Korean Romantic Comedy Drama

At the first few hours, you are probably thinking that you are watching another drama like “Fantastic Couple” on a rich lady meeting a construction builder. However with the existence of Kim seong-su (as Lee Kang-jae) you will know that you are watching a different kind of drama.

Five years ago, Kang-jae was just a senior in a university when he met Mi-soo (played by Lee So-yeon) and falls deep in love with her. Without the blessing of the family, they decided to elope together. But at that unfortunate night, Kang-jae did not turn up at the meeting point. The reason is Mi-soo father had appealed to Kang-jae not to take her daughter away. In order not to break his promise with Mi-soo, Kang-jae purposely let himself involve in an accident.

From that day Kang-jae disappeared, Mi-soo live her life like a rebel, drinking until late at night and is thinking of committing suicide every single day. Although she is a daughter of a millionaire but she treasures all her things. When she thought Ki-dong (played by Kim Ji-hun) she stole her bag, she fought it with all her strength.

 As a co-incidence, Ki-dong is found to be the chosen husband for Mi-soo. There are quite a few silly incidences with both of them. With Ki-dong has a long time girlfriend and Mi-soo who is still in love with Kan-jae, both of them are never thought to be together even until the 10^th hour of the drama. Although it appears that Mi-soo and Ki-dong does not belong to each other but on how both of them had cared for each other’s family has already say it all.

Kang-jae who had gone through multiple surgeries since his accident had worked hard to seek Mi-soo’s father blessing in order to be with Mi-soo. To Kang-jae, Mi-soo is his one and only person that he wanted to marry but to his surprise Mi-soo had started to fall in love with Ki-dong.

All the scenes that Kang-jae appears are really emotional, I would say his acting skill is really superb, and how he has brought out the character is really perfect. If you have watch “My Girl” before, the same sympathy you have towards Lee Joon-ki (played by Seo Jeong-woo), you will feel it here or even more.

This drama has a good ending with each of the character finds their own happiness at last. But still, somehow, you will wish that Mi-soo has chosen Kang-jae over Ki-dong. Yes, a small regret here on the ending.

 Critic’s ranking:

For the last one to two years, the storyline on Korean romantic comedy has been revolving around young guys and women. Even before starting to watch this drama, by reading on the synopsis, I knew this is will be an exciting and thrilling drama.

 This drama revolves around a bachelor Jae-hee (Ji Jin-hee as main actor) who had just turned 40, has everything including a home called his own, a prestige career as owner of an architecture firm and of course he is a guy with extremely good taste for fine things. Why, such a man with an excellent background but still remain a bachelor, unbelievable right?

 The issue with Jae-hee, he leads an isolation life, his concept in life is

“he would rather stay at home having a home-cooked steak instead of eating out; rather stay at home during holidays instead of going into crowding places; and after bathing he would not go out”

Well, with these habits he is not the worse guy, right? How about taking care of every single detail at home from a drop of the wine on the table to how the way a towel should hang? Now you get what I meant.  This is a guy with extreme good taste but only lives for himself, I would not consider he is living a selfish life, but the way he handles his things at home I would say it is skeptical, annoying and a pain the ass.

 How would a woman doctor Moon-jeong (played by Uhm Jung-hwa) in her prime almost reaching 40 finds him as a soul mate? Right?

 There are a lot of comedic scenes in the whole drama, although the story line is very different compare to other romantic comedies, there are lacking of touching scenes.

With the existing of a younger woman in her mid-twenties Yoo-jin (played by Kin So-eun) has also bring out the difference of lifestyle and worries for women at different ages.

 Overall, it is a good drama to watch as it brings out the life of successful singles in the city life, having dinner alone; watching dvds at night; asking workmates for dinner and etc and you would get a few good laughs too.

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