Different sensitivity, melodic composition, and skinship are also different
[=Jeong Deok-hyun] Why is it thrilling on the one hand but also breathtaking on the other? It is two emotions that I feel when I look at the TVN drama
Of course, the implications in the two scenes are quite different.
The reason why Secretary Kim does it already presupposes that Vice Chairman Lee Yeongjun's love for Kim Mi-so has continued since the kidnappings they had suffered together in their very early years.
So it can not be wrong for a healthy loving man and woman to knock on the door in the middle of the night and say, "Let's sleep together."
However, we have come to the situation where such scenes that we have seen without any criticism in Melodrama are now thought of by ourselves.
In fact, the drama’s composition of Why Secretary Kim Will Do It has a Breathtaking side: The romance of the secretary and vice chairman.
It is natural to read hierarchy or power structure there, and the inappropriate relationships in the power structure are on the newspaper society side.
But the drama has shifted the anxiety of the Breathtaking hierarchy to a few devices.
The first is a melodrama that breaks public relations and becomes full-fledged.
The melodrama, which begins at the moment Kim Mi-so resigns, was not drawn into the relationship between the vice chairman and the secretary, but into the relationship between the private Lee Youngjun and Kim Mi-so.
The second is a sign that the two people have suffered the abduction of the past, and that this relationship has already originated from Lee Youngjun's net affection, which started before the public relationship was created.
And the last device is a character named Lee Yeongjun.
This drama set up Lee Youngjun as an icon of consideration, which is completely contrary to the vice chairman or chaebol 2-year-old character we often think.
With these devices, Why would Secretary Kim do that? became a romantic comedy that could be seen laughing comfortably, but the remaining breathlessness still remains.
The two men have declared a relationship, but the conversation between the two people in private is still using the vice chairman and secretary's tone.
The two must be private, but the public tone makes the relationship between the two people mistaken for public relations.
It seems as if you enjoy the newness of the relationship through the vice chairman - secretary character cosplay, but the part where the private relationship and public tone overlap still makes it breathtaking.
Fortunately, after overcoming the wounds of the past and revealing all of its identity, the melodrama, which has been flowing smoothly, is flowing toward Kim Mi-so's Finding Your Life.
I did not just marry the vice chairman and live happily, but I searched for something that I could be happy as Kim Mi-so, not Kim secretary.
So he finds that there is a sense of accomplishment as a secretary he did not know, and now he can live Kim's life as a Kim Mi-so.
The sensitivity to our relationships has changed a lot since the MeToo movement, and we have come to look at whether it is love or inappropriate or unequal.
So the love story of men and women in Melodrama is now inevitable to predict the change.
It is a healthy thing in many ways that we have just fallen into that tight melodrama while watching Why Secretary Kim is doing it, but we have to think about whether such a relationship is appropriate.
Feeling breathtaking means that our sensitivity is changing as well, and that the changed sensitivity requires a new melodrama that fits it.
jung deok-hyun columnist
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