Secret Love

Not all secrets can be buried.

I watched the drama because of the male leads. I really loved their pairing on "Kill me, Heal me", which lead me to watch this drama. Aside from that, I got curious after reading the reviews.

I'm really not a fan of melodramas, so I honestly find the drama boring and, of course, slow-paced. I did not find the drama "great" but it was "good". There's a lot of scenes that I find unnecessary, making the drama feel dragged out. But the side characters somehow helps me get pass the boredom. The drama OSTs are okay, but not really impactful for me.

For Min Hyeok, Yoo Jeong, and Do Hoon — I have no words for how well they played their characters. The emotions are always there and spot on.

One thing I want to complain about in the drama is the "partner exchange" pace. It felt rushed. Yoo Jeong was so in love with Do Hoon, then she says she loves Min Hyeok after learning the truth. The same thing with Min Hyeok, but his case felt more possible since he'd been keeping tabs on her for a long time and eventually grew feelings and fell in love. Then there's Do Hoon — he's in love with Se Yeon? Just wow. Yoo Jeong and he had a 7-year relationship, almost got married, and even had a son, but how quickly he turns his back on her. Meanwhile for Se Yeon, he protected her till the end?! Unbelievable!

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This is a story of love that started as revenge.

Min Hyuk lost his pregnant lover in a hit-and-run accident. He seeks revenge to Yoo Jung, mistakenly thinking she was the one who drove and killed his girlfriend. What he didn't know is that Yoo Jung is innocent. He makes her suffer both inside the prison and even after she served her time — reasonable, yes.

Yoo Jung loves her prosecutor boyfriend, Do Hoon, dearly. They had been in a relationship for 7 years and is planning to get married when the car accident that killed Min Hyuk's lover, Ji Hee, happened. The accident occurs when the two are heading home on a rainy night from their anniversary slash wedding proposal dinner. Do Hoon was driving and Yoo Jung sat on the passenger's seat when they hit some—someone. Yoo Jung took the blame to protect Do Hoon's reputation, leaving her own father alone. I can never understand how she came up with the idea of leaving her father and taking the blame for such a grave sin, only to later realize how trashy and scummy that man was!

Prosecutor Ahn Do Hoon started off as a man of justice. When he was cornered and forced to choose between being human and a monster, he willingly became the beast. I know he had a lot to lose, and he did tried to turn himself in, but Yoo Jung insisted on going to prison instead, so I won't hold that against him. However, he shouldn't have done what he did to Yoo Jung. As if sending her to prison wasn't enough, he even took their one-year-old son, San, away from his mother. After taking the child, he sent him to what...? An orphanage?! Then he didn't even know that his evil mother was plotting something against his own child. To top it off, he abandoned Yoo Jung's father to die — the man that treated him as his own. There's nothing even good with Do Hoon — his love sucks, his logic sucks, he sucks, and his whole family sucks!

Se Yeon is a character that doesn't really do much in the drama except earn my annoyance. She's one of the characters that makes the show feel exaggeratingly dragged out.

Where did it really starts to go wrong? If only the accident hadn't happen. If only Ji Hee wasn't there that night, or Yoo Jung and Do Hoon had just celebrated at the bakery. If only Ji Hee did not saw Gwang Soo, then she wouldn't have needed to run. If only the car wipers weren't broken, or the truck hadn't appeared. Ultimately, what if Do Hoon hadn't turned his back on the bleeding Ji Hee?

In my honest opinion, I think all characters — specifically Min Hyeok, Yoo Jeong, and Do Hoon — are a victim of circumstances. They were put in a difficult situations and forced to make a decision to protect what they want to protect. One thing I like about the drama is that it chooses to show reality instead of some beautifully written fairytale.

Through Se Yeon, we get to see how obsession can be disguised as love. Learn to love and respect yourself, because no one can do that for you unless you do so. You cannot have what you are not bound to have and you cannot lose what you never had. It was never the responsibility of the person you love to love you back — those are your feelings, and it is your responsibility.

Through Do Hoon, we are shown what happens to a person when faced with difficult situations and impossible choices. How monstrous a human being can become just to get want he wants, even to the point of sacrificing the people who truly loves and cares for him. With him, I realized the sad truth of how a man cries for justice when he has nothing, but sets aside justice when he has everything.

Through Min Hyeok, we are encouraged to take courage and fight for what we believe is right and for what we truly want. That we don't have to choose between family and love — we choose both. Those who truly love us will stay and accept us no matter what we choose to do and be.

And finally we have Yoo Jung. She taught us how powerful love can be — not just the kind of love for a lover, but also the kind of love of a mother to his child and the love of a daughter to his father. She was a character that was both weak and strong at the same time. She was weak because of the decisions she made that mades her life miserable, and strong as she never backed down no matter how hard and painful it was. She showed us how beautiful and ugly love can be if too it's much. When you love, love wholeheartedly, but never ever forget to love and respect yourself in the process.

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i love them togther so much i watched kill me heall me first and i loved it and now i watched secret and i like it even if its sad and i hope to see them togther more :D <3

P.S and that woman se yeon i hate her because i wont go that far for someone who dosent love me and happy with someone else that makes him happy and i know that she's a good person i won't be selfish like that ughhhh and for that person do hoon i want to say one word GO TO HELL AND COME BACk AND GO AGAIN and rot in there (evil face here) even if i like the actor but i hated him in this drama and i hated his mother more cause if he was my son i won't mAKE everything easy for him and i would'nt have spoiled him like that i wold have let him take responsibilityi for what he did:( but the acting was wow for all the people in this drama

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Min Hyeok is the rich heir of a big company, but instead of following his father, he would like to marry Ji Hui, the love of his life. Sadly, his father wants him to marry Se Yeon. At the same time, Yu Jeong is happily together with Do Hun for seven years now. When they celebrates the day of their engagement it starts to rain and they meet an accident. When Do Hun goes out to check what the car hit he discovers a girl, bleeding but still breathing. Being scared of loosing his bright future as a prosecutor he lies to Yu Jeong and goes home with her. When the police comes to find her, she tries to save her boyfriend and tells them, that she drove the car. With that statement, she gets all the anger from Min Hyeok, who from now on decides to make her life as hard as possible - and sending her to jail with the highest sentence possible is only the start of that.

First I want to repeat that I am not a very big fan of all the melodramatic series, especially if they are Korean since they tend to let all the characters cry enough tears to water all the deserts of this world. But having said that, I really enjoyed this drama! The best part was probably the acting. All the characters did well, even if they had to cry waterfalls. They did it beautifully. Also all the angry and crazy scenes were played beautifully, and let me tell you, there were enough scenes that would've made me crazy if something like that happened to me. And with that, we're at the kind of problematic part of this drama.

The story is good and classic. It's some kind of revenge, but then they fall in love. Been there, done that. But then the main couple isn't the only one involved. At some point, I didn't even know who wanted to take revenge on whom anymore. Because all the characters where somehow involved and it just was a crazy hate-story. That's also what made me doubt that romantic relationship between Min Hyeok and Yu Jeong so much. It came way too fast and out of the blue. I wished they took some time from the overlong beginning and put it at the back of the story. At first I thought I wouldn't like this drama much, judging by the slow start of it. But the previews kept me watching, which is a good thing. The pace picked up and I was happy as it was, only the ending was a bit rushed, together with the romance.

So, all in all, I can really recommend this drama. For people who like melodramatic stuff, this will probably be very exciting and good. If you are expecting a great romance line, don't watch it. It's not worth the romance, but the relationship of all the involved parties. The exciting part isn't the love, it's the hate and the things that change through time. The scary secrets everybody has and that make you see them in a different light, once you know them. I guess that's also why the drama is called "Secret". It's after all the essence of that drama.

3* out of 5* for a great drama, that just happens to be not my style of drama. Still, definitely recommended to fans of those dramas!

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I just finished watching this show here's my opinion.

The story got me hooked from the start to the end, it was heartbreaking and I cried almost all episodes.

The characters were all so well acted. I've never hated a character in a drama more than I hated dohun and I felt yujong's pain so deeply, that only means the actors did their job perfectly.

I loved the ending it was satisfying, the only thing I could complain about is that I kinda wish yujong could have her son with her although I understood her decision. Hopefully in the future when the kid grows up he will understand and consider her his mother.

As for the romance between minhyuk and yujong in the beginning I couldn't imagine how they would go from deep hate (in minhyuk's case) to love but then the show made it work and it was worth it, I just wish there were more scenes of their love, I felt like with a few more episodes it could have been better on that part.

As for the osts I loved them and I added all the songs except the instrumentals to my playlist.

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New Favorite!

I loved this drama I have only a few on my favorites list and this a new one I finished it in one day it was so good! The acting was very good and if you hate to love dramas this would be for you and if you have watched Mask (2015) I guess you could say its like that but just a little more different in some way but it's still a very good drama and definitely recommended you watch it and it's most definitely a re-watch when your bored or go nothing to watch. Sometimes you wanna punch your screen cause the people in this drama make you mad or very unhappy but you got to keep it in cause how else would you watch dramas if you broke your screen lol.

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a melodrama i would always come back to

i can't entirely express my love for this drama! it is so brilliant from the plot writing to the actors' acting as well as the soundtracks and cinematography.
the story, i would say, is a pretty classic or even cliche one, a love story between 2 people who have feuds or hostility towards each other. but the drama was conducted in a way that still leaves us astonishing moments as well as intense emotions. it doesn't make us bored at all for knowing how the story is going to end!
the break-ups, reunions, and starts of relationships in the drama are full of emotions: joy, sorrow, and surprises. the progress of characters in discovering themselves thanks to other characters and learning to love and cherish who they love is gold, which attracts and keeps the audience till the end of the drama.
not to mention the visuals of all 4 main characters is undeniably great! Ji Sung and Hwang Jung Eum have established such perfect chemistry in this drama that I could not accept the fact that they are not even real!
overall, a very satisfying drama to watch! highly recommend!

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Ok, I've seen it so many times what it's obvious the only possible rating of my part is 10. It's just that the drama has an intense, dark and profoundly touching charm. There are many few Korean dramas with such a captivating melodramatic plot and equally few cases of such a chemistry as Ji Sung's and Hwang Jung Eum (fortunately, both of them reunited in "Kill Me Heal Me" and I couldn't say where they were better, as they really managed to play absolutely different characters with an amazing naturalism).
I love the aesthetics of painful beauty laying in the relationship of the leads, an interesting development of the characters and another wonderful feature of this drama: the supporting plot disgorged into the integrity of the drama with an absolute naturalness. There are a lot of brilliant dramatic scenes and somehow one can admire it as a good cocktail.

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"Secret" is a story of love and revenge.

Yoo Jung has a very good life, she is happy with her boyfriend Do Hoon, but her life turns completely upside down the day Do Hoon proposes to her. They get into an accident, but the problem is that Do Hoon lies to Yoo Jung, hiding the fact that they hit a woman and left her there to die, who is Min Hyuk's girlfriend. When the truth comes out, Yoo Jung takes the blame for Do Hoon and goes to prison, not knowing that she is pregnant. Her son is born in prison and eventually has to be taken away from her. When Yoo Jung is finally free, she goes after her son only to find out that he is dead. If her sadness is not enough, Min Hyuk wants revenge for his girlfriend and will do anything to make Yoo Jung suffer.

Their relationship is complicated, it is really hate turned into love. Min Hyuk hated Yoo Jung so much that he tried to kill her a few times. He only started to change his ways towards her when Min Hyuk realized that something was wrong with her story, that it didn't make sense for Yoo Jung to let someone die like that. I have to say that Yoo Jung is a loyal person until the end, she never told Min Hyuk the truth, that it wasn't her but Do Hoon, instead, she felt guilty for everything since she was involved in the incident.

The story keeps you hooked from the first episode to the last. You want to see Min Hyuk and Yoo Jung finally be happy and also Do Hoon paying the price for all the wrong things he did.

It's an intense and melancholic drama. The acting is impressive, as is the story. It's definitely worth watching.

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Story- as soon as I saw the story I knew I would like it, although there were some parts I did not like, overall the story was good.

  Cast- now this is one thing I didnt like. especially the female leads actress, she was very annoying. I also think the female lead could be a bit dense at points but other than that it was fine. I liked the male lead he was pretty good, other than that the rest of the cast was nice.

  Music- The music was nice I loved the song sung by Ailee.

Rewatch- I probably wont rewatch this. I rarley rewatch dramas anyway.
 
Overall- I would reccomend this drama if you want some good writing, with some mystery. I dont reccomcend if you dont like the female actress, and dont like a lot of crying. (there is lots)
   
   

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SECRET'S secret of a successful drama - THE CAST

My first review although I have been having sleepless nights watching dramas throughout the lockdown period. BUT i had to give a review on this because one character who stood out though a mere supporting character. But the character Gwang Soo was my ultimate favourite in this series. A through and through loyal assistant who never flinched and would never stop a second from carrying out a task given by the hero Min Hyuk. The story was not typical but it was too melodramatic for me to give it a full-scale 10. But every character was aptly cast hence the acting was impeccably played. the romance was just nice without the normal cliche of falling in love very quickly. it was steady progress and took place at the perfect timing.

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