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Jan. 3rd, 2011
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You expect rom-com's to be romance and comedy thrown together for a fun, light-hearted, improbable romp down the path to coupledom. You do not necessarily expect it to be full of complexity, emotional subtlety, and best girlfriend awesomeness! The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry was surprising and fulfilling in a way that I haven't encountered since The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince.
34 year-old "spinsters" Lee Shin Young, Kim Bu Ki, and Jung Da Jung are career women at the heart of the story. Their friendship is of the awesome variety. They support each other in everything, providing a shoulder to cry on, awesome advice courtesy of the fabulous Bu Ki (aka Boogie Woogie), and a makegeolli drinking buddy at any hour of the night. Shin Young and Da Jung also want to get married and that wish is becoming problematized by their age (30 in Korea is apparently getting over the hill). Bu Ki is completely comfortable with her single status, having dumped her fiance four years earlier when she realized that she was destined to be a slave to the in-laws. The women are all successful, and they all LOVE their jobs (reporter, restaurant consultant, and interpreter, respectively). That was something that I really loved about this drama. The girls were true friends, sharing and supporting each other, and they were people outside of their relationships.
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34 year-old "spinsters" Lee Shin Young, Kim Bu Ki, and Jung Da Jung are career women at the heart of the story. Their friendship is of the awesome variety. They support each other in everything, providing a shoulder to cry on, awesome advice courtesy of the fabulous Bu Ki (aka Boogie Woogie), and a makegeolli drinking buddy at any hour of the night. Shin Young and Da Jung also want to get married and that wish is becoming problematized by their age (30 in Korea is apparently getting over the hill). Bu Ki is completely comfortable with her single status, having dumped her fiance four years earlier when she realized that she was destined to be a slave to the in-laws. The women are all successful, and they all LOVE their jobs (reporter, restaurant consultant, and interpreter, respectively). That was something that I really loved about this drama. The girls were true friends, sharing and supporting each other, and they were people outside of their relationships.
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