Review and Summary
Cheese In the Trap Drama Vs Movie (Review & Summary)
The Drama version
Cheese in the Trap, promotional poster from TvN
- Genre: Romance, Youth, School
- Release Date: 4 January 2016
- Origin: South Korea
- Kdrama: 16 Episodes
Cast
- Kim Go Eun as Hong Seol
- Park Hae Jin as Yoo Jung
- Seo Kang Joon as Baek In Ho
- Lee Sung Kyung as Baek In Ha
- Nam Joo Hyuk as Kwon Eun Taek
- Park Min Ji as Jang Bo Ra
- Son Byung Ho as Yoo Young Soo
- Ahn Kil Kang as Hong Jin Tak
- Yoon Bok In as Kim Yeong Hee
- Kim Hee Chan as Hong Joon
- Hwang Seok Jeong as Professor Kang
- Kim Jin Geun as Professor Han
- Lee Woo Dong as Heo Yoon Seob
- Moon Ji Yoon as Kim Sang Chul
- Oh Hee Joon as Ha Jae Woo
- Ji Yoon Ho as Oh Yeong Gon
- Yoon Ji Won as Son Min Soo
- Cha Joo Young as Nam Joo Yeon
- Yoon Ye Joo as Kang Ah Young
- Go Hyun as Kim Kyung Hwan
- Shin Joo Hwan as Min Do Hyun
- Kim Hye Ji as Lee Da Yeong
- Kim Gi Bang as Gong Joo Yong
- Yoo Jang Young as Sang Geun
If I’ll be asked for my Top 10 Korean dramas ever, Cheese in the Trap will be one of them.
The drama was so good with the most perfect cast. That is why I can’t understand why the film version of this drama is more or less recast except for Park Hae Jin.
Kim Go-Eun was adorable as Hong Seol. You can read how she was feeling in her face. She is such a brilliant actress.
Seo Kang Joon was gorgeous as the streetwise Baek In-ho.
Whilst Lee Sung-kyung portrayed a self-centred, spoilt yet vulnerable Baek In-ha
I absolutely love this drama. It is a sweet romance between Yoo Jung (Park Hae Jin) and Hong Seol (Kim Go-eun). Yoo Jung is the heir of a big company while Hong Seol was a hardworking college student.
To start with Hong Seol was rather wary of Yoo Jung as he has a somewhat psychotic tendency. 🙂 He can blow hot and cold and therefore you are not sure where you at with him. But having said that Yoo Jung was really into Hong Seol, he was very romantic but in his own terms.
The development of their relationship was so sweet and at times rather disturbing :). Yoo Jung was so forceful in his chase of Hong Seol. Before she really knew it, she had become his girlfriend.
And then even then, she was not sure of him or how she would react as his girlfriend. Hong Seol was not sure whether to fully trust Yoo Jung but in the end, she did truly love him.
This drama is rather addictive. I have seen it several times and it feels every time.
Brilliant acting by both leads.
The only thing was that the ending was just too hanging! Hong Seol was left waiting for an email from Yoo Jung for his return!
The 16-episode drama ended with the much-awaited email from Yoo Jung.
The film version is coming out this 14 March 2018.
So curious of the ending!
Cheese in the trap movie poster
Cheese in the Trap – The Movie
- Released Date 2018
Cast:
- Park Hae-Jin as Yoo Jung
- Oh Yeon-Seo as Hong Seol
- Park Ki Woong as as Baek In-Ho
- Yu In-young as Baek In-Ha
The structure and framework of the film are the same with the drama but the story was a little different.
I have to admit that I loved the drama so much and watched it again and again; over and over. It’s a drama to go back to when there is nothing much to watch on telly.
I have to be honest I could only bear to watch the first 20 minutes of the film and sad to say, I fast-forwarded it to the final part just to find out how it ended.
I don’t know perhaps I am a bit biased towards the drama and the recasting of most of the actors that I did not really enjoy the film.
Kim Go Eun was such a brilliant actress that she made Hong Seol her own character and anyone else playing her will be prone to become second-best to Go Eun,
That is where the film first went wrong, recasting the lead female, why try to improve on perfection?
Because the drama has many episodes the characters are more rounded – well defined. While in the film you don’t really get to know them very well. They just seems to be a bunch of highly suspect, unlikable characters. Even in the only 20 minutes that I have seen, Hong Seol comes out as a bit of a victim and quite a pushover. There was barely any chemistry between the leads.
Perhaps the film would have been better if the excellent drama did not exist or came out first.
Mind you it is not a bad movie, it is quite polishly done but it was not for me.
And the one saving grace of this film was that the ending is not hanging unlike the drama. This was the reason I tried to watch this film. I wanted to know the ending.
It ended of them being together. It showed when Yoo Jung first liked Hong seol.
As a recommendation, watch the drama rather than the film but if you wanted to watch both, then watch the film first and then the drama to enjoy them both.