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Seeing double

I guess this happens when you watch enough K drama (or TVB or Mediacorp or whatever). After a while, everyone one starts popping up in different series and you wonder where you last saw them.

Chanced upon Summer Scent which is doing a rerun on KBS World. A supremely melodramatic serial from the 'old' days of K drama that I'm not following. It is just that it comes on immediately after 2 serials I am trying to follow (more on them another day!).

BEFORE (the Summer Scent cast in 2003):
AFTER (and all grown up!):
Son Ye Jin in Spotlight - at least she got to do a character with more depth and spunk.
Han Ji Hye in Likeable or Not - expressions still look the same but thankfully she doesn't have that blondish hair anymore.
Ryu Jin in Capital Scandal - acting still flat, even when he was cast as such an amazing character.

I have not seen Song Seong Heon, the male lead, in any other show. Think he was the best actor of the four. He was the only one who could do his emotional scenes convincingly.

More doubles:
Strange but there is so much physical likeness between couples.

Son Ye Jin looked so much like Jang Nara in Wedding and she and Ryu Jin looked like Jang Nara and Ryu Shi Won in Wedding (below).

Son Ye Jin and Song Seong Heon looked like Han Ji Min and Kang Ji Hwan in Capital Scandal (below).


Country scenes:
About the only really enjoyable parts of Summer Scent are the flowers and lovely countryside and mountain scenery. Which featured quite strongly in shows like Wedding (see above) and The Man From the Vineyard (below). I really like the out-of-Seoul sites. Something you don't get in TVB drama.
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