Sungkyunkwan Scandal

Would have given 8 stars, but the last 5 episodes was super dragging that made me almost bored with watching it, hence reducing the star rating.

Where do I begin.

The basics were fine. Once again a girl pretending to be a boy enrolled in a boys only college and has to room mate with two boys. She is clever, so clever she learns and becomes and expert archer in a matter of days, learns and plays field hockey and tops her class academically.

One of the roommates falls in love with her (and one of the others too) and turns out she likes him too. Yeah! One finds out acciddently that She is a She and the other just guesses. The ML has to discover this much later.

Again like all the other girl pretending to be a boy dramas, the Actress playing the role doesnt even remotely look like a boy! But you have to roll with it!

Its a simply good humour story with the bad guy always one step behind. The driving filial piety towards parents is constant in this KDrama, alongside the reality of sons having to come to terms with their fathers' ruthless past.

Have to say this, the fighting scenes were very poor quite stiff.

Otherwise, just enough comedy, lightheartedness, drama and HEA to not get bored even though you know exactly how it will end.

Watche in Korean audio and English subtitles.

Not that much kowtowing to the King (why not?) and mysterious mysteries to solve, before the ML & FL live happily every after.

I watched this for Song Joong-ki and was pleasantly surprised at how good it is. It is about intelligent Kim Yoon-hee (Park Min-young) who, having lost her father early on, disguises as her sick brother to support her family. In a desperate financial situation, she was cajoled into illegally taking the national exams for another boy but was caught by Lee Seon Joon (Park Yoo Chun). Seon Joon persuades her into taking the exam for herself. They both pass the test and become roommates in Sungkyunkwan University. Sparks inevitably fly between them though her disguise make for some awkward moments, not to mention confusion on the part of Seon Joon.

Soon Joong-ki delights as flamboyant playboy Goo Yong Ha, one of Yoon-hee's close friends in the university.

This is one of the first Korean dramas that I watched and got me hooked. The story is not complicated but is deep enough to get excited on what happens next. The cast and crew did an excellent job. I truly had fun watching it and I've been going back to it (occasionally) to this day.

The plot is well written. Leads all perform up to standard. Not a bad choice for entertainment.