Summary: Go Eun Chan is a poor, flat-chested, tomboyish, girl who is mistaken for a guy time and time again, and she has the ability to out eat and drink every guy around her. I had to throw that bit in cause it's funny. She gets an assortment of random jobs so she can support her mother and younger sister but ends up losing all of them. Choi Han Kyul is a rich arrogant boy with no intentions of marrying or really ever doing any work. His grandmother insists that he gets married and decides to set him up on a series of blind dates, hoping one of the girls interests him. Eun Chan and Han Kyul meet one day and he, mistaking her to be a guy, offers to pay her to pretend to be his gay lover to get out of the dates. Needing the money, Eun Chan agrees and the two form a sort of friendship.
Han Kyul's grandmother then cracks down on him and he is forced to restore and work at an old coffee shop. Wanting to attract as many female costumers as he can Han Kyul hires only attractive men to work at the shop which he has named "Coffee Prince". Wanting to get a job to support her mother and sister, Eun Chan continues to pretend to be a guy and ends up being hired by Han Kyul. Unfortunately the two start developing feelings for each other and Han Kyul, who still believes Eun Chan is a guy, starts to wonder if maybe girls aren't his style after all.
Review: Well this is pretty much all that happens with the drama. We watch as the two leads deal with their feelings for each other, and the two sub-leads, who I don't feel the need to mention further than this or name, confuse our leads and create conflict. It's a decent drama but not one I'd jump to recommend to others. There was nothing wrong with it, nothing at all, but it wasn't a stand out drama. Not bad but not amazing. It was kind of funny how the lead guy couldn't even handle a sip of alcohol without becoming totally plastered while the lead girl could down glass after glass and be just fine. This is also the first drama which involves a woman pretending to be a man that manages to make the woman look like she could be a man. Yoon Eun Hye is perfect for this role cause she's flat-chested, and very thin so when you cut her hair and put her in a baggy t-shirt she looks like a kind of pretty gangly boy. I don't mean this in a bad way I'm happy a drama actually managed to pull this off.
We have an F4, er F5, er F6? in this drama, sort of... There are five guys, and one girl, who work at the coffee shop and I guess you could consider them the F4 of this drama. They aren't overly lovable, there's nothing I hate about them, so they're just alright.
I did like how this drama called it's episodes "Cups" rather than just episodes. Episode one was called the First Cup, episode two was called the Second Cup, and so on and so on. it was kind of a cute idea that added personality to the show. Coffee Prince also gave me the strong desire to sit in a coffee shop. Thank you very much, show! In a good way of course.
This drama got really high ratings and seems to be super popular. Good for it, I'm glad people like it and it did well. I just didn't love it.
Most Memorable Moment: Because this drama was just alright for me, there weren't a whole lot of things that stood out. The two scenes I remembered were in the second and the tenth episodes.
Eun Chan and Han Kyul finish warding off the blind dates and go out to lunch to celebrate their victory. Han Kyul, who has a very low alcohol tolerance, ends up taking a drink of the liquor she's drinking and is almost instantly passed out drunk. Eun Chan eventually has to piggyback him to her Taekwondo Studio so he can sleep. One the way to the studio Eun Chan passes by a neighbor of hers, who we assume is a butcher because he's carry a dead pig on his shoulder, and he sees the body she's carrying and offers his freezer as a place to hide the body. This wasn't the most memorable moment in this drama but I thought it was so funny and I hope my neighbors would all offer their freezers if I needed to store a body for a couple of days.
Tenth Cup:
Eun Chan and Han Kyul have been fighting over their feelings for a while and recently Han Kyul told her that he didn't want to see her again. Noting that Han Kyul still believes Eun Chan to be a man. The episode is a bit sad cause we see just how much Han Kyul is struggling with his feelings for Eun Chan and we see how she deals with her own feelings for him while enduring the spiteful comments about Han Kyul's feelings from a coworker(who recently found out she's really a girl), and hurtful jabs from Han Kyul himself. After she doesn't clean a cup properly, Han Kyul tells her to clean the whole shop by herself after they closed for the day. Eun Chan accepts this with a defeated air about her and when they close for the night she gets to work on cleaning but notices there's some damages to a mural of a sunflower that's been painted on the wall. The mural really isn't damaged it was painted to look a little off but she doesnt' know this.
Meanwhile, Han Kyul is driving home and is haunted by images of Eun Chan. Apparently coming to some sort of decision because he turns his car around and heads back to the Coffee Shop. When he arrive he finds Eun Chan working on the seemingly damaged mural. She starts to explain that she's just fixing it and when he just stares at her she turns to finish fixing the flower and he swoops in on her.
They're both a little shaken when they release each other and Han Kyul proceeds to tell her: "Just this once. I'm going to say this just this once, so listen carefully. I like you. I don't care whether you're a man or an alien anymore. It's too darn hard to get over you, so let's just go through with this. Let's go through with this."
A small smile forms on Eun Chan's face as she buries her head against his shoulder and wraps her arms around him. Han Kyul also smiles and he holds her.
This is a cute scene where Han Kyul fully accepts his feelings for Eun Chan, despite him believing her to be a man.
Rating: 7/10 I really liked the soundtrack but I never got sucked into the drama, even though I watched it pretty fast.
This is F4fighting! and I would like to add my own rating. 4/10. There was next to nothing I liked about this drama. I can't understand all the praise I've heard for it. I didn't like the characters, or the actors, or the story. Although the ending was decent. You should probably watch it just so you can deduce your own opinion, but it is not the best drama I've seen by far.
This is F4fighting! and I would like to add my own rating. 4/10. There was next to nothing I liked about this drama. I can't understand all the praise I've heard for it. I didn't like the characters, or the actors, or the story. Although the ending was decent. You should probably watch it just so you can deduce your own opinion, but it is not the best drama I've seen by far.
Weird, that drama is totaly my cup of coffee, and I love coffee. Gong yoo is damn handsome, their chemistry was a killer, and I would say it's my second favorite after My girlfriend is a Gumiho. And memorable scene? Talk about "If you step in I won't let you go" and everything that followed. Call me pyeontae, I loved it.
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