Korean title : 트로트의 연인
Other titles : Trot Romance / Lovers Of Trot / Lovers of Music
16 episodes
Aired on KBS2
From 2014 June to August
Main cast :
- Ji Hyun Woo as Jang Joon Hyun
- Jung Eun Ji as Choi Choon Hee
- Shin Sung Rok as Jo Geun Woo
- Lee Se Young as Park Soo In
- Yoo Eun Mi as Choi Byul
- Kim Hye Ri as Yang Joo Hee
- Yoon Joo Sang as Jo Hee Moon
- Kang Nam Gil as Choi Myung Shik
- Son Ho Joon as Sul Tae Song
- Kim Yeo Jin as Bang Ji Sook
- Shin Bo Ra as Na Pil Nyeo
- Jang Won Young as Lee Chul Man
- Yoon Bong Gil as Lee Yoo Shik
- Park Hyuk Kwon as Managing Director Wang
- Ji Soo Won as Hwa Soon
Production credits :
- Production Company : JS Pictures ; Chief Producer: Kim Sung Geun ; Producer: Yoon Sung Sik
- Directors : Lee Jae Sang, Lee Eun Jin
- Screenwriters : Oh Sun Hyung, Kang Yoon Kyung
Notes :
- Hello Father AND Newspaper boss from Capital Scandal !
- I've never heard trot songs before (though I knew it was Korean traditional popular songs) and I really like the songs in this drama.
- You might know Jung Eun Ji from K-pop girl group Apink. Since I started to get into K-pop, I pay more attention to idols, and it's funny to realise that Choi Si Won, Micky Yoochun are/were idols. Also f(x) Krystal in the Heirs and AOA Shin Hye Jung in Good witch.
- So before this drama, I thought that maybe I was over Korean dramas, after my disappointment with Good witch and it felt like ages since I last watched a drama I really liked. But I really liked this one !!
- This review is from (recent) memory because weirdly I wasn't really inspired to write it. I'm not sure this review will be interesting enough to do this drama justice but I want to share that it was good and introduced me to trot.
Review : +
Title : Kinda embarassing. Litteral but not totally accurate since only Girl is a lover of trot while Boy doesn't care for it.
Girl : She's confident, headstrong and resilient. She loves singing trot because of how it makes her feel and how it makes other feel. Her energy is communicative.
Boy : He used to be a big star and has been disgraced. He's vain and arrogant but in the funny way, not in the annoying one. He's also talented and has a real passion for music.
Other girl : She's also a singer. She works hard to succeed but it's hard to know what she really wants since her mother (a former singer) is so overbearing. What they do with her character is really compelling.
Other boy : He's the heir of an entertainement company. He's... odd. He does things his way, not caring how he's perceived.
Other characters : Girl's little sister who is very cute, put-upon assistant, over-the-top mean girl, excentric CEO, nice mentor... most of them are well done.
What the... ? There are "nice gangsters" characters ? They're involved in a very weird scene that's quite dramatic then turns funny but I'm not sure it's successful. I like these characters as comic reliefs but it's not consistent with how they're introduced.
Cliché : The whole premise of you-have-to-help-out-X-in-doing-Y-to-get-Z. And then a "plot" cliché that I can't tell without spoiling that I personally think is way overdone (though I actually like the angst it brings). I groaned when I realised they were going there.
Funny : Yes.
Music : As I already said, music is one of the draw of the drama. Unless you don't like trot. Warning, the same song is used so much at the beginning that I feared they would only use one song throughout the whole drama. Fortunately, it was not the case.
Bottom line : The plot wasn't the best but it was good enough to not distract from the great characters, their compelling relationships, the comedy and the music. + !
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