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I second recommending Just You. It does rely on a number of drama cliche's, but it does them all so well, and it's so fun!

This is an old comment, but Korean age is calculated differently. A 27-year-old outside of Korea would be 29, and a 28-year-old would be 30.

Korean age is calculated differently from western age, so if they are 28 or 29 in western age, then they would be 30 in Korean age. As for how similar life as a 27/28-year-old is compared to a 30-year-old, that is somewhat subjective, as everyone goes through their own experiences. There are many 27/28-year old's such as yourself whose lives probably aren't very similar to a 30-year-old, but there are probably just as many whose lives are similar. Myself, I'm 34, and I wouldn't consider my own life that similar to what many other 30-year old's lives are like, or what the life of a 30-year-old is often portrayed as in media.

I just wrote 27/28/30 so much that the numbers are starting to not look real, lol.

This is an old article, so no one will ever see this comment, but I love both of these dramas, and I had no idea they apparently once had beef with each other (lol) until reading this article just now. I like both stories and both stories' characters, and I never found them to be particularly similar to one another outside of their use of some very common tropes. I think they both just had their own take on these tropes that they each did very well.

Thank you!

The link only pulls up an image.

I'm gonna ask probably a dumb question. I've downloaded the torrent, but VLC won't play it, and I'm not sure what/if I'm doing something wrong. Is there something else I need to do after downloading to get it to work?

I honestly did not expect Woo Shik to ever get another drama lead role, at least not as a romantic lead. He's definitely a talented actor, and I personally think he's very good-looking, but he doesn't really fit the 'ideal leading man' look that's typically preferred in Korean romance dramas. His face is a little Too innocent and cherubic. Still, I'm glad he gets to play the leading man again. I loved him in Ho Goo's Love. I'm not watching this drama yet, but I'm definitely seriously considering it.

Thanks for the recommendations! I really want to start watching older Asian films, so this list is really helpful.

My PTW list is at over 700 dramas (not including movies and specials or variety, just dramas), and I've started making private lists by genre just to help me keep track of what the heck is even on my PTW, lol. I want to get to a place where I'm watching 30 dramas a year, but I think that's probably a pipe dream.

I haven't started the drama myself, but I lived in Korea for a year back in 2012-2013, and they have a very strong drinking culture. I would say an alarming portion of the population is probably functioning alcoholics, but it's seen as normal to overconsume alcohol, so no one really bats an eye about it. From that angle, I imagine the show is probably pretty accurate/realistic. I have my own personal thoughts and feelings on overdrinking/getting drunk, but having experienced the culture firsthand, I'm also able to look past it in my Kdramas. Not everyone will be able to do that though, and it sounds like this drama will have heavy drinking every episode, so it might not be for you.

This was a really fun article, and I would love to see more like it but about different Dramaland objects and their symbolism. It's a really interesting topic.

You got me at Age of Youth, what looks like a charming cast of characters, and Si Won, lol.

I didn't even know they were together, so I'm totally surprised, but congratulations to them! They both seem like lovely people. I hope they have a good life together.

I'm suffering excruciating pain with the love triangle. The female lead's choices are just driving me up the wall. Am I correct in my understanding that the leads don't get together until the very last ep? And when does she finally come to her senses and dump the douche-canoe? I'm on ep 12, and I'm drowning fast. Someone please help me, lol.

I have to disagree that Hometown is Slice of Life and not a Rom Com. I think lot of people use the term Slice of Life without really understanding what it means. Wikipedia's definition sums it up pretty well: "Slice of life describes the depiction of mundane experiences in art and entertainment...in literary parlance it is a narrative technique in which a seemingly arbitrary sequence of events in a character's life is presented, often lacking plot development, conflict and exposition, as well as often having an open ending." While I can agree that Hometown might have Slice of Life elements to it by showing some of the daily activities of the town's residents, the story very much has an over-arching trajectory with conflict and exposition and a clear goal of where everything is meant to end. I haven't watched the final two eps yet, but I'm pretty sure Hometown will have a definitive conclusion with all of the major plot points wrapped up and our leads together and happy. As for whether it is a Rom Com or not, it definitely is, as one of the primary focuses of the story has been the romance between the leads. It's what has driven the majority of the story. Hye Jin grows as a person as a direct result of her relationship with Doo Shik, and Doo Shik finally faces his trauma as a direct result of his relationship with Hye Jin. And that's okay. It's okay for this to be a Rom Com with some Slice of Life elements. It's been a pretty good one.

Does anyone know where I can find this with subs?

I'm not sure that this is going to be a remake. The drama page says something about them being against a powerful Korean family which would be a sizable deviation from the source material.

I don't want to burst anyone's bubble...but I don't think this is going to be a remake of the classic novel. Not if the synopsis on the drama's profile page is accurate.

I assumed the picture was of him and his parents, seeing as we've never been introduced to them, only to his grandfather, and the little boy in the picture looked like him.