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No love for My Mister? I thought it was amazing and very different from the other kdramas i have seen. The acting was superb from all the main characters and almost all of the supporting roles. A high tension level was created that lasted all the way through the series. The series is also beautifully shot with backgrounds and lighting having just as much importance to many scenes as the dialogue. The ambiguous ending is frustrating and rewarding at the same time. It is not a typical feel good series as everyone in the show has serious flaws and struggle to find their happiness inside. It is simply a brilliant work for any genre.
When I ask her about her first love, my grandmother speaks wistfully about her chut sarang, a handsome law student at a neighboring university. "We would meet during breaks between our classes," she recalls. "We just sat and talked for hours."
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My aunt, who was so striking in her youth that celebrities asked her on dates, says she had her heart broken by a model who was her chut sarang. And when I probe my mother for details about her first love, she scoffs. "My chut sarang? I'm not telling you."
Growing up, the idea of chut sarang was present in almost every Korean drama I watched. First loves occupy almost a mythological status in the Korean romantic imagination. "One never truly forgets their first love," is a common Korean adage I heard repeatedly.
Reuniting with a chut sarang is a well-loved trope in popular Korean films and dramas like "Our Beloved Summer," "Start Up" and "What's Wrong with Secretary Kim." In these stories, the younger leads are separated in childhood as life pulls them apart, only to reunite when they're older. For example, in "What's Wrong with Secretary Kim," the leads are kidnapped as children, and they both suppress the traumatic memory until they recognize each other in a work setting decades later.
Not all K-dramas and films have satisfying endings for first loves. In some, like "Twenty-Five Twenty-One" and "Architecture 101," first love is thwarted by the realities that the main characters face, ultimately sending them on diverging paths.
It's also clear by the end of "Past Lives" that though Hae-sung is Nora's first love, Arthur may be Nora's fate. "In this life, you and Arthur . . . have the 8,000 layers of inyeon," Hae-sung tells Nora.
Past Lives (A24)As a little girl in Seoul, I fully absorbed the myth of chut sarang from the K-dramas I watched with my aunt and my grandmother. I daydreamed about who my first love would be. The older Korean oppa from church? The debater from the all-boys prep school nearby? Or like the K-dramas and my aunt's stories, the handsome star who spotted me from across the street? I was taught by romantic films to believe that the only possible ending for me would be a happily ever after.
But I later learned another common Korean saying about first loves: "Chut sarangs are never realized." If this is true, perhaps there's an irreplaceable beauty when first loves are left unfulfilled. If a chut sarang remains a first love and nothing more, it allows for the memory of youth to stay intact and pure, unsullied by the inevitable pain, heartbreak and grief felt in lived relationships.
In "Past Lives," Hae-sung represents more than just Nora's first love. By reuniting with him, she also reunites with the 11-year old girl she left behind in Korea many years ago. And, in saying goodbye, she bids both Hae-sung and her younger self from a past life farewell.
Editor's note: This article was originally published on June 17, 2022. It has since been updated.
It was Peggy Yamaguchi's dance moves that first drew Duane Mann to her. Then, her smile and quick wit sealed the deal. The 22-year-old sailor from Iowa, stationed in Japan during the Korean War in 1953, had never met anyone like her and he couldn't help but fall head over heels in love for the first time in his life. "She was such a pretty girl, and so sensitive and kind," Mann, who is now 91, told The Washington Post. "We had so much fun." Mann and Yamaguchi's paths crossed at a military officers' club, where she worked in the hat check room, and he was hired as a mechanic and sergeant-at-arms in his off-hours.
Mann decided to make one last attempt last month when he took to Facebook with a plea to track her down, sharing a photo he'd taken of her and their short-lived love story. As news of his search spread across the internet, it soon reached the ears of 23-year-old Theresa Wong from Vancouver who works at the History Channel. "I couldn't get it off my mind," she said. "Duane has clearly been looking for closure for seven decades. I can't imagine how that must weigh on a person... I had her name, [and] the names of her relatives. It all came together very quickly." Wong's search brought her to a promising article with the headline "Tokyo Bride Likes Life in Escanaba" which ultimately led the search to an address in Michigan.
Contrary to what the veteran feared, Yamaguchi Sedenquist did not harbor any resentment, she said. Although "it was hard" when he left Japan, she recalled, given that he was a military man, "when he had to go, he had to go." Upon finding out that his first love was still alive, Mann was determined to meet her once again. Although he was filled with anxious anticipation during his trip to Michigan for the June 1 meeting, his worries subsided the moment he saw Yamaguchi Sedenquist. "She got up and gave me a hug, and I got a lot of kisses on the cheek," Mann said.
The pair spent hours reminiscing, during which Mann learned that Yamaguchi Sedenquist had named one of her sons after him. Her eldest child, Mike, was given the middle name Duane.
"That was really a thrill," said Mann. "It was a special experience," Yamaguchi Sedenquist said of their meeting, adding that she assured Mann that she never felt abandoned by him. Their families also met each other and instantly got along. "I just hope I can hang on for another year or two and get to know them better," Mann shared. "I'm at peace with it now," he added. "I would love to dance with her again, just one more time."
- Kevin O'Rourke:A Remembrance Bruce Fulton
Not until several years later did I learn that A Washed-Out Dream had originally appeared in 1973 as Ten Korean Short Stories, published by Yonsei University Press.2 I was most impressed: Kevin had arrived in Korea in 1964, in his mid-twenties, newly ordained as a Columban Father, and was in his early thirties when this anthology was first published. As someone who relished short fiction, I realized immediately that the stories in A Washed-Out Dream not only came alive as English-language literature, they had been well selected. Each of the stories is memorable in its own way, and among the authors I recognized Hwang Sunwŏn, whom I had met at Seoul National University in 1979 during the second year of my service as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer. He and a second author in the anthology, Ch'oe Inho, with whom Kevin shared a connection through Yonsei University (where Ch'oe majored in English and Kevin earned an MA in 1970 and a PhD in 1982, the latter degree the first in Korean literature earned by a foreigner in Korea), would become lifelong literary partners to Ju-Chan and myself.
Ironically, his first translation in any genre to bring him international attention, The Square, was that of Ch'oe Inhun's novel Kwangjang (1960). Issued by a small publisher in the United Kingdom in 1985, The Square was honored with a modest international literature-translation award. Kevin was astute enough to recognize the crucial importance of this novel as an emblem of postwar Korea (the protagonist is a prisoner of war who...
Add to that the fact that it would be obvious to anyone (not least a character who supposedly has an IQ of 148) that Tae-il's choices of actions in his attempts to win Il-mae's heart (by ruining her every evening out, embarrassing her at her place of work, following her around incessantly and, again and again, yelling at her abusively at the top of his lungs) would make any girl consider calling the police and demanding a restraining order. Instead, Il-mae puts up with it all, even trying to seduce Tae-il at one point (for reasons that are deliberately withheld from viewers until the final stages of the film) - her advances, by the way, he turns down - and she finally decides that she should marry another man, who has many other lovers, for Tae-il's own good. Once again, this is fully explained in the latter stages of the film and, like many of the other story elements, is majorly illogical.
In the film's final section, the story lurches into full-blown melodrama, but even here the hope that some genuine emotion may emerge is dashed by the mirroring of heartbreaking scenes from several much more accomplished films (Il-mae tearfully shouting her true feelings for Tae-il when he is too far away to hear, for example - ring any bells?) and even though this section of Crazy First Love is easily the strongest, it too is utterly destroyed by further attempts to add whacky, comedic elements (again, not nearly as funny as they should, or could, be, and rather misplaced - especially within supposedly heartbreaking scenes).
The film concludes by attempting to leave the audience with a warm, happy feeling but, considering the full story which viewers are already aware of at that point, it serves only to leave a bitter taste, of being deceived, in the mouth.
Finally, any attempt to address serious themes (be it the school system, or discussions of how studying hard and becoming a well-educated, well-balanced individual will result in goals ultimately being attained) largely fails as a result of, yet again, a complete lack of focus throughout, along with some severely suspect implictions - what Young-dal chooses to do to the students he has just beaten, and Tae-il's choice of punishment for Il-mae's suitors, to mention but two.