Let's Do It Korean Style

After the last post on adoption a la "As Seen On TV," I got to thinking, apparently never a good thing, since I keep coming back to the Korean TV drama series.  Have you ever watch one of those?  You would start laughing or crying and proceed on crying on and off throughout the show.  Since 99% of the shows are limited run, meaning everyone knows exactly how long the show last so the directors would milk the shows for all its worth, putting in as much clique as possible.  An extremely common plot device is an character who turns out to be adopted but somehow get embroiled into old family grudge.  Somehow, the adopted kids always have to choose between the adopted family and the birth family.  Add that to the fact that Korean culture, and the rest of Asia, pretty much insist on blood ties and we have fireworks.

Just look to the right, that's a Kdrama called "I'm Sorry I Love You."  Don't you feel sad already?  I mean, I can tell before I watch the show, there's going to be a lot of crying/Kleenex and at the end of the movie someone will die, probably of cancer.

If you want a taste of Kdrama and movie, just watch this music video, you understand what I mean.



All that ramblings lead me to Naleigh.  So have you seen her?  Katherine Heigl and hubby Josh Kelley adopted a daughter from Korea named Nancy Leigh, or Naleigh, to be their first child.  She is a special need child that made the adoption process faster than normal.

Though the adoption process was arduous, Heigl confessed to Ellen DeGeneres that it was worth it.  Korea seems to be VERY throughout in the vetting period.  Well, I do think a 40 page long questionnaire is extensive and that's just on the child-rearing philosophy, mind you.

Naleigh looks bright and cute in this picture.  I sure hope she'll have a sibling to play with... whenever mommy quits Grey's Anatomy, that is.

One thing we know for sure is that Naleigh would never have to make that awful choice like the Kdrama actors have to, right?