Jung Hae In and Han Ji Min Confirmed for MBC Drama

[keytfelt.livejournal.com]

“Spring Night” is about a couple that has been together for a long time. When the topic of marriage comes up, they begin to re-evaluate their relationship. All of that is complicated when potential new love interests appear, and they start to realize what their real feelings are.

Han Ji Min's role is that of a research librarian, and Jung Hae In will be playing the young, hot pharmacist who has appeared in her life recently as a possible romantic partner.

The drama is Jung Hae In's reunion with PD Ahn Pan Seok and writer Kim Eun from “Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food.” Wednesday-Thursday drama “Spring Night” is set to air on MBC, starting this May.

Sources: Soompi/Naver | Dramabeans/Dailian

Eh at the Pretty Noona reunion, hopefully this drama will actually have a plot.

Comments

[thebloomroom.livejournal.com]

Omg I fucking hated the second half of Something in the Rain but Jung Hae In is bae af. I will watch for his face alone.

[sweetestbliss1.livejournal.com]

Omg, yes. I stopped halfway because I couldn't deal with it anymore. So many problems and was so annoyed while watching it!

[thebloomroom.livejournal.com]

I could rant about it for ages, the ending was fucking horrible and Jin ah got so goddamn annoying. She was horrible! And then the guy made such an illogical decision as well, the whole thing made no sense. It was legit perfection the first half, i never felt so single in my life.

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

that drama gave me trauma, I'm so sick of the evil mother in law story lines

[sweetestbliss1.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yes! Jin Ah got reallyyyyyy annoying. She kept getting mad at the guy for no reason. Do I even want to know what he did that was illogical? I think I watched up to when they told Jin Ah's family about them being together?? And something about Jin Ah's mom telling the guy to come out to meet her and Jin Ah getting mad at him. Jin Ah's mom was seriously SUCH a bitch and wanted Jin Ah to take back her ex-bf even though he cheated on her and just because he was from a good family and Jin Ah's lucky that someone like him likes her, etc. The workplace shit was so messed up, too. Ughhhhhhhh. I know that a lot of the situations in the drama are a true reflection of the Korean society, but damn.

[thebloomroom.livejournal.com]

The mom was horrific.Jin-ah eventually moved out bc her mom forced her to since she was going to keep dating him, but she was struggling with money and she didnt want to move in with the bf even tho he offered. I forgot his name lmao sorry but Jung Hae In (Jun-hui? idr) basically decided to apply for a job in the US so they could escape all this shit and did it without talking to Jin-ah about it and then got mad she didn't want to uproot her entire life and move to a new country. Boy........ ?????????????????? TF? I actually liked his character a lot, he was immature but he was also 25 so it was realistic, he did way too much for Jin Ah and let her walk all over him so I empathized with him more than her, but that move was really stupid and shitty, idk what he expected. So then they broke up bc he went anyway. And then she dated some guy her family liked (total backwards character growth after we spent 15 episodes watching her try to choose herself) who was an asshole. They eventually got back together when he came for her brother's wedding, but we don't know what happened, they like barely made up and then it ended. They also resolved the workplace harassment thing off screen which was so fucking shitty given how much they invested into showing it.

I FUCKING HATED THIS SHOW LOL. and Jung Hae In is one of my fave actors rn, he was so cute in While You Were Sleeping. I watched it for him. But This was one of the worst fucking dramas, and that says a lot.

[sweetestbliss1.livejournal.com]

I seriously couldn't stand the mom. She made me so damn angry. LOL it's okay. I couldn't remember his name either since it's been so long. But WOW at him making that decision without asking her? That seems kind of OOC for him. Yeah, he really was so good to her and she was becoming so unreasonable towards him. Did Jin Ah's dad stick up for her at all? He was just kind of like *kanyeshrug* for awhile, but wasn't as hard on her as the mom. UGH, speaking of, the mom was SUCH a bitch towards him, too because he retired.

I am so glad I dropped the show. I would have been so pissed watching the last half. Did they fire the male managers at her work at least? What about that kick ass manager lady??

Aww, I love Jung Hae In, too (ever since Goblin!) and he was super cute in While You Were Sleeping, too, like you said. I feel like with Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food, he was starting to get a bit too overexposed and I had to unfollow him on IG. Hahah. I want to watch the movie him and Kim Go Eun are in.

Also, I am a bit meh about this new drama with Han Ji Min because it's not that she's a bad actress, but she hasn't really had any breakout roles in a long time. And it doesn't seem like she has much chemistry with any of her co-stars. I just remember that horrible Jekyll and Hyde drama with Hyun Bin, but that drama was overall really bad, so....

LOL ALSO, coincidentally, my friend messaged me this morning and told me she's watching Pretty Noona Who Buys Me Food and asked if I watched it. I don't have the heart to tell her it goes to shit halfway through since she said she's addicted to it right now. Hahah sigh. I was just like "What ep are you on?" (she's almost halfway through) and "Tell me how you like it after you finish it." lol

[mallmouse.livejournal.com]

dammit, I just rec'ed Something in the Rain to someone at the last FFFA post, saying that it was brilliant, but now I'm watching the second half nooooo
Still, it's my first K-drama, and I can see the potential. Jung Hae In is great, in all aspects. I do have several like cultural questions though, like how typical is that kind of mother, do they drink so much in all K-dramas (and what's with all those scenes on eating), women live with their families until they're 40 or something but having sex with their boyfriends is not an issue, not to mention the age difference issue being not an issue at all? (I thought it would be, but then the socioeconomic status difference seemed much more important), oh well, I guess I'll just have to watch even more K-dramas to see if they're recurrent themes ...

Also, pls rec me something good for angst whores like me.

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

I hear your voice - thriller melo, noona romance
Nice Guy - revenge melodrama romance
Tree with deep roots - historical melo
White Christmas - high school thriller melodrama
Secret love affair - cheating noona melodrama with a piano
Valid Love - cheating melodrama
Werewolf boy - melo fantasy movie
Heard it through the Grapevine - sardonic melo young love
I remember you - melo thriller serial killer
Antique Bakery - quirky charming melo movie
Voice - crime thriller melo
Signal - cop thriller melo sci fi
Stranger - police/prosecutor thriller melo
Save me - cult thriller melo

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

almost every kdrama includes scenes of people blackout drunk in public
most adults still live with their parents
age is super important in Korea
crazy mother in laws are super common in Kdramas

[mallmouse.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, for the cultural info, and for the recs! I'm not really into action/suspense, but I'm such a sucker for love angst (though not teen/high school stuff)

I too had assumed age would be super important in Korea (even the honorifics, like, are people aware of everyone's age all the time so that they'll know how to refer to them? I remember reading a comment on how 'noona' kinda implied too much respect, like in a way it would guide men into seeing older women in a 'I can't have sex with her' way or something), but it wasn't really an angst source at all in the series was it? Is there another K-drama in which it is? Thanks :)

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

yes you have to address people based on age, even 1 year makes a difference, basically you have to give your age when you first meet

in most noona romances the younger guy stops calling her noon when he becomes romantically interested in her
the opposite isn't true, having a younger women call you oppa is idealized

in pretty noon who buys me food I think she was less concerned with him being younger than with the fact that he was a family friend and her mom only cared about status

other noona romances do make a bigger deal of the age difference

[mallmouse.livejournal.com]

Could you tell me which ones pls?

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

A Witch's Love
The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry
I need romance 3
Secret love affair
Romance is a Bonus Book (currently airing but really good so far)
Dal Ja’s Spring
Temperature of Love

also check out http://www.dramabeans.com/ they do recaps and reviews of shows, when I first started watching dramas I would just watch the shows that were had the best reviews

[mallmouse.livejournal.com]

great, thanks :)
Though I'm gonna rewatch ep. 3 first, UST at its finest...

[modestgoddess79.livejournal.com]

Enjoy 😊

[daynr.livejournal.com]

Yay that this this pretty pretty man is coming back! I haven't been able to suffer through pretty noona, so hopefully we'll get lots of him in this one.

[antrea.livejournal.com]

ugh love Haein, will def be watching