In my personal opinion, a huge part of the brilliance and success of Korean drama “Queen of Reversals” can be attributed to Park Sihoo-ssi. He was what made the difference between a run-of-mill drama and one that amused, engaged and entertained the audience.
His impeccable acting and more so, his superb facial expressions were what made his character, Goo Yongsik come alive. From the obnoxious, rebellious, funny, cute, sensitive, sad, heart-broken, determined, amused, in love…any and all expressions, Park Sihoo-ssi nailed Goo Yongsik to a tee!
I love Park Sihoo-ssi’s rendition of Goo-Goo expressions! Enjoy my selection!
Goo-Goo 表情
我个人的看法是韩剧“逆转女王”的精华和成功,很大一部分是由于施厚君。因为他,这部剧来得更精彩,搞笑,娱乐性质高。
他精致的演技,尤其他那高超的面部表情,把具勇植的性格带活了起来。从讨厌的,叛逆的,搞笑的,敏感的,悲伤的,失恋的,坚持的,逗乐的,恋爱中的……任何和所有的表情,施厚君把小开具勇植演得如此的生动到位!
我爱施厚君的Goo-Goo表情。这里是我的精选给大家分享!
Photo Credits – Many thanks! Weibo, imbc.com, Twitter, DCinside Park Sihoo Gallery, PPTV, parksihoobar.com
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cool. Have a healthy body is always a good day to enjoy a pleasant vigorously. “Always healthy and cheer you and I love you.”
Faltó dormido en su cuarto, es bello durmiendo, por eso para mi es el actor de las 1000 caras.
You’re absolutely right Ms. Nance . This was the only PSH drama i’ve watched and that was accidental only. Am just interested of korean culture then . But just anybody else, became hooked and glued watching it because of him and became interested and curious to know him more and began gooling . I’ve found your blog and PSH son of Buyeao as well. T hanks for keeping us well informed about him in this other part of the world
Zezzy Lynn – Many thanks for your wonderful support and your feedback. I am glad you have enjoyed watching him in Queen of Reversals. He was great as Goo Yongsik, wasn’t he. If you can, please try to watch his other dramas such as Prosecutor Princess, Family Honor and the Princess Man. He is a wonderful actor and those dramas are also fantastci. Enjoy and please continue to love and support Park Sihoo-ssi! Thank you!
Zezzy Lynn I am exactly similar : QOR the sole reason I discovered PSH. For 10 years I watch Korean drama day in day out . Watched many good drama good storyline good actors good looking actors BUT none ever captivated me til the point of needing to find out the name of the actor. Yes til now I know no more than Park SiHoo this K actor’s name. Like you once I Google his name I found Nance’s page and have not stopped following since.
Nance and Zezzy Lynn , any moment anyone talks about QOR it could trigger my ranting just like water burst out from a reservoir: can’t stop just talking about QOR alone. I definitely will talk more on this thread since Nance has chosen QOR as today’s topic but right now a little occupied hahaha
Every word, facial expression, gesture or action on the part of PSH, in the role of Goo Yongsik, give to the audience the message of a gorgeous talent. He is big on facial expression and big on hilarious scenes. He is great creating a character using his own normal set of expressions. His great talent , as an actor, is that he knows how to control his facial muscles, being his most valuable asset he has , and making him a brilliant performer.”Q of R” is a drama, but due to PSH’s interpretation becomes funnier . And we enjoy it so much , due to his facial expression, that make us laugh. And this laugh doesn’t wear out. It can be with us for many years. When I come across a period of distress , I watch PSH in “Q of R”, because it’s due to him that; ” After every storm the sun will smile, for every problem there is a solution and soul’s duty is to be of good cheer.”[ W.R Alger] PSH’s acting, facial expression, Goo- Goo expression, smile in “Q of R” are making everything in their vicinity to freshen into smile.
Totally agree with you QOR laughs does not wear out. As I said before just watching the humour between PSH and his male PA and between PSH and his father alone is worth watching QOR more than once. Not to mention all the other very interesting funny parts e.g. when he was bored at meeting twirling his pen blowing his fringe, or when he yawning while his PA handling redundancy interview next the lead male actor walked in to discover PSH is the important person , at that moment the look in PSH’s eyes and his smirk smile gosh just that facial expression tells a thousand words in terms of what’s going the minds and emotions of both men at that point in time. All the descriptions we could find to relate that moment all written on PSH’s facial expression.
Stefania I equate QOR as the Eastern Pride and Prejudice of the modern times. Classic. Brilliant story line brilliant moral brilliant timing of scenes brilliant humour and the most brilliant love story. There is NOT one second of PSH ‘s appearance in QOR that is just good performance. Every Second of his acting is par excellent!! QOR gets my complete tick every front. Based on what you have read earlier of my detailed analysis comparing CDDA vs QOR, I think you won’t be surprised hearing what I just said. Me total hands down (thumbs up) when it comes to QOR?????
I think I saw Shi Hoo but if a different drama suffered much and I had fun with this character but their expreciones so perfect and real that if I also cried and I loved the dance scene hahaha I repeat and I still believe that the Shi Hoo I saw a different drama but I had fun and I suffered a lot with this character but their expreciones so perfect and real that if I also cried and I loved the dance scene hahaha I repeat and I fell in love even more of this beautiful specimen coreanoenamoro more of this beautiful Korean issue
Nance Thank you for the Goo Goo Expressions collections! How appropriate these Goo Goo expressions made his fans Goo Goo Ga Ga over him. I am not sure other parts of the world understand the phrase goo goo ga ga, here we often use “goo goo ga ga” to describe how much we got hooked/attracted by someone/something. So Yes, Goo Goo Goo Yongsik whom we goo goo ga ga over him over QOR over and over again. I am about to finish watching Family Honor, last 4 episodes to go. For me personally, til this point FH has not drawn up as much interest and excitement as I had when I watched QOR. Moreover FH I watched with full concentration, no distraction no missing any scene, unlike QOR which I 1st saw on tv plus busy working often missing several episodes as I am not the type to make efforts to record tv program. Yet QOR managed to draw my total interest once I begin to see the real beauty of the drama and its storyline plus the most outstanding acting of PSH! I will write about FH seperately when I finish watching (you ladies by now probably know I like detail analysis of PSH’s drama haha). Whether QOR is a run on the mill storyline (if not for PSH who lifted the game) I am not sure. Personally to me, after watching CDDA, PP, and now FH, compared to QOR, my personal vote for script writing goes to QOR. QOR is a story that I cannot find any aspect of it that I cannot accept its logic, including the part where she got demoted just because she “betrayed” her boss to go fall in love. When it comes to corporate world any nonsense can happen the most unimaginable unethical unprofessional happen all the time. I am a personal witness of many ridiculous things/people. I call QOR the eastern Pride & Prejudice, from an ordinary day to day life of most of the countries’ population ie the 9 to 5 white collars working force, from there the story evolves, develops, flourishes, or crashed. Their dream their aspirations, their motivations, their hope, most of all their PRIDE that even when they try to suppress the importance of pride to succum to reality for a livelihood, there comes a time the last line of their pride cannot be crossed. PREJUDICE is the most common view of anyone at the start of looking into any issue, or at the start of getting to know someone. How everyone perceived the playboy Goo Yongsik to be, how even the clever Hwang TaiSee too stereotyped this rich boss’s son as distinctively different as Alpha type, her prejudice on him is like a pile of snow covering PSH while the script writer cleverly engineered the many relevant day to day event and happenings that slowly melt off these snow layer by layer. Example the competition to count each other’s misfortune, there she learnt his misfortune of never ever known who his mother is etc, then another occassion when he told her that she always think he is Alpha elite what she doesn’t know is his dream is to be the real Alpha type within the elite of Alpha people, he said to her he was merely Beta within the Alpha category (this is an angle she never realised due to her prejudice). Prejudice prevails in many other plots, the moment the news of them as an item broke out, the whole company people who never knew who she is generally hold the type of prejudiced view ; the view that spontaneously reject such a couple, the prejudice that even the loving father could not set aside but took action to fire her, all because of Prejudice. So many other Pride and Prejudice lines that I can go on that I can relate in QOR. To sum up, I want to say YES No Doubt PSH’s acting is the point of difference for QOR success, nevertheless personally I think the real success comes with the script writer’s most clever use of ordinary day to day materials cleverly and cunningly orchestrate the significance of each piece of material and showcase all these elements with the most thoughtful sequence and timing of delivery and made the story one that not many could argue that no way, this can’t happen in the real world. In our today society of couple relationships, I find many of us live in the pockets of our ex spouse, ex family in law, and QOR again did that, the hatred/dislike between Hwang TaiSee and her husband’s ex lover, the evolution of the relationship between these 2 ladies are quite real, which at the ending, how the 2 became still the inseperable in each other’s life is a good way of ending, makes my nerves at ease, and how I wish the many seperated couples would learn from this and made their lives much easier, for the sake of the children involved. I said I sum up, but I am still blabbling here, the younger man going for older divorced woman is not any new story, remember in real life the England king to be who gave up his throne for an older American divorcee …….SO WHAT?? Even the uglier too much cosmetic surgery Hwang Taisee whose face that put me off at the start of the show as I watched on her sincerity and her superb acting has convinced me to look beyond her physical look and absolutely not matching dressing style to Goo Yongsik, finally I conceded that QOR is an epic classic simply because the most unappealing sights of the 2 very unmatching couple could make my senses feel acceptable and at ease and able to bring out my applause watching how the drama ended. BRAVO!!!!! Thank you again Nance for bringing up this Goo Goo Expressions you know you can’t escape me blabbling the moment anyone want to talk about QOR 🙂 🙂 🙂
The only setback of QOR storyline is that the earlier episodes put many viewers off. Because it is so ordinary so very replica of any common corporate office, viewers fail to see in the earlier episodes what mystery or intrigue such storyline could bring. I definitely belong to the type who got rather put off and felt dull to watch hence missed the many early introductions of PSH’s appearances that later became the strong link and logic to the rest of the stories. I did not see where the theory of Alpha people vs Beta people originated, in my 1st stumbling upon QOR watching it half heartedly sort of force fed by what’s on my tv at that hour. My friends’feedback about QOR is that the earlier episode seeing Hwang Taisee’s face and dressing not attractive enough the male lead also just so so then the lukewarm lack of romance type of marriage of the 2 lead actors really nothing to see, then their defeat at work their nothing to be excited day to day home life, from there many give up. I am “”lucky”” in the sense that my tv continued everyday and there is no other K drama except this one hour a day on my tv so as I am forced to sort of half follow the program, alas, ti I come to realise QOR is a very clever story, a very good story, with the best laughs (also bucket of tears) I ever had among all K dramas. More than many other good K drama I have seen. Only when you finish watching it, you realised the dull and negative ambience of the earlier episodes are all the foundation towards showcasing the total opposite of these mundane run on the mill (borrow your phrase Nance) beginning of a good drama.
I like to add more of my heartfelt observations of QOR after the long below ranting : that almost every role every actor in this drama did a good acting, just right amount, just nice. Not overdone. Words chosen by script writer also very spot on, no dragging, no prolong, not too long not too short that messages and wisdom could not sink into viewers. Outstanding acting included that power hungry lady boss, she too deserves accolade for her “”just right amount of bitch injected” acting to create the intense feeling for viewers.PSH’s male PA gets my full applause. His role his lines his character, he and PSH contributed a huge part of viewers’enjoyment. Usually the best laugh is not just purely from PSH, it is the exchanges between the 2 of them. PSH alone won’t deliver those jokes, just like you can’t clap with one hand. The male PA is the other hand to complete the clapping effect. That older dying colleague Mu Pu Chang, his role and his comforting bridge for the tormented lovers : imply divine. The husband’s ex lover who seemingly selfish narrow yet at necessary times able to point out the obvious which Hwang Taisee could not see, yet that pointing out sits very well with the character of that ex lover not that she isn’t capable to demonstrate she possess that side of wisdom and kindness. Introduction of that police who kept pursuing her is necessary so that viewers would not know how the ending of story as at any flip of the story development, the ex lover could fall for this policeman, while the original couple get back together, rich man’s son proceeded to fly high in his career and show his family he too is capable. This scenario can very well be the ending of a good K drama, just like some others that I had watched, Cinderella does not live happily ever after after she married the rich good looking boy who loves her deeply (Glass City I think that’s the title).