This is such a shame! I just watched Eps 9 and 10 last night and they were both outstanding. One scene in particular between Beo-jin and her father had me running for the tissues. It's getting so good now; we're really just getting into the meat of the story, so the thought of it being chopped up like this is truly distressing. I will definitely be willing to invest in the complete DVD version, although I plan to keep watching as it airs because I have to know who Beo-jin ends up with! I can't remember the last time I was so torn between two leading men.

A damn crying shame!!!
The last two episodes were the best yet. Damn you, MBC!
I hope the uncut DVD's will be licensed in the U.S. as well.
This is going to keep me bitter for a very long time. Argh!

That is a shame....

Can anybody take a guess at when the full version will come out and be available please?

aww that's too bad :(

SSP is doing really really well! i'm tempted to check it out now. what other dramas have been similar to SSP?

How can anyone know why a show does well, why a show does poorly?

Nobody watched Studio 60 On the Sunset Strip, but 30 Rock flourished. Pushing Daisies was the most-buzzed show on television when it premiered, got nominated for best new series, best actor, best actress for the Golden Globes, and it got a total of 22 episodes before being cancelled, and instead, we have things like Cougar Town...

Since I can't predict or think I have a clue with respect to American television viewing preferences, I cannot say a single thing about what Korean people might want to watch...

is this going to air in the US, too, by any chance? i think i saw a commercial for it on MBCD once. so i figured it would... because i saw a commercial for Triple on MBCD, and that's been running for the last few weeks...

As a fan of this show I'm really torn. I've seen all ten currently aired episodes, and I'm totally caught up in the full momentum of the show. I don't know if I'll be able to cut myself off from it and avoid watching the remaining episodes. At the same time, I like it too much to feel okay about seeing a mutilated version of it. Yet I don't know when or how or if I'll be able to see the completed version... It's just a really really sucky situation for fans.

I know this show is flawed and silly and a little cheese-tastic at times, but it still feels really fresh and different and appealing. I think it has something special that makes it stand out from other dramas I've seen, and l'm not even talking about the fact that it has a French guy in one of the lead roles. I can't remember the last time I saw a k-drama love triangle in which both the guys were as compelling, in their own ways, as these two. Im Ju-Hwan has been wonderful; both funny and emotive in ways that never seem stale or overdone. The music is gorgeous, the scenery is gorgeours...

I'm so depressed right now!

In episode 11 preview - suddenly Beo Jin is in love with Ghyundari - Park Kyu

and meet his mum !! and showing sign of pregnancy ???. can't belive it !!!

crappy crappy crappy MBC, do you think Koreans think that way ? and overseas

viewers laughing at your script. What is mbc ceo doing , thinking of yen only ???

!SPOILERS! don't read if you haven't watched episode 10 yet:

sakura, i think you may have misunderstood the preview - beo jin isn't pregnant but the scene just shows how his mother misinterpreted her vomiting as a sign of morning sickness. but, i do think she has feelings for park gyu and doesn't know it yet. anyways, just wanted to clarify that. really loving the show - shame that we can't watch the whole series until it's seen in the other countries. anyone know how to obtain the "extended" series once it comes out?

I'm so torn as well. It seems wrong and cruel to stop watching altogether, but I feel like my first experience should be the original one. I will just have to hope the original episodes are made available to us after they air in Asia.

I'm so depressed about this development. :( Do we know when the episodes will air in Japan? I'm hoping someone on Soompi will be kind enough to find/share them, and that the subber will be kind enough to sub them.

Either way, I'm fairly certain I'm going to be buying the DVD. I haven't been this in love with a show for a long time.. It has definitely outgrown its awkward first episodes and grown into something wonderful. I can't wait until next weekend, when the Hanyang storyline begins..

@Beatrice

I knowww....i share the same feeling!! If the remain episodes turn out to be too choppy, i will be sooo very devastated!! It`s such a beautiful story, such a shame if it gets butcher like this...but i can`t stop myself from watching it, no matter it will be. :( :(

True true... the two leading men are so good in their own way, if i was Beo Jin, i would be very confused. But Park Kyu`s still my favourite of all though lol
Arrghhh....it is sooo.. saaaaaadddddddd!!!!!!

I will be continuing to watch Tamra but when it gets broadcasted over in Japan or wherever completely, I will rewatch to see the complete unedited version. :D

If it becomes availiable online!

i am really disliking MBC right now to the point i really want to stop watching their dramas...uhhhg mbc really sucks (sorry i just had to say that, lol)

i can understand that it might not be doing so well in the rating compared to other dramas out right now but it is soooo much better then most of them and there is a loyal group of viewers that really deserve to watch the full drama

Is there a way i can block the pictures of this drama from my browser? I do so dislike looking at the white guy...

And why was my previous erased i wonder?

This is so sad.. I'm going to watch the rest of the choppy episodes but will definitely be waiting for the DVD version with complete episodes.

William looks like a vampire in the picture.........it would've been interesting if he was actually a vampire in the drama.

I watched the first two episodes and didn't really care for it. I was going to give it a try again but since they are cutting the episodes down, I'll have to wait and hope the full version comes out with subs.

I was getting into it but now I don't want no crappy ending so I'm going to wait.

By any chance, does anyone think that someone will sub the whole series and put it online once it airs in Japan and others? i'm not allowed to buy things online and thats the only way I can get any subbed shows.

dammit MBC!!! ughhh does anyone know if they will air the unedited version in the US too? hey maybe dramafever will upload the full version of Tamna...or do they only do KBS and SBS dramas only?

I've heard this news already but still, I think they are being stupid. You don't show the full series in your home country, because of poor ratings. But you export them for extra bucks. T.T Nevertheless, it's great news for Tamra lovers aka me! Wow! This is definitely on my purchase list this year. Whee!

Does anyone know Tamna's airing scedule in Japan ?
Do they air same day and time like korea, or maybe one day later..?

I hope, too that the japanese showing will be uploaded and subbed.
I cant wait till full DVD release...have no patience for this.

I´m currently watching the part that is available with subs,but no matter what ,if i have to watch it again of course I´m gonna do it!
because the drama is absolutely good!

I'm willing to bet someone will find it and put the links up at soompi once it's aired in Japan. I'd do it myself if I had any idea at all where to find those links : )

At least MBC recognizes the international fan base for Tamna so they're not so bad in my books.

It's too bad the koreans can't appreciate something different from the usual run of the mill dramas.

I will definitely be watching both versions!!

despite holding out I'm not at all surprised. it's kind of like what happened with joss whedon's excellent 'firefly' which only after 11 episodes garnered a huge cult following (and although i love serenity- boy would it have been great to get to the 2 hour ending after say 5 seasons of quality character development as a drama instead).

right then, i'm going to wait, knife and fork in hand, for the DVD release O_O. watched ep 9 yesterday and am so impressed at the story, characters, searing imagery etc etc and just damn confused as to why the ratings reflect a really minor interest despite the massive fan protest.

a huge loss for a drama that is revealing itself to be something so much more than the average joe tv viewing.

ps. LUV park-gyu :) beojin should shaddap about *illiam already O_o

I was going to start watching this drama but now I'll just wait until it's aired in Japan, and hope that some kind soul subs the last 4 episodes. I really hate it when they are doing this - just like with Strike Love.

Samsooki - high ratings are sometimes such a curiosity - like BOF's second half, totally unworthy of 30+ % :-(

have you guys ever thought that, i don't know... that maybe there are people out there that think this show sucks?

@32, obviously there are people who don't like the show and don't watch it. I don't see why those people feel the need to comment on the people who DO still like the show, so if you hate it so much just move along. It's not like the fans are dumb and think the show is wildly popular. They know ratings are low and they're not asking for special treatment or extensions ,they just want MBC to give them the drama they promised at the beginning. No matter how good or bad a drama is, it's pretty sucky to change the later parts drastically when we are more than halfway through the show.

At Tamra restaurant they serve Caesar salads, cole slaw and potato wedges as side dishes to their main Korean dish (which turns out to be incredibly delicious.) I think many Koreans gave up and walked out of the restaurant at the sight of the Caesar salads after demanding "where is my seaweed salad?"

ugh! how can they not like tamra?! ....scoff... they have to be racist not to like this! argh!! ramble ramble

again with the excuses. it's pretty stupid to think that people don't tune into tamra because of william (the first episode was horrendous). as i've said before, the show is genuinely blah and the ratings prove it (also seen from the dip).

@32 Don't take it personally.

@35, I'm not taking anything personally, i just think it's pretty stupid (to use your words) to state your opinion as fact, especially when you're complaining of other people doing the same thing that you're doing. You don't have to love the drama but it's just as much an *opinion* for you to say Tamra sucks as it is for someone else to say it's great.

People at least have to watch about 3 or 4 eps to get into it. Reason why people who saw only one ep say it's blah and horrendous. Oh well...

of course what i said isn't a fact. i was merely a passerby suggesting that maybe, just maybe, that this show wasn't very entertaining to others dispelling typical excuses like "it's too sophisticated for the masses." sorry, but elitists of any kind just bug me.

anyways i apologize if i came off a little too aggressive.

I don't think I got into Tamra until the 3rd episode. There was some unnecessary silliness at the beginning. Now @ Ep 9, I couldn't imagine the story not developing or panning out according to the original script. I fear that if I watch the mutilated version and then come across the full version, I'll be disappointed in myself for not waiting but I'm so addicted.

In my dreams, I think of Park Kyu having love anguish for me. "How can you think of William when I'm leaving?" *sigh

When I went to Korea, I heard that MBC is pretty much disliked in Korea. I don't know, my aunt was watching TV and she flipped to MBC news (I think it was news) and my uncle (her younger brother) told her to change it. And then my aunt commented on how she didn't get why everyone hates MBC so much.

MAYBE THIS IS WHY?!

This is sounding like Pushing Up Daisies, except with that show ABC screwed with the show's showing time and ratings fumbled due to that (honestly, if the time keeps changing, how can they keep consistent ratings?). I loved that show, but it always slipped my mind to watch it or when I did get to the time it was supposed to be on it's a different show >:I

Hey everyone! You can read episode 3 recap at http://kdramafanatic.blogspot.com

@37,
Yea I agree with you. My sister didn't like it when she only watched ep 9 but she fell in love with it after watching the first 4 eps.

This is so not fair that MBC is not going to air the full version of the drama!!!

I dun get why quite alot of dun like William =.=" Is it because he's a foreigner lols? I think he's really sweet <3 If I'm Beo Jin I'll definitely choose him but it's so sad that beo jin didn't end up with him :o
ps: and I can picture beo jin wearing western style clother with curly long hair! she would be pretty <3 <3 <3 xxx

In full version,park kyu and beo jin can be a couple!

Hey there! watching Tamra the island from Singapore, Ecity channel. is it true that its broadcasting the 21 ep version, or 16?(: