Completed
darkn3ss
15 people found this review helpful
Jun 28, 2013
18 of 18 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 8.0
Although I wanted to slap the lead female throughout the drama, I was also totally shipping for her to recover her memories and family,so by the end of the drama I was fairly satisfied hence the 9/10 instead of 10.

If not going to waste my saliva or fatigued my fingers on the issue , but if you feel that you must overlooked this drama because someone may had badmouth it or a reviewer did not give it a high enough grade, then you should not blame anyone else but yourself for missing out on a true uniquely almost gem drama.

I have my "gringe" with this drama hence I did not give it a higher note, but if you really want to see great acting it's a must see, especially from the older cast, they had me totally hooked, same with the younger version is seems as the western standard for acting his going down the toilet, great germ are emanating from the east.

Acting aside the reason this drama should not be pass over is probably because of the message that is conveyed a simply touching and adorable story. With a powerful message of forgiveness.

So if you want to watch a drama that is fairly well acted and fairly wonderfully written then this must be your pick.

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Completed
Jay noona
1 people found this review helpful
Aug 12, 2021
18 of 18 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 7.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 4.0
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i really liked this drama it was amazing
and i decided to keep it till ....
i completed it

the story took the wrong turn towards the end
there were no character development at all for both main leads

the story was about a genius woman who decided to change her life after getting through a trauma
then she lost her memory
all that was good and the events were great
but it has a huge flaws
they showed us at the beginning the FL was a genius
her memory was like a laptop or more
she studied business abroad

SOOOO ... for a genius woman like that i saw her sooooooo stupid and stubborn like a mule
has no sense, and so selfish
i want to slap her from the beginning till the end

because ..for a genius woman she should make a small business with her husband instead of a stupid bakery
or at least gaining money from stock market with this brain
but she did nothing she never used her bran in any thing
and above all that ...... zero romance in her character


the ML wasn't from her level neither the educational nor the social one
he never decided to develop himself
he was totally agree with th FL's humiliations towards him an continuing loving her unconditionally

inspite of that they showed us she loved him after living with him
and when her memory comes back she remembered she loved him
but she treated him in a very mean way with no reason
always try to show him she is much better than him
till the end she gave me the feeling she wasn't convinced with him

i thought after getting back her memory i thought there will be a huge character development for both leads
she is going to be nice and help him to change his character from a stupid guy to a real self-confident man

but that doesn't happen

and the second leads their story were very odd too with an open stupid ending
after all what Fl's uncle did and his wife i couldn't accept that end

totally it was nice drama with a vey annoying FL character
and u can just watch it once
at least for me

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Dropped 14/18
Colum H
0 people found this review helpful
Dec 8, 2020
14 of 18 episodes seen
Dropped 0
Overall 5.0
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 2.5
Rewatch Value 3.0
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I nearly made it to the end but...

Will I go back to this? Can I bear to (not) finish it?
Right now I'm not completely sure, if I do go back I'll update this review.

I ended up at Birth Secret by a recommendation on the 'That Fool' page and at first I was very taken with it. It had a young Kim So Hyun and a fine if slightly irritating turn from Gal So Won. Sung Yu Ri also pulled me in.

The story has it's clichés (amnesia anyone?) but I didn't really mind the way it was done and that first part of the setup was intriguing.
But
At episode 10 I wrote in the comments:
<"Hong Gyung-doo is uneducated and poor" and unintelligent, boorish, violent, impulsive, aggressive... though he is a loving father. Not forgetting he is very, very shouty! (like the uncle) I'm on ep. 10 and really enjoying it apart from the shouty stupids which I tend to skip through.>

And a big part of my lack of enthusiasm by episode 14/15 is Hong Gyung Doo. I get that he's supposedly a nice chap and that they shoehorned various ways to show this into the script. He starts getting better off- better dressed, better job and so on and so on. But to me he's just a shouty simpleton with some serious boundary issues. The Oh now I remember being happy with him when we were married scenes were just jarring.

Unfortunately without the kick of Romance the rest of Birth Secret can't really stand up.
I had little time for most of the side characters whether they were love to hate or comic relief, they just weren't fleshed out enough to sustain interest. The only support character I really enjoyed was Sun Young I liked her progression. The Aunt and Kyung Doo's love triangle ended up as lost opportunities.

Another problem was by episode 14 of 18 I already felt it should have been 12 episodes or maybe 14 at the most. All the flashbacks, the long mother/father & daughter quality time scenes, the aforementioned pre-amnesia happy lovey-dovey scenes. And the professor with a handy speech impediment which could spin lines and 'tension' out interminably.

Which leaves me writing this - uninterested in the whole Chaebol corruption stuff, don't care if any of the secondary characters get happy endings and not shipping the main couple.

Hoping Sun Young gets her divorce, meets someone nice etc. and the cute kid aren't worth four more episodes.
The music was okay in places but there were quite a few yearning ballads in there which ought to have never existed

If you watch a few episodes and ship the main couple then go for it, I kept watching way past when I realised they were the 'ship of the show so it can't be all bad?

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Completed
Eun Ji Lee
0 people found this review helpful
Jul 8, 2018
18 of 18 episodes seen
Completed 0
Overall 8.5
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 7.5
Vi el primer y segundo episodio y comencé a amarlo. Me alegro de que decidí ver este drama. Es una buena. Demasiado triste que no me di cuenta antes. ¿Qué tiene de bueno este drama? Déjame decirte. ¿Qué harías si te despiertas de tu sueño y no recuerdas lo que has hecho desde hace 10 años? ¿Crees que es el año 1997, pero de hecho estás en el año 2007. Time slip? ¿Salto cuántico? ¿Viajero del tiempo? No, estás perdiendo tus recuerdos.


Primero, es el primer drama que me arrastra a su nivel emocional. Lloré incontables veces mientras miraba. Ridículo, ¿no? Intentaron sacar una comedia, pero no puedo evitarlo en lugar de llorar varias veces. No lo sé. Tal vez lo vi cuando estaba de mal humor, pero creo que esa no es la razón.


Tal vez la relación que los une me hizo sumergirme en el sentimiento de cada personaje, especialmente el amor de Hong Kyung-doo hacia su esposa Yoon-hee y su hija, Hong Hae-deum.


Personalmente creo que Birth Secret es una variante atípica de innumerables kdrama con cliché secreto de nacimiento. Aunque tiene makjang-esque y amnesia como dispositivos de trama, me encanta la forma en que se me presentó. Con la memoria perdida de Yi-hyun, ella está tratando de juntar su memoria piezas por piezas en el viaje llamado autodescubrimiento de la vida. Era una genio, una estudiante excelente y se graduó de la Escuela de Negocios de Havard, pero ¿por qué había un momento en su vida en que intentó suicidarse como si su futuro estuviera completamente arruinado y, por lo tanto, luchara por el mismo lugar para morir con un ... llamado perdedor ¿Cual es la diferencia entre ellos? ¿Por qué tomó una decisión tan impulsiva? Estas preguntas me intrigaron y me hicieron ver 10 episodios en una noche, sí, debido a la curiosidad.

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