Our Blues (2022)

The lives of people living in Jeju

It's the stories of people's lives. Mostly their struggles in life.

It's about connections between people and growing up poor and struggling to make a living and relationships and families. There's a lot of sadness and illnesses and mental health issues. Things we all face.

But there's hope as well.

It's not a depressing show or anything like that. It's not one of those shows where it wallows in misery, pain, and depression. It shows people finding strength to overcome or live with such pain and move on with their lives. There's a realism to many of these stories and I definitely can relate to many of these stories myself.

The music reminds me of Il Postino.

The character that I most align with is Dong Seok. I can feel his anger and pain and what a terrible life he has lived. But with each story, there is hope and strength.

It's not a show that will have you crying every episode. Far from that. It shows many facets of human lives that each of us can relate to and shows what it is to be human.

I skipped several of the latter episodes centering on the kid.

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To tell you the truth, I almost dropped this show somewhere in the beginning. I forgot which part but I did thought of that. BUT... I am so glad that I didn't. I'm glad that I finished the whole show and I have to say I really love it.

This show just gave me warmth. It was about friendship, love, family, and most importantly... accepting yourself.
The casting and acting were phenomenal. It was really outstanding. Script, music, everything was on point. It made me feel happy, it made me cry, it made me feel love, anxious... to cut the long story short, it was an emotional rollercoaster (but in a good way ?)

Honestly, am finding it hard to put my emotions into words since I just finished the show less than 5 minutes ago but I loved it. BRAVO!!!!

PS: It was really nice to see Woobin and Mina in one scene ehehehehe I consider those small moments a bonus for me ?

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A wonderful unfolding of layered characters.

I’m wrapped up in a comfort blanket eating too much 70% chocolate, a surfeit of endorphins and caffeine. Netflix has offered two outstanding slice of life dramas and aired them simultaneously. First, “My Liberation Notes” and now “Our Blues”. What more could be asked for? Whereas “My Liberation Notes” was essentially a story built around family, “Our Blues” centres around the members of a community and explores their individual lives and circumstances. Given the title, there is a hint that this drama will tackle the things in life that are difficult. But far from being sad it ultimately strikes an uplifting note.

The stories on offer are not about huge life changing tragedy but the emotional hurdles that life puts up for us to jump over and the hoops we go through. Essentially this is a drama about the good heart that lies at the centre of ordinary human beings. Their generosity, warmth, caring and insecurities.

They are stories set within a community where there is no real privacy and no anonymity. Where caring and interference exist either side of a blurred boundary which is crossed and crossed again. They are essentially about the price individuals are wiling to pay for deeper connection and love, and the confused and contradictory emotions that are experienced when that love and resentment collide.

There is no judgement written into the narrative. Each character has depth, we can love them from one angle and criticise them from another.

Among a slew of excellent performances Lee Byung Hun as Lee Dong Seok was the standout. Even though the writing for the last three episodes concerning his relationship with his mother, did not work as well for me, his performance did not falter.

Next in line was Han Ji Min, who was painfully convincing as the conflicted and hurting Lee Young Ok. Also, Lee Jung Eun as Jung Eun Hee, the stalwart glue of the community. But to be honest there was barely a weak performance in a large cast. Perhaps Shin Min Ah failed to completely convince me as Min Seon Ah, but she came good in the end.

This is the sixth writer (Noh Hee Kyung) /director (KimKyu Tae) collaboration which started in 2008. They include “Live”, “That Winter, The Wind Blows” and “It’s Okay That’s Love”. The long experience of working together brings a sense of seamless harmony and easy expression to the end result. In a drama of so many parts there can sometimes be an unevenness of tone, but here the actors were helped to bring a consistent feel that unified the whole production.

One of the most challenging things to write is the slow unfolding of emotions for a character. Peeling back the disparate layers to find out what is underneath. To reveal the unexpected, that often surprises us. This writer has done a magnificent job of just that, particularly with the story of the twin sisters which explores deeply complex and conflicting emotions and reveals them beautifully.

The cinematography is simple and what I loved about this show was the relief from artificially beautified faces. People were shown in their ordinariness with limited makeup and occasionally, deliberately unflattering lighting. In terms of camerawork, it was Jeju Island itself that became the star of the show with all its natural beauty on display.

The music was a weak point for me, with too much use of hotel-lobby style background music that failed to do justice to the emotional depth of the action. Thankfully, there were times when silence carried the pathos and did justice to the acting.

This drama comes highly recommended.

What my rating means: 8+ A great drama with interesting content and good writing, direction, acting, OST, cinematography. But didn’t quite have the requisite sparkle to bump it into my all-time fave list. Worth watching.

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A good watch

Like a lot of people, I started this drama mainly because of Kim Woo bin’s return to Tv and I can say that I was not disappointed. The first three episodes might be a drag but trust me, it gets better.
It is a very compelling drama that draws you to each character as every episode unfolds. The fact that it does not bore you with just one main character and gives you access to different characters with very intriguing stories.
I loved the chemistry and the bond between the characters, it definitely is a warm drama. Get your box of tissue ready cause you’re going to cry a lot while watching this drama.

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လူကြီးလူငယ်မရွေး ကြည့်သင့်သည်

❗️???မျက်ရည်လွယ်သူ မဖတ်ပါနဲ့???❗️

အင်ဂွမ် နဲ့ ဟိုရှစ်၊ ယောင်ဂျု နဲ့ ဟျွန်း တို့ရဲ့ Our Blues

Our Blues Reviewကို ရေးကြပါဆိုပြီး ပြောကြသူတွေရှိပါတယ်။ရေးမယ်လို့လည်းစဉ်းစားထားပေမယ့် သိတဲ့အတိုင်း ဒီဇာတ်လမ်းတွဲက အားလုံးကအဓိကဇာတ်ဆောင်တွေချည်းမို့သူတို့အပိုင်းပြီးသွားတဲ့တိုင် မပါတော့တာမဟုတ်ဘဲ ဟန်ဆုကလွဲပြီး ကျန်တဲ့ကျွန်ပေါ်မှာနေတဲ့သူတွေက ပါနေအုန်းမယ်လို့ ထင်ရတာကြောင့် ဇာတ်ကောင်အသီးအသီးရဲ့ဇာတ်သိမ်းကမသိရသေးပါဘူး။ဒါကြောင့်မို့ရေးရတာ နည်းနည်းတော့လက်ဝင်သလို ခက်လည်းခက်ပါတယ်။

ဒီReviewကတော့ အင်ဂွမ်နဲ့ဟျွန်း၊ဟိုရှစ်နဲ့ ယောင်ဂျုတို့သားအဖ ၂တွဲရဲ့အပိုင်းအကြောင်းကို focusထုတ်ထားတဲ့ Reviewဘဲဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

ငိုရတယ် ငိုရတယ်ဆိုပြီးပြောစရာကိုမလိုပါဘူး။တကယ် တော့ ဘာကြောင့်ငိုရသလဲဆိုတော့သူတို့သားအဖ၂တွဲရဲ့အကြောင်းက လူတွေမှာရှိကြတဲ့ သားသမီးနဲ့မိဘအကြောင်း၊သူငယ်ချင်းအကြောင်း၊ ကျောင်းသားဘ၀ ဘာမှမသိခင် ဘဝကိုနှမ်းတွက်တွက်ပြီး တွက်ချေကိုက်မယ်လို့ထင်ထားတဲ့အကြောင်းတွေကြောင့်ဘဲဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

ဇာတ်လမ်းမကြည့်ဖူးပေမယ့် Reviewဖတ်တဲ့သူတွေနားလည်အောင်ဇာတ်အကျဉ်းလေးကိုပြောပြပါ့မယ်။အင်ဂွမ်နဲ့ဟိုရှစ်က သူငယ်ချင်းတွေ၊အိမ်ကလည်း အပေါ်အောက်နေကြပေမယ့် မတည့်ကြပါဘူး။သူတို့နှစ်ယောက်မှာ သားနဲ့ သမီးတစ်ယောက်စီရှိကြတယ်းအဲ့ဒါကတော့ ယောင်ဂျုနဲ့ ဟျွန်းပါ။သူတို့ကတော့ အထက်တန်းကျောင်းသူကျောင်းသားလေးများဖြစ်ပြီး စာတော်တဲ့သူတွေဖြစ်ကာ ဆိုးလ်မှာရှိတဲတက္ကသိုလ်မှာသွားတက်ဖို့အတွက် မိဘတွေကကော သူတို့နှစ်ယောက်ကပါရည်မှန်းထားပေမယ့် ယောင်ဂျုနဲ့ဟျွန်းတို့က ချစ်သူတွေဖြစ်ပြီး လွန်လွန်ကျူးကျုးဖြစ်ကာ ယောင်ဂျုမှာ ကိုယ်ဝန်ရှိရာကနေပြီး ဇာတ်လမ်းကဇာတ်ရှိန်မြင့်လာတယ် လို့ ဆိုရမှာပါ။အဲ့ဒီ့နောက်ပိုင်းမှာတော့ သားအဖတွေအချင်းချင်းပြောတဲ့စကားလုံးတွေက ကြည့်တဲ့ပရိသတ် တွေကို ထိမှန်စေပါတယ်။

သားဖြစ်သူကို အမြဲတမ်းကြမ်းကြမ်းတမ်းတမ်းပြောပေမယ့် တကယ်တော့သားဟျွန်းတစ်ယောက်တည်းကသာ သူ့အတွက်ဂုဏ်ယူစရာဆိုတဲ့ အင်ဂွမ်ဟာ အရင်က လူဆိုးဂိုဏ်းသမားတစ်ယောက်ဖြစ်ပေမယ့် သူ့ကြောင့် အမေဖြစ်သူကဆုံးပါးပြီး၊မိန်းမဖြစ်သူကလည်းထွက်သွားခဲ့တာမို့ကျန်ခဲ့တဲ့ သားကိုလူကောင်းလူတော်တစ်ယောက်ဖြစ်အောင်ပြုစုပျိုးထောင်ဖို့အတွက် လူဆိုးအလုပ်ကိုစွန့်လွှတ်ပြီး ဝတ်အူပြုတ်(နားလည်အောင်အလွယ်ရေးလိုက်ပါသည်) လုပ်ပြီး ဈေးတွေမှာလှည့်ရောင်းရင်းနဲ့ ပညာတော်တဲ့သားဖြစ်သူကို ဆိုးလ်ကကျောင်းကောင်းကောင်းမှာ ပညာတက်ဘွဲ့ရစေလိုတဲ့ အဖေတစ်ယောက်ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

ဒါပေမယ့် သူ့သားက သူ့သူငယ်ချင်းဖြစ်ပေမယ့်အကြောင်း တစ်ခုကြောင့် မတည့်တော့တဲ့ဟိုရှစ် သမီး ယောင်ဂျုနဲ့ချစ်သူတွေဖြစ်နေတဲ့အပြင် ကိုယ်ဝန်ပါရစေတယ်ဆိုတာကိုသိလိုက်ရချိန်မှာတော့ ဖခင်တစ်ယောက်အနေနဲ့ ပုံမှန်ဆိုရင် သားကိုအပြစ်ဆိုတာဖြစ်ပေမယ့် သူပြောတဲ့စကားက ”မင်းကို ယောင်ဂျုက ဖြားယောင်းလို့မဟုတ်လား”ဆိုပြီးသူ့ဘဝ ရဲ့တစ်ခုတည်းသော ဂုဏ်ယူစရာ သားကိုသံသယမမြင်ဘဲ တဖက်သားအပြစ်ဆိုပြီးမြင်တဲ့ ဖခင်တစ်ယောက်ရဲ့ သားအပေါ်မှာထားတဲ့(ဘယ်သူတွေဘာဖြစ်ဖြစ်သားဆိုတဲ့)စိတ် ကိုတွေ့ရပါတယ်။ဒါပေမယ့်နောက်ဆုံး ဘယ်လိုတွေဘဲပြော ပြော သားနဲ့တဖက်ကယောင်ဂျုတို့ကချစ်ကြိုက်ကြပြီးအခု လိုဖြစ်တယ်ဆိုတာကိုသိပေမယ့်လည်း လက်မခံနိုင်ခဲ့ ဘူး။ဘာကြောင့်လဲဆိုတော့ သားဖြစ်သူ ဟျွန်းကို လူလားမြောက်ကိုရှာဖွေကျွေးမွေးခဲဲ့တဲ့ သူ့လိုမျိုးသူ့သားကိုအပင်ပန်းမခံစေလိုတဲ့ မိဘရဲ့မေတာကို ပါးစပ်က တခွန်းမှမပြောဘဲနဲ့ အရိပ်အယောင်လည်းမပြဘဲနဲ့ သူ့သားဘဝကို ပျက်စေတယ်လို့သူယူဆတဲ့ကိုယ်ဝန်(ကလေး) ကိုဘဲတနည်းနည်းနဲ့ပျောက်ပျက်အောင် သူကြိုးစားပါတော့တယ်။

ဒါပေမယ့် အဲ့ဒါကိုသားဖြစ်သူက မကျေနပ်ဘဲ အဖေ့ကို အမေက ထားခဲ့တာ၊အဖေ့ကိုအဖေလို့ခေါ်ရမှာမုန်းတယ်။ အဖေ့ရဲ့သားဖြစ်ရတာရှက်တယ်ဆိုပြီးသားဖြစ်သူရဲ့အပြော တွေမှာ ဘယ်လောက်ရမ်းတဲ့ လူကြမ်းကြီးဖြစ်ပါစေ။တခွန်းမှ ပြန်မပြောနိုင်ဘဲပြိုလဲခဲ့ရတယ်။နောက်ဆုံးပိတ်သားဖြစ်သူက သူ့ဆီကိုလာပြီး အကျိုးအကြောင်းပြောတဲ့အချိန်ရောက်မှ သူဘာကြောင့် အခုလို တားရသလဲ သူ့ရဲ့မိဘတစ်ယောက်ရဲ့အတွေးတွေကိုပြောရင်းနဲ့ သားအဖနှစ် ယောက်ရဲ့ အပြန်အလှန်ပြောတဲ့စကားလုံးတိုင်းဟာကြည့်တဲ့ပရိသတ်တွေရဲ့ ရင်ဝကိုထိမှန်စေမယ်လို့ထင်မိပါတယ်။

နောက်ထပ်သားအဖတွေကတော့ ဟိုရှစ်နဲ့ယောင်ဂျုတို့ ဘဲ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။လောင်းကစားသမား ဟိုရှစ်ကို မိန်းမဖြစ်သူက ထားခဲ့တာမို့ သမီးယောင်ဂျုကို အဖေတစ်ယောက်တည်းနဲ့ကျွေးမွေးပြုစု ပျိုးထောင်ခဲ့တဲ့ ယောင်ဂျုဟာသူ့အတွက် တော့ စာတော်တဲ့သူ့သမီးဟာအဖိုးမဖြတ်နိုင်တဲ့ရတနာတစ် ခုလိုပါဘဲ။သမီးလုပ်သူက ဆိုးလ်ကိုသွားပြီးကျောင်းတက် တဲ့အခါ သူကိုယ်တိုင်က ငါးဖမ်သင်္ဘောလေးဝယ်ပြီး သူဝါသနာပါတဲ့ ငါးဖမ်းအလုပ်လုပ်လုပ်ပြီးအခုလို ငါးဆိုင် တွေမှာ ရေခဲရောင်းတဲ့အလုပ်ကို မလုပ်တော့ဘူးလို့ဆုံးဖြတ်ထားပြီးအဲ့ဒီ့အချိန်လေးကို ရောက်ဖို့အတွက် ကြိုတွေးပြီးပျော်နေတဲ့သူတစ်ယောက်လည်းဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

အရင်က လောင်းကစားကြောင့် ဘဝပျက်ခဲ့ပေမယ့် အခုလို ကောင်းရောင်းကောင်းဝယ်လုပ်စားနေတာဟာသူ့မှာအကြောင်း တစ်ခုရှိပါတယ်။အဲ့ဒါဟာဘာလဲဆိုတော့ မိန်းမက အိမ်ကထွက်သွားတဲ့အခါ စားစရာမရှိတဲ့ သမီးဖြစ်သူကိုပြပြီး အဲ့ဒီ့အချိန်က လူဆိုးလုပ်နေတဲ့ အင်ဂွတ်ဆီကိုသွားပြီး ပိုက်ဆံတောင်းခဲ့ပါတယ်။အရင်ကလည်း အခုလိုတောင်းခဲ့ပေမယ့် ခုချိန်မှာတော့ သမီးကိုဗန်းပြပြီး ပိုက်ဆံတောင်းတယ်(မြန်မာလိုဆို မျောက်ပြ ဆန်တောင်းတယ်)ဆိုပြီး ပြောသွားတဲ့ အွင်ဂွတ်ရဲ့စကားကို နာကျဉ်းပြီး အင်ဂွတ်နဲ့အခုလို မတည့်တဲ့ရန်သူတွေလိုဖြစ်သွားသလို လောင်းကစားကိုရပ်ပြီး ရေခဲရောင်းတဲ့အလုပ်ကိုလုပ်ကိုင်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။

ဒါပေမယ့် သူ့အိမ်မက်တွေအကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဖို့အချိန်နီးနေတဲ့အခါမှာဘဲ သမီးဖြစ်သူက သူ့ရန်သူလို့သတ်မှတ်ထားတဲ့ အင်ဂွတ်သား ဟျွန်းရဲ့ကိုယ်ဝန်ကိုလွယ်လိုက်ရပြီဆိုတာကိုသိလိုက်ရချိန်မှာ ပါးစပ်ကနေ စကားလုံးထွက်မလာရတော့အထိဖြစ်ခဲ့တယ်။နောက်ဆုံးသမီးဖြစ်သူရဲ့ ကိုယ်ခနာကအဓိကဆိုတာကို သူနားလည်လိုက်တဲ့အချိန်မှာ သူ့သမီးအတွက်စုထားတဲ့ တကသိုလ်ကျောင်းစရိတ်နဲ့ သူကအိမ်မက်တွေအတွက် ဝယ်တဲ့ငါးဖယ်သင်္ဘောဝယ်မယ့် ငွေတွေအားလုံးကိုပေးလိုက်ပြီး ကလေးမွေးဖို့ ဟျွန်းနဲ့အတူတူနေချင်လည်းနေဖို့ဆိုပြီး ရင်နာနာနဲ့ ခွင့်ပြုပေးခဲ့တယ်။

ဒါပေမယ့် ဉာဏ်ရည်ထက်မြက်တဲ့ ယောင်ဂျုက သူ့အဖေဆီကလိုအပ်နေတာဟာ ခွင့်လွတ်ခြင်းတွေ ပိုက်ဆံတွေမဟုတ်ဘဲ သူနဲ့ဟျွန်းတှို့နှစ်ယောက်ကို သဘောတူလက်ခံပေးဖို့ပါ။ဒါပေမယ့် ဖခင်တစ်ယောက်ရဲ့ မိဘမေတာဆိုတဲ့အရာက က သဘောတူလက်ခံပေးဖို့စိတ်ကို မဖြစ်ပေါ်စေခဲ့ဘူး။နောက်ဆုံးမှာတော့ ကျောင်းအထိသွားပြီး သူ့သမီးကိုယ်ဝန်နဲ့ကျောင်းတက်နိုင်တယ်ဆိုတဲ့ အရာကို သိပြီးပြန်သွားတဲ့အချိန် ယောင်ဂျုက သူဟာ ဘယ်သူနဲ့ဘဲအတူတူရှိနေပါစေ အဖေမရှိတဲ့အခါ သမီးဟာအမြဲတမ်းအထီးကျန်နေမှာဘဲဆိုတဲ့စကားလုံးက သူ့ကို အကြီးမားဆုံးရိုက်ခတ်မှု့ကြီးတစ်ခုဖြစ်စေမယ်လို့ထင်မိပါတယ်။

အင်ဂွတ်နဲ့ဟျွန်း၊ ဟိုရှစ်နဲ့ယောင်ဂျုတို့ သားအဖတွေဘယ် လို များရှေ့ဆက်ကြမလဲဆိုုတာကိုနောက်လာမယ့်အပိုင်းတွေမှာ ဆက်ပြီးကြည့်ရမယ်လို့ထင်ပါတယ်။

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A beautiful and powerful depiction of the ups and downs that life throws at us

This was a beautiful, poignant masterpiece. Set on a small town on Jeju Island, we follow the journeys of our 14 main characters through their roller coaster of emotions. We feel their highs and we also feel their lows. By no means are any of these characters perfect. They have their flaws and their fears that contribute to the problems that they face. They all have their own traumas haunting their lives, yet they try to carry on as best as they can, struggling through life, just as we do.
Everything about this drama was amazingly done. The cast, the music, the writing, the cinematography, everything was beautifully incorporated and almost seamlessly transitioned. The only reason I took 0.5 off is because I don't know how much I would be willing to re-watch it. It's a beautiful, but heartbreaking, drama so I don't know if I want to go through this roller coaster of emotions again. But I definitely recommend it to everyone to watch.

P. S. A note, I did watch it on 1.5x speed just because everything is done slowly (but beautifully!) and my attention span really can't stand that so yeah... Happy watching!

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after every sunset there is a sunrise giving hopes

Just as the title says “OUR BLUES” is full of sad stories from people of Jeju islands who are not related by blood but closely knitted as family. This drama can be watched with the family and the best thing is there are no main characters, every person is the main character in the story and the people around them are supporting them. The drama was skillfully parted into 8 stories revolving on all the casts and their lives and not just reliant on one main character.

There are problems in everyone's life but it is being solved in an effective way without making the viewers frustrated or bored. It is not preachy but still had a pinch of self-righteousness when it talked about teen pregnancy, unprotected sex, divorce, and disability. It's all very subtle, very light-hearted and the most emotional scenes are usually connected to all the supporting characters.
every actor was awesome, acting excellent until the child actor Eun Gi appeared. I also liked the new actor Jung Eun Hye playing Young Hee, the down syndrome sister. these two characters were like a surprise in the drama. they totally swept me off the floor by nailing their characters.
The thing which I learned from this drama is to live my life without regrets as we sometimes look back on the past and regret our decision. But we also forget the time when we made the decision and what kind of person we are now because of that decision.
Just like the characters who always think of their past and sometimes regret it for not trying enough. So let us accept our present and before we regret more forgive those who should be forgiven, accept those who care for you, and love those who love you

Still, wondering about it? Just try the three first episodes. If by the end of episode three you're still not immersed, it may not be for you. But if you're into heart-warming and funny stories, please give this one a go.

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How cool is this drama? After finding out about the director and screenwriter, then you understand. The director is Kim Kyu-Tae, whose drama Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo won many awards. He also directed the Korean drama: It's Ok, This is Love which produced no less awards.

This isn't the first time he's worked with screenwriter, No Hee-Kyung. Drama Korea: Drama: That Winter, The Wind Blows (2013) starring Zo In-Sung and Song Hye-Kyo, not only made many viewers mesmerize, they also won many awards from the 2013 SBS Drama Awards and 2013 (49th) BaekSang Arts Awards

The director and scenario writer are awesome, especially the cast. Scattered with award-winning actors/actresses, this Korean drama: Our Blues is a means of competing in acting. Starting from Lee Byung-Hun, a class A actor who often paces on the silver screen, to senior actresses such as Kim Hye-Ja's grandmother and Ko Du-Shim's grandmother who filled their profiles with strings of awards.

So what's lacking? Almost nothing. The audience is lulled by the beauty of Jeju Island, the blue sea, the magic of sunrise and sunset, kicking music, beautiful cinematography to a neat plot twist, makes me think Korean drama: Our Blues will win the BaekSang Arts Awards, a prestigious award for the South Korean art industry that has held since 1965.

Unfortunately, my hopes did not come true. Or not yet? Because the 2022 (49th) BaekSang Arts Awards takes place in May 2022, while the Korean drama: Our Blues airs April – June 2022.

Regardless, I love this drama. Still haven't moved on from the acting of the players. Like Cha Seung-Won (who has a series of awards too) plays the loser, Choi Han-Su. I can't believe it, he's the arrogant Woo Hwi-Cheol in the Korean drama: A Korean Odyssey.

I also come to understand why Shin Min-A is not side by side with her boyfriend, Kim Woo-Bin (are you still dating or not?) in this drama, because it really doesn't fit the scenario.

Oops, I forgot, there's a weakness in this drama, namely Kim Woo Bin's cute scenes are taken over time, hehehe.??

Shin Min-A, who has mental health problems, fits perfectly side by side with Lee Byung-Hun who plays a sloppy person who hates his mother but loves death for Min Seon-A (Shin Min-A).

Now the scene of Lee Byung-Hun who plays this traveling salesman makes me laugh. As well as shaking heads. Playing the temperamental Lee Dong-Seok, Lee Byung-Hun must act as a grumpy salesman, hater of his mother, as well as a sincere lover of Min Seon-A (Shin Min-A).

Sincere love stories indeed color Korean dramas: Our Blues, between lovers, between brothers and sisters, friends, and friends. Regardless of age, old and young strengthen each other. Sincere love that has been hit by many trials, and is woven back thanks to the threads of love that never disappear. Because the following quote is so true:

Whatever happens, think positively

The typhoon has passed over the sea

Today, we must cheer up

The next review can be read here: https://www.maria-g-soemitro.com/2022/08/review-our-blues-drama-korea-omnibus.html

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A comforting drama

Didn't bat an eye about this drama when it was airing, but then a month ago, I saw a short clip of Yeong Ok & Yeong Hui episode on facebook page and that gave me an instant interest.

But, the episode that got me hook up and completely attached was during Yeong Ju-Hyeon & In Gwon-Hosik's story. Everything about this arc is perfect. The raw emotions of the fathers, the feared of disappointing a hard-working parents, how people learn to accept what has been done.

I also love how this drama emphasized two things; 1) that, no matter how close you are with someone, there is still a line that you shouldn't cross and to always think about other people's feeling because everyone has different ways to interpret things. What we consider as normal or harmless might unintentionally hurt our beloved ones. 2) proper communication is the most important thing in building & maintaining a good relationship. Sometimes you gotta be the big-hearted one and just let it go even though it hurt you. In other occasion, you have to make it clear that you dislike this & that, so there won't be any ill feelings that might ruin everything in the future.

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What a show. I really loved the different characters and their stories, this felt like an extended "Hometown Cha Cha Cha" with less romance and more focus on life and relationships. Sometimes, the characters were annoying and frustrating, overcomplicating things because they wouldn't mind their own business and always put their noses where they shouldn't be, especially the grandmas.... I wish we would have gotten more of Hyeon's and Yeongju's life as parents with the baby, also the dynamic with Hosik and Ingwon would have been interesting. The show offers a diverse set of storylines with great actors to portray those stories and feelings in a way that always touched my heart. Studio Dragon knows how to make a show, so naturally the cinematography was stunning, Jeju island is truly such a beautiful place. The OST was just fitting and very, very nice. Overall, a beautiful, heartbreaking, and sometimes funny show about life, its people and their relationships.

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