Kim Go-eun & Park Ji-hyun Dramas

KIM GO-EUN

2016 | Cheese in the Trap | WATCHED

2016-2017 | Guardian: The Lonely and Great God | WATCHED

2020 | The King: Eternal Monarch | WATCHING

2021-present | Yumi's Cells (3 seasons) | WATCHING

2022 | Little Women | WATCHED

2025 | You and Everything Else | WATCHED

2025 | The Price of Confession | WAITING

I started watching The King: Eternal Monarch twice already.  I'm going to have to start it over again because I was using someone else's Netflix account when I started it both times and now I have my own account which means I have no idea where I was up to!

I am still on S01 of Yumi's Cells.  I don't remember when I started it and I don't remember where I left off.  Going to have to work on this one since there are now 2 more seasons!

PARK JI-HYUN

2017 | Saimdang, Memoir of Colors

2017 | The King in Love

2018 | Your Honor | WATCHING

2018 | My Secret Terrius

2018 | Eun Joo's Room

2019 | Rookie Historian Goo Hae-ryung

2020 | Do You Like Brahms?

2021-2022 | Yumi's Cells (S01) | WATCHING

2022 | Love All Play

2022 | Reborn Rich | WATCHED

2024 | Flex X Cop

2025 | You and Everything Else | WATCHED

I'm going to have to go back and watch a little bit of Reborn Rich because I don't remember her being in that one.

I started watching Your Honor only because I LOVE Yoon Shi Yoon but I don't think I have finished the first episode.  I'll have to go back and start that again.  So, there are a total of 8 dramas she's been in that I haven't started or completed. 

So many dramas and not enough time to watch!

You and Everything Else | 은중과 상연 | COMPLETED

I finished this drama a little more than a week ago. It was so good!  

I admit the first few minutes of it was meh.  It didn't really grab me until Eun-jung meets with Sang-yeon for the first time since they stopped being friends.  Then, the news and the request.  From then on until the end, I could not stop watching.

I'm already a huge fan of Kim Go-eun; she was brilliant as Eun-jung.  I may have mentioned this before but I became a fan of hers from watching her in Goblin.  At that time she had only done one other drama, Cheese in the Trap, which I did watch and loved her in it as well even though the drama itself was just okay.  

Because of You and Everything Else, I am now a huge fan of Park Ji-hyun!  I need to make a list of the dramas and movies they both have been in and make it a point of watching.  They were so good together here.

They are in Yumi's Cells which I am currently watching, and I have no recollection of seeing Park Ji-hyun there.  Once I start watching it again, I'll have to look for her.

What Will You Do Ieyasu | どうする家康 | Dou Suru Ieyasu

 I've been wanting to see this one since I saw Matsumoto Jun was starring in it.  Unfortunately, I could not find it anywhere and without subs, I couldn't even attempt to find it available on a Japanese site.  Then a couple of weeks ago, I noticed it was on Amazon.  I went out and got snacks as I wanted to be prepared to watch as many episodes I was able to in 1 day.  There I sat, surrounded by snacks... With the remote in my hand, I logged into Amazon and added it to my watchlist.  Then I hit play.

It started to play but there were no subs.  I tried to select English subs but there were none available.  I WAS CRUSHED! I was so close to be able to finally watch this and because there were no subs, I wasn't going to be able to watch at all!

Then today, I was online checking out current Japanese dramas and someone mentioned they were looking for the subs to Dou Suru Ieyasu.  I nodded and I said to my laptop, "I am too".  Then, there was a comment below it saying how Amazon had it with subs so it's "free" if she has prime.  I wanted to comment that there were no English subs available but I decided to go look JUST IN CASE and sweet baby Jeezus, THERE WERE ENGLISH SUBS AVAILABLE!

So, guess what I'm about to do?  Correct.  I'm going to watch an episode before I go to work.

Synopsis from the official Dou Suru Ieyasu site:

A fresh take on the life of the titan Shogun who ended the age of war.

The boy was all alone. Without country, a father, and torn away from his mother. And being hostage of an "ally" clan, Takechiyo (as an adult, Ieyasu) can only imagine ending his life in quiet obscurity... BUT.

Moved by the passions of the samurai in the land of his birth (Mikawa), the young Ieyasu accepts his fate as lord of a weak nation and jumps into the fray of war! It is a world teeming with lethal shoguns like Oda Nobunaga and Takeda Shingen, each vying to take his slice of the pie and reign supreme.

What awaits him? Life-or-death danger! Miscalculation after miscalculation! Patience wearing thin!

What will you do, Ieyasu?

No backing, no resources; the only thing Ieyasu has are his strongminded vassals.

And he is faced with strongmen of which there seems no end: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Sanada Masayuki, Ishida Mitsunari...

The result is a 62nd Taiga series that is one thrilling epic entertainment!

You and Everything Else | 은중과 상연 | Episode 01

The drama starts and we learn about a mysterious friendship between Eun Jung and Sang Yeon, a popular actress.  Eun Jung is on the phone with a friend who asks if she knows Cheon Sang Yeon and she says she does.  The friend tells her to watch the awards show from the previous night.  Eun Jung watches and she hears Sang Yeon say that Eun Jung was the source of her inspiration (or something like that).

In a flashback (when Eun Jung's friend starts to read the draft of a story she had started to write), we learn how Sang Yeon came into Eun Jung's life.  She was a transfer student from the best private school in Seoul, where she had excellent grades. 

Eun Jung went with her mother to an apartment she was going to be cleaning before the new tenants moved in.  Upon entering, Eun Jung was amazed as she had never been in an apartment before.  After getting permission from her mother, she walked around the apartment to explore. It blew her mind when she saw there were 2 bathrooms.  She opened a door and left a cute sticky note and wrote "You're so lucky".

For most of this episode, we learn about their complicated "relationship" when they were kids.  We learn about the teacher that was kind to Eun Jung and whom her first love was.  I could say more here but I'd be spoiling the story.

This episode ends with Eun Jung's friend (sorry, I didn't catch her name. I'm going to have to look it up) asking her why she suddenly stopped writing.  As they are talking, Eun Jung gets a phone call from a number she doesn't recognize.  It's Sang Yeon.  She wants to meet because she has something to tell her.

When they meet, Eun Jung seems annoyed that she agreed to meet (this is how it felt to me) and she was short with Sang Yeon when she got there.  Sang Yeon says she has something to tell her but isn't sure how to tell her.  Frustrated, Eun Jung tells her to just say it.  So she does. Sang Yeon hands her an envelope that has a plane ticket.  Sang Yeon tells her to look at the rest of what is inside.  She looks up at Sang Yeon who tells her she hopes she will help her.

When she blurted out to Eun Jung what she wanted to say I said to myself "Oh no, it's gonna be one of those dramas.

Borrowed the pics below from dramabeans.com and I added the names

You and Everything Else | 은중과 상연

I was about to start watching Alice in Borderland S02 from the beginning since S03 is due out in a little less than 2 weeks when I saw this one pop up.  Normally, I don't pay attention to the "Recently Added" show that comes up when you first log into Netflix BUT I saw Kim Eun-go was in this new one and I had to put it on my list IMMEDIATELY!  Then I had to decide if I was going to watch an episode of this OR was I going to go watch Alice as planned?  Decisions...decisions...  I've decided to watch an episode of this first.

Shiawasena Kekkon | しあわせな結婚 | Their Marriage | Episode 01

Started watching this one just because I happened to notice Sadawo Abe from Extremely Inappropriate! is in it.

This drama stars Abe Sadawo as Harada Kotaro.  He's a 50 yr old bachelor who isn't looking to get married at all.  He's a lawyer and TV personality, and he's been living alone since the death of his parents as he has no siblings.  

One day, after filming a TV spot, he collapses and is taken to the hospital.  It's laying there after surgery, listening to his roommate's family give their support, that he suddenly feels a bit lonely.  It's there at the hospital, that he meets Suzuki Neruka while on an elevator.  Something about her that he likes and eventually they end up getting married.

They live in condo complex that is owned by Neruka's family.  Her younger brother lives on the 1st floor, Neruka and Kotaro live on the 2nd floor, and her father lives on the 3rd floor.  One night, during a weekly family dinner, Kotaro comments of the watery beef stew they had.  He tells Neruka there's a diner where they have a really good watery beef stew dish.  They agree to meet for lunch there.

Kotaro arrives at the diner and he waits for his wife.  She sends him a text to let him know she has left school (she is a HS art teacher).  He starts to worry when she hasn't arrived and tries to text and call but he can't reach her.  As Neruka was leaving school, she got a call from an unknown number, which she answers.

Kotaro apologizes to the diner and leaves.  He calls his co-worker to ask him to check if there were any 40 YO females involved in a car accident because his wife didn't show up and he can't reach her.  In a panic he runs to the HS and sees it's empty.  There is nobody around.  In the meantime, Kotaro's 2 co-workers look at each other.  The one who didn't take the call mocks Kotaro for panicking and the other one says he's going to inquire because what if something has happened?

Kotaro continues to search around for his wife and while at the top of some stairs, he sees his wife in the passenger side of a car with a young guy.  She is expressionless.  Kotaro goes home.

When Neruka arrives home, she said she went to the diner but he was gone.  He says he waited for an hour and then left.  She walks towards their bedroom.  He goes after her and lets her know that if she needs anything, he can help her and she says she's going to shower.

So, looks like she has a secret.  The guy in the car looks like he could be young enough to be her son.  He's maybe in his early 20s I think.  Is that her secret?  She had a child when she was younger?  I believe that would have been a bit of a scandal for the family.  

So far, it's interesting and there is something charming about Abe Sawado.