Crunchyroll is the largest online community, video site and network of sites, services and devices for Asian drama and Japanese anime. In addition to their numerous Japanese Broadcasting partners, they have also partnered with major Korean Broadcasting companies [Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS) and Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC)] to bring you the latest Korean dramas! You can even watch them on your iphone, ipad, and boxee!

Crunchyroll provides an array of kdrama titles along with some jdramas and cdramas too. They are also currently having a limited time offer in conjunction with Paypal. If you sign up for a 3-month drama membership, you receive $20 cash back*, which means it doesn’t even cost a penny to have premium access to these dramas with DVD quality and no commercial breaks. This is a great time to take advantage of this offer.

We hope fans continue to support us and partners like Crunchyroll!

*some restrictions apply

On Friday, April 16 from 1:00PM to 5:00PM Pacific Standard Time, VIA Access will be unavailable due to maintenance. During these hours, ALL VIA materials will be inaccessible to all the VIA members.

*To translate these times into your local time zone, please click here

Thanks so much for your patience!

Hope everyone is as ready for spring as we are! As you can see, we’ve done a little facelift to our site for a fresh change, and we hope that it will be easier for folks to see and find the different areas on our site.

Please note that there is now a prominent HELP link (top left-hand corner) that will take you to our help page that answers most of the frequently asked questions, including where videos might be available.  The login area is now at the top right area of the page – hope that makes things easier.

At WITH S2, we’re super excited about all the fun new dramas coming down the pipe. Some of the dramas we’ll be subbing (or have already started subbing) starting this month are: Oh My Lady, Life is Beautiful, Personal Taste, Cinderella Sister, and Prosecutor Princess. Visit us often and join all of us subbers who will be glued to the screen!

Some previews on YouTube. Thanks to the original uploaders!

Project Runway Korea 프로젝트 런웨이 코리아

Airing Date: Feb 7 ‘2009 (OnStyle ; every Saturdays)
Number of Episodes: 10
Broadcasting Company: OnStyle
OFFICIAL SITE
Soompi Forum

JUDGES & DESIGNERS:

BRIEF INFO:
Despite being adapted from an American program, it looks as though the challenges will be more suited towards its Korean designers and audiences (whatever that means).

Among the competitors are some designers who’ve studied at Western fashion schools, while others have learned in Korea. Some are older students who embarked on their dream a little later, some have been unemployed, one is a mother with a young baby, and so forth.

Host is supermodel Lee Sora, while other judges include designer Kim Seok-won and ELLE Korea editor Shin Yoo-jin. (Also present in Episode 1 is a former U.S. Project Runway contestant from the fourth season, the (sour-faced and crabby-cakes) designer of Korean descent, Victoria Hong.)

The show premieres on cable channel On Style Friday, February 7.

ELLE Korea editor Shin Yoo-jin says: “The clothes you’ve made aren’t fashionable.”
Fashion photographer Gilles Bensimon says, “Wow, I have no more words.”
U.S. Project Runway contestant Victoria Hong says, well, you can read what she says:
Lee Seung-yeon, actress and CEO of About EL, says, “Won’t that fall apart?”
Singer-actress (and lingerie designer) Uhm Jung-hwa says, “The line isn’t so great…”
Designer Kim Seok-won says, “I don’t understand. That’s not right. It’s awful, actually.”

(reference: dramabeans.com)

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4 years … and still going strong.

102 completed drama projects … and new dramas keep being added.

WITH S2 is thrilled to be celebrating our 4th anniversary.  We are so lucky to have such an amazing team of people who work so hard and foster such a wonderful feeling of family, as well as a wonderful community of drama lovers who so fervently support our efforts.  All your thanks in your comments and facebook posts, your supportive e-mails, and kind words about us on other sites are deeply appreciated and provide us with the motivation to keep doing what we’re doing.  We’re thanking you a thousand times!

Look for lots more subtitle releases in the following days – let’s keep the party going!!!

VIA Access Extensions

Special thanks to our VIA supporters for making this site and operations possible.  Your generosity is what provides us the technology and services to manage a scattered worldwide team and so efficiently share our subs with all those who rely on them.

In celebration of our 4th anniversary, all existing VIA Access will be extended another month, and all supporters who donate in the month of January will also receive an additional gift of extended access.

Drama Review Contest Winners

Thank you all so much for taking the time to add your reviews for our Drama Reviews Contest.  It’s already helped some of our own team members decide to give some dramas a try.  And thanks for your feedback that we should make the reviews more visible.  We’ll definitely work on that.  It was truly difficult to select winners, and we tried to pick reviewers who we felt could help the most people in general.  There were some beautifully written and entertaining reviews (especially in the IRIS thread) that did not make this list.  We’ve picked 3 t-shirt winners below, and randomly drew one of the 3 for a custom design if the winners should want one.  You all will be getting a follow up email …

T-SHIRT WINNERS

methuongcon- Nice collection of reviews. Easy to understand rating system of your own.

mmym – Nice collection of reviews. Engaging to read (“realized that what is really tragic is knowing from the start that a drama is destined to fail and that its story is beyond saving even by a good lineup of actors.”) LOL.  A few more paragraph breaks might help, though

Kelly – Engaging to read, well organized and  easy to follow.  Love that reviews read like reviews and less like plot summaries.  Write some more, Kelly!   You were picked at random from this group as the grand prize winner, so you can have a custom design on your shirt if you’d like.

RUNNER UP – Sasa

As a last minute addition, we’ve decided to name a runner-up and give the runner up 6 months of  VIA Access.  This is because one of our members/judges loved this Capital Scandal review and has decided she must now watch it.

ALL REVIEWERS

As a thank you, all who wrote a review for the contest will get 1 month of VIA Access if desired.  Sorry we can’t set this up automatically for those who entered.  If you’d like to have VIA access for a month, please email withs2team@gmail.com with your registered username and a permalink to your review (review must be posted as of January 10th to be considered part of the contest).

Thank you all!  We love you!!

You’re Beautiful marks WITHS2’s 100th completed drama subtitling project! We’re celebrating by launching our new reviews postings where YOU can add your own reviews on the dramas we’ve subtitled.

We always get asked recommendations on which dramas to watch, but believe it or not, a lot of us are too busy subbing to get to watch a lot of dramas. Sooooo, why not help each other decide what to watch by sharing your thoughts on the dramas you loved … or hated?

To help get the ball rolling and get the reviews bubbling, we’re giving away t-shirts to the top 3 reviewers!

THE RULES

1. Go to any of the drama review pages. You can pull-down and select “Your Reviews” from the category pulldown menu on the right or go to the Projects page and click on the Reviews links on the table. There should also be links on the drama subtitle pages.
2. Select a star rating and write a review in the comments area. Your review should be substantial enough to share your opinions. If you can do it in a couple sentences, that’s fine, but because we have the star ratings for general popularity, we’d like to avoid reviews like “I liked it. It was exciting”. Please keep it no more than 4 or 5 paragraphs, though.
3. We will pick the top 3 on January 10,2010 ( which is also our 4th anniversary). We will judge not by quantity, but quality! This doesn’t mean you have to be a great writer or have any fabulous insights – it just means that your review should be useful to others.

THE T-SHIRTS

Two winners can choose from one of the designs found at the link below, and one grand prize winner can also pick one of those designs or work with the designer to have a custom design made (time and complexity limitations apply).

T-shirt designs can be viewed at meju♥laf.

Good luck, have fun, and thanks so much!!

VIA Access: our new THANK YOU program

WITH S2 would like to thank all of our fans and friends who have donated and otherwise supported us in sustaining our efforts and our site. As a Thank You, we have set up what we call VIA Access to Extras on our web site. VIA stands for Very Important Angel, and it is via you angels that we can continue to provide subs for these addicting Korean Dramas.

With VIA Access, you will be able to get the Extras on our site, which may contain the following goodies (and this list will grow):

• Pre-releases of subtitles .
  You guys will get the subtitles FIRST before we  officially release them to the public.
• Special subbing projects for VIA Access members ONLY
• Occasional subtitles for interviews and entertainment specials
• Exclusive drama reviews by WITH S2 team members
• The opportunity to suggest and vote on future projects
• Some form of recognition if desired

VIA Access is currently in “beta” and you will notice it is a bit scarce and possibly buggy. Please bear with us as we iron it out. ONE simple RULE: DO NOT SHARE OR LEAK THE EXTRAS CONTENTS UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.  Thanks again! We appreciate all you do to help us do what we do!

VIA should be getting an email with VIA access info within 24 hours from the time of the donation.  Please make sure that you have created an account at withs2.com  and include the user ID when making a donation for speedy VIA access.

Please note that you must be a registered member & remained logged-in to see any of the Extras content with VIA Access.

Who can be a VIA & get VIA access?

VIA Access

As a Thank You for helping us sustain our efforts and our site, we have set up what we call VIA Access to Extras on our web site for those angels who donate $10 or more. VIA stands for Very Important Angel, and it is via you angels that we can continue to provide subs for these addicting Korean Dramas.

• For angels who donate at least $10, we’d like to offer 6 months of VIA Access to thank you.
• For angels who donate at least $20, we’d like to offer a year of VIA Access to thank you.
• Previous angels  (who have made donations of any amount in the past) have been contacted by email with info to become VIA – If you have made a donation in the past and haven’t gotten an email from us – please send  an email to withs2donation@gmail.com so that we can set up VIA Access for you.
• Those who participated in our BOF giveaway contest in the past & show their appreciation to us through their comments & graphic & artwork.
• Those who will contribute to our team- be it reviews, artwork ( banners etc), guides to help newbies or just helping out by answering questions & guiding other others through the navigation of the site, giving us valid suggestions on how to improve our site & work..etc
• Email us at withs2team@gmail.com w/ any contributions & questions & concerns.

What will the money be used toward?

• Our web hosting/ site maintenance
• More premium megaupload/ sendspace max accounts for our growing list of members from all over the world- so subbers can save time and be able to obtain the subbing materials in a timely manner.
• The purchase of raw materials  for our special projects ( upcoming 20 episodes dvd of Tamra, possibly the director’s cut of Friend, the Legend)/ older gems that are only available in Japan with a heavy price tag of $300-$500/ dvd set.
• Funding  for our secret project
• Celebrating special occasions within our withs2 family ( Christmas appreciation/ hardest working members appreciation/ celebrating members’ birthday/ good & bad occasions.. etc)

Please email the site admins at withs2team@gmail.com if you can’t access the VIA Access after making your donation – as the admins will need to do some verifying after you donated.

(Please refer to this page for more info)

Dream 드림

Airing Date: June 27 ‘2009 (Mon-Tue drama)
Director: Baek Soo Chan
Screenwirter: Jung Hyung Soo
Number of Episodes: 20
Broadcasting Company: SBS
OFFICIAL SITE
Soompi Forum

CAST

• Joo Jin Mo as Nam Jae Il
• Kim Bum as Lee Jang Suk
• Son Dam Bi as Park So Yeon
• Hong Ah Reum as Song Yu Ri
• Park Sang Won as Kang Kyung Taek
• Choi Yeo Jin as Jang Soo Jin
• Oh Dal Soo (오달수) as Lee Young (Jang Suk’s father)
• Lee Ah Hyun as Jung Geum Ja
• Lee Ki Young as Park Byung Sam
• Lee Hoon as Park Jung Chul
• Yoo Hye Jung as Kim Sam Soon
• Yoo Yun Suk as Noh Chul Joong
• Park Nam Hyun as Go Kwang Pal
• Kim Woong as Maeng Do Pil
• Go Chang Suk as Straw
• Lee So Jung as Jae Shi
• Marco
• Hyun Woo (현우)
• Julien Kang (줄리엔 강)
• Chung Lim

BRIEF INFO:
This drama portrays sports management involving agencies, sponsors, and broadcasting companies for combative sport (격투기, 激鬪技) athletes. Actor Park Sang Won (박상원) plays the role Kang Kyung Tak (강경탁) who is the CEO of a sports agency. Joo Jin Mo plays the role Nam Jeh Il (남제일) who restarts a new career after his old career plunged to the ground.

Kim Bum plays the role Lee Jang Suk (이장석) who was originally a pickpocket and then becomes a fighter. Singer Son Dam Bi plays a Taebo (태보) instructor Park So Yun (박소연). They fall in love and collaborate towards their successes.

New singer Chung Rim (청림) also plays a combative sport athlete in this drama. Julien Kang (줄리엔 강) plays a handsome combative sport athlete to show his real ability of the sport through this drama. Julien Kang is the younger brother of the famous combative sport athlete Dennis Kang (데니스 강).

Supporting cast includes actress Choi Yu Jin and Yoo Hye Jung (최여진, 유혜정) as well as actor Marcos Benjamin Lee (마르코).

(Credit reference: CindyW88 @ Soompi.com)

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