Premise: It tells the story of how the life of four men started at the age of
forty through the course of friendship, romance, personal growth and career
development.
Characters:
Kim Do
Jin (Jang Dong Gun) - He is an architect
by profession and a bachelor that has typical playboy skills due to his incessant
appeal and charisma. This has changed when he met that someone who is extra special to him who could make him quit his vices with women.
Seo Yi
Soo (Kim Ha Neul) – She is
high school teacher who has devoted herself to teaching her students thus,
she has no time for love life. One of her leisure is to attend the baseball practices of one of her friends to assist in the pitch.
Im Tae
San (Kim Soo Roo) - He is a
baseball player who has sincere intention of marrying his girlfriend Hong
Se Ra (Yoon Se Ah), a badminton athlete. However, her feelings
are ambivalent in prioritizing between love and career.
Choi
Yoon (Kim Min Jong) - He is a
lawyer by profession and is a widower who tries to move on and recover from the
loss of his wife. After years of grieving, his feelings were somewhat awakened by the return of Mi Ah Ri who is much younger than him.
Im Mi
Ah Ri (Yoon Jin Yi) - She is the
younger sister of Im Tae San and was a former student of Seo Yi Soo. She went
abroad to study fashion designing but then she decided to quit her studies to
come back and meet Choi Yoon, whom she holds feelings for.
Lee
Jung Rok (Lee Jong Hyuk) - He
owns a coffee shop funded by his wealthy wife Park Min Sook (Kim Jung
Nan), an older woman that he married for a comfortable lifestyle.
However, he often commits infidelity that might cause him to lose every valuable of his including his lavish lifestyle.
Kim
Dong Hyub (Kim Woo Bin) - He is a
troublesome student under Seo Yi Soo's class. He shared friendship with Collin
(Jong Hyun of CN Blue), a transfer student from Japan who went back to Korea to search for his father.
Commentaries:
The
Story: Well, this is not the kind
of story that would catch my attention so if I were to grade the series for
this matter alone, I don't think that it would garner a satisfactory or even a
passing rate. This is a kind of story that is filled with superficial elements wouldn't materialize on me if it wasn't for the senior actors who took their respective
roles in the drama. And in reference to my interest is with that of my The Greatest Love review, I would not devote my time if the casts'
portrayal weren't effective.
What
worked on me:
I'm
glad that their visuals lived up with the expectations to its shallowness and
that it didn't give me a heavy drama that would contradict the fun and entertainment.
They made a good visualization of what professionals should be like (though K-dramas are generally fashion
forward), living in exclusive villas and extending their
environment to a clean and luxurious surrounding.
The
series was overall carried by a gorgeous man, Jang
Dong Gun who can't really hide his handsomeness and appeal in the series.
He really has one of the best faces in Korea if not the best of them all. What
a gorgeous man he really is. This is where my ahjusshi feels is the most essential thing to this drama review.
Rating: Very good, (1) it's because I ignored the kind of story that it has, and (2) because Jang Dong Gun basically meant everything to me in this series.
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