There is something in the rain
For once, Son Ye-jin is not your melodrama queen.
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I did not expect this.
Over a month I completed my first crash course on Korean movies and TV shows. The module is called Immersion and it chipped away approximately 100 hours (approx. 14%) of my time pie. My latest is a 2018’s series that initially made me dumbfounded upon reading its title. There is Something in the Rain.
Maybe there is no bad romance.
If I could summarize the romantic comedy in one word, it is delicate. It’s also funny, witty, empowering, feisty, adorable and page-turning (from one episode to another). No one would deny the fact that the fame of Son Ye-jin has skyrocketed thanks to the phenomenon of Crash Landing on You (CLOY). Two years ago, I managed to catch a glimpse of her performance in the Negotiation, a thriller that she co-starred in with her partner in CLOY, Hyun Bin. She did not share the same scene with the villainous Hyun Bin until the very end of the show. I remember telling my friend: “Wow, I can’t imagine if they were involved from the beginning of the movie.” (And I told you so.) In her most natural way, her smile is infectious. This has been…
