Sad Sonata
Korean dramas are so full of angst. It's almost funny sometimes - at the same time that it's heartbreaking. I'm watching Sad Sonata right now and it is glorious but has the same problem as all other kdramas I"ve seen:
1) it's too drawn-out - it could so easily be paired down to make a much faster-paced and better story, and
2) too much angst! I love it, but I do admit it's overdone. I mean, you can only have so many scenes of the hero/heroine staring with bitter longing into the distance thinking of each other.
Synopsis: Joon-young and the blind girl Hae-in are childhood sweethearts until they are separated by tragic circumstance and Hai-in's aunt marries and movies to American, taking Hae-in with her. Joon-young, unable to trace her, becomes best friends with Gun-Woo, who later also moves to America and becomes a music producer. There, he meets and falls in love with Hae-in, who having received false intelligence that Joon-young is dead, consents to a relationship with him. A triangle obviously develops between Hae-in(who in the meantime has recovered her sight and become a singer), Gun-Woo, and Joon-young, a composer.
But-it's beautiful - like Titanic with snow -
and epic-
Hmm, contemplating buying it-
YesAsia.com is apparently where the recent surge of Americans(and everyone else) who is getting into kdramas is buying them. Subtitled, of course. Hmm.
