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3rd Place <Understanding Love> clearly reveals “how differences in background affect the relationship between men and women” (Cho Hyun-na)

It is a kind of social romance that centers on the love affairs of four people from different backgrounds and also encompasses the emotional history between colleagues, family, and friends” (Nam Sun-woo). “

“The author’s uncanny ability to distribute equal weight to everyone’s emotions without missing even the slightest air between them” (Bok-gil)

<Love Understanding> was able to go beyond the typical romance of Korean dramas and “delicately embody the work and love of real Korean men and women that exist only in dramas” (Bok-gil).

As a result of “depicting the analogy and contrast between love struggles and class struggle” (Kim Seong-chan) and showing “a delicate level of immersion that does not allow even the slightest skip” (Jin Myeong-hyeon), “each viewer is able to identify the characters and reasons they empathize with.” It also became a hot topic for its “different” (Cho Hyun-na) scenery.

<Understanding Love> is “a masterpiece that delicately and horrifyingly depicts the functional relationships between marriage, love, class, and rich and poor through the fractious love affair between four men and women” (Jeong Jae-hyeon).

Therefore, <Understanding Love>, 19 years after the 2003 drama <What Happened in Bali>, is defined as “a Korean drama that persistently explores ‘Can love overcome class?’ throughout 16 episodes” (Jeong Jae-hyeon). do.


“It discusses the ‘conditions’ and ‘qualifications’ of love much more explicitly than ‘What Happened in Bali’, which spoke directly of the concept of ‘hegemony’” (Bok-Gil). This work “discusses love and money, the most beautiful and the ugliest things.” When we meet, our hearts quickly boil and then cool down again and again” (Lee Woo-bin)


By depicting the process in detail, it excellently demonstrated “the love method of 2023, both in name and reality” (Lee Woo-bin). In terms of form, many opinions focused on the classic nature of <Understanding Love>.


In an era where rapid development is preferred and series are consumed in short form, it showed a development that “some people might say is frustrating and old-fashioned, where you have to swallow dozens of times to open your mouth and keep taking a step backwards and then barely take a step” (Lee Yu-chae), but “ “This series’ unique slow breathing is enough to be understood and loved” (Lee Yoo-chae).


<Understanding Love>, which is “a realistic love story suitable for modern society and at the same time has the formula of the classic melodrama genre, that is, the virtue of not letting go of the fantasy of love beyond class” (Bae Dong-mi), “always functions in a contemporary way.” He succeeded in delicately portraying the “theme” (Nam Sun-woo).


“In 2023, when love stories have become rare, a portrait of a generation that finds it difficult to sustain love with love alone is recorded here” (Nam Sun-woo).






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