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Should We Kiss First (KDrama Recap & Review)
I have just started watching this drama. It is supposed to be a comedy drama but at the moment it is more a melodrama.
Cast:
- Kam Woo-sung as Son Moo-han
- Kim Sun-a as An Soon-jin
- Oh Ji-ho as Eun Kyung-soo
- Park Si-yeon as Baek Ji-min
- Kim Sung-soo as Hwang In-woo
- Ye Ji-won as Lee Mi-ra
The story is about two middle age single people who are afraid to venture into marriage and yet lonely enough to try to be in a relationship.
An Soon-Jin married her childhood sweetheart, Eun Kyung-soo but they ended up divorced. The reason of the divorce is not yet divulged. But there was a photo of a young child in An Soon-jin’s flat.
Eun Kyung Soo in now married to Baek Ji-min, who comes from an affluent family.
Despite the infidelity issue in this drama, all the characters are likeable even Baek Ji-min. I supposed it is still early days yet to really judge her. 🙂
The ex-husband too is sweet, very different from Jin Seop, the ex-husband in Happy Sisters.
The two lead characters first crossed path about six years ago while on board a plane. Moo Han was a passenger whilst Soon-jin was a stewardess. They had a bit of an angry incident as each were unhappy in their current personal situations. He just lost his wife and child to an American man and it seemed she just lost her child. She told him that it was fine with her if he did not want to fasten his seatbelt. She even said that death might be a relief.
As soon as the plane touched down, they both found themselves going to the zoo (not together). She was absolutely heartbroken.
At present day, Moo Han at 50 is still a genius ads man but a bit jaded.
Soon-Jin, who is now 45, is debt ridden with only a month to her 20 years of service as a flight stewardess.
Unbeknown to each one of them, they have lived on the same building on top of each other. Soon-Jin is #401 whilst Moo Han is at #501. They have issues against each other as anonymous neighbours.
Again, they have mutual friends who set them up together, in view of marriage. They did not hit it off but Moo Han recognised her as the stewardess of six years ago.
And now follows both hilarious and poignant adventures.
Hopefully this drama will tackle how love and marriage as well as having relationships with older couples.
I have to admit that somehow, I have lost my initial desire to watch this drama.
I find some of the scenes so excruciating to watch. These scenes where she followed what her best friend told her to do in order to ‘seduce’ Moo Han in view of marriage so that she can get some of his money. She was so pathetic and I find that hard to watch.
I fast forwarded this drama to some scenes which made me cry, like when her ex-husband bawling his eyes out in the grave site of their daughter.
I think I will just wait for the last two final episodes and then watch.
Sorry folks!
Ok I watched the last episode no 32 and WHAT WAS THAT?!!!
Moo Han is going for euthanasia because of terminal illness, I did not really get what was medically wrong with him as I did not watch anymore episodes after the first few ones but I gathered than he married Soon Jin so she gets his $20M fortune.
What a horrible ending. Why not give them a happy ending to encourage mature people, that there are still plenty of chances for a happy ever after to compensate for some shitty things in earlier life.
Also after 40, it is still possible to find love. It is not an age when all you can look forward to is death. 🙂 Come on.
I am sure the drama was brilliant, having a fantastic cast, but the story is not my cup of tea. I don’t want the characters undergoing too much cringing embarrassment because I feel them. 🙂
The story I thought was just too real for comfort. I want some sort of escapism when watching dramas,
Real life is too darn hard at it is. I don’t want to be stressed with too much angsty drama scenes for the sake of realism. 🙂
Ooops it has not ended yet. It seems it has more mileage to wring every drop of tears one can able to shed.
I think I am really curious enough to see how it finally ends so watch this space. 🙂
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