Title: 난폭한 로맨스 Nanpokhan Romaenseu
English Title: Wild Romance
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Year: 2012
Episode: 16
Cast:
- 이동욱 Lee Dong Wook
- 이시영 Lee Si Young
- 오만석 Oh Man Seok
- 황선희 Hwang Sun Hee
- 강동호 Kang Dong Ho
- 임주은 Im Joo Eun
- 이희준 Lee Hee Joon
- 정수연 Jung Soo Yeon (제시카 정 Jessica Jung) (제시카 Jessica)
SYNOPSIS
Yoo Eun Jae's family are die-hard fans of Blue Seagulls, a second-rate baseball team. Eun Jae is devastated when the Blue Seagulls was beaten by another team Green Dreamers, lead by their star player Park Moo Yul.
While out drinking to forget her favorite team's defeat, she runs into Moo Yul and fights with him. Eun Jae works as a bodyguard and she easily beats the star player. A video of their fight is uploaded in the Internet, which threatens their careers and future work opportunities.
In order to fix both their problems, Moo Yul and Eun Jae pretend that she is his private bodyguard and the video that spread is actually their undercover self-defense demonstration and training. Eun Jae ends up working as Moo Yul's bodyguard for real and the two people who hate each other end up spending a lot of time together.
REVIEW
There are dramas where you like all the characters so you enjoy watching all episodes from start to end. There are dramas where you only like the lead characters so you impatiently wait until the scenes involving the side characters are through and the main couple is again the focus on the screen. There are dramas where you only like some side characters so you wait for long periods of time until your favorite characters have scenes together. For me, Wild Romance falls under the last category.
There are very few dramas wherein I only like the side characters and that's fortunate because it's frustrating to get through several hours of drama watching just to enjoy a few minutes of the side characters I like in focus. In Wild Romance, it is around 16 hours long and the scenes I loved are roughly an hour and a half of that; statistically speaking, it doesn't seem to be a good deal on my end.
I found the robotic straitlaced manager Kim Tae Han and the strange unpredictable Kim Dong Ah fascinating characters on their own. But the fact that these two unlikely individuals end up together as a couple in the drama is even better.
I really like how Tae Han and Dong Ah's relationship progressed because initially they just knew the same people, then they became acquaintances, then they became sort of friends, then they end up working together for a side project, and then they end up dating each other. As a couple in a Korean drama, I found them refreshing because they talk about all sorts of things, from erotic movies to sexual fantasies.
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난폭한 로맨스 Wild Romance
