Hime

It was different from what I expected. I did not see the supernatural tag before I started watching it. It was the typical idol drama with a twist that has been used before. Basically I liked it but I didn’t love it. It was better than most idol dramas I have seen but not as good as some of the dramas that I really liked and would re-watch.

Exactly. That is why I love it when I see a historical drama with the male lead doing his best so he will only marry the female lead, not empty promises but actually only marrying her and no one else. A faithful man back then was even more valuable than nowadays, since back then it was normal to have concubines and now the norm is being married to one person only. In some countries it is even a crime to marry someone if you are already married, which I think is the case in my country, not sure to be honest. I kinda wonder how they came up with that law. I guess they thought monogamy would decrease the crime rates, cause jealousy is one of the main reasons for murder. They might have also based their decision on what the Bible says about how a man should be husband of one wife (that means having hundreds of concubines is definitely not ok). And my comment just turned out to be completely random, right? XD

Lol, what kind of marriage is that? That is legit a marriage on paper only. Yeah, it kinda makes sense, have felt that way before too. Thank you for explaining it. :)

Same.

Btw, is their marriage only on paper or do they sleep together although he doesn’t love her? That would change a great deal the way I would look at the affair.

Usually dramas that are based in real events are really good. Maybe because it is easier to relate to the characters and understand the way they feel when you know what you are watching actually happened and someone actually went through those things. As I said, I do not want to watch this right now but who knows, maybe someday. I do like both main actors and the cover does appeal to me. I guess the female lead being a singer dresses really nicely? And the male lead, tbh, would look good even wearing rags. XD

I have to be honest. I was bored most of the time. I actually thought the last 10 episodes were better than the first 30 episodes. I felt it was a waste. I felt the story dragged a lot for at least half of the drama and then picked up the pace and just ended. The romance in the past took too long to happen and the one in the present day was not given enough time to convince me. Also, there were a lot of things I felt that were not explained properly or that lacked logic. I honestly feel this could have been so much better. I will probably forget I even watched it, it was not a memorable one for me. What a shame!

I do get your point. And I agree that people who love each other should be together. I disagree that marriage is not sacred. The whole point of marriage is for 2 people who truly love each other to live together as if they are 1 person. The problem is exactly that since people do not see marriage as sacred, they use it for business deals, they decide on it without giving it a second though and forget that marrying someone means you will be spending your life together with that person. I do understand that we are talking about a different time when arranged marriages were very common and the people getting married were actually the ones who had no part in the decision. And I am not blaming them for their decisions, I am just saying that I personally am not in the mood to watch this drama although I believe it’s probably a good one. I get emotionally involved with a lot of the dramas I watch and knowing how painful their love story is and how it ends, I would rather not watch it.

Yeah, probably. They just accepted the way things were as it was the reality then but most of them were unhappy. Even if they knew their husbands loved them the most, no woman would be happy knowing her husband is sleeping with other women and having kids with them. We humans don’t mind sharing a lot of things, but our partner is not one of them. Even if at the time women knew only this reality that a man could have many wives, that was completely normal, in their heart they might have felt it was not fair. And we see that in historical dramas most death and tragedies happened because of women jealousy.
I like historical dramas but I always feel frustrated watching this kind of thing. But I can’t stop watching them. >.<

Although it is a loveless marriage, they are still married. It would be one thing if he divorced her and then started a relationship with another woman, but not while they are still married, that is still an affair. I read the real story and know that they committed suicide together, so yeah, I do not feel like willingly jumping into this train wreck no matter how good the story and actors are. Also, I just finished a drama full of accidents, misunderstandings, separations, and so on. So now I need something light, not something depressing.

It’s hard to describe how I feel about this drama. I really liked the first 2 episodes that showed their childhood and how they grew up together through many struggles. I did enjoy the story until a certain point and I can’t say the ending was awful or anything. The actors chosen did their part well.

So what was wrong with it? Well, there was no need for 70 episodes, probably even half of it would be too much. Just to be able to make these 70 episodes, they dragged the story and went around and around and around... They overused clichés like misunderstandings, separations, accidents, and so on. I am not exaggerating when I say that almost every character was admitted to the hospital at least once. And some, particularly one that I will not name so I wont spoil it for you, was there so often that I don’t think I have enough fingers to count how many times it happened. I think there was even an episode in which that person was admitted to the hospital twice.

So, basically, I liked it but not as much as I expected. The writing turned into a train wreck just for the sake of dragging the story to make 70 episodes possible. I fast-forwarded A LOT and I can say for sure I would never re-watch this, it would be just too painful. I might re-watch some scenes with the main leads but I would never re-watch the whole thing. Also, I am not satisfied with the way the story "ended" for some characters.

I know this is based on a true story and I have no doubts that it might be a great drama. I also like both main leads so it’s a shame I am not watching this but they lost me at "He is married with children, but he falls in love with Yun Shim Deok" and seeing the tags Infidelity and Tragedy make me not want to watch it even more. My morals do not allow me to enjoy romance that starts with cheating or infidelity from one or both sides and I also try to stay away from tragic endings as much as possible. Can only watch a drama that ends in tragedy once or twice a year and I think I have already used it for this year.

Yeah, I had it on my plan-to-watch list for a while even before it started airing and it was one of the dramas that I was waiting for thinking it would be great and go to my top kdramas of 2018, but every other kdrama I watched this year, even the ones I did not like that much, are still better than this one. I watched it because I kinda have to watch all kdramas that are airing >.<, but if I could go back in time I would not have watched it as it added 0 value to my kdrama watching experience. Ofc this is only my opinion, there are people rating this 10. Everyone likes different things.

Weird, I am pretty sure I saw eng subs for that one, or I would not have shared it. I either saw it wrong or they were removed. Sorry.

I liked it, specially the first half since there is space for more romance scenes. I did not dislike the second half. I have watched several dramas like this one so I knew there would not be easy solutions to problems and that a spy sometimes has to do things he/she doesnt want and not be able to do the things he/she wants to do. The ending was more or less what I expected. There was this one character that might not deserve it, but that made me tear up.

Btw, do not expect the female lead to be this super smart and super brave spy or anything or you might be disappointed. She has moments like that but she is mainly a naive girl that does not know time and place, very clumsy and easily gets lost, like literally gets lost, she has no sense of direction. >.<
So try not to go in with any kind of expectations about the female lead’s character. But I can promise you that she will have a lot of character development, so don’t give up on her after watching just 2 or 3 episodes.

I mean, I like it but I did not feel excited watching it the way I felt watching other dramas that came out this year. I just felt that these 2 very different stories were mixed in 1 drama but never really became 1 story. It just felt forced and unnatural. Most of it was a family drama with bits of action/spy stuff and hints of romance, then the last few episodes fully turned into an action/spy drama with bits of family stuff and less than 5 minutes of romance. If you watch this just for fun and don’t take it too seriously, which was what I tried to do, then you will be able to enjoy it. The spy part was ok. It was nothing that I have not seen before and like I said, I never felt it naturally fitted with everything else.

What I liked the most and what I will probably remember first when thinking about this drama is his relationship with the twins. A strong man, with a spy background babysitting 2 kids that are sweet but are always making trouble has everything to be both cute and hilarious.

Overall it was a good drama and I don’t regret watching it. I just did not have that "wow, this is amazing" kind of feeling.

It was the typical family drama with a lot of episodes and a very slow paced plot with several dramatic situations from deaths, to accidents, to miscarriages, to misunderstandings, to lies and secrets being revealed after a long time, and so on.

What was different and refreshing was the relationship between the main couple. I thought the age gap would bother me but surprisingly I found their romance sweet and I have to say I liked the male lead a lot as a character. He was wise, caring and knew very well what he wanted.

I also have to say that although I knew from the synopsis that her first husband would die, it does not happen right away. I saw their love for 8 episodes before the tragedy actually happened and I was so wrong when I thought his death would not bother me at all. I was prepared for it, I knew it was coming but I still suffered when it happened as if I was caught by surprise.

The first mother-in-law and the sister-in-law that later becomes daughter-in-law really bothered me. They were really bad human beings, if they can be called human at all. But at least the second mother-in-law was the best, very different from what we see in most dramas of this kind.

I saw this on the kocowa website and wondered why I never came across it until now, but looking at the rating I am not sure if it is even worth my time. I have honestly never seen a kdrama rated so low. Most korean dramas are rated above 7, even just 6.5 means that the drama is not that good, but this one has a rating of 5.4, is it THAT bad?

Where did you watch it? I read it was on Dramafever but since it is now gone, do you know where I can watch it?

I watched it just for the sake of watching it. A lot of the times the characters acted just the same with only the actors playing them changing. They only had 2 modes: poker face and overly angry and seeking revenge. A lot of the actions were illogical and unnatural and because of that I could not really feel anything for the characters since it all seemed so fake.

There was only one thing I liked - the female lead. She was the only character that I understood and that made me feel something. She was not flawless or the good naive type, but you can’t help but admire her guts and pity her at the same time. Most, if not all of the wrong things she did (which were child-play compared to the actions of other characters) were because she just wanted one thing - to be loved. The actress chosen was for the role was a perfect fit. I have seen her in other dramas and one that left quite an impression on me at the time was The Promise. I dislike makjang dramas but that one was a "love to hate" drama for me. She did a great job in that one too.

Going back to this one, I also felt that in the middle the plot was going around in circles while in the last episode things were solved quite abruptly so overall I can’t say I liked it, neither can I say I completely disliked it. I rated it 6/10.