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"Misaeng" Doesn't Let Drama Forgets Reality (Spoiler Alert)

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Working life has been a theme for many TV Series. In K-Dramas and Japanese Dorama there are a lot of them. One of the popular working life K-Drama is Misaeng: Incomplete Life (2014). This drama was based on the webcomic "Misaeng" by Yoon Tae-Ho (20-01-2012 until14-10-2013) . The 20 episodes drama is aired in TvN station, written by Yoon Tae-Ho (original comic) and Jung Yoon-Jung and directed by Kim Won-Suk. At the Baeksang Arts Award 2015 this drama has won three awards (best actor, best newcomer actor and best director). Misaeng’s main character is Jang Geu Rae, a former Go prodigy player who struggles to adjust his life as an employee with no college education background in a busy company. Due to certain personal reasons, Jang Geu Rae, who spends his entire life in Go Academy, only has a GED certificate because after high school he had to work for his family and had no chance to attend college. He got accepted in the big company through some sort of wild card from the dir...

Fast Food "Meal Prep" College Student Style (while in Germany)

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College students are well known for being frugal and it makes sense. It's just common for them to attend college in a different city, or even country. Thus they have to manage living alone with only pocket money from their parents and in certain circumstances plus some extra money from part time work. But there are also some students who rely their life on part time work salary or scholarship fund. No matter what or how, college students are close with the routine of sparing money. One of the primary concerns in a college student's life is about food, right? It's a basic daily need. Some students choose to cook, some choose to eat instant food (long live instant noodle and microwaveable frozen food, right? hahaha...), some buy supermarket brand foods, some buy the "best before" or night discounted meals (you know, those supermarket or minimarket bento, bread or fried foods which sold with 50% discount at night), but the worst is of course when students have to ski...