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The ratings was not much of an impressive scene. With ratings of 30% it was as impressive as a random rock on the side of the road.
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It was standard for a public network drama if anything.
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The 2000s were an era where public broadcasting is pretty much unrivaled. Cable is practically trash and online broadcasting is nonexistent.
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Their only rivals is the other fellow public broadcasting companies.
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It was quite different with the 2010s.
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Let's just say that the old-fashioned public broadcasting was slowly left behind.
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In contrast to the barely okay ratings, the reception to Yeon-gyeong was pretty good. I saw more positive comments about her.
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I heard my mom say that her friends watches the drama.
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Soo-hyeon too said that her family watches the drama. Apparently her mom points it out whenever I appear on screen appearently.
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"I told my cousin that I am friends with Yeon-gyeong in real life, he doesn't believe me at all!!!"
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"Haha! Out of everything to not believe, why is that the one?!"
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"I know right??? That guy is an idiot! He believes all sorts of nonsense but not something logical like this?"
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Another interesting aspect of being in a drama is having people around you sort of see you in a new light.
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You're not just you, but also the character you're playing.
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"Hey! Yeon-gyeong-ah! I watched the episode yesterday!"
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It was our class leader. I think her name is Jin-hee?
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I glanced at her name tag. It is Jin-hee.
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Some boy from our class also joked, "At this point I might accidentally call you Yeon-gyeong instead!"
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If it was the people from middle school, they wouldn't even care since they have gotten used to having one of their classmates appear on TV.
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High school is a different thing though.
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I think it's interesting to see someone new turn out to be a 'star'.
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Getting more screentime means more shooting, which is alright, and also meeting that kid Song Tae-hyeon more often, which is probably not so great.
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He looks a bit out of it today. Like his mind is somewhere else.
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As long as he doesn't put out those random ad-libs at least.
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It's fun in the beginning, but as time went on, it just made us have to shoot more since he kept messing up.
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In today's shoot, Yeon-gyeong will show her prowess in archery in a filler scene.
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It was already planned to include some montage of her doing archery before, but the plan was just some 5 second footages, it was a bit different this time on.
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I've been practicing archery since December, so it's enough to deal with the close-ups.
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"Everyone get ready!"
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"Camera! Sound!"
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"Action!"
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Today is a bright Sunday. Yeon-gyeong dragged Ki-beom on an archery practice
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"Hey! You should accompany me alright! It gets lonely over here."
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"Alright," Ki-beom smiled.
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Yeon-gyeong looked radiant as she skipped over to the field that was set up with a bunch of targets.
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She set her equipment bag down and started to prepare.
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Ki-beom watched her with interest.
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Honestly it's filler through and through.
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Yeon-gyeong shot a few arrows. She even took a shot at an apple.
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"Woah, how did you do that?"
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"I just can do it."
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Seeing Ki-beom's curiosity, she offered, "Wanna try?"
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"Uhh okay, but I have never done this before."
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"Don't worry about it, I can teach you."
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Yeon-gyeong then started to act like a strict gym teacher.
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"Straighten your arms! Don't hunch your back! Alright, now pull the arrow until it's next to your cheek!"
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Ki-beom is struggling to pull the arrow.
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Yeon-gyeong helped him pull the arrow further back, but he didn't hit the bullseye.
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It was a day filled with laughter.
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"Cut!"
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Like taking a filter off a camera, the mood instantly changed.
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Our gazes turned cold.
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This kid has a promising future as an actor, what a fast 180.
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200X Ha-na is definitely not his match.
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It makes me wonder, did he play Ki-beom back then too?
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I didn't even recognize him, is it possible that he wasn't given the role at that time?
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If so, why?
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We went around and shot more scenes. A scene of them walking home together, another scene of them eating tteokbokki, basically more filler scenes.
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I guess they could afford to include more filler scenes. This drama has 150 episodes after all.
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I heard some rumors Writer Kim is interested in developing the relationship between Yeon-gyeong and Ki-beom further.
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Well...
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I could only hope that it won't happen.
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We already have too much couples and the idea of having to act out couple sequences with Tae-hyeon is a bit...
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Not quite sure what exactly I thought of it, but it wasn't pleasant.
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It's been a week and I could feel 'Spring Breeze' getting more popular. Sometimes when students from different classes saw me, they would recognize me or they had that squinting look you wear when you aren't sure if you recognized someone correctly.
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We're reaching the halfway mark for this drama. I might as well enjoy this before the story got to a nasty turn.
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But the weird thing is, my scenes just kept increasing.
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I just shot a scene with Jang Hye-jin seonbae-nim.
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Then I confronted Heo Sang-woo to treat my sister right.
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It felt too much because I started off not even as the third lead.
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Is the reception for Yeon-gyeong really that good?
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I haven't had much time to check since I've been getting busier.
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Might as well do some monitoring before I forgot ehile drowned in my schedules.
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I went to the computer room of our school.
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My high school definitely had better equipment than my middle school.
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Typing out some search entries about Yeon-gyeong, I finally found the answer in the forums.
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'Yeon-gyeong and Ki-beom is truly the Spring in Spring Breeze.'
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'Yeon-gyeong is so cute! I wish I had a daughter like her.'
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'Today I'm waiting for Yeon-gyeong and Ki-beom's scenes.'
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'The main couple is so frustrating! They are starting to get boring, they better give YeonKi couple more scenes.'
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We even had a couple name.
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It was much better than I expected.