It’s more organic that we end up liking them. The great thing about this drama’s writing is how much they make us care about each character without having to make up obstacles along the way for them.
Really, they play more like people who help Yeon Jae along her journey, whether they are antagonistic or otherwise. While the drama is mainly about Lee Yeon Jae, we get just enough doses of these other characters that we grow attached to them without taking us far away from the center of the story. Together, these four characters make up most of the drama in the story. Seo Hyo Rim plays Im Se Kyung, the daughter of another company who was initially forced to marry Ji Wook only to later fall for him as well. Eventually, his interactions with Yeon Jae melts his cold exterior. Uhm Ki Joon plays Choi Eun Suk, Yeon Jae’s doctor and old friend, whose cold and distant attitude earns him the scorn of his co-workers and his patients. Then he meets and fall in love with Yeon Jae and starts to see his life as meaningful. Ji Wook is the son of the company’s CEO and at first, he seems to be bored with living and working at his father’s company. What’s especially incredible is how she transforms from a meek person to a brave and strong person ironically when she knows she’s dying.Īpart from Yeon Jae’s story, we also have other characters that are connected to Yeon Jae. We see her travel to Japan, filling out her bucket list, learning the Tango, and shopping for new clothes and gifts for her mom and her friends. At first, it seems that the moral is to live your life today as if it’s your last and for the most part, Yeon Jae does in the beginning. The beauty of the story is how it tries to sell us its moral. She eventually falls in love with Lee Dong Wook’s Kang Ji Wook, the new director and son of the owner of travel company Yeon Jae works for.
From there she decides to live her life to the fullest using all her savings without telling those close to her that she’s dying. On her way to a routine check up, she discovers that she has a tumor that cannot be surgically remove and will eventually take her life. Her manager mistreats her and humiliates her any chance he gets but she never threatens to quit or complain simply because she was afraid she’d lose her job. Lee Yeon Jae works for a travel agency as a mid-level desk worker who happens to be looked down upon by pretty much everyone in the office. Even if there aren’t obvious comic reliefs, the tiny bits of humor that this drama gives up are enough to take us away from the sometimes-too-painful story, which is exactly what we need. The comedy is more subtle than obvious: tiny facial expressions from our stars and hilarious comic beats from the supporting cast drum up most of the laughs. Instead of getting all mopey on us and depressing (49 Days, anyone?) we get lots of comedy mixed with the drama. Convention works especially when it’s done right. Everything about this drama seems conventional but that is not necessarily a bad thing. If that sounds cheesy, it’s because it is.
Scent of a Woman is about Lee Yeon Jae (Kim Sun Ah), a woman fast approaching the spinster age who finds out she has cancer and decides to live her life the way she wants to: she quits her job, spends her savings on luxuries, and goes on a journey of self-discovery and love. The direction is on par with recent dramas but the detailing is far deeper here than what usual fare would offer. Thankfully, Scent of a Woman escapes most of the rubbish Korean drama ridiculousness and comes out with a very consistent drama that though not flawless, seems to have all the right pieces of a great piece of entertainment.Ībly led by Lee Dong Wook and Kim Sun Ah, this drama is a marvelous feat with its gorgeous cinematography, the wholly fanciful and perfectly used musical score, and the rich and powerful acting. Many dramas tend to piss me off with how ridiculous the writers get trying to come up with stories to fill up 16 episodes and sometimes these new story lines seem hackneyed.
They resolve everything (with various results) and leave you feeling happy/satisfied with a tad bit of nostalgia for the yester-months when the show was just premiering. In short, the magic of Korean dramas is how within a span of, on average, 16 episodes, they get to earn your love and devotion and wish that it’ll go on forever.
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They have a special quality that makes them different from other TV shows that have seasons and seasons worth of episodes. There are many reasons why Korean dramas stand out as a genre in entertainment.
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