16 episodes is too long!!!!!
The drama’s core concept—focusing on hyperthymesia and memory loss—is fresh in K-drama, setting it apart from typical romance dramas but the plot occasionally drags.Find Me in Your Memory offers a thought-provoking exploration of memory, trauma, and love, anchored by strong performances from Kim Dong-wook and Moon Ga-young. While the pacing could benefit from tightening, the drama’s emotional core and unique premise could be an engaging watch for those who enjoy romance with a psychological twist. But I will pass sadly.
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Great start, but dragged with almost no plot towards the end.
This drama started off focusing on one main plot: memories; Ha Jin's forgotten memories AND Jung Hoon's never forgotten memories.Within a few episodes this changed directions almost entirely and focused on the stalker storyline interlinking Seo Yeon's (ML's ex and FL's best friend) death with Ha Jin's present stalker.
This was very smooth sailing as it didn't feel like a complete change in plot through the way they executed it as it still focused on memories. But, AFTER 10 episodes, the whole stalker storyline ENDED completely and was concluded really nicely. But, then in the last 6 episodes, it was as if her whole stalker storyline didn't even happen and as we move on to the first storyline of Ha Jin remembering her past.
The last 6 episode were very SLOW and I found myself skipping through most of it. Nothing much happens and it goes exactly as you'd predict.
One thing I loved about this show is that you are left seriously questioning who Ha Jin's stalker could be. All the potential suspects had so many of the stalkers characteristics and had the potential to be the stalker. I was surprised and happy with who the actual stalker was and the actor did really well in this role. I'm not going to mention who the stalker was.
I liked the main lead couple. They had a really slow burn romance that was really mature and focused a lot on loss.
I LOVED the second lead couple: Ha Kyung and Il Kwon. Their romance was also really slow burn and mature, but in a different, more comedic way. They were also the sibling/like sibling of the main couple and their pairing was adorable. The couple that always argues about everything, gender role reversal couple who had litterally no interest in each other until they spent A LOT of time together. They were the couple that stayed together once they decided to be together. (SPOILER) They were also really good at making a long distance relationship work.
I loved the cast of this drama:
- Moon Ga Young: I can't not love the characters she plays. She can really play the nice, adorable, naive girl without annoying me.
- King Dong Wook: First drama of his I've watched and I felt that his role really suited him. His hairstyle, outfits and just the way he speaks really suited his anchor role as well as a man who has suffered loss and is constantly suffering from that loss.
- Kim Seul Gi: I loved her character so much, a small but very feisty person who seemed more like the older sibling than the actual older sibling.
- Lee Jin Hyuk: Another actor I saw for the first time. I loved his role, though it was kind of cliche, but he played it really well.
- Jee Il Joo: There is something about him that just made him so perfect for his role. I've seen an edit of him playing a psychopath in another show, and I have to say, he played the role as one of the potential stalkers REALLY well. There is something unsettling about his smile and I loved it.
This drama was worth the watch, but it definitely should have been shorter. I did not like how it dragged for several episodes with very little plot.
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Never seen a drama with a good start but flopped so hard and fast. As if there were two completely separate writers. Most of the story was packed in the first 2-3 episodes (out of 16) while the rest were almost filled with nothing. The reason behind the last episode being a time skip is because there was no content left and they had to air something for the 16th episode. Another major irrecoverable mess up were the characters. The villains had zero effort put into writing them. The female lead took the "stupid female lead" trope to a never seen before levels. Also, poor chemistry with the leads. In general, the drama progressively gotten worse with every passing minute without ever recovering. That's impressive!Was this review helpful to you?
Jeong Hoon is an anchor of a news show which has the highest ratings. Jeong Hoon’s handsome face and perfect body figure make him look good in a suit. Unlike his gentle appearances, he becomes a tyrant all of a sudden and starts asking aggressive questions to whoever it is. Because of hyperthymesia, he remembers every single thing happening in 365 days a year ever since his childhood. He can’t forget the memory of the woman he loved, Seo Yeon, who disappeared 8 years ago. A rising star who attracts everyone’s attention, Ha Jin, appears in front of Jeong Hoon at that moment. Despite all the attention, Ha Jin doesn’t waver and keeps her confidence. However, she has a secret that her memory is fading away. The man who cannot forget and the woman whose memory is fading away. Will they be able to overcome their difficulties, understand each other, and fall in love at the end?
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It's slow
I think it started very well. With a very interesting and catching history in my opinion. The ML and FL were well constructed. Until ep 11 it was a pleasure to watch this show. After that was very difficult for me to finish, because the maine problem was already solved but then you have 5 more episodes to watch with new problems and boring scenes. For me it didn't make sense. I think in a normal drama you will have all that in 1 episode maximum after the first plot. But overall it's was an OK drama to see.Was this review helpful to you?
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Is love all about memories?
STORYThe premise revolves around a man who can never forget and a woman who can’t remember her past and doesn’t hold her memories. The drama continues to pose this philosophical questions, what is worst: being unable to forget beautiful experiences and memories but also past relationships and love and bad moments or being someone that can’t hold the memory of friendship and happy moments?
I have my opinion, but everyone should think it throughout there own experience or beliefs.
The backstory starts with Lee Jung Hoon (Kim Dong Wook) losing his beloved girlfriend, Seo Yeon (who is a beautiful joyfull person, full of life), to a psycho. And all the bad and good moments lived between them will stay with him forever. Can he fall in love again? Does memory plays a part in love?
Don’t really know why there are so many stalkers and kidnapers in kdramas (maybe is common in Korea, like amnesia and love triangles and squares). I think the show could had another way of developing the story, the main story that is always disturbed by villains that poped up like mushrooms…
I think this drama is also about today’s way of life: fans that can destroy lifes with comments; the unnability to deal with memories that are supposed to fade as time goes by but can’t disapear because of social media, and all the things we publish and upload to the web. And, as Cure’s Robert Smith say: “And the Spiderman is always hungry”. Public figures thrives with public recognition and opinions, but falling from the top to the bottom is only a question of hours. But it’s a price that almost everyone has to pay as they ascended in that way too. Rarely, very few ascends by merit but most do it by popularity. And people think it’s normal, by putting an avatar or being anonymous they can talk what they want without, most of the time, knowing the situation, like here in MDL.
Anchor Lee is mature, a competent and trustworthy man broadcasting the news. He feels uncomfortable and strange when Ha Jin (Moon Ga Young) apears and shares quotes and thoughts that resemble Seo Yeon. She also feels a connection and both can’t understand why…
The plot is about memories, the feelings, the past that is always present for Anchor Lee and non existent to Ha Jin. Suspense, crime, impossible love and cute romantic scenes all in the same drama. The drama is all about love, but the feeling floats in the air and not in the plot. It also deals with pressure from the press, media and fans; family love and support, specially Yeo Ha Kyung (Kim Seul Gi) protecting her older sister; work ethics and the truth about business (people, not companies, have morals,). The stalkers, the crimes are not my taste and don’t understand the need in this drama.
Another thing that kept me thinking was the way the psychiatrists dealt with the patients, medling and leading and lying insted of helping. It’s not my field of expertise, but i don’t think it’s the right treatment the way they talked to the patients and gave informations an, for sure, there were some major violations of work ethics.
I don’t follow the actors careers or have special feelings for any one. I think the main leads were great, loved the chemistry between them, and even her sister and Jo Il Kwon (
Lee Jin Hyuk).
Specially the way the romance between Anchor-nim and Ha Jin, the way they express their feelings and the memory issues. They talked about the problems, there were almost none misunderstandings, and the decisions were made with the knowledge of the other’s thoughts. Maybe Ha Jin didn’t believe in Anchor Lee’s feelings about her…
The 2 year gap is, for me, always a mistery. Maybe i can’t understand how to love in distance, not only geographically but emotional and without any communication!
The ending could be better and more focus on their love and the memories, old and new. I think they would, eventually, talked about Seo Yeon, because she was their connection, even in the past. They knew the other through her, the bond that glue their hearts…
CHARACTERS
Yeo Ha Jin is awesome. She is awkward and funny and straight talker because she can’t remember! And the memory plays a huge part of her personality. But she can deal with the hardships of her profession and the scandals. She is strong and beautiful.
Her relationship with her younger sister Yeo Ha Kyung is wonderful. She seems the young one! But the chemistry is great!
Lee Jeong Heon is the anchorman, with a sense of righteousness.He is as strong willed and dogmatic. He has hyperthymesia, that forces him to remember every moment in his life. He is very gentle and patient with Ha Jin. He is warm and kind, not the most romantic type, but more of a protective type.
Anchor-nim and Ha Jin are puzzled with each other. Ha Jin reminded him his first love and he was drawn to her when he found out who she really was and what she had to do to survive Seo Yeon’s death.
Yeo Ha Kyung is Ha Jin’s devoted baby sister. She chooses to support and sacrífice her independece for her sister and their relationship is beautiful. The romance with Reporter Jo was very fluffy. She also helps Jeon Heon to be by her sister’s side.
Jo Il-Kwon is the Anchor-nim’s junior. He is loyal, supportive and helps everyway he can. His romance with Ha Kyung is both cute and funny.
Yoo Tae Eun is Jeong Heon best friend and also Ha Jin’s former doctor. Don’t think that he does the best work as a friend or a doctor to both lovers, but he redeemed in the end.
Choi Hee Sang is Anchor-nims direct boss. She is amazing! She was very supportive to Anchor-nim, knowing his condition but always firm and competent. She is married to Cheol Woong, the director for news live which makes him Anchor-nim’s direct supervisor.
Yoo Sung Hyuk is an awful psychologist and that’s it. He is a bad person, but also incompetente.
Ji Hyun Geun is the director for Ha Jin’s film First Love and i really don’t know the purpose of him being in the drama.
Moon Seong Ho is the stalker. Don’t understand his behaviour because he murdered his muse and that’s it.
ACTING
I think it was great!
OST – interesting and well placed in the scenes.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Usually i review my dramas on what i felt trough the shows and not technical, beauty of the actores or the production aspects.
I am not an active fan of the actresses or actors, well, i like some but that doesn’t move me from an impartial view.
I loved the idea of memories playing a huge part of live, and i think everyone should watch it. I wish it was a little shorter and without the villans, but it was ok. It desserved a better ending…
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The story line was not something new in the k-drama world, but I liked how they were able to utilize the same formula and make it into a whole different thing. Everything in this drama is a lot calm, sweet, and heartwarming and not overly cheesy nor dramatic so its a lot easier and lighter to watch. I know most people find the ending of this drama bad, but for me its not really the case. It was roughly patched together, yes, like we were given several cuts of scenes that looked like it made sense but really didn't. Nonetheless, I appreciate how they made up for it and still gave us a nice, sweet ending that we want from our lead couple.
Honestly, the biggest asset of this drama were its casts. Everyone worked hard and executed well for this show! Also, I like how some of the characters were lively and were able to help lighten the mood and theme of the drama, such as Ha Kyung and Il Kwon, and the news director who was just such a great boss! Moreover, the chemistry of the leads just did its magic for this drama. No wonder why they say casting actors carefully is a huge factor, because it is what completes a good drama. Theirs was just crazy amazing that the drama sucked me in and kept me wanting more.
Kim Dong Wook looked like a real anchor-nim, and he looked like a super cute one too! The way his voice is so calm when speaking, and his smile just drove me nuts! His character definitely blended well with him, being sweet, patient and polite anchor-nim he is. >< Moon Gayoung was also so gorgeous in her role as an actress. The way both of them looked like a real life couple, was just the selling point! ISTG the age gap between the two didn't show at all! The way they smile towards each other, held hands, and kissed looked super real too.
Some of OSTs were just touching, heartwarmingly beautiful and blended well right into the background especially Jooyoung's 나의 오늘이 너의 오늘을 만나 which is now my favorite to go OST song when I need to reminisce the wonderful moments of this drama.
Overall, Find Me In Your Memory is the perfect spring-like dreamy drama that would warm the hearts of its viewers. The theme might not be for everyone particularly those who are looking for unique plot, fast paced development, and story line. This one is light and simple, slow paced, and focuses more on the romantic development of the lead couple. Giving this a try wouldn't be bad though, one might find them pulled in to this because the chemistry of the leads are just too difficult to turn away from!
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Warm-hearted, endearing, and beautiful
Overall this drama was a wonderful simple watch with a bit of suspense during the stalker storyline. It kept me on my toes in regards to who the stalker was which was good.I loved the actors and the romance in this drama. Ha Jin's outfits were also very beautiful throughout the show. The sister's character is hilarious and I love how it was written along with her side couple storyline.
The main plot hole for me would be that Yeong never showed her BEST FRIEND of all time a picture of her boyfriend??!!!! That is SO unrealistic and really created an issue in the drama that could have been totally avoided in real life if Yeong and Ha Jin were really best friends. Also Yeong talked to Anchor-nim about Ha Jin ALL the time apparently but never showed him pictures of them together either?! That really surprises me too.
The romance slowly building between Anchor-nim and Ha Jin was so cute and I LOVED his rare smiles. The actors really brought their characters to life and I loved that and the lighting and cinematography! The OSTs were perfect for the mood too! I liked the realistic comedy throughout the drama. It did not feel over done or cookie cutter.
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I then eventually knew that it is suppose to be slow paced, so when I came to rewatch it, I realized what the story is all about and little by little they did show the sense of the story.
I really really like Jeong Hoon portrayed by Kim Dong Wook and he is so handsome and he is really great in acting out his role in the series. The one thing that I find disappointing is that I like the second couple more than the main leads romance.
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PS. I am totally obsessed with the ost. Everytime that i hear the guitar at the begging of the song, it gives me goosebumps! ??
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It's good to know what hypermnesia is.
It's clearly my favourite Kdrama for the moment. The plot is really interesting and there's always knew elements which appear. The drama never gets boring or predictable. I couldn't stop watching it because I wanted to know how it will end so bad ! The actors play really well, it's easy to feel the character's emotions. I jas the feeling it jas a good retransmission about what hypermnesia and memory lost are. I highly recommend for the ones who love romance with some secrets between the main characters.Was this review helpful to you?
This is definitely a slow-burn type of drama
This is definitely a slow-burn type of drama. The way the writer elaborated the development of each character and gave them redemption is what makes it a relatable drama. Just like us in the real world, some people makes mistakes but they can redeem themselves by reflecting on what they have done and do what is right after that. Kim Dong-Wook definitely nailed the role of the main character Lee Jung-Hoon. His raw emotions are very visible through the screen. It's that silence that makes the pain more painful and it just breaks your heart as a viewer even more. Moon Ga-Young on the other hand portrayed a very bubbly and happy-go-lucky character but when it comes to the crying scenes she also never disappoints. Kudos to the production team of this drama. It was a fun, tear-jerking yet satisfying drama.Was this review helpful to you?
