9회말 2아웃/9 End 2 Outs-Korean Drama

9회말 2아웃 (AKA: Bottom of the 9th 2 Out) I watched three episodes and I liked it a lot. It is romance and it chronicles two friends who have known each other from childhood. This drama chronicles their lives being single in their 30's. This drama uses Baseball as a metaphor to cover young 30's and their love lives. From their relationships with friends, colleagues and their loves. It is not that simple as you fill your life with memories, experiences from your personal hardships and happiness. For Hong Nan Hee (Soo Ae), she is considered a failure by her mom for not being married or having a "well paying" job. Nan Hee wants to be a published author!She works for a small manhwa publishing company for low pay and is dating a university baseball player who is 8 years her junior. Her childhood friend Byun Hyun Tae is a head project leader for an advertising firm and to the women around him he has it all-looks, aparment, car and job. He is a player and loves women. But to his childhood friend Nan Hee, she does not see him in that way as a "man" and the same for him. They have known each other for 30 years since childhood and their parents are good friends. I am going to "slowly watch" it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcZaFp_4mRw Byul (별) - Fly Again (9 End 2 Outs OST)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L2LGdfq5_s&feature=related 9 End 2 Outs 9회말 2아웃 - Arirang Showbiz Extra (subbed in English)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ggj5_KI37po&feature=related Trailer preview of (9 End and 2 Outs)

Title: 9회말 2아웃 / 9 End 2 Outs
Also known as: 2 Outs in the 9th Inning
(MBC 2007 drama)

Main Cast
Lee Jung Jin 이정진 as Byun Hyung Tae
Soo Ae 박수애 as Hong Nan Hee
Lee Tae Sung as Kim Jung Joo (Nan Hee's young baseball BF)
Hwang Ji Hyun as Yoon Sung Ah (Hyung Tae's cheot sarang)
Lee Sang Woo as Lee Joon Mo (Nan Hee's cheot sarang)

Extended Cast
Jung Da Hye as Kim Nam Jung
Lee Doo Il as Im Nak Bin
Jo Eun Ji as Kim Choon Hee (Lotte card worker/friend of Hyung Tae and Nan Hee)
Hwang Suk Jung as Jang Choo Ja
Kim Chang Sook as Kim Shin Ja
Jang Joon Hwi as Park Sang Hoon (Husband and friends with Hyung Tae and Nan Hee)
Son Jung Min as Jun Mi Kyung
Lee Hee Do as Byun Jung Woo
Park Hae Young as Park Ji Sun
Im Yoon Ah as Shin Joo Young (young author/admirer of Jung Joo)
Yoon Hye Jung
Yoon Ye Hee

Freeze (Newest AZN drama)

프리즈 (Peu-ri-jeu) FREEZE (mini drama)

Lee Seo-jin (이서진)

Park Han-byeol (박한별)

Son Tae-yeong (손태영)

Lee Joon (이준)

Last night was the first episode of FREEZE (out of five). This was broadcast in October 2006 on a Korean cable channel (not the big guns SBS, KBS, MBC) and it is a short mini drama with five episodes and it chronicles around a vampire. Yes, a vampire, not a topic I see in alot of Korean dramas actually.

So Baek Jung Won (Lee Seo Jin---Phoenix) stars as a vampire who lives in modern day Seoul as one of the co-owners of a very upscale Gangnam district bar. He lives his life lamenting over a lost love for many decades. E-hwa (Son Tae Young) is another vampire and she also owns the bar wtih Jung Won. She cares for him and wants him to be happy but she realizes she is unable to make him happy. One day,the lovely Ji-Woo (Park Han Byul) enters his life and she might be able to melt the icy wall around his heart. She is the daughter of a woman who loved Jung Won deeply but decides to leave guardianship of Ji Woo to Jung Won.

***I had high hopes for an awesome short drama. I was not that enthused. My expectations were let down to say. I felt the relationship not that believable for me to get it. Oh well.