A great portrayal of the sexy, fiery and temperamental Prosecutor Cha Woohyuk
Bravo, Babel!
If I have ever watched an almost flawless Korean drama, it must have been a long while back! So long that I cannot figure which drama qualified! So it must have been none! Kekeke! 😂
Now, Park Sihoo-ssi’s TV Chosun late weekend night drama “Babel 바벨” which ended its run last night is probably the only one I would consider almost flawless. So well-made as the broadcasting station and PD Yoon Sungsik-nim had promised. Bravo!
I, and I am sure many viewers and our sisters here, have enjoyed every aspect of this amazingly magnificent production!
Intriguing plot of intense relationships
PD Yoon Sungsik-nim, the script writers Kwon Sunwon and Park Sangwook and the production team’s dedication and meticulous attention to details have ensured a cohesive main storyline and all its threads woven well together. Nothing is wasted, everything has a purpose (mainly). The production is top class cinematic quality, rarely seen in Korean drama. From filming sets, outdoor locations, lighting, costumes, actions, the full works!
And compliments to the writers for their amazing penmanship and sheer imagination! They have in their minds a solid framework which they have built in so many mind bogglingg twists and turns, with events in no chronological order, and yet, they were able to pull these together so seamlessly! So clear in their minds the whole sequence! Bravo!
A man out for revenge but gave it up for love! What a melodrama!
And of course, the frontline actors and actresses! Their performances were brilliant! They really brought each of their distinctive characters to life! Superb delivery that comes from well honed experience and their quest to perfection!
I am truly in love! Definitely with our Park Sihoo-ssi’s Cha Woohyuk. He delivered so well as promised a sexy, fiery, temperamental man! And I want to add, one that is so full of emotions and love! But other than Cha Woohyuk, I am taken by the scintillating performances of Kim Haesook-nim and Song Jaehee-ssi! Their characters engaged me so much, I enjoyed their on-screen roles and interactions!
Yes, congratulations to TV Chosun on their choice and achievement. For a one-drama-a-year broadcaster, they have outdone themselves!
Bravo, Babel!
PS: You may ask, so what are the flaws? The ones I can think of are some smaller details at the end when loose ends were not tied properly and that the drama is too short! 16 episodes are just not enough! We want more!
Bravo to the cast and crew of Team Babel!
Youtube Video – Babel Teaser 4 – Mystery Masterpiece, 7 January 2018
https://youtu.be/dLOWcFu9GPw
鼓掌！ 通天塔（哑铃）！
鼓掌！ 通天塔（哑铃）Babel 바벨！
如果我曾经看过一部几乎完美无缺的韩剧，那肯定已经有一段时间了！这么长时间到我无法确定是哪部电视剧符合了！所以一定是没有啦！ 哈哈哈！😂
昨晚施厚君的朝鲜电视TV Chosun 的深夜周末电视剧“通天塔（哑铃）Babel 바벨”是大结局。这部剧是我认为几乎完美无瑕的唯一一部。电视台和PD尹成植老师承诺会是一部制作质量高的好作品。他们的缺实现了承诺！
我，也相信很多观众和姐妹们都喜欢这部令人惊叹的壮丽制作的各个方面！
Experienced, veteran actress who made her Mrs Tae the devil incarnate
PD尹成植老师，编辑Kwon Sunwon和Park Sangwook以及制作团队对细节和细致的关注确保了一个有凝聚力的主要故事情节和所有线程编织在一起。没有什么被浪费了，一切都有目的的。制作是一流的电影质量，在韩国电视剧很少见。从摄影棚，户外场景，灯光，服饰，动作，作品的每一个部份！还要赞扬编辑们惊人的书法和纯粹的想象力！在他们的脑海中有一个坚实的框架，尽管建立了许多的思维波动曲折，事件没有时间顺序，然而，他们能够无缝地将这些结合在一起！在他们的脑海中清楚地说明整个序列！太棒了！
Most enjoyable half of the nam-nam couple and a great transformation from weak to strong!
当然，前线演员们的表现也非常到位！他们真正带出每一个与众不同的人物！卓越的表演源于精心打造，长期累积的经验和追求完美！我真心的非常喜欢！绝对喜欢施厚君饰演的车宇赫。他承诺了我们可以目视到一位性感，火热，气质的男人！我想补充一点，还有带着满满情感和爱的男人！但除了车宇赫之外，我也被金海淑老师和宋在熙的表演所吸引！我非常欣赏他们扮演的角色和电视剧里的互动！
祝贺朝鲜电视TV Chosun 明确的选择而取得的成功。对于一年制作一部电视剧的电台来说，他们已经超越了自己曾经的表现！
鼓掌，通天塔（哑铃）Babel 바벨！
PS：大家可能会问，那么有什么缺陷呢？ 我觉得在最后有一些细微的细节没有处理好，而且电视剧实在太短了！ 16集真的不够！ 希望会有更多集！
Every single intricate detail meticulously crafted
Credits – Many thanks! TV Chosun!
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Chairman Tae and CWH’s scene about changing his will to give Geosan to Suho that scene makes episode 16 its grand finale, the finale which every one of us want to see how Mrs Tae ends. The woman who did all that she did all for the aim of getting her agenda via her son. Yes, Babel gave us this scene, that, after all, Geosan would one day be Suho’s and Mrs Tae need not have done one single thing to beget, to make it the biggest blow to Mrs Tae in the last scene we saw her in Babel. But…really? The Chairman’s instruction to CWH to change the will is at the same time when he just made TMH the president. I watched that chairman and CWH’s change of will scene 3 times to absorb every word the chairman said, yes, by episode 16 it is very powerful to give that blow effect to Mrs Tae, but rewind back to the days Chairman Tae made TMH the president, that intention and rationale in the head of Chairman Tae does not make one sense to me. TMH had been sent to live overseas for many years, so he has not had much experience not only in corporate work, he didn’t even know much about Korean life, as TMH said he thought he was more suited at running non main stream business like foundations or trusts type of stuff, ie the frills of Geosan, not the mainstream. Suddenly the father give him the President position, yet the father knew TMH is a dangerous man who knows no end to his greed. Please explain how Chairman Tae could do such illogical steps that contradict one from the other at the same time, it wasn’t a case of he was under any threat, if he has a more cunning reason, Babel ought to give some explanation. It just doesn’t sit right with me. Chairman Tae was of very sharp and sound mind then.
TMH was made President of Geosan Electronics, not Geosan Group. There is a difference in the two I believe. Geosan Group is the holding company of Geosan Electronics plus many other of its companies. He asked for the change in will on the very day he made TMH President of Geosan Electronics. He could have in his will to make TMH Chairman of Geosan Group but changed his mind? And not through his will but by public announcement, made him President of one of the companies instead. That is my take…
Park Sihoo-ssi 박시후-씨 朴施厚君 yep, that’s about the most logical thing to explain. But to me, is a bit of anti climax though the scene is very powerful to end Mrs Tae, but lack convincing basis to me (hence it kills my joy of watching that Mrs Tae’s last scene), as I said, if Chairman Tae did that with a cunning reason, it ought to be said in episode 16, one line is enough, one line as in “you (CWH) might be surprised why I just made him president of Electronics but here I am wanting my will change, well is because I reckon while I am still able, I can still watch him (TMH).” Electronics or Group, they are both the old man’s empire. You don’t let loose a greedy inexperenced man who you knew his greed is limitless. More precisely, if that change of will thing is say one month after making TMH president, then yes, because Chairman Tae only realised it a little bit later, but the change of will and the dinner invite of CWH was just short while, as CWH said his dinner invite was to do with the will change, intention by Chairman already formed…when Suho was mad about his brother being made president of whatever. So to me, I cannot accept such situation to be convincing and able to give me the oomph effect of how Mrs Tae was brought down. Too bad.
Chai Hua Loke Actually from Ep 1, it was categorically mentioned that he was appointed President of Geosan Electronics…I have skimmed through the series as I have not had much time to really watch it. Now that Park Sihoo-ssi will have some quiet time, time for me to really watch this drama.
Chai Hua Loke Also, Mrs Tae was brought down thrice. Her shame of being snubbed of her motion to put up her son as Chairman and then chased out of the shareholders’ meeting – a humiliation. Then when she was put under arrest for murder and her misdeeds. She was then in total shock. But she never repent as she told Cha Woohyuk that all she thought about in prison is how to make both him and Han Jungwon suffer even more excruciating pain. That was when he brought up the point of her being driven by desire – to make her son heir and that all was for naught.
Park Sihoo-ssi 박시후-씨 朴施厚君 Yes, 3 times in the beginning to the end of episode 16. That woman was consistent from beginning til the end. I was hoping for a bit more explanation what caused her to be so. Babel chose to take the real world figure.
Why CWH’s mother who pledged to her son that from here on you and I will face our future together, killed herself the very same night after she saw something given by Chairman Tae, that mystery, we viewers can only guess it was some evidence of CWH’s father’s affair with Mrs Tae. If that’s the thing Mrs Cha was given, I don’t see what benefits that will bring to Chairman Tae (if that man in the car was him) when the wife of his own wife’s lover learnt of that scandal, when Mrs Tae is still alive, while Mr Cha is dead and Mrs Tae has public image to protect, so why go give those photos to Mrs Cha? while Mrs Cha is not going to get further worst off having learnt that affair from the perspective of Chairman Tae, instead Chairman Tae faced the potential news worthy blackmail by media if the scandal is made public…… Babel failed to explain, and CWH also not interested to find out. This again bugs me when the last screen of episode 16 is done.
This was one of the loose ends that was not tidied up.
Which role Song Jxxxx plays? Tae Suho? Yes, Suho’s role has been delivered 100% to give the many twists of sifnificant impacts to the story of Babel. I don’t like the ending to finish off the nymphomanic fox. Just because Mrs Tae’s dog remained tight lips in true form being steadfast to his killing profession Babel instead made the fox a scapegoat so that Mrs Tae can be nailed and brought into prison. We saw the killer was faking as doctor don’t know who he is after when I did not see any further orders to come from his boss, Mrs Tae, in any case she was already arrested, but the killer probably did not know so my guess is he was still looking for a chance to kill HJW in the hospital. I much prefer an ending where like the many dramas the usual ingredient, where the killer finally given in, as the police reported he is of sound mind, he is a human after all. If the killer could cough out Mrs Tae, then the fox need not die in Babel to find a way to catch Mrs Tae. I much prefer having an ending where the fox and Suho went away and seek their twosome or separate life both having an interest in art. The sins of the fox ain’t big deal to finish her off. Her “sins” are pretty lame and the mistakes of many still breathing humans. Having been through what Suho has been through, I believe Suho also begins to find affection and common grounds with his wife, together they can really help each other in their much stronger future., whether as a couple or as someone who understands each other in the future. Regardless of how reality can be that Babel purposedly did not want a too good to be true ending for everyone, Babel is still just a drama, to make the fox a victim of her own big mouth, is not a message I like to spread. I rather Babel spread the message that she too has good humanity in her example of how she encourages Suho to draw, that scene is a powerful positive humanity. The sacrifice of Suho’s wife just to create some drama heights for Mrs Tae and some extreme emotional scenes for Suho does not please me this viewer.
Yes, Song Jaehee played Tae Suho and like you, I had hoped for a happy ending for him and his newly discovered love for his wife. A new beginning and something which he would have wanted as his own rather than to be driven by his mother
Park Sihoo-ssi 박시후-씨 朴施厚君 well, as the saying to each his/her own. Babel has every prerogative to choose this story development to nail Mrs Tae. So we accept with peace of mind. It was just a personal expression especially when Babel chose to give us that scene of hb and wife attempt to draw together, which is a powerful humanity message. Babel continued it’s promise to the last episode that everyting does not seem to turn out as it may have seemed.
We can say that the poor nymphomaniac fox ended up killed by her own vice, alcohol, just because she decided to give up on it. Mrs Tae’s dog has disappear to get rid his own skin. And after a rest break, like Hannibal Lecter, continuing to commit bad things.
What if Babel would continue with a new series in which Mrs. Tae could give from prison the orders to activate the killer dog, and Cha family again be in danger? And her desire for revenge to go through to punish her own children, just like Saturn. And all this new nightmare imagined by me would only end with the death of the malefic Ms. Tae (killed by her killer dog?). In this new series, it would to be clarified all our objection, especially those who the perspicacity of Chai Hua Loke “sniffed” them. 😊😅🙃😘
Daniela Maria Miricescu You made me laughed til I roll on the floor 1st thing this morning. Yes, sniffing is my best ability, followed by barking loud. All those you said are possibilities, but I doubt the thrill and curiousity will be as high if Mrs Tae and her dog were able to continue next series. Because by now I have lost all my curiousity of Mrs Tae, she turned out just as herself, nothing more to sniff 🙂
Daniela Maria Miricescu My hb will really like your comment that the reason for the death of the fox is because she gave up alcohol. Wines is not something he could ever thought about giving up LOL. She’s killed by the alcohol bottle which she used to like a lot. So it is also a good ending in the wicked sense.
The mole in police get promoted/transferred and still continue to be useful to TYR , TYR lives a life of eating alone on the largest home dining table, to me, is very good and real story, depicting reality. Well Done! The only time I teared in episode 16 is when TYR said to CWH to go find HJW. When TYR said that, I choked to tears moved by TYR’s initiating those words. When CWH found HJW in Osaka, I am sure many would be brought to tears but strangley I wasn’t able to shed a tear, hahaha, not that I am not happy to see that ending, by the moment CWH’s voice is heard at HJW’s back, to me, that’s it, the end. And the one photo Babel put up as the End of the End, because I do not understand Korean, and no subtitle offerred, I couldn’t conclude if that was say 5 or 6 years later when they finally have their own baby. Nance told me Korean words said it’s 2 years, ok, that means HJW’s baby is CWH’s after all. But to international viewers who depend on subtitles, and don’t know one word of Korean…..hmmm….just like how I could not understand the logic of heart or kidney transplant thing. Babel did not give me enough clue that PA’s wife illegal immigrant is the reason that the transplant cannot be legally done. If illegal immigrant is the reason that the operation cannot be done in that hospital, then why the matching tests by both TMH’s PA and HJW were able to be done in that hospital? Matching with an illegal immigrant tests can be legally done, but after that, no, the operation is illegal because you are illegal immigrant? What does matching test mean? To me, it involves the medical data of that illegal immigrant too……. Don’t make sense to me again. That’s why when my Chinese subtitle wrongly translated “kidney” as “heart”, I took the wrongly translated “heart” to explain why the operation has to be illegal, because you cannot possibly kill another living person to take her heart. But “heart” does not explain how on earth HJW would ever utter those words to PA in earlier episode that “if it matches, let’s do that….” because no sane person who still want to seek freedom in her life would offer to donate her heart in her early 30s. Babel need to tidy that loose bit of why the operation cannot be done in that hospital by the PA’s wife’s doctor. If there is really such law that matching organs tests is allowed but operation is not allowed to illegal immigrants, it needs to be a bit more explicit, ignorant viewer like myself just does not know enough to understand.
TYR is a rationale woman but her judgement suffered when she was blinded by jealousy and her need to protect her family. When she finally saw the truth, her sense of fair play prevailed. But as head of a vast chaebol, in some ways, she has to have her ears on the ground, so the mole continues to be useful and needed to be cultivated. The first hospital I conclude is not exactly toe the line type, when they allow an illegal person to be warded and not only that, the doctor himself is not scrupulous for referring a person to a doctor who will perform an operation which is illegal for money. Totally unethical. But then, I am sure secretary Wu would know the situation and he chose where to put his wife, so he might have known how to get his way.
No problem with Tae Yura and how Babel chose to portray her from beginning to the end. In fact, it is just a real replica of anyone in her shoes. I enjoyed TYR’s role/reasoning/basis all the way til the end. The inaccurate translation aside, Babel needs to be a bit clearer in handling those bits and pieces of clues given to viewers when it comes to the wife’s condition and what HJW’s supposedly had promised. I would blame the translation again as the scene that the PA begs the doctor, I got the scenario that all the doctor said was it’s not something he can do giving me the sense about that type of operation was not above board, instead of giving me the sense that because his wife is illegal immigrant, therefore even if he the hb has found a suitable donor, the hospital is bound by law not allowed to help illegal immigrant. As I mentioned in my other comment below, the matching of organs tests was done above board hence a police search can easily find that type of records. A bit like the card CWH used to cut that thick rope….hmm…..never mind. It is not easy to be able to please every viewer with a whodunnit drama. Nevertheless, it is precisely because it is a whodunnit drama, therefore the more it needs to tick every little bit of details that’s why I am yakking here
His meeting with HJW should be one year later, not two.
Park Sihoo-ssi 박시후-씨 朴施厚君 Yes meeting is 1 year later, I know. I meant the picture of the baby in bed there’s no subtitles so I won’t know if that’s say 5 or 6 years later
Chai Hua Loke Nope, that we don’t know if it were the same baby
ok. that’s how I saw it, I thought there is a 2 years later words on the scene of the picture of the little boy and CWH on the bed, when I asked you private message.
For organ transplant operations there is a waiting list that is strictly respected on behalf of the right to life of any human being, regardless of social status or age. Illegality means when this list is not respected, unless the donor is a relative of the patient. HJW was not a relative, so I suppose her kidney had to be donated to the first on the waiting list.
Daniela Maria Miricescu Thanks Daniela. If that’s the reason then it would explain better. But even if waiting list i reckon consideration can be given to urgency of needs which in PA’s wife case she’s very critical ie the last straw, if there’s a willing donor and it matches then Babel is pushing the logic to create those tension that can make the drama thrilling with illegal operation.
Daniela Maria Miricescu Watching Babel has since led me to go read up about organ donation. Thanks again to Daniela, as you explained, only relative of patient are allowed to donate without compliance to the rule of anonymous identity. Non relative donors, and living, (called altruistic donors) are strictly governed by non-directed donation to the waiting list. It is uncannny for me personally to have happened to watch a wrongly translated subtitle that says “heart” instead of “kidney” that led me to all the wrong leads and rationale, sniffed at the wrong targets. 🤣🤣🤣And began to logic the illegal operation is to do with “heart”, which on the other hand did not explain why a sound mind HJW would have agreed with the PA back then, as you can live with one kidney but how can you live without a heart??!!. Now it is all clear. Nothing to do with illegal immigrant, it is to do with the non relative organ transplant – altruistic non directed organ donation, and you the donor cannot choose who is the recipient. Clever Babel 👏👏👏
Bravo bravo ♥️🤗
“The pain of parting is nothing to the enjoy of meeting again.”[Ch. Dickens]. I’ll take the optimistic side and although with regret we must say “Good Bye” to “Babel’, to the talented actors, to the production team, producer, director, scriptwriters, we’ll enjoy meeting them again in a new excellent drama, Because while watching “Babel”, our lives have been completely shaken up by the story, that has made us meditate on our lives, with different reactions to what we’ve seen in this dram, while our emotions were very profound. This means that “Babel” is a very good human drama.! As for our idol, Park Si Hoo, being a star is hard, but being an actor is even harder. Yes, he is The Actor who knows how to take the part, as he did playing Prosecutor Cha Woo Hyuk, and he has made it real, and he has made him honest and effective .Park SI Hoo knows that there are two main jobs in acting: the first one is to be a good actor and the second one to convince that he is a good actor .I think no other actor would have played better this role, than Park Si Hoo. No other actro would have been so truthful, fascinating interesting, sexy, so charming and temperamental like Park SI Hoo. There is an art to be a good actor, an actor to being a celebrity. And for being so, he will get the art of longevity. Saying:”Helo In Advance For The Next Time We Get To See You” Park Si Hoo! CONGRATULATIONS!
Stefania Lupu you’ve summed it so well – BABEL wouldn’t have made such an enthralling watch without the participation of Park Sihoo, the Actor Supremo. Thank goodness he grabbed the offer to take on the difficult challenging role of temperamental Cha Woohyuk, and the rest is history ! 🤗🤗🤗
Glad you have pointed out that BABEL is not without flaws. But honestly we don’t need a perfect piece of work with 💯 of everything tied back and reconciled before we can settle down to enjoy it. Almost impossible for a story with only 16 episodes. I for one am enthralled by this drama by TV Chosun and prefer to describe it as perfectly imperfect ( as to the small details or shall I say the lack of them ). On a lighter note, I observe that throughout the episodes there is quite a fair bit of scenes of Cha Woohyuk associated with sleep – whether in bed, in court, on prison floor, in the temple, in the resting couch… But the best, the sweetest, must have been in the final scene , where he snuggled in bed with his little junior, peaceful and content that he has made the right choice in choosing love over revenge. What an awesome powerful message!
Bravo ,Babel , I say too. “Babel” is the drama revealing life with the dull bits cut out. Watching “Babel” was not a waste of time, on the contrary it was the time we’ve enjoyed wasting. “Babel” was not done by one person. The great things we’ve watched in “Babel” were done by a team of people. And the’ve been exploring the human soul, and they’ve made us meditate about our own life. . Each actor , in the team, has been acting in a very personal process, expressing his/her own personality, discovering the character he/she has been playing through their own experience. And due to this each member of the team in “Babel” has brought their considerable, wonderful contribution to the great success of “Babel”. But among them an actor has distinguished himself as one of the best actor. This is Park SI Hoo, who with his talent, his wisdom, his maturity, his effort, his perfection in acting could caught excellence. And he could involve himself in different roles, like the last one Prosecutor Cha Woo Hyuk, becoming truthful, fascinating, enlightening. And watching hin playing was the best way to enjoy this drama. “To be a good actor… it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.”[Sarah Bernhard]. And Park SI Hoo is one of these good actors, who, while shooting , he can talk, he can emote, he can react so that the director shouldn’t keep cutting the scenes, because Park Si Hoo can reveal a tour-de force performance. And how couldn’t “Babel” get succh a great success with such wonderful, talented actors. It’s a magic when you have really good actors playing in your drama .Bravo, “Babel”! Congratulations!
Stefania Lupu Encore your words that each actor has acted their very best to bring to us such a great piece of work. In particular Park Sihoossi, if not because of him I would not have come to watch TV Chosun and would never crossed path with Babel. It’s a drama not only that we love the time wasted watching it, I like it that I ditched my Monday job just in time to indulge in it. Otherwise I could not sniff to my satisfaction and certainly not able to bark as loud here on Nance’s platform as I have done .😉