More 9 end and 2 outs

More 9 end and 2 outs (MBC 2007)

The fans out there are great! Thanks to them and their hard work I have been able to appreciate a lot of Korean dramas! I have to say I am appreciative. From the English translation of Coffee Prince 커피프린스 1호점, or Coffee Prince(based on popular internet story to runaway hit of South Korea this past summer) to many websites and great fans translating the dramas into various languages/forums and websites plus doing synopsis and making MV, translating the OST. I am very appreciative. 감사합니다!

It is good to see Lee Jung Jin 이정진 stars in his first drama after his military time with 9 End 2 Outs (or better translated 2 outs 9th inning/Bottom of the ninth) with Soo Ae 박수애 . I saw him as Alex Hong as Kim Rae Won's 김래원 adversary in "Love Story in Harvard" (러브스토리 인 하버드; Rubeusutori in Habeodeu 16 episodes 2004) for Kim Tae Hee's 김태희 affections. I liked his chemistry with Soo Ae in this drama. Their interplay as friends for over 30 years. In the first episode, they both get a text message on New Year's Eve. After not talking for a long period of time, they wonder why they got message from Nam San. Then they realize their promise to each other at the end of their 20's to meet at Nam San. This drama uses baseball to describe the ups and downs of singles in their 30's.

I enjoyed this drama a lot, it is not the sad "heavy" crying dramas that I first starting watching thanks to my mother "Beautiful Days" (아름다운 날들 / Ah-reum-dah-woon Nal-deul 24 episodes 2001) or "Autumn Love (aka Endless Love)"(16 episodes 2000). I like the fact it is about relationships with loved ones and friends. The ins and outs of a variety of people whose lives are interwined.
One person did an extensive summary of the first episode which should be bottom of the 9th inning 2 outs:

http://asiandramaddict.wordpress.com/2007/08/09/9-end-2-outs-episode-1/ detailed summary of episode 1

http://www.flickr.com/photos/leejungjin_fanclub/sets/72157600582915353/ Lee Jung Jin's fanclub FLICKR site with photos from this drama

Episode titles (subbed/translated by S2):
1st Inning: 30... My youth is coming to an end at 9 ends and 2 outs
#2nd Inning: Timing
#3rd Inning: Baseball is an art of time.
#4th Inning: "title was not translated"
#5th Inning: 30...The banquet has ended
#6th Inning: "All ball players should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill." Babe Ruth
#7th Inning: Strike Zone (Jung Joo returns back from America)
#8th Inning: Goodbye my Major League: love that may have been my last love (Chun Hee pays off her debt. Nan Hee accepts Jung Joo's proposal)
#9th Inning: The return a player that backed out (Nan Hee learns Jung Joo lied about not making Major League, lists all the loves in Nan Hee's past)
#10th Inning: The After effect of an Injury (Chun Hee tries to apologize to Nan Hee's colleague to not sue Lotte/Nan Hee and Hyun Tae date at resort-he admits he likes her) their first kiss
#11th Inning: On the 15th of every month, there is a Civil Defense Exercise (Nan Hee avoids Hyun Tae post their vacation at the resort)
#12th Inning: It seems ike our friendship is coming to an end at the bottom of the 9th inng 2 outs (Plans to see "LOVE LETTER" with Hyun Tae but Yoon Sung Ah has returned)
#13th Inning: Reality & Wrong Intuition, Truth & Imagination, and getting poisoned
#14th Inning: The wish green grass still remembers your story
#15th Inning: Thank you super stars (Nan Hee misses Hyun Tae and not used to living alone now, she gets drunk and sees him at his home outside and she kisses him and tells him she loves him Nan Hee misses being selected as an essay writer)
#16th Inning (finale): Baseball is a game of chance.(Jung Joo makes major league, and Nan Hee and Hyun Tae start dating, receive letter from themselves at 20 Author Shin want Nan Hee as her editor)

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