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Touch Your Heart – Eps 7-8

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How adorable are these two?!  So much love.  This drama reminds me a bit of Love020 in that it really gets its audience.  You came for a romcom, and romcom you will get! I cannot emphasize enough how much I adore the fact that the two characters work out their feelings and issues right away.

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Gangnam Beauty Thoughts

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It’s been so long since this drama came out that I think all that can be written on it has been written, but still, my two cents.  I really do think this is one of the best dramas to come out of Asia in years, primarily because it’s one of the few shows that captures so perfectly the ways in which women internalize sexism.

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Touch Your Heart Thoughts

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Why is Yoo In Na so freaking cute?  It definitely takes acting chops (or some inherent trait) to be so adorable that even girls think so.  I particularly like her character, because although she’s cutesy and not very smart, she’s also not stupid, and she’s certainly not helpless.  (This is in stark contrast to many female protagonists in cdramas who, even while professing to be “feminist” or whatever, are unable to walk two steps without help from a dude/many dudes.)  On top of all of this, she’s genuinely funny.

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