While recent year K-dramas have branched out into fantasy, sci-fi, darker fare, and really a world’s away from the early 2000 dramas that launched Hallyu, upcoming tvN drama Crash Landing on You brings viewers back 20 years into the fairy tale world of the rich and improbable. Son Ye Jin plays a South Korean chaebol heiress who is determined to have her own success, so she launches a fashion brand and is her own CEO. A paragliding outing lands her over the DMZ in North Korea and she needs the help of Hyun Bin‘s NK army officer to shield her and help her get home. And of course he’s the love of her life because no one she’s ever met in South Korea or elsewhere in the world that isn’t the closed off North Korea will do. It’s so ridiculous and yet both leads seem to be taking it seriously and look amazing doing so, even here with Son Ye Jin wearing chair fabric turned into a dress. Continue reading →