True Beauty (2020)

very cliché but well produced high school love story

the story was nothing amazing, it's the usual love triangle, evil friend, bullying scenario. but that wouldn't be such a problem if the strong message about self love and acceptance they strived to spread was conveyed in the right way !

i think true beauty completely missed the mark on that. the subplot about jukyung's journey to accepting herself and her appearance, as well as getting empowered was totally hidden by the love triangle and futile fights. i wish they empasized this a lot more,, the arguments that were supposed to show jukyung's path to having a good self esteem were not compelling enough, kind of sloppy and misleading. moreover, the sad second lead trope was pushed too far, making seojun feel very miserable. and do not let me start on the lousy last episodes,,,

but true beauty also has good sides, it's really well produced, the sets and colors were very pleasing to the eye, the actors did a great job. the supporting actors were adorable too. i really enjoyed the side loveline which was extremely refreshing !

if you want a sweet, cliché, high school love triangle (bad boy + intelligent leads), this will be perfect for you! but do not expect a lot of depth and strong messages!

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Another heartbreak

The story starting was good. The former episodes were interesting and holded me for the next episodes. But after the camping episodes it all came to one more cliche story and known ending. At one point I thought they are going to change the ending but that was not the case :(

This story was not different, contained no new content and more of a cliche. The lead characters were not that good and looked dumb. I don't know why creators always go with first love. Like in the same situation girl will accept a person who ignored her for years and acted like a creep on first meeting after that. It felt unrealistic, the main lead characters were not shown mature and practical.

In the last episodes main lead love story felt dragged and forced. Like creators just want them to be together. Did not felt any sparks in their love story. Last episode was really boring for me.

For me SJ was the saving grace of the show. His character was mature and handled every situation like that. I just felt bad for him for not having his love. But he got his music and career, happy for that. Not going to forget his dance on okey dokey. He stealed this show for sure. Even other side characters were good.

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Seojun is the best part about this drama!

I honestly didn't have much hope for this drama at first, because I hated both Suho and Jugyung in the Webtoon (She lead Seojun on and was very selfish and toxic in my opinion with him, while Suho just suddenly dipped when his dad got sick, and never even bothered with a text for 2 YEARS!! So even if I had liked him at one point, I hated him after that).
I'm going to be comparing the drama with the webtoon, and I prefer the drama. And I'm basically ranting about the webtoon for 90% of this.


The drama had a better delivery in my opinion. But the first 3 ~ 4 episodes or so cringed me out like you wouldn't believe, and added some unnecessary childhood interaction.

After I powered through those embarrassing moments, the plot actually started getting better, and I liked that Jugyung was able to confront her bullies and wear her face proudly (she could buy better looking glasses).

I loved Sujin's character, and I was very touched by her and her situation, and I loved how the actress was able to capture the role really well.

The side characters, like Jugyung's dad, sister, teacher, friends, Seojun's friends, and the manga shop owner were really fun and amusing when they were on screen, but I would make the biggest eye-roll when Jugyung's brother or mom would appear. They were really inconsiderate and downright cruel at times.
Lady your daughter is obviously insecure about her looks and gets bullied daily. Why are you being this mean?
So I couldn't understand when both the mom and brother made a complete 180 and started being considerate. Don't misunderstand me, it was a really welcome change, but it was sudden and almost felt like completely different people.

Selene, who was not mentioned as Suho's sister got on my nerves. Like she's being mean and always destroying her self esteem for no reason other than she was distracted a little. Like what?!!! I know they tried to make her look all cool and amazing, but she was doing basic make up and humiliating Jugyung and then she calls her cool and awesome. I don't give a F*** who she is, she can't be that rude to anyone. So only the spoiled female idol was bad, but Selene is so cool?

Seojun on the other hand was perrrrrfect. I have nothing more to say other than Hwang In Yeop was able to capture both the role and my heart with his character. Call me a simp, but I would watch this drama anticipating his scenes and swooning whenever he appeared. I especially loved the bromance between him and his friends and with Suho when they made up at the hospital.
So it would would be understandable why I was heartbroken for him when he was crying in the last episode when he got rejected.
I know a lot of people hated that Jugyung would ignore all of his advances, never deserved his love for her and ultimately rejected him. But I was honestly relieved that she never lead him on or was swayed by him like in the Webtoon.

Spoiler for the webtoon!!

In the Webtoon, she actually started dating him when Suho dipped and cut off contact with both of them. And Seojun asked her to be his girlfriend, she agreed, and everything was nice. The problems started when Suho appeared again. Seojun was understandably insecure about her old feelings for Suho and how Jugyung was too close and friendly with him. They fought and she told him to trust her, he thought about his actions, apologized. Later on he would work as a courier on top of modeling, because he was really short on money, as he had to support his mom's hospital bills, and house expenses, but was really embarrassed about it so he didn't tell her. she would call him while he was working, he wouldn't pick up, she was insecure about it. Then he told her about it, after she saw him distributing flyers in the street, and they both agreed that neither would keep secrets from the other. surprise surprise, she was still lying about her original appearance and never showed him her real face, and that was a problem for her, because Seojun would come by her apartment building to give her gifts and such, so it was exhausting her to keep putting full make up on whenever he came.
And one time Suho and her were talking in front of her apartment building with her bare face, Seojun didn't recognise her, and Suho noticed that she hadn't told him .
Later on Seojun was passing by her apartment building while talking to her on the phone, she was there, he finds out her secret, she panics, runs away, a truck almost hits her, he saves her, tells her he doesn't mind, and everything is nice again.

One day she invites him for a morning concert thing with her friends, and the singer on stage asks if anybody wants to sing. She raises his and and tells them he's a good singer. He goes on stage, sings really well, and people love him. His video goes viral, and lots of entertainment companies ask to recruit him as a trainee (like the drama).
He mulls over the offers, and goes to tell her about it.

And here's where she starts getting on my nerves.

He tells her that he wants to be a singer, she tells him to go ahead and stuff, but her thoughts were (I wished he wouldn't)
And he tells her that she wouldn't have to worry about him being fan=mous
She's super insecure about his success, and after that point every time he would go out with his friends and post about it she would get sad, that there may be a girl in the group picture or something dumb like that because trainee girls are pretty. While on the other hand, she would go out with Suho ALONE even though she knew that it bothered Seojun that they used to have feelings for each other. And she would tell Suho her secrets and lie to him straight to his face while having thoughts like (I don't know how to tell him this or that) so she never tells him, until he finds it out himself, and gets mad.

And when he gets mad, she considers breaking up with him, and doesn't call him, so he tries contacting her to apologize. But she doesn't pick up, and and tells him to leave her alone. So when he does, she gets angry that he's not calling.And when he went to her house to apologize, she told him to leave, and that he was annoying when he comes by without notice. Then they make up after HE apologizes.


Later Selene tells her she wants her to work with her on a survival celebrity show, because she wants her to be around, so that Suho would have an excuse to see her more and make her his girlfriend again I guess, because he still has feelings for her after all those years that he refused to contact her (Like video calling or flying her over to him doesn't exist). So basically Selene is trying to make Suho steal someone else's girlfriend, because that's not unethical I guess.

And that survival show is supposed to recruit 5 boys, and they only had 3, so Jugyung shows them Seojun's modeling photos, and they agree. And Selen shows them Suho's photo, and they also agree. But the problem is that Suho hates these kinds of shows and would never agree to be part of them, and Jugyung tells Selene that. So Selene tells her that SHE will be the one persuading Suho, and Jugyung obviously doesn't say no.

When she goes to tell Seojun about the survival show, he's ecstatic. And asks her who else would be there, but instead of telling him about Suho, she tells him that they haven't decided who the last one would be, and doesn't mention Suho at all.

And at that point, I just couldn't read anymore, because I was so angry, so I skipped to chapter 128 I think and she was doing what I had thought would happen.

She called Seojun, who was apparently busy, because he had debuted or something (I'm not sure, because I didn't read the chapters before it), and couldn't contact her for two weeks, and he was like "I missed you", and she said "let's break up"
He was so shocked, sad, and confused and kept apologizing and begging her to stay and tell him why she was breaking up with him, but all she had to say was "We should break up before it gets harder" and more of that nonsense, and kept moping around about it for the next 2 chapters, like she wasn't the one who broke his heart.


Overall, she had no character development, and still stayed insecure about her face, and it started going as far as making me feel like she herself was contributing to the problem.
She also had some major drinking problem and drinking habits that weren't as cute as the drama.
And I think that Seojun was only written to be hurt, and ignored when Suho was back in the picture.

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I dont think it was as good compared to the webtoon

Personally, as a fan of the webtoon i was a little dissapointed by this drama. I felt like some of the characters had a completely different personality than in the webtoon and it bothered me quite a lot. The storyline was also? Weird to me, and i dropped it. I'm not sure if it had gotten better in the later episodes would've gotten better, but it unfortunately wasn't my cup of tea and i felt weird watching it.
On the positive side, the actors were well picked! Cha Eunwoo really suited the role of Suho and he even has quite same looks haha! It made me thought if Suho has got inspiration from him LOL.
Original sound track was good too, it brought a nice vibe to the episodes :)

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Should they follow the webtoon?

I know it's a given they won't exactly follow the webtoon but as an avid webtoon reader (i didn't quite like some parts of it they became too bleak for me) i have to say that I can bat an eye for some parts but I don't like how seojun is completely neglected because they dated for roughly a year and she didn't even date suho in the webtoon what I'm interested in is seeing how she progresses because the whole thing is supposed to be about self love and acceptance and I'm not so sure they really convey that...overall I highly recommend you watch this show and maybe take a look at the webtoon if you're interested!

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Have faith in God of Writing

I’ve read the ongoing webtoon so far at chapter 135 and with high hopes for the best on Suho. In which he must find himself consolation if not through Joo Gyung.

Seojun has his time and luck. All this kid did was just following instructions from his dearest BFF...

Back to the live version drama. I just likes it a lot on this version re-telling the story. I still wish it’ll be different here and there. Like those Disney’s book choose-your-own-adventure. The live version should be bold with imagination and deliver other ventures and possibilities. Best way to summarize it, for the love of God Please bring joy and happiness for lonely boy Suho.

We’re at ep 4, and already two of my dear friends decidedly Joo Gyung end up with Seo Jun. It’s fair to opinionated, I’ve guess. But I wish they follow the episode with thoughtfulness first and stop being affirmative.
Thus far, Suho has done nothing but spoken truth and accepted wholeheartedly for Joo Gyung as who she is, not what she is. He even got himself in a fight uselessly for trying to help out. Pufft, it’s dreadful to follow this current plot. Why must make him soak in the rain and bruises his lips without being able to scream out love.

Music score, kind of a let down. With a cast this solid, at least they can bring us soundtracks that could levitate the drama’s mood. Even the so called Joo Gyung favorite alternative band is not showing properly. If she is a Linkin Park girl, so Please just give her that.

The ride is not yet over until then I’m keeping a close eyes on this. Since it’s my favorite.

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WOW CHA EUNWOO

cha eunwoo made we watch this show. idk anything about astro but jinjin!!!!!!
anyway jugyeom sucks balls, specifically not han seojun's BECAUSE SHE DOES NOT END UP WITH HIM !!!!!11 han seojun is my love. chAA WUNEoo is nothing collmapred to my hasndsome man!!!! anywzyi cried bc the fl tried to off herself (roblox style) off the roof but it's ok!! i think the message honestly is pretty good and i like how moon ga young acted as an awkward yet lovable character. the acting wasn't bad, the story was. han seojun was a lot more expressive and his characterization made a lot more sense for jugyeom to like her, snce eunwoo was kinda too possessive and forceful.
thank you for reading!!

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I don't know

Lets start with a good note their acting all of the actors were just amazing
Personally I don't like to watch rom-com i just don't like this genre but i started this drama just because of the actors and i thought i will be able to complete this drama but guess what i didn't complete drama i watched like 12 ep and then i dropped tbh i started feeling bored after 4-5 ep but i was hoping for it to get better and i was watching it at 1.75x but it was just not my cup of tea
I story line was soo boring and predictable so if u are planning to watch this just because of the actors u better not watch it because in the end u will be disappointed
But i wanna add one more thing which is that my friends are also into kdrama and they also watched this drama but they really enjoyed so i thing in the end everything is about our taste

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These two stars are only for my bae Hwang Inyeop.

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this drama is super fun with amazing storyline...

True Beauty is a romantic comedy about a high school girl (Moon Ga Young) who goes to great lengths to never be caught without makeup on and the only guy (Cha Eun Woo) who has seen her bare face.
Moon Ga Young plays Lim Ju Kyung. She was made fun of and bullied because of her looks which eventually led her to master the art of make-up in order to hide her true face. She does whatever she can to avoid anyone seeing her bare face, but when a guy from her school does, she worries he will tell and her world will come crumbling down.
Cha Eun Woo is Lee Su Ho. He is handsome but cold to those around him. He also carries deep pain from events in his past. His world brightens a bit though when he meets Ju Kyung and likes her even though he has seen her bare face.
Then we have Hwang in Yeop as Han Seo Joon. He is known as a cool bad boy, but he is actually very kind. He has a history with Su Ho and then gets involved in a love triangle with Ju Kyung.

True Beauty is a drama that is just plain fun! It is breezy and entertaining as it swiftly moves the story along. It honestly doesn’t really do anything revolutionary as you’ll find a simple story with a hefty sprinkling of classic kdrama tropes, but it packages it all in such a fun and engaging way that just made it so easy to watch.
I am definitely a sucker for stories like this as an “unattractive” girl hides her true face which makes everyone think she is beautiful. Luckily, the only guy who has seen her bare face likes her and thinks she’s pretty just the way she is. Aww!!

The romance is fun as we get to see plenty of bickering between Ju Kyung and Su Ho as well as lots of meaningful moments. It takes a while for them to get on the same page with sharing their feelings, but it’s a fun journey to watch. Then we see their relationship blossom quite nicely.
Ju Kyung and Su Ho’s individual stories were good too. Ju Kyung is bullied because of her looks, and it was terrible to see. She is able to pull herself out of the situation by learning to use makeup, but then she is forced to live a life of secrecy so no one finds out what she actually looks like.

True Beauty also features a pretty fun love triangle. Our bad boy with a heart of gold gets off on the wrong foot with Ju Kyung, but in true k-drama fashion, it doesn’t take long before he is pining away for her. Combine that with some ongoing issues he has with Su Ho, and we get an entertaining love triangle for sure! And the love/hate bromance was also a great addition to the show, as their relationship has plenty to unpack.

This is the kind of drama where there are lots of misunderstandings and the characters don’t always communicate very well. So expect that going in. It’s just part of this type of story though, and everything was well done enough that I don’t consider it a real negative.
I really enjoyed True Beauty as a whole. Its zany brand of humor made it fun with plenty of laughs. There are some very heartfelt elements to the story that deliver emotion and tears. In the midst of the fun are also nice little moments of insight that add some depth to the drama. If you want a classic high school rom-com kdrama that is packaged in just the right way, True Beauty is for you. Laughs, fun, and heart make for a terrific watch.

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