It’s been drama after drama for the past few weeks (and other stuff) until I totally forgot to blog about them. One of the dramas I’m currently following from Korea is called Faith. As the name suggests, the main plot seems to be all about having faith in people for various reasons. My main draw for this historical drama was because of Lee Min Ho. I know that’s a poor excuse to follow a drama but ever since City Hunter I could not resist seeing him in another action drama again. And what’s more, this time he wears cool looking battle gear!
There’s another element to this drama that may turn some people off. It involves time travelling. Yep…So, the story starts off with a legend of a mysterious medicine man that was able to cure any illness or heal any injury of that time using mysterious tools. When offered to be the palace’s royal high doctor he refused and vanished through a portal in the mountains that people believed led to the heavens. This person was known as Hwata. Hundreds (or was it thousands) of years have passed and a need for a medicine man rose again due to a sword wound to the queen’s neck. General Choi Yong (Lee Min Ho) was given the task to fetch a medicine man from the heaven’s door to save the queen.
After being freaked out by modern Korea which he still thinks is heaven, Choi Yong gets directions to this medicine convention where a lot of doctors appear to give talks and promote their skills (wow, I didn’t know there was such a thing but I suppose there is…). He happened to walk in on Yoo Eun-Soo’s seminar and decided she would be the one. Of course it’s not because she was a pretty lady that she was selected. Choi Yong doesn’t have romantic feelings like that. The way he decided was to up and kidnap her, grab a random person from the crowd and gave a similar wound that the queen had onto said victim’s neck (ack!) and asked if she could repair an injury like that. Not given much of a choice, she proceeded to save the guy’s life and succeeded, thus sealing her fate.
With the promise of bringing her back to the heavens once she had saved the queen, Eun-Soo was dragged back to the past. The queen was saved and just as she was about to return to her time, the king demanded Choi Yong stop her from leaving. The general ever the loyal person, obeys but because he was also an honorable person, allowed himself to be stabbed with his own sword by the angry Eun-Soo for breaking a promise he sworn to fulfill.
Enough mini spoilers for now. All one needs to know is that word got out that she was another Hwata and with ‘magic’ healing skills like that, the king’s enemies are eager to claim her to give their side an advantage. All Eun-Soo cares about is returning back to her time. All the general cares about is trying to fulfill his promise to her and at the same time protect the current king from enemies.
The dialog in this drama is rather draggy and at times it’s hard to understand why they do the things that they do. Or even why the king isn’t doing much to protect his throne. But I suppose one can’t do much when surrounded by enemies in his own court. Lee Min Ho plays his role well in becoming this melancholy and somber general that has stopped living for anything else other than his duty. Not sure if I dig his hairstyle but whatever. The doctor played by Kim Hee-Seon, is rather playful and so far her character hasn’t stand out much other than being sought after.
As this is still an ongoing drama, much of the story has yet to be unfolded. One can expect lots of magic and battle scenes and if you can swallow the time travelling aspect, you might just like this drama and see if the stoic general will break and fall for the flighty female doctor. Will he follow back to her time? Or will she remain in his time? I think that’s the main question I want answered.
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