Reverse Harem Garden

In A Class of Her Own- 36 episodes Xue Wenxi makes use of her brilliant mind by copying and writing romance stories. She will do anything to take care of her family and she's doing all this while pretending as a boy. In desperation, she agreed to stand in for scholar's examinations but ended up studying inside the all-boy Yun Shang Academy. Inside the academy, she will become part of the Yun Shang Quartet with smart and honorable Feng Chengjun,  money-savvy Yu Lexuan, and problem student Lei Zexin.  This is cdrama remake of Sungkyunkwan Scandal kdrama. You can also check out First Impression  of episodes 1-3  of IACOHO.  After the third episode, I was telling myself the pacing is really slow but I don't mind. But I spoke too soon. It is unbelievably slow! I've been used to the pacing of 16-episode kdramas where each episode  has so much going on. IACOHO has a simpler narrative that you can write what happened for each episode in a sentence or tw...

Sungkyunkwan Scandal- 20 episodes Kim Yoon Hee passes off as her brother with her brilliant learned mind by transcribing red novels and becoming an examination substitute. Her antics landed her into the Sungkyunkwan, a school for scholars who learn the teachings of Confucius. And at this era only men goes to school and women are forbidden to enter the Sungkyunkwan. The story is based on novels "The Lives of Sungkyunkwan Confucian Scholars" written by Jung Eun Gweol which is actually very, very racy. There's a lot of school and gender bender formula but I find this adaptation very refreshing since the setting and the historical background is something new to me. This is my second sageuk and I'm beginning to get the hang of Korean history and customs. (I'm also currently watching third sageuk which I think is a reverse harem I hope I finish it already). Everything was great from direction, script, setting, costumes, scoring and most especially t...