Han Sang Eun emigrated to Australia with her family at a young age. Years later, she has completed her law studies in the United States and plans to marry her American boyfriend. Her dad, however, is strongly opposed to their union and has set his heart on her marrying Kim Yeo Joon, the son of his best friend. Sang Eun finds herself exiled to Korea, where she reluctantly teams up with the equally uninterested Yeo Joon to devise a plan that will allow them to avoid their impending marriage.
Cast:
Eugene as Han Sang Eun
Ki Tae Young as Kim Yeo Joon
Kim Jung Nan as Kim Yoon Hee
Byun Woo Min as Kang Hae Sung
Jung Suk Won as Jung Kyu Han
Ryu Sang Wook as Kang Hae Won
Lee Sung Min as Shim Hye Rim
My comments:
If I didn’t want to see how Eugene and Ki Tae Young became a real-life couple (who got married this summer, btw) through Creating Destiny (MBC, 31 episodes), I wouldn’t pick this drama. It’s a weekend family drama so that means it has a lot of people and a lot of stories that might not necessarily involve the main couple. Surprisingly, I didn’t find this drama that unbearable. It was overall enjoyable, except that some characters annoy me to no end.
Yeo Joon and Sang Eun are quite your usual K-drama couple who started as a bickering pair, then having a contract relationship and finally end up falling in love while facing many obstacles. Speaking of obstacles, there were a lot: opposing parents and grandparents, third and fourth parties, Sang Eun and Yeo Joon’s respective first love. They were a steady couple by 20 something episodes but the writers have to add the adoption bomb to create more drama. Although I root for Yeo Joon and Sang Eun but it gets tiring and repetitive that their families keep on interfering their relationship. Luckily, there was Hyo Eun and Dr. Min’s little love storyline to make up for it; I found them so cute together. I’m disappointed that they didn’t give us a proper wedding for any of the couples.
The parents are mostly annoying in this drama as they are meddling, nosy, controlling and pushy. Hae Won and Hye Rim as the third parties are bleh as they are clingy and don’t understand what ‘No, I don’t love you’ means. I find it odd how they started their supposed romance but I think they are a perfect match in every way. I didn’t really care about Hae Sung and Yoon Hee’s story as they spend most of the time repeating the same thing. While everyone has its own happy ending but poor Kyu Han who didn’t have anyone at the end and he’ll always get nagged by her nosy mother. Sigh…
Acting wise, everyone was doing their job although that I did laugh a few times for bad acting coming from the guy who played Alex, Sang Eun’s Caucasian boyfriend and the actor who played Hae Sung and Hae Won’s dad. Therefore, Creating Destiny is not a horrible drama to kill time but it could be shorten a few episodes and it wouldn’t hurt.
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