Chae Soo-Bin: "Where Stars Land" drama mini primer post....

 Whew, eleven posts in 2 1/2 days is a record for me and my brain has become more mushy than ever. Above are two pics from the 2017 series "I'm Not A Robot" and that's a show I'm planning on checking out as it really looks interesting and has had mainly positive reviews. Do have it but and will be viewing it soon but will I watch the entire series and do posts for it? Unsure at the moment but the odds are no to both questions as I'm starting to grow a bit tired of Korean dramas, not the shows themselves as they're solid but how long they are and how much time you have to commit to them.

 That commitment is something I don't want to do these days and there's some good reasons for it. The main one being the time it takes me to view an entire sixteen episode series and possibly doing recaps for them all. An hour show turns into seventy minutes for me after taking so many screenshots and jotting down some notes. So that's 19 hours plus an hour to write up a recap as they're always lengthy. That total then is 35 hours(!) for one series between viewing and writing the recaps up, that's a lot of time and to me way too much. So for a while will try to find some shorter Korean series that are only five or so episodes, ones that are much longer will just recap the first 3-4 shows. At least the quality has risen for Japanese dramas these past two years and there's plenty of shorter ones that are quite good as you've been noticing here lately.

 Whew, isn't she just so incredibly hot yet so adorable....

 So my original plan for the "Where Stars Land" drama was to recap all sixteen episodes or had been thinking perhaps just half of that. But scrapped that idea as there's too many other posts and dramas I need to do, so will be viewing the show but will only have semi-recaps in Soo-Bin's posts and truly hope there's many more on the way. But following this is a post with a pair of mini recaps for the second and third episodes, figured I took so many screenshots couldn't let them go to waste. So this post will be much shorter than planned, realize this and the next post aren't among the better ones I've done but need to increase the amount of Soo-Bin posts. These terrific pics are for an interview she did for the drama with the Toin site.

 In the drama Soo-Bin plays the part of 27 year old Han Yeo-Reom. She's been at the Incheon International Airport for a year but are her days numbered? She's been in so much hot water over that year and has been suspended for swearing at passengers, coming close to being in fights with them and just hasn't shown that professional image. Yeo-Reom had done that working in the Transportation department, now she's been assigned to Passenger Services and this will her last chance to do well or she'll be shown the door.

 Episode one dealt with Yeo-Reom's first day at her new assignment and that didn't go so well but things were getting better by the fifth episode. Her first task was to quell an incident in the main section of terminal one where an unruly passenger was out of control and was breaking ticket kiosks. Yeo-Reom's old instinct would have been to pummel the lunatic but she refrained and instead it appeared this man was going to pummel her! But to save the day Lee appeared and he's one of her co-workers in the new department. Talked briefly about Lee in the next post and this man has some super human strength as both his right arm and leg are bionic! Didn't take screenshots of the fourth and fifth episodes for the reasons I gave above. This is a fine series and don't want to stop viewing it, for now need to take a break from recapping such long Korean shows but then again will do some posts for her other drama mentioned in the beginning.

 The drama began on October 1, 2018 and on that day Soo-Bin and the other main members of the cast were at an event which took place at the Incheon airport. Soo-Bin looked so superb at the event but doesn't she always(?) though perhaps not nearly as alluring as she is at so many others. Short video of the event after the pics and there are just so many different kinds for the show on YT.

"Where Stars Land" drama: Episode's two and three mini recaps

 Air Dates: October 1 to November 26, 2018 Monday and Tuesdays at 10:00 pm on SBS
This episode's rating: 5.9%

Main Cast: The action takes place at the Incheon International Airport located right outside of Seoul. T1 will refer to terminal one, T2 will mean terminal two.

Chae Soo-Bin as Han Yeo-Reom.... She's been employed at the airport for a year but has constantly messed up at her positions due to fighting and swearing. She's given one more chance as she was transferred from the Transportation Department to the Passenger Service Team. There she's still very prone to mistakes but is getting better at her job thanks to Su-Yeon.

Lee Je-Hoon as Lee Su-Yeon.... Has only been at the airport for three months but is already the mentor for Yeo-Reom. Like her and the rest of his team in episode three they were all relocated to T2. Su-Yeon has an extremely powerful right arm which is a fake one as he lost the original one in a motorcycle accident many years before.

Kim Ji-Soo as Yang Seo-Koon.... Manager of the Passenger Service Team who seems to be disliked by many of the staff at the airport. She is a very strict supervisor but she'll also stand up for any of her team and was the only person to know about Su-Yeon's past.

Ahn Song-Woo as Gong Seung-Cheol.... Yang's assistant who is a real 'ass-kisser', he's not what you would call a 'stand up person' and really despises Yeo-Reom.

Lee Dong-Gun as Seo In-Woo.... Not much is known about him through three shows. He's recently come back after helping out constructing another airport. He's the new head for Planning and Development at T2, Seo has mysterious past with both Yang and Su-Yeon.

Jang Hyun-Sung as Kwon Hee-Seung.... Insufferable Director of the entire Terminal 2.

Lee Sung-Wook as Choi Moo-Ja.... Director of security at T2, he's trying to recruit Su-Yeon for his team.

Ro Woon as Ko Eun-Sub.... Yeo-Reom's best friend though we don't know much about him.

Kim Kyung-Nam as Oh Dae-Ki.... Male security guard at T2.

Lee Soo-Kyung as Na Young-Joo.... Oh's female partner and very aggressive.

 Wrote about half of the recap for episode one up and while doing so is when I changed my mind about doing the entire series. Talked about the reasons why in the above post so not going to repeat myself save for the fact these long Korean dramas just take up too much of my time to view and recap, the estimate was about 35 hours. So what I'm going to do because I took so many screenshots is post the ones of Soo-Bin's character along with a few details of what happened. Will have a brief overview for episode two and following their screenshots will be the same for the third show. Am going to finish this drama but still unsure whether anything about it will be included in upcoming Soo-Bin posts, her character's name is Yeo-Reom

 Every episode will feature at least one major incident at the Incheon airport and of course Yeo-Reom will be caught in the middle of them. First development was that a bomb threat had been sent into the airport, the entire security staff was on the hunt for any suspicious people or packages. Naturally who should discover something odd but Yeo-Reom who noticed a man hiding a package in a trash can. Luckily it wasn't what it seemed as it was actually a box of gold bars worth quite a bit of money, the bomb threat turned out to be a hoax but at least the smuggling of gold bars was discovered and the culprits were caught.

 That was the only major incident in this show but at least Yeo-Reom cane out of it unscathed. She's on shaky ground for working in the Passenger Service department could be her final chance to continue at the airport. Above with Yeo-Reom is her 'mentor' Lee who has only been at the airport for three months but is such a capable employee and other departments want him. Included him in a few screenshots as his secret, which is only known to their director Yang, is about to be discovered by Yeo-Reom and more on that in the next segment.

 Don't know the full details yet but when Lee was a teenager he had been struck by a car while riding his bike. He's become a 'Six Million Dollar Man' as his right arm and leg are bionic, they're both so powerful yet Lee tries to keep it a secret which has worked out well up until now. His director Yang knows all about Lee's past and it appears soon that Yeo-Reom will too, it also appears there could be a budding romance.

 Two incidents in this show, one was about a very unruly passenger who tried to hide many items from Customs as to not pay the excise tax. She was caught by an off duty security guard who had a scuffle with the woman named Kim, Yeo-Reom was on hand to witness everything but didn't get too involved. This Kim woman is such a spoiled brat, her father is a congressman and she's threatening to sue the airport. She didn't know the name of the off duty security guard and Yeo-Reom wouldn't reveal it to anyone which mightily impressed her director Yang. Eventually the woman dropped the potential charges as Lee had taped a phone conversation she had made to her lawyer which would have exposed what she was trying to hide from Customs.

 One other development dealt with a thirty year old man who was waiting to board a flight. This man had some psychological problems and had forgotten to bring his medicine. They keep him under control and he's usually mild mannered but without his medicine he can become a violent person. That's eventually what happened as he threatened a few employees and to save the day appearing at the scene was Yeo-Reom. However she was no match for this man either but luckily popping out of nowhere was Lee, not really out of nowhere as he had been tailing Yeo-Reom. For the second time in this show he showed his 'Superman' strength and he's slowly revealing to Yeo-Reom his past which led to him having a pair of bionic body parts. That's the end of these mini recaps and as I've mentioned twice just can't afford to keep spending so much time on these Korean dramas though this series has been a sold watch, did view the next two shows but didn't take any screenshots. Almost forgot to add this in which was that the Passenger Service team was transferred to Terminal 2.