Rosy Lovers (Korean Drama)

Genre: Romance, Family, Comedy, Drama

Episodes: 52

Main Cast:

Lee Jang-Woo as Park Cha-dol

Han Sun-Hwa as Baek Jang-mi

Synopsis:

Baek Jang-mi is a sophomore majoring in design, a rich girl who grew up without experiencing any hardship in life. Jang-mi's parents want to marry her off to an eligible man they chose for her, but she rebels and begins dating engineering student Park Cha-dol. Lively and outgoing Cha-dol was raised by a single mother, and he's eager to graduate and start earning money to take care of his mom. But when Jang-mi gets pregnant, she and Cha-dol are forced to change their plans. And this doesn't sit well with Jang-mi who can't get used to the poor life. Once the baby was born, she caved into her parents' offer and left Cha-dol with the baby. Years later, through an odd chain of events, they meet again. Will they love again despite the past she left behind....

My Thoughts:

I will start by saying that this is one of the special dramas in my life in different levels. For me to watch a weekly drama is a sign that this drama is amazing. I finished it a year ago and I still get excited by its' scenes especially the lead-up to the ending. Those scenes are the best exclusively when it's a 50-episode drama, 50 long hours of story. Hopefully you can imagine the dread and pain of watching these characters go through sorrow and challenges, like I'm always hoping 'Come on, he/she has had enough already, can't he/she be happy already?' Like the moment you knew their struggles are over, you feel happy for them and the fact remains that this means the show's ending soon. But for me, that just makes me cherish every single smile and the atmosphere even more. Well, stopping my babbling for now.

This story was a trial-run if I'm not mistaken because I remember seeing trailers and stuffs of it that got me interested for a moment. The synopsis was intriguing because I normally see single mothers kind of dramas and not a single daddy drama. Pardon me if there are many of those dramas, I am just talking based on my experience. I like how they played out the story. It is not depressingly sad but a good balance to show that all is not bad. Another thing I like is how the character matures because in this kind of drama, there are many future possibilities to how the character would turn out and this drama brought them to one of the best possible future. Note, I like the feeling that this drama gives me, the actors and actresses brought their character to life and are so on-point that the emotions is deeply felt and I felt touched and sad and happy easily. The suspense are also painful as the drama gives you so many hints of information that I just like, will it be reveal now or later or now.... They are really good at making situations where it could almost get revealed.

Some stories don't click with me as they dragged on with fillers and stupid annoying plots. That's sad when I saw the potential these stories had with the first few episodes. This story had potential, I will say that as I got baited into a marathon. This is a makjang(illogical) drama for sure but I love this drama because of this genre. I never saw the potential of a makjang until I saw this drama. I always thought it was useless and just to fill up the time. Makjangs are supposed to make a drama interesting but this drama gave a new side to makjang. A side that I really love about this drama and made me continue watching.

I am not gonna say much about this drama. For those who are used to twice weekly dramas, why don't you give a drama like this a chance? I find that the more you looked down on the potential of the drama, the more satisfied you get when you find that the drama reached the potential and beyond, making the journey much more fulfilling. Go for it! As long as you have enough time to spare that is because if you were to marathon this, it would take two days at least. I took a week or so to finish it. And it was worth every hour gone. If you can't take my note on it, then give it a go.