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I was feeling a bit disappointed at first that Kim Jae Wook was the 2nd lead, but after watching the drama, I'll admit that Yang Se Jong and Kim Jae Wook both fit their respective roles. 

 

I'm loving the chemistry between the two leads and honestly, I don't really notice the age difference too much. I'm more surprised by the fact that Yang Se Jong was born in '92 and only a little bit older than other actors like Ji Soo and Park Bo Gum. 

 

I also have arrived at two conclusions: 

 

1. Yang Se Jong looks amazing with bangs.

2. He should not dye his hair brown ever again because he looks amazing in black hair. 

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When two people are at such different places in their lives, what should they do when romance presents itself? Should they be adults and do the responsible thing, or throw caution to the wind and see where love takes them? And what happens if they care about each other, but they each want something different?

 

EPISODE 5 RECAP

We back up a bit, to the evening after Jung-sun and Hyun-soo’s date. He escorts her home, both of them walking as slowly as possible, and back to being a bit awkward after their kiss. Hyun-soo drops her keys from nerves, and Jung-sun chivalrously pretends he didn’t see. So cute.

Hyun-soo goes inside to find her sister Hyun-yi in tears, being comforted by their friend Joon-ha after learning that her ex-boyfriend got engaged. They both criticize Hyun-soo for calmly requesting the facts, and remark snidely that this is why she can’t write love stories. She snaps that the two of them are so alike, they should just date. (Doth they protest too much?)

 

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Joon-ha asks Hyun-soo where she’s been and she freezes, remembering the kiss. She narrates that back then, she didn’t know it was love, and wonders why it’s so difficult for people to be sure when they’ve fallen in love.

As Hyun-soo grins to herself in the bathroom later, Hyun-yi bursts in to throw up, crying that she wants to die. When Hyun-soo tells her to stop now, she wails that she hopes that someday Hyun-soo ends up alone and crying her eyes out over a guy, but Joon-ha quips that it will never happen.

We skip forward a day, to the moment that Hyun-soo rings Jung-sun’s doorbell, looking for comfort after having been fired. But Jung-sun isn’t home, and instead his mother answers the door. Meanwhile, Jung-sun is unsuccessful reaching Hyun-soo from a pay phone, so he decides to go buy a cell phone.

 

=== Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/09/temperature-of-love-episodes-5-6/

 

 

 

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Oh wow, no wonder this “breakup†is such a source of pain for both Jung-sun and Hyun-soo. They never actually broke up at all, in fact they weren’t really even dating—the whole thing was just a horrible mash-up of crossed wires. Jung-sun knew he was in love, but Hyun-soo didn’t realize it until it was too late, because she was too worried about other things in her life to process how she really felt about him. No wonder Jung-sun left without really talking to Hyun-soo about it, not when she’d drawn such a definite line between them and any romantic possibilities. He’s always been very respectful of her and what she wants, so even though I’m sure he knew she had feelings for him, he took her seriously when she made it so clear that she didn’t want a relationship.

One of my favorite things in dramas is when the guy falls in love first, and normally I’d be hoping to see Jung-sun try to woo Hyun-soo all over again when they meet in the present. But in this case I find myself wishing for the opposite—that it’s Hyun-soo who has to pursue Jung-sun this time around. Not that I think he’d put up much of a fight, because I’ve never seen a boy so gone on a girl. But the power imbalance presented by their ages in the past created a situation in which Hyun-soo called all the shots (and bless Jung-sun for being so respectful of her wishes), and I want to see that turned on its ear when they reconnect.

 

At twenty-three and twenty-nine, they were at very different places in their lives and maturity levels. But the distance isn’t quite so far between twenty-eight and thirty-four, and I’d love to see Hyun-soo be the one to do the romancing this time around.

 

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I worry that Jung-woo’s character is going to go dark, and I really, really hope that doesn’t happen. I love his tentative are-we-friends-or-are-we-foes relationship with Jung-sun, and the way they banter and poke fun at each other is highly entertaining to watch. And I think he could be a strong professional advocate for Hyun-soo at a time when she could really use someone to believe in her. But that conversation last week with someone on the phone worried me, and his refusal to take no for an answer may be beneficial now because it gets Hyun-soo what she needs in the moment, but down the line it could very easily turn into a control issue, or worse. With Jung-sun it feels like a genuine desire to work with him because he admires what he can do, but with Hyun-soo it feels more like a power trip. I don’t like what that foreshadows.

I’m so pleased that I’m continuing to like this show as much as I did initially, because all too often I’m swept up by a show in its first week, only to feel something beginning to slip in the second week. I think that it’s easy for dramas to start with a bang, but then to relax after a couple of episodes once it’s hooked its audience, and you can begin to sense that it may not live up to the quality of the premiere. But Temperature of Love still feels like it’s just getting started, and now that we’ve seen Jung-sun and Hyun-soo’s beginning, and how it ended, I get the sense that we’ve only seen a small part of what the drama intends to show us.

I particularly love the feel of the show, though I’m finding it difficult to describe it in words. It’s not really slice-of-life, but it’s not really a rom-com either… it seems more like an old foreign film in its style and cinematography, but without feeling dated, if that makes sense. The characters speak and act like real people, which speaks to a complaint I have often with dramas, because I see so many shows and wonder why the characters are talking and behaving in wildly unnatural ways. But here, the characters don’t overreact or under-react, or say and do things that make no sense. They behave the way I would behave under the same circumstances, which is what makes them so relatable and likable. I can just feel the show finding its stride and getting better with every scene, and I can’t wait to see where it takes us.

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Timing can be everything, and unfortunately for Jung-sun and Hyun-soo, they met at a time when both of them were experiencing some pretty huge changes in their lives. Their problem in the past was never whether or not they had feelings for each other, but that they disagreed with how to handle those feelings in the middle of major upheaval. Hopefully by now they’ve learned from their mistakes, because they’re about to get a second chance.

 

 

EPISODE 7 RECAP

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On the night that Jung-sun tells Hyun-soo that he got the internship in France, he asks to see her, but she declines. He goes to her place anyway to ask why she was crying on the phone, admitting that he knew because he’s cried like that before.

Hyun-soo starts to recite the adage that men only cry three times in their lives, but Jung-sun interrupts to say pragmatically that anyone can cry whenever they want. Hyun-soo complains that she’s just feeling cranky, so Jung-sun talks her into going for a run. It cheers her up, and they stop by the river for a stretch before sitting to have a drink. Jung-sun suddenly asks without preamble, “Will you wait for me?†He tells her that she was his first thought when he got the message about the internship, and that he wondered what he should do.

Instead of answering, Hyun-soo turns on Amy Winehouse’s 

, and they listen to the lyrics as they both think back on their time together. As they walk, Hyun-soo says that her scriptwriting teacher taught her that in a love between a man and a woman, the drama begins the moment they break up.

As Amy Winehouse sings the lyrics, “We only said goodbye with words,†Hyun-soo stops and asks Jung-sun if he knows what that means. He says his English isn’t that good, so she translates, and his smile fades as he anticipates what she’s about to say.

 

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Hyun-soo wonders how it’s possible to only say goodbye with words, and says that her relationships always ended completely when the end was declared. She tells Jung-sun that love isn’t very special to her, and that her parents still love each other after thirty years of marriage, but there’s not much to their relationship. She says that she doesn’t want to waste an important time in her youth on something so trivial as love.

She tells Jung-sun that she cried because her dream collided with reality once again, and that it was a particularly hard day. Jung-sun says that she’s difficult to understand, and she says that he is too, but he tells her that he’s difficult in another way. Hyun-soo says that she’s sorry, but Jung-sun tells her not to be, because she gave him a clear answer to his request to wait for him.

But later before leaving the country, Jung-sun still tries to call Hyun-soo one last time from the airport. Hyun-soo is having dinner with Jung-woo, so she decides not to answer his call for the first time ever, and Jung-sun hangs up without leaving a message.

 

=== Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/09/temperature-of-love-episodes-7-8/

 

 

COMMENTS

Okay, I love me some Jung-sun, but that was harsh to just leave without even saying goodbye to Hyun-soo. I know he tried to call her and she didn’t answer, but did he leave a message? Did he have his friend let her know how to reach him if she wanted to? Did he even tell her the date he was leaving? No he did not, and I’m mad at him for that. Of course he was hurt that she rejected his request to wait for him, and that she even called what they had trivial and not worth waiting for, and that’s understandable. But they were still friends, and the day that you’re leaving the country for five years doesn’t just sneak up on you. Jung-sun knew that there was something between them despite Hyun-soo’s decision not to pursue it, and it’s frustrating that he has no idea that his leaving the way he did would have hurt her.

Especially when Hyun-soo really was doing the mature, responsible thing by not promising to wait for him. She was at a stressful place in her life, unemployed and nearing thirty, and from her perspective he was a young kid with stars in his eyes and unrealistic ideas about romance. Both of the options he proposed were impractical—he was either offering to give up his dream for a woman he just met, or asking her to wait five years for him to return, based on little more than a mutual love of food and one (admittedly amazing) kiss. By turning him down, Hyun-soo was being very responsible, and while I don’t think that Jung-sun was being deliberately cruel by not telling her when he was leaving and never calling her again, he still hurt her by disappearing without a word.

 

But as much as I admire Hyun-soo for doing the right thing and not making any promises to Jung-sun, I also sympathize with her immediate and overwhelming regret once she realized that he was really, truly gone. She wasn’t expecting him to just disappear like that, and to know that he had tried to call her and she had ignored his call had to be devastating. In the back of her mind, Hyun-soo probably expected Jung-sun to talk her into waiting for him like he talked her into everything else, and so she was crushed when she realized that she’d missed the moment that might have changed everything.

 

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I haven’t said much about Hong-ah because I’ve been trying to get a good read on her, but she really began showing her true colors this week. She professes to be devoted to Hyun-soo, yet she has no problem telling lies to keep her and Jung-sun apart (such as telling Hyun-soo that Jung-sun is a playboy, and telling Jung-sun that Hyun-soo has a boyfriend). She seems to think that she’s entitled to whatever she wants, even Jung-sun, who has always been friendly but kept a very firm line drawn whenever she tries to push for more. But what really revealed who Hong-ah truly is was how she takes such quick offense when a man even looks at her, saying that it makes her feel dirty, but she did the exact same thing to Jung-woo when she met him. She’s a hypocrite of the worst kind, and no true friend to Hyun-soo or Jung-sun.

When we saw Jung-sun with his kitchen full of adorable chefs, I finally figured out what show this drama reminds me of: Coffee Prince. It has that same grainy, nostalgic feel to it, and it touches on a similar concept of making people happy through food (and drink) as an experience, not just something to eat and forget. Jung-sun shows his caring for others through his food, which is something I can strongly relate to. I can only hope that Temperature of Love turns out even half as great as Coffee Prince—if it does, we can all consider ourselves extremely lucky.

 

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does this drama get better? this main guy is soooo cute so I want to watch for him but idk I'm finding the acting of both male and female lead really,.. awkward? I can't make it past the flashback running group thing where she gets lost and he goes to find her omgwtf.png

really? the acting is great for me everyone is so natural and that seems to be the general consensus from everyone i've seen talk about the show..

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JS : Did you forget you didn't pick up my call ?

HS : Do you know how much I regretted it , and how much it hurt ?

JS : Why did you regret it and why were you hurt ?

Stunned silence She has no answer ...

HS : Forget it . It's in the past. rlytearpls.png 

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  • love changed the title to SBS Drama "Temperature of Love" Yang Sejong & Seo Hyun-Jin etc. *The END*

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