SHINING SHANTI

Full House Addicts

For a couple of weeks, I have been brainwashed by people discussing this high-rated Korean TV series, Full House, which I have already seen last mid year. Already too old, I thought. In spite of this, I cannot say I got weary of the flick; I still put an effort to include it in my collection. I admit I am a big fan or addict of Full House as well.

Based on the Korean comic book of the same name, Full House or in Korean pronunciation Pul Hawooseu, tells a cheerful and gloomy sides of a romance between an ordinary naive girl and a famous egocentric pop star, which both of them attempted to win over the house first belong to the girl by having a marriage deal.

Victims or Addicts?

The series was aired and hit big time last year in South Korea and has attracted more than 50% of all viewers in the Ginseng country. It has here now for sure! Even one of my anti-Korean-TV-drama series guy friends has fallen for its charm, or maybe he got karma by making mockery of my liking of oriental cinema, I don’t know. Using his wife as his excuse for watching this drama, he said that the story was humorous and comical, and a must for him is it has a happy ending. "…and the girl was cute," he said. To my surprise, he finished watching within 3 days! Quicker than I did! I finally discovered that he got so addicted - never admitted though - the next day he re-watched some episodes that he claimed he missed seeing, and spare special time in the office browsing the net to find out about the female leading role. Alrighty mister!

Another friend of mine gave testimony that she rarely cries in real life, yet she easily burst into tears over the series. She got so affected - addicted, I may say - that mellowness developed into a theme for her in the following days after watching the series. My orang rumah even asked me, or I should say urge me to borrow or buy the VCD/DVDs for them. They smiled, but gave me such look saying don’t you come home till you get the VCDs. No wonder during the "one precious on-air hour" from 17.00 o’clock onward, I had difficulties phoning home. My guess was they were glued to their seat to watch the precious show. Probably literally using Power Glue. Mon Dieu….

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