Wednesday 15 July 2009

[KDrama] Sorry, I Love You



Details
Title: 미안하다, 사랑한다 / Mianhada, Saranghanda
Also known as: I'm Sorry, I Love You
Genre: Human drama, romance
Episodes: 16
Viewership ratings: 20.3 (Seoul) / 20.1 (Korea)
Broadcast network: KBS2


Synopsis
This story is about Cha Moo Hyuk, he was abandoned by his parents as a kid and his foster parents brought him to Australia. However his foster parents mistreated him and now he’s living on the streets, cheating foreigners, who doesn’t understand English, of their money.

Song Eun Chae, is the coordinator and childhood friend of the famous Korean singer, Choi Yoon. She sees him as her main point in life and does everything to please him. Choi Yoon visits Australia to do a photoshoot and asked Eun Chae to help him get close to his crush Min Joo. This breaks Eun Chae’s heart so she decides to leave Australia first, but she doesn’t speak English so she got robbed by the same crime group as Moo Hyuk.

She walks around without any money or a passport, crying and then she bumps into Moo Hyuk. She finds out he speaks Korean and follows him till his sleeping spot on the street. She is forced to spend the night with him, and when she wakes up she finds her luggage and money right in front of her.

Some days later, Moo Hyuk receives an invitation for his ex-girlfriends wedding. At the wedding, Moo Hyuk get shot twice in the head when someone tries to kill his ex-girlfriends husband. The doctor could save him but could only remove one bullet. The remaining bullet was to deeply within his head so that it can’t be surgically removed. It’s slowly killing him and he has only 3 months to live.

With loads of guilt, his ex-girlfriend gives him a huge sum of money and tells him to go back to Korea to search for his birth parents. He listens to her and finds out that his mother is none other then the famous Korean actress Oh Deul Hee, mother of Choi Yoon. He feels betrayed because they both live so well and wants revenge, he plots to bring Choi Yoon and his mother down, but never expected to fall in love with Eun Chan.

When time passes Choi Yoon is struck by a heart disease, and will die without a heart transplant. What will Moo Hyuk do? Will Eun Chan be able to get rid of the selfishly side of Moo Hyuk?


Review
Story

I started this drama out of curiosity, the story really caught my attention. And I had high expectations, and it didn't disappoint me.

It's a real tearjerker, so when you like this gerne this drama is definitely a must. The story is nothing like other Korean Drama’s.

The drama really drags you right into the story of Moo Hyuk and his mysterious appearance. You really want to know more of him and why he acts like he does. For me it was definitely Moo Hyuk’s character that made this drama so interesting. The way he acts out of rage is very sad but also understandable.
Another character that made this drama really interesting was Eun Chan, the way that she was dealing with her feelings was interesting. You really get dragged in her emotions. Especially when she collapse because she doesn’t know what to do anymore…

The story can he a little slow sometimes but this was the purpose of the makers, so that you really get dragged into the emotions of all the characters.


Cast
The cast was perfect. No other words for it. The main character was played by So Ji Sub and he really did a great job. So Ji Sub is an outstanding actor who really knows hows to empathize with his character. You really believed the pain Moo Hyuk was going trough.

Im Soo Jung played Eun Chan. She did a really good job, I never like Korean actresses that much, because they seem to overreact and to overplay their character. But Im Soo Jung really impressed me!

Jung Kyung Ho played Choi Yoon this was the only cast member that I already knew. I saw him in Time Between Dog and Wolf and he impressed me there! And also as the spoilt sensitive brad he impressed me, he was getting on my nerves because he was so spoilt which means he played his part very well! At the end of the drama he turns into a matured person.


Stars:
★★★★★