Mianhada, Saranghada (Sorry, I Love You)
Mianhada, Saranghada 
Cast:
So Ji Sup
Im Soo Jeong
Jeong Kyeong Ho
Seo Ji Young
Isn’t it funny when actors begin to mock their own selves through acting? Most of the dramas that I’m seeing today always involved actors and actresses portraying actors and actresses. And most often than not, the lives they project is somehow the opposite of the glitz and glamour, the rock and the roll and the money and all. This Korean drama is one of the many dramas/movies that indulge in having the character of a hot celebrity in the story line.
Jeong Kyeong Ho as Choi Yun
The celebrity here is Choi Yun (Jeong Kyeong Ho). His stylist and long-time friend is the lead, Song Eun Chae (Im Soo Jeong). Another celebrity involved here is the actress Kang Min Joo (Seo Ji Young). Min Joo and Eun Chae are high school friends. Eun Chaeand Choi Yun are long time friends (Eun Chae’s family live besides Choi Yun’s house and serves his family). Choi Yun has a long time crush on Min Joo. Eun Chae likes Choi Yun for 20 years already. Eun Chae helps Choi Yun date the playgirl Min Joo. Eun Chae gets mad at Min Joo when she hurts Choi Yun. Choi Yun gets mad at Eun Chae for reprimanding Min Joo. The love triangle goes on and on. Just like that. Not until an important character comes in.
Im Soo Jeong and So Ji Sup
Cha Moo Hyuk/Danny Anderson (So Ji Sup) who lived in Australia because of his foster parents came back to Korea after an accident and heartbreak. His girlfriend married an Australian for money. He went to her wedding only to lodge 2 bullets in his head for saving his traitor love. He underwent a critical operation. One bullet was removed but the other cannot be retrieved. It remained in his head. He doesn’t have much time to live. The girlfriend gives him a lot of money and begged him to go back to Korea.
In the midst of these 2 subplots, the major one is subconsciously happening. Eun Chae met Moo hyuk in Australia when she was heartbroken from her 2 friends. Same thing with Moo Hyuk, loitering in the streets, ganging up someone to buy a present for his wife, he ended up helping Eun Chae. Misery loves company. Although they don’t know each other’s misery, they stayed together and pretended they cared about each other. Eun Chae left for Korea. Moo Hyuk stayed a little longer before he finally decided to go back and search for his mom.
Cha Moo Hyuk and Song Eun Chae
Upon coming back, he eventually met his twin sister and his nephew. He found his Mom but cannot easily run back to her and let her claim him as her son because his mom is the famous actress, Oh Deu Ri, the mother of Choi Yun.
Moo Hyuk unintentionally meets Eun Chae again because of staying close behind his “lucky brother” and starts to plan out his revenge. Eun Chae was clueless all the time because she thought Moo Hyuk came back to Korea to see her. They eventually became closer to each other without actually wanting it. They fell in love with each other without sensing it coming. There’s a lot of twists and turns in the story that the audience must take note of.
Happy people will not be happy to watch the drama because of how much melancholy and pity it projects. I will not go further as to what melancholy I am talking about. I’ll just focus on the paradox of the title.
“Sorry, I Love You” was said towards the end of the story by the 2 lead characters: Eun Chae and Moo Hyuk. Eun Chae actually wrote it for Moo Hyuk to read before she left and let go of him after realizing how burdensome she is to Moo Hyuk when he did not expect her to come into his life. He wants revenge but his plans continued to change because of her. Likewise, Moo Hyuk does the same when he refuses to take Eun Chae with him because of his sickness, his imminent death, his anger, his hurt and melancholy. He loves her that much that he hopes for a better future for her with Choi Yun. The character of Eun Chae is very significant for Moo Hyuk’s characterization because somehow his hatred for his mother is projected to Eun Chae but is transformed into something good. He sees Eun Chae as a caring mother who feeds him, makes him laugh, sings a lullabye and wipes dirt off his face. His indifferent and naïve mother’s dislike for him is repaid every time he is with Eun Chae. There is a line in the story when he prayed to God and said that he will stop the revenge, he will forget all the hurt and pain in the past for as long as Eun Chae stays with him forever.
On the other, Choi Yun’s character is also important to Moo Hyuk. No matter how he hates him for taking everything that he could have had, he really cannot hurt him easily because he sees his mother’s love in him. He cannot put a stop to his mother’s love because he sees himself in Choi Yun. He sees himself as a loving son, as a happy person. He cannot kill it. Killing it would kill him as well.
The ending is not that likable for many. The blurb of the drama, “When life is ready to end, he meets his true life” summarized everything. It is true that one begins to appreciate everything tangible, felt and learned when one foresees the end to all. Moo Hyuk’s death is an unselfish one. If at the beginning, he likes to dies to hurt his Mom and make her shed tears of blood, in the end, he died peacefully without blaming or yelling at his mom for abandoning them. He died not being with Eun Chae (he went back to Australia with his ex-girlfriend). He died without hating and making his brother suffer. He isolated himself and wallowed in regret, hurt and death alone because in dying he saw and appreciated these people he bear hatred with.
Eun Chae-ah
Moo Hyuk-ah
Cast:
So Ji Sup
Im Soo Jeong
Jeong Kyeong Ho
Seo Ji Young
Isn’t it funny when actors begin to mock their own selves through acting? Most of the dramas that I’m seeing today always involved actors and actresses portraying actors and actresses. And most often than not, the lives they project is somehow the opposite of the glitz and glamour, the rock and the roll and the money and all. This Korean drama is one of the many dramas/movies that indulge in having the character of a hot celebrity in the story line.
Jeong Kyeong Ho as Choi Yun
The celebrity here is Choi Yun (Jeong Kyeong Ho). His stylist and long-time friend is the lead, Song Eun Chae (Im Soo Jeong). Another celebrity involved here is the actress Kang Min Joo (Seo Ji Young). Min Joo and Eun Chae are high school friends. Eun Chaeand Choi Yun are long time friends (Eun Chae’s family live besides Choi Yun’s house and serves his family). Choi Yun has a long time crush on Min Joo. Eun Chae likes Choi Yun for 20 years already. Eun Chae helps Choi Yun date the playgirl Min Joo. Eun Chae gets mad at Min Joo when she hurts Choi Yun. Choi Yun gets mad at Eun Chae for reprimanding Min Joo. The love triangle goes on and on. Just like that. Not until an important character comes in.
Im Soo Jeong and So Ji Sup
Cha Moo Hyuk/Danny Anderson (So Ji Sup) who lived in Australia because of his foster parents came back to Korea after an accident and heartbreak. His girlfriend married an Australian for money. He went to her wedding only to lodge 2 bullets in his head for saving his traitor love. He underwent a critical operation. One bullet was removed but the other cannot be retrieved. It remained in his head. He doesn’t have much time to live. The girlfriend gives him a lot of money and begged him to go back to Korea.
In the midst of these 2 subplots, the major one is subconsciously happening. Eun Chae met Moo hyuk in Australia when she was heartbroken from her 2 friends. Same thing with Moo Hyuk, loitering in the streets, ganging up someone to buy a present for his wife, he ended up helping Eun Chae. Misery loves company. Although they don’t know each other’s misery, they stayed together and pretended they cared about each other. Eun Chae left for Korea. Moo Hyuk stayed a little longer before he finally decided to go back and search for his mom.
Cha Moo Hyuk and Song Eun Chae
Upon coming back, he eventually met his twin sister and his nephew. He found his Mom but cannot easily run back to her and let her claim him as her son because his mom is the famous actress, Oh Deu Ri, the mother of Choi Yun.
Moo Hyuk unintentionally meets Eun Chae again because of staying close behind his “lucky brother” and starts to plan out his revenge. Eun Chae was clueless all the time because she thought Moo Hyuk came back to Korea to see her. They eventually became closer to each other without actually wanting it. They fell in love with each other without sensing it coming. There’s a lot of twists and turns in the story that the audience must take note of.
Happy people will not be happy to watch the drama because of how much melancholy and pity it projects. I will not go further as to what melancholy I am talking about. I’ll just focus on the paradox of the title.
“Sorry, I Love You” was said towards the end of the story by the 2 lead characters: Eun Chae and Moo Hyuk. Eun Chae actually wrote it for Moo Hyuk to read before she left and let go of him after realizing how burdensome she is to Moo Hyuk when he did not expect her to come into his life. He wants revenge but his plans continued to change because of her. Likewise, Moo Hyuk does the same when he refuses to take Eun Chae with him because of his sickness, his imminent death, his anger, his hurt and melancholy. He loves her that much that he hopes for a better future for her with Choi Yun. The character of Eun Chae is very significant for Moo Hyuk’s characterization because somehow his hatred for his mother is projected to Eun Chae but is transformed into something good. He sees Eun Chae as a caring mother who feeds him, makes him laugh, sings a lullabye and wipes dirt off his face. His indifferent and naïve mother’s dislike for him is repaid every time he is with Eun Chae. There is a line in the story when he prayed to God and said that he will stop the revenge, he will forget all the hurt and pain in the past for as long as Eun Chae stays with him forever.
On the other, Choi Yun’s character is also important to Moo Hyuk. No matter how he hates him for taking everything that he could have had, he really cannot hurt him easily because he sees his mother’s love in him. He cannot put a stop to his mother’s love because he sees himself in Choi Yun. He sees himself as a loving son, as a happy person. He cannot kill it. Killing it would kill him as well.
The ending is not that likable for many. The blurb of the drama, “When life is ready to end, he meets his true life” summarized everything. It is true that one begins to appreciate everything tangible, felt and learned when one foresees the end to all. Moo Hyuk’s death is an unselfish one. If at the beginning, he likes to dies to hurt his Mom and make her shed tears of blood, in the end, he died peacefully without blaming or yelling at his mom for abandoning them. He died not being with Eun Chae (he went back to Australia with his ex-girlfriend). He died without hating and making his brother suffer. He isolated himself and wallowed in regret, hurt and death alone because in dying he saw and appreciated these people he bear hatred with.
Eun Chae-ah
Moo Hyuk-ah
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