some great angst too. A synopsis from Drama Wiki:

"This drama is about a hotel's lifeguards. The story will be based on the love between an illegitimate son, Jang Tae-pung and his half brother (different mothers), Jang Tae-hyun and the hotel owner's grand daughter, Yoon So-ra." Illegitimate son - sounds sooo good to me!

Anyone saw it? Is it good?

UpdateEEEEEEEE! I am watching an episode 1 of "Let's go to the beach" and this is a love from first sigh. Stroppy but gorgeous Jang Tae-pung (Lee Wan) + Spirited Yoon So-ra + so happy and funny from the word go. YESSSSSSSSSSS! I lurve it!!! dangermousie, this reminds me of "My Girl" so much.

These pictures are from Lee Wan's next drama – Lets' go to the beach. Guess what I am watching next?

Comments

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I saw Lee Wan in Snow White, and I fell in love with him! The drama was ok-ish, but I kept on watching because of him.

Is it happy or full of angst? I am so sorry for asking – the description on Drama Wiki doesn't make too much sense. Seems like on of the dramas that don't have a particular interesting storyline…But I will probably end up watching it because my crush on Lee Wan is HUGE!!

I've been meaning to watch Tree of Life, but I just kept putting it on hold. Now, with both your and dangermousie's picspamming awesomeness, I don't think I'll be able to resist putting it off. That makes, what, seven dramas that I'm in the middle of currently? : P

EEEEE! That's a lot!! I have two going at the moment too.:D, not counting HYD2. Plus to "Tree of Heaven" I am watching "Let's go to the beach" with Lee Wan, to balance the angst. I like it very much too - so very cute and funny and fast.

[partypaprika.livejournal.com]

Snow White is pretty happy. It borders on being angsty every once in a great while, but on the whole it's light and fluffy. The story is essentially about this girl who's in love with her best friend, but he only sees her as a friend. Because she's so in love with him, she can never tell him no, and ends up taking in his younger brother. Love chaos triangles/rectangles ensue. I thought it was pretty cute, especially because of Lee Wan. And he's so young!
I should try your method of balancing angst with fluffy, because I always end up watching angsty ones with other angsty ones and get incredibly depressed at the end : )

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! I think I am bound to watch it.!!! Even though by the look of things Lee Wan is not in a role where he will get the girl at the end. (Big, big minus!!)

"Tree of Heaven" is not really depressing for me, just full of angst. I can't really bare well a true depressing stuff. I tried Korean drama "Piano" recently and could not cope. But yep, still helps to balance it. I should have watched ALTK and "Full House" together.. :D

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Pssst, if you want spoilers, I just got recced SW on a different lj of a friend and

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Lee Wan does get the girl in the end in SW.

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

EEEEE! I must watch "Snow White" too now. I am almost through with "Let's go to the beach" now, I reached a wonderful angsty part and I am savoring it. TP (Lee Wan's character) just said he wants to "protect her always". ** sigh **

Evil brother is kind of hot too..

[partypaprika.livejournal.com]

hahahaha! I should definitely try doing that! One actor's angsty show with their light and fluffy one. And you might be pleasantly surprised by Snow White...

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

I am already downloading it. I find that often when I "discover" an actor I feel that I MUST watch everything he is in. :)

Thank you!