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Claudia Salceanu

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Young Lady and Gentleman korean drama review
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Young Lady and Gentleman
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by Claudia Salceanu
Apr 6, 2022
52 of 52 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.5
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 4.0

Nice love story, but...

I just finished watching this drama. I'm going to be honest: it's not like I don't appreciate the hard work of all cast and crew, but this time I cannot say I was impressed. The drama tells the story of a couple, with 14 years difference in age. I liked this aspect because it dealt with the stigma and objections that people have to face when they are different. They meet on a mountain, she mistakes him for a rogue and hits him, and a short time after she becomes the nanny of his three children with whom he lives after the death of his wife. The family is estranged and Dandan basically brings them together, offers the children the care, love, and attention they lacked, and reunites the whole family. This is the context in which the two ground their love. It was also nice to see how their love evolves, how it deals with opposition from others, and even the attempts to break them apart. What I did not like was Youngguk, which I felt was a weak man, who caused Dandan a lot of grief. Ashamed by the 14 years of age gap, he hesitates to engage in a relationship with her, fearing what others might say, then what his children might think, then his friends and work colleagues. Although I understand his motivation, I think that making a choice and following it would have been better. At one point he looses his memory and becomes engaged with another woman, that he doesn't love, but that he knows from a different time. Sara, to be exact, is the prototype of the woman interested in wealth, although she has some feelings that may make us relate to her suffering. She is the birth mother of Youngguk's youngest son and tries to be close to him after abandoning him at Youngguk's door. But using this as an excuse for all her intrigues, I was really bothered by that. I also profoundly disliked all their family members (parents and aunts) that had no other better things to do than yell, fight, oppose everything and make them suffer. I actually liked Dandan, a determined young girl, who followed her dream, who was not afraid to say what she thinks and feels, lovely, gentle, kind and honest. I'm happy for the ending of the drama, I think it would have been to much to bear if the couple could not marry and remain together.
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