[Drama 2016] Descendants of the Sun 태양의 후예

[Guest Tinkiebell]

So, let me introduce you to this dude. His name is Yoo Shi Jin, a man who lives on the edge. A soldier, a sworn protector who devotes his life protecting others. Though indestructible and never weary, at every battle's end he always came back wounded and bloody.

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But luckily the universe took pity on him. They bestowed upon him, his very own personal physician. A very skillful and beautiful one at that. And no matter how hard the beautiful physician struggled to steer away from this hazardous guy, the universe kept reeling her back in. There was no other choice but to succumb.  

And so Yoo Shi jin, the great protector gets himself an amazing healer, in the form of Kang Moyeon:

 

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And then the stars align, the universe smiles, and everybody is blessed down to their socks... yadayadayada 

But seriously, if you were Kang Moyeon, would you not try your hardest to keep away from this guy? He's high risk!  

[lila7]

@Tinkiebell ha ha ha..I would like to stay by his side. He is dangerous, but he's not ordinary, though! And he is super charming!  He is very magnetic

[bebebisous33]

 

In the episode 6, we hear her love confession, while YSJ doesn't know about her regret. However, when she is saying this, we see just after this picture, as if her pointing finger was already a love confession, but since he can't see it, he doesn't know about it!

@Ahpheng I forgot to mention you on this one!!! Isn't that picture cute?

[dotsj00ngki]

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[alleverything]

@dotsj00ngki That freaked me out at first too after hearing those rumors, but I don't think they'd be dumb/brave enough to use footage of the final episode (especially if it's that crucial in the ending) in the very first OST video. I don't know, I'm honestly still a little suspicious and scared because of chinese companies having all episodes in advance (to translate, review etc). BUT, let's drop the rumors and just enjoy the episodes without thinking too much of the ending.

[dotsj00ngki]

5 minutes ago, alleverything said:

@dotsj00ngki That freaked me out at first too after hearing those rumors, but I don't think they'd be dumb/brave enough to use footage of the final episode (especially if it's that crucial in the ending) in the very first OST video. I don't know, I'm honestly still a little suspicious and scared because of chinese companies having all episodes in advance (to translate, review etc). BUT, let's drop the rumors and just enjoy the episodes without thinking too much of the ending.

I really hope what you said, is true. This drama is such a breath of fresh air and is doing SO WELL 

[Guest Tinkiebell]

Anyway, while drooling looking at Shijin's body, full of honorable scars and wounds, I came to realize just how similar Shijin and Moyeon actually are. 

Although it's a different kind of battle than that of Shijin's, Moyeon has also been fighting her own battle. She's been fighting her way up to the top end of her career, without any connections, relying only on her own skills and wit. And though she had not been physically wounded, she was still a casualty of her own war and almost died on her own battlefield. Her scars are not less important than those of Shijin's. She was battle-weary, utterly exhausted and dejected, and I grieve for her...

 

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Not only that she was rejected for promotion despite her qualifications AND hard work (not once or twice, but three times), but she was also reduced to be a pretty doctor who merely serves as a promotional tool for the hospital she works at. And you think it stopped there? No, the chairman of that very hospital thought he could throw her another insult by degrading her further into someone whom he thinks he can easily sleep with. And when she fought back, the next thing she knew, she was whisked away to a military base in the middle of a war torn country.  

So, mentally wrung out, the least thing she needs in her life is something that can drain her emotional energy out even more. The least thing she needs in her life is to be in a relationship with someone whose job can literally cause him to die, at any moment. No matter how charming that person is. 

So she tried her best to resist. But alas, as we've all noticed, resistance is futile. The universe, or as @lila7 stated, the charming man's magnetic power kept reeling her back in. And when the whole universe conspires against you, what's a girl to do? 

Shijin and Moyeon, two people seemingly so different, but yet very similar. Both wounded and scarred from battles (one more literally than the other), and both need each other to heal. She treats his physical injuries, while he mends her emotional bruises.  

[lila7]

On 3/18/2016 at 11:11 PM, lila7 said:

Don't worry so much about what will happen at the end. Uri Captain will not let his sweetheart MY get harm as she also won't let Uri Captain die easily. She's a great surgeon while he is a great saviour, though!. These two distinct professions are complementing each other. 

Currently rewatching Dots 1-8  

 

 @dotsj00ngki    I repost my post as a response to your post about the ending.

[almonde13]

10 hours ago, miss sojisub said:

Where can i watch that long preview??? I have never seen that too

I read it in this thread somewhere, it included this picture. I am not sure if that long preview is available in the country i'm at though.

 

[ina2manja]

19 hours ago, Chellsee said:

And who is not excited for next episode... Can't really wait!

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 this drama realy make us waiting and waiting every  new episode to come... This ??? Always come for that. As for myself i really enjoy DotS soo much

[Guest Tinkiebell]

1 hour ago, dotsj00ngki said:

Unfortunately, I think the rumoured ending is very possible. If you take a look at the MV for the OST "Always" , it begins with a scene which looks like a grave(?) of some sort and pans out to a scene where KMY is teaching the kids how to paint. If you keep watching, there's another scene, where (i think) YSJ's helmet and gun is placed on a bed, most likely symbolizing his death. I REALLY HOPE THAT THE SAD ENDING WON'T HAPPEN BUT I THINK THERE'S AN EXTREMELY HIGH CHANCE FOR IT, especially considering the fact that all the OST MV's use footage from the drama 

 

 

Hi @dotsj00ngki, I don't know... I still have faith in Writer-nim. I think the graveyard in the MV is a red herring. If you look closer, you can see the date in the wooden grave cross, and it reads: 1910-1982.

 

 

So if we were to believe the rumor based on the graveyard image shown in the official M/V of the first OST, and assuming it's indeed Shijin's grave, then the Shijin that we know was born in 1910! Whaaa?  Omg, don't tell me... he's an alien (Do Min Joon's friend maybe?) who faked his own death in 1982 and magically re-appears in 2015!  

Or wait, assuming the grave is indeed Shijin's, and the whole series is actually set in a fictional and a very very modern 1940s,  (Cos' you know, Shijin is in his early 30, and if he was born in 1910, then yeah, the current year in the series must be around early 1940. But wait, Korea wasn't even divided back then and the UN peacekeeping troops was not even founded until 1948, but hey, what the heck, it's all fictional anyway, right? ), he'd still live to be a 72 years old geezer, because 1982, duh, so that's like what, 40 years from the current timeline in the series (again, assuming it's early 1940)? 40 years is enough time for our love birds to wreck a whole lot of lipsticks (and beds, when they're at it), no? 

Well then, what are we worried about?  

Peace out.  

[JHBNL]

don't do it, don't do it doctor KMY..  

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[lila7]

@Tinkiebell  Indeed! You are so true. Both of them need each other. And may I say that the role of soldier and doctor are depicted symbolically as Descendant of the Sun? They give light (sun) to those people who needed, "healing" and "protection". 

[IrisFM]

 

 

YSJ: Who said that I will not survive in DOTS?

YSJ: I'm the survivor.

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K.Will Lends His Voice For 'Descendants of the Sun' OST

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By James Buhain | March 19

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Solo artist K.Will (Kim Hyung Soo) has released the music video OST for a hit drama soundtrack.

On Friday, March 18, K.Will's OST single titled "Talk Love" for hit KBS2's drama Descendants of the Sun was released. 

"Talk Love" is a catchy whistling melody and pop song, where the music video features scenes from the drama starring Song Joong Ki and Song Hye Kyo.

Fans who watched the music video had nothing negative to say, but mainly praise.

"What a good happy feeling I get while listening to this song," a commenter stated.

In addition, with the drama receiving high ratings each week, the soundtrack is receiving great feedback as well. OST singles from EXO's Chen & female rapper Punch, Yoon Mi Rae, and Davichi has topped various online music charts.

Descendants of the Sun airs Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9:55 p.m. KST on KBS2. The drama stars Song Joong Ki, Song Hye Kyo, Kim Ji Won, and Jin Go with the special participation of SHINee's Onew.

 

http://www.kpopstarz.com/articles/270368/20160319/k-will-talk-love-descendants-of-the-sun-ost.htm

 

 

 

[TAoJC]

I cried sooooo much for the two episodes !!!! It was extremely sad. It has drained my body. I don't think Chi Hoon will leave because he won't be able to face his family if he returns to Korea. He 's human too so I don't really blame him

The ending of episode 8 though hahahaha !!! do embarassing omoooo !! I totally feel Mo Yeon Doctor !! hahaha

[big_momma]

4 hours ago, rnc623 said:

@big_momma Hi... I sent you the link on PM.. Hopefully it helps.. The sub can be very different between VIU and Viki, its a bit frustrating for me bcs I want to know the exact meaning for every scenes lol

Whoaaaaaa... Thanks you are awesome! Will execute asap.

[IrisFM]

 

 

 

 

My new love from the Sun

 

 

 

 

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K-drama fans' hearts are a-flutter as they switch allegiance from the alien in My Love From The Star to a boyish hunk in uniform

 

 

 

 

Move over, Professor Do Min Joon.

 

 

 

 

K-drama fans around the world have a new love and he, unlike Prof Do, is no alien from another star. Rather, he is the very human and very hot Captain Yoo Si Jin from the South Korean army, Planet Earth.

 

 

 

 

Since Descendants Of The Sun - a Korean romance starring Song Joong Ki as Captain Yoo and Song Hye Kyo as the doctor he is wooing - premiered in South Korea, China, Singapore, the United States, Britain, Saudi Arabia and elsewhere last month, it has been fast displacing the 2013 hit drama My Love From The Star in viewers' affections. Descendants has a total of 16 episodes.

 

 

 

 

In Seoul, where episodes seven and eight aired last Wednesday and Thursday, Descendants has been reaching ratings above the 30 per cent share of the audience and has long surpassed My Love's highest numbers.

 

 

 

 

In China, where My Love - which starred Kim Soo Hyun as Prof Do - was a huge hit, the growing popu- larity of Descendants became official when the Chinese Ministry of Public Security issued a tongue- in-cheek warning on Weibo, cautioning against an unhealthy obsession with Song Joong Ki.

 

 

 

 

But the warning came too late for a 20-year-old Chinese woman, who was reported to have been diag- nosed with acute glaucoma after she binge-watched 16 episodes of the K-drama Cheese In The Trap and two episodes of Descendants.

 

 

 

 

The Chinese video platform iQiyi is releasing Descendants exclusively in the country and at the same time as in South Korea.

 

 

 

 

In Hong Kong and Singapore, Descendants is the most-watched show on Viu, the K-drama streaming site and app. It declines to give viewership figures. The drama also airs in Singapore on KBS World (StarHub TV Channel 815), the international channel of major Korean network KBS.

 

 

 

 

Singapore viewers are being left breathless by the fast-paced romance between the two Songs and the thrilling action in picturesque Greece, which stands in for a fictional war-torn country called Urk in the series.

 

 

 

 

Song Joong Ki's Captain Yoo goes to Urk on a peacekeeping mission and his love interest, Dr Kang Mo Yeon, played by Song Hye Kyo, also lands there soon afterwards as a medical volunteer.

 

 

 

 

Azure skies, pristine beaches and lovely ruins form a backdrop to the will-they-won't-they couple's flirtation and narrow escapes from death.

 

 

 

 

Self-professed K-drama lover Sylvia Goh, 48, started watching Descendants for the leading lady, but was soon drawn to the boyish leading man.

 

 

 

 

She says: "I like Song Hye Kyo. I remember watching her in past dramas Autumn In My Heart (2000) and Full House (2004). Song Joong Ki is cute. I'm looking forward to more touching moments between them and if she accepts him."

 

 

 

 

Undergraduate Lee Meiyan, 23, is unabashed in her appreciation of the actor. "On top of the interesting plot, he is really charming. Six episodes into the drama and he has already saved the female lead from a car dangling off a cliff. It was really romantic and exciting. After his military service, he has definitely become more man, more mature-looking and muscular."

 

 

 

 

Male viewer Eugene Quek cannot deny Song Joong Ki's appeal after watching him in the 2012 melodrama The Innocent Man and Descendants.

 

 

 

 

The 17-year-old polytechnic student says: "The Innocent Man was a big hit in Korea. After Song entered the army, fans have been waiting to watch him again."

 

 

 

 

Some discerning fans also give screenwriter Kim Eun Sook credit for the swoonworthy Descendants. Kim, who has created hit dramas including The Inheritors (2013), Secret Garden (2010), On Air (2008) and Lovers In Paris (2004), is famous for her buzzy shows and punchy dialogue.

 

 

 

 

For South Korean housewife Oh Jung Yun, Kim's name alone was enough to draw her attention.

 

 

 

 

Madam Oh, who is in her 30s and lives in Singapore, says: "Secret Garden showed me the charm of a romantic comedy. The Inheritors was a bit disappointing. Still, hearing Kim's name made me anticipate the drama."

 

 

 

 

She recalls how Kim's lines lifted a solemn scene in Descendants, where Dr Kang has reservations about dating Captain Yoo because his job might get him killed any time.

 

 

 

 

The soldier then asks the doctor if she would be more likely to accept him as a boyfriend if he were "an ordinary man from a rich family".

 

 

 

 

Dr Kang says: "No, it sounds too ordinary to me."

 

 

 

 

Which is when Captain Yoo wins smiles from her and from viewers when he says: "I know I should have said 'a handsome man from a rich family'."

 

 

 

 

Publishing coordinator Geraldine Koh, 27, says: "The couple's banter makes the drama lighthearted and fun to watch. They are very direct with each other, sometimes to the point of making viewers blush."

 

 

 

 

There is no draggy second- guessing in this courtship. From the get-go, Captain Yoo identifies his target, Dr Kang, in the hospital, goes in for the kill and scores a date - all within the first episode.

 

 

 

 

Administrative service executive Angelina Ong, 25, says: "That's what I find so refreshing about this show - the way they are so straightforward with each other.

 

 

 

 

"The romance blossoms in the first episode, then they break up in the second episode. It breaks the norm of how K-drama romances usually unfold. So it keeps you wondering if the leads will end up together."

 

 

 

 

Madam Oh may be in Singapore, but she chats about the drama with her mother in South Korea and her sister in the United States on a daily basis on a text-messaging app. They discuss the latest developments in the show and also debate over which K-drama actor is more charming.

 

 

 

 

She says: "I asked my mother which K-drama male lead she prefers - Do Min Joon or Yoo Si Jin.

 

 

 

 

"Her answer is Yoo Si Jin. Because Do Min Joon is from a star, he can't be real in this world.

 

 

 

 

"Maybe it's possible to find someone like Yoo Si Jin because there are so many soldiers in Korea."

 

 

 

• Descendants Of The Sun airs on KBS World (StarHub TV Channel 815) on Wednesday and Thursday at 8.50pm. The series can also be viewed on K-drama streaming site viu.com and the Viu app, which can be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play Store. New episodes are available as soon as eight hours after the telecasts in South Korea on Wednesday and Thursday.

   

   

• Tell us why you love Descendants Of The Sun. Write to stlife@sph.com.sg

   

 

 

 

 

SONG JOONG KI, 30

 

 

 

 

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For K-stars, national service means a dreaded two-year absence from the fickle show business. For Song, his absence seems to have made fans' hearts grow a great deal fonder.

 

 

 

 

Descendants Of The Sun, his first television drama since his military stint, has proved to be a phenomenal hit in South Korea, China and beyond after its premiere last month.

 

 

 

 

The stint was useful for his role as a romantic soldier, Captain Yoo Si Jin. Because Song began filming mere weeks after completing national service last year, he was able to switch back to military mode easily for the drama.

 

 

 

 

"I was already accustomed to the military manner of speech and had a military cut," he said last month, according to Yonhap News Agency.

 

 

 

 

Long before his forced absence, he had made a name as an actor and as a cast member of the popular variety show Running Man.

 

 

 

 

He is a playboy in the 2010 period romp Sungkyunkwan Scandal and acts as a revenge-driven ex- boyfriend in the 2012 melodrama The Innocent Man. For the 2012 hit movie A Werewolf Boy, he plays a wild, animal-like teen who is adopted by a human family.

 

 

 

 

Song, who left the regular cast of Running Man in 2011, remains close friends with his former co-host Lee Kwang Soo. He inscribed a love message to Lee on a rock in Greece, where he was filming Descendants.

 

 

 

 

Fans can only hope he will at least land on their shores when he begins his fan-meet tour in Asia later this year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SONG HYE KYO, 34 

 

 

 

 

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With her doe-eyed looks and porcelain skin, Song was born to play the damsel in distress in K-dramas.

 

 

 

 

In the classic series Autumn In My Heart (2000), she starts a doomed relationship with a man she previously thought was her brother, due to a mix-up at birth. She ends up dying of leukaemia.

 

 

 

 

In melodrama That Winter, The Wind Blows (2013), she plays a blind heiress who is sceptical about love until she lets her guard down and falls in love with a charming con-man.

 

 

 

 

Fans have been pleasantly surprised by her refreshing turn as the fiesty doctor Kang Mo Yeon in Descendants Of The Sun.

 

 

 

 

"My previous roles were very reserved, viewers will get to see a new side of me," she says in an interview with infotainment programme Entertainment Weekly.

 

 

 

 

The spunky Dr Kang trudges on fearlessly in a disaster zone as she gets cuts and grime on her. She does not flinch when blood is splattered across her face during surgery.

 

 

 

 

Considered one of South Korea's top natural beauties and an A-list actress, Song has starred in many K-dramas and films, as well as Chinese movies such as Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster (2013) and John Woo's two-part disaster romance The Crossing (2014, 2015).

 

 

 

 

An in-demand brand spokesmodel, she is perhaps best known as spokesman for Korean beauty giant Laneige - a coveted spot she has held since 2008.

 

 

 

 

Said to be single, she reportedly dated her K-drama male leads - All In (2003) co-star Lee Byung Hun and Worlds Within (2008) co-star Hyun Bin.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Descendants vs My Love

 

 

 

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• Perfect boyfriends Captain Yoo Si Jin (Song Joong Ki) vs Professor Do Min Joon (Kim Soo Hyun)

   

   

 

The raison d'etre of the K-romance is the perfect boyfriend, who has ripped abs, a superior bone structure and eyes only for his perfect girl.

 

 

 

 

Professor Do, like a deluxe upgrade, is also tall and so rich that he owns a sizeable chunk of Gangnam, the posh district in Seoul. Plus, he is an alien with superpowers such as actually being able to hear his lady love Cheon Song Yi's cries for help kilometres away.

 

 

 

 

Unfortunately, he has little immunity against human diseases and has difficulties performing more basic boyfriend duties, such as kissing Cheon without falling sick.

 

 

 

 

So this round has to go to Captain Yoo. He might not be as tall and rich as Prof Do, but he is more of a natural all-rounder when it comes to pursuing a woman.

 

 

 

 

Armed with an electrifying gaze, a cheeky smile and loads of brazen confidence, he is capable of pulling off the cheesiest pick-up lines.

 

 

 

 

And the man is a total multi-tasker. He can cancel a first date with a woman and ask her to commit to a second date, while a helicopter waits to whisk him off to work.

 

 

 

• Envy-inducing heroines Doctor Kang Mo Yeon (Song Hye Kyo) vs superstar Cheon Song Yi (Gianna Jun)

   

   

 

When it comes to the female lead, the question is: Who would you, the female viewer, rather be?

 

 

 

 

Do you want to be superstar Cheon, walking in her Jimmy Choo stiletto heels and effortlessly slipping into her size-zero designer dresses, but living with all her insecurities?

 

 

 

 

Do you want to be Dr Kang, an intelligent, confident professional who has seriously bad-hair days but whose date thinks she is sexy, even when she has a patient's blood on her face?

 

 

 

 

Do you want to be a damsel in distress, waiting to be saved by her alien boyfriend? Or do you want to be a woman who saves lives and still gets to go on a hot date afterwards?

 

 

 

 

Cheon is the escapist choice and Dr Kang is more empowering. She is also a heroine who would belong in a classic romantic comedy, the kind who gives as good as she gets. This round goes to Dr Kang.

 

 

 

• The love factor: Descendants Of The Sun vs My Love From The Star

   

   

 

My Love From The Star stresses that it is a story of pre-destined, inter-species love. It tells you this over and over again, and hammers the point home in key romantic scenes by overwhelming you with the theme song titled, of course, My Destiny.

 

 

 

 

But the drama is actually more frequently propelled by a murder subplot, with Prof Do having to save Cheon from a killer several times.

 

 

 

 

Descendants Of The Sun wins this round hands down. It is a heady romance, which gives you the vicarious thrill of watching two beautiful people flirt, fall in love and try to date in one impossible scenario after another.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Sunday Times on March 20, 2016, with the headline 'My new love from the Sun'.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/entertainment/my-new-love-from-the-sun

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 19, 2016 by Tinkiebell
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[lafeuiila]

Hello, I just started watching this drama today and I'm on episode 3!

I was wondering if there's a compilation of background music used in dots? In particular, the music used at the very end of ep 3 x'D

 

thanks!!

[lila7]

29 minutes ago, Tinkiebell said:

 

Hi @dotsj00ngki, I don't know... I still have faith in Writer-nim. I think the graveyard in the MV is a red herring. If you look closer, you can see the date in the wooden grave cross, and it reads: 1910-1982.

 

So if we were to believe the rumor based on the graveyard image shown in the official M/V of the first OST, and assuming it's indeed Shijin's grave, then the Shijin that we know was born in 1910! Whaaa?  Omg, don't tell me... he's an alien (Do Min Joon's friend maybe?) who faked his own death in 1982 and magically re-appears in 2015!  

Or wait, assuming the grave is indeed Shijin's, and the whole series is actually set in a fictional and a very very modern 1940s,  (Cos' you know, Shijin is in his early 30, and if he was born in 1910, then yeah, the current year in the series must be around early 1940. But wait, Korea wasn't even divided back then and the UN peacekeeping troops was not even founded until 1948, but hey, what the heck, it's all fictional anyway, right? ), he'd still live to be a 72 years old geezer, because 1982, duh, so that's like what, 40 years from the current timeline in the series (again, assuming it's early 1940)? 40 years is enough time for our love birds to wreck a whole lot of lipsticks (and beds, when they're at it), no? 

Well then, what are we worried about?  

Peace out.  

 

 

Ha ha ha.. @Tinkiebell That's funny.Thanks for highlighting that!

How many time that Uri captain has said that he is someone who is very trustworthy. So please trust him! Don't underestimate his capability! And part of his job is not getting killed 

[Buldok]

Hello Chingus ^^ Happy 502th page!!! I guess, was a little late

Let's revive a little our page...

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