My Sister-in-Law is 19

Watching My Sister-in-Law is 19 (SBS, 16 episdoes) can be quite difficult for me since we know what happened to Jung Da Bin earlier this year. Watching her smile brightly in this drama...sigh...

My Sister-in-Law is 19 Sypnosis (from DramaWiki)
This series is about a 19 year old girl, Yoo Min who was being abandoned after the death of her mother. She lives alone with her adopted brother, Kang-Pyo. She accidentally meets Seung-Jae, the younger brother of Min-Jae. By chance, Yoo Min actually had a crush with Min-Jae, a doctor who treats her brother illness for a long time. To fight off his mother demand, Min Jae gets in an engagement contract with Yoo Min and they all end up living at Min-Jae's house. Unexpectedly, Yoo Min and Seung-Jae are going to the same high school. From there, Seung-Jae secretly loves Yoo Min. On the other hand, Yoo Min's father who got amnesia from a car accident is looking for her again after 15 years old she had been abandoned by her neighbors. The conflict comes when the people who living in Min Jae's house are actually related to Yoo Min's abandonment. They are the neighbours who stole the inheritance and abandoned her when she was four year old.

Cast:
Jung Da Bin as Han Yoo Min/Jung Hae Won
Yoon Kye Sang as Kang Seung Jae
Kim Jae Won as Kang Min Jae
Kim Min Hee as Choi Su Ji

My comments:
It's one of those type of dramas where it started as comedy then turning to melodrama later on. Well, not the best drama nor the worst. The first episode is appealing enough to get you into the drama when little Hae Won was abandoned on the train and I was so looking forward to the retribution of the shameless and heartless women. Just when I had a tiny sympathy toward Su Ji, she will tell those lies that I hope she will have a bad ending too. The way that they were exposed was a letdown as I expected something more intense and exciting. However, I was crying hard during final episode because I find it touching at how the characters were “sacrificing” themselves for love or family.

It dragged in the middle about the love relationships between the 4 main characters. I wasn’t too into the romance maybe because I actually didn’t mind who Yoo Min ends up with. Both brothers are worth rooting for individually and I find that very rare in Korean dramas! What bothered me the most about this drama are the hair pulling, head slapping and even more extreme: head biting (?!) scenes. Geez, I think I’m too old to find that funny and amusing…