It's a welcome relief to learn that this version will try to be different than the previous two versions. And so far so good. Whew!

Looks like there's nothing in the news but BBF now adays. Every website I look at, there's an article about BBF. It's not even half way done, I'll have to endure this for another 2 months, I guess.

Thank you! I'm really looking forward to see Jun-pyo’s fiancée. In a way, I thought she sort of fits the role of Jandi, but I still love Go Hye Sun nevertheless.

i think GHS needs to lose her bangs. She looks better without it. I hope they give her a completely different look when she moves on to college. I saw some ads of her on youtube and she is really pretty. Longer hair looks better on her.
It must be those lenses that are making her eyes look so beady. And the heavy anjuma bangs makes her eyes even more protuberant. Also something's not right about her foundation. It's a little too pale.
LSY is a beauty!

Thanks for the condensed update - it's the perfect balance. By the way, I'm really enjoying your episode recaps too.

I hope they kill the amnesia story...

Do you change your banner everyday?
Cus I've seen a lot of different ones lately..

Anyway, Jeez, you're going on a BBF mania...this show is getting REALLY popular huh....lol, I don't even watch the series, just read your recaps.
Great recaps btw :D

Thanks Javabeans and without me going further than naver do i see nothing but articles on the show.

Does anyone know how long LMJ is supposed to guest star or can it be assumed she will be in for the rest of the series and when Jung Hee Chulr is supposed to come on as well?

On the spoiler tid bit (so not a spoiler woman!) I'm glad that they get to graduate or what not isn't Jandi younger then Jun pyo? How will they do the 'send of lead male to another country so he can become better man' plot? Will they even do that? I like that they are taking a different route, but I'm also hoping they don't twist the drama into something else because then it wouldn't be BBF. lol

lee min ho's oh so serious expression in his younger pic makes me giggle ^^,)
kim bum's naive look makes me want to hide him somewhere and shield him from the evilness of this world. muwahahaha!

soysause, javabeans must have a script that rotates all her banners ^^

goo hye sun's makeup doesn't bother me much but i have to agree with the circle lenses. i hope she'll lose 'em when they're "older" in the second half of the drama.

thanks for all the news and recaps :)

Not am I just getting kinda hooked on the series, it's unavoidable too :) Thanks for clustering it all together so I don't waste even more time - proportions to work getting done and BOF addiction is becoming unbalanced.. not good at all!!

SHINee's song is actually "Stand by me," not "Step by Step" :D (Although they did perform a rendition of that song some time ago...)

Oh my goodness! I didn't that Gu Hye Sun was an uljjang.. I checked out that post and was so surprised to see how cute and attractive she looks in her photo! I didn't like how she was styled in the drama, and don't think that the haircut is the most flattering for her. I know that her character is supposed to be the "everygirl" character, but the foundation seems to age her.. Why not use something that will illuminate her skin, which will give her a young, fresh image? >_< She doesn't even look old except for the makeup. A softer shade of lipstick or gloss will do wonders for her "youthful" appearance.

Thanks for condensing all the BFF news tidbits! ^^ I also read elsewhere that the actress for Ga-Eul hinted at a possible happy ending between her character and Kim Bum's :o As the drama will be going in its own direction soon, I am hoping that this will come true!

Wow.. Love the tidbit you did about the mode of transportation for F4. I was wondering how much those nice cars cost. I mean they are only high school students and they drive ridiculously good looking cars!!

I know Jun Pyo also drives the chauffeur car sometimes when he borrows it a couple times to go and follow Jandi.. (right?) Of course he drives the car when he's not in the backseat.

I'm also curious about the white car that Ji hoo drove in Ep7. The one where he got all emotional and angry at it for not starting up and hearing childhood cries. Also the Jun Pyo's older sister drove a really nice car too.

You've given us LOADs of interesting information that I'm sure no one's gotten an access to. Thanks again.

PS. I also read some news that Kim Bum just moved into the same neighborhood as Kim Hyun Joong. They live only 5 minutes away from each other and now are really close friends due to the fact that they live close.

WOW HYD mania just struck!!! HAHAHA every site/blog i went on today have this same post on it!! LOL but it's all good with me the more HYD news the better!

The amnesia story killed it for both previous versions for me. Not as much the Taiwan though. I hope they don't use it.

I am glad Gu Hye-sun is ok....I hope everyone can get through the series safely and accident free....*fight* ^.^

LMH already looked a bit fierce even in his highschool photo, hehe... very Junpyo.

and the lookalike... am I the only one who doesn't see the resemblance? That dude doesn't really have LMH's sharp features (i.e. defined jawline)... the perm and clothes he's sporting looks similar though...

Just saw this and found it to be really cute: NG scenes from the BBF drama
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wpvZBLiPZY

I found it weird that I was able to read the headline of the newspaper Gu Jun-pyo was reading. "Obama Democrats, __________ $300 billion in tax cuts". The NG also does help Ji-hoo look any better. He is as awkward as ever.

there's an amnesia part to the story?
lol sorry, i haven't watched the other versions of BBF and i haven't read the manga...
??

@ Ester
Yes, it's a very involved story because the manga series ran continuously from October 1992 to September 2003 in 37 volumes. The main characters go through a lot.

Javabean, please no offense. I have to agree BBF must be very appealing especially to the teens because guess what, even though I don't watch it, but with the public attention it 's getting, I showed it to my teenaged niece last night. Right off the 1st episode, she got hooked. However, too many articles about it is really overkill.

Funny how ppl always say "no offense but" and then say something negative.

If you don't want to read it, how about you don't read it then? Let the rest of us be happy to read more news.

I heard it's just the F4 that goes to college. Jandi becomes a senior in HS.

Thanks Javabeans for these tidbits.
Yes I'm addicted to BOF so I don't mind the constant influx of BOFness.

Though I smiled and got confused at this quote, "We’ll be telling completely different stories [in the second part], similarly to how the Taiwanese and Japanese series did it.”..... so..... are they saying it's similar or different?

That line totally made my brain go an 180.

Acalle, If you can read Korean you may already deaded.
tooooooooooo many articles on Boys Over Flowers on Korean News Site (about 1-2 news per news agency every 1 hours ha!)

As long as they don't do the "Forget about the Past" and "Forget about the main Female Lead" from Ep 13 to 24, I will be cool with it. That's what they did on Taiwanese Season 2 and I hated it because it destroyed all the love story they have told in advance.

wow thanks for news javabeans

All those accidents with the cast is kinda scary.. so far three main characters and Minho's manager. I didnt even though theres so much press coverage about BOF. Entertainment news are popular I guess. Aww.. the cast looks the same.. for KHJ.. i dunno sometimes he looks like he doesnt have eyelids and sometimes he does in BOF, so i dunno about surgery.

In the second part, the story shifts as it's centered during college, where as the first part was in high-school.

So I guess thats what will be different, the time setting. Yet I dont see them changing the story other than the setting.

I'm not sure if I get it all 100% myself, but I think thats what was trying to be said....?

If I can make a request, more Lee Min Ki news would be appreciated. =-) Not that I am down with BoF, or anything-- they are fun to talk about.

This is SUCH GOOD NEWS

Cuz they have been following the plot pretty close to the manga so far....but eeventhough we all love the original story...we also want some variety and maybe different plots with the same characters that we LOVE....

so the dividing up the episodes is good news...granted, of course, that they stay true to the characters and not end up making a completely diff series

oh i got wrong news, so the one who got accident not Min Hoo but his manager??!!

I hope Kim Bum wont get any accident too

I don't think Kim Hyun Joong has had his eyelids done.

kim hyun joong didnt get double eyelid surgery...
he had his lids since junior high (they appear in his junior high pics)
its just that his are very thin and come and go depending on how tired he is

wow... thats going to be different, but i'm going to love it. i hope they dont make it too overly dramatic thou. i love the little quirks of humor and that means in 3 weeks they'll be college students?! wow... cant wait. i really love the jun pyo and jan di paring. i wonder how the fiance and jan di will get along...! ah..! can't wait.

OOO: HEAD INJURY?! awww, i really hope she's okay ]:

and i agree with you dramabeans, the soundtrack is nice and there are a lot of different ones, but somehow, the way they're used is not very well used.

as for the show(boys over flowers), the more outstanding parts are getting better and better each week, but the so-so and squeamishly bad parts are still the same. Only if they can raise those parts up to the same level, the series would be perfect.

Ohhhh, the defensive fans have arrived! *grabs popcorn*

(the eyes look obviously different to me)

I'm one of the few not looking forward to what's going to happen next anymore now than we finally see Jan Di coming around. And then partly with all the coverage and obsession over the eye-candy actors. Overall, I think this is a refreshing drama with a young and jubilant cast among mediocre kdramas coming from 2008, but now it's become a moot point. At first I was really drawn in by the pretty setting and seeing the luxurious things they own, but have to say that interest is not holding up past episode 8 and it's become kind of 'Goong-like' in terms of plot substance and character development. It was a nice ride while it lasted, and great fun to read the funny recaps here and reading other people's responses.

@Lol

I'd hardly call myself a fan but the eyes just look the same to me. No big deal.

http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/vv131/andie39martinez/Kim%20HyunJoong/f0070177_497dc9076be46.jpg

I read somewhere that Kim Hyun Joong had a procedure done to diminish his dark circles/eyebags, but not for double eyelids. That's why i think his eyes look slightly different. Coz seriously, if thats what he got for a double eyelid procedure, he should sue the doctor. That's like "barely there" double eyelids. (Not that it's a problem coz the guy is still so pretty regardless.)

And about the second part of BBF with the college setting and all, didn't the japanese did something similar? in terms of F4 graduated high school too and Makino became a senior, that is. I dont recall Hana Yori Dango doing anything much with the college setting, but it could be because I stopped halfway through HYD2.

I read on korean sites that KHJ had his eyes and nose done. there are pictures of him before his ss501 debut (younger than the picture on this page) where his nose is a lot broader and less refined at the tip, it looks more like a typical korean nose. his eyelids used to be different slightly. it looks like he always had the tuck but the fold is deeper now. but whatever its ok since he was always good looking!

Thank's for the awesome tidbits..
However, I still don't understand what's the big deal with having a double eye lid. Lucky to have a eye lid even a single one is much better than none?! :>
anyway, from my young age, I only had 1 double eye lid till I reached 12 and got very sick. and then the other eye lid got a double one. and till now If I over sleep I will have a puffy eyes with one eye bigger than the other one. My dad used to have one only and then when he grew older he got both of them. So I really don't get it when people like me or HJ sometimes show a double and sometimes single( or pasrt picture ) then people will jump into the plastic thingy...

I say, the best way to know someone having a lid stiching is when they close their eyes.