[ENG SUB] "Let's Eat" EP 1 DISCUSSION POST

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Plot:
What do a group of foodies and a murder have in common? Lee Soo Kyung (Lee Soo Kyung) is a 33-year-old divorcee who is a composed, confident woman who is happy to be living alone after marrying way too early in life. But the only thing that can make her lose her cool composure is great food. Living next door is another foodie, Goo Dae Young (Yoon Du Jun), a single man who loves surrounding himself with gourmet food but hates being asked if he is dining alone at great restaurants. When a strange murder occurs in their neighborhood, how will their lives be intertwined?
“Let’s Eat” is a 2013 South Korean drama series directed by Park Joon Hwa.


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!!!!WARNING THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!!

BEAST Yoon Doojoon expressed his thoughts on ‘Let’s Eat’ Press Conference




BEAST member Yoon Doojoon, the main lead in upcoming drama ‘Let’s Eat’, has attended a press conference for the drama on 25th November today.

Yoon Doojoon plays a neighboring guy who stays next to Lee SooKyung. He’s a gourmet with an expressive description for food, which will make everyone fall for it. Although he has a fiend character and lies every time he talks about food, he’s a mysterious man that takes good and sincere care of others through his own actions.

Yoon Doojoon expressed his thoughts, “I felt that if one eats prettily, that person will be the main focus. But when one eats voraciously, it emphasizes on the food” and, “It’s my first time playing in a drama that focuses on food, so I feel that I had to eat it deliciously to fulfill that aspect.”

“It’s hard to express deliciously if you’re eating something tasteless, but fortunately, all the dishes prepared for this drama are really delicious. I start to anticipate upcoming dishes and I would get pretty excited whenever there are more dishes to be added to the new scripts,” and, “In the future too, I hope writer-noonas will take good care of me”.

Regarding ways on how idols manage their diet, Yoon Doojoon stated, “For us, we don’t really manage. Never once even till today. But if we exceed (our weight), we will try to control it. We love food a lot, so among ourselves, we would go to delicious restaurants” and, “Yang Yoseob, Son Dongwoon and I have similar taste in food. I think we went to all famous and delicious restaurants around Gangnam”, revealing his ‘food date mates’.

He added, “I’m not a person who can’t cook. I actually attempted cooking quite often,” flaunting confidence on his actual cooking skills. “When the members and I having similar thoughts, we would go to markets together and even cook too.”



When asked if BEAST members gave their support to him, Yoon Doojoon revealed, “There’s none for this time as well. We don’t help much on each other’s personal activities”, he responded.

He continued, “It’s not that we don’t have a good relationship. It’s just that when I was filming for this drama, the rest of the members were busy as well. Kikwang went to Vietnam and took care of children, Yong JunHyung currently has some individual activities on his hands, Hyunseung in Trouble Maker, another friend is busy with his musicals while another is resting at home”, he explained.

Yoon Doojoon added, “BEAST members will say ‘it’s interesting’ when looking at other member’s in dramas they acted in. Either that, or we will only mentioned about it when we teased about their funny characters in the drama. It’s just to that extent (nothing more),” causing a sea of laughter during the press conference.

When asked what will be their possible reactions for this new drama, Yoon Doojoon replied, “Our members will be surprised, and since they love to tease each other, I think there will be some exciting responses.”

Member Yong JunHyung has been receiving the spotlight lately for his acting skills. Yoon Doojoon revealed, “I never thought of him as a rival. Instead, I think while he’s conducting his personal activities, it helps the group a lot in return.”



On another note, Lee SooKyung expressed her thoughts on working with 7-years-younger Yoon Doojoon, “My sibling brother is younger than me by 3 years old, but Yoon Doojoon is even younger than him by 4 years. It’s quite burdensome. But if you look at appearance, there isn’t really much difference,” which caused laughter during the press conference.

Lee SooKyung continued, “Yoon Doojoon is a considerate person. Despite the age difference, he’s very much mature and I learn a lot from him. Not only in dramas, but as a singer who’s always busy, he’s able to hide his tired side during shoots… he is really amazing,” praising Yoon Doojoon as well as showing her satisfaction for meeting a great partner.

Yoon Doojoon and Lee SooKyung easily reminisces the public of a noona-dongsaeng couple relationship. Towards this, Doojoon said, “Just like how noona put it, there’s not much issues when it comes to appearance, so there isn’t any inconvenience. (laughs) In fact, although I referred her as ‘noona’, I felt that I gain abundant of positive energy during filming sessions,” delivering his grateful heart.

On this day, Yoon Doojoon chose Lee SooKyung over Yoon SoHee as his ideal type. “Lee SooKyung is closer to my ideal type,” and, “Yoon SoHee is quite a shy person while Lee SooKyung isn’t,” expressing his reasons.

He continued, “We share the same stylist team, so I heard a lot about her. Although she’s older than me, but she has a bright and considerate personality, so I have a great time shooting the drama with her.”

Meanwhile, Yoon SoHee expressed that she likes BEAST since their debut song.

When asked to choose her favorite member in BEAST, she answered, “This is really frustrating. But when I didn’t know each members then, Yoon Doojoon went on ‘Strong Heart’. As I watch that episode, I came to like Yoon Doojoon-sunbae,” creating a pink atmosphere during the press conference.

Regarding the ‘idol’ tag that follows Yoon Doojoon, he expressed, “I think of it as something that is bound to happen. I feel that the removal of such tag depends a lot on my own capacity. As such, I will work hard on my side” and, “There are idols that gained recognition. They are great and I think that they have these good traits I can learn from. I will work diligently till this tag diminishes,” showing his aspirations.

Meanwhile, ‘Let’s Eat’ will have its first episode aired on 28th November. It will be broadcast every Thursday at 11.10PM.
source: OSEN , The Star (1) (2), CS Times, Financial News, SSTV (1)(2), translated by loveindacube

Article: "Let's Eat", delicious to watch, sad to eat



1. [+995, -33] Yoon Doojoon melted into his character like it was himself ㅋㅋㅋ I really focused while watching

2. [+768, -18] The drama seems to know the eating trends lately. I was wondering why a drama of this type wasn't being made but finally here it is ㅋ

3. [+750, -33] Yoon Doojoon daebak ㅋ He's good at acting, especially when he randomly smiles ^-^

4. [+686, -17] This is hilarious ㅋㅋㅋ The actors all have great facial expressions ㅋㅋ I think watching this for a month will make you put on a few pounds easily

5. [+656, -15] I really related to the drama well. As a single person family, you're always deliberating over food ㅋㅋ (op's note: mte)

6. [+248, -11] I don't think Yoon Doojoon was acting, that's just who he is

7. [+237, -7] I didn't expect much from the line up and just watched the drama because it's tvN but Lee Soo Kyung and Yoon Doojoon were good, actually great to the point where I wasn't reminded of their original images. They ate so deliciously, I had a hard time holding back from eating a mdinight snack ㅋㅋㅋ

8. [+226, -9] Doojoon seems to have a natural knack for acting roles like this ㅋㅋㅋ His eating habits are the same in real life as well ㅋㅋㅋ

9. [+94, -2] These days, cable dramas seem to be more high quality than public broadcast dramas

source: netizenbuzz, News 24 via Naver + Nate

[Poll #1945725]

i liked the first episode, i had no expactations tbh. the plot is okay. i can totally relate tbh, when i started living alone maybe i haven't started obssesing about food but def i became more into it?

Comments

[torontok.livejournal.com]

Oooh havent seen a food based drama since Flower Boy Ramyun shop. Need to add this to my must watch list.

and to qoute Algernon from TIOBE:'I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.'

[achan123.livejournal.com]

wasnt flower boy ramun shop bad? i thought i'd give it a try coz the premise of the story sounded interesting, but it was soo cheesily shot that i couldnt take it. quitted after 30 mins

[torontok.livejournal.com]

I found it quite funny despite the liberal helping of cheese. I liked that the heroine wasnt your typcial 'blush shy" aegyo girl but a bit of a badass. the minors characters were used well too. Yeah, the ramen analogies (and poo jokes) got a bit nnoying but in general I found it pretty fun for lighthearted viewing.
and shirtless Lee Ki Woo ofc

[bananatae.livejournal.com]

It was terrible... and I am cursed with the obsession to end everything I've started watching. I sat through that bs through and through. omg.

[achan123.livejournal.com]

just the opening scene was so horribly shot with those fade in effects and close up of faces and eeerghh
disgusting

which was unfortunate because i realllly liked the premise :/

[bananatae.livejournal.com]

Glad I'm not the only one that thought that show was all kinds of terrible hahaha. Even the dialogue was shit... and the direction of the plot was boring af. I wasted 16 hours of my life watching this and I'm surprised I didn't slit my wrists during the process.

PS: pretty sure the opening was better than the rest of the series lolol. it just got MORE ridiculous as it progressed.

[achan123.livejournal.com]

wow
O__O
u most definitively did not like that show

wow
ok

O___O

[bananatae.livejournal.com]

I think it was bad... but I ended up hating it even more because a lot of people made a hype about it saying it was good lol.

[cotxpaxi.livejournal.com]

ugh i loved the first ep, a bit too much because it reminded me of living with my friend in an officetel in seoul and the ridic things that would happen with neighbors AND FOOD. OH MAN.

[kinagyo.livejournal.com]

seriously living alone sucks :(
before I thought the fridge fills up magically

but man, the scene when Dujun was eating was so... erotic *maybe it's just me xD*

and I already love the characters in this drama so far. They're so weird. I can't even decide who is the creepiest among them xd

[lemon-glass.livejournal.com]

doojoon's glib smile is killing me



i really liked this episode. everyone is so pretty (although i was hoping lee sookyung would keep the long hair) and the cinematography is lovely. and the foooooooooooooood hnnnng. lol i literally thought the drama hadn't started, so I skipped the coffee "commercial" at the beginning but it was actually the intro?

when i read the character descriptions, i didn't think shim hyungtak's character would be so ridiculous i laughed so hard at the preview for the next episode. i'm sure we all know what's going to happen to him ;~;

[luvey.livejournal.com]

a foodie drama????
i must watch this. i love food dramas and movies.

[swhyeon1991.livejournal.com]

Lol I love the poll ♥

[imienazwisko.livejournal.com]

hahah thanks, i wasn't sure if to include it tbh, as it seemed pretty lame to me :P
also, i'm surprised how many people wont watch it simply because of doojoon...

[ohlookshiny.livejournal.com]

the first episode was okay but some of the comedy really fell flat for me. i like lee soo kyung alot, she was pretty delightful. reeeeally dislike the second lead already. + omg the guy who assaulted her grossed me out so much. what an asshole. i love how she threatened him with jail to get him to piss off though. but not so much when the show basically made fun of her with her 'don't touch me!!' scene at the bar. why was that played for laughs. it made me so uncomfortable.

urgh the food was so good though mmm it made me so hungry

totally agree with that netizen comment though re: high quality cable shows vs crappy network dramas. some of the best shows this year have been on cable and network shows have been generally dreadful/disappointing. this has not been a good year for dramas.

[imienazwisko.livejournal.com]

but wasn't the 'don't touch me' scene a misuderstanding on her part? like she was dripping her hair in some food as far as i remember...

[ohlookshiny.livejournal.com]

well yeah. but i just don't get the point of that scene. the "funny" bit was that they were trying to tell her that her hair was dangling in food or w/e and she was freaked out that they were trying to touch her. after a scene were some guy had basically tried to rape her?? oh how hilarious. idk... the whole thing just really rubbed me up the wrong way.

[imienazwisko.livejournal.com]

well, mte. i kinda fast forwarded that part :(

[hearttaek.livejournal.com]

Im not liking yoon so hee. I think her character is fine, but not her acting/delivery. I guess she's still green and hopefully she gets better.
But man i wanna punch something everytime she says "oppa jjang....."

[bananatae.livejournal.com]

So I'm gonna give this shot... just because it sounds different from all the recent dramas I've watched.

[sakatamarie.livejournal.com]

Can someone recommend some good food dramas? I'm really interested in this one but I have a policy that doesn't let me watch unfinished dramas lol

[zoomboomzoom.livejournal.com]

I liked Fermentation Family/Kimchi Family.