18 vs. 29 (2005)

This drama caught my attention after watching Sweet 18. I remember myself sitting in front of the TV laughing out loud because of the convoluted situation a husband and wife was put through.

Yoon Hye Chan is a 29 year old woman who wants to divorce her husband, due to an accident she lost all her memories and reverted to her old self as an 18 year old. This is where all hell was let loose and where her husband’s real trouble began. Kang Sang-Young is an actor who’s trying to mend his relationship with his wife Hye Chan but was unable to when she was in her 29 year old self. Now that his wife had amnesia, he had to go all through those silly high school details so their love with each other would be rekindled… but wait! There’s more! He has to toughen himself up because his competitor this time is a young lad who is 18 years old and very much willing to help out the 29 year old Hye Chan in her 18 year old mind.

What I liked about this drama was the humor, the silliness the characters had to go through and the flashbacks. I loved the flashbacks because that’s where the main details are. It shows what happened in the past that depicts what exactly was happening in the present and as to why it was taking place. Another bonus to the flashbacks is the young actors who were portraying Hye Chan and Sang Young 18 year old self, both were really cute and an eye candy to watch.

Music wise, there nothing note worthy about it, basically it's just there to give emphasis on what's happening but other than that it just zips right through your brain. Though all in all this is still a drama I would definitely recommend.

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At first I thought that this drama was about the amnesia and the troubled that brings forgetting a part or all of your memory and life. Or the mess that comes with being a 29 year old with the mind of an 18 year old… I read that growing old, is not growing up... that is crazy!! But that is just the tip of the iceberg!

To me this drama was really about second chances. When a second chance happens is a miracle, and you have to use it wisely! Because you never know if that chance is your last. That chance can and will change your life forever. And that is what they got, a miracle. A miracle that not only changed their marriage, but what they expected of each other.

With time we lose the sight of what is important. But what is important? What is important is the love we give and receive. The happy memories that we create with the people we love. The happiness and sometimes even the tears. Sometimes we don’t say what we feel or think. We break our relationship with our heart and lose the road that takes us to that happiness that we long so much… That is what Hae Chang and Kang Young forgot why they fall in love to begin with? During their time dealing with Hae Chang’s amnesia, Kang Young found the woman he fall in love with. He found those happy memories and those mementos that took his breath away. Those eyes that only looked at him…and those naughty smirks that were just the beginning of a love story…his own love story. For Hae Chang was a journey to find herself and rediscover the girl she once forgot. She was so lost in “being there” for Kang Young that she loses herself. Kang Young even said once that “she was the one who make him who he is”.

That is why I love this drama so much. I love that they have a second chance, a chance to find themselves, a chance to fall in love again. A chance to start over…No many of us has that opportunity!!

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