The original Brief Encounters was...its hard to describe in a way. The series had a different tone and the end suited it well. Its six episodes and ends on many climactic things happening together which have been dealt with as separate story arcs over episodes here(Young-bok's husband, Geum-hui's story, Ju-ri gets the forced breakup FL had in original, etc). Most of it was happy but I found the Geum-hui and the Young-bok's endings kindof depressing which they've fixed here(Geum-hui's husband didn't react with understanding to the revelation he didn't know of the box leaving an open ending since he is last shown speechless. Young-bok's husband was the guilty driver and he confesses in the end to make a deal with the police to save his son from a different arrest. I liked the son's story in the original far more as a story arc and I like her daughter in this and wish she got more reactions to show about their life. Young-bok is left without concluding the loss of trust situation she has with Geum-hui since the baby is born and it unites them). In-tae finds out about the cheating but it is not too conclusive since while he punches FL's ex-husband out of the house it ends on Seong-su looking up at Mi-hwa inside by the window staring at each other one but with no clarity on In-tae and Mi-hwa's final choice or how the triangle is supposed to conclude. Since its said it wasn't renewed for a second season I keep thinking they must have left things open in case it would be renewed.
One thing more- Brief Encounters was based on real life Ann Summers so the business was legitimate and they were like tupperware/amway/avon saleswomen and houswives hosting adult product parties like how tupperware parties were a proper sales model. Why they had to go for realism or over-achievment-type-ambition here I don't get(the first legal adult product business opened in '96- the year they reach with the 4 year gap- it did end in arrests and closure but due to something about AV from what I understood btw which I wouldn't touch with a barge pole in connection to women's products). Not to mention the '97 economic situation which should wipe them out after only a year. Here it is Ra Mi-ran in '92 reselling the US army exchange shop supplies of Geumje garrison while contradicting her previous sales pitch. They could've made her the godmother of 'Fantasy' women's adult products and a Korean equivalent to Jacqueline Gold. Its Ra Mi-ran! On the other hand...their terms and conditions were made way too good to be true and pretty shady and Jeong-suk was ideating most of the sales pitches later on. But seriously that is an acceptable level of suspending disbelief! Ra Mi-ran should have left her business to Jeong-suk as the new CEO and the timeskip having gone 32 years forward with grey wigs to the present day. Joke- but thats the perfect ending if this was a manga. Dong-u would have been writing his mom's story in his new web magazine. The ending seems to hint at them have gone done a Casa Amor the movie offscreen but I don't mind.
If you're talking about the cop and FL then no they do become a couple. It ends with the trope of "catches them last minute at the airport" (but in the train station) and the final scene is them kissing after she slaps toy handcuffs on him. Its actually a good ending.
Gosh, I am unable to watch as the clip keep hanging. sad
If its not region locked for you or say, you have a Korea vpn, you can try the epilogue on youtube:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaCyk13mufo (I copied the link from google, if its not the one the title is same as in nate and should come up in search)
Epilogue: - Do-hyun returned as the chief; Won-bong and Jong-sun are starring in a romcom of their own; Dae-geun's gone pro. https://tv.nate.com/clip/5156275 (youtube release seems region locked for now)
She had 22 when she had the baby. I think she got pregnant when she was in at college, last year. Her parents…
Aah found the age! In epsiode 10 it is on his hospital bed's foot. "Kim Do-hyun - male - 30" 30 would be in korean age system most likely and based on details of his adoption.
I wonder when this drama went into production. Because the situation with the adoptees/adoptions is so closely…
The issue itself broke out much earlier though and keeps coming up. Starting from ~80s there were controversies raised, adoptees stories were made into movies/docus around 90s. The original Holt Agency has been in both sides of the issue over the years.
Mainly though from 2022 a publicized international scale investigation into wrongly done adoptions started and made the issue a big topic. They've shown flags of where several children were adopted on the photos Cho Sun-ae keeps- the Scandinavian countries, France, USA, etc. Last I'd heard something about some Nordic countries revised laws and restrictions on adoptions. (other than the adoption mess there were some other controversial things of the past like the '88 olympics vagrancy home scandals, etc with similar mess stories)
She had 22 when she had the baby. I think she got pregnant when she was in at college, last year. Her parents…
In the original I preferred the side of the plot where the teen son was having problems with his mom's new business and his dad's past instead of the weird hit and run making a flimsy connection/conflict nd suspense. At least with the diff. arson/kidnapping it had a bit of relevance even though it ends as a typical red herring misdirect since it brings Do Hyun in and builds his relation with FL and highlights issues of the past lives a little. Some more things, some char development could have been doen better or spaced but its ok with 12 episode series. Love how compatible/similar the two are and with an equal dynamic to contrast to the past. Overall theres an optimism instead of establishing issues deeply- from the sales to relations following a 'take action and then see how it goes' instead on dwelling too much on 'how things are'..
She had 22 when she had the baby. I think she got pregnant when she was in at college, last year. Her parents…
Aah the info board with their date of births is in the ep 2 epilogue when Do-hyun is looking at it in his basement but some details in it may be wrong(mainly Mi-hwa whose birthday and surname were both written wrong from what appeared in the episode).
Something like that is quite possible. We have heard that Geum-hui's family were that extremely well-off and regal types. They'd have been the type to hate any hint of a scandal with an unwed daughter and not want an illegitimate child associated with the family. Was initially thinking maybe it wasn't Geum-hee who left the baby if the person had a regional accent like the nun said but someone who may have worked for the family. Quite a few possibilities exist. Very slim chance now they've created so much groundwork but they can also pull a plot twist and say Mrs Kim of the adult products business...good/bad mother 2(joke- would have been funny if she'f been a candidate).
Its one of those rare good adaptations. They are both now quite distinct as shows and its great they have made it a point to improve on the sticky parts of the original making decisions and confrontations straightforward and quick. Starting with the divorce and Jeong-suk's mom coming around faster. But especially the hit and run I was dreading so much but then they changed the timings in a crisp way fleshed out the previously comical personalities(late but fast) well and the incident itself was made better and focused more towards resolving the core group's issue properly than keeping a darker melodrama that got stretched out, so all ended well. And they connected Do-hyun into the case so he could interact with Geum-hui making the transition into the next part of his search feels smooth.
In that way maybe 12 epsiodes is enough because they've kept a fast pace and not added anything unecessary(oddly the 6 episode Brief Encounters felt like it had a lot of things that went nowhere in end like the hit and run case but it was also quite realistic). And they've shown the sales bit much more and made Jeong-suk a proper natural leader. At the same time I really wish it had been longer to see more sidestories too. Seo-yeon's was a good one and even without most of it just keeping the idea of trying to get her to do a business marriage and her refusing that type of story. And I want to see Young-ja take a stand about her cheating husband too next. And more of Dae-gun and Ju-ri they're too cute! And they need to give the Butcher's name at least shes the best among the town lot.
Was thinking this from before the show started but with the recent episodes I find Kim Sun-young and Im Chul-soo resemble one other quite a lot and now I can't stop thinking certain two characters of theirs are secret siblings in another universe...
She had 22 when she had the baby. I think she got pregnant when she was in at college, last year. Her parents…
Do Hyun's birth year is still not clear but he has to be bit younger than Jeong-suk(31) based on the year mentioned in his adoption papers since he was still a baby when adopted. The ages of pretty much everyone in town can be calculated from what is written on Do-hyun's basement evidence wall seeing that the current year is 1992. If Geum-hui(52) were Jeong-suk's mother she would have had her at age 21. So she'd have to be 21 or more if she were Do-hyun's mom. But that is if the evidence already shown is accurate and there are no errors or retcons to come. The ages(not actually mentioned this clearly for every character like here, just implied for a few) in Brief Encounters are bit different than this lot. As are the backstories a little. Like here she says she used to be a teacher briefly but in the original she used to be an accountant for her to be husband when she was young(her dad had a hand in setting it up) and they started a relation from there while here they meet in a blind date or marriage meeting. Geum-hui and Wong-bong couldn't have any children in the original but wanted to while here- they both got married choosing to never have children to begin with. In the original Brief Encounters it was set in 1980s and some 30 years before that the Do-hyun's birth father was an african-american US soldier who was posted in UK and she was white british and her father was highly racist- sent her away to separate them and get rid of the baby.
His character definitely has some odd things about him like how he is always coming second to ML. It definitely…
As in- oftentimes they start making someone very obvious as the suspect of a crime but then pull a plot twist and reveal it was someone else. Most often the suspicious character ends up being responsible for some other thing but not the final core crime.
i gave it a 10 because it is one of those shows that are not groundbreaking but very entertaining and the episodes…
His character definitely has some odd things about him like how he is always coming second to ML. It definitely feels like he may have some other sides. Though they could also use him as a red herring.
Most of Lee Min Ki's characters have either a dead wife/gf or a traumatic breakup. -_- I wonder if it is to go…
Nah even his "normal" acting guy Cho Tae-sik character inThe Lies Within had grim past with a murdered sister. All his recent characters are always somehow tragic be they poker faced or his original "spirited guy from the hicks" type. From around his movies era itself since Monster. His loudest(and meanest) character Jang-yeol didn't get a tragic past(or a past at all) but in the episodes lost someone close to horrific murder... Even Chang-hee is tragic in a very normal guy way and deeply affected and thats his most famous and most well acted character.
This was a great ending! Its kinda open but we also got an good ending for all the characters who appeared. Part of me is hoping we get s2 and get the full demon squad getting down to all the cases...
One thing more- Brief Encounters was based on real life Ann Summers so the business was legitimate and they were like tupperware/amway/avon saleswomen and houswives hosting adult product parties like how tupperware parties were a proper sales model. Why they had to go for realism or over-achievment-type-ambition here I don't get(the first legal adult product business opened in '96- the year they reach with the 4 year gap- it did end in arrests and closure but due to something about AV from what I understood btw which I wouldn't touch with a barge pole in connection to women's products). Not to mention the '97 economic situation which should wipe them out after only a year. Here it is Ra Mi-ran in '92 reselling the US army exchange shop supplies of Geumje garrison while contradicting her previous sales pitch. They could've made her the godmother of 'Fantasy' women's adult products and a Korean equivalent to Jacqueline Gold. Its Ra Mi-ran! On the other hand...their terms and conditions were made way too good to be true and pretty shady and Jeong-suk was ideating most of the sales pitches later on. But seriously that is an acceptable level of suspending disbelief! Ra Mi-ran should have left her business to Jeong-suk as the new CEO and the timeskip having gone 32 years forward with grey wigs to the present day. Joke- but thats the perfect ending if this was a manga. Dong-u would have been writing his mom's story in his new web magazine. The ending seems to hint at them have gone done a Casa Amor the movie offscreen but I don't mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaCyk13mufo
(I copied the link from google, if its not the one the title is same as in nate and should come up in search)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98i6Cy4wf68
Epilogue: - Do-hyun returned as the chief; Won-bong and Jong-sun are starring in a romcom of their own; Dae-geun's gone pro.
https://tv.nate.com/clip/5156275
(youtube release seems region locked for now)
really gonna miss this drama...
"Kim Do-hyun - male - 30"
30 would be in korean age system most likely and based on details of his adoption.
Mainly though from 2022 a publicized international scale investigation into wrongly done adoptions started and made the issue a big topic. They've shown flags of where several children were adopted on the photos Cho Sun-ae keeps- the Scandinavian countries, France, USA, etc. Last I'd heard something about some Nordic countries revised laws and restrictions on adoptions. (other than the adoption mess there were some other controversial things of the past like the '88 olympics vagrancy home scandals, etc with similar mess stories)
Love how compatible/similar the two are and with an equal dynamic to contrast to the past. Overall theres an optimism instead of establishing issues deeply- from the sales to relations following a 'take action and then see how it goes' instead on dwelling too much on 'how things are'..
Something like that is quite possible. We have heard that Geum-hui's family were that extremely well-off and regal types. They'd have been the type to hate any hint of a scandal with an unwed daughter and not want an illegitimate child associated with the family. Was initially thinking maybe it wasn't Geum-hee who left the baby if the person had a regional accent like the nun said but someone who may have worked for the family. Quite a few possibilities exist. Very slim chance now they've created so much groundwork but they can also pull a plot twist and say Mrs Kim of the adult products business...good/bad mother 2(joke- would have been funny if she'f been a candidate).
Its one of those rare good adaptations. They are both now quite distinct as shows and its great they have made it a point to improve on the sticky parts of the original making decisions and confrontations straightforward and quick. Starting with the divorce and Jeong-suk's mom coming around faster. But especially the hit and run I was dreading so much but then they changed the timings in a crisp way fleshed out the previously comical personalities(late but fast) well and the incident itself was made better and focused more towards resolving the core group's issue properly than keeping a darker melodrama that got stretched out, so all ended well. And they connected Do-hyun into the case so he could interact with Geum-hui making the transition into the next part of his search feels smooth.
In that way maybe 12 epsiodes is enough because they've kept a fast pace and not added anything unecessary(oddly the 6 episode Brief Encounters felt like it had a lot of things that went nowhere in end like the hit and run case but it was also quite realistic). And they've shown the sales bit much more and made Jeong-suk a proper natural leader. At the same time I really wish it had been longer to see more sidestories too. Seo-yeon's was a good one and even without most of it just keeping the idea of trying to get her to do a business marriage and her refusing that type of story. And I want to see Young-ja take a stand about her cheating husband too next. And more of Dae-gun and Ju-ri they're too cute! And they need to give the Butcher's name at least shes the best among the town lot.
Was thinking this from before the show started but with the recent episodes I find Kim Sun-young and Im Chul-soo resemble one other quite a lot and now I can't stop thinking certain two characters of theirs are secret siblings in another universe...
The ages(not actually mentioned this clearly for every character like here, just implied for a few) in Brief Encounters are bit different than this lot. As are the backstories a little. Like here she says she used to be a teacher briefly but in the original she used to be an accountant for her to be husband when she was young(her dad had a hand in setting it up) and they started a relation from there while here they meet in a blind date or marriage meeting. Geum-hui and Wong-bong couldn't have any children in the original but wanted to while here- they both got married choosing to never have children to begin with. In the original Brief Encounters it was set in 1980s and some 30 years before that the Do-hyun's birth father was an african-american US soldier who was posted in UK and she was white british and her father was highly racist- sent her away to separate them and get rid of the baby.
Part of me is hoping we get s2 and get the full demon squad getting down to all the cases...