YA Entertainment has now released the first 3 volumes (of 4) of the Korean drama Be Strong , Geum-soon with English subtitles. The first volume was released in June and consists of the first 41(!) episodes. I don’t know much about the drama, but it stars Han Hye-jin, whom I just love. I’ve been eyeing this drama before, but there was no release with English subtitles. I think I’m going to order the first box and see how it is. I hope it’s good, but at the same time, if it is, it will cost me a small fortune to buy all the boxes

However, these boxes only appear on YesAsia’s US pages, not on the global ones, which is why I missed that they’d come out. I’m not sure why, I’ll ask them.

update: Argh!! It’s only sold within North America! I guess they’re strict about the copyright since it’s their own brand, but almost all items I buy from YesAsia are only licenced for sale in Asia (not Europe) and that’s not a problem.

Here’s the reply I got:

With reference to your inquiry dated Aug 25, 2008, we would like to inform you that the some of the items including “Be Strong, Geum-soon” cannot be sold outside North America because of the copyright issue.  Hence, we regret to inform you that we will not be able to ship the said item to any country or region outside North America.  However, you are kindly assured that our responsible colleagues will be monitoring closely on the availability of any newer version of this item, which can be sold outside North America.  Once if such versions become available, we will immediately update our website.  Hence, you are kindly suggested to keep on visiting our website so that you will be able to obtain our first-hand information.