Pesticide-like drama tvN
KBS2 left the popular expression ‘pesticide-like girl’. Go Hyemi (Suzy) kept on complaining since she couldn’t get rid of the country bumpkin Song Samdong (Kim Soohyun) no matter how hard she tried. By chance or by necessity, during the casting meeting of ’s staff, Seo Ingook suggested that it would be fun if they had a country boy character using a Korean dialect.
Even though the casting he was hoping for fell through, instead he got the role of the Busan dialect-speaking hero, Yoon Yoonjae, in the ‘pesticide-like drama’ , joining the line-up of stars both in name and in reality. Even if he was the first winner of which led the audition craze, he still couldn’t be called a star. It’s exactly this Seo Ingook who captivated the whole country with his Korean dialect. That’s why expressions like ‘life is full of ups and downs’ and ‘it’s not over till it’s over’ exist.
That’s right. This couldn’t fit the expression ‘pesticide-like’ more. How common is it to have a drama that can make people laugh, cry, and go crazy within an hour? In this world full of dramas, how can a drama with no villains, conspiracies nor traps, no CEO that we see all the time or director of headquarters, be so funny? Furthermore, even when watching the rerun after the first broadcast and even when rewatching it from the first episode, you don’t get tired of it. You don’t get tired of it and you slowly spot all the set-ups that you couldn’t see at first. The drama ended but when will this addiction stop?
As soon as the drama gained momentum, not a day went by when it didn’t go on various medias and the phone didn’t ring, asking ‘what’s the secret of their popularity?’, ‘what are their strong points?’ If I had to say all the reasons why I like this drama we would stay up all night though? But since we’ve already started talking about it, let’s select a few points.
First, since I’m the mother of two children, I liked seeing the mother-daughter relationship between Siwon (Jung Eunji) and Siwon’s mother (Lee Ilhwa) more than anything. No, strictly speaking, I was envious of how Siwon’s mother treated her child. Because she was a mother who didn’t expect anything back from her child, a mother who was satisfied with just having her child by her side. It might be because she had the painful experience of outliving her precious child but I never saw her ask something from her daughter nor criticize her. I don’t know why mothers, myself included, live forgetting this precious truth. The very existence of your child is already filial piety. And she wasn’t only embracing her own child, she also could cherish someone else’s child as much as her own child; isn’t she a mother with a truly warm heart? The natural result was that Siwon was more positive than anyone else. A child who is raised by such a mom has nothing to worry about.
First, since I’m the mother of two children, I liked seeing the mother-daughter relationship between Siwon (Jung Eunji) and Siwon’s mother (Lee Ilhwa) more than anything. No, strictly speaking, I was envious of how Siwon’s mother treated her child. Because she was a mother who didn’t expect anything back from her child, a mother who was satisfied with just having her child by her side. It might be because she had the painful experience of outliving her precious child but I never saw her ask something from her daughter nor criticize her. I don’t know why mothers, myself included, live forgetting this precious truth. The very existence of your child is already filial piety. And she wasn’t only embracing her own child, she also could cherish someone else’s child as much as her own child; isn’t she a mother with a truly warm heart? The natural result was that Siwon was more positive than anyone else. A child who is raised by such a mom has nothing to worry about.
Secondly, I was happy that they cast light upon the ‘brotherly love’, of course in the drama but in real life as well. In the past, the American series led the many other movies and dramas talking about brotherly love. Now we are well aware that everyday, brothers fight to the blood over wealth, but I think that in Korea, even on TV, just like Choi Soojong and Bae Yongjun who were brothers on , I think that the strong bond between brothers was important. Ah, right. Now that I think about it, wasn’t made in 1997?
Anyway, as a woman I can’t understand this feeling, but when the big brother Taewoong (Song Jongho) ran hurriedly while wearing his shirt inside out after he was cut off on the phone from his little brother Yoonjae (this fits the actual scene in the drama better. yoonjae dropped his phone, and taewoong panicked enough to run out), and when he let out a relieved sigh after seeing that his little brother was safe, I thought immediately ‘So that’s brotherly love’. He waited a long time for Siwon but when he learnt about Yoonjae’s feelings for Siwon, Taewoong sent a short text message saying ‘Hyung is sorry’. From there, we learnt more about the untold stories concerning Siwon’s parents and the story got deeper.
And third is the sexual identity problem of a man liking another man. Truthfully, it was a great contribution for TV to become an enlightening place for this. From the American series like or , to where Song Changhee and Lee Sangwoo appear as a couple, our thoughts changed a lot. So while watching we thought ‘we should stop being narrow-minded’, ‘we can’t have prejudices’, we settled down but there’s still residue left of ignorance. I’m saying that it’s difficult to say that we’ve made efforts to understand it or that we totally understand it.
But that’s a really weird thing. When I was watching Junhee (Hoya) reveal his feelings to Yoonjae, I didn’t feel this sense of distance at all. I just candidly accepted it as the feelings of a person simply liking another person. Was it because the production made the characters well? Or was it because of the special charms that the actors had? Because I was still curious about it, I personally went to see Hoya who had the role of Junhee. It was on the day where the typhoon Sanba was approaching and the rain was pouring down.
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