The Problematic of the Unproblematic

Today's post is going to be about the food found in KDramas when a scene is staged in a restaurant or pojangmacha.  Warning: drool can be hazardous to your keyboard. Restaurants in Korean Dramas are as ubiquitous as the evil Mother-in-law. From humble to elegant, they can set the stage for either cute moments or disastrous scenes.  Here they are, in no particular order. JOKBAL -  Braised Pig's Feet (or Pig Trotters) A link to the Visit Korea Tourism site calls jokbal "Chewy Memories of The Past".   Well, I'm not sure how far in the past you should go, but they were Ji-an's favorite pregnancy food in I Do I Do (2012) , and So-young's love of the meat in Baby-faced Beauty (2005) made Jin-wook happy.  And anything that makes Daniel Choi happy, makes me happy too! Jokbal is made by boiling pig's feet or the shank portion of the front legs over several hours in a mixture of soy sauce, rice wine, garlic, cinnamon sticks, green onions, g...

You don't have to look long to find crimes of hair in Korean dramas. I personally know someone who said they could not watch Boys Over Flowers because of Lee Min Ho's hair. Well, ok....I admit that was me.  I found it so distracting that I could not move on to episode 2. But the crimes I'm talking about here are not bad styling, because everyone has their favorite examples of those (Hwang Jung-Eum in Can You Hear My Heart , or the entire cast of Full House Take 2 to name a few).  No, I'm talking about crimes against hair as in just plain crazy bad drama making.  Or in other words, random hair changes that no one is supposed to notice. Now these changes fall into several categories: The COLOR CHANGE I think I first became aware of this phenomenon while watching Goong when Yul's hair changed from that ever popular reddish brown to a darker, more natural shade around episode 14. I thought it was really strange at the time - both the reddish color and the ...