In the end, the show is about family relationships, with a focus on broken families and the possible ways to achieve healing.
The world is not perfect. Parents argue, fight, get separated, and sadly get divorced; or a parent abandons their child. Whatever the reasons were of the adults, the most that is affected are their children. The world that turns into darkness are the world of the people adults brought into this harsh reality.
Suji and Uri showed us that this shouldn't be the case, and that we can achieve healing in one way or another. We may hate someone for what they did, but we shouldn't let that turn into bitterness. Suji and Uri taught us that forgiveness is a path that all of us can take, because the people who benefits the most from having a forgiving heart is no other than the person who learned to forgive. And that's where healing begins and we start seeing the light.
Which then leads to having a heart of gold to take care of other people going through hardships in life, like we did, and potentially adopt children who deserves to have beautiful world.
Yes, adopting will not change the world, but it will indeed change the person's world. You see, we were not born to change the entire world, rather we were born to change the world closest to us.
1. The correct English title is "Dear Haeri" or "To My Haeri" or "My Dear Haeri"? 2. The character's name is "Haeri" and not "Hyeri"?
Details:
* Korean title: 나의 해리에게 (naeui haeriege) * Dissociative Identity Disorder: 해리성 정체성 장애 (haeriseong jeongcheseong jangae)
The artistic connections you are missing by using the incorrect "Hyeri":
1. The name of the character, "Haeri" is in the show's title. 2. The name of the character, "Haeri" is in the Korean translation of DID. 3. The character is a second personality of Eunho. 4. Eunho will more likely start to struggle with Haeri and attempt to communicate with her, and possibly learn to appreciate her as well. Hence, "나의 해리에게" (Dear Haeri).
It's a play on words, and it is artistic. It is a disservice to the author's artistic creativity to rename the character as "Hyeri" and to use "Dear Hyeri". It, "Hyeri", is also completely disconnected from the author's work.
What happened?
* Someone (North American OTT service more likely) made a mistake in transliterating the character name and title to "Hyeri". They more likely have a small font so they got confused. * Everyone else copied the wrong title without doing their due diligence. * To add fuel to misinformation, fan-made "English" posters started to show up and used in various databases. * The incorrect English title and posters reached the Korean producers, and they started using it as well. (We can't blame them, English is not their strong suit, and they generally don't care about the Romanization of Korean. They more likely just assumed what they saw as the "English" title and posters are correct.)
If you think that was it…
1. Fans were already talking about the show for months. They all got it correctly as "Haeri". 2. Online translations, most especially Naver Papago, all Romanized it as "Haeri". 3. "Hyeri" is harder for non-Asians to pronounce than "Haeri".
Artistic license?
Because "Haeri" is hard to pronounce so they replaced it with an even harder "Hyeri"?
It doesn't makes any sense, right? Let's say both are equally hard to pronounce. If they'll use the "artistic license" reasoning, why did they not come up with "Dear Hailee"? You know, Haeri -> Haeli -> Hailee. Don't tell me "Hailee Steinfeld"'s name is harder to pronounce than "Haeri" and "Hyeri"!
Oh. Hey, if you haven't noticed it yet, the name of the character being "Haeri" adds a depth to the story and the character. Did you see the connection of her name being "Haeri" as explained earlier? It doesn't exist in "Hyeri".
* Ju Haeri is Ju Eunho's younger sister.* Because of Eunho's depression, she started reading the diaries of her…
Ooh, very great catch on the poster.
And yes, of course, there is no Haeri no matter how much she tries to copy her sister. It's just her own brain trying its best to copy her sister, and filling the missing parts using her own logic of "What Would Haeri Do".
However, there were cases where the new personality took over completely, and the original personality disappeared and never resurfaced again. So, I wouldn't be surprised if they decide to go down that route, especially since the name of the other personality is in the title.
In addition to that, "Dissociative Identity Disorder" in Korean is «해리성 정체성 장애» (haeriseong jeongcheseong jangae), "Haeri" is in it as well. There's a play on words and they used it as the character's name.
So, I'm thinking, maybe they're hinting that the Haeri personality will eventually become dominant, and either totally replace, or consume, the Eunho personality. She might change her legal name too.
Do you remember her reaction being that way when she woke up? I remembered it differently for some reason…
The thing with K-drama, they tend to show what's in the mind of characters. This is one such scene. Also note that this is from her perspective.
Combining both, it tells us that the hospital scene and her reaction was what's in her mind. If they were the main characters in "No Gain, No Love", they would've showed us that scene from her mind.
I think "Spice Up Our Love" came to be because it was originally part of the draft for "No Gain, No Love". However, I think someone pointed out that it shouldn't be there because she's not the main character.
Which is true. In creative writing/fiction, it's taught that scenes that has nothing to do with the main character(s) shouldn't be written. If it's something worth telling, it should be in a separate work, like a short-story or novella (or even a full-blown novel).
Do you remember her reaction being that way when she woke up? I remembered it differently for some reason…
Yep, they changed it.
In "Spice Up Our Love", that scene was from her perspective but not necessarily how she acted.
Remember that K-drama loves to show scenes that goes on in the character's mind, this is one such. It is what's inside her head, her "secret reaction". ^_^
If you want to understand why Nam Jayeon suddenly had a change of heart regarding her hater, right after that "accident", watch "Spice Up Our Love". ^_~
You can skip it, but it will make more sense if you do.
Should i watch this instead of No gain no love? A lot of viewers find the parent story disappointing....my friend…
You should watch "No Gain, No Love" first, otherwise, you wouldn't be able to appreciate "Spice Up Our Love".
"Spice Up Our Love" is a digital novel written by Nam Jayeon, the second main female character in "No Gain, No Love". There's a reason why she wrote "Spice Up Our Love" the way it is; and there is a reason why when she got transported into her novel, she was acted and reacted the way she did (as shown in the show "Spice Up Our Love").
Without the background from "No Gain, No Love", you'll just wonder why she's acting a certain way, why she's making such comments / inner conversation, and so on. You can fill it up yourself, that's fine, but of course, it's different if you have the actual background.
they should have just said it was a drama special. announcing it as a spinoff was misleading, you’d expect it…
It's MDL, what do you expect. They have their own definitions for everything. (And of course, they'll say it came from an official source; yet many times, we caught them doing things different from the official sources they themselves cited. LOL.)
I'm not sure if "No Gain, No Love" was an adaptation. But "Spice Up Our Love" is one of the three novels Nam Ja Yeon wrote (this was revealed in E12 of No Gain, No Love).
"No Gain, No Love" is the real world. "Spice Up Our Love" is one of three novels Nam Ja Yeon wrote.
It's rare for me, but yes, definitely a show for the Second Couple. They "stole" the entire show.
It was like the story was actually meant for the Second Couple. If this was a novel, it would have made sense, since it can flow properly in novel format as there isn't production cost restrictions or time limitations as there are in live-action.
Not to mention, they filmed a spin-off just for the Second Couple. So it was like "No Gain, No Love" was simply an introduction to the Second Couple, to give a background to the two characters and what the spin-off is about.
Im confused.. so the sister disappeared in 2019? she didnt die when she was young? and the FL wanted to make her…
1. Haeri disappeared. They haven't revealed anything if she died; but more likely, presumed dead (since Haeri was hiking).
2. Correct, Eunho wants to make Haeri's dream come true after she read her diaries.
She was in deep depression, and she loves Haeri so much. So, one day she had the craziest idea to work as a park attendant as Haeri.
Quite possibly, within 24-72 hours, that intense desire coupled with deep depression, resulted in her brain creating a totally separate personality.
3. You are correct in that line of thought. I am leaning towards it as well.
Eunho is spiraling down. She wants to be better, but no effort of hers is working.
Meanwhile, the Haeri personality is asserting itself. Fighting back. Telling herself she is the primary personality and not Eunho.
If Eunho continues in her downward path (despite all her efforts), Haeri will eventually become the primary personality; while Eunho might end up completely disappearing.
If Eunho wants to survive, she needs to fight back. As far as DID fiction goes, it's an internal battle on who will become the primary personality, or if they'll accept each other and merge. (Again fiction.)
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The world is not perfect. Parents argue, fight, get separated, and sadly get divorced; or a parent abandons their child. Whatever the reasons were of the adults, the most that is affected are their children. The world that turns into darkness are the world of the people adults brought into this harsh reality.
Suji and Uri showed us that this shouldn't be the case, and that we can achieve healing in one way or another. We may hate someone for what they did, but we shouldn't let that turn into bitterness. Suji and Uri taught us that forgiveness is a path that all of us can take, because the people who benefits the most from having a forgiving heart is no other than the person who learned to forgive. And that's where healing begins and we start seeing the light.
Which then leads to having a heart of gold to take care of other people going through hardships in life, like we did, and potentially adopt children who deserves to have beautiful world.
Yes, adopting will not change the world, but it will indeed change the person's world. You see, we were not born to change the entire world, rather we were born to change the world closest to us.
1. The correct English title is "Dear Haeri" or "To My Haeri" or "My Dear Haeri"?
2. The character's name is "Haeri" and not "Hyeri"?
Details:
* Korean title: 나의 해리에게 (naeui haeriege)
* Dissociative Identity Disorder: 해리성 정체성 장애 (haeriseong jeongcheseong jangae)
The artistic connections you are missing by using the incorrect "Hyeri":
1. The name of the character, "Haeri" is in the show's title.
2. The name of the character, "Haeri" is in the Korean translation of DID.
3. The character is a second personality of Eunho.
4. Eunho will more likely start to struggle with Haeri and attempt to communicate with her, and possibly learn to appreciate her as well. Hence, "나의 해리에게" (Dear Haeri).
It's a play on words, and it is artistic. It is a disservice to the author's artistic creativity to rename the character as "Hyeri" and to use "Dear Hyeri". It, "Hyeri", is also completely disconnected from the author's work.
What happened?
* Someone (North American OTT service more likely) made a mistake in transliterating the character name and title to "Hyeri". They more likely have a small font so they got confused.
* Everyone else copied the wrong title without doing their due diligence.
* To add fuel to misinformation, fan-made "English" posters started to show up and used in various databases.
* The incorrect English title and posters reached the Korean producers, and they started using it as well. (We can't blame them, English is not their strong suit, and they generally don't care about the Romanization of Korean. They more likely just assumed what they saw as the "English" title and posters are correct.)
If you think that was it…
1. Fans were already talking about the show for months. They all got it correctly as "Haeri".
2. Online translations, most especially Naver Papago, all Romanized it as "Haeri".
3. "Hyeri" is harder for non-Asians to pronounce than "Haeri".
Artistic license?
Because "Haeri" is hard to pronounce so they replaced it with an even harder "Hyeri"?
It doesn't makes any sense, right? Let's say both are equally hard to pronounce. If they'll use the "artistic license" reasoning, why did they not come up with "Dear Hailee"? You know, Haeri -> Haeli -> Hailee. Don't tell me "Hailee Steinfeld"'s name is harder to pronounce than "Haeri" and "Hyeri"!
Oh. Hey, if you haven't noticed it yet, the name of the character being "Haeri" adds a depth to the story and the character. Did you see the connection of her name being "Haeri" as explained earlier? It doesn't exist in "Hyeri".
I know who Haeri is, but who is Hyeri?
The nail:
* 해리 = haeri
* 혜리 = hyeri
* 나의 해리에게 = naeui haeriege
* 나의 혜리에게 = naeui hyeriege
* 해리성 정체성 장애 = haeriseong jeongcheseong jangae (Dissociative Identity Disorder)
* 혜리성 정체성 장애 = hyeriseong jeongcheseong jangae (Hyerythrotic Identity Disorder)
Anyone knows what "Hyerythrotic Identity Disorder" is?
Now you know!
And yes, of course, there is no Haeri no matter how much she tries to copy her sister. It's just her own brain trying its best to copy her sister, and filling the missing parts using her own logic of "What Would Haeri Do".
However, there were cases where the new personality took over completely, and the original personality disappeared and never resurfaced again. So, I wouldn't be surprised if they decide to go down that route, especially since the name of the other personality is in the title.
In addition to that, "Dissociative Identity Disorder" in Korean is «해리성 정체성 장애» (haeriseong jeongcheseong jangae), "Haeri" is in it as well. There's a play on words and they used it as the character's name.
So, I'm thinking, maybe they're hinting that the Haeri personality will eventually become dominant, and either totally replace, or consume, the Eunho personality. She might change her legal name too.
Combining both, it tells us that the hospital scene and her reaction was what's in her mind. If they were the main characters in "No Gain, No Love", they would've showed us that scene from her mind.
I think "Spice Up Our Love" came to be because it was originally part of the draft for "No Gain, No Love". However, I think someone pointed out that it shouldn't be there because she's not the main character.
Which is true. In creative writing/fiction, it's taught that scenes that has nothing to do with the main character(s) shouldn't be written. If it's something worth telling, it should be in a separate work, like a short-story or novella (or even a full-blown novel).
So, I think this is the case here. ^_^
In "Spice Up Our Love", that scene was from her perspective but not necessarily how she acted.
Remember that K-drama loves to show scenes that goes on in the character's mind, this is one such. It is what's inside her head, her "secret reaction". ^_^
You can skip it, but it will make more sense if you do.
(( see hidden comment below )) ^_^
It makes more sense now. I've always been wondering what changed.
"Spice Up Our Love" is a digital novel written by Nam Jayeon, the second main female character in "No Gain, No Love". There's a reason why she wrote "Spice Up Our Love" the way it is; and there is a reason why when she got transported into her novel, she was acted and reacted the way she did (as shown in the show "Spice Up Our Love").
Without the background from "No Gain, No Love", you'll just wonder why she's acting a certain way, why she's making such comments / inner conversation, and so on. You can fill it up yourself, that's fine, but of course, it's different if you have the actual background.
"Spice Up Our Love" is one of three novels Nam Ja Yeon wrote (revealed in E12 of No Gain, No Love).
"No Gain, No Love" is the real world.
"Spice Up Our Love" is one of three novels Nam Ja Yeon wrote.
(PS. It was a novel, not a comic book.)
It was like the story was actually meant for the Second Couple. If this was a novel, it would have made sense, since it can flow properly in novel format as there isn't production cost restrictions or time limitations as there are in live-action.
Not to mention, they filmed a spin-off just for the Second Couple. So it was like "No Gain, No Love" was simply an introduction to the Second Couple, to give a background to the two characters and what the spin-off is about.
2. Correct, Eunho wants to make Haeri's dream come true after she read her diaries.
She was in deep depression, and she loves Haeri so much. So, one day she had the craziest idea to work as a park attendant as Haeri.
Quite possibly, within 24-72 hours, that intense desire coupled with deep depression, resulted in her brain creating a totally separate personality.
3. You are correct in that line of thought. I am leaning towards it as well.
Eunho is spiraling down. She wants to be better, but no effort of hers is working.
Meanwhile, the Haeri personality is asserting itself. Fighting back. Telling herself she is the primary personality and not Eunho.
If Eunho continues in her downward path (despite all her efforts), Haeri will eventually become the primary personality; while Eunho might end up completely disappearing.
If Eunho wants to survive, she needs to fight back. As far as DID fiction goes, it's an internal battle on who will become the primary personality, or if they'll accept each other and merge. (Again fiction.)