하이킥!

Currently watching this 2006 Korean sitcom, Unstoppable High Kick, which is about the daily happenings of a typical upper middle class Korean family and the funny situations that happens to them and their friends.

It is 167 episodes long and each episode is only about half an hour, like a lot of American sitcoms complete with its own laugh track, which makes it very easy watching for me. And it has fast attained a position in my heart akin to my favourite sitcoms like Friends and How I Met Your Mother. After 50-over episodes, you really feel like you know these people personally, and watching each episode is like catching up with the comings and goings of your friends.

There are plenty of genuinely hilarious scenes that had me laughing hysterically. On top of that, the show also dealt with some social and personal issues, which I find well-handled. Just enough to keep the show realistic, but without overpowering the entire sitcom's top priority, which is the comedic value. The only grip I have is that sometimes during a moving moment, they would make a crying woman trip and fall and the laugh track comes on, spoiler.

Really feel connected to the characters in certain ways. Like when two of the single ladies living together started crying together because of work problems, I really felt like bursting into tears with them. But then, the student of one of the ladies, who happens to be the other lady's ex-husband's nephew (confused yet?) came to drop off some stuffs for his ex-aunt, and saw the two women rolling in tears on the sofa and floor (???) respectively, his expression was just classic.

Haha! Gonna watch some more High Kick.