Kdrama 2014

Discovery of Love (Kdrama Review & Summary)

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• Genre: Romance, Love Triangle, Comedy, Drama
• Release Date: 2014
• Origin: South Korea
• Kdrama: 16 Episodes

 

Cast

• Jung Yu-mi as Han Yeo-reum
• Eric Mun as Kang Tae-ha
• Sung Joon as Nam Ha-jin
• Yoon Jin-yi as Ahn Ah-rim
• Yoon Hyun-min as Do Joon-ho
• Kim Seul-gi as Yoon Sol
• Kim Hye-ok as Shin Yoon-hee
• Ahn Suk-hwan as Bae Min-soo
• Lee Seung-joon as Yoon Jung-mok
• Sung Byung-sook as Ha-jin’s mother
• Gu Won as Choi Eun-kyu
• Jung Soo-young as Jang Gi-eun
• Nam Kyung-eup as Han Jae-shik
• Choi Hee as Ha-jin’s blind date
• Park Ah-in as Da-yeon

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This is the second time, or is it the third?, that I am watching this drama.  I love and enjoyed the first time and I thought I should watch it again because I am watching a new drama by Eric Mun called Eccentric! Chef Moon.

I was hooked during the first five minutes and probably will watch this whole drama today.

Yep I rewatched the whole drama and found it fresh and interesting like the first time I saw it.

The cast is engaging and good actors.

The story was about the many nuances of love: falling in love, romance, staying in love, falling out of live, one-sided love, infidelity, bereavement, ‘adopted love’, etc.

Yeo Reum first met Tae Ha on a train.

Within minutes Yeo Reum was confessing her love to him because she had fallen in love at first sight with him.

He was rather taken with her innocent confession and joie de vivre and not long they began a relationship.

Five year on, Tae Ha was an architect and was busy working from the bottom up in his father’s struggling company.  Most of the time he was too tired to even go to a proper bed to sleep. And so he had less time for Yeo Reum.

Yeo Reum, at first, understood but as time went on his inattention had become more frequent and rather personal to her.  Like the last time they were together.

They were together on a train going to the same destination as when they first met five year ago.  They were sitting together at first but as soon as another seat opposite became empty, he moved to it.

Yeo Reum then knew that the connection was gone.  She had always loved him more than he loved her.

During their stopover, she started crying and told him that she can’t take it anymore and wanted to break-up.

He was rather shocked. He kept telling her that they can’t just break up after five years.  Granted that the excitement was gone, they should move to another level.

But she was having none of it and walked off.

He warned her that if she really leaves then they were over.

After a few days she texted and called him incessantly.  She went to his house which was always empty.

Five years later…

Yeo Reum was a furniture designer and dating a handsome and gentle plastic surgeon Ha-Jin.

Ha Jin wanted to marry her but Yeo Reum was not sure yet because she was up to her neck in debt with student loans, her new company and house rent from her mother.

She does not want to go into a marriage with debt baggage especially where her future mother-in-law was not exactly her number one fan.

In fact as a birthday present he asked her son to grant her wish and that was to go on at least three blind dates.

Ha Jin was a lovely son so thinking not much of the blind dates, he went to them.  The last one was found out by Joon Ho, who told Sol, best friend of Yeo Reum.

Yeo Reum went to the hotel where the blind date was happening.  She found him in the foyer where there are some lounging tables.

She went to sit behind Ha Jin and his date.  As close to them as she can so she could hear what was going on.  The table she went to sit in was already occupied by someone.

To her shock, it was Tae Ha.

She was listening in to Ha Jin and his date.  When Ha Jin said that his date was a perfection of beauty, Yeo Reum could not take it anymore and stood up and told off Tae Ha for cheating on her but her words were meant for Ha Jin.

Tae Ha though told her that he had missed her all the time that they were not together.

Ha Jin knew that he was rambled by Yeo Reum.  He cheerfully took Yeo Reum away and told her about his mother’s birthday wish.

Unfortunately, this blind date had ignited something that cannot be put out. Suddenly anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

I love this drama, and Eric Mun is absolutely gorgeous as Tae Ha and so Sung Joon is not bad either.  Whoever she ends up with, she wins.

In the last ten minutes, she ended up with Tae Ha.