After watching ‘Thirty-Nine‘, I decided to watch another Son Ye-jin K-Drama, ‘Something in the Rain‘ (밥 잘 사주는 예쁜 누나 / Bap Jal Sajuneun Yeppeun Nuna). How can we resist a series with this title, right?
Jin-ah is a woman in her middle thirties. She works as a manager in a coffeeshop chain. She mostly works in the head office, but occasionally goes to one of the coffeeshops to help out. She has become single recently after she discovers that her boyfriend is cheating on her and they both decide to breakup. One day she bumps into a handsome young man, and then discovers that this is Joon-hee, the kid brother of her best friend. Jin-ah is meeting him after a long time, and now she sees him with new eyes, the sparks fly, and before long they are deeply in love. Jin-ah and Joon-hee keep their relationship secret because they don’t know how the people in their lives will react. Joon-hee’s sister is Jin-ah’s best friend and she might feel betrayed by this. Jin-ah’s parents might react badly because Joon-hee is considerably younger than Jin-ah. But when two people are happy and in love, the world won’t leave them alone, right? What happens after that forms the rest of the story.
‘Something in the Rain‘ is a beautiful, haunting love story. Son Ye-jin delivers a brilliant performance as Jin-ah. I loved her performance here even more than the one in ‘Thirty-Nine‘. That is how brilliant it was. Jung Hae-in is charming as Joon-hee. All the other actors and actresses did wonderfully well too – it was great performances allround. The romantic scenes are incredibly beautiful and if you are a romance lover, this series was made for you.
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There is one character in the story whom I hated very much. It was Jin-ah’s mom. She is a tough matriarch, keeps everyone at home under her thumb, brooks no dissent. She tries everything she can to break Jin-ah’s and Joon-hee’s relationship. She tells the lovers that she’ll hurt them more if they don’t breakup. She tries every trick up her sleeve to do that. When she is not able to win, she plays the victim. It was very hard to watch. It was triggering for me, because I’ve met a few people like that. My own father was like that. This parental meddling in their grownup children’s affairs, especially their romantic lives, is not just a Korean thing. It is widespread across East Asia, South East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, the Middle East. It is amazing how this huge collection of regions with diverse cultures and different languages and different histories and people who look very different in appearance has one thing in common – parents meddling in their grownup children’s lives, parents trying to keep their grownup children under their thumb, parents refusing to let their grownup children live lives their own way, parents trying to crush their grownup children’s wills everyday. I don’t know how in the middle of all the diversity, we have this one common thing across this huge region. Must be a relic from the old pre-historic, tribal times, which people refuse to let go, but which unfortunately doesn’t belong in the 21st century.
Rain plays an important part in the story. We can even consider it a character. It is there in nearly every episode, it rains in many of the important scenes, and it plays a beautiful part in the last moving scene in the story. Nearly all the episodes end with a song, mostly one of the four songs which are part of the series soundtrack. One of them is sung by Carla Bruni, another by Bruce Willis (when did he sing??? I didn’t know that!) and a couple of others are sung by Rachel Yamagata. The combination of the rain with the song is so beautiful. It feels like we have stepped into a 1950s black-and-white movie.
After the first few episodes of the story, I started feeling a deep ache in my heart. Surely this kind of happiness cannot last? Surely it is too good to be true? The dark premonition refused to go away, how much ever I tried. As human beings we are scared of happiness, because we don’t know how long it will last. Our worldview is one of misery, where people suffer for long periods, with the occasional ray of sunshine. Everytime Jin-ah did something out of the kindness of her heart to solve a problem or fix a situation which put her in the path of bullies who tried to crush her, I wanted to warn her not to do this. “Don’t meet your ex-boyfriend. He is a bad guy. He is going to give you more pain.” “Don’t listen to your mom. Don’t concede an inch to her. If you concede this time, she’ll walk all over you again.” I wanted to tell her this and other things again and again. But Jin-ah was a better person than me. She did things out of the kindness of her heart and got into trouble again and again. Sometimes this put her relationship with Joon-hee in rough waters. Their love was like a candle flame which needed a lot of protection and nurturing, as the wind and the storm were blowing outside trying to snuff it out. It was so hard to watch that flame flickering under this assault from external forces and almost being snuffed out more than once. But the flame always survived the storm and came back strong.
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I’m not sure what happened at the end of the story. The ending was beautiful and moving, but also in some ways unresolved. What happened after the story ended? Did the princess and the prince live happily everafter? I don’t exactly know. We’ll probably never know. I’d like to believe though that they lived happily everafter. That they fought many times and they made up many times. That Jin-ah got into trouble many times because of her kindness and Joon-hee got into trouble many times because he tried to protect Jin-ah. I’d like to believe that they lived long, happy lives and grew old together. Did they have babies? I don’t know. Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t. Irrespective of that, he was her baby, she was his. And when the time came, as all human life is ephemeral, one of them passed, and the other passed too of heartbreak on the same day. But this is not the end of the story. The two lovers became two bright stars in the heavens and their love story continued till the end of time. We can see them shining brightly in the night sky every night. This is their story. This is what I’d like to believe.
Posted in KDrama, TV Show Review | Tagged Jung Hae In, KDrama, Something In The Rain, Son Ye Jin | 1 CommentSomething in the Rain (Korean: 밥 잘 사주는 예쁜 누나 ) is a 2018 South Korean television series directed by Ahn Pan-seok and starring Son Ye-jin, Jung Hae-in and Jang So-yeon. The series marks Son Ye-jin's small scre comeback after a five-year break. It aired from March 30 to May 19, 2018 on JTBC's Fridays and Saturdays at 23:00 (KST) time slot.
The series explores the relationship of two people as they go from being just acquaintances to a guine couple. Jin-ah (Son Ye-jin) is a district supervisor in her 30s at the coffeehouse franchise Coffee Bay (an actual Korean chain) and Joon-hee (Jung Hae-in) is an animator in his early 30s at video game developer Smilegate tertainmt. Wh he returns from working abroad, he reconnects with Jin-ah — who also happs to be best frids with Joon-hee's sister since childhood. The episodes give an intimate look into how they fall in love, struggle with their age differces (considered to be taboo in some circles), and find the courage to go public with their relationship to everyone around them.
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The series also contains a secondary storyline about the struggles that female employees face in the company where Jin-ah works, as they try to climb the corporate ladder amidst sexual harassmt, mistreatmt, discrimination, and career sabotage from their male managers – all part of an unspok culture of sexism considered to be normal among South Korean companies.
As a result of the drama's commercial success, a three-day vacation to Japan was awarded to the cast and crew, which was scheduled from May 29–31, 2018.
Stand by Your Man sung by Carla Bruni, and Save the Last Dance for Me by Bruce Willis are played frequtly throughout the series.
When Jung Hae In Revealed He Drank A Lot Of Alcohol After Meeting 'goddess' Son Ye Jin While Filming For 'something In The Rain':
On March 3, 2022, it was announced that iQIYI would release a Chinese remake of the series titled The Way Love Should Be, starring Angelababy. The platform also gained the rights to exclusively air the show in China, making it the first South Korean TV show to be approved for streaming in the country since the Korean contt ban.A heartfelt romance, the K-drama series ‘Something in the Rain’ tells you a lot about
The series also contains a secondary storyline about the struggles that female employees face in the company where Jin-ah works, as they try to climb the corporate ladder amidst sexual harassmt, mistreatmt, discrimination, and career sabotage from their male managers – all part of an unspok culture of sexism considered to be normal among South Korean companies.
As a result of the drama's commercial success, a three-day vacation to Japan was awarded to the cast and crew, which was scheduled from May 29–31, 2018.
Stand by Your Man sung by Carla Bruni, and Save the Last Dance for Me by Bruce Willis are played frequtly throughout the series.
When Jung Hae In Revealed He Drank A Lot Of Alcohol After Meeting 'goddess' Son Ye Jin While Filming For 'something In The Rain':
On March 3, 2022, it was announced that iQIYI would release a Chinese remake of the series titled The Way Love Should Be, starring Angelababy. The platform also gained the rights to exclusively air the show in China, making it the first South Korean TV show to be approved for streaming in the country since the Korean contt ban.A heartfelt romance, the K-drama series ‘Something in the Rain’ tells you a lot about
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