Dear Blog,
I seemed to have lost touch with you in the last few months due to other commitments and my cousin reminded me that I had you and now I'm back!!! So.. recently I've been busy with my Summer Program for work and planning and executing of things but I always seem to find time for the better things in life such as traveling, music and.... KOREAN DRAMAS!!! So I've decided to go raving about one of the recent dramas I started because it's such a light, fresh and meaningful drama that I can't seem to get enough of it!! Not only that but it casts two of my favorite actors and ONLY ACTORS not idols in one show and it is "Scent of A Woman"
At first I decided to be dead set on watching this because of Kim Sun Ah and Lee Dong Wook because they both touched me with their performances in "My Name Is Kim Sam Soon" and "My Girl", but as I got into the plot and storyline I began to fall in love with this drama within two episodes. Kim Sun Ah plays the role of 30-year old Lee Yeon Jae who is ailing of a terminal illness and has been told she has 6 months to live. Lee Dong Wook plays Kang Ji Wook the inheritor of one of the top travel agencies in Korea and a grim, cold about life man. Both meet through a series of fateful events in Okinawa, Japan and hilarity and chaos ensues! I love Kim Sun Ah, she has the distinct ability to make me laugh one moment and cry the next. Lee Dong Wook is a good actor in this drama, but I feel Sun Ah overtakes him in shining on screen. The story-line is light, yet we are reminded of the grim future Sun Ah's character will take on in the future. I love how the director and screenwriter has equally balanced sadness and happiness in this drama and I hope they keep it like that in the future. I love how this drama teaches us soooooo much about life in just a few episodes and I can't wait for more from this drama.
A little side note that I noticed while searching for this drama is that there is an American movie called "Scent of a Woman" starring Al Pacino. So my curiosity being piqued I wanted to know if the drama had any relevance to the movie. In the movie Al Pacino is a blind Army Lieutenant whom a university decided to watch over a holiday to earn enough money to go home for the holidays to come. I watched one of the scenes from the movie and found that it was similar to what Scent of A Woman the drama had coming for Episode 4; and it is the tango scene between Al Pacino and one of the actresses. The scene depicts Pacino dancing the tango and even though being blind he executes it to the T! In the drama Kim Sun Ah (based on observation of preview) yearns to learn the tango and I feel the correlation of the two Scent of Woman's is that no matter what your circumstances are.. no matter how or who you are... you can achieve what your heart desires and you should not hold yourself back! So... I hope to see the movie too IT SEEMS INTERESTING and once I'm finished hopefully I'll be able to put my finger on the similarities between the two and I leave my blog on this note, along with a trailer from the drama and scene from the movie!
I seemed to have lost touch with you in the last few months due to other commitments and my cousin reminded me that I had you and now I'm back!!! So.. recently I've been busy with my Summer Program for work and planning and executing of things but I always seem to find time for the better things in life such as traveling, music and.... KOREAN DRAMAS!!! So I've decided to go raving about one of the recent dramas I started because it's such a light, fresh and meaningful drama that I can't seem to get enough of it!! Not only that but it casts two of my favorite actors and ONLY ACTORS not idols in one show and it is "Scent of A Woman"
At first I decided to be dead set on watching this because of Kim Sun Ah and Lee Dong Wook because they both touched me with their performances in "My Name Is Kim Sam Soon" and "My Girl", but as I got into the plot and storyline I began to fall in love with this drama within two episodes. Kim Sun Ah plays the role of 30-year old Lee Yeon Jae who is ailing of a terminal illness and has been told she has 6 months to live. Lee Dong Wook plays Kang Ji Wook the inheritor of one of the top travel agencies in Korea and a grim, cold about life man. Both meet through a series of fateful events in Okinawa, Japan and hilarity and chaos ensues! I love Kim Sun Ah, she has the distinct ability to make me laugh one moment and cry the next. Lee Dong Wook is a good actor in this drama, but I feel Sun Ah overtakes him in shining on screen. The story-line is light, yet we are reminded of the grim future Sun Ah's character will take on in the future. I love how the director and screenwriter has equally balanced sadness and happiness in this drama and I hope they keep it like that in the future. I love how this drama teaches us soooooo much about life in just a few episodes and I can't wait for more from this drama.
A little side note that I noticed while searching for this drama is that there is an American movie called "Scent of a Woman" starring Al Pacino. So my curiosity being piqued I wanted to know if the drama had any relevance to the movie. In the movie Al Pacino is a blind Army Lieutenant whom a university decided to watch over a holiday to earn enough money to go home for the holidays to come. I watched one of the scenes from the movie and found that it was similar to what Scent of A Woman the drama had coming for Episode 4; and it is the tango scene between Al Pacino and one of the actresses. The scene depicts Pacino dancing the tango and even though being blind he executes it to the T! In the drama Kim Sun Ah (based on observation of preview) yearns to learn the tango and I feel the correlation of the two Scent of Woman's is that no matter what your circumstances are.. no matter how or who you are... you can achieve what your heart desires and you should not hold yourself back! So... I hope to see the movie too IT SEEMS INTERESTING and once I'm finished hopefully I'll be able to put my finger on the similarities between the two and I leave my blog on this note, along with a trailer from the drama and scene from the movie!
