Hanoi Bride
Feb. 26th, 2021 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
satalasersFor being two episodes, I enjoyed it.
- Mainly watched it for Lee Dong Wook, and he's so young in this? I'm a bit sad I can't watch all his TV shows, but I do want to watch the ones I can find, whenever possible. I just think he's very handsome and I like watching him.
- They sure crammed in as much melodrama as they could within two episodes. It means it's hard to care about any of the characters, since it's so rushed, but I'm sure that kind of added to the comedy, a little bit, just because they wanted to stuff a lot in there.
- Basically, Lee Dong Wook's character is a doctor, who currently is in Vietnam, he falls in love with a Vietnamese woman, but their courtship is cut short when his father dies, so he has to rush back to Korea, without her. He thinks she ditched him at the airport, she never got his message. A year later, his brother is being forced to get married, so he goes to Vietnam to find a bride, it turns out to have been his brother's girlfriend -- though he's unaware of this -- and while the sibling has been in love with his best friend, and she didn't realize her feelings were mutual until she finds out he's getting married, and. Things get resolved, but not until Thi Vu returns to Vietnam, and Park Eun Woo decides he wants to be with her, and returns to the hospital where he and Thi Vu first fell in love, and hope that he can find her again.
- Apparently Korean men going to Vietnam to find a wife is not unusual, so I thought the way the drama shed light on the issue and the stigma was done well. It was interesting how Thi Vu, a Vietnamese girl, was considered good enough for Park Sok Woo, a farmer, but not Park Eun Woo, a doctor; and how the mother who wanted her son to get married overcame that prejudiced.
- I really did like the expression 'marriage is like buying a pair of shoes, just because other people think it looks great, if it doesn't fit, then there's no use for them'. It was just neatly articulated in the show, and I think I'll think about that wisdom a lot.
- I liked that it wasn't really a love triangle. Yes, Park Eun Woo was hurt that Thi Vu was going to get married to Park Sok Woo, and is very angry towards her; but Park Sok Woo is never in love with Thi Vu, and they're sort of only together out of pity, and when he realizes that Park Eun Woo and Thi Vu are in love, he steps aside easily. I liked that Park Sok Woo was always pretty gentlemanlike, even when they returned to Korea, he was often saying that the marriage wasn't a sure thing, and Thi Vu was free from the obligation if she changed her mind.
- The scenery was so pretty! The montage at the start where Park Eun Woo and Thi Vu are dating was lovely to see.
7.5/10. It was decent.
- Mainly watched it for Lee Dong Wook, and he's so young in this? I'm a bit sad I can't watch all his TV shows, but I do want to watch the ones I can find, whenever possible. I just think he's very handsome and I like watching him.
- They sure crammed in as much melodrama as they could within two episodes. It means it's hard to care about any of the characters, since it's so rushed, but I'm sure that kind of added to the comedy, a little bit, just because they wanted to stuff a lot in there.
- Basically, Lee Dong Wook's character is a doctor, who currently is in Vietnam, he falls in love with a Vietnamese woman, but their courtship is cut short when his father dies, so he has to rush back to Korea, without her. He thinks she ditched him at the airport, she never got his message. A year later, his brother is being forced to get married, so he goes to Vietnam to find a bride, it turns out to have been his brother's girlfriend -- though he's unaware of this -- and while the sibling has been in love with his best friend, and she didn't realize her feelings were mutual until she finds out he's getting married, and. Things get resolved, but not until Thi Vu returns to Vietnam, and Park Eun Woo decides he wants to be with her, and returns to the hospital where he and Thi Vu first fell in love, and hope that he can find her again.
- Apparently Korean men going to Vietnam to find a wife is not unusual, so I thought the way the drama shed light on the issue and the stigma was done well. It was interesting how Thi Vu, a Vietnamese girl, was considered good enough for Park Sok Woo, a farmer, but not Park Eun Woo, a doctor; and how the mother who wanted her son to get married overcame that prejudiced.
- I really did like the expression 'marriage is like buying a pair of shoes, just because other people think it looks great, if it doesn't fit, then there's no use for them'. It was just neatly articulated in the show, and I think I'll think about that wisdom a lot.
- I liked that it wasn't really a love triangle. Yes, Park Eun Woo was hurt that Thi Vu was going to get married to Park Sok Woo, and is very angry towards her; but Park Sok Woo is never in love with Thi Vu, and they're sort of only together out of pity, and when he realizes that Park Eun Woo and Thi Vu are in love, he steps aside easily. I liked that Park Sok Woo was always pretty gentlemanlike, even when they returned to Korea, he was often saying that the marriage wasn't a sure thing, and Thi Vu was free from the obligation if she changed her mind.
- The scenery was so pretty! The montage at the start where Park Eun Woo and Thi Vu are dating was lovely to see.
7.5/10. It was decent.
