Are You Human Too? poster
- Genre: Sci-Fi, Family, Robotics, Melodrama, Romance, AI
- Date Released: 4 June 2018
- KDrama: 18 episodes
Cast:
- Seo Kang-joon as Nam Shin / Nam Shin III
- Gong Seung-yeon as Kang So-bong
- Lee Joon-hyuk as Ji Young-hoon
- Park Hwan-hee as Seo Ye-na
- Kim Sung-ryung as Oh Ro-ra
- Yu Oh-seong as Seo Jong-gil
This drama reminds me of a couple of American dramas: Haley Joel Osment’ AI and Halley Berry’s Extant.
It is about a robot used as a substitute for a child, who is yet to be born or who is incapacitated.
Seo Kang-Joon plays both Nam Shin and Nam Shin III.
Nam Shin was a chaebol, a third generation heir to a conglomerate, who unfortunately became ill. Rather auspicious for the family, the mother is brilliant and who happens to be leading a research top scientists on artificial intelligence. Before anyone could spell Bicentennial Man, Oh Ro-ra (the mother) had an android built to replace her comatose son. And he was called Nam Shin III
This move was to ensure that her son’s position as the heir is not jeopardize.
Well that is the synopsis that I can gather. I have yet to see the first episode as it is not subbed in English yet!
Watch this space.
Are You Human Too? (KDrama Review)
Episode 1-2
I am really loving this drama!
It is about a very rich man, who can’t accept that his son married a fairly ordinary woman (well not rich anyway).
To initiate reconciliation, the son went to visit his rich father, leaving his young son with his wife, who is a brilliant scientist researching robotics.
The next time his wife heard anything about him was when the father-in-law’s thuggish minions came and forcibly took her seven year old son, Nam Sin. When she asked why the father-in-law wanted her son when he did not bother with them before, she was given a death certificate and was told that her husband took his own life and was already cremated.
She was devastated and absolutely heartbroken.
She went to beg her father-in-law to return her son to her but when she got to see her son, he told her that he liked where he was and would much prefer to stay with his grandpa. The boy secretly made a deal with his authoritarian grandfather that he will stay with him, provided that his grandpa will not harm his mother.
She couldn’t take this turn of events and yet knew that she won’t be able to do anything against the powerful father-in-law.
A year later, she was now living in the Czech Republic and she had created an android who was a replica of her seven year old son. She called the young robot, Nam Sin 1.
She taught him the number 1 rule “Hug those who are crying”
A few years more had passed. Nam Sin 2 was born, who is a replica of her now 16 years old son.
In 2015, she again updated Nam Sin 2 to a 3-Generation.
Nam Sin 3 is strong and more agile as well as having acquired human characteristics. He is protective of his mother.
The human Nam Sin is all grown up. He was spoiled and absolutely hated his grandfather’s guts.
He made a scandalous commotion in order to distract his many bodyguards to be able to get away for a while. He had been secretly looking for his mother and found that she is now living in the Czech Republic.
Unfortunately someone was tailing him all the way to the Czech Republic. One of his grandfather’s minions, who had a lofty idea of becoming the next CEO of the company ordered that Nam Sin should be disposed off.
Coincidentally Nam Sin III and his ‘Mother’ with uncle David (another scientist) went to visit the market.
Nam Sin III was absolutely entranced with the vibrancy of the place. He was just about to go back to the car, to his waiting mother when he noticed a man, across the road, looking exactly like him.
He was so curious that he started crossing the road to go to this man. Of course the man he saw was Nam Sin, who was curious as well and started to meet Nam Sin III but a van plowed into Nam Sin. He was left bleeding in the middle of the road much to the shock and horror of Nam Sin III
This ‘accident’ was also witnessed by mother, who was shocked and worried to find her long ‘lost’ son all bloodied and crumpled on the road.
David, the scientist friend, took Nam Sin III away from the scene immediately to avoid attention.