Here in the Philippines, the F4 fever has been in the air again after how many years of fantasizing Meteor Garden’s Flower Four. This time, it’s the Korean invading the tube every late afternoon with their version of the Hana Yori Dango Manga series Boys over Flowers (Boys before Flowers).
I remember I was on my HighSchool days when the Meteor Garden was shown on TV and almost all of my classmates, particularly the children of Eve, were, if not hooked, then much more updated than the current news updates to of course the Shan Cai-Dao Ming Si love story. I don’t know what was on me but I couldn’t really find a single cell on me giving interest to that TV drama until now. I preferred to watch Slamdunk and Detective Conan than watching it during that time haha. I only got to know those characters and the story plot etc etc when their “songs” were aired on radios and TVs almost every minute and people were singing like parrots mumbling on ala foreign tongues but they didn’t even know what it means.
The funny thing is, I am now in the late blooming stage and is raising my right hand, pledging alliance to the positive response on the question, “Are you an avid fan and unquestionably hooked on the Korean version of Hana Yori Dango entitled Boys over Flowers?”.
Personally, I like this version more than the Taiwanese’s. The acting is more natural and the funny scenes are effective. I think the Koreans have this plus factor in making drama series. The dubbers also in Tagalog are quite fitted and have given more life and colors to the characters and the story as well.
So who’s with me now? 
