💔 It's Okay, That's Love ❤ E01 & E02 Discussion Post

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SYNOPSIS  ♥

Title: 괜찮아, 사랑이야 / Gwaenchanha, Sarangiya
Also known as: It's Okay, It's Love / It's Alright, This is Love
Genre: Melodrama, romance, medical
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2014-Jul-23 to 2014-???-??
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

Production Company: GT Entertainment, CJ E&M
Chief: Kim Young Seob (김영섭)
Chief Producer: Choi Won Woo (최원우)
Staff Producer: Kim Sung Min (김성민), Lee Jung Mook (이정묵)
Producer: Kim Kyu Tae, Choi Jin Hee (최진희), Park Ji Young (박지영)
Director: Kim Kyu Tae
Screenwriter: Noh Hee Kyung

Love can sprout from the most unexpected places and in the most crowded minds. Jang Jae Yeol (Jo In Sung) is a famous mystery novelist and popular radio DJ who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). When he meets Ji Hae Soo (Gong Hyo Jin), a first-year psychiatry fellow at the hospital where he is being treated, they help each other work through their deep-rooted emotional issues. But how will Jo Dong Min (Sung Dong Il), Hae Soo’s senior colleague and first love, and Lee Pul Ip (Yoon Jin Yi), Jae Yeol’s girlfriend, feel about their growing closeness?
 

CHARACTERS  ♥

 

STILLS  ♥

 

EPISODES  ♥

Episode 1 (hardsub)

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Episode 2 (hardsub)

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RATINGS  ♥

 

OST  ♥

OST Part 1: Chen - 최고의 행운 Best Luck

 

PREVIEW  ♥

E03 Preview

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is it fine to submit the discussion posts around this time (saturday evening KST)? :)

Comments

Kyungsoo oh Kyungsoo.

[papa-olaf.livejournal.com]

I just cannot with Kyungsoo's face. His faaaaaaaace, why so adorbs child, WHY.

And Sung Dong Il will forever be my fav ahjussi.

[michi z. (from livejournal.com)]

This has got to be the wackiest living community in dramaland ever^^

I'm curious how the drama is going to explore each character's problems but I'm all in! I mean Kong Hyo Jin (whom I LOVE unconditionally! I have such a big girl crush on her^^) + Jo In Sung = lots of pretty and great acting. Kwang Soo and Sung Dong Il are adorbs together and well... Sung Dong Il is one of my most favourite ahjussis so big win there :D
Yep I'm all in for the cast^^

[hipployta.livejournal.com]

I'm still thinking Kyungsoo is only in Jae Yeol's head

[kicking-tenshi.livejournal.com]

oh snap. Mind blown.

[kevinmchale.livejournal.com]

m t e i should have just said this lmfao

[coldhives.livejournal.com]

omg your icon

[ababobaby.livejournal.com]

i kr i love it

[kevinmchale.livejournal.com]

i really feel that this drama has a lot of potential because of its ~unique theme and with how... bold it was in regards to sex and violence. i think it also helps that i find psychology fascinating and that i'm learning new stuff too!

although i also felt a little bit confused since there's a lot of side plots already but i guess they're just setting things up. i'm glad to know that this drama won't revolve on romance for the entire run and i'm excited to see how things will turn out.

in other news, very lovely cast!!! gong hyo jin's shift from tae gong shil to ji hae soo!!! and her breakdown at the stairs T___T dong il is still loud omg taking me back to when he was still shiwon's / najung's dad hahahah kwangsoo and insung were so fun too!!! the house dynamics will be so interesting lol

and of course kyungsoo's scenes kept cracking me up oh my god is it too early to hypothesize though that kangwoo is just a product of jaeyeol's imagination and/or a projection of his youth whatsoever? i d e k why i just have that feeling omg

anyway i really wonder what kind of patients we're seeing in the future omg the trans* one 😭😭😭 i still wish they reported the family to the police lol w/e i just want her to be happy :)

wtf this drama is making me vomit words like this is the longest comment i've written in a while ugh i'll just stop and rewatch

[hyeena.livejournal.com]

lol

[coldhives.livejournal.com]

I rarely watch kdramas but I gave this a chance because of Kyungsoo, and I'm glad I did. I'm enjoying it so far, the subject matter and themes are very interesting. I haven't watched kdramas in a long time so I wouldn't know much but this drama is the most unique out of everything I've seen.

The second episode is pretty intense and I loved every moment of it. Hopefully the drama continues to be this exhilarating until the end.

Also (spoiler warning? idk but I'm just speculating) Kyungsoo's character is definitely a figment of Jaeyeol's imagination, a projection of his younger self, as said by one of the commenters above. It's almost a giveaway, there are too many clues already and it's only the second episode.

[lucyownsjoaquin.livejournal.com]

tbh i didn't really get why everybody was so in love with jo in sung, but now i see why. he was so hot when he was smashing his friend's car with a bat lol.

[milafanway.livejournal.com]

The 1 ep was so confusing, I thought it was very interesting but it was a little messy, at first I thought that Kyungsoo was a stalker but I see he must be his old self so then Jaeyeol mutb be schizophreniac.
Ep 2 was a lot better and funny overall, this drama sure it's unique for treating with health problems and has a lot of potential.
And ladies and gentleman we have the first trasgender character in a korean drama ;)

[sheisagentleman.livejournal.com]

omg why is people speculating kyungsoo is an imaginary sasaeng? someoke pls tell me the clues ㅠㅠ

[kareymoop.livejournal.com]

Someone made this post (http://blackdyo.tumblr.com/post/92785466011/holy-shit-so-kyungsoo-is-actually-a-figment-of) which does a pretty good overall analysis on it

[confuqued.livejournal.com]

I figured from the way he showed up in the club when JIS got stabbed, and then disappeared.

[ababobaby.livejournal.com]

watch the first ep, and when the girl w the pink blouse was telling me people to "cheer" they scanned through the audience and it wasnt kyungsoo wearing the shirt. it was another person

[mangotae.livejournal.com]

omg thank you for pointing that out, glad i wasn't the only one who realized that, but i was thinking not to focus too much on it, but hmmm i've gain a new perspective

[ababobaby.livejournal.com]

i saw it on my tlist and since i wasnt watching it yet, i thought maybe it was just some type of glitch lol

but cmooooon, jo insung would wink at him and no one reacted in the audience?? like, the way the two are always excluded from others looks so bizarre. i like it. it's so good ;n;

[scheisse.livejournal.com]

At first I thought he was an imaginary sasaeng made up by the guy since he's such an ego maniac, but then I started thinking that maybe he's the guy as a kid and it's his way of dealing with his past abuse or whatever. Then I read that post linked above and it all clicked.

[rennehollic.livejournal.com]

Kyungsoo is so cute but at the same so creepy I would freak out if I had him stare to me like that!

[spaceinvaduhh.livejournal.com]

lmao at the gif. same kyungsoo same.

[hozrien.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed the first two episodes of this, so it's something I'm likely going to try and keep up with - and only help it gets better instead of worse.

[imangos.livejournal.com]

This drama seems so different from typical k-dramas. It reminds me of 2006's "Soulmate" in terms of pacing, subject matter; it just seems more introspective than dramas that have been coming out lately. I like it though. It's refreshing. I'm curious to find out how who it is that Jae Beom believes Jae Yul killed. I was a little miffed that Hae Soo got upset with Jae Yul over his reveal of her bf's infidelity; while the way he did it was messed up, I'd be glad he did it at all. If I were her and someone revealed that my cheating lying d-bag bf was a cheating lying d-bag, I'd give them five bucks and a handshake. Then I'd dump the cheating lying d-bag for good measure. The soundtrack is wonderful too; it's one of the things that makes me think of "Soulmate", which also had a pretty novel OST.

I love how Jo In Sung looks like he's filming a CF every he smiles. The scene where he took a bat to his ex-friend's car was pretty hot too lol. Gong Hyo Jin is my 2nd favorite actress (my heart belongs to you Kim Sun Ah! >.<) and that scene where she breaks down in the hallway in front of her ex-bf had my eyes misting. She just manages to convey so much emotion into everything; she's dynamic.

[ah0000.livejournal.com]

Idk I felt like these two eps were all over the place. I'll still around to watch the rest since I LOVE the cast. Although why is everyone only talking about that kid from EXO he didn't seem like anything special.

I love that Kwang Soo's character is Soo Kwang tho lol

[oneterrorist.livejournal.com]

Isn't GHJ (Hae Soo) asexual in some sort? I'm not sure what the exact word for her situation in terms of love/sex is.

[confuqued.livejournal.com]

She said she has a sex phobia.

[edanz-castle.livejournal.com]

Maybe I was just one of the few who couldn't really grasp onto the first episode because I thought everything was totally all over the place but the second episode pretty much elaborated a bit more on it and it's become likeable to me. I have a problem with Jo In sung looking like he's filming a CF with every shot but his character is pretty unique. The chemistry between the leads is pretty hot.

[mangotae.livejournal.com]

the quality of this drama is amazing, and thank you for kyungsoo being in this because that just exo stans the chance to post HD galore and i couldn't be happier about that

as some users have said, the first episode really was all over the place and i was a bit confused at certain points in regards to the plot, but ep 2 does give it a nice clean up and more development on what the character's positions are

i'm both surprised and quite happy at how open this drama is in regards to the whole psychological field, the different disorders/syndromes (the transgendered/depression case, i went wow, we're actually having this as a topic in a drama, in south korea??), i applaud them

i'm really looking forward to continue this drama, it's both comedy, romance and a touch of real issues

now about what other users have said towards kyungsoo's character has seriously got me thinking, because now i'm seeing clues that he really could be a part of jo in sung's imagination

[confuqued.livejournal.com]

Gong Hyo Jin unni is jjang! Her character is everything. I will definitely be watching this drama.

[ababobaby.livejournal.com]

this drama will be worth it in the long run

idc bout how confusing it got, imo it's one of the best ways to start a drama. ill be there watching for all the revealings <3 it seems very dark in theme too

[tempestdance.livejournal.com]

agh i did not realize how much i feel uncomfortable with d.o's face like it makes me cringe watching it and the fact that he's terrible at acting and has shit ton of fans complimenting his acting skills on the internet does not help :/

[atopworld.livejournal.com]

As a psych major, I love that psychiatry is the backdrop, but they explain before the episode that it is all dramatized. Which is very important and touching to me. D.O. is a sasaeng...? But he's such a cutie, I want to hug him all the time. Jo In Sung is hot....smash my car with your bat any day. Other than those things that have nothing to do with discussion of the plot...I almost closed the window down when it was mentioning the woman who needed to be locked away because she had a disorder and needed to be beat. But I gave it a chance. I like it so far.

[bishieaddict.livejournal.com]

Love it. It's so quirky. I thought D.O was an imaginary friend or his childhood conscious...because he was so wide eyed and innocent and this drama is about psychology. I like how the psychiatrist was wearing a t shirt with the words "psycho" on it in the 1st ep.

[modernelegance.livejournal.com]

I almost started it tonight, but bah. I know I'm going to be so addicted to this that I won't be able to stand watching two episodes a week. But then I won't get to talk with people about it...so what to do, what to do?!?!?!

[scheisse.livejournal.com]

I watched the first episode for DO and was disappointed that his role isn't as big as I thought, but I found that I still really liked it. Not even ten minutes in and you've got a masturbation joke and a transgender character and a mention of gays... Like, what kind of forward-thinking, progressive drama? Slay a bit.

[iznanassi.livejournal.com]

"Hey.....he has stomach cancer" "Oh he does?" I'M CRYING THIS IS THE END FOR ME RIP

This has the makings of being the best drama ever oh my god

[tee-sama.livejournal.com]

I want to watch it because of Kwangsoo but I don't want to watchit because of that Exo kid. How much is he in it?

[prettyminstrel.livejournal.com]

he's hardly intrusive so far. he appeared for about 4mins in the first ep and 45secs on the 2nd. i can't say anything for future eps.

it's a good drama tho it's a shame to throw it away just because of some minor boy band member./shrugs

[nounou24.livejournal.com]

omg this is the first time ive ever heard the word "sex" (and a transgender person as well) in a kdrama. i think the world might be ending soon, lol i love the actress (watching it for her, missed her since master's sun) and sung dong ill (i havent seen him in any other drama. only in 9tail fox gf) the main guy is cute(sexy cute) and that kid frm exo is mad cute (adorable cute).
it's looking good so far, i hope they keep it up. XD

[eesor.livejournal.com]

i'll watch you soon i promise

let me finish my thesis first and i will jump on this bandwagon!