Month: September 2018

My ID Is Gangnam Beauty K-drama Review

My ID Is Gangnam Beauty is the latest in a long line of makeover K-dramas. Given my overall distaste for the genre and my recent propensity for quitting dramas at the first sign of trouble, I’m more surprised than anyone that I made it all the way to the end to review this particular series. Honestly, I didn’t even realize this was a full-length series when I first started watching. I saw the promos and idol-turned-sorta-actor Cha Eun Woo headlining the cast, and I assumed it would be a short, shallow web series full of offensive stereotypes about appearances. Color me pleasantly surprised to find that My ID Is Gangnam Beauty—while definitely on the fluffier side of the K-drama spectrum—managed to avoid many of the pitfalls I initially feared.  What it’s about: After enduring years of severe bullying about her looks, Kang Mi Rae (Lim Soo Hyang) chooses to have plastic surgery before starting college. She runs into her old schoolmate Do Kyung Seok (Cha Eun Woo), who doesn’t care what other people think. The Good  …