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I would have recommanded "May 18" instead of "26 years".

I didn't watch the original version but I've watched "Beethoven Virus" which is a great, deep, and very human drama about classical music. The storyline was more originla since we had an orchestra composed of a senile grandfadher, a frustrated housewife, a policeman trying to catch up with his conducting dream, a talented young violonist who will end up deaf because of a cancer.. It was more mature, serious and touching than this drama.

I liked that scene, especially Shan Shan's reaction, how she couldn't be able to hear Li Shu explanations and how she called them liars, and how she couldn't be able to forgive easily, as for Feng Teng, I felt that it's his way to express his feeling, he can't just scream and shout, yet he was very destroyed from the idea of Shan Shan leaving him, he even shed a tear when he was alone,

I can name also "Surafune" (My boss my hero), "Onara"(Jewel of the palace), "I think I love you" (full house), "Almost paradise (BOF)

I'm a 32 years old drama fan xD

you shouls watch Ojackyo brothers, Smile You and king family, three great family dramas ^^

OCN is a cable channel, so having low view ratings is something normal, the most popular cable dramas can't reach more than 5 or 6%, because not all the audience have the access to cable channels. But for me i never judge drama through it's rating, some of the most popular dramas were nothing but deception for me and vice vera.. And I still have faith in Kdramas, and even if it wasn't the best year, I still could fing gems like King's family or fated to love you :)

the plot seems really intersting, a love triangle with the same person xD but he doesn't need to be a chaebol, Hyun Bin is the best when playing more normal and realistic characters like in "Snow queen" or "friend our legend"

I only watched aftermath and it was a complete mess, the plot was interesting but badly executed, I hope that they wil do a better remake of it

the story is similar to her movie "wedding dress"

Finally someone who appreciates true great actors !!!!

I completely agree, and I think that the romamce part will be very well done ^^

Actually she's a very good actress comparing to Park Shin Hye for example, but still I can't like her, dunno why xD

Except for Song Ji Ho, Lee Min Ho and Park Shin Hye, all the others are my beloved korean actors ^^

maybe I'll try some of them, but after finishing all the good asian ones ^^

me too, for the same reason as Lexies, but there are some good rom coms with older guys ans strong female leads also ^^

Thank you so much for this article, i'll try to watch all the movies you mentionned above (except the hollywood ones) ^^

what make a drama a succes is the rating, at least this is the case in South Korea, they are so eager about winning the ratings over the other dramas produced by the other TV Channels, so they try to avoid things taht can make the viewer change the channel to watch the other drama airing in the same time. I started to understand this after watching the drama "king of drama" which explained very well how dramas are produced. Writers are much free to do whatever they want in the movies rather than the dramas. So caring less about the political aspect of the colonialism and focusing more on the kidnapping girl story make the drama have higher ratings. Few writers take the risk of making a perfect and original drama without paying attention to the ratings, even the CEO channels won't allowd airing very deep and complicated dramas (it's getting better nowdays in South korea because of the new cable channels with less censure but with the 3 public channels like KBS, SBS ans MBC, it's different. Besides the japanese colonialism is a very sensitive subject and it needed to be treated careffully since the biggest fandom of the hallyu wave are japanese fans.

maybe you need more a documentary than a drama if you want it to be like the way you expected it, for me I didin't expect anything from this drama at the begining and I ended up loving it so much, because I live in a coutry who was one colonised, and the stories i used to hear from my parents and grand parents about how life was back them match perfecty with what this drama was trying to portray, the ppor way of living of the people, the confort women, the attempt of the change of the coutry's identity but changing korean people name to japanese ones (same in my country when french try to give us french names, french religion and frenh way of living, writing..), the romance part in bridal mask wasn't necessary for me, but the political part was excellent and subtile, to not make fans who doesn't like politics so much feel bored or drop the drama. But i understand your point of view

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