Forget the universe-aligning perfect casting trio of Park Shin Hye, Yoon Si Yoon, and Kim Ji Hoon in the upcoming cable network tvN drama Flower Boy Next Door. That is already so awesome every post I’ve written about it has devolved into fangirling screeching that I confess to being the instigator of. What? Like y’all aren’t having tons of fun with it. Two things ratchet up my expectation even more. The first is that Yoon Si Yoon and Park Shin Hye walked the red carpet at the Mnet Asian Music Awards (MAMA) in Hong Kong this week. Shin Hye rocked a glamorous red draped dress (showing us she’s all woman now) while Si Yoon was all fine on top and lost me with the too-short tux pants and the horrible eye sore tan dress loafers. The second treat for me was starting to read the webtoon “I Steal Peeks at Him Everyday” which is the basis for this drama, and HOMG is it beyond adorable and hilarious. Shin Hye is a webtoon artist who dislikes social settings and basically lives in her apartment all day long. She has a crush on the cute guy who lives across the street in the opposite building and she spends her days peeking at him through her window into his, and even mimicking the things he does like eat breakfast and do her laundry at the same time. She’s like a harmless stalker. The few times she ventures out are when he leaves and she follows him from afar. The guy’s flamboyant cousin from Spain, Enrique Geum, arrives to live with him and he catches her peeking and thinks she’s interested in him (he’s wearing only flower print underwear when he catches her). I’ll summarize up to chapter 6 after the jump.
He writes her a note after catching her peeking a few more times, asking if she’s interested in him and sadly informing her that she’s not his preferred dish. She thinks he’s a crazy freak and keeps running away when she accidentally runs into him, while he gets curious about her and starts trying to engage her. The neighbor she has a crush on is this super adorable normal guy who has a cute cat. One adorable sequence has a delivery man making a delivery and she insists that she never receives packages and refuses to open her door. Then she remembers one night she got drunk on soju while peeking at her neighbor playing the guitar and she drunkenly suggest playing with her so she drunk-shops online and spends a month’s earning to buy a guitar. At one point she gets up the courage to leave the house to go to a street stand for intestines and dokbokggi, only to run into her nemesis Enrique there. She runs away leaving her order there, and runs even faster when she thinks he’s chasing her. Turns out he’s bringing her the order and rushing so it stays warm. When she won’t open the door for him, he eats it all, and later when she opens the door, she finds out that he wrote “You’re crazy!” on her door. LOL. That’s where I’ve read up to and while the drawing is silly and relatively crude, it’s vastly spirited and entertaining. I seriously cannot wait for this drama. Also? These two are precious together. I will have no problems shipping the OTP in FBND. Nope, none whatsoever. That is good for my sanity.
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Koala, your pics of the other male lead (I'm guessing second lead) are so much more appealing than Yoon Si Yoon! What's with the outfit and the hair?! What's with the younger k-drama mens' hair? Like Park Shi Hoo in Alice. Ai ya.
Not going to read the summary as I'm obsessively spoilerphobic, but thanks for the post and the pictures, Koala! Hearing that the story is good is making me even MORE excited for this drama. As if that were possible.
These two are gorgeous together. YSY is still cute, but I miss his pre-PS face. And WOW, Park Shin-hye has really grown up beautifully. Love her dress!
YSY is still cute, but I miss his pre-PS face.
Oh. I was wondering why he looked so unfamiliar to me.
YSY is still cute, but I miss his pre-PS face.
Oh. I was wondering why he looked so odd and unfamiliar to me.
He is so strange looking to me. She looks amazingly hot though.
Oh I say this is the first photo I've seen PSH in where she is so sexy.Exuding womanly charms.She is normally cute.Perfect colour.
Oh yeah he may not rock this hair and shoes.But I betcha the first time he confronts the PSH character about stalking him.And hegetsthisclose to her face,and speaks in his swoony voice,collective fangirl screaming will be all over this blog.
Whew even this fantasy has got me all hot and bothered.
His character is one big weird spacey doofball. He's hilarious. But doesn't appear to have a dark side, which is what made his Seo Jae Hee sooooo delicious in M2F. And yes, when he opens his mouth (to talk, smile, kiss, whatever), he makes me slide down a wall and into a heap on the floor.
PSH is stunning. From cute and adorable to lovely, elegant, poised young lady. She is glowing. She changes her look as easily as putting on a cloak. Definitely, one of the attributes of a good actress. I believe she trended worldwide last night. YSY was fine. I am determined to like him as a lead because I have been waiting for her drama appearance for longest of times. After all there has to be a reason for his popularity as an actor.
Yes, I love her dress in its simplicity, elegance and suitability to the occasion
Oh yes, YSY earned full marks from me when he gallantly gave PSH 100 points on her dress :)
I totally agree with everyone's comments on our adorable sweet girl Park Shin Hye!
as Koala mentioned, she totally ROCKED that red carpet with an outstanding entrance with her soon to be 'playmate' in FBND. The color is perfect with her milky white smooth skin...and the simplicity of the design totally floored me because it looked so elegant on her, it's the way she wore it.
PERFECT 10. The dress and make-up and hair, totally FLAWLESS!!!!
i am eagerly anticipating this series, i hope it'll blow us away with a big bang for the new year...
makes me wonder which other flower boy Shin Hye enamored during the MAMA award that we didn't see...i know one of her chingu from BigBang was there...ke ke ke...
She's so good at picking long drapey formal outfits that look effortlessly chic!
... but lovely as the cut is, I do wish it flaunted her womanliness without actually placing a fabric knot over her nether bits. >_<
the only thing I notice is the amount of eyeliner that is on yoon shi yoon probably could beat park shin hye's if not match.
Guys with eyeliner are so unattractive to me. I like how he looked in Me Too Flower. Park Shin Hye is rockin that dress
PSH is definitely rocking that dress. They look cute together :)
Not digging his hair + make-up, but Shin Hye looks absolutely stunning! Ohhh I'm so ready to fangirl over a rom-com again!!! ^^