TV Novel: That Sun in the Sky (2016)

Good drama with poorly written characters

"No matter what anyone says, I will never give up. Like the Sun in the Sky" - Kang In Kyung

Insights:

This drama is a depiction of society during 1970's. This is an inspiring drama where a woman have undergone through ordeal. Because of her positive and bright attitude it made her to the top to become the Korea's best actress. This is a life lesson to everyone that we can start from scratch until we reach it great just like Kang In Kyung who never gave up despite her dark past which serves as nutrients for her to success and reach her dreams.

I watched this drama since I am curious about Yoon Ah Jung acting as a protagonist for the first time. I really love Yoon Ah Jung more as a protagonist rather an antagonist in Yellow Boots. It seems this role really suits her as Kang In Kyung because of such positive and bright attitude.

At first, I find it really promising at the earlier episodes. However, it's so draggy that needs to skip parts during later episodes. So many toxic characters that I cannot handle. The most annoying character is Nam Hee Ae because she is way too naive when it comes to love and doesn't care whenever Cha Min Woo does bad and she acts immature bitch who always yaps at her father for not getting what she wants and envies Kang In Kyung.

Cha Min Woo always gets in my nerves all the time since he is the number 1 villain in this drama... This drama has lot of villain. Lee Seo Yeon, Lee Hyung Ok, Mr. Ma, and Byun Geun Tae are freaking annoying like they love to pull down In Kyung on their way but they're such a fail!

The character with the most character development is Park Mal Soon the stepmother who used to hate In Kyung because of her birthmother who used to be the first wife of her husband but she deeply care and loves In Kyung for she is a kind woman.

My favorite character is Hong Soo Ji because she is a strong woman that no one gets in her way but the problem with her is that she is so yappy that she always confide Min Woo and she ended up dead and I hate it!!

I have respect on Nam Jung Ho's character because he married In Kyung despite her dark past and accepted Seung Joon as his child even if he is the son of Min Woo. I can say Jung Ho is an epitome of a real man and a modern man nowadays who doesn't care if they married a single mother.

This drama would have been perfect if:
>Kang In Kyung wouldn't have let Cha Min Woo for warning him
>It would have been better if Hee Ae would have her character development in the middle part of the drama
>50 episodes are enough to suffice the contents of the story
>Cha Min Woo should have sincerely apologized to In Kyung before he died

Story:
This is about a country girl Kang In Kyung who lives in poverty along with her step mother and her younger step brother Han Soo. In Kyung moves to Seoul in order to earn a living for her family as a bus attendant. She also attends a night school and she met her first love Cha Min Woo-who is a playright in a theater. There is one woman who also likes Cha Min Woo named Nam Hee Ae. She is so clingy with Min Woo and confesses to him many times but Min Woo rejected Hee Ae many times. Hee Ae would not give up on Min Woo and she is jealous at In Kyung.

In Kyung was treated unfairly by her boss-Byun Geun Tae and her manager in her workplace that they would even find flaws in In Kyung. In Kyung was also falsely accused in her workplace by stealing the funds of her boss but Nam Jung Ho witnessed that In Kyung was innocent. They even made up a story that In Kyung had an affair with the President of Baekdu Films - Nam Jung Ho whom In Kyung met during a collision of her bus and the car of Nam Jung Ho. Cha Min Woo found out the rumor about Jung Ho and In Kyung's affair made up by Geun Tae and Mr. Ma. In Kyung tried to explain with Min Woo but he lashes out his anger at In Kyung and he eventually broke up with her and he goes to Hee Ae.

Later on, In Kyung found out she is pregnant with Min Woo's child. She eventually quits her work as a bus attendant and she confides to Min Woo about her child. Rather than being persuaded, Min Woo shuns In Kyung and doesn't accept that he is the father of that child and regrets that he fell in love with In Kyung. Hee Ae promised to Min Woo that she will help him out into becoming a film director and a writer in the Baekdu films.

In Kyung decided to be a single mother to her child and she told Geum Soon about the child and keep it as a secret between her and Chil Bong and without informing Choon Ja, Han Soo and the step mother about the child because In Kyung doesn't want to bring burden for her family. So, Geum Soon aided In Kyung to hide until the child arrives that day. In Kyung gave birth safely however, she pass out and unfortunately her stepmother found out about the secret birth of In Kyung. The stepmother was mixed in emotion and questions written on her face. Geum Soon told everything about In Kyung's ordeal in child raising. The stepmother doesn't want In Kyung to be a single mother even if there are times she would pick at her stepdaughter. She decides to lie with In Kyung that her child died during delivery so that In Kyung would prevent from being ostracized by the society. During 70's, single mothers are often treated as an outcast. The stepmother doesn't want In Kyung to end up like her raising two children alone. The stepmother puts up the child in the orphanage but Geum Soon later on takes the child and took care of the child in her family.

In Kyung slowly gets over her dead child. She mets Hong Soo Ji the stylist of the parlor. In Kyung decided to be an actress and Hong Soo Ji groomed her into an actress. In Kyung have several dramas wherein she is the main lead and her rival actress is Yoon Mi Hee who used to be one of the bus attendant of Byun Geun Tae. Min Woo is salty everytime In Kyung succeeds in his evil plan. He is willing to destroy In Kyung by digging up her past but he ends up failing to do so because In Kyung warned her.

In Kyung founds out that her child is really Seung Joon. Geum Soon and the stepmother apologized and explained that it's for her own good that they did this to prevent her from being ostracized by the society. They just want her to have a happy life. In Kyung starts taking good care of Seung Joon. However, everybody in the Baekdu films found out that Seung Joon is In Kyung's child

Hong Soo Ji is aware of Min Woo's evil tactics and saw everything: the car accident, the fabrication of evidence about the marijuana to make In Kyung put behind bars, disqualify In Kyung as an actress by breaching the contract because of love scandal but then he failed in his evil plan. Min Woo pushed Hong Soo Ji in the stairs made her fall into coma and have amnesia as she wakes up so that Min Woo would have the incident of stairs accident will be buried forever. In the end, Soo Ji remembers about Cha Min Woo did to her. Min Woo was furious and destroys the brakes of In Kyung's car so that In Kyung wil be accused of murder of Hong Soo Ji. In Kyung was found innocent because Da Eun witnessed what happened during the day when Cha Min Woo broke the brakes of In Kyung's car.

In Kyung married to Nam Jung Ho which is at first the chairman was disapprove of his son's decision but later on agree because Jung Ho lied to his father that Seung Joon is his real child. Yoon Mi Hee, Min Woo and Hee Ae is against the marriage of In Kyung. In Kyung suffered in the Nam household for she is not given a right treatment. Later on, the Nam household found out that Min Woo is the real father of Seung Joon and made the chairman infuriated at In Kyung and Min Woo. Seung Joon blames himself why the grandfather chairman is mad. In Kyung was forgiven but Min Woo suffered the great consequences of his action. The chairman found out that Min Woo is in incharge of slush funds, embezzlement, murder of Hong Soo Ji and responsible for ruining In Kyung's image. Min Woo was put to jail in order to escape Min Woo did a strategy by attacking his co-inmates and he will be sent to the hospital injured and eventually escaped. Min Woo goes to attack Hyung Ok and gets the evidence about the lobbyist fund and embezzlement of Saechang group. Hyung Ok was arrested and his daughter Seo Yeon decides to finish her study in Italy so that she could have a new start. Seung Joon found Min Woo somewhere else as Min Woo kidnaps Seung Joon in the cold winter. Min Woo embraces Seung Joon in a cold winter to warm him as he confesses and apologize to Seung Joon and In Kyung and he eventually died. It was a happy ending for In Kyung and Jung Ho but a tragic ending for Da Eun and Hee Ae. In Kyung produced a lot of films such as the film Snowflakes- a film about the life of In Kyung.

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