I Have a Lover (2015)

A must watch drama

A complete drama. A must see piece.
Why do I recommend this Kdrama? because it gives you hope that you may find love from those people that you have hurt in the past.
Superb acting, beautiful faces, best casting, amazing screenplay, brilliant script and direction. There is not even a single scene which you need to edit.
Kim Hyun Jo is a beautiful, elegant actress- a complete picture of a lady with passion and arrogance. She played her double role with ease and full understanding between the two characters. She carried the costumes, makeup and attire exceptionally well. Both Jo Jin Jo and Kim Hyun looked so beautiful with each other and their chemistry was undoubtedly amazing. Their love and hate relationship, the ups and downs of their lives, can easily be felt through their eyes. Both at the same time, can be mean to each other and can fight for each other's dignity too.
The writer-director duo has made each & every character as a unique personality.
This drama is a masterpiece and should be kept in library for coming generations to watch.

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Superb

Superb good looking main couples, superb theme songs, superb lines, superb acting.

I have watched this drama three times, about once a year, all instances starting from episode 10, as the beginning is too depressing and too painful for me to watch. But don't worry, they would replay the important bits later on.

The female lead is so stunning. And what a great actress. She plays a role of twins here, and it's hard pressed to tell the twins are played by the same person.

I love the character Baek. His character is so witty, kind and caring. He's the ultimate perfect second lead. Also male lead's best friend, he has all the funny lines too.

The male lead is very immature when it comes to romance. So immature that sometimes I feel like screaming, oh come on!!! His character has had a child so it's unbelievable that he acts like that . This leads to the main couple bickering at times, some are really childish. I let this pass because they have a really good chemistry with each other. They played as a couple in another drama before this, also after this drama they also played as husband and wife.

The background musics - love them so much!!!!

Cons:

1. The male lead's hobby is to stalk the female lead. I'm talking about big time stalking!

2. Male lead's dad, I find the actor playing him to be unconvincing.

But I will overlook those cons and still give this drama a 9 because I really enjoyed watching this drama every single time.

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You need to appreciate the people you love before it's too late

I watched this drama 2 years ago and it was exactly what I needed, now I'm rewatching my favorite couple's scenes.
I know that many people were angry with the husband and liked the lawyer more but thank god it wasn't the case for me or else I wouldn't enjoyed this drama at all. The lawyer wasn't perfect either.
In real life, I would never forgive the husband or ever think of giving him another chance but I guess what was different here is Ji Jin Hee's acting, I could see the pain, regret and love for his wife just by looking to his eyes, he is a wonderful actor. Also Hae Gang did so many bad things while they were married, that doesn't mean that he can cheat on her, but he had the right to divorce her, they both were in too much pain that they didn't know how to handle. Anyway, I couldn't resist their chemistery, they are so good together. It was nice to watch even the evil couple of his sister and brother in law

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"I have a lover" is a drama that plays with many of the usual plots of k-drama land. It has the twins that haven't met each other (one more selfish and one more naive), family revenge, betrayal, and more. I think that these should not be seen as negative aspects of this drama, whereas as its strong points. I was against the betrayal referred to the title at first because it is the main subject of the whole drama, but it helped the protagonists realize what was important and revalue their life choices, so it had its meaning in the end.
I started watching it because I love dramas with twins, and the story that this one told was intriguing and you never knew where it would go. It was quite long since it was a weekend drama, but the story keeps on refreshing every 10 episodes or so. It's like it's divided in batches of 10 because each batch deals with a "problem" and then moves forward and tries to deal with other intricated stuff that needs time to be resolved. Some things move at a slow pace while others are faster, so for those who like quick development maybe this drama would look boring and stalling a bit, but after all it has 50 episodes so it cannot go fast all the time. The changes in the characters were more believable like this, but there are some outcomes I am not happy with because the writer left some loose ends in regards of side characters, but if you're looking for a happy end for the main couple, you can find it in this drama despite they don't start with the right foot.

The main couple, played by Ji Jin Hee and Kim Hyun Joo was the strongest point of this drama. She plays the twins and is able to pull off the selfish one and the good one very well, even if my favorite was the "evil" one because she had a multi-dimensional personality. We see her evolve a lot in the drama and become a better person, along with her husband played by Ji Jin Hee. The husband, Choi Jin Eon, started off as a kind-hearted man with a soft spot for weak people, and this is not usually the type of man I like in a drama because he is a doormat. He changes a bit during the drama and gets tougher. I liked the story of his character with Do Hae Gang because they rebuilt their love from the ashes, but sometimes they argued too much for my taste and it seemed that we got back to square one (although I think the couple dynamic was meant to be like that).

I guess if you like drama dealing with revenge, secrets, business, you won't have a problem watching 50 episodes. But if you're looking for something romantic with a bit of comedy, this is not the drama for you. I have a lover is a melodrama and has its light moments, but the dramatic ones overpower them.

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Sigh

I believe in the theory of six degrees of separation as much as the next person; however, the sheer number of coincidental meetings between ALL the main characters just left me gobsmacked.

The ex-wife had an identical twin sister whom she'd never met but suddenly they run into each other at a car park and end up switching cars. The ex-wife is on the verge of a breakdown and the twin is heavily pregnant and was being pursued by dangerous people who wanted her dead, instead, it's the ex-wife who gets pushed down a ravine. Even though she survived she had no memory of her past and when she runs into a guy who turns out to be an ex-boyfriend, he took her into his home and gave her employment at his law firm.

It turns out this ex-bf is the brother of the woman who had an affair with ex-wife's ex-husband. Ex-husband is the CEO of the company that employed the pregnant twin and it was ex-husband's brother-in-law who had attempted to murder the pregnant twin.

Still with me?

Ex-husband's BIL had a brother who was a doctor who rented a room from the ex-wife's mother. The pregnant twin had by now given birth to a daughter who needed serious medical care for a rare disease and it just so happened that only the BIL's brother offered this treatment.

Even writing this review is making me chuckle because what in the af were the writers inhaling?

Anyway, now the ex-husband sees his ex-wife, only she's lost her memories and no longer remembers him. Meanwhile, he's still dating the woman (the aforementioned sister of the ex-BF who took ex-wife in) with whom he'd had the affair, and this woman was hell-bent on ensuring only she got the ex-husband.

And so the wheels went round and around for fifty episodes. Rinse and repeat. I was cursing the me who decided it was a good idea to watch this. Oh, well.

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Emotional love story

About the cheating tag
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In my opinion, what happens at the beginning of this drama is not cheating: the FL knows the ML doesn’t want to be with his cold wife anymore, but she doesn’t accept the divorce. This is different from being in a relationship in which you believe your spouse loves you, but then cheats.

Not accepting to divorce when one spouse knows the other truly wants to, is in my opinion unacceptable, but fortunately, and unlike South Korea, there are about 80 countries whose laws offer ways out of this predicament with no-fault type of divorce, that allows only one of the spouses to file and be granted the divorce without going to court.

We know how many centuries had to pass to get laws that protect women from undesirable marriages. One of my uncles in Spain never agreed to divorce and my aunt couldn’t even be in another relationship, until the law was changed in the 80s. I can’t even imagine her impotence.

I wonder, if the roles were reversed and the FL was the one married to an unfeeling jerk who opposes the divorce, how the comments about infidelity in the MDL chatroom would have been.

In my case, in the first episodes I wanted to get rid of the FL probably more than the ML did, and since Koreans can’t divorce unless both agree, or determined by a court, I would have done anything to force her to sign it. But the FL grew after losing her memory, recognized her past wrongdoings in her job and with her husband, and their love story became very deep.
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About my rating

This is a soap opera, not my favorite genre, but I fell in love with the main couple’s love story, great chemistry, very emotional, all the nuances of it were very well done (even more after ep. 11). I found myself binge-watching it, barely sleeping during one weekend, because I needed to know what would happen next, despite the typical villains with family and corporate intrigues.

It has too many episodes, but I’ll probably rewatch those parts that I liked the most about their love story.

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Hmm, I'm not really sure how to rate this drama. I guess somewhere between 7.5-8 would be most accurate. Always nice to see dramas with Kim Hyun Joo, She's a gem. The leads had decent chemistry. It certainly wasn't the best, but not the worst either. The twin sister and the "aloof" doctor were my favourite to watch. Their scenes were funny and charming. The fl's twin, in general, was a breath of fresh air and made the drama a lot more entertaining. Props to Kim Hyun Joo, as she essentially played 3 different characters in this drama. As soon as they were no longer in the show, the drama became kind of boring. (I don't really understand why they left them out of the drama when they did.)

Episode 45 onwards dragged on a little too much and I feel like there were unnecessary plot developments. Prior to ep 45, though, the drama was very exciting the majority of the time. I found Jin Eon annoying in many instances (Hae Gang as well - apart from when she lost her memory - but less so than Jin Eon). I liked Baek Seok's character a lot more than Jin Eon. Seol Ri was also quite insufferable and I wish they had done more with her character.

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Poor side charectors??????

Fuck this show. It literally sacrificed my poor and lovely beak seok.not only His love for that bitch is not reciprocated but he's left all alone in this hateful world. That ungrateful witchish bitch didn't care at all about him after getting together with that fucking bastard and even refused to see my poor side charector how hateful. How can they sacrifice an innocent life in this plot. He took her in when she's left all alone in this world now he's left all alone in this world. what she didn't even want to see His face.😈😈😈😈🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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