I was just watching the last episode of Emergency Couple (starring Song Ji Hyo from Running Man)the other day. This is a Korean drama about a couple who got married young and divorced after a year of marriage, only to get back together again after medical school.
I hardly watch romantic comedies, not because I don't like them but because it's not easy to find one where you understand its 'sense of humor'. For me, the sense of humor in this show was partly the manga/manhwa-like element, particularly the makeup used:
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| Han Ah Reum (Clara), intern |
What is this makeup? Hair is too yellow for her, lips too orange for her. She's not the only one in the show that looks like a clown, though:
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| (Left) Lee Young Ae (Chun Min Hee), (Centre) Park Sang Hyuk (Im Hyun Sung) |
They are a newlywed couple on the team who start off lovey-dovey and end up considering divorce. She is another monkey with hair too red for her and lips too thin for the color. A nerdy geek wearing dark red lipstick to work?!
The real victim of this terrible makeup is SJH:
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| Oh Jin Hee (Song Ji Hyo), intern |
Would you entrust your life (or your loved ones) to a lifeless doctor in the Emergency Room? Well, maybe in real life we don't have a choice, but at least we don't need to see this in a drama? Do I see sparse eyebrows here?
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| Time for a brow tattoo. |
The worst part is having puffy eyebags and dark eye circles in your early twenties showing up on your wedding day:
That's enough ranting about the set. Unfortunately the focus (for me) was not the comedy but the overall plot in general, especially the relationship between family - husband and wife, father and son, daughter-in-law and mother-in-law. How the main characters, couple doctors Changmin (Choi Jin Hyuk) and Jin Hee (SJH) overcome their own limitations and the bias of society to finally be together again. Actually the supporting characters also have very good individual 'stories' in the show and sometimes I even look forward to the development of these supporting characters, especially the coworkers in the Emergency Department and its chiefs, Shim Ji Hye and 'the Devil'.
Most characters in this show are in their mid twenties to mid thirties, I guess that's why I can relate to them and like the storyline so much. And that's why the makeup seems so hilarious! I don't see anyone in their thirties looking so ridiculous! As a matter of fact, this show is so popular that there's even a remake in Bahasa, if I remember correctly, sans ridiculous makeup.
