King of High School Ep 4-6 Discussion Post (Spoiler Warning!)

[soft-taozi.livejournal.com]

Plot: Lee Min-Seok (Seo In-Guk) is a high school student who plays ice hockey for his school. One day, he suddenly begins works as a company director instead of his older brother. At work, he meets Jung Soo-Young (Lee Ha-Na) who is a temporary employee there.

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• Drama: King of High School Life Conduct (literal title)


• Revised romanization: Gogyocheosewang


• Hangul: 고교처세왕


• Director: Yoon Je-Won


• Network: tvN


• Release Date: June 16, 2014 --


• Runtime: Mondays & Tuesdays 22:00


• Language: Korean


• Country: South Korea

Main Cast:
- Seo In Guk as Lee Min Suk
- Lee Ha Na as Jung Soo Young
- Lee Yul Eum as Jung Yoo Ah
- Lee Soo Hyuk as Yoo Jin Woo

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Comments

[candycoateddame.livejournal.com]

Omg, that gif. I was pretty much just screaming No!!!!!!!! at the screen when Jin Woo decided to mess with Soo Young. You can't play with my bb's feelings like that! I hope she ruins him so he'll never get over her.
Also, even though I find her stalker behavior super annoying I still like Yoo Ah, especially her relationship with Soo Young which is one of the best parts of the show, and felt for her when Min Suk went off.

[hearttaek.livejournal.com]

Lol at the deleted cut. Yoo ah asking jinwoo to buy her cigarettes.
Im really enjoying this drama.
And i really dont like the idea that it's minseok and sooyoung as the OTP.
I was so sure i wanted minseok/yooah and jinwoo/yooah but then i saw minseok getting jealous and gaaaaaaah i couldnt help but sqeaul and feel butterflies.
It's been a while since a drama had me feeling things.

My least fave character would be sooyoung just cause i dont buy the way the actress portrays her, i feel it's overdone. But i fistbump the air when she stood up for herself after minseok dragged her to the meeting. YOU GO GIRL! Fight for your beliefs and principles!

[candycoateddame.livejournal.com]

All the bleeping just makes me crack up in that cut.

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

thanks for giving me some insight in to that cut, lol. i kinda like that scene and i wish it wasn't deleted because it humanizes jin woo BEYOND the whole my-father-never-loved-me schtick.

IA about soo young. i realized that lee ha na cant really have her face distinguish between a smile or a grimace so when she SHOULD be grimacing it looks like she's smiling. AT FIRST i thought it had to do with soo young's personality---introverts like that would smile to cover up how they feel inside, but now after 6 episodes it just feels like bad acting...

yoo ah is at her BEST when she's bonding with soo young. i really wish they didnt write her to be a stalker because i think when she's not harassing min seok she's a really fun character.

[furor.livejournal.com]

omg the smile/grimace thing really bothers me lol, it throws me off

[cotxpaxi.livejournal.com]

i love this drama ahhhh. i'm so frustrated that the drama isn't on viki nor dramafever because i usually watch dramas with my mother with spanish subs :'( so she'll miss out on this one for now.

i'm so happy lee soo hyuk finally gets to shine in a normal role

[juhli.livejournal.com]

The drama is licensed on viki for Latin America for now. QC's might be added soon, but USA etc. might only get the license in November.

it's really cool that you watch dramas with your mum with Spanish subtitles :D are they good? the German subtitles always read so awkwardly, that I always have to switch to English.

[cotxpaxi.livejournal.com]

yeah i'm located in the US :(
the spanish subs are good, sometimes they use Spaniard spanish tho and we don't get the meaning

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

is this a good drama? i really want to watch a fun and feel good drama, but i am too lazy to invest my time and find out it wasn't what i wanted.

[cotxpaxi.livejournal.com]

yes it is! and did you watch let's eat? that was my fav and i miss it :(

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

i didn't, it's on my to watch list because people say so many good things about it!

[lucyownsjoaquin.livejournal.com]

yes it is really fun and feel good. another plus is that so far *knock on wood* the ending of each episodes have been on point. they've been keeping my attention which is hard to do.

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

thank you! i will try to check it out!

[couturevibes.livejournal.com]

IA.

It looks really good but i need to to be somewhat decent before I go in.

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

it's REALLY fun. if it can keep its current tone and develope characters without descending into melodrama then i think it will DEFINITELY be worth keeping up with.

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

thank you, i will wait a couple more episodes before starting then!

[pseudo-shigure.livejournal.com]

i'm only ep 2 and so far i find both sisters annoying and unrealistic. and minseok's co-workers, the one w/the glasses and the managing director, are annoying. like their acting is so over the top and i don't need to see them panicking and angry in every scenes ffs. will this change in later ep?

/sigh/ i really shouldn't watch dramas w/romance as it's focus it seems. i can't stand it most of the time.

also still amused that soohyuk is casted as someone much older than in-gook

[crack.livejournal.com]

cute drama

I can't get behind and of the possible (?) couples rn i.e. Minsuk/Yoo Ah, Minsuk/Sooyung, Jinwoo/Sooyoung (Jinwoo/Yoo Ah??). though ofc there is room for development for MS/YA and JW/SY but they're just terrible

[lucyownsjoaquin.livejournal.com]

i love it, it reminds me of betty la fea. i want sooyoung to break jinwoo's heart and maybe even his nose lol.

when sooyoung introduced yooah to jinwoo i was so pleased because i know soon this will get messy for min suk.

[mrawwe.livejournal.com]

i really like this drama so far, but i'm kind of afraid that minsuk/sooyoung will end up being end game - not that i don't noona-romance, but an 18 year-old aka high schooler with a 28 year-old is just nono for me.. it's the same thing that made me drop i hear your voice :/

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

yeah ITA. i hope they rebuild jin woo's character so him and soo young end up together cause i cant do the whole 18 year old with a 28 year old thing either.

[agentgoodnight.livejournal.com]

Such a fantastic drama. The character development and interactions are some of the best I've seen. The three leads are totally selling it for me (particularly in guk, boy does great things with his face and I love his character), though I do agree that SooYoung can be a bit too much. I think that's what they're going for though, to show just how far she'll come. I'm really looking forward to how all three mature, and hopefully there will be even more emphasis on the family interactions because that's where the show really shines.

I want a bromance between vampire king and in guk by the end. That sounds impossible judging by how much they hate each other now, but I saw colours of it with the biking scene. Also I hope soo young puts jin woo in his place after the BS he's about to pull.

[candycoateddame.livejournal.com]

I so agree about the bromance! I think it would be a great development, tho I was really enjoying the frenemy thing they had going on.

[juhli.livejournal.com]

jinwoo's little smile in the biking scene makes me hopeful that the bromance will come reluctant, but will be epic in the end.

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

YES TO THE BROMANCE!

[soft-taozi.livejournal.com]

This is the first drama in a while that I'm not sure what I want the end game to be or what I feel it will be.
Which makes me think of Hirunaka no Ryuusei, which while I thinking of it NEEDS a drama (jap or kor) or an anime made of it.

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

[juhli.livejournal.com]

I don't like the direction this is going with minseok and sooyoung ㅠㅡㅠ
and i was so hopeful last week!

[sakuragirl24.livejournal.com]

I love this drama but I really can't stand lee ha na's acting, it's hard to appreciate sooyoung.
Minseok's facial expressions are everything, and despite yooah's stalkerish tendencies I kinda like her
also minseok/sooyoung is obviously going to be the end thing wasn't the drama introduced as a noona romance thing? lol idk for me it was always clear.

[kayotic-01.livejournal.com]

i can't stand her acting either. i watched the first 2 episodes and loved everything but her
and couldn't get through the last 15mins of ep 3 because it was so frustrating and i haven't picked it up since :(
i like her more on paper, and get why she's that way but idk she brings this off putting physicality to the character
which is shame because i love everything else?? its well directed and seo in guk plays the boyish charm so well, minseok is such a riot. i love his relationship with his dad and grandpa (who cracks me up) and jinwoo looks interesting and yoo ah is such thug (but i agree with the stalker thing, i was like woah girl, sit down for a minute)
like i want to love it but there's a block

[sakuragirl24.livejournal.com]

pretty much how I feel about everything. I had to pause the last episode because I couldn't stand it, I even started skipping the parts where she's alone lol. but thankfully it's the only bad thing about the drama for me, I really hope it will get better

[love-keiko.livejournal.com]

so i've committed myself to keeping up with dramas and HOPEFULLY i've made a good choice to stick with this one. it FEELS like i did i really love it so far!

this is the first work that i'm seeing seo in guk act in and i can see why ppl r so impressed with him because he is AWESOME. i love his character to death and i think it's because in guk does a damn good charm bringing him to life.

IA with the consensus on soo young as a character and lee ha na's portrayal of her.

yoo ah has grown on me A LOT. her stalker-ness still gives me pause but i've become very attached to her. sad the scene with jin woo got cut.

[turdferguson.livejournal.com]

- i want jinwoo to have a brotherly relationship with minsuk
- i don't want sooyoung and minsuk to get together at ALL not just because of the age thing but at the same time i don't want him to get with yoo ah either, i don't like her character that much
- minsuk's friends are so funny

[mangotae.livejournal.com]

Still can't stand Yoo Ah's character around Minsuk, but she is absolutely lovely during sister bonding time, and saved her character a bit this week.

Really mad at whatever Jin Woo's trying to pull with Soo Young, like come on, don't turn into a douchebag second-lead, on the other hand Jin Woo and Minsuk's moment are freaking hilarious and to die for (lmao that fight). It's gonna be hilarious when Jin Woo discovers that he's fighting against an 18 year old.

Minsuk's friends seriously are a highlight.