cast: park se wan, shin hyeon seung, choi young jae, minnie, han hyun min, carson allen, joakim sorensen, terris brown
genre: sitcom
well, as this is a sitcom, there's no big plot. only a bunch of foreign students in a korean university dormitory. the only korean/korean in this drama are se wan (park se wan), that's been acting as the the student advisor and was in charge of the dormitory management and hyun min (han hyun min), whose mother is korean and father is african and he has 6 other siblings from different dads thanks to his adventurous mom. since he's korean, he's not allowed to live in the dorm, but things happen and he managed to live in the dorm for awhile.
jamie (shin hyeon seung) is a newcomer from the US and apparently the son of famous US actress, barbara houston (thus hyun min's mom mistakenly thinking she was whitney houston) and later will fall in love with se wan. se wan herself has a troubled life thanks to her swindler's dad and her in-debt-forever mom. she has to work part time in various places to pay back her mother's debt.
while sam (choi young jae) was supposed to be the son of australian businessman (ain't this funny because in real life young jae's english is terrible and he didn't speak anything in english in this sitcom). he's a free spirit guy but tends to be very sulky. his flaw is he lies all the time even though people could recognize his lying to them since his ears would get burning red every time he lies. later he would be in relationship with minnie and even kissed her! if you're an ahgase, then you'd seen his fellow members tease him about the kissing scene, especially bambam. however, at the end of the drama, there's a possibility they would break up again since minnie probably cheated on him.
minnie (minnie of g-idle) is a thai student and loves korean drama, especially DOTS and is easily falling in love. she's bright and cute, but she cheats on her boyfriend numerous times. probably will do the same on sam as well. carson (carson allen) is another american student but she loves korean food and has korean boyfriend at first. she was pretty dedicated to her boyfriend but later she found out her boyfriend cheated on her. while hans (joakim sorensen) is a swedish graduate student that's pretty weird. he sticks to his principle in a weird way. and there's terris (terris brown), a trinidad/tribago student. he's close with hyun min but apparently he stole hyun min's ex-girlfriend but later broke up. near the end of the drama we saw that they make terris as an LGBTQ representation as he was seen in a date with another boy.
what i like:
- the story is refreshing and light. quite entertaining. it would totally bright up your days.
- you'd see crumbles of got7 in the drama. young jae specifically said that he intentionally put green birds doll in sam's room as representation of ahgase. in the drama there's a "mark's meal" as well.
what i don't like:
- why make the background story as "foreign students living in korean dormitory" when everyone is speaking korean? if you're telling the story as foreign students, ain't it not surprising that they would speak multiple languages? having them to speak only korean is a bit ridiculous. but i do applaud all foreign actors/actresses for speaking korean fluently.
- they try to insert the mystery of drug dealer in the dorm, but i don't see they reveal it in this season. the same thing with se wan's parents. perhaps this is a sign of second season? as so many mysteries keep being mystery even until the end of the drama.
- they insert another LGBTQ story. even though in real life, LGBTQ is not widely accepted in korea.
rating: 8/10
binge worthy: so-so
recommended for: someone who wants a good laugh in this gloomy situation, fans of got7 and g-idle.
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