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Love Affairs in the Afternoon korean drama review
Ongoing 16/16
Love Affairs in the Afternoon
12 people found this review helpful
by Josie51
Aug 20, 2019
16 of 16 episodes seen
Ongoing
Overall 8.0
Story 8.5
Acting/Cast 9.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 7.5
This review may contain spoilers
Park Ha-sun as Son Ji-eun plays a great part as a quiet and average woman with a small stature and modest appearance who becomes bored with the repetitive life of a small town. She had no intention of being involved with a married man but gradually she let down her guard and became totally besotted with Lee Sang-yeob as Yoon Jung-woo, a biology teacher at an alternative school in the town Ji-eun moves to. He looks at the world with curious eyes and loves nature and animals. They were so similar in interests and personality they just fell for each other. She was starved for affection and his wife had been gone to the States for three years.

The housewife Ye Ji-won as Choi Soo-ah, a housewife married to an owner of a huge publishing company. She seems to be a perfect wife and mother, but she harbours a deep secret within. She had never been in love and was playing the afternoon delights when Jo Dong-hyuk as Do Ha-yoon, a painter who has led a difficult and stressful life, rife with marital and financial difficulties. When he meets Soo-ah, however, the two grow unexpectedly close and their lives become intertwined. He comes to her house to meet her husband when sparks ignite between the two of them. He saw how he treated her like a slave. He had compassion for her and that is how it all started.

The thing is with love, you can’t control it and the heart wants what it wants. “Where the heart goes there is no control.”Quote from “ The Legends 2019”

So funny that the man she’s interested in is her old school mates husband. Ironically she doesn’t know it at the time. The bird( looks like a budgie but they called it a parrot) Love flew out of the cage and out the window. Her husband (Jung Sang-hoon as Ji Chang-kook) is furious the two birds are like his babies, since they don’t have any children. So ridiculous a grown woman wandering about calling out “Love come home”. Instead she meets the then wavering husband (her Lover)Lee Sang-yeob as Yoon Jung-woo in an archway of blowing blossoms. They stand in the pathway staring at each other.

I hope the two kids (students) were watching when he pushed her away. Then she ran away fast. He stood stunned thinking what could have happened. She takes her rejection out on her husband who doesn’t realise he has taken her for granted and hates being called mom. Their love life is nonexistent. His wife(Ryu Abel as Noh Min-young) who has been in the States for three years doesn’t know whats happening with him because their interests are so different. He standing in the shower fully clothed and she finds the umbrella in his bag. Her first suspicion is aroused.

He(lover2) Jo Dong-hyuk as Do Ha-yoon from the other couple said lets never see each other again. Can they stay away from each other? Next time he tells her she is wearing a mask. He’s her first love.

Then here’s the jinx meeting every Thursday at three to five is definitely ………..cheating. Whether they kiss hold hands for more or less its still…….. cheating. They are both married and we saw their wedding rings.

Here I am not wanting these cheating people to get caught because their partners are so uncaring towards them. Is it because I have been in the same boat and had a husband that ill-treated me so I can have sympathy for these four people. Its the two woman actually. They are getting close to getting caught as they are pushing it. The rich husband has spotted them on the beach. What is he going to do? She is looking at her lover so adoringly. They don’t even see him. When they walked passed him. Now its dark he’s even taking photos of them and they don’t notice. He’s going crazy looking in every caravan for for them. They are just strolling arm n arm on the beach,

This story is such a circle of entanglements from the boy(Shin Won-ho as Park Ji-min) who smashed the car window onward. They all became jumbled up together. Rule number one: “ Never get involved with married men” in the long term its to your own detriment and karma comes to bite you in the bum. So what are they doing now they are breaking each others hearts which is a pain worse than child birth. So they are not just giving them the friend zone speech but you are a stranger to me now. Delete my number. Don’t speak to me in the street, just walk on by with no greeting. We are meaningless to each other.

This boy Shin Won-ho as Park Ji-min, Yoon Jung-woo’s student looked familiar to me and turns out. He was an actor in the very first Asian Drama I ever watched “ Legend of the Blue the Sea”. I hadn’t seen him again since. That was in 2016. Even though he’s now 27 he’s still acting young kid roles and he’s good at it.

So we have got to the part where its all turning to custard. Every one finds everything and lightning strikes.

I really feel sorry for these rule breakers and the public is so harsh on these people. Korea democracy still imprisoned people for adultery into 2010.

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