Strong Woman Bong-Soon

In my top 10 of all time, love it! Rewatched it many times over. There chemistry puts other couples to shame

I started watching this drama expecting it to be cheerful and all butterflies and rainbows but boy was I wrong. This drama had some dark stuff hidden that I would have never in a million years guessed. I was addicted to this drama from start to finish. I loved everything about it. It's such a great and interesting drama. The chemistry, side characters, and storyline were magnificent. Worth watching.

I started this drama expecting the usual romance drama but i didn't expect it to be that homophobic. The sexism and psychophobia were unsurprising and expected but the homophobia... There's the usual straight guy who's mistaken to be gay and the homoerotic situations who are depicted as "funny" (because of course there can be no attraction between two "healthy" guys...) but there's also offensive comments and a character that was obviously solely created to be the pitiful and ridiculous gay guy with a one-sided romance.

The plot itself is nice and the chemistry between the main couple is fantastic; Bong soon and Minhyuk are both so cute and charismatic. I also loved the best friend of Bong soon. She's really expressive and pretty! However it's really not enough to forget about the constant mockery of mlm...

been a while since i've watched a fun and light drama like this! except for the few sexist and homophobic jokes, this is very funny. the love triangle hurts so bad, but not in an annoying way. i love park hyung-sik performance here!

It was good, but also had some annoying moments. Would I watch it again? Probably not. But it's definitely worth watching if only to see Park Hyung Sik get all giggly and adorable. Loved Min Min.

> OVERRATED ... Strongly Homophobic and factually incorrect /racist . Stay away if you get easily offended.

I had seen many negative reviews due to its homophobic content ; but that was not a stopper for me and I watched it to find they really overused the homophobic elements.

Baek Mi Kyung really must hate men and her contempt on male domination is clearly shown in the show. She envisoned a society where all men are usless ; either they are gay or boyish or useless cops or sadist psychopaths that kidnap women .

I was looking forward to a light-hearted romance but its overaly shadowed the point of view of author on society
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* Domestic Violence --> Men beating women --> Let's make --> Jin -Yi beat her husband Chil-Goo
* Fake Priest --> Let make a hindu/buddisht priest who behaves like a gay and named Nizzamudin ( a muslim name) --> and Naan is eaten all over India and it looks like a musquito bat
* Gang's --> Lets get the Strong Woman beat them toothless and they stay in hospital for rest of the show and even nurse her babies
* Police --> There are no woman officers and all copy watch soap dramas and useless in catching a single kidnapper with infinite clues and the strong girl is the one only one who can a frail pyschopath
* Let make the male leads gayish and confuse the audience for half of the show until the girl falls for him and then he is magically straight -- should have made him bi-sexual if you wanted it to be realistic atleast.
[/spoiler]

I don't regret watching but I was warned by fellow reviewers that its not worth the time . I didnt like the show till half-point and then it seemingly became boring with no real progress in plot or character development. VERY PREDICTABLE PLOT. Enough ranting ... here is my review


CAST
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I'm never a fan of any of them, but I believe they did a really great job. The set of 3 leads owned their roles. I even believe that the writers wrote this story with Park Bong-soon in their mind. Tiny and cutesy role is definitely for her, and she's a good actress as well.

THE STORY
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The story, however, was a strange mix of romance, comedy, supernatural(?), police investigation, and even bloody thriller. How would they mix into a good storyline? There's no way. I believe they needed to take out at least one, or tone down each of them to make everything flow.

The dynamic of this storyline is super strange. It was like an incredibly bumpy road instead of a smooth rollercoaster. The comedy element was almost too forced that it wasn't funny. Some parts were even disgusting that just made me fast-forward throughout the show.

The thriller part started out really strong in the beginning which tipped off the consistent cute and comical tone of the entire Do Bongsoon character. That villain character was just too over-the-top that the entire sub plot around this guy doesn't fit in with the tone of this story at all.

[spoiler]Plus, the entire reason Bongsoon and Hyungshik got together was because *his* case, not the one in her neighborhood. He was being threatened, and that case was solved so easily and quickly. It was definitely just there to bring the two together.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]The love story between the two/three leads was nothing special. Nothing really developed or had an impact on any characteristic change. It was just there out of nowhere. I have to admit that they were cute and fluffy together though. They were almost too cheesy together and I usually don't prefer that kind of super cringy stuff, but I believe it helped even out the darker tones regarding the villain. It still isn't the ideal way for such purpose.[/spoiler]

OVERALL
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Would I recommend it....sort of!!.
I mean, you'd have to know going in that the story makes no sense, but as a backdrop for a super cute, cheesy beyond belief romance...if you can deal with that then, yeah, go for it.
I was entertained for sure (otherwise the rating would be like a 4). But if you need a plot that is logical and a more 'mature' (not THAT kind of mature, but more grown up) romance, then this one won't be right for you.I
f you wanna see for yourself, I don't recommend you against it.

I kept thinking about how I should go back and write a warning on this for fellow lgbt people, so here I am. There's _a lot_ of homophobic jokes/themes in this drama (towards mlm), so please be careful if this gets to you. I really tried to continue watching this (because yes, strong woman!!) all while hoping it was a one time thing but it wasn't.

Lovely romantic comedy and amazing chemistry between the OTP. This is the first time I saw Park Hyun Sik and I will make sure to watch him in his next project. In the end I didn't care about anything else than the OTP. There was simply no point to almost all side characters, but the romance made up for it.

In my honest opinion, it overall is not worth the hype. Lots of homophobia, which makes the mother even more annoyingly forceful, and there are unnecessary characters (and relationships) that's typical in a drama. I watched this for Park Boyoung and she was great but this was a waste of time.

Awesome drama. It has such a freedom which Western series lost in its portfolio.