If this show had not been drastically cut by six episodes I am fairly certain that I'd be giving it a higher rating. I'm still giving it a fair rating because of the potential it had to be great. This show was cute, funny and silly (which I enjoyed). The acting and story were all good and yet it did not receive high ratings and ended up getting cut early. What makes the cut even worse then your typical cut is that 8 out of the supposed to be 16 episodes had already aired when it was announced that the series would be ending in 10 episodes instead. Thus, leaving the wirters with just two episodes to wrap everything up. The show was going so great and then all of a sudden you are hit with a rush job that did not do the show justice and frankly ended in a bit of confusing matter. The show is still very watchable though and I really enjoyed it minus the last two rush episodes.

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This should really be called The Love Triangle Hotel......or The Thirst Hotel.
Though I did read the synopsis and knew that there would be a love triangle it really did take precedence over the whole drama. If you were looking for a good mystery and a hotel full of people with secrets then you are bound to be disappointed with this drama because though there are secrets afoot , this drama focused primarily on this love triangle. The first few episodes were good and I had a good couple of laughs in between even when I started to get annoyed with where the show was going and overall it wasn't an awful show in my opinion.
Now in terms of the thirst, it was just a bit too real for me at times. Obsessing over someone whose just not that in to you is the kind of thirst I am referring to. I can't make references to all of the blatant thirst without spoiling things but I can say that there are some characters who have been blatantly told through words, actions, or both "I don't like you" and their failure to process this as a sign to move on really baffles me. I know some people find these kinds of situations cute or funny but for me there is almost nothing more frustrating then a person that does not take no for an answer and continues to stalk you and interfere in the love life you are trying to have that does not involve them. This is called thirst and it's not cute. lol!!! I also got fed up a few times with the childish antics of the ex but I cannot go into detail on that one.
While about 85% of this drama revolved around a love triangle the other 15% revolved around the murder mystery. Which was a bit too much of the former and not enough of the latter for me. Everything unfolded pretty quickly in this drama and then took ages to wrap up. By the time things started to wrap up I frankly just didn't care anymore and had already figured out the big whodunnit before they even disclosed it.
So in a nutshell this drama is not bad and I'd say it's just ok because I had alot of laughs and there were some cute moments I really enjoyed.Perhaps if the drama was wrapped up sooner and the murder mystery wasn't so poorly executed I would have really liked this drama. They focused so much on this love triangle that all the all the questions you really want answers to barely get answered until the tail end of the show.In fact, I still have an unanswered question or two.
So if you enjoy love triangles, thirst and having no clear answers until the very end then this drama is definitely the one for you ;)

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I went back in forth in my feelings for this drama. From about episode 1-7 I was really into it. Then I thought it was ok. I wanted to quit watching by episode 17 or 18 but I had invested so much time I powered through it. The last few episodes made up for the times I wanted to quit watching as they were fairly good episodes.
I felt that Leader Moe and Jae Hwa were phenomenal characters who I felt like I really got to know and love but the downside to that is that I wish I felt as strongly about Shin Jung Tae who is the main character. It wasn't until towards the end of the show that I started to appreciate his character more. I love a good fight scene but I got tired of seeing Shin Jung Tae fight everyone all the time and on top of the fighting I had to watch him train to fight too. I got bored. I felt the spark it had when it started disappeared and then made a comeback right at the end. They had good characters that they could have done more with and bad characters they should have done less with. Sometimes I would laugh at the logic behind why some of the characters were doing what they were doing mostly because there was no logic. What the show tried to pedal as romance was lackluster as well.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when a drama or even a person says they are going to do something and then they don't deliver.
(my examples are just examples btw) Example: if you say it's a fight to the death then someone should actually die or it's not really a fight to the death and you shouldn't call it that, if the doctor says you have 1 week to live you shouldn't magically be healed. These feel like lies to me. This show had a habit of making the stakes high for certain characters and then not delivering, letting me get all worked up for nothing. Of course I hate to see any character I love die or get hurt but don't make me cry over spilled milk if your actually not going to spill it.
All in Alll if the show were just 18 episodes I would have liked it better. I felt some episodes and parts of the storyline I could do without and it made the show draggy often.

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A poor man's Answer Me 1997. If you saw Answer Me 1997 then you will notice the character similarities and storyline similarities which for me make this drama almost pointless. If you never watched Answer Me 1997 then you may like this drama. There were some good moments but the story really drags out the husband mystery to the point where you stop caring. Around episode 16 or so I started to get bored. The acting was good and I liked the actors but not the storyline. Yoon Jin was a lot like Shi Won from the previous show and Bingrae a lot like Hoya's character and they recycled the childhood friend/growing up together idea and basically the whole thing felt recycled. It wasn't awful but it did lack imagination.

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This was a great movie. The story was very good and the two main actresses playing the sisters were amazing. This movie left me with a lot of feelings. I felt very connected to to these two sisters. One who will do anything to fulfill her dream of going to America and having a better life and the other who puts her family before herself. The only thing I would complain about is the American actors were bad, not terrible but not good and when next to such an amazing korean cast they mite have even seemed like worse actors then they really were but the movie is so good that this is not enough to bring the movie down at all, just thought I'd mention it though because it may be the reason why some people didn't like the film.

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I'm writing this review only half way in to the series but I think I've seen enough to know what I like and don't like. This is a good show and I love Rain but I find that dramas featuring popular musicians are often overrated and judged more by love of the artist rather than the actual drama.(like, "A Love To Kill"-seriously overrated in my opinion). This drama however is actually pretty good. It's one flaw is repetitive antics that stop being funny or cute after the third time you see them. Like the back and forth name calling and then Ji Eun's 2 childhood friends really sickened me and I got so sick of them scheming for money and being blatantly disrespectful. What they do in the first episode is unforgivable and I don't think they were properly reprimanded for it. And I'm understanding of the fact that this is an old drama and I'm watching it in 2014 but the fashion is horribly tacky. Even in 2004 I don't think it was ok to have your bra hanging out like Hye Won. And it does take a bit too long for the leads to inevitably get together. Other than that it is a pretty good drama.

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