K-DRAMA: 10 Favorite Scenes of Love in the Moonlight/ Moonlights Drawn by the Clouds/ 구르미 그린 달빛

It’s been two years since this drama aired on August 22 2016 via KBS2TV/KBS WORLD. I’ve always tried my best to watch every episode aired that day. Recently, KBS WORLD didn’t air the latest drama but replayed Love in the Moonlight, so I re-watched it and thought to make this post. I know some people doesn’t like to watch Korean historical drama (saeguk drama) setting, but this one was not too serious (heavy storyline) and still have funny scenes. Especially, the teaser! I fall in love with this drama because of the teaser (well, actually it’s more kind of promotional video). Check it out here.

[SPOILER ALERT] King Lee Young first official duty

As may some of you know that I’m a huge fan of Park Bogum because of this drama. Yes, I watched this drama first then I watched Reply 1988 and Cantabile Tomorrow. Park Bogum nailed the Joseon King attribute. He beat Yoo Seungho, Kim Soohyun, even Song Joongki in my opinion. How about you?

In accordance of 2 years’ anniversary, I wanted to share with all of you my top 10 favorite scenes from this drama. For some of you who haven’t watch this drama, this post can be a spoiler. So, go watch this drama and let’s share your favorite scenes with me! I can’t decide which one is the first one because all of them are goooodddd! So, it is in appearance order (per episode).

#1 Mischievous Joseon Prince

I don’t know why I love the scene where Lee Young (Park Bogum) didn’t try his best to be a King. He once woke up late, then his father is on his way checking on him. So, all of his servants busy on hiding the fact the Prince didn’t work hard. The act done smoothly until the wind blew Lee Young’s paper, so his script was blown away to his father and the other ministers. Lee Young got caught on act and his father got mad at him. Watch this part at Episode 1.

#2 I’m Behind You

Raon, Lee Young, and Byungyeon went to the top of the hill to see the Palace from afar. The scene was beautiful. It was taken while the sun almost sets and Raon said something touching.

#3 I’m Always Waiting for You

It is non-Park Bogum scene but, it was a beautiful scene! Finally, the King and Consort Park meet each other after hundreds of secret blank letters. They met in a very romantic and beautiful background throughout the drama. A full moon brightens the night with the classic traditional gazebo behind them.

#4 Graceful Surprise

Look at those beautiful hanbok

Raon saved the King’s birthday party from ruining and Prince Lee Young from embarrassment. She disguised as the dancer that went missing on action. Raon’s dress was beautiful and she danced gracefully. I know I can’t miss this scene out.

#5 Tell Me Your Wish

Raon went out to Lantern Festival, then she met Lee Young there. Lee Young bought a lantern for them and then they fly it. Lee Young started to like Raon since this scene and what he wrote is touching. I want that kind of guy, please! Not long after this scene, the famous :"I do not give permission. He is my person" appeared. I'm so dead. 

#6 Joseon’s Three Musketeers

Yunseong, Byungyeon, and Lee Young worked together for the first time to save Raon to be taken to Qing (China). Even though, Yunseong and Lee Young is not in a good term, the saving action was perfect. Lee Young and Byungyeon could save Raon because of Yunseong plan and idea. Oh the fighting scene was made in a very attractive way. Lee Young was charismatic yet funny at the same time. I can’t explain with words. Watch it here by yourself. (if the link doesn't work, click on the embed twitter link down below).

라온을 위해 ...#구르미그린달빛 #6회 pic.twitter.com/CrAyow4OPO

— LoveInTheMoonlight (@gurumi2016) September 6, 2016

#7 Profession

The best confession scene in this drama is the puppet show by Raon for helping Ma Eunuch to profess his love to Wolhee. I cried at the end of this scene. Why falling in love is so hard at that time and there are many forbidden love throughout the palace. Anyways, Raon is so smart by creating this puppet show to show people loving someone is not a sin. The puppet dolls are cute too! It looks like the real people.

#8 A Promise

When Lee Young found out that the woman at Master Jeong’s house is Raon’s mother, he made them reunited. Lee Young didn’t know yet the consequences if Raon and her mother reunited what will happen to him. The scene where Raon and her mother reunited is beautiful. It’s almost sunset and their crying act was beyond words.

#9 Trust turns to Fate

There were a lot of fighting scene on the later episodes. But one of my favorite is Lee Young and Yunseong work together (even though Lee Young doesn’t want Yunseong help) to fight the spies and save Raon from them. Yunseong was incredibly cool by holding the swords with his bare hands. I know it’s hurt much, but the scene came out pretty cool. It was one of the most intense scene, but I couldn’t miss out those two guys protecting their love one.

#10 My Person

Placing the last favorite scene for the ending scene. The beautiful pink flower field with Raon in baby pink hanbok and Lee Young in matching hanbok have their ending kiss there. Oh how beautiful it is. I really liked Raon’s hanbok, because it’s pink and it’s look good on Kim Yoojung. Usually K-drama have suck ending, but that’s not the case with this one. I’m so so so so happy with the ending. Oh I’ve mentioned it before that I visited the shooting location of this scene on my Korea travel diary here, so check it out that too.

BONUS: “Myungeun is My Name”

Even the drama writer made her own parody in the drama. At the first few episodes (episode 4/5 if I’m not wrong), when Lee Young finally confessed he is the crown prince to Raon, he said “Lee Young is my name” in the most charming way. On the later episode, Lee Young’s sister, Myungeun said the same sentence to her crush. It was funny to see the brother-sister saying the same sentence. Myungeun and Jung Dukho couple is also a lovey-dovey one.

I still have some lists of my favorite scene of the drama, but I limited it to 10! For example, “I want to try that forbidden love” scene and Raon and Lee Young lovey dovey scenes, but let’s limit it to 10. So, if you have different opinion I’m glad to know it! Share your opinion in the comment box below. 

Btw, I made up few subtitles for each favorite scene and some of them are from the drama. The drama is somehow had lot of romantic scenes and sentences. I can’t miss out the OST though. Recommended everyone to hear all of the OST. Sung Sikyung, Baek Jiyoung, Soyou, Hwang Chiyeol, K-will, and many popular Korean singer participate in this drama OST. Sandeul also supporting his teammates (Jinyoung) by singing the main theme OST (Swallowing My Heart). Also, Jinyoung compossed the song sang by Ben (Foggy Path). He's such a perfect guy.

I’m hoping you enjoyed this post and I’m going to do lot in the near future! I’m currently obsessed with Park Seojun, so I’m going to make my top 10 favorite scene/script of Fight for My Way or What’s Wrong with Secretary Kim. 

Until then, see you! 

Have a great day!

P.S: All of the picture or recap scene of the drama are NOT mine. All credits to the owner.

Travel Diary: Korea Winter Wonderland 2016 (Part 3)

Hi all! I’m terribly sorry for the delay for this series. It took a lots of time to recover my raw videos for this series. I know its Spring already in Korea, but this part, particularly can be done in any season. We took a lots of picture and go to places outside Seoul and experience Korean traditionally and modernly (?) This part might be the highlight of my trip! So, if you are interested, keep on reading and don’t forget to watch the video!

P.S: All information about the trip will be provided below the post.

Day Five

Cute wall made from tiles with Korean arts near the subway exit

I went to Insadong for the first time on my fifth day. I was meant to go to Anguk Station, but I just found out that it is the way to go to Insadong area. The first thing we do was eating at Miss Lee Cafe. Their specialization is old-style menu, such as lunch-box, ddeokbokki, snacks, and even they displayed old-style games. The way to eat the lunchbox is very unique. It was supposed to be shaken. The idea came from long time ago, students brought their lunchbox from home to school. Their mom usually put it on a lunch box which include rice, sausages, kimchi, and dried seaweed. On the way to school, usually the lunchbox was shaken. So, when it was lunch time, the lunchbox are not pretty anymore. Then to make it looks tasty, they shake it and make it like a bibimbap. 

We ordered the package for two which include 2 lunchbox, 1 ddeokbokki, and 1 snacks. Also, we ordered sweet potato latte, drink that the couple really like. It was my first time to try it and it was nice! I didn’t like matcha latte or taro latte, but this one was nice. I recommend you to try sweet potato latte. 

Food we ordered

This cafe is unique with thousands of memos hanging around the cafe. Goguma couple aka Yonghwa and Seohyun couple from WGM, went to this cafe slash restaurant. We found it cute on that TV show and it turned out that the food are also very delicious.

Miss Lee Cafe with it's memos hanging around

Goguma Couple @ Miss Lee Cafe (cr: as seen)

After the our brunch, we went to explore the Invading area. It is only few walks away from Miss Lee Cafe. It was a brand new neighborhood for me. Insa-dong is an area that is known for its traditional Korean vibes. They wrote english words in hangeul, for example Starbucks, Innisfree, Nature Republic, etc. We make a stop at Ssamziegil. I don’t know how to call this place, maybe I can call it as a shopping center which sells cute stuffs and foods. We walk through all the floors in Ssamziegil and took a lot of photos. Also, we tried poop-shaped pancake with chocolate rice cake inside. The shape makes it funny and made us want to try it.

The shape is so cute and delicious when it's hot

Then we went back home to prepare for my family dinner. We went to Riverside Hotel in Gangnam and have a buffet there. Not all of my family was there, but it was one of a lovely dinner I had while in Korea. Actually, we didn’t have much time to catch up, so one dinner is such an important time for all of us. Thank you aunt, for the treat!

Snippets of my Korean family

Day Six

Meet the traditional and modern Seoul from this spot!

We went to Gyeongbuk Palace, which located in the heart of Seoul. From this point, you can see the modern and traditional Seoul at the same time. It was always fascinating to visit Gyeongbuk Palace. This time, my visit to this famous palace was a bit different. We are renting Hanbok (Korean traditional cloth) to get free entry and to recreate the traditional vibes. My friend was in love with the drama “Scarlet Heart”, while I’m in love with the drama “Love in the Moonlight” (aka Moonlight Drawn by the Clouds). Both dramas’ setting was set in older dynasty, so the casts wore Hanbok and film in traditional setting. The weather was quite nice that day. It doesn’t really cold so we can wear Hanbok without our coat.

We took a lots of photo, but we hardly have a picture of both of us. We also made a mistake by taking our coats, but not wearing it, so when we took pictures it took a lot of effort in one hand because of our heavy coats. The renting cost for the Hanbok is different depends on the design and style and time. For royal Hanbok, it cost around 30,000-40,000 won. The one I wore is around 20,000 won. Actually, there are a lot of places renting Hanbok nowadays. Even you can find it on Instagram. There are some places that rent for around 10,000 won around Insadong. But, you have to walk a little bit from Insadong to Gyeongbuk Palace. Since, we have another schedule in the evening, we don’t rent around Insadong, but near the Gyeongbuk Palace instead. We also rent for 2 hours only, so we spent time only at the palace.

By the way, beside taking photos and sightseeing the palace, you can watch the changing guard ceremony at the given time. If i’m not mistaken they do it every one hour or every 2 hour. I recommend you to visit this palace when you came to Korea. It can be visited by taking MRT to Gyeongbuk Station and you can explore both the palace and the traditional area nearby.

After visiting the palace, we went back home, because my friend have a doctor appointment. No, not for plastic surgery, but for laser her scar. Then after the appointment, my aunt make dinner for us and the main menu is samgyupsal aka pork belly.

Day Seven

I can’t believe my time is almost over in Korea. On this day, we went to Gapyeong, Gyeonggi-do. Our plan is to visit Pettite France. This place is known for a French village in Korea and it has shown up in few Korean variety shows and dramas. For example, You Who Came from the Stars, Oh My Geumbi, Running Man, and many more. We took the new MRT route to Gapyeong. All we need is to take the MRT to Gapyeong Station. But before that, we make a stop at Guri to have lunch there. We went to a Jjajangmyeon place in Guri that have been shown up in one episode of Running Man. I tried so hard to find the address of the restaurant. Thanks to Naver, I finally found it. 

It's located on the second floor

The reason why we go to this restaurant is because of its unique jjajangmyeon. When you watch the Running Man episode 249, Kim Juhyeon and Yoo Jaeseok team went here and have a jjajangmyeon with a dome cracker on top of it. As you can see in the episode or in my video, we need to crack the dome with a hammer and then eat it. The noodle it self is soft and the sauce is nice with a little hint of chili powder. Beside that we also ordered Tangsuyuk, which is a sweet-sour pork or beef. We cannot leave Korea without eating Jjajangmyeon once. Next time, we should try Jjajangmyeon delivery. 

Sweet-sour beef (Tangsuyuk)

The unique Jjajangmyeon

After lunch, we go straight to Gapyeong Station. It took around 1 hour 40 minutes to go there, because Gapyeong Station is located near the end of the line. After arriving ate the station, we need to take a tourist shuttle bus to the Petite France. Beside it is easier to do so, it also cheaper than you take a taxi. You can buy the ticket right beside the bus stop.

It took around 2 hours to go to Petite France, because we have to stop at few stops. When we arrived, we pay for the tickets. It cost around 6,000 won. Then we took a lots of photos and do sight seeing. We remembered few scenes from “You Who Came from the Star” and “Secret Garden”. I really liked both dramas.

Petite France at night

After finished sightseeing in Petite France, we went to Garden of Morning Calm. We took the shuttle bus again and it took around another 40 minutes. When we arrived, it only 1 hour left until our last shuttle bus stop working. We didn’t get to explore much of the garden and my friend also not feeling quite well. So we did a quick sightseeing and taking picture. The garden is very beautiful at winter night. They lit up the lights all over the garden. It fits perfectly for winter. By the way, Love in the Moonlight drama is shoot at this location. Well, I couldn’t really tell it because it’s dark already and the flower might has changed since the shoot. 

Garden of the Morning Calm

We were almost missed the bus, but fortunately we got another bus that stopped at another station. We got into the bus jammed with passengers. We were barely sit and we could eat our corn-dog that we bought before we went home.

It was a roller-coaster day, but I got to know new neighborhood and I learned to go anywhere in Seoul with public transport is pretty convenient. That was one of the reasons why I want to live in Korea.

BONUS PICTURE:

Best ending scene ever! (cr: Google Images)

So, That’s all for now. I’ll post up something new as soon as possible. Thank you so much for reading till this part! Love you guyss! Have a nice day!

Details:

Miss Lee Cafe (Insadong Branch)

Address: 144, Gwanhun-dong, Jongno-gu 2F, Seoul

Phone: +82 2-739-0939

Website: https://www.facebook.com/Missleecafe/

How to get there: Take MRT to Anguk Station, exit 6. Then you only need to go straight and see GS 25. The cafe is on the second floor, above the GS 25. 


Liha

Address: 875-3 Sutaek-dong Guri-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea

Phone: +82 31-551-6533

How to get there: Take MRT to Guri Station, then take a bus that go to Jajang Park.

 
Petite France

Address: 1063, Hoban-ro, Cheongpyeong-myeon, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do

Phone: +82-31-584-8200

Website: www.pfcamp.com

How to get there: Take MRT to Gapyeong Station, then take the shuttle tourist bus. 


Garden of the Morning Calm

Address: 432, Sumogwon-ro, Sang-myeon, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do

Phone: +82-1544-6703

Website: morningcalm.co.kr

How to get there: Take MRT to Gapyeong Station, then take the shuttle tourist bus.