Coffee Prince: Ninth Cup

130 July 30, 2007January 24, 2016

by javabeans

First things first. As usual, I thoroughly enjoyed the episode, and continue to enjoy the way they are progressing the relationship between Han Gyul and Eun Chan. But let me get this bit of criticism out of the way, and that is that this episode didn’t flow perfectly.

There were a few awkward transitions, which felt choppy at first. Disjointed. I think they were busy trying to squeeze in some new plot points to set us up for more stories — like exploring more about Han Gyul’s birth, for instance — and because elements felt shoehorned in, it disrupted the otherwise nice developments of the episode. Thankfully, that bit of awkwardness mostly occupied the first half (minus the very beginning, which was entirely too cute); the latter half was lovely.

(Background) SONG OF THE DAY

Arco – “Perfect World.” This song plays in one of the early scenes between Yu Ju and Han Sung.

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EPISODE 9 SUMMARY

Now that they’ve agreed to be like brothers, Han Gyul starts off the next morning goofing around and making Eun Chan breakfast. Eun Chan wonders what’ll be different now that they’re acting as brothers (in a “hyung-dongsaeng” relationship), and asks, does that mean she’ll be treated with more love? Han Gyul awkwardly mumbles at the mention of love, and Eun Chan asks, then will he treat her better? That he can do, and to show it, he heaps food in Eun Chan’s bowl.

Eun Chan tests out the word hyung, joking around as she calls him that repeatedly. It also appears that at some point, they’ve pierced Eun Chan’s ear and marked it with one of Han Gyul’s earrings as “proof” of their sworn brotherhood.

At work, the two continue their happy, giddy new relationship. Seeing the two of them getting along so well strikes the others as strange.

Sun Ki: “Wait, were you together this morning? Do you like each other?”
Eun Chan: [shushing him] “Say something that makes sense! What would he think of a guy like me?”
Sun Ki: “But you’re a girl. Well, I suppose it doesn’t matter if you’re a man or woman. The important part is a person liking another person.”

Sun Ki uses the fact that he knows she’s a girl to blackmail her into promising to help clean out his (Mr. Hong’s) home. Min Yub notices that she’s wearing Han Gyul’s earring. And Ha Rim is put off, grumbling that he’s known Han Gyul much longer than Eun Chan. If anyone should be such a close hyung-dongsaeng relationship, it should be Ha Rim, not Eun Chan.

Sun Ki to Ha Rim: “You’re so unperceptive. Can’t you see the boss likes Eun Chan?”
Ha Rim: “What are you talking about?”
Sun Ki: “They like each other. Is that strange? It’s not a big deal in Japan.”

Yu Ju asks to meet with Eun Chan after some hesitation. Her relationship with Han Sung has hit a bump after she ran into Eun Chan after Han Sung surprise-kissed her. Han Sung understands that Yu Ju’s upset, and tells her he’ll wait until she’s ready to talk to him. When Yu Ju meets Eun Chan, she doesn’t quite know how to begin, but Eun Chan answers the questions before they’re asked.

Eun Chan: “Actually, I did like Han Sung before. That was before I knew you were Girl B.”
Yu Ju: “What about now?”
Eun Chan: “I like him now too, but not in a romantic way. Because there’s someone else I like.”
Yu Ju: “Han Gyul?”

Eun Chan tries to deny it, sees Yu Ju’s perceptive look, then admits, “Yes.” Yu Ju asks why she doesn’t tell Han Gyul she’s a girl, and Eun Chan replies: “I’ve thought a lot about it too. He suggested I be his younger sibling. If he knew I’m a girl, I couldn’t be with him like now. And things aren’t bad, they way they are now.” Eun Chan tells Yu Ju that she doesn’t have to worry about her (regarding Han Sung), and Yu Ju sees Eun Chan’s response is sincere.

I love this shot. Their distance is so eloquent. Yu Ju asks if Han Sung’s feelings wavered because she’d made things hard for him, and he answers no. Yu Ju: “It would be easy if it were because of me. Since then I could just fix myself.”

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(The song posted up top, Arco’s “Perfect World,” plays.) Han Sung tells her he’s in the middle of thinking over what happened, figuring out what it means. Yu Ju: “So you’re saying it wasn’t a mistake, but that you love her?”

Yu Ju: “What do you want me to do?”
Han Sung: “I’ll get over my feelings.”
Yu Ju: “I worried that you’d be hurt because of her… but it seems I was hurt more.”

Han Sung suggests, in a somewhat urgent (last-ditch-effort?) tone, that they go on a trip together.

Everyone goes to Mr. Hong’s place to clean the place up, and Eun Sae keeps sending Min Yub away to do chores so she can be alone with Sun Ki. Although Min Yub knows she’s not treating him well (as does everyone else, including Sun Ki), he still follows her orders, doing the laundry, taking the trash, doing the dishes — until finally she’s so dismissive that he can’t take it anymore.

He stands up to her — just because he likes her, she shouldn’t use him like that. Eun Sae: “Who asked you to like me? Just give up! I really hate you following me around too! You’re ignorant, and all you’ve got is brute strength. I was really embarrassed showing you to my friends, you know!”

With no other way of venting his aggravation, Min Yub growls and runs around the neighborhood — trying to climb poles, lifting furniture, and at one point running around with a refrigerator. HA!

Eun Chan tells Eun Sae to apologize to Min Yub, figuring she doesn’t really hate him: “People fight as they grow attached to one another.” Eun Sae asks, “Like you and your boss?” Eun Chan sighs with satisfaction: “I get to see him everyday, we spend time together, play around, have good conversation. It’s great.” But Eun Sae says she’ll start wanting more — that’ll lead to wanting to hold hands, then wanting to hug, and then wanting to kiss.

Han Sung and Yu Ju go on their trip, and seem to have regained some semblance of their former relationship, but Eun Chan is still a barrier between them. Yu Ju sees that he’s not answering Eun Chan’s calls and tells him that he’s the adult; he should be mature and talk to her first. Han Sung says he will when he’s gotten his feelings in order. He gets a text from her, an awkward message that asks: “Ajusshi, you’re doing fine, right? I’m all right. Please give me a call when it’s convenient. Bye.”

Sun Ki, meanwhile, sees a woman with a young child and chases after her — looks like he’s found the one he’s been searching for — but is unable to catch up. He manages to see the name written on the van, and urgently tries to find out more about it over the phone. At the same time, a pissed-off Min Yub tries to pick a fight, asking if Sun Ki’s enjoying Eun Sae’s attentions. He provokes Sun Ki, and the mood turns dark as they nearly come to blows.

Okay, here’s where they start to lose me a little, because they introduce a new character who hints at mysteries to come. He’s an older man who speaks quite familiarly with Han Gyul’s father, and of whom the father is very wary. (He asks about “Mother,” and I wonder if they’re brothers despite having different last names.) The man, Lee Myung Jae, is in Korea on business and asks if Han Gyul is doing well.

Then, Han Gyul has lunch with his father. He asks his father to not mention to his mother that he knows about his birth secret, and also inquires about his birth mother. Han Gyul knows his father had an affair, sent him to an orphanage, then later adopted him back. Han Gyul’s father describes his birth mother as a warm, affectionate person, a middle-school teacher. Han Gyul cuts in to ask, “Did she leave you? Or did you abandon her?”

Han Gyul’s father admits he left her — at that point in his life, he wasn’t ready to be responsible for anyone. She died in a car accident before Han Gyul’s 100-day birthday (a big event for Korean babies). Han Gyul’s reaction to his father’s cowardice may be best described as disgusted — it might’ve been disappointed, but he’d have to have had faith in his father in the first place to be able to lose it now.

In a despondent, pensive mood, Han Gyul calls his mother to tell her, “Mom. You know I love you lots, right?… Thanks, Mom. Thank you.”

When his mother hangs up, Han Gyul’s father’s and grandmother’s reactions indicate that they know the full story, whatever that is. They’re suspicious over the reappearance of Lee Myung Jae, and Han Gyul’s mother warns her husband to be careful: “I can’t allow our Han Gyul to meet that man.”

Han Gyul then drives over to Eun Chan’s house, still in his quiet, reserved mode. He parks outside and wakes her from sleep with his call.

Han Gyul takes Eun Chan to the batting cages to relieve some tension, and suggests they go to the beach. He lets Eun Chan drive his car (complaining all the while at how fearlessly she drives), and they arrive at the ocean in the middle of the night.

With Han Gyul’s mood much lifted at Eun Chan’s antics, they laugh and goof around on the beach. Han Gyul asks about her birthday and blood type (December, O) and Eun Chan jokes around by telling him (with a straight face) that she doesn’t like guys with his blood type, B — they’re fussy and uptight. Han Gyul protests that he’s not like that at all, defending himself, before realizing Eun Chan’s teasing.

Eun Chan asks when he started liking toys so much, and he says he played with toys since he didn’t have many friends. Kids disliked him because he has a rather unfriendly personality — he’d get angry and annoyed easily.

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“Last Arpeggios” by 푸른새벽 (Blue Dawn) plays. The mood of this segment is so tense and pregnant with meaning that I wish I could convey it in words. You’ll just have to watch. Basically, they both skirt around the topic they both want to broach but are too afraid to — and both tentatively draw closer with the words they want to say, then pull back in skittish fear, covering up with their excuse of being in a brotherly relationship. It’s all nerves and hope and fear.

The ambiance grows more serious when Eun Chan faces Han Gyul, and steps closer and closer, while he backs away, unsettled. She asks, “Do you really just like me as a sibling? What do you like best about me?”

Han Gyul tells her uneasily to stop joking, then asks what she likes about him, and she answers, “Everything.” Having laid one truth out plainly, she retracts it a bit as she walks ahead of him, adding, “But of course, as a hyung.”

After staring at Eun Chan for a long moment, Han Gyul walks up to her and casually takes her hand. Without looking at her surprised reaction, he explains, “As hyung and dongsaeng, we can do this much.”

And then, Han Gyul takes the hand he holds and intertwines their fingers together. They walk along wordlessly.

Eun Chan uses the same reasoning to lay her head in Han Gyul’s lap as they sit on the sand: “As hyung and dongsaeng, we can do this much.” She snuggles into his side and falls asleep.

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Azure Ray’s “Across the Ocean” plays some time later, as Han Gyul looks over at the sleeping Eun Chan. He hesitantly draws nearer to her, lying close to her back, touching her hair, tentatively cupping her hand in his.

After resting like that for a moment, he rises abruptly, disturbed and conflicted. He looks over at her, sleeping soundly, and says, “Go Eun Chan. I can’t go any further.”

He drives her home, and she awakes with her usual cheer, unaware that anything’s the matter. Han Gyul tells her quietly, coldly, that he’s decided he can’t be her hyung; they’re over. “Let’s stop meeting.” Eun Chan assumes he’s joking, and goes to work eagerly anticipating seeing him.

When he won’t look at her, or talk to her, Eun Chan asks what the matter is — did something happen? Did she do something wrong?

He tells her curtly to stop coming to work; he’ll forgive her debt. She doesn’t understand, and insists she’ll keep coming, and he says, “Fine, then I’ll leave.” He reminds her of what he said that morning, and Eun Chan realizes he meant it — but how can someone change so much in one morning?

Han Gyul: “I’m that kind of guy. Didn’t you know that?”
Eun Chan: “You’re right, I didn’t know. How can you treat someone like that — are you playing around?”
Han Gyul: “I don’t like you. I’ve come to dislike you. So stop bugging me, it’s annoying.”
Eun Chan: “So you just change whenever you want, since you do that so well. First acting one way, then the opposite.”

Han Gyul tells her, in a wearied tone, “I really… dislike you.” Eun Chan responds, as though in challenge: “Why? Because you love me?” He doesn’t object — just laughs a small, rueful laugh. At this point, both have traces of tears in their eyes — Eun Chan’s indignant, Han Gyul’s regretful.

Eun Chan: “Why are you laughing?”
Han Gyul: “Is this easy for you? Ah, I guess it is. It’s no big deal for you. This is just difficult for me.”

Han Gyul walks out and drives home, where he idles his day away in frustration.

Likewise, Eun Chan spends her day listlessly going about her daily work, her heart not really in anything. Mr. Hong wonders how long she’ll keep her gender hidden from Han Gyul, and she answers: “If I tell him the truth, everything’s over. He said he was glad that I was a guy.”

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Kim Yeon Woo’s “나는 사랑이 뭔지 모르나봐요” (“I must not know what love is”) plays as they go about their day. Han Gyul doesn’t respond to her messages asking him to come in to work.

Han Gyul ends up trashing his apartment, throwing things, beating his head into the wall.

Finally, Eun Chan arrives outside his place, pounding on his door. “Boss… Boss… Please don’t be like this. Okay? Boss…”

Getting no response, Eun Chan returns home, and writes (but can’t finish) a series of text messages: “I miss you…” “Where are you?” “Please call me.” “I love you…”

Thwarted at every turn, Eun Chan shouts in bitter frustration, “Hey, you jerk! Why won’t you call?!” as she cries.

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51

July 30, 2007 at 11:55 PM

Have to say THANK YOU SO MUCH Javabeans. Keep Up great work!!!!!
Coffee Prince: nothing to say more except EXCELENT JOB!!!
EUN HYE and GOONG YOO FIGHTING!!!!

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52 Ange

July 31, 2007 at 12:02 AM

Woah, talk about intense episode.

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53

July 31, 2007 at 12:10 AM

thank you for the summary!! I have one question, how come you never post any preview for the next epi?

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54 dee

July 31, 2007 at 12:10 AM

Thank you so much Javabeans! I actually never watch things raw but recently I've gotten into the habit of reading your summary while watching the raw. :) This was a great yet painful episode. I was pretty much a mess during the beach scene. :( I can't wait for episode 10! Oh, btw the song that was playing during Yi Ju and Eun Chan's meeting was Kings of Kings Of Convenience(I love them! So surprised to hear them here)'s "I don't know what I can save you from". I have uploaded it to MU so you can add it to the ost. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=041BWHXV

Thanks again for you hard work! :)

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55 kathkath

July 31, 2007 at 12:13 AM

thank you thank you thank you! more development indeed ... i am so wishing to be able to watch it... thanks for sharing as always .. you're the best!

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56 Belle

July 31, 2007 at 12:20 AM

Javabeans,
First off I just want to thank you for your synopsis of this drama, and the book. I don't understand Korean, but am addicted to Korean drama's, especially this one. I've been watching Korean drama's for almost a year now, and this so far is the best one I've watched. We've past the half way mark and I don't see it letting us down or pissing us off.

I liked the beach scene, but for me the most heart wrenching part was when he was telling her at the cafe not to come back. As you translated...

Han Gyul: “Is this easy for you? Ah, I guess it is. It’s no big deal for you. This is just difficult for me.”

OMG!!! You're gay...I'm not gay...but I love you...and I can't be with you...it hurts!!!

It's killing me!!!

Thanks for everything!!! :-)

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57 Javabeans

July 31, 2007 at 12:46 AM

holy moly you guys are fast with the replies! (I'm just relieved the site's managed to hold up without any noticeable errors. Yet. *knock on wood* If the site withstands tomorrow's onslaught, it'll be able to last, I'm sure.)

Bamidele, I love that Sun Ki line, but in addition to the sentiment itself, I also particularly enjoy how nonchalant and non-scandalous the issue is to him. Yes, he does know Eun Chan is female, but I get the sense his reaction would be pretty much the same if he didn't know.

I've been impressed with Gong Yoo's silent acting as well. The scene on the beach was really well-acted, I thought. Subtle but with impact.

secret admirer, yes to the awesome music. For me, it's still a toss-up with Soulmate, but I figure I won't give myself a headache trying to rhetorically argue which is "better," lol. Coffee Prince DOES have the upper hand in using some wonderful Korean music as well -- Soulmate relied heavily on European and Japanese artists, as well as other mainstream Western music. Coffee Prince uses some quality Korean musicians, which I appreciate.

dee, thanks for the song. I'll be updating the main list periodically so I'll include that.

Anon, I don't post previews for the next episode for a few reasons, but mainly because I'm staunchly anti-spoiler. Sometimes I don't even watch the previews. I try really hard to avoid spoilers, and if any of the comments mentioned something in the Ep 10 preview, I immediately skipped and tried not to read it. Seriously, if I didn't know Korean, I think a site like this one would be my biggest fear -- I'd probably avoid it altogether until I saw all the episodes. LOL. Ah, irony.

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58 Winnie27

July 31, 2007 at 1:09 AM

Thanks so much for your summaries - you seem to have a knack for describing things that make the actual waiting for the episode a little easier to bear and like Belle said I seem to be addicted to Korean dramas!!!!!

Just a general question to anyone who might be reading thins - I've registered on Soompi but haven't yet received my confirmation email - can anyone help. The site says that you get the email automatically

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59 applemg06

July 31, 2007 at 1:21 AM

Thank you Javabeans for ep. 9 summary! ^_^ **HUGS**

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60 ames4eva

July 31, 2007 at 2:10 AM

ahhhh, i can't wait to watch this episode with subs!!! thanks sooooooo much!

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61 beng

July 31, 2007 at 2:35 AM

Oh gosh, i cried. this is heavy man. I hope she will tell him already =(, but then it will be too hard to continue the story. i mean it might end abruptly. I wonder what's happening in the book. that's what i'm gonna rread next. thanks so much for this, javebeans. God BLess

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62 Vjah

July 31, 2007 at 2:39 AM

Reading from the summary, this is the best episode for me so far. I am still downloading this episode and I am very excited to watch this too. So sad for HG to face such conflicting emotions and EC get hurt from hiding hers. Such intense emotions radiating from the stills.
Simple but very clear and expressive delivery of the scene. I like this of Gong Yoo and see more and more of Eun Hye too.

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63 Vjah

July 31, 2007 at 2:42 AM

Thanks! :)

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64 beng

July 31, 2007 at 2:42 AM

Hahaha, i read through some of the comments and it seems i'm not the only one in pins and needles waiting for your transcription of Episode 9. i can't work waiting for it and kept looking at your site since 8am this morning (Phils. time). You're such a good storyteller. You even give interpretations on their feelings which you don't get by just reading the subs. Subs are so fast sometimes that you tend to lose those things, i mean really feel the emotions of the characters. thanks so much. god bless you (^-^)

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65

July 31, 2007 at 3:13 AM

thank you so much for the update, the beach scene was way too painful for me that i totally sympathise with han gyul. the facial & body expressions that gong yoo projected was really fantastic. what the heck, eun chan just should reveal her real gender to him and save them all the troubles. i'll be eagerly looking out for it tonight.

by the way there was 1 scene where the guys ha rim & sun ki danced around in the cafe with eun chan & min yub making sounds with the utensils, that scene gave a very happy mood =)

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66

July 31, 2007 at 3:37 AM

I'm crazy over Coffee Prince. Been coming to your blog everyday to read your summaries and all. Thanks heaps, dramabeans. Wonder how you get this out so fast!

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67 fadlah

July 31, 2007 at 3:59 AM

oh, so sad...

thanks for the recap

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68 djeedjes

July 31, 2007 at 4:55 AM

I just started watching this series last night, and now I am in the middle of epi 3. Can't wait to go home and continue watching!
But I've been religiously read the summary here, and somehow it made everything clearer and understandable while watching itself.

But, unfortunately, I had problems with your site lately. I often cannot see the post after I clicked the "more" link. My page were just loading, but then it can't showed anything but the header and the bottom ads..
Anyway, it's not big deal, I just keep refreshing it several times. I think I need to inform you about it.

Once again, thanks Javabeans! You're the best~

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69 jinkzzmec

July 31, 2007 at 5:06 AM

Thank goodness...i thought i was the only one who is going crazy about waiting for the next episode of coffee prince...i feel like kicking myself in the @$$ for watching the series before it was completed and now i'm on pins and needles tryng to wait for the next episode to be posted. You are heaven sent Javabeans for translating the episode...God knows that i have been watching the episodes without any english subtitles but since i came accross your blog...it makes all the difference in the world. Now i can at least understand what is going on with the episodes instead of just guessing...hahaha....ninth cup is really good...it was almost too painful for me to watch Gong Yoo in that beach scene...you can really feel the tension ...it is all written in his face...the longing of badly wanting to be with someone you love, yet you know it is not possible...my heart goes out to him...sigh...sigh...i had the sinking feeling in my stomach after watching that episode...hope tenth cup would be more uplifting...I was trying to try to understand the dialogue in the preview for episode 10 and i can pick up a word here and there....i am not sure if it was Ha Rim's voice but it seems like he was asking if Eun Chan is a girl...i may have misunderstood....i have played the preview more than 10 times already trying to understand it...is it possible that eun chan's gender be revealed in epi 10? that is just my guess...i am hoping that will be the case....the wait is sheer torture...aigoo

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70

July 31, 2007 at 5:10 AM

anybody realizes that he might go to states when he finds out about eun chan ..or even because he feels he's gay ..and suddenly his grandma sends him to states????

overall, i like this drama more than anything else/// i even wake up every monday and tuesday morning , wondering the next episode will be!!!

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71 Acey

July 31, 2007 at 5:14 AM

Sigh... what I really like is how despite Han Gyul's (all-too-evident) imperfections, all you really really want is for him simply to be loved :(

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72 yakatoo

July 31, 2007 at 5:20 AM

speechless. am stunned, am seriously in love with this. unbelievable. thanks javabeans. :)

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73 Iranian Espresso

July 31, 2007 at 5:21 AM

Anonymous,
Dear,
Are you watch CP online?
If it's ok, is Ep9 on YouTube?
Thank you very much.

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74 Samantha

July 31, 2007 at 7:06 AM

OMG, i just read this episode and it was great even though there were some confusing parts... but the cute moments like when they first held hands was so adorable... but i do feel sorry for eun shan though. Thanks for the summary i can't wait to watch it

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75 rtj1203

July 31, 2007 at 7:10 AM

i have been surfing in and out of your site every 30 minutes from 8 am til 6 pm today hoping you for an update on coffee prince (for both the novel and the tv drama)... and boy am i glad that i persevered... he he he ... keep it up... as all of us keep on telling you.... you're quite great at it!

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76 wizie

July 31, 2007 at 7:52 AM

i think han gyul is going to give in towards the end. I saw a preview part 2. Its more interesting=) For those interested use your resourcefulness. Sorry i know javabeans you don't want spoilers. But still no one can surpass your literally skills. Your insights and interpretation made me understand more what's going on=) thanks again.

being at the other side of the world sucks. i have to wait i guess til morning there to see what happened in ep 10=(.

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77 wizie

July 31, 2007 at 8:34 AM

Oh-oh, we're getting closer to the part where she reveals her true gender....ah, how exciting!

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78 Fluffy

July 31, 2007 at 8:35 AM

OMG. It's been awhile since I've been so addicted to a drama! I keep on trying to stop and wait till its all out so I'll bypast this agonizing wait for the next episode... but alas, I have yet to succeed... And thank you Dramabean for fueling my addiction!

I so feel for Han Gyul- I think ever since the hug and his sigh, hand on heart scene in ep.7- the poor guy is in pain. But, there's two things that bugs me though:
One is Han Song- HE kissed HER, so shouldn't he be the one to sort it out... sort of cowardly, don't you think? Avoiding her calls... be a man and sort it out, even if its just to say 'sorry about the other night' and 'sorry, I can't see you at the moment.. there's something I need to sort out... ' etc. Honestly...
Then it bothers me why Eun Chan doesn't tell Han Gyul her gender when its obvious of the pain he's in. From what has been shown so far... there's no bigger reason to hide her gender, is there? Anyway, I guess if she just came out and said it, that would be a pretty short series...

Just love it. I'm anticipating and dreading the day when it's all over!! No more constantly wondering whats gonna happen next.... whats gonna happen next... Isn't it Monday yet?? Gotta get home to watch... I wonder if the summary is up?? etc etc. maybe I can get back to my life when it is over!!

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79 Karina

July 31, 2007 at 8:40 AM

NNNNooooooooo!!!!....
I thought she was going to tell him already...
Oh well Episode 11 is tomorrow!!! Can't wait.
Its kinda unfair to HanGyul also to make him think that he is gay.
Atleast for Eun Chan she knows that she likes a guy. There's no inner conflict.

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80 kelso311

July 31, 2007 at 8:49 AM

thanks! you're a gifted writer - imaginative and artistic yet so precise. I can actually picture the situations merely from your descriptions. I appreciate your taking time out to do this for us.

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81 ZigzagCatcher

July 31, 2007 at 8:58 AM

Wow...I at a loss for words. So didn't see this coming. Was a bit of a shocker. Thanks for your blog! It helped a lot in understanding.

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82 weeeeeeee

July 31, 2007 at 10:30 AM

u guys need to understand how embbarssing it would be for the both of them if she reveals her gender!! HG has said and done many things infront of her that shouldn't be said or done infront of a gurl..also he has a lot of pride so u can imagin how awkward it would be later... he might even start to detest her for not telling him the truth! plus she as a character doesn't knw of his pain and torment because she can't see it since he keeps it hidden from her..like when he stopped talking to her after the beach scene! how could she knw wat happened when she was sleeping..or like in the hugging scene he said it was nothing so how would she knw how much he was affected afterwards! i thing the revelation should happen later or else this drama will be no diff than other dramas

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83 Daifeng

July 31, 2007 at 11:08 AM

How bitter sweet. A good friend and a great lover both loss over something so stupid. True feeling should never lies under the skin. Expressing them is the best way to cope and to accept either the win or the lost. I hope all of you out there can truely epress "who you are" and not "what you are" Han Kyul and Eun Chan forever. Fighting Keep on doing your best

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84 Auntiemame

July 31, 2007 at 12:47 PM

Not to minimize Gong Yoo's acting, which is great. But the directing in this episode is fantastic, especially the beach scene with them on the blanket. I agree with Weeeeee's reasoning that revealing her gender, which she ultimately has to do, will be devastating to his pride. And, if he finds out that everyone else knew and he was the only left in the dark, he's going to think that everyone made a fool of him. I also agree that he's revealed a lot of himself to her because he thought he was bonding with a guy. And, he may not have been so unreserved if he had known that she was a girl. Oh, oppa/hyung, she's really dug herself in a hole now!

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85 JH

July 31, 2007 at 1:06 PM

I really love the direction that this drama is taking. I started watching Coffee Prince because I thought it would just be one of those fun and frivolous dramas, but it's turned out to have so much more meaning than I had aniticipated. I love the little personal moments, like Han Gyul at the beach and Eun Chan with her text messaging. So sweet yet so so sad at the same time. The beach scene was so effective because, as the viewer, we know what's really going on, but Han Gyul is in such a struggle with himself, and it's really hard to see that. And honestly, it's a little discomfitting to watch because Han Gyul does think that Eun Chan's a guy. As a viewer, I even feel how Han Gyul might've been feeling. Great drama...so much more than I expected!
And thanks for your summaries, just in case I missed something!

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86 Turtlegirl21

July 31, 2007 at 1:49 PM

After the previews for 10 and 11 I am dying. I watched 10 and OMG, but without your summary I am a little bit out. If that makes sence. Thanks as always!

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87 eej

July 31, 2007 at 1:56 PM

Honestly now... if you have a normal functioning brain, how can you not tell the difference? They were very close. They ate, slept, played and worked together and he was NOT able to tell or see the difference? Oh, this is a TV show... sorry about that. Anyway, thanks for letting me rant.

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88 tooizzy

July 31, 2007 at 2:22 PM

This series has my sister and I, waiting until 2am on the east coast for the raw. Thank you sooo much for your recaps. We read them first then watch the episode. We are both addicted. This series has us on emotional highs and lows. Some times it's just too much we have to pause and then calm ourselves and press play. Beautiful story, Great recaps what else can I say. THANKS A BUNCH!! :-)

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89 Philippa

July 31, 2007 at 2:29 PM

OMG why don't she just tell him, but of course that would like totally ruin their relationship. IT just sucks that they're not talking. I want to watch the video so much!!! With subtitles of course. I'm going to be away for a month and I don't know how I'm going to live without your summaries dramabeans! lol. I really LOVE this drama! At first, I thought it was going to be borring from episode 6 like Air City, lol. I just watched the last episode yesterday and it was okay.
I wish that in the end of it's drama, it's going to be a couple years later and she's going to be back from another country (I don't know why would she go to leave the country but whatever..) and she would come back as like a girly girl with long hair and stuff! That would be awesome!!!!! lol.
Thanks a lot for writing the summary! I'm going to the internet cafe's to read your summaries! lol.

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90 babyelephant

July 31, 2007 at 3:46 PM

i love this drama...thanks javabeans..anyway, i'm gonna make a prediction. Let say, EC will ask HK will he love her if she was a girl...then HK will say something like,no he doesnt bcoz he prefer sweet girl like yu ju...then deep in his heart he will say something like 'if you were a girl..i'm going to love you like crazy'..or something like that..haha then EC get dissappointed..and leave. Somehow, HK realise she was a girl..then regreted everything he has said to her earlier on...anyway, this is just my imagination...to fill the desperation of wanting to know what will happen in the next 6 episodes....why can't they air this drama like everyday, instead of twice a week...*sigh*.....

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91 apple

July 31, 2007 at 3:55 PM

thank you, can't wait till E10's blog entry ^^
it was soo good.. watching it, and then reading your entries makes it better.

thank you.

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92 len

July 31, 2007 at 4:29 PM

hi! it seems i am not the only one who is starting to do some guessing regarding the relationship of the 2 main characters. excitement is really building up. it might be too soon to discover that she is a GIRL because there are still 6 more episodes. Right?
maybe Han Gyul will just tell her that he doesn't care if people will discover their relationship. he is too overwhelmed with his emotion. but because of the effect of being gay to his family, he will again get upset with himself and Eun Chan. maybe he will go to america so he'll forget his feeling to Eun Chan. While he's in america (New York?) both of them will be miserable. during that time, other characters will discover her gender and will accept her especially Han Gyul's family. because of being miserable and missing Eun Chan, Han Gyul will go home and will fell in love to this "lady" not knowing it is Eun Chan. A twist to the story....
anyway, can not wait to go home and watch Episode 10 and Javabeans' summary.

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93 asian-buzz.com

July 31, 2007 at 5:36 PM

Thank you so much! Man... this episode is so touching. It looks like they will be talking to each other again in episode 10. So people, don't get too depressed!! :)

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94 tooizzy

July 31, 2007 at 5:44 PM

OH man oh man. Can't wait for 10 recap. Sleep people it'll be there later on. I'm taking nap...hahaha

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95 Julie Anne

July 31, 2007 at 7:52 PM

OMG that was so good!! you rock, i mean seriously!! i can't stop it! i want to read this so bad again and again :) thanks really for translating all the stuff because i can't understand a bit of korean except for araso, kumao, saranghaeyo and some basic stuffs & i think you got it :P well i'm really thankful that you're translating all the stuff...i mean like if we have to wait for every video to have an english subs i wouldn't be able to wait because it's taking them a while because i know it's hard to but the eng subs on the video!!

***Again thank you so much & god bless you!! AJA AJA Fighting!!! Gong Yoo & Yoon Eun Hye rocks on this one & i hope that sooner, in this series, Yoon Eun Hye tells Gong Yoo that she's really a girl so that Gong Yoo wouldn't be so confuse about being like a gay & you know...haha well thanks a lot :D ***

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i would love to share some other great korean dramas! fighting!

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96 Jane

July 31, 2007 at 8:29 PM

I feel like we've reached an important point where if she doesn't just tell him that she's a woman I'm going to start cursing at my monitor... ok up to this point she had the "I'd rather be a good friend than have him reject me as a girl" excuse, but now that's shot to hell right? So now if she doesn't tell him it's just going to drag on like so many Korean dramas where they have to make stupid plot choices just to avoid writing themselves into a hole where one character has to tell another character whatever secret they've been keeping for the whole series. Well anyway I really am enjoying this show so far, and hopefully it will continue in not disappointing me. Thank you so much for summarizing this and so many other dramas, you're really the best!

Can't wait for episode 10...

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97 sky

July 31, 2007 at 10:07 PM

Thank you Javabeans for summarizing Coffee Prince. Love the song "Across the Ocean" SO MUCH. I've only been watching up to ep7 but had read your summary up to 9. This drama is quit moving, touches something unique-love for another human being in a deeper level than pure physical, across gender. Issue that had crossed my mind here and there when trying to uderstand the homosexuality world and trying to learn something when faces with high heterosexuality divorce rate in America ( not that this drama is anthing homosexual). Special drama, cute, and fun so far with meaningful issue. Thanks Javabeans for all your hard work.