My grandparents and I devoted a couple hours every evening to the trials and tribulations of Yoon Gae Hwa and Sung Min Woo as he, the moody, handsome star dealt with the new custody of a previously unknown daughter, and she, a poor single mom, cared for the daughter and the star in her capacity as nanny/manager. She was plucky and bubbly and girl-next-door; he was brooding and temperamental: love could be the only result, especially after a late-night kiss in the kitchen that sent her into awkward anxiety (he's her boss!) and him into aloof grumpiness.
Unfortunately, I left just as things were heating up. But we all know how it ends....
Then there was the historical drama about the woman in love with the king but who was just a common court painter. I couldn't quite follow all the ins-and-outs of why they couldn't be together, except for the week when the obvious reason was the fact she was being held in a shed with other kidnapped women. I also never caught the name, which is surprising considering at 8 o'clock, my grandparents completely ignored me and anything else and turned up the volume to a deafening level to ensure not one word would be missed. Unfortunately, googling plot highlights (Korean soap opera, historical, kidnapping, brothel, court painter) elicits too many possibilities.
I'm a little pained that I'll never know what happens, though I suppose the arc of these dramas dictates she either dies a horrible death or lives happily ever after with the king.
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