A Writers View

Young Lady and Gentleman is a weekly Korean drama that is currently airing on KBS on Saturdays and Sundays. American fans, like me, can catch the episodes on Viki.com, with English subtitles complete by Monday or Tuesday.

It stars Ji Hyun Woo as the widower and father of 3 Lee Young Kook, and Lee Se Hee as the bright young tutor who’s down on her luck Park Dan Dan.

It’s a classic Korean tale of interwoven familial relationships.

Unbeknownst to anyone, Park Dan Dan & her father & her brother get tangled up into both personal and professional relationships with different members of Lee Young Kook’s family. Once Park Dan Dan starts working as a tutor she discovers that her father has been recently hired as the driver, and then later they discover that her brother has begun a romantic relationship with Lee Young Kook’s sister.

It turned into a Parasite situation real quick!

The only difference being – Park Dan Dan’s family is really, really nice!

They’re all good people, with strong moral conviction (so far at least!) and have had no intention of taking advantage of this rich family. That’s why it’s Positive Parasite! 🙂

What’s really fun is that the show knows that it’s being similar to Parasite and says so a couple of times. That’s why things kind of do blow up when their familial relations are revealed.

I am thoroughly enjoying this show and terribly excited by the fact that it is going to have 50 episodes!!! You heard me right! 50 episodes! It’s really tough waiting every week for new episodes though!

The one thing I’ve noticed about Ji Hyun Woo’s shows is that they always have really good cliffhangers. Seriously, in every show every episode ends on a major cliffhanger! Which is great 😀 and horrible (cause of the waiting!!).

The only thing so far that has been not my favorite has been the soundtrack. I don’t dislike it, but it’s been more funny then breathtaking. Love in Sadness for example had an awesome soundtrack. The music was it’s own character. The music in this show is a character too, just more of a silly clown than anything else.

But even so, I can promise you that I am going to watch every one of those 50 episodes!:)

If you want to watch it too, then just head on over to Viki.com.