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“Revolutionary Love†Releases Stills Of Choi Siwon, Kang Sora, And Gong Myung’s Hilarious First Encounter


 


 


Hours before its premiere, “Revolutionary Love†has released another series of hilarious stills.


 


The drama tells the story of an unemployed third-generation chaebol named Byun Hyuk (played by Choi Siwon), a highly educated and qualified part-timer named Baek Joon (Kang Sora), and an elite named Kwon Jae Hoon (Gong Myung) who dreams of being rich.


 


In the stills, Baek Joon is giving a thumbs up to Byun Hyuk, while Byun Hyuk is seen making puppy eyes at Kwon Jae Hoon.


 


The stark difference in Baek Joon’s attitude towards Byun Hyuk and Kwon Jae Hoon draws attention as well. Although she looks encouragingly at Byun Hyuk, she is far from friendly when she faces Kwon Jae Hoon.


 


The new stills are from the scene where Byun Hyuk, Baek Joon, and Kwon Jae Hoon meet for the first time at Paradise Studio Apartment. Byun Hyuk, who needs a place to hide after causing some big trouble, sneaks into the apartment after asking for Baek Joon’s help. Meanwhile, Kwon Jae Hoon has been looking all over Seoul for Byun Hyuk, only to find him in his own apartment.


 


So at the time of the three characters’ first encounter, Byun Hyuk is still hiding his true identity, Baek Joon has no idea what’s going on, and Kwon Jae Hoon is simply baffled by the turn of events.


 


The production team of “Revolutionary Love†commented, “The unexpected arrival of suddenly-unemployed Byun Hyuk at Paradise Studio Apartment marks the beginning of the comedy.â€


 


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Character Chart

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Line color chart:

Green line is Family

Pink line is Affection/Love

Brown double line is Rivalry

Blue dashed line is Supporting/Assisting

 

the only potential rival for BH seems to be the ex-gf Chae Ri, however, she's labeled on the relationship chart as ex-gf, plus BH caught her totally cheating on him, so don't think that's going anywhere.

 

Also, the line from BH to BJ is labeled "love at first sight".  Interesting that it's a question mark on the lines between BH and BJ, BJ and JH, and BH and JH. I guess those relationships resolving is what this drama will be about.

 

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You guuuuuuuys, Siwon is back, and he is back better than ever. I couldn’t have asked for a better character for him in his drama comeback, nor could the drama have asked for a better actor to bring to life this errant manchild with no sense of the real world who somehow manages to be endearing rather than infuriating. And Kang So-ra lights it up with her fiery character, which means that I’m ready to dive headlong into this OTP with full commitment. It’s nice to have dramas to look forward to again, isn’t it?

 

 

EPISODE 1 RECAP

A chase is on in a crowded marketplace, as a determined-looking young woman chases a middle-aged man through the streets. She gets close to catching him, but can’t help but stop to check on a grandma who gets knocked aside in the melee, giving her target the chance to run away.

Unfortunately for him, he slams straight into a fruit stand, falling down amidst an avalanche of apples. The young woman catches up to him and twists his arm behind his back, demanding her money.

She brandishes a paper in his face—it’s a petition demanding her back wages, and she’s the part-timer he tried to stiff. Seeing that she’s going the full legal route, her boss grimaces in defeat.

 

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With reluctance, he withdraws cash from an ATM, which she claims. She leaves the bank clutching her cash in joy, then realizes she’s running late for her next job at a cafe. As she runs, her voiceover gives us her introduction:

She is BAEK JOON (Kang So-ra), and she’s optimized her place in this rat race that is modern Korea, dubbed “Hell Joseon†by a disillusioned young generation. Part-timing can amount to a full-time job, she reasons, once you’ve got three of them.

After her cafe gig is a construction job. She answers the unasked question of whether it isn’t better to just lock down one stable job, pointing out that an enormous amount of money is required to be able to amass the specs required to land those jobs.

 

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As Joon eats lunch with her fellow construction workers, an ajumma sighs that it’s a waste for Joon, a college graduate, to be running from one part-time gig to another. But the others point out that everybody’s got a college education these days—one ajusshi used to work at a major electronics company and the other worked in stocks. Even that ajumma used to be a rich wife, until her husband’s business went bust.

“Finding a stable job in this Hell Joseon has long been a fantasy,†Joon thinks. “That’s why I’ve chosen the quick and long-lasting path.â€

 

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Next is a job serving at a fancy hotel event, an anniversary party for Gangsu Group, run by Chairman Byun. Joon smiles to recognize a friend in the crowd and sidles up to him, offering a drink. He’s KWON JE-HOON (Gong Myung), and he looks tense and uncomfortable as he reminds her he’s on the job.

Hearing that this is yet another part-time job, he asks how long Joon’s going to keep working like this. She quips that unlike him, a full-time employee of Gangsu Group who’s never had to face instability, she has.

She wonders where his boss’s son is, joking that she’d like to see a third-generation chaebol in the flesh. Annoyed at her glib attitude, Je-hoon tells her to focus on her job.

 

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Je-hoon gets a call, and seems more resigned than surprised when his friend starts blubbering loudly from his end on a first-class flight. The friend sobs drunkenly that “Chae-ri,†whom he was supposed to meet in Bali, never showed up. The other passengers grumble in complaint, so the flight attendant commandeers the phone, tells Je-hoon that they’re mid-flight and need to cut the call short, and hangs up.

This is BYUN HYUK (Choi Siwon), and he continues to wail about Chae-ri, then pleads for another drink. The attendant refuses, so Hyuk complains about the bad service and gets up to leave, just as the plane hits turbulence, sending him staggering—landing his hands right on the flight attendant’s chest. Cue horrified screams.

 

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Hyuk is just as shocked as she is, and when she shoves him away, he staggers backward… then staggers forward again when the plane hits more turbulence. He accidentally grabs her in a hug.

Hyuk stumbles with each bout of turbulence, until the co-pilot comes out with a taser and shocks him with it. That sends him slumping into his seat, unconscious.

At the Gangsu Group party, the chairman and his wife are joined by their handsome elder son, BYUN WOO-SUNG (Lee Jae-yoon). When asked where the younger son is, Mom’s smile falters and she says he’s on his way. Woo-sung makes the excuse that his brother caught a cold and can’t make it tonight, and immediately they’re asked if he’s gotten into trouble again. Little bro’s got himself a reputation, ha.

 

=== Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/10/revolutionary-love-episode-1/

 

 

COMMENTS

Well, that was certainly fast, but I have absolutely no qualms about it—I find Hyuk’s clarity of mind refreshing and appealing. I believe him, too, in feeling that this time is somehow different, somehow much more than everything else he’s felt before, and that he’s fine to embrace that fate openly. Of course, he’s lived a charmed life all this while so it’s not like he’s anticipating a lot of trouble (…muahaha), but it’s really welcome to see him so open to these feelings and developments.

I’m glad this Hyuk character is so appealing right off the bat, and we certainly have a lot to thank Siwon for, because damn if he doesn’t have an irresistible charm about him. I was ready to watch this show regardless, but it makes it that much more enjoyable to see that we’ve got one of those special moments of character-actor synergy, where they suit each other so well that I’m hooked from the start.

 

At this stage I’m not sure this is necessarily a drama I’ll watch for the plot (although I do think Hyuk’s upcoming fish-out-of-water antics will be hilarious), but I find more than enough in character attachment and couple chemistry to look forward to its developments. After a long drought I feel like we’ve been hit with a wave of rom-coms, all of which I find good in their own ways, and if we’re looking at it glass-half-full, I’d say it’s a good thing to have very distinct styles. Of the currently airing rom-coms, I think perhaps Revolutionary Love is the most obvious, the least subtle, the most conventionally romantically comedic. The Monday-Tuesday romances feel a bit more thoughtful and writerly, but I’m happy to have one be more outright funny and comedy-based, and I actually find all the characters likable in very distinct ways.

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I’m happy to realize that Joon isn’t a part-timer out of necessity, necessarily—she may fit the Candy criteria on more than one front, but I think her pursuit of the part-time lifestyle is a key differentiator that puts her in a separate category. At first I thought she insisted to Je-hoon that she was fine not pursuing specs and full-time positions out of a sense of pride or self-denial, like she was doing the best she could with her options. But I was intrigued to hear that she in fact chooses to be a full-time part-timer because of some disaster that befell her father, and her particular distaste of Gangsu Group makes me suspect he was wronged by that company. So rather than having her be a Candy for the sake of being a Candy, we have a heroine who’s acting out a sort of fear of commitment with her career choice—don’t get attached to a job and let it define you, because when that heartless company turns its back on you, you’ll be left with nothing. That’s a sentiment I can definitely understand.

I’m curious about Je-hoon and his contradictory ways, too, though I’ll admit that with him it’s more of an intellectual curiosity. I suppose there must have been a good reason for him to reject Joon’s confession when he clearly is in love with her and has been for ages, but at the moment I’m not feeling all that compelled to make excuses for him and cut him a lot of slack. He created his own current misery, in more ways than one, so I can feel sympathy for him but not necessarily root for him because I feel he’s not confronting his own responsibility in his life choices.

But enough of miseries and disappointments: Tomorrow brings the chaebol-out-of-water hijinks, and I’ll be here with my popcorn.

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Wow, they're not telling us the love lines between the three main leads. 

 

1st episode was so fun to watch. I'm excited to see how things will play out b/w the three of them. 

 

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Choi Si Won wore D.ANSWER ACN Ferris Face Hooded Sweatshirt_Baby Pink â‚©53,000 (USD 47) in Revolutionary Love Official Poster. 

 

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Gong Myung wore NEIL BARRETT Scribble Print T-Shirt White $668 at upcoming TVN Drama, Revolutionary Love Press Conference on 20171012.

 

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Kang So-Ra wore MANOLO BLAHNIK Tartonacri_Grey Satin $965 at upcoming TVN Drama, Revolutionary Love Press Conference on 20171012.

 

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Choi Si-Won wore NEIL BARRETT Crewneck Cable Knit Wool Sweater, Yellow £379 (Sold Out) in VLive Drama Interview for Revolutionary Love on 20171014.

 

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Choi Si-Won wore GENTLE MONSTER Odd Odd 02(Y) $320 (Sold Out) in Revolutionary Love Drama Episode 1.

 

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Kang So Ra carried JOY GRYSON Joyful Eco Bag_Ivory â‚©43,000 (USD 38) in Revolutionary Love Drama Episode 1.

 

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This show can be silly and the humor fairly broad, but today we actually get a plot! A real, honest-to-goodness trajectory with motivations and goals, which is more than I had been expecting or hoping of this show. I’d thought there was enough feel-good comedy to carry me through this marshmallow of a show, plot or no, but now that we’re also shown some direction, I’m not letting them take that back.

 

EPISODE 2 RECAP

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Hyuk’s words about falling in love with Joon haunt Je-hoon’s sleep—he keeps seeing Hyuk’s face in his mind, declaring her the woman of his fate, and it taunts him. Je-hoon snaps awake to find that it’s morning, and Hyuk is nowhere to be seen.

Hyuk chows down on breakfast, eating with Joon on the rooftop, and happily agrees to a refill (for a fee, of course). He chuckles to himself at the “paradise†he finds himself un, here with the woman of his fate and his only childhood friend in the same place.

 

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Je-hoon storms up to the rooftop and glares daggers at Hyuk, who smiles innocently back at him. Still playing the part of the stranger, Hyuk thanks Je-hoon for putting him up for the night and enjoys using the word “friend†pointedly, and also drags out his polite jondae word endings so that they sound tacked-on. Which, of course, they are.

Je-hoon tells his “guest†that the considerate thing would be to tell him where he’s going and to clean up his bedding. He insists on it being done now, and Hyuk amiably agrees, getting up to head downstairs.

Just then, Joon, who’s watching the news on her phone, exclaims, “Did your company chairman’s son get in trouble again?†The airplane situation is blowing up in the media, and Joon tsk-tsks to hear about how money was used to hush up the incident.

 

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The boys trade panicked looks, and Joon sighs that Je-hoon will be busy cleaning up after the “chaebol lout,†and that makes Hyuk freeze in shock. Aw, is it sadder that he’s hurt to be called that, or that he has no idea why anyone would call him that?

Joon continues her rant, saying that privileged rich kids should be grateful for their situations in life rather than causing trouble, and that people like that are deep-rooted evils who should be erased from the world. She makes angry slashes with her chopsticks, saying that if he showed up in front of her right now, he’d be dead. Hyuk gulps. She adds that Je-hoon’s bad, too, for using money to fix the punk’s problems, and that she’s tempted to report him to the media. Je-hoon surprises her by snapping at her to do as she wants.

 

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Hyuk is so stunned by her description of him as a churlish lout and has to be pulled away by his friend. He decides that he can’t have Joon operating under the tragic “misunderstanding†that he’s some kind of degenerate and vows to correct it straightaway. Je-hoon, however, tells him sternly to not make things worse and just return to his hotel suite and stay there.

Je-hoon leaves for work, and Hyuk sits down to mull over his problem. He decides that he has to prove that he isn’t some kind of deep-rooted evil.

 

=== Read more: http://www.dramabeans.com/2017/10/revolutionary-love-episode-2/

 

 

COMMENTS

Ha, so Hyuk is Ondal the Fool, is he? That’s so fitting that I don’t know why I didn’t see it before. In a nutshell: The princess Pyeonggang married Ondal the Fool after she insisted her father honor his words (he’d threatened to marry her off to the fool when she was younger). Ondal was scorned for being a poor idiot, but Pyeonggang became a hard-working and thoughtful wife to him and, eventually, guided him into learning martial arts and becoming a skilled soldier.

I like this setup a lot, because it captures what I find sweet about Hyuk’s character, despite the fact that it sure sounds like he’s lived a reckless and ill-considered life. We can’t blame everything on bad luck or see him as a victim, because he does have a hand in his mistakes. But I believe him when he feels painted with the wrong brush—he’s a spoiled chaebol, but he’s not a malicious one. He’s not like those amoral villains of thrillers like Veteran or Remember—Son’s war who literally get away with murder, and he’s not as bad as the real-life chaebol in the nut-rage incident. He is misunderstood, but within a limit.

 

So I can appreciate the characterization of him as a fool who doesn’t know any better—not that that excuses him—who learns through a tough-minded woman how to be the good person he is underneath all the embarrassing outbursts. And while he has a tendency to be overly dramatic, it’s significant that he can actually see the world differently now, after just one small taste of hard work. His eyes are opened, and hopefully that guides him on a brighter path.

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I still find Je-hoon to be more interesting in theory than in reality, but I can at least believe that he does care about Hyuk, even if he doesn’t show it. He seems like the kind of person who says the exact opposite of what he means, who can’t say a nice thing if his life depended on it, even if he really did wantto say the nice thing. He carries too much baggage and too big an inferiority complex to be able to do that, I think. But when Hyuk was beaten, and his brother didn’t even look worried, and nobody said anything but Je-hoon, who put himself in the line of fire—okay, he won some points with me there. He seems to embody the concept of loving someone (even if it’s counter to his intention) without really liking them.

So while the story still feels a little flatter than I’d like and the comedy a titch overdone, I’m very glad to see things moving so quickly. Who knew she’d find out so soon about his true identity? I’d expected the show to milk that scenario for a few more episodes at least, so when they outed his identity and let the shit hit the fan with Joon, I was happy to be taken by surprise. It’s sort of like being taken on a brisk, refreshing ride that whisks around bends before you see what’s next, which I find more appealing than rides where you can see the road ahead for miles.

I also feel relieved that this is a show that’s got a good-natured tone and two really appealing characters driving the romance at the center. More than the loveline, even, I’m drawn to Hyuk’s growth story at the core, and feel like Siwon has enough nuance to make that journey compelling. You can already seem glimpses of Hyuk’s more somber, thoughtful nature behind the whiny facade, and that will be a major source of gratification, I suspect. I hope.

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Why did they cast Gong Myung in that role? It's really hard to buy that his character and Siwon's are around the same age.

 

So far the best thing about this drama has been Siwon's comedic acting.

 

 

well probably GM are their fav since BOTWG drama lool.

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‘Because This Is My First Live’ and ‘Revolutionary Love’, Reasons for Taking Drama Themes That Attract Youth’s Sympathy


 



Dramas that illustrate the reality of ‘painful’ youth are produced in sequence by offering fun and sympathy.


 


TVN drama ‘Because This is My First Life’ and tvN’s new weekend drama ‘Revolutionary Love’ aired on the 14th, depicting the problems experienced by young people who are thought to have created ’emotional’ sympathy in its story.


 


‘Revolutionary Love’ Working Hard in Life from Zero to Success


 


 


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tvN’s Saturday-Sunday drama ‘Revolutionary Love’ tells the story of three young men who want to change the world, a 3rd generation chaebol Choi Siwon (Byun Hyun), a woman who has a high education Kang Sora (Baek Joon), and someone who dreams to become an elite Gong Myung (Kwon Jae Hoon).


 


Kang Sora acts as a part-time worker named Baek Joon and gets a good response for playing an unreasonable situation by working 3 times a day. Especially when she works at a hotel which make the audience feel sorry and funny at the same time. This seems to encourage stereotypical changes by altering the wrong framework and forcing young people to keep trying hard. The drama air every Saturday and Sunday at 9 pm on tvN.


 


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