Bing Goo 2017|Frozen Love 2017

 

How much can the world change in 37 years?Go Man Soo (Kim Jung Hyun) is a man living in 1979 Korea during a simpler time before the 1988 Olympics brought modernization to much of the country. His simple life literally comes to a crashing halt when he is accidentally frozen in an ice mound.When he is discovered 37 years later in 2016, his body has been preserved by the ice exactly as he was in 1979. But the world around him has changed dramatically. When Man Soo meets Jang Ha Da (Han Sun Hwa), a bank teller, he is taken aback because she looks exactly like the woman he was in love with back in 1979. Can Man Soo navigate his new world in modern times?“Bing Goo” is a 2017 South Korean television drama special directed by Kang In.Perhaps the Korean title, Bing Goo (2017), throws people off and they don't know what it means, so they don't venture forward. It becomes a nickname for the title character, officially named Go Man Soo, and it means ice mound in English. The reason for it is that he is frozen in time for 37 years for some miraculous purpose you are not to fully understand until the second episode. Now I know 2017 has seen quite a few time travel dramas but I was more touched by this one than by any of them, amazingly enough! I think partly because the acting was just so superb, so touching, so sentimental that it stands out from other more traditional dramas. Even the method of time travel, being frozen, is something that scientists today are looking into, to try and possibly extend a human's life span into a future generation. It's not something entirely silly like falling into a rain puddle and suddenly you're in the Joseon era (rolls eyes, that drama shall be nameless here).

A large part of this drama's appeal comes from the young lead actor, Kim Jung Hyun, whom I had only seen before playing Gong Hyo Jin's younger brother in 2016's Jealousy Incarnate. His character had fallen in love with Moon Ga Young's (Mimi) in that show. Now he's officially a new top favorite of mine after watching him in this beautiful show. He gives an unbelievably touching and realistic performance as the time traveling young man, who leaves 1979 behind for 2016, and tries to find his first love in the future whom he had been forced to leave behind. Would she still be alive in 2016? This series actually made me miss the 1970's when I was a teen myself - and that's a miracle to its core. I rarely look back to that era, preferring the modern, more convenient one of today with its computers, cell phones, color HDTVs, Blu-rays, debit cards, etc. In some ways the 1979 scenes reminded me of Love Rain, but were even better than that drama's!

                                                                                                                         

                                                     

• Bing Goo 2017 EP 01

• Bing Goo 2017 EP 02

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