Ever since March 16, every Friday at p. Second, while the program continues, a direct confession of love is forbidden. Although these rules are succinct, they come to play a big role in encouraging the members to express their love instead of explicitly stating it. As a result, the audience is invited to notice even the tiniest of tingling emotions throughout the season. Invited to live in the same house under the same rules, the eight lovers come from various backgrounds and are distinctly attractive in their own ways. Oh Young-Joo, a businesswoman in the marketing field, is not only good at working, but also skilled at cooking, dancing, and most importantly, listening to others. With her white porcelain skin and lovely smile, Lim starts off her journey in the Signal House by receiving all the male messages the first night. As an international curator for trendy fashion, she quickly charms the four men despite the fact that she arrived late to the program from NYC. These four women with their own unique charms attract not just the men in the Signal House, but also the audience, regardless of gender. In addition to the charming female members, four male members appeal to the audience just as well with their distinct colors. Kim Do-Gyun is the head doctor of a famous oriental medical clinic in Seoul, which reflects on his calm and decisive personality. His enthusiastic character echoes through the Signal House every night. Lee Gyu-Bin, a student at Seoul National University, charms the female audience with his innocent laughter and gentle manners. At first, his young age seems concerning, but it soon goes on to become a cute advantage for him. Majoring in music but currently working as the head chef for a unique Japanese restaurant, Kim leads a life directed by his many passions and interests. His dating life reflects his free spirit and subconsciously attracts the audience to fall for his endlessly hidden charms.
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These eight members of the Signal House continue their journey every week throughout fourteen episodes, keeping the curious audience on their toes. How will these lovebirds react to upcoming ventures in the Signal House? There is no way to find out but to wait for p. Cancel reply. Your email address will not be published. Search this site Submit Search. Upcoming Events. Open Search Bar. Cancel reply Your email address will not be published. Verification Field.Close Modal Window. That remark set off emotional attacks on each other," he said. Lee has been single for years. It's almost like watching a real-time romance drama. The show featured four men and four women living together for 30 days in the same house called "Signal House" and developing romances. Many young viewers put their noses in and left comments online about who they should be with, or which girl is two-faced, with detailed explanations of their reasoning. Song Da-eun, an aspiring actress who appeared on the show, was cast for a web drama and a TV commercial, enjoying popularity, while Oh Young-joo, a Microsoft employee, and Jung Jae-ho, a startup CEO, the couple who were matched through the show, has been invited on a popular radio show and bagged a cosmetics commercial. The popularity of dating shows is nothing new, starting with MBC's hit dating show "The Studio of Love," which ran for seven years beginning But since the suicide of a contestant on the SBS dating show "Jjak," dating shows nearly disappeared. They are now returning en mass, as many young people postpone or give up on courtship and marriage for economic reasons, calling themselves the "n-Po" Generation, the combination of "n" being a variable of exponential growth and "Po" tapped from a Korean word meaning "give up. Mnet's new show "Love Catcher" combines a dating show with elements of mystery, making viewers guess which of the participating 10 men and women are the "love catchers" chasing love, and who are the "money catchers" chasing money in the guise of love. XtvN is also getting ready to debut yet another show, "One Couple," where contestants compete to find partners for marriage while having their parents participating on the panel to observe and comment on their children's dates. Like love simulation games, these shows give vicarious satisfaction to their viewers," said Kim Bong-seok, a culture critic.
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What is different today is those shows feed fantasies and became fantasy dramas in the guise of reality shows, according to another critic Hwang Jin-mi. Moreover, they are all handsome guys and pretty girls whose looks don't pale beside celebrities," she said. But watching these contestants with great backgrounds and respected jobs going on a date, viewers can only remain spectators, having a sense of deprivation that only someone like the contestants on the show are able to go on a date," she said. Making love triangles in editing and storytelling resemble those of melodramas. Many viewers of TV audition programs are reduced to those who can only vote for the contestants who they think excel and work hard, where no other way of participating in the show is present. Likewise, dating shows discourage viewers in real love relations and make them support the contestants instead. Park Jin-hai jinhai koreatimes. Parliament 8 S. A struggling variety show PD starts working on a reality dating show, but doesn't realize that she's cast her childhood friend — now a hotshot start-up CEO — as one of the eligible bachelors. As the friends are reunited and the cameras start rolling, it's hijinks, judo throws, and love triangles galore. Genre: comedy , romance. Young-shim is definitely off to a good start with its old school K-drama vibes, the childhood nemesis turned love interest trope, and lots of humorous moments. It gets bonus points for its broadcast industry setting which I love , so, ready or not, here we go! Apparently, Dad used to be a cartoonist and she was the muse of his debut work. Fame comes at a price, and Young-shim believes that her animated alter ego is why no one takes her seriously even as an adult. After receiving a birthday present from him, Young-shim reluctantly agreed to return the favor, but he stood her up. She later learned that he had emigrated without a word to her, and to date, he remains persona non grata to Young-shim. By the way, who is this mysterious CEO? Anyway, when Young-shim and Kyung-tae finally meet in person on the day of the shoot, Young-shim can hardly believe that Mark Wang is Wang Kyung-tae.
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Arrows of Love is clearly off to a rough start for Young-shim, and it gets worse when one of the three female participants gets into an accident on her way to the studio. The full-day shoot is a rollercoaster of activities that feature the cast going on three different dates with each other. Poor Young-shim, all she wanted to do was throw up. Her final date is with Kyung-tae, and as I expected, he wins their karaoke contest. The winner gets a wish, and Kyung-tae makes her buy him an older model of headphones. And via a flashback, we see that Kyung-tae gifted Young-shim the same model of headphones engraved with her initials for her birthday back then, only to see the headphones with another boy later on. I knew there was a reason Kyung-tae emigrated without telling Young-shim. We wrap up for the week with the Arrows of Love team returning to the studio, where the participants figuratively shoot their arrows of love at their preferred dates. Wol-sook and the third lady are struck with an arrow each from the other two guys, while Kyung-tae is pierced with arrows from all three ladies. It must be nice to be so rich and handsome, heh. In turn, a sly Kyung-tae shoots his arrow at Wol-sook, leaving Young-shim with zero flesh wounds. On her own show! Double burn!! Nah, Kyung-tae is spiteful, but Young-shim definitely had it coming. But her brand of tenacity most likely developed from her brusque nature as a child, and I wonder how she thought that Kyung-tae was going to play nice and forget how nasty she was to him.
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She could have been nicer when she turned down his advances, but no. She had to belittle him to the extent that he still has PTSD from everything that reminds him of Young-shim: from spicy pork cutlets to the lyrics of the Young-shim animation theme song. But whatever her misgivings about the cartoon were, Young-shim maintains a great relationship with her family and if she has come to terms with it, I guess I can, too. I chuckled when a desperate-for-screen-time Young-shim began to serenade her date with the Young-shim theme song, unprovoked — after complaining to her dad that everyone she meets asks her to sing the song. Her serenade was an epic fail, obviously, but not to Chae-dong and his admiring eyes behind the camera. Chae-dong is such a cutie and I lol-ed so hard when he jumped into the river to save Young-shim and she ended up saving him because the dude and I share something in common: we cannot swim! Lee Min-jae plays earnest puppy so well, and for someone who almost never allows herself to get caught up in second lead syndrome, I can already see myself marching straight into that trap. Overall, the drama gives off pretty basic vibes. Young-shim , Song Ha-yoon. Your email address will not be published. The first 2 episodes were pretty classical for this genre : the girl is a mess, the boy is a cold jerk. So I'm waiting for the real story to take place. I think it's interesting though that he's cold and a jerk because she used to be that way to him. Right, I mean they are definitely immature, but at least he's being a jerk to her for an understandable reason, as opposed to many other cold MLs. It really is a very good point that you have made. If this show is going to deliver, then part of the reason it can is because it starts with a firmer foundation in the dramatic sense. I like that, especially because she seems to be focusing on him leaving without saying anything her feelings , instead of everything she did to him too.I was surprised by how much I liked this. It has cute retro vibes and I think it's interesting how the FL used to kinda mean to the ML, so his anger makes sense. I've been reading about the 90s cartoon and I think that is really important context. Oh, I also think it's hilarious that his trauma wasn't really trauma. But I'm confused why poet guy didn't vote for her. Did he give up after learning about Kyeong-tae or did Kyeong-tae change his vote? About the poet changing his vote, I'm expecting some childhood back story. He seemed to recoil the moment he learnt of the too-way-back childhood connection so I'm guessing while he might not have recognized Mark Wang, he knows Wang Kyung-tae very well or knows Youngshim and Kyung-tae were an item-in-trial-period back in their childhood. I'm guessing he knows Youngshim beyond Arrow of Love. Not the stalker kind of know, just the same childhood connection kind of know. Thanks for the tip about the cartoon! And yeah, I totally agree, I like this one way better than that other drama about the PD that casts her childhood friend on her dating show.
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I spend most of my k-drama forum time on MDL and reviews are mixed, just like here at Dramabeans. But Lee Min Jae! He was familiar but I had to look him up why. Quite a difference between Crash Course in Romance, but I like him better here. I hope he is able to get beyond the usual SML trap but the other main characters are all much older. Imagine being 30 something and still obsessing over the relationship you had for a week when you were I am hate watching this show purely because the leads look pretty together. It was also strangely entertaining that Song Ha Yoon is apperantly a better singer than a literal kpop idol, Lee Dong Hae. I don't think that he thinks about her a lot because he loved her or anything, more just that she really hurt his feelings and probably made him feel really insecure. And it didn't seem like she thought about him THAT often unless people brought him up. From what I got, she has not dated since her last relationship when she was 12 and even now, she often looks back feeling bad for that broken promise. I kinda got the impression that she isn't very popular with men--aside from the 2ML, but she doesn't have feelings for him. Malicious tongues could claim that the first two episodes would have been the result if my former teenage self had tried to write a script. The result would have been characters who are supposed to be in the midst of their professional lives, but who have the maturity of teenagers and behave like them. On top of that, the two main characters are not particularly likeable. She is a hyperactive brat and the way she treated him when he was a child, I wonder why she would even think of him choosing her in the dating show.He comes across as very one dimensional and conceited, his bragging on the dates was rather embarrassing. But at least I will still watch the next two episodes. Because I haven't given up hope yet, also I'm a big fan of the friends to lovers and enemy to lovers tropes. I understand him being cold to her because people remember bullying. Her reaction is absurd, girl, it has been at least 20 years. Move on, smh. I can already think about what mess she'll bring, cause, orchestrate There's something I do that Youngshim does as well. I skipped the peripheral salutations after hello, hi, and go straight to the point of business as to why I called someone. The same thing reflects in my texts. It was kinda cool to see that in dramaland.
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Please not Chae-dong. I do not want a SLS here at all so I'm gonna be the typical female lead who doesn't see it. But gosh! The guy has it already. Truth be told and to be fair, Youngshim traumatized Kyung-tae in several ways worse than Kyung-tae's one standing up did her. But to see her hate the sound of the name Kyung-tae and it being a forbidden word in the Oh house, it sent me back to Tale of the Nine Tailed's forbidden word 'Ah-eum' and especially Hong-joo's table breaking. On the serious side, it's a bit equal but not even that they're both traumatized by the other. Kyung-tae was sly. I didn't expect Youngshim drying out on her own show at all not after that line she deliver before they took their votes. I like the dynamic she has with her father. It was something very admirable. He might be someone who never loses an opportunity to tease the hell outta her but damn I loved their rapport when they were talking outside the house in episode after the forbidden name Kyung-tae situation.I wasn't exactly ready to dig into this one. I tried watching this in random scenes and none of the random scenes I mindlessly played were hooking me in. I guess I had to go to the very beginning to enjoy it. I hope it remains the intro sequence for episodes to come. I knew I was going to like this show because of Song Ha Yoon unnie, but I actually enjoyed everything about it. I'm so excited for our typical enemies to lovers trope, and I'm ready for the love triangle! That's super weird coming from me, I don't usually like love triangles, but this one seems harmless, fun, light. I just know that there will be no major drama in this show and I love that. It doesn't take itself seriously and I love that. So far, I like all the characters. Yeah, it admittedly feels dated but I thought that was part of its charm! Of people really do miss old school romcom dramas, this will scratch that itch imo. Show definitely has some good points: - Lee Min-jae is cute and has impressive diving form for a guy who can't swim. Like others, I am charmed by Lee Min Jae here, and it's nice to see him go from playing a high schooler to an adult character.
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