Saturday, November 30, 2024

WHAT COMES AFTER LOVE (2024 Korean - Japanese Drama)


 What comes after love is a 2024 six episodes Korean drama which currently aired started on 27 September. Based on novel "Sarang Hooae Oneun Geoddeul" by Kong Ji-Young & Hitonari Tsuji (published December 20, 2005 by Sodam Books). A collaboration between Korean and Japanese writer. 

It is about Choi Hong (played by Lee Se-Young) as a Korean free spirit girl trying to study in Japan. She then meets Jungo Aoki (played by Kentaro Sakaguchi), a literature college boy and they fall in love with each other. However, they broke up due to different thoughts about love and practical problems in a past future plot storytelling. 5 years later, Hong and Jungo meet again in Korea and I'm so curious after 3 episodes of how they're gonna resolve their feelings in the end. It was worth watching so far I give like 8 out of 10 and with beautiful cinematography, story line and chemistry. This is my fan art drawing based on one of their official poster.
I anticipated this one because its been so long since the last 2002 four episode Korean-Japanese collaboration drama titled 'Friends' played by Won Bin and Kyoko Fukada which was one of all time favorite drama. 
I've eagerly waited like every week for the rest of the episodes to know how they will conclude the story. Unfortunately, the ending for me personally just kill (not only ruin) all the good things that were shown in the previous episodes. How come they made such ending after all the detail romantic back story between them only to ended up just holding hand and run together smiling, without any dramatic union moments such as emotional hugging and kissing. They're after all longing for each other and just found out the truth about their real feelings also cleared up all the misunderstanding. I know maybe it was cheesy or cringe but those sweet moments in the past should be justified with a lovely ending. At least that was what I hoped for, especially it was Korean made and not Japanese one. It was totally different with 'Friends' drama I've mentioned earlier where the climax was pure satisfaction and it was so good to repeat watching it several times. As for this I have to correct the rating as 7.5 out of 10 due to the ending. I like the romantic moments but I dislike the stiff ending. One more thing, all the obstacles and questions related to the girl's parents, him letting her know about his past seemed to be just brushed off as not important and it was truly unfortunate. I would not want to watch it again knowing how the story will end. That's all.

As for sense of fashion in this movie, mostly use earthy color tones in an autumn season for working people with long coat and simple clothing. There are a lot of photos on Google for this. Thanks for reading my article.

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

T-shirt Graphic Designs for London's Calling for 3 years


My designs were chosen for this annual event for 3 years, in 2018, 2022 and 2024. I'm proud of these achievements and truly grateful for the appreciation for my works to be used in their official event's t-shirt. These designs belong to the client who already bought them and I only want to showcase it as only portfolio without any commercial purpose.

Feel free to contact me for any design service through e-mail: thedreamernoodlemie@gmail.com