The first post in 2015 is my favorite Korean Drama aired in 2014. This drama shows me how to say "okay" to falling in love or maybe about "pure" love...?
Source: Wikipedia
It's Okay, That's Love (Hangul: 괜찮아, 사랑이야; RR: Gwaenchanha, Sarangiya) is a 2014 South Korean television series starring Jo In-sung, Gong Hyo-jin, Sung Dong-il, Lee Kwang-soo and Do Kyung-soo. It aired on SBS from July 23 to September 11, 2014
on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes.
Plot
Jang Jae-yeol is a writer of
bestselling mystery novels and a radio DJ.
Playful and a bit arrogant, he also suffers from obsessive–compulsive disorder. Ji
Hae-soo is a psychiatrist on her first year of fellowship. Driven and ambitious with her
career yet compassionate towards her patients, Hae-soo has a negative attitude
towards love and relationships in her personal life. Once Jae-yeol and Hae-soo
meet, there is much contention between them caused by their strong
personalities and refusal to give in to each other. But slowly their bickering
turns into love and they begin to learn how compatible they are. Jae-yeol and
Hae-soo attempt to heal each other's deep-seated wounds, but their fledgling
relationship takes a blow when they learn that Jae-yeol's mental health issues
are more serious than they initially suspected.
Cast
Main characters
·
Jo In-sung as Jang Jae-yeol
A bestselling mystery
fiction novelist and radio DJ. Because
of his troubled past and obsessive–compulsive disorder,
Jae-yeol can only sleep in his own bathtub. From his first meeting with
psychiatrist Ji Hae-soo on a talk show, they have had a combative relationship.
When noise from ongoing construction beside his house interrupts his writing,
and he learns that Hae-soo is currently a tenant living in a building he owns
in Hongdae,
Jae-yeol temporarily moves in with her and her housemates because of his
fascination with her. As the two fall in love, they must later come to grips
with Jae-yeol's undiagnosed schizophrenia.
·
Gong Hyo-jin as Ji Hae-soo
A first-year fellow in
the psychiatry department at a university hospital. A smart and compassionate
doctor but not very affectionate, Hae-soo self-diagnoses herself as having insecurity/anxiety issues, a fear of commitment and sex phobia.
·
Sung Dong-il as Jo Dong-min
Hae-soo's senior colleague
at the hospital, who also happens to be her first love. His wife and children
are based in the United States, and he has an amicable relationship with his
ex-wife and colleague, Young-jin. After he becomes the court-appointed
psychiatrist to a convict, Jang Jae-beom, whom he later finds out is Jae-yeol's
brother, Dong-min sets out to find the truth behind the crime.
·
Lee Kwang-soo as Park Soo-kwang
A cafe waiter with Tourette
syndrome. Soo-kwang and Dong-min are Hae-soo's housemates, and Dong-min
in particular is a good friend to Soo-kwang, often calming him down during his
panic attacks. Soo-kwang is unlucky in love and keeps getting dumped by girls,
but the one he can't quite get over is So-nyeo, who is not only a minor but who openly has several boyfriends
at the same time.
·
Do Kyung-soo (D.O.) as Han Kang-woo
A high school student
who's a big fan of Jae-yeol's and keeps bugging his idol to read the
manuscripts he's writing, since Kang-woo aspires to become a famous author like
him someday. He and his mother are frequently
beaten by his alcoholic father. Kang-woo is later revealed to
be Jae-yeol's younger self, a manifestation of his schizophrenic break due to trauma and guilt. Jae-yeol has
been seeing Kang-woo for the past three years, ever since Jae-beom stabbed him.
Production
Screenwriter Noh Hee-kyung and director Kim Kyu-tae said that by realistically
exploring characters from a romantic
comedy standpoint,
their drama also aimed to address the discrimination and social
stigma attached
to people with mental
health issues and
other minorities. This
was Noh and Kim's fourth collaboration; actor Jo In-sung had
previously worked with them on That Winter, The Wind Blows (2013), while actress Gong Hyo-jin had
starred in Noh's Wonderful
Days (2001).
The first read-through was held in April 2014 at an SBS studio in Ilsan, and filming
began shortly after.
At 1:00 a.m. on June 19, 2014, the van Gong
Hyo-jin was riding became involved in a three-vehicle rear-end collision with
two trucks; she was on her way back to Seoul after filming in Yongin, Gyeonggi
Province. This resulted in a left arm fracture, a knee injury, and scratches on Gong's
face. After recuperating, she and costar Jo In-sung later
left for a shoot in Okinawa, Japan where
their characters go on a romantic trip. Gong's fractured arm was incorporated
into the story.
Controversy
When the 30-second teaser trailer for the drama was
released online on June 25, 2014, netizens pointed out that it had been plagiarized from
the short film Olive
Juice by New York-based video artist Celia Rowlson-Hall. On
June 26, production company GT Entertainment admitted the charge and apologized
through a press release, and the teaser trailer was deleted from the official
website.
Soundtrack
This is several OST that I like to
listen… check it out..:)
No.
|
Title
|
Artist
|
Length
|
1.
|
"최고의 행운" (The
Best Luck)
|
3:45
|
|
2.
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"괜찮아, 사랑이야" (It's
Okay, That's Love)
|
4:04
|
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3.
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"잠 못드는 밤" (Sleepless Night)
|
Crush
feat. Punch
|
3:57
|
4.
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"For
You"
|
3:46
|
|
5.
|
"I
Feel You"
|
Hong
Dae-kwang
|
3:55
|
6.
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"Love
Fiction"
|
3:38
|
|
7.
|
"너를 사랑해" (I
Love You)
|
4:03
|
|
8.
|
"Tonight"
|
3:08
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Check out the trailer....
