'Coffee Prince' is a Girl

Spoiler Alert: Coffee Prince is a Girl. Ok No I am just kidding. Nothing like that.

Anyway.

Only South Koreans can make tons of dramas where the girl is mistook for a guy by literally everybody just because she doesn’t have the 36’ 24’ 34’ figure. And the dimensions too were decided upon by a male world. But No, here we are not going to discuss that because here we are only going to praise these sweet miracles produced by the South Korean drama industry.

I can literally assemble a hundred foot long list of dramas that have the girl as a guy and it take more than 7, 8 episodes for the hero to find the truth out.

This one though! Coffee Prince, broke that record. It stretched it all the way to episode 14. Can you believe that? The guy, poor Gong Yoo, did not know that the person he is attracted to, the person he is in love with is a girl. And all the social stigma kept beating him down for homosexuality is not a praiseworthy trait in South Korea.

So the drama begins. The Girl is Go Eun Chan. She has short hair, a straight body, and she is labelled a boy. How appropriate.

She is literally kicked out of the women sauna she is delivering noodles to (her part time job). She delivers the cold noodles to the main guy, Han Kyul’s place and he is there in his towel, doesn’t even care to cover himself up properly while (sexily) wiping his perfectly waxed legs.

The one thing she is invested in is her Karate place. She hates these part time jobs but she does them in order to keep her Karate place afloat. So independent and reliable. Bless her.

And then there is our dear main hero, Han Kyul aka Goblin aka Gong Yoo. He is a flirt when around girls, lead them on and when they get into him, he dumps them, so cute. Yes this this sarcasm

But who is legit cute is the grandmother. Her sole purpose in life aside from running and owning a successful organization is to get her grandson Han Kyul on track and get him introduced to girls. (Halmoni, go easy on him he has to wait 939 years before he meets Goblin’s bride).

The story progresses in such a way that the grandmother makes Han Kyul in charge of their rundown shop ‘Coffee Prince’ and Go Eun Chan has to work part time there. Han Kyul's topmost rule for job applications being 'only guys can apply for the job'. And Han Kyul is blind enough not to notice her as a girl hires her.

And he also hires her to pretend to be his lover...

Umm whaaaa....

$200 per outing

She gets a chance to learn making coffee from a certified barista who has worked there for quite some time nourishing her skill and also nourishing the budding romance. And all this without letting the guy know that she is a girl. Dude, if you know homosexuality is not praised where you live and you know that he is struggling because of that and his love for you, just PLEASE tell him.

But can we just take a moment to embrace the pureness of Han Kyul’s love. With all the social pressure of not liking a boy he stands up to himself and accepts it. He decides to just be in love.

Well Eun Chan honey! Good luck telling him about your gender now.

At least the second lead who falls in love with her was intelligent enough to know her as a girl from the beginning...