Lovers in Paris
I have just recently finished watching Lovers in Paris, a Korean Drama where poor girl meets rich guys (love triangle). I was hooked by watching this kind of stuff after watching Coffee Prince, which left me in love for 1 week. During my day-offs from work iIwill do a marathon stint in our home and be a potato couch for 2 days. It's like traveling to South Korea. Although I am just in the comfort of my own house, it makes me feel like I traveled elsewhere, and that I have also met these characters. My mother would endlessly whine about me just lying around and hogged the TV and DVD to myself, as they have their own set of TV sitcoms to watch. I reckon it is less expensive for me to stay at home than to go outside for fun. After all I need a rest from a very stressful environment in the office.
The ending of Lover's in Paris is quite disturbing. My dad asked me about how it ended as he occasionally watched alongside with me. I told him that the ending was kind of disappointing as it popped the balloon, if you know what I mean. Of course, everybody loves a happy ending but Korean TV Drama are always depriving me of having a good one that will let you wonder and dream for a while, reminiscing the story. My Dad commented that it left me holding and watching then it put me down in the end. He said to not watch again. I said I liked the plot and the rest of it but I just resented the ending. But the ending gives a whole lot of impact as it finishes the thought. He's right.
While I was watching it, my sister saw the actor,Park Shin Yang (Han Ki-Joo) and commented that he was not even good-looking for the lead. Even though the character he is portraying is good, she will not fall in love, unlike in Coffee Prince, she liked Gong Yoo. I told her that the character Park Shin Yang was portraying was perfect for him as it was realistic for the President of the company to look that way. Very business like, no nonesense, arrogant looking, very rare that you will see them smile and be funny. I liked the character of Han Ki-Joo as he will just let you see the real him if you are really close to him and he loves you and puts up a facade for those he wanted off. I know a real person who's like that, so rarely will they show their goofy side. But once you are inside, you will learn that they are not different from you. They are also humane.
Kim Jung Eun (Kang Tae-Young), they said was too skinny and her face was bony like a skull. I also read a comment made by il mare for Lovers in Paris http://www.spcnet.tv/reviews/review.php?rID=611 that Kim Jung Eun had few plastic surgeries...hmmm....I'd rather not tell my sister about it because it will just confirm her that the actress
is similar to Michael Jackson (because of the surgeries). But the
character is too good to be true. A girl, no matter how nice and
does not find fault to others, would be angry in instances that
she was betrayed by an uncle several times and affected by the
disparaging efforts of the Han Family, especially after his
Father's name was mentioned. In real life, you wont be able to
stand comments or words that would dishonor your father's name,if
you claimed to love your father so dearly as Kang Tae-Young. So
since, the writer portrayed Tae-Young to be forgiving, I wonder
why after the waves of their lives was calmed she still insisted
of letting Ki-Joo go. She could have gone to Paris on the height
of the problem not after the issue has been resolved. But I liked
it nonetheless, because that is how the writers created the main
character of the story. Not everybody will react the same way as I
would. If so, it would make the story predictable.
The character of the third person in the story is pretty much heartbreaking. It makes you feel sorry for the guy. How from his smiling face he became defiant and evil. I even felt bad because he was so hurt, he forgot that he loved. All his good memories were covered by the hate and rejections. Good job for creating the 3rd guy even more good-looking than the lead,and much younger. Not all good-looking guys run away with the cake. It makes it realistic how a person can't control their emotion, especially being young and impulsive.
Thinking about how Lovers in Paris entertained me (minus the ending) I give then a rating of 5 out of 5. It kept me interested for the whole 20 episodes. Just editing the ending off my mind...and let them live happily together in Paris. My Dad asked me while we were eating breakfast the next day, who will take care of GD Motors, after Han Ki-Joo left for Paris? I was kind of amazed as my Dad bothered to give it a thought. This is the first my Dad was interested in a Korean Drama Series, so I really had to give this one a good rating.
