Girl Who Sees Smells Releases More Information

[agoongprincess.livejournal.com]

The drama is about two characters who are connected by a gruesome set of murders called the Barcode Murder Case, though neither of them knows the connection. Yoochun plays a young man named Moo-gak (short for “no feeling,” hur), who worked at an aquarium and dreamt of doing that his whole life. But he loses his sister (Kim So-hyun) to the Barcode Murderer, and is so traumatized that he stops eating and sleeping for twenty days until someone finds him passed out.

He slips into a coma for six months, after which he wakes up with strange side effects: He can’t smell or taste anything, and he can no longer feel any pain. If his body takes too many hits he just passes out, but he never feels any of the pain. All of this makes him very closed off from his emotions too, though he’s capable of feeling them — just not very well or very often. He becomes a cop three years later with the sole goal of catching his sister’s killer, and carries the mistaken distinction that he is super manly because he eats anything, doesn’t need a mask to investigate a grizzly murder scene, and can take endless hits.

Shin Se-kyung plays a young woman who dreams of becoming a comedienne, though she repeatedly tanks her gagman auditions at the networks because she laughs at her own jokes. She has no memory of her life before waking up in the hospital at the age of 19, after a six-month coma. So she doesn’t know that she once had a different name, lost her parents to the Barcode Murderer, and was the sole eyewitness to that crime.

She woke up with strange side effects as well, and all her senses have become hypersensitive, except she can’t smell anything either. But she can see smells and very accurately at that, and can even trace where people have been because their lingering smells are like a visible trail.

Girl Who Sees Smells premieres April 1.

source: dramabeans

this sounds more interesting by the minute, im seriously hoping it's as fun as it seems. i want SSK to get better and keep improving and I want Yoochun to give me one more drama I love like he did with SS before he leaves

Comments

[chibi-rei.livejournal.com]

Okay this plot description sounds more interesting than other ones I've read. Still kinda odd, but interesting.

[ah0000.livejournal.com]

Very weird but I am definitely more interested than before. While I like SSK, her acting in Iron Man was really...lacking. My curiosity is piqued tho bc I want to see her as a comedian lol.

I'm actually trying to think - have there been any kdrama characters who have jobs as comedians? I don't think I've ever seen any.

[hozrien.livejournal.com]

Sounds interesting to see, so I might watch this drama :D

[jrt131n.livejournal.com]

It will be really interesting to see how they handle this. People with this condition don't really get that much spotlight, so I wonder if they did any type of research.

[bunica1990.livejournal.com]

He usually picks good roles, so I'm intrigued.

[sand-nicky.livejournal.com]

True, true. I'm very curious myself now.

[shupagirl-uk.livejournal.com]

I can't wait! Love the gif. ^_^

[pockeeta.livejournal.com]

yeesss definitely
+ i noticed they're usually mystery/dark things at some level lol

[audiograms.livejournal.com]

sounds interesting

[miyozari.livejournal.com]

I like the premise but I doubt the acting abilities of SSK and Yoochun.

[oncloud999.livejournal.com]

idk... the plot sounds kind of silly tbh. i mean i thought the reason you wear masks isn't so much for the smell but for preventing contamination of the scene with your saliva and other debri from the mouth nose area... the idea of someone who can't smell/feel/taste being a detective is odd to me because the senses are so important for detection i don't know how you can be a good detective without them.

[innertide.livejournal.com]

meh him being so conveniently emotionally-constipated & her ditzy Candy-like characterization is already sending up red flags for me tbh