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THE 1ST SHOP OF COFFEE PRINCE
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Spoken language........................Korean
English subtitles.........................very good
Picture quality............................very good
OST..............................................cd on Amazon
Review
This drama is about a young woman who supports her family by doing jobs that would normally only a man would get. This is because she is constantly mistaken as a man and now that is how she lives. She works endlessly to try to make her family's finances work out enough to live on for her mother and sister and herself. She is focused on making money. She does a large number of part time jobs from delivering milk, peeling chestnuts, karate class for kids to sewing eyes on stuffed animals. Unfortunately for her, her mother loves to spend money on shoes. While her sister dreams of becoming a kpop star.
One day she encounters a person who snatches a purse while making deliveries. She grabs the purse and smashes the scooter she was driving. She lets the person get away as he was a young man who liked her sister even though the feelings weren't mutual. When she gives back the purse she is accused of being part of a planned theft ring by the man. He gives her a business card but refuses to pay for damages to the scooter. He really does think that this is a scam.
Later she contacts him to try to collect damages for the scooter and meets him in his hotel room. Due to a funny mishap they land in a jumbled mess while he is in a bathrobe and the woman that comes there thinks he's gay. This makes him think that this is the solution to his problem he has, marriage meetings. He hires her to be his pretend gay boyfriend to deter his family's ability to force him to get married. He buys new top quality matching suits, couple outfits, for them. The contract has different prices for different levels of touching. Even pretend kissing. But what was really important to her was all meals were included, and she can eat amazing amounts of food. But she gets a shock when he kisses her for real because he's so happy that it's working and the ruler has spread about them. They will cost him big bucks.
As punishment his grandmother makes him work in a coffee shop and make it a success. The first employee is her. The older man who works there knows that she's a woman. They plan is to attract women to the coffee shop with attractive male baristas. And one very hunky waffle making man. This coffee shop is now ran by attractive, flower boy, type men. And with a video made by her sister and posted online they fast become a success.
Business is now such a big success and he falls in love with her. But he still thinks that she is a man. But he is even willing to consider that he might actually be gay because he loves her so much. But what will happen when he figures out that she is really a woman? Can it be kept a secret from the other employees?
But will the family accept her? She has a crush on the cousin, will her feelings be returned? Will she fall in love with the boss? How long does it take to figure out that she's a woman? Will the others accept her at the coffee shop as a woman? Will the other employees figure it out first? And some of them might just like her also.
Comment
I loved this drama. It is very funny that it took so long to figure out that she's a woman. And the situations are crazy. But the cousin that she has a crush on has never once thought that she looked like a man. This confused her boss.
I bought this set to replace a set I bought from a rummage sale at a Korean church. This is the version I originally watched and liked best. It has a bonus special features disc.
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Great series, bad dvd image quality. PMP Entertainment version.
First off, this K-Drama title, which features talents such as Yoon Eun-hye, Gong Yoo (of both "Goblin" and "Train to Busan"), and Kim Young-ok (a veteran actress who has appeared in a long list of both films and dramas), is a short but excellent rom com/drama series that, because of its mistaken gender identity plot, seems to have taken inspiration from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Its right up there in my top ten favorites. So please understand that his review for "Coffee Prince", deals with issues with the dvd set itself. The series itself gets 5 stars. The dvd set distributed by PMP Entertainment does not.That being said, when watching on a device like the PS4, the video quality in the DVD set is really bad. The video goes from looking almost as if it was HD quality (which is strange because the series had a "film" like quality when I had viewed it in the past, on certain streaming services), to suddenly become fuzzy and pixelated. The pixilation sometimes affects actor faces and static "aura's" will sometimes appear around the actors as well. Video is also a 4:3 ratio. when viewed on same device.When viewing on a device like a Sony Blu-ray player, image is the correct ratio (fills the screen), but image quality is poor.As far as subtitling goes (I am up to the end of the second disc so far):The subtitles are also affected by the image quality, which is disappointing because of the really great translation.At least the translation has been great to this point. If that changes, I will edit this review to include that information.Even more disappointing, is the loose dvd's in the set, which resulted in scratches on discs 1 and 2.
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