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rachel

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rachel

Singapore
Yong Pal korean drama review
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Yong Pal
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by rachel
Oct 28, 2018
18 of 18 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 6.5
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 4.0
The drama started out strong; it was suspenseful, exciting, and made you root for Tae-hyun and Yeo-jin, the two lead characters. However, as the drama went on, the show became less medical drama and more of a drama about corporate antics/manipulation and companies trying to out-manoeveur each other. To be very frank, I started to become pretty bored of the show at the halfway point and I had to drag myself through to the very end. To make things worse, the Tae-hyun character seemed to be become quite useless and toothless, compared to his gung-ho stunts and cockiness (in a good way) at the start of the show.

The love story was really not very convincing, but OK, I rolled with it anyway.

The ending felt like the writers had run out of ideas and just decided to write a WTF-worthy ending for us.

On the technical and behind-the-scenes aspects of the show, the first episode featured a few really bad editing screw-ups, including terrible, terrible CGI. Joo Won also looked extremely exhausted by the end of the drama. Very obvious that the live-shoot system caught up with the show by the end of it.

A plus point is that this show features strong female characters, who aren't simply helpless damsels-in-distress crying out for the male characters to rescue them.
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