Meant to Be (2023)

60+ hours I will never get back

•It had so much potential to be a great soap-style drama.
•There is absolutely no rewatch value from my perspective.
•I could not stand to sit through a 100+ episodes just to be disappointed for 70% of the show. So major disappointment.
•Acting is subpar and sometimes a bit of an overkill but hey, I can’t act at all.
•Plot heads in various directions.
•After 50% of the show there was no character development. (Maybe by episode 90)
•Unnecessary dialogue.
• Completely one sided and favorable to the antagonist throughout the majority of the drama.
• It redefines “drama” and carries it’s very own sub style.
Category: WTF was that?
• Some things could have been fixed with an easy google search. It’s not like they wrote it in one day. Or did they?!


With soap dramas we basically understand what we will get if we decide to watch it. There will be absurd scenes and very domineering parents. The family business will face a crisis and someone will get hurt or killed. Family relationships will be broken and mended. New love will blossom and the antagonist will turn over a new leaf.

However, we do not plan on watching something so ridiculous that we have to question our own intelligence and mentality.
If you can bare to get through 50 or so episodes of being livid at the writers and producers then this is for you.

Spoiler:

This drama has a male lead who has the surname Kang. Kang is the most despicable, horrible and disgusting human who would do anything for money and titles. He starts off by killing his wife and trying to kill his newborn who is named Hae In. Then the story completely spirals from that moment on.

One family is attacked the entire first half, which makes it almost unbearable to many like myself. Give us drama but don’t give us destroy the poor and the wealthy always win. No one wants to see the less fortunate bullied and especially to those extremes. That’s the problem people are having with this. You can create drama without bullying the poor. -She was an orphan for crying out loud.-
It’s very old and tiresome. Circumstances that at one point created such a gap involving working class and or the less fortunate, has shifted tremendously. (Meaning even the poorest are fighting for their rights.)

All of the families are intertwined. Conflicts continuously happen. Scheming and power plays are involved as well as love triangles. There is nothing new here folks except for the disgusting father. I don’t think I have ever seen a father so horrible and foul in a drama in all of Kdrama history. At this point no redemption would make me see him differently. He has passed the point of no return. And I hope the writers don’t try and do that because you have built his character up in a way that’s unfitting for any decent human.

I originally thought this would be a loving, playful, family drama. This turned out to be the complete opposite. I don’t know why they opted for a bright, lovely, doting, and bubbly family atmosphere on the cover either. It would be fitting for HaeIn family but not Kang and his ingrates. They should have went with a darker sinister look.

The writers now are really focused on following the blueprint to 90s style dramas or early 2000s I am sure. It seems as if you have seen similar plots a thousand times and get the same result.

If you can sit through that, you have made it midway.
My problem with this story is that it’s very one dimensional. I personally hate shows like this because the writer is taking an easier approach and just checking off boxes. Nothing about this story is interesting enough to make you want to rewatch it.

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Disappointed in the ending

When I watch a drama that starts out with greed to the point of destroying someone as sweet as Soon Young and his baby, I continued to watch because I want to see him get his payback. I was so thoroughly disappointed that even though Kang Chi Hwan ended up in prison he was forgiven by all.

Yoon YI Chang and Lee Soon Young dying such horrible deaths by that despicable Kang Cho Hwan just broke my heart. Plus his bio daughter had to hide who she was from this man. I get that she was sweet and forgiving but dang KCH didn’t get what he deserved.

However, I thoroughly enjoyed most of the supporting cast; especially Lee Hoon, Ahn Dong Yeob and one of my all time favorites, Park Chul Moon.

I won’t watch again, though.

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"Meant To Be" it's a story about two women who's lives are switched.
Hae In lost her mother at a young age and lived in an orphanage. There she meets Jin Woo. Later she ends up living with Jeong Im, who is the secretary of Chi Hwan, the father of Hae In and she was friends with Hae In's mother. Jeong Im brought Hae In into that house keeping her identity a secret, because Chi Hwan is married and has a daughter named Se Na. The problem is that he learns the truth and tries to kill the two, to bury his secret forever. Jeong Im gets in an accident, but Hae In meets Yi Chang, an amazing person, that helps them. They become a family and Hae In leaves her past behind assuming a new name: Yoon Sol.

Here's the real twist, Yi Chang is actually the birth father of Se Na. Chi Hwan married Mi Kang without knowing she was already pregnant, so he raised Se Na as his daughter. The two girls fates were switched, but to be honest, Sol were lucky to not have Chi Hwan as her father, the man is a monster. A terrible thing happens and Yi Chang dies. Chi Hwan, along with Do Hyun and Se Na, frame Sol for the crime and she goes to prison. Sol then makes a plan for revenge, to make everyone that ruined her life pay for their crimes.

The romance between Sol and Jin Woo is sweet, but that's not the focus of the drama. Sol was set on getting her revenge for being unjustly imprisoned, for the death of her father Yi Chang and her biological mother. She also wanted to make Chi Hwan pay for his crimes. It was too much for one person to handle, so I understand that romance was the last thing she wanted as a distraction, but what the drama lacked to make it perfect was exactly that: cute moments between the couple, for distraction, for happiness.

Se Na initially seems to be the villain of the drama, but when you analyze the character, that's not quite the case. As the episodes go by, you realize who she really is and the ending ends up being a nice surprise. Se Na was a spoiled girl who helped frame Sol, but she was never a bad person, all she ever wanted in life was to be loved unconditionally and nothing was enough for her, living like that is sad, we should feel sorry for her, not hate her. She always loved Jin Woo and was never reciprocated, that's why she ended up choosing Do Hyun, who seemed to really love her, but it was a lie, he wanted to possess her, have control of her and her fortune. Thank goodness in the end she realized her mistakes and helped Sol and Jin Woo.

The drama started off really well, but it had some flaws during the development, but that's normal for a story with over 100 episodes. It's hard to maintain the same quality and pace, but the drama was great until the end. That year, I think it was one of the best productions of its kind.

Jeon Hye Yeon was an amazing surprise <3

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What's wrong with the profile??

What i am most irritated by is the profile pic depicting the happy father laying hands on his daughters🤬. He is supposed to be a criminal that murdered his wife, greedy for fame and money, abandoned his wife who's with a child, forced by her husband to abort😡she fled to a small country side leading a happy life with villagers but then again this cruel husband won't let her live a solemn and happy life, thinking she may hinder him made her ran for life just after the hard labour like a dog running among the rods and mountains as she jumped off the clif he sighed relief 🖕🖕how cruel and heartless he is what a devious mindset marry another women who's in love with another man for power and money unsatisfied with his lovely poor life and making it unhappy rich life🤮.making her 2nd wife's lover ending up in prison, breaking her heart to build a fake family.he I'd utter shit he isn't supposed to be happy. Look at him laughing as he owns the world after all the crimes he committed. what's wrong with the profile??😬😬👿🙄😒😑it makes me wonder will he get what he deserves? Will his child able to take revenge? Or will he be pardoned? How preposterous, while watching the drama i see his laughing face my blood boils as hell oh my god ! This darn shit is laughing. Is it me or everyone thinks this profile doesn't fit the content 😕

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