Birthday Letter (2019)

It’s a 4-episodes drama special available on KBS World youtube channel. Mu Gil is very sick and asks his granddaughter to look for his first love after he received a birthday letter from her. The problem is it’s her granddaughter who actually sent the letter, so she starts to actually look for her and learns about their love story. They were childhood friends, each other’s first love and found themselves in Hiroshima when the atomic bomb was dropped. I loved this drama special as it tells an event I’ve never watched in a drama before. The story is heartbreaking in the second half as we see what the ex-lovers went trough in the past and that the granddaughter’s quest for her grandpa’s first love isn’t going smoothly. Song Gun Hee (I’m happy to keep seeing more of him!) and Jo Soo Min gave a really good performance as the lovers young version. They broke my heart and the older version played by Jeon Moo Sung and Jung Young Sook were as good.

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