Moo-hyuk had a death sentence due to a bullet in his brain

So was he like reincarnated as Na Wang-Sik just in time for Last Empress?

Nice write-up. 👌

I haven’t seen this drama but overall it’s hard for me to buy the “we’ll be lovers in our next life” because I don’t believe in reincarnation. In most dramas it just seems like a cop out to wring lots of tears and then poof, give viewers a happy ending, kinda. GOBLIN had me almost swearing at the screen when they pulled something like this.

The only drama where I felt reincarnation was done well was CHICAGO TYPEWRITER, because they made it clear that the past and present characters were different people, and that they were not predetermined to act as their past selves had.

Ahhhhh! Reading this reminded me of a very old Rain drama - Sangdoo, let’s go to school. Full house was my first Korean drama, and because I wanted to see more of Rain in a drama, that lead me to Sangdoo - my very first melo kdrama which had me crying buckets....

Anyways, that drama ended tragically too, I give shoutout to Truck of Doom’s cameo in this and for being the solely reposible for their untimely death. (sobs, Lol) Sangdoo’s daughter listens to her uncle’s story that her dad and the love of his life are both happy now in the afterlife. One memorable quote from this drama - “Sangdoo, lets just love each other little, so that people won’t get jealous and pull us apart”. Like damn. That had me sobbing ugly at that time that’s why I can’t forget that line, and now I don’t know, 🤷‍♀️ it sounds cheesy and how they died just like that in the middle of the road has me now 🙄🙃🙄.

Good old classic dramas and their afterlife HEA 🙃

The ending of this drama was a shock to my system. It was my first ever Kdrama, my friends have been harassing me to watch one for at least a couple of years, I hate sad endings and somehow of all the funny romcoms etc. this is the one I had to start with!

The ending of this drama really shock me. I torture myself to rewatch the ending countless times, and always success makes me cry.... Omg you Im Soo Jung. Your grief is my grief.

I'm sorry i love you was one weird drama. I sat through it for JKH.

And TLE reminds me of ISILY. NWS is So Ji Sub or the guy with the bullet in his head. Hyuk is Jung Kyung Ho or the guy with a bad heart that is delusional about the female lead affection.

The ending was unique and one of a kind. She ended up killing herself. I didnt like the ending. Actually i had a hard time trying to connect with the female lead. She was slightly cray2 too.

But this suddenly reminds me of Life in Mars, when Taejoo made the decision to join his 1988 squad. I'm not sure if Taejoo actually woke up from his coma or not, if all of this is just a mind trick or he actually did jump. But I did smile when he was smiling back in 1988, reunited with his friends. Him being happy was the end of his long journey in LoM.

This is me every time I think of NiHuang and Lin Shu from Nirvana in Fire. Or Jingyan, Lin Shu and Prince Qi.

I hope they find each other in the next life and are happy in the bonds of romantic and brotherly love.

I rarely 'see see you in the next life' in kdrama, but I always see it in c drama. Even the one with modern setting like Meteor Garden 2018 also have it, remember when Dao Ming-si and Shancai bid farewell on the bridge in London, Ahsi told Shancai something like, we can't be together but I hope we met again and we will be lovers in our next life.
I don't mind if it happens, the OTP realize they can't be together because one have to save the country or can't oppose his/her evil mother/in-laws, but what happened in I'm Sorry I love is sucks imo.
I believe during their 16 episodes as couple they had conversation and shared what they want to do as couple (maybe traveling or open a small shop near the beach or whatever) why didn't she stay live and fulfill his dreams. What did the writer want to say with that ending?

I started watching this because of Jung Kyung Ho. Sorry to say I didn’t see the OTP’s chemistry. I liked the female lead a lot in Chicago Typewriter but she was much greener in this drama that had somewhat disappointed me. Not her fault. Had I watched this back when it was released and didn’t know the ending, I’ll probably love it. I’m a sucker for romantic tragedies.

i am chicken for sad endings cause i want them to be happy at the end. my brain won't let go of the sad ending for a long time. but, I'm Sorry I Love You was the BEST sad ever. the ending fit for me somehow and it left a big impact on my heart. sad but i understood her actions. not wanting it to happen but accepting that it did sort of thing. and SJS did not and does not disappoint me ever.never.

I'm Sorry I Love You is the ultimate happy never after drama if there ever was one. I can't count how many times I've watched this drama - it's captured me in a way that I can't explain. I love your explanation, fanitha, of why the ending makes sense. Thanks for that.

This and Rain's old drama "A Love to Kill" where he was paired up with Shin Min Ah. After sooo many strugles and diversions of their love, they ended up laying to freeze together (suicide??) in a random snow field??? The ending really baffled me. It was just hard to digest and took me so long to forgive the d$#n writer.

MISA is one of the best dramas ever, it does a Romeo and Juliet vibe with the ill fated lovers ending yet it is so unique and perfect, I have watched it several times despite it being so heartbreaking but So Ji Sub is amazing here and the story is so great. This drama had a lot of "what ifs" that showed that if people stopped acting as if they knew better then Mo-hyuk and Eun-chae would have had a happy ending.
*spoilers ahead*
If Moo-hyuk and his sister were not taken away when they were born they would have had a perfect life, her sister would have never been in an accident and he would never have ended up with a death sentence, at the end it was Eun-chae's father who collaborated to all of that and ultimately he lost his own daughter, they do not show the after of what happens when everyone finds out what Eun-chae did but it would surely be a kind of punishment to all who had a hand on what happened to Moo-hyuk and his sister. He spent his whole life being abandoned, neglected and left behind and still thought of wanting to go and help his mom, hoping that he was left because they couldn't take care of him and instead at the end found that everyone was living a happy life while he and his sister only faced pain so he decides on revenge but Eun-chae changed him, made him want something just for him, made him want to be happy at least on the last moments of his life, and again those who caused him pain ended up taking even her away from him. When Eun-chae realized everything it was too late because so many things had happened that it was impossible for them to be together and even at his last moment he made more sacrifices for others as always and ended up being alone, he didn't want his mother to lose a son again and he didn't want Eun-chae to see his painful last moments and see him leave her. It was sad to see Eun-chae put a front for so long so she made sure that everything was fine before deciding to go to Moo-hyuk so he wasn't alone anymore, and even if she had her family and friends it was not the same without Moo-hyuk, he changed her life, her suicide was kinda extreme but wasn't because she couldn't exactly live without him, it was because she didn't want him to be alone anymore, and she during the drama everything that happened might have made her go a bit crazy for a bit but she somehow overcame it for what is shown before her death, it is just that it was her way of not letting him be alone anymore and as I said before a way of making all the people that hurt Moo-hyuk, specially Eun-chae's father, know that there are consequences for their actions, if Moo-hyuk just died and Eun-chae kept leaving it was as if his existence and what happened to him was just a bad dream that they could forget, but with her gone as well, they wouldn't be able to forget their sins and how much pain they caused others because of their lies and selfish acts. Eun-chae and Moo-hyuk end up not only as ill fated lovers but also as the most...

I hadn't heard of this drama, and I have a super low tolerance (read: none) for tragedies, so I think I have to skip this one. But I enjoyed reading your write-up and just wanted to say so <3.