contributed by Stariella (email: milkybluestar@yahoo.com)

I am truly, madly and deeply in love with foreign dramas. My very first foreign drama was Beautiful Days, which was quite a popular and touching Japanese drama starring Takako Tokiwa and Takuya Kimura. From there, I progressed to watch most of the Japanese-dramas out there and grew to love some of the regular J-dramas actors and actress deeply.

However, this madness stroke me ... had only been truly ignited through the first Korean drama I watched, that is none other than "Winter Love Song" aka "Winter Sonata". Lovely scenery, beautiful and heart-wrenching lines, amazing shots, brilliant directing and of course, the greatly talented cast, brought my fever to a new height. Shamelessly, I admit that it was love at first sight (erm, maybe it should be OBSESSION at first sight.) When I saw the main character, Kang Joon Sang, who appeared as a new high-school student in WLS. I had fallen deeply, if not dangerously, in love with Bae Yong Jun character and watched WLS at least 8 times, yet the boredom signs have hardly come up. (Hey, I still watch it these days as I work! ;P) That miracle man had a KILLER smile, I swear!

After WLS, I watched other dramas like Autumn Tale, My Love Patzzi, Truth, Propose and etc. The drama, HOTELIER had just started showing recently and my interest had been almost instantaneously flame when I saw one of the main casts, BYJ! It did not help either when I found out that he is portraying a handsome, suave, cold, ingenious, romantic and filthy rich Harvard graduate. Needless to say, I had fallen, yet again, in love with BYJ and HOTELIER.

On the whole, HOTELIER has been a really enlightening and delightful drama. For example, it does not have many dramatic scenes such as when the casts have to cry for at least 5 minutes each episode. Instead, it's lively scenes are deep and intense, and it reminded me that it is really true a single picture/scene could paint a thousand words or more. (Eg. When Shin Dong-Hyuk met his father in East Ocean, the many years of deep anguish, pain and hurt was practically screaming out from the character itself!) Other than that, I felt Song Yun Ah gave a brilliantly cute (Her facial expressions are truly adorable at times! ;-D) and wonderful performance as the simple and care-free Manager Seo Jin Young.

However, the BEST thing is neither the excellent nor the superb casts, but instead it is the knowledge that there are many MANY other people like me out there around the world who share the same enthusiasm and interest in HOTELIER and that makes the drama so much more worth watching!! :D

Hotelier had truly built a permanent hotel in each of our hearts. I am definitely not planning to let it go anytime soon. ^_^