Dear My Room – found!

After waiting for a long time to watch the show, I discovered that someone has very kindly uploaded episodes of Dear My Room on YouTube! Yay! I don’t know why there are only four episodes, though…

I read that the show is closely tied to its CJ parent, hence the heavy focus on house DIY and related materials, not to mention the tutorial epilogues at the end of episodes. It feels more like a DIY than interior design show as Eun-joo’s (Ryu Hye-young) house improvement efforts feature way more than Min-seok’s (Kim Jae-young) design work. Most of the time, we see him coming over to help her or look at what she’s done rather than working on one of his projects. I’d have liked to see his interior work!

Nevertheless, it is a fun and cosy show, and of course I like the leads. Min-seok is too straightforward and predictable a character for Jae-young. I don’t think this was very difficult for him and I hope he gets more challenging roles in the future.

Eun-joo is cute but also a bit formulaic and like is the case for Jae-young, Hye-young is not stretched that much here.

However, while I would prefer more complex characterisation, I do appreciate the work these two put in and they make a very likeable couple.

What was most unexpected was to see Kim Jung-hwa here as big sister Eun-jung! After more than a couple of decades, she looks just as beautiful.

I hope the other episodes eventually appear. I do want to see this other couple also...

Dear My Room / Eun-joo's Room (2018)

Olive, 12 episodes (only 4 found so far)

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