Ware Schoonheid (2020)

Seojun is the best part about this drama!

I honestly didn't have much hope for this drama at first, because I hated both Suho and Jugyung in the Webtoon (She lead Seojun on and was very selfish and toxic in my opinion with him, while Suho just suddenly dipped when his dad got sick, and never even bothered with a text for 2 YEARS!! So even if I had liked him at one point, I hated him after that).
I'm going to be comparing the drama with the webtoon, and I prefer the drama. And I'm basically ranting about the webtoon for 90% of this.


The drama had a better delivery in my opinion. But the first 3 ~ 4 episodes or so cringed me out like you wouldn't believe, and added some unnecessary childhood interaction.

After I powered through those embarrassing moments, the plot actually started getting better, and I liked that Jugyung was able to confront her bullies and wear her face proudly (she could buy better looking glasses).

I loved Sujin's character, and I was very touched by her and her situation, and I loved how the actress was able to capture the role really well.

The side characters, like Jugyung's dad, sister, teacher, friends, Seojun's friends, and the manga shop owner were really fun and amusing when they were on screen, but I would make the biggest eye-roll when Jugyung's brother or mom would appear. They were really inconsiderate and downright cruel at times.
Lady your daughter is obviously insecure about her looks and gets bullied daily. Why are you being this mean?
So I couldn't understand when both the mom and brother made a complete 180 and started being considerate. Don't misunderstand me, it was a really welcome change, but it was sudden and almost felt like completely different people.

Selene, who was not mentioned as Suho's sister got on my nerves. Like she's being mean and always destroying her self esteem for no reason other than she was distracted a little. Like what?!!! I know they tried to make her look all cool and amazing, but she was doing basic make up and humiliating Jugyung and then she calls her cool and awesome. I don't give a F*** who she is, she can't be that rude to anyone. So only the spoiled female idol was bad, but Selene is so cool?

Seojun on the other hand was perrrrrfect. I have nothing more to say other than Hwang In Yeop was able to capture both the role and my heart with his character. Call me a simp, but I would watch this drama anticipating his scenes and swooning whenever he appeared. I especially loved the bromance between him and his friends and with Suho when they made up at the hospital.
So it would would be understandable why I was heartbroken for him when he was crying in the last episode when he got rejected.
I know a lot of people hated that Jugyung would ignore all of his advances, never deserved his love for her and ultimately rejected him. But I was honestly relieved that she never lead him on or was swayed by him like in the Webtoon.

Spoiler for the webtoon!!

In the Webtoon, she actually started dating him when Suho dipped and cut off contact with both of them. And Seojun asked her to be his girlfriend, she agreed, and everything was nice. The problems started when Suho appeared again. Seojun was understandably insecure about her old feelings for Suho and how Jugyung was too close and friendly with him. They fought and she told him to trust her, he thought about his actions, apologized. Later on he would work as a courier on top of modeling, because he was really short on money, as he had to support his mom's hospital bills, and house expenses, but was really embarrassed about it so he didn't tell her. she would call him while he was working, he wouldn't pick up, she was insecure about it. Then he told her about it, after she saw him distributing flyers in the street, and they both agreed that neither would keep secrets from the other. surprise surprise, she was still lying about her original appearance and never showed him her real face, and that was a problem for her, because Seojun would come by her apartment building to give her gifts and such, so it was exhausting her to keep putting full make up on whenever he came.
And one time Suho and her were talking in front of her apartment building with her bare face, Seojun didn't recognise her, and Suho noticed that she hadn't told him .
Later on Seojun was passing by her apartment building while talking to her on the phone, she was there, he finds out her secret, she panics, runs away, a truck almost hits her, he saves her, tells her he doesn't mind, and everything is nice again.

One day she invites him for a morning concert thing with her friends, and the singer on stage asks if anybody wants to sing. She raises his and and tells them he's a good singer. He goes on stage, sings really well, and people love him. His video goes viral, and lots of entertainment companies ask to recruit him as a trainee (like the drama).
He mulls over the offers, and goes to tell her about it.

And here's where she starts getting on my nerves.

He tells her that he wants to be a singer, she tells him to go ahead and stuff, but her thoughts were (I wished he wouldn't)
And he tells her that she wouldn't have to worry about him being fan=mous
She's super insecure about his success, and after that point every time he would go out with his friends and post about it she would get sad, that there may be a girl in the group picture or something dumb like that because trainee girls are pretty. While on the other hand, she would go out with Suho ALONE even though she knew that it bothered Seojun that they used to have feelings for each other. And she would tell Suho her secrets and lie to him straight to his face while having thoughts like (I don't know how to tell him this or that) so she never tells him, until he finds it out himself, and gets mad.

And when he gets mad, she considers breaking up with him, and doesn't call him, so he tries contacting her to apologize. But she doesn't pick up, and and tells him to leave her alone. So when he does, she gets angry that he's not calling.And when he went to her house to apologize, she told him to leave, and that he was annoying when he comes by without notice. Then they make up after HE apologizes.


Later Selene tells her she wants her to work with her on a survival celebrity show, because she wants her to be around, so that Suho would have an excuse to see her more and make her his girlfriend again I guess, because he still has feelings for her after all those years that he refused to contact her (Like video calling or flying her over to him doesn't exist). So basically Selene is trying to make Suho steal someone else's girlfriend, because that's not unethical I guess.

And that survival show is supposed to recruit 5 boys, and they only had 3, so Jugyung shows them Seojun's modeling photos, and they agree. And Selen shows them Suho's photo, and they also agree. But the problem is that Suho hates these kinds of shows and would never agree to be part of them, and Jugyung tells Selene that. So Selene tells her that SHE will be the one persuading Suho, and Jugyung obviously doesn't say no.

When she goes to tell Seojun about the survival show, he's ecstatic. And asks her who else would be there, but instead of telling him about Suho, she tells him that they haven't decided who the last one would be, and doesn't mention Suho at all.

And at that point, I just couldn't read anymore, because I was so angry, so I skipped to chapter 128 I think and she was doing what I had thought would happen.

She called Seojun, who was apparently busy, because he had debuted or something (I'm not sure, because I didn't read the chapters before it), and couldn't contact her for two weeks, and he was like "I missed you", and she said "let's break up"
He was so shocked, sad, and confused and kept apologizing and begging her to stay and tell him why she was breaking up with him, but all she had to say was "We should break up before it gets harder" and more of that nonsense, and kept moping around about it for the next 2 chapters, like she wasn't the one who broke his heart.


Overall, she had no character development, and still stayed insecure about her face, and it started going as far as making me feel like she herself was contributing to the problem.
She also had some major drinking problem and drinking habits that weren't as cute as the drama.
And I think that Seojun was only written to be hurt, and ignored when Suho was back in the picture.

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