#sdaboutkpop

I liked it. Although it was a standard Korean romance, it was surprisingly well done in terms of the story and the characters in comparison to recent k-dramas about k-pop industry. The plot is like this: a poor but witty girl is forced to pretend to be her doctor sister and becomes a home doctor of a k-pop idol. The girl isn't impressed by ML being an idol, so their dynamics is more of "Pride and Prejudice", which is nice. And I like the end of their story, too: it's a HE, but it's almost not fairytail-ish and is about finding one's place in this world. There was a traditional k-romance maniac, but only in last ep (thank you for that, Koreans, but you could not add it at all).

I like multidimensional, vivid personalities of all the characters in this drama, but what I like the most is the insides of the industry, and here I could follow 5 members of k-pop band to look at different sides of the industry.

There was a story of an idol whose idol life was fully organized by his greedy for money and shopping addicted mum. His mum wanted him to leave the band and became an actor, and he torn apart between his wish to be someone more than just "one of that band" and his loyalty to his band. There also was a story of an idol who was a school bullying victim (the most fantastic story of this drama, LOL), a story of a music genius ML who forgot that his team are human beings too, and one normal idol without issues (just in the name of variety, I suppose, but he was the third wheel of this story, so the screen writer didn't particularly spare him).

"You can't choose whatever you like, you should shoot in the stories that bring me money!" While the story of the mains was not particularly dramatic, all the drama was in male idol/female idol relationship in the background. The idol girl, outliving her divorce and coming back into profession after hiatus, starts dating with her fan - a younger and more popular male idol.

She is happy being with him, but his insane fans threaten her barely functioning career, and the sanctimonious Korean society thinks that an older divorced girl doesn't deserve relationship with a man (not to mention a younger popular idol) at all.

In the end, she can't take the pressure anymore, so she asks her boyfriend to break up.

"When we started dating, you promised me: if I feel unhappy even for a moment, you will let me go. I'm unhappy. Let me go, please." In this drama, there are not so many performances and songs as in "Imitation", this story is more about what's going on in idols' private life, but one song was so nice that I immediately added it to my playlist: