Wonderful Days Episode 1

Also known as Wonderful Season.

 

 

It's 3:45 in the morning and some guy's cell phone keeps ringing. (Question: Why do DramaKoreans sleep with the light on?) Prosecutor Kang Dong Seok (played by Lee Seo Jin) finally answers the annoying thing. The news is bad. Someone has been attacked. Dong Seok is shocked into dehydration and he must go guzzle some bottled water. Close the refrigerator door - you're letting the cold out!

 

And now he's leaving the bathroom sink running. You are such a wastrel, Dong Seok. He leaves it running while he flashes back to 1998. Young Dong Seok (played by Park Bo Gum) is being bothered by his stalker, Chae Hae Won (played by Kwon Min Ah) who wants to give him some Goethe. Dong Seok walks away from her so Hae Won has a conversation with a barking dog. 

 

The dog bites her on the leg and Dong Seok is forced to give her a piggy back ride. (Um, did anyone bother to check and see if the dog was vaccinated?) He carries Hae Won to her house where his mother happens to work as the family housekeeper. They arrive just in time to hear Hae Won's mother chewing out Dong Seok's sister, Dong Ok. (I think Dong Ok is supposed to be mentally challenged. Or "slow" as we say around here.)

 

Now back to modern days. I can only hope Dong Seok turned the water off at his apartment as he reluctantly travels back to his hometown. They're awfully proud of their local boy as they've got signs up announcing he's appointed their new prosecutor. A grown up Hae Won (now played by Kim Hee Sun) looks on as she's slowly strangled by a huge blue scarf.

 

 

A car stops next to her and she checks in the back seat where a drunken Oh Seung Hoon (played by Park Joo Hyung - woohoo!) is passed out cold. He wakes up and she advises him to sober up quickly before going into the office. He seems to think she has a thing for him. (I have a thing for you, Joo Hyung.)

 

Dong Seok's uncle, Kang Ssang Ho, is cooking up a boatload of food for the homecoming. Grown up Dong Ok (played by Kim Ji Ho) eagerly waits outside in the cold for her brother's arrival. They haven't seen their golden boy in fifteen years.

 

Some kid actors I've never seen before do a terrible job in their scene. Something having to do with Kang Dong Hee. I think. Can you tell I'm skipping through this episode? Dong Hee (played by Ok Taecyeon) makes his appearance to fill the audience in on his ne'er-do-well father who abandoned his first family to go shack up with another woman.

 

 

Hae Won is in Seung Hoon's bathroom cleaning his shirt. Seung Hoon wants to find Dong Hee for some reason. I really don't know what's going on here, only that Seung Hoon doesn't get a kiss from her.

 

Dong Hee has another scene in which he lets the audience know he had once been married but she ran off with another guy. Dong Hee is in the process of trashing a barber shop when he's stopped by Hae Won. He acts all dangerous and threatening to her but Hae Won stands her ground.

 

Their fight spills out into the street which is where Dong Seok finally arrives to save Hae Won. Now if he would just save her from the blue scarf that is eating her alive.