Heartwarming to the core
This drama was so heartwarming that I could not put it down and was up till 03:30 after beginning it just so I could finish it in one setting! I was skeptical at first to start this as I find young child actors can ruin a drama due to inexperience and it also seemed a bit cliche but after the first couple of episodes it blew all my worries out of the water, it was amazing.The story at first seems a bit cliche but it varies quite a bit with all the sisters stories, even having the male have the child instead of the female is a refreshing change. It shows you some of the struggles a single parent can have trying to find love again and how situations can make you a lot more skeptical.
The romance between the main characters was cute! The way the female lead was so warm towards the son just made my heart melt. I enjoyed watching the younger sister for her spunkiness and the older sisters story was very interesting but also very saddening with the situation she had gotten herself into. The were so caring and worried for their son and how they did not want him heartbroken again and the typical parents dictating the females romance life for the daughters that is found quite common in dramas.
I would recommend this to anyone and everyone! Its too beautifully done to miss!
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Magic with Real Spark and Melodies to Melt Your Heart!
The story introduces a flawed but endearing single dad and a woman in a frustrating relationship contemplating marriage. The narrative delves into the challenges faced by the couple, from societal judgments to family complexities, especially considering the single dad's past. The contrast in parental challenges adds depth to the story, with the FL's mother's evolving and supportive role standing out.You got Jung In, our independent girl, and Ji Ho, the down-to-earth single dad, making their love story feel all grown-up. At first, I was like, "Why isn't she breaking up with her not-so-great boyfriend?" But as the plot unfolded, I was like, "Ah, got it!" It made the relationship changes more valuable. I appreciated the gradual transition, making the eventual changes in the relationship more valuable. The nuanced approach to addressing the complexities of infidelity and its impact on the new relationship added depth to the storyline.
Together, Jung Hae-In and Han Ji Min create a harmonious and electrifying dynamic on screen. The chemistry between their characters evolves organically, reflecting the challenges and joys of a mature and realistic romance. Their interactions, whether filled with tender moments, laced with tension, feel authentic and draw the audience into the emotional journey of the characters. The success of their on-screen chemistry can be attributed to the actors' ability to internalize their roles, bringing depth and authenticity to their performances. Their shared scenes, marked by subtle glances, genuine smiles, and heartfelt dialogues, contribute to the overall appeal of "One Spring Night" as a love story that feels real and emotionally resonant.
The supporting cast plays a crucial role in enriching the overall narrative, contributing to the depth and authenticity of the story. Each member of the supporting ensemble brings a unique and compelling element to the drama, going beyond the typical secondary roles seen in many shows. The bond between the three sisters adds another layer of warmth and support to the narrative. Unlike some dramas where supporting characters may serve primarily as plot devices, the supporting cast in "One Spring Night" is seamlessly integrated into the narrative. Their stories, challenges, and growth arcs feel organic and contribute to the overall realism of the drama. The characters, whether parents, siblings, or friends, are portrayed with nuance and depth, enhancing the viewer's connection to the broader world of the story.
The OST of "One Spring Night" plays a crucial role in enhancing the emotional depth of the narrative. While not numerous, the selected songs are carefully curated to complement the scenes and contribute to the overall atmosphere of the drama. One standout track is Rachael Yamagata's "No Direction," which left a lasting impression on me. The song, with its melodic and evocative qualities, seems to seamlessly blend into the story, creating a memorable auditory experience. The use of music in this drama is not just about catchy tunes; it's about selecting pieces that evoke the right emotions and enhance the viewer's connection to the characters and their journey.
In summary, "One Spring Night" stands out as a multifaceted and emotionally resonant drama, skillfully balancing a mature romance, a rich supporting cast, and a thoughtfully curated OST.
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Do not miss out on this drama, it's pure perfection
It's a drama but not to dramatic, it feels like your friend telling you her love storyThe cast has played their roles v well and they make you care for them. It's a simple love story that delivers deeper message with respect to society.
It's beautifully writen and even more beautifully narrated .
The male lead makes you yearn for him by his sincerity and love. The female lead is an epitome of a modern women.
I absolutely fell In love with kdrama thanka to this gem of a show. I am constantly on lookout for more such drama "s.
Ps this may not be for those who enjoy tooo dramatic shows, it's a simple slice of life drama
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Do you ever feel that you don't want a kdrama to end, like ever? You feel satisfied by just watching the show characters going by their life with no sophisticated plots and events worth mentioning. This kdrama gave me these feelings. A huge part of it was the chemistry. Not only between the FL and the ML but between the sisters, friends, and parents as well. At first, I was afraid that this is going to become a cheating/affair kdrama. And as many see it this way I don't. Yes the FL did have some curiosity towards the ML while being with her boyfriend. But this doesn't mean that she was emotionally cheating on her boyfriend cause she did tell the ML about her boyfriend and offered him a friendship instead. The second thing is that the intimacy between her and her boyfriend was already fading away and it had nothing to do with the other guy, she was going to leave him sooner or later.
What I liked about the FL is that she didn't settle just because she had to. And as she mentions multiple times throughout the show, "I don't want to marry someone just because I'm a suitable age for marriage" and as a woman, I couldn't agree more. She made it clear that she wasn't thinking about marriage and didn't manipulate her partner.
Many people thought that the drama started very slow and complicated, but this is how adult relationships are like, you don't just meet someone, and boom you're dating and they're your soulmate. When you're mature enough you'll know that even when it comes to love and relationships you'll have to do some thinking.
For the ML, I did like his personality as well, he was nice, caring and, understandable. However, what I didn't like that much about him, is that he wasn't being completely true to her. When he got drunk and expressed his fears that was the moment when he was fully honest. I know it's difficult to talk about your fears especially in front of someone whom you admire, but still, in order to have a healthy relationship, you should express your fears and let your partners become aware of them, which eventually did happen so I have nothing to complain about regarding the flow of the show.
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One Of My Fav
Watch it at leat 5-6 times and thoroughly enjoyed every moment.Solid story telling of falling out and into love and fighting for relationship against odds.
Subplots added realism and blend well to show relationship amongst sisters.
It showcase very real life situations and expectations like a retiring father looking to a position, societal pressure on divorce, single parenthood etc.
I enjoyed the support and fight lead couple had for each other. Their friends also provide support and it was gratifying to see them together.
All casts portrayed their characters solidly and as one reviewer mentioned, there is no real evil characters.
One of the best.
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The soundtrack in this movie is great and fits so well in the different scenes. I especially love the scene where the music fits so well when the ML is walking in the library. ..The director did a very good job in editing, etc...
The ML is so good. hopefully we will see him again with the same scriptwriter and director. The actors are so good and fits so well in their respective role.
Overall I gave it a 10/10 as the scriptwriter and director did a great job in describing an everyday life with all the normalities and abnormalities in life. It felt like a prose when watching it.
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Great!
I loved it too much! I felt really sorry for Jung Hae in's character, because of the prejudice that he was a single father. How come this still exists, Korea? The boy is a great person, hardworking, a good father and son, and they played in the face that he is a single father! It doesn't enter my head. It's very 60's! Other than that, prejudice, her boyfriend is unbearable! I want to hit him! haha Jung-In, how cute, asking if the boy wanted her to be his mother. Wow, even I cried at this part, because Hae In cries and hugs her. The series rolls a little, but it's beautiful! Hae-yeon Gil is forgiven after this series, as in Something in the rain she is unbearable, but in this one she is a loving mother! The entire cast of Something in the rain is in One Spring Night. All of you are wonderful!Was this review helpful to you?
A calm redemption
Oh Jung Hae-In, I love you so much.If you've seen Something in the Rain, it is impossible not to draw comparisons. The team clearly learned their lesson: we got wonderfully empowered women this time, as well as the mom's big redemption (I like to pretend this actress is playing the same mother... haha!). At the same time, this show continues to deliver behaviour in line with my expectations — artsy cinematography (tbh sometimes too much division / foreground-background nonsense), a slow pace, super realistic / relatable scenarios, and the same few English songs on loop (but at least I like the one about seasons changing, albeit it's a bit on the nose). It doesn't quite reach the heights and chemistry of Something in the Rain though, unfortunately. The highs aren't as high, but the lows CERTAINLY aren't as low. Thank goodness.
Top highlights: Eunwoo, the giggly cute lovey-dovey scenes, the emphasis on books!, the wonderful friendships and strong sisterly bonds. I really enjoyed Seo-In's situation, and I wish we got a bit more detail there. I'm glad we got to witness Ki Seok's slow descent into madness. He started off as a bland, inoffensive guy and turned into a stalking monster with a vendetta. This got old pretty fast; at some point he was more like an annoying gnat that I wished just went away. The eventual soju/restaurant scene was sad, but HECK, THEY DESERVED IT.
The show unfortunately dragged in the middle. I think a 12-episode format might've worked better, or a couple of additional plot points would've made things more interesting (like a direct confrontation with the mother). Still, the writing didn't fall off a CLIFF in the second half, and I got the chance to stare at Jung Hae-In a bit longer, so that made it a win for me.
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perfect romance drama...
It is love at first sight for pharmacist Ji Ho (Jung Hae In) with Jeong In (Han Ji Min) when she steps in his pharmacy for a hangover cure. The cliche here is that she is already in a relationship that has gone to the stage of marriage discussion and he is a single dad. The story revolves around how they overcome the hurdles around them and take the chance, to be honest with their love for each other.Ji-ho and Jeong-in realize how difficult it would be to have a relationship with each other, so they intend to leave it be. However, tension builds between the two as Ji-ho cannot deny his feelings for Jeong-in and Jeong-in struggles to suppress her feelings for Ji-ho. There are many times where she calls him and wants to meet with him for no apparent reason. After some time, she decides to follow her heart. Both Ji-ho and Jeong-in have to make uncomfortable decisions, and the road for them is never easy as they prove to their parents and friends the sincerity of their feelings.
One Spring Night is not a typical K-drama, it is a thought-provoking series that will make you question and reflect on realities for what they are. If you like slow-burn stories that grow on you slowly but deeply, please watch this show, and you will be all set for an emotional ride.
More detailed review here: https://bookswithnatasa.home.blog/2021/07/10/should-watch-20-one-spring-night/
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One Long, Repetitive Spring Night
This drama started out promising but quickly became insufferable. Before I get into the negative, I want to give some credit where it's due. All the actors were phenomenal and when the main couple finally became a couple, their chemistry was great. They were honestly so cute together, although I do think they fell a bit fast. The music wasn't my vibe, but it fit the drama well. I also loved the sisterly bonds and all the women supporting women in this drama. With that aside, I will now get into the bad. For one, the FL was totally unlikeable and I don't think she was meant to be. To start, she was often hypocritical and ambivalent. She would say she hates lying and yet she bent the truth, told white lies, concealed information, and told flat out lies. We're also told over and over again how she's such a catch and such a great woman, but I feel like much of that is just empty words and not really supported until much later in the drama when we see her with the ML and ML's child. She's strong minded, for sure, but she often wavers in her actions and it's so frustrating seeing her back and forth and having to read between the lines. I also often try to put aside cultural differences in kdramas because I think it's not fair to judge standards based off what they are in America. However, the parental control and patriarchal bs in this drama was just so over the top. The amount of times the FL told the second ML she was breaking up with him and did not want him and he flat out refused and was determined that they were still together was just absurd. I mean varieties of this situation were repeated over and over again throughout the show and it was just nauseating. The amount of people, mostly men, that thought they had a right to decide who the FL should be with, going so far as to force her into a loveless marriage, was just insane. I also know divorce is taboo (even in America it is for some groups), but it was just also infuriating seeing the FL's sister going around in circles trying to get divorced throughout the whole drama and having her father ignore her husband's abuse and deny permission for a divorce. Come to think of it, the sister's husband also denied the end of the relationship too, and that plot was repeated over and over to no end. Nevertheless, I feel like I really tried to give this drama a fair shot. I kept waiting for it to pick up the pace and stop recycling, and it did improve a little (which is why I kept going), but I overall I was just dissatisfied.Was this review helpful to you?
A Note for Western Audiences
Here's the thing. The central points of conflict--the suffocating stigma attached to being a single parent in Korea, and the rigid sense of filial respect and duty leading to a lack of autonomy in personal decisions--has no direct translation to Western culture. (Honestly, if someone wanted to respond with an in-depth explanation of these values and how they influenced decisions, that would be helpful and so very appreciated. I'm particularly confused by characters hiding their sometimes significant difficulties from those who would support them—in other words, the noble sacrifice trope. Our main couple's more mutually supportive dynamic feels obvious to me, a Westerner, and not like the anomaly/cultural shift they're fighting for, so I'd like to learn more about what I'm missing.)That said, to an extent it doesn't matter if you don't entirely get it. The stakes are clear and high, and the characters act consistently based on their values. Assuming you have even a basic and vague understanding of the two central societal expectations, you can understand in a broad sense how A leads to C, even if you don't understand the murky nuances of B.
The fact that OSN's main strength is exploring the murky and nuanced B is a double-edged sword. As others have noted, this story is a masterclass in realism, just with the guaranteed (and, I found, highly satisfying) HEA. While the slow, gentle pacing was essential for the story, in the long close-ups I often wished I could listen to the FL's and ML's internal monologues. So in some respects, I wonder if this wouldn't have worked better (at least for those less familiar with Korean culture) as a book. Yet maybe not being fully aware of the characters' internal life enhanced the story. Yes, it could be frustrating, but it was also true to life. We often DON'T know what others are thinking, even those we know best.
OSN has provided a lot of food for thought, and I love it for that. Few K Dramas have that level of depth to them, and seeing the way this drama was directed has provided an important counterpoint that's enabled me to better articulate my loves and frustrations with the genre as a whole.
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love and break up story which should be posible just in asia
One Spring Night (2019) -8,5/10 -kdramaI really loved soundtrack in this one. Mainly Rachael Yamagata songs. They used them very often for alike situations in drama which made it quite consistent and easy to point out.
In this drama I very often felt cultural differences and how :traditional mindset: can fuck up life even drama.
Its quite mature piece and at start I liked maturenes of ML and FL. At start ML was quite decisive and made clear-cut in relationships. At same time FL had mindset to do all right.
Sadly it didnt went like that for long. FL got irresolute and lacked braveness. ML coulnt keep his stance either. Whole drama ended in way :true love: vs whole world.
At some times characters was acting quite mature and made nice and right decisions., but there was time when you as watcher know its bad decision and I believe even main characters knew its bad decision still they went with it cause they wasnt brave enough to push it through opposition.
plot - FL is dating for long time with one guy, but their relationship lacks spark. FL ends up being asked to marry her boyfriend, but she gets cold feet and decides for some kinda :soft break up:.
Meanwhile she meets ML and starts feeling something for him. ML is pharmacist which likes FL, but he is single father and in eyes of public unsuited for relationship.
+- Its story about FL and ML getting together though FL still didnt decisively broke up with her boyfriend and they will have to brave through opposition of FL family, mainly father.
genre - romance
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