laleia

Dear Korean Dramas:

Let's talk about your affinity (and I'm looking at you, romcoms, since those are the only ones I watch!) for a certain trope, specifically the "One of the pair needs to leave for personal/professional fulfillment, they are physically separated by half a globe at least for x number of years, TIMESKIP HAPPENS, they reunite and despite optional hijink are still in love and live happily ever after" ...

I know I haven't watched very many of you.

In fact, I believe I've watched a total of 9 kdramas during the course of my life. Of those:

* Kim Sam Soon ended with the guy (whatever his name was) going to America before coming back.
* Coffee Prince ended up with the girl going to Italy for coffee school before coming back.
* Prosecutor Princess ends with the guy going back to America for an unspecified amount of time before coming back.
* The Woman Who Still Wants to Marry ends with the girl going abroad to Sweden (or was it Finland?) for 3 years for a special job for coming back.
* Dal Ja's Spring ends with the girl going to America for job reasons and then coming back.

That makes 5 out of 9, more than 50%.

And in fact, I think the girl in OB/GYN just plain ends up leaving. And I don't remember how Pasta ends even, but I think the girl was seriously considering going to school in Italy.

I'm not saying I don't like timeskips (I love them!) but couldn't you switch it up a little? Especially since all this dramatic angst and reconciliation generally takes place during the span of one episode -- they never spring the Sudden Separation on you until all of a sudden at the end.

Just saying.

Signed,
A Fan