My First Love (Korean Drama)

Other Names: Longing Heart

Genre: Romance, Fantasy, Comedy

Episodes: 10

Main Cast:

Lee Jung-Shin as Kang Shin Woo (28 years old)

Seo Ji-Hoon as Kang Shin Woo (18 years old)

Lee Yeol-Eum as Han Ji Soo (28 & 18 years old)

Synopsis:

Kang Shin-Woo is a math teacher with a good looking appearance. He has not forgotten his first love Han Ji-Soo for the past 10 years. By an accident, he travels to the past when he was a high school student. There, he meets his younger self. Kang Shin-Woo struggles to make the younger Kang Shin-Woo's love come true.

(Review) My Thoughts:

Let's just say I am quite a fan of Seo Ji Hoon which is why I started this drama because he was excellent in his other works or pose quite the presence. But, the drama really interacted with my senses where I am interested in any minute details the drama has. I did not have any doubts over how great this drama was since the very start. And so, let's get this review started.

The first few episodes were very intriguing and cute to watch at the same time. I really questioned every single mystery the story posed. Heck, I even did a video about the first two episodes. It was to that point of me really wanting to know everything that's going to happen or had happen since the start was the characters in the present day. There were so many clues as to what had happen. Anyways, this was a cliche time-travel drama to erase the regrets of the past. I expected as much but seriously the romantic moments were just so beautiful and cute. And, it truly defines destiny in its fullest form. No matter what happen, or how things change, if you're meant to be together, you will be together.

As I said, I was a fan of Seo Ji Hoon, so the moment the story went to the past or had flashbacks of the past, I was so happy to see him. Hehehe....  He has just so much presence when he acts that I really love his acting. This story was on how Kang Shin Woo tries to fix what he did wrong or did not do in the past. And the first few episodes, I truly got mad at the older Kang Shin Woo and felt super pity for young Shin Woo (or Seo Ji Hoon). I felt like my feelings as a fan fanned the flames of anger.

I'm like, you're supposed to help out your younger self since you know everything that happens in the past. I know nothing ever goes right at first when someone time travels in a drama but the older Shin Woo truly made things worse to the point, I wonder whether he is there to repair or to destroy. He maddens me a lot. 

One point to note here if you have not watched the drama, he is an excellent math teacher in the drama but he can't even figure out that the reason his phone does not receive signal is that his phone number was not registered in the network of those days. He even doesn't realize his card was never supposed to work. He knows everything that happens in the past and yet somehow sometimes he doesn't know. There were a few holes in the plot that seemed pretty weird to be honest. You'll see when you watch it but it did not affect the drama much, it just annoys me or puzzles me at times.

I came into the drama thinking that I was for sure able to predict where the story can go. And watching the OST video, I thought I knew better. But, seriously, I can't at all predict completely how things will go. I thought it would be this way, but the story goes another way. And that's what I really like about this drama as I watch it to the end, how I never always know what's going to happen. Enabling me to wait excitedly over how things will unfold. Enabling me to hope on how things will unfold. It is again amazing when I look back at how the editors of the drama gives glimpses of scenes that happened at the past and then lengthens the scene as each episodes pass and us viewers getting to know more as much is revealed with just a few more seconds of the scene is given. There were just too many twists and turns in the drama. I just can't keep up with each of them and absolutely loved each of them. I do dislike how some things were unchanged to the end of the drama but I saw in the end that they were left unchanged for a good solid reason. One thing I can see here which is super beautiful is how a person can fall in love over and over again with the same person. And even more, how destiny ties them together no matter how wrong things get. The last episode of this drama was beauty at its best. I'm telling you I was more than satisfied at how it ends and how they left nothing behind. In that, my questions were all answered and nothing was not known. It was a perfectly wonderful ending. I mean after all that struggle and pain and then they got together happily as they were always meant to be.

So, in conclusion, Seo Ji Hoon acts great and in great dramas. Hehehe.... I was worried for a bit when the story got to the present day but there was nothing to worry about as they still provided the past a chance. It is honestly a great watch. Simple but beautiful. Seriously a beautiful drama full of ups and downs. Always exciting, never a disappointment. Come and watch!!And then comment on how it made you feel because I felt so fluffy because of it!