Alone in Love (2006) User Reviews

Most romantic show ever!!

[bittersweetmit · 10/10 · 7 November 2013]

This is real romance! First mature Korean show I've seen. This isn't a love story, a life story is more appropriate. It's a very beautiful-powerful representation of relations between people with awesome combination of lightness and seriousness; not only love but also friendship, siblings' love etc. Overall mood of drama is light; often it's L-O-L kind of funny without being idiotic and very heartwarming and sometimes it gives feeling of emptiness. I'm a guy and I'm not ashamed to admit that I shed many tears of happiness while watching Alone in Love. I felt like I was one of the members of their friend circle. I was attached emotionally with each character. I felt emotionally saturated after going through this lovely show! Eun-ho (SYJ) and Dong-jin's (KWS) views in narration on their life and love are inspiring and can be lessons for most people. Their views can be useful for any person-any age, those who are in love, those who were in love and especially those who yet to be in love!

Acting/cast:

Almost everyone was A+ in acting including guest roles! Gong Hyung-Jin is brilliant and funny as an unconfident gynecologist and played an important role as best friend of main lead.

Son Ye-Jin: I don't need to talk about her. She's proved actress. She is flawless throughout whole show but her best performance was in the last two episodes.

Lee Ha-Na: I'm very very impressed by this actress! This was her first role in her career still she managed to perform it brilliantly. She was very natural, great expressions and dialogue delivery. Sometimes she was suppressed by the presence of Son Ye-Jin but still she outclassed SYJ in many scenes! She definitely deserved her New Star award.

Kam Woo Sung: Poor guy, every other actor in this drama got acknowledgment for their acting by getting either best actress; top excellence, New Star or supporting actor-actress awards but this poor man missed it! I think his acting was best in the whole cast! Clever dialogue delivery! BEST!

Music:

Music was mesmerizing. I couldn't find OST album yet so I don't know specific track names to point out but I loved the music!

Pros:

-Very realistic -Romantic! -No angst and typical Asian show riddles -Excellent combination of all emotions -Perfect casting & acting! -Strong and likable characters -No idols -0% nonsense -No annoying characters -Stable pace

Cons:

None, still I couldn't find anything negative except this was highly addictive. It felt like a 16 hour long movie!

Who should watch this?

As I said it's mature so it'll definitely suit mature audience but I think it's more advisable to recommend it to younger audience (I'm also in this group!) to give slight idea about love! So in short everyone! Highly recommended for everyone! If someone wants to watch a Korean show and wants to watch only one then I'd recommend Alone in Love. I'd easily sideline my previous joint #1 Salaryman and Evasive Inquiry Agency!

Who should avoid this?

-Those who want adrenaline rush in everything. -Those who want to live in fantasy. -Those who want to watch mushy, kiddo's, 'Love @ 1st sight', "I love you…I love you too!"/"I can't live without you…" kind of romance.

What's love?

[Park_Min · 8/10 · 8 May 2024]

What's love? This is a mature story about people falling out of love, searching for love and are afraid of love. Great character writing and smooth exchange of dialogue. The subtle comedy was done wonderfully. The drama had a unique sense of direction at times where it expands beyond the conventional realm of drama, it even steps into film territory briefly with film-like shot compositions and witty dialogue. This is the type of drama where whether the couple came back together or not is irrelevant, their love story is what made it worth it. The drama isn't perfect by any means, but it succeed in delivering a well made package. Although I wish if they merged Mi Yeon and Yoo Kyung into one character/story instead of giving each a section in the drama. L ee Ha Na, this is her first acting role in drama or film and she absolutely nailed her performance. She even outshone Son Ye Jin every now and then. I find her, as an actress, is better fit in casual roles like this one over action ones like in "Voice". It would be nice if Voice would just end with season 5 and Lee Ha Na would move to bigger and better projects.

Poignant Romance Story Post Marriage

[superstore88 · 9/10 · 23 July 2020]

First of all, I watched this TV series because of Son Ye-Jin....when she was still very young at 24...she looked very simple almost without make-up because of her role as an ordinary woman with simple living...yet she's very beautiful.. The romance story was simple and not really uncommon among divorcees who re-marry so I was really surprised that the writer was able to prolong the story for 16 episodes..It was a mixture of sad and some happy moments but more on the sadness..but the ending will give the viewers a sigh of relief....Highly recommendable for romance story lovers.....

Romance..Music..Realistic love story make this series a must watch

[cseabhi · 8/10 · 25 May 2020]

It's gentle, entertaining and quiet. Loved this show and its simplicity. Loved this korean romance series. This type of series should be made often as we see now a days over the top action and thrillers being made. What happened to these kind of series. Lovely background music, actors playing their part beautifully.

A very realistic series with perfect cast, and mesmerizing music.

Ahead of its time but drags

[phd_travel · 6/10 · 13 May 2020]

Son Ye Jin is one of the few actresses in K drama that could have pulled off this series. It's ahead of its time when K dramas were such soap operas this showed a realistic slice of life dealing with divorce in Korea and different types of love and divorce. Actually although the ending was nice and complete I wasn't rooting for them to get back together. She should have been lucky that the young rich guy wanted her. And he had such a nice lady chef who was so good to him. The professor was so creepy. They hurt lots of people because of their indecisive natures. So didn't feel for them as a couple.

The series has some major faults. It was too long for the subject matter. A third of the episodes could have been cut. Especially the 11-15. Still it's interesting for being a different subject from what had been done to date.