Strongest Deliveryman (2017)

Great Slice of Life - if you like "Fight My Way" you will likely like this

9.5/10 is my rating This is a 2017 South Korean slice of life romantic drama series with 16, 60 minute episodes.

Synopsis
Choi Kang-soo (Go Kyung-pyo) vowed to find the woman who abandoned him and his father and to become powerful enough to protect those around him. He has been a food deliveryman in most neighborhoods in Seoul in his quest to develop the skills and connections to start his own delivery service all the while seeking his mother. Lee Dan-ah (Chae Soo-bin) is a take no prisoners delivery driver who is earning money for the sole purpose of emigrating elsewhere. She wants out of Korea convinced it is the root of all her problems. Oh Jin-kyu (Kim Seon-ho) is the middle son of a Chaebol family and has always been told he was a loser so he set out to prove them right. That is until he encountered Dan-ah who has no patience for self pity. Lee Ji-yoon (Ko Won-hee) is the daughter of a CEO and her goal is to lead her own life not dictated by her family's wealth. These four young people are forever changed and enriched by their encounters with each other. Love and friendship develop in the course of their daily lives.

Review

I really love slice of life dramas. I feel like I get to lean some things about aspects of the culture. In this case it was food deliver and being a delivery person. It reminded me a lot of another drama I like a lot "Fight My Way" where the characters struggle with making a living in jobs that don't pay much beyond necessities. I loved Chae Soo-bin in "I am Not a Robot" and had I known she was in it would have watched this a lot sooner. Like most Korean dramas the title and summaries really do not do it credit. There is a villian, bromances, secrets in the past, and all the elements that make these compelling. The 2nd couples romance was well paced, believable and very heart warming. And there was even a third and forth couple although their stories were much more in the background. The rich versus the poor was another aspect explored in this drama and there was a thread of good versus evil. It was, for me, practically perfect in every way. I highly recommend this to anyone who likes romance, slice of life or who likes these actors. It was enjoyable the whole way through.

Spoilers** I do wish it was clear in the end whether, or not, the grandmother knew he was her grandson. She was such a nice person and he was so good to her I would have liked to have known she was told he was her grandson. It was not clear whether his brother was his half brother or if his mom had been pregnant before leaving with him where he would have been his full brother. That also was not fully fleshed out. Kang-soo and Dan-ah had really started the more intimate portion of their relationship so it really felt like they just got together fully. I think that is a cultural difference in the US they would be viewed as maybe a serious dating relationship no guarantee it was headed to anything permanent. But in Korean culture it may be obvious that there relationship was permanent. I liked that Kang-soo and his mom seemed to be on better terms but that he had not completely forgiven her. So there were some really small points that could have been clarified but there were very minor detractors.

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Ep. 12 - it is beginning to drag...  this show you can watch with one eye close, it means you don't really have to pay  attention to what they are saying because the plot is so simple, some scenes are beginning to be corni and him being good two shoes and having a solution all the time.  It is not the type of drama that will keep you on your toes.  Side note: I cannot stand his curly hair in the first few episodes and i cannot stand the nose of the 2 leading ladies - CSB & GWH  it is both too fake (reminds me of Michael Jackson).  It is now beginning to be a chore to watch.

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Jeunesse coréenne

J'ai aimé le drama dans son ensemble qui décrit le parcours de quatre jeunes:
(1) le livreur, sorte de bon samaritain-superhéros un peu trop idéaliste
(2) sa collègue livreuse, qui enchaîne les petits jobs pour quitter la Corée, dégoûtée par une société qui laissent peu de place aux petits
(3) une riche héritière qui fugue pour fuir un avenir totalement tracé par sa mère
(4) un autre gosse de riche, qui étant le cadet, dépense sans vergogne son argent en belles voitures sans vraiment être heureux
Aussi, une petite allée de restaurateurs menacée par l'arrivée d'un géant de la restauration. On fait ici l'apologie des gens simples, qui sont aussi passionnés par ce qu'ils font, comme cette petite grand mère avec son restaurant de bouillon de boeuf.
Cela dit, les scènes manquent de rythme, je ne perçois pas trop d'alchimie entre les deux leads, qui sont selon moi trop parfaits dès le départ. J'ai préféré l'histoire secondaire, avec Ji Yoon, la gosse de riche tellement volontaire mais incapable d'aller acheter de la vaisselle à la supérette du coin. Elle veut être actrice de sa vie et préfère prendre un temps partiel plutôt que de civre dans sa cage dorée. Ses scènes avec Kim Seon ho sont d'un charme fou. Par exemple, elle le ramasse dans la rue, mange des ramens avec lui et dit, avec aplomb : " Mon premier amour a été un échec, mais mon second sera bien meilleur" en le regardant, presque menaçant. J'ai fini la série surtout pour les suivre.
Cette série dresse un portrait charmant des jeunes, de leurs questionnements et de leur volonté d'avoir un impact dans une société trop hiérarchisée.

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Too toxic for a tired soul

Dropped because of toxicity.
I mean my purpose for watching kdrama is to chill and enjoy. I have no time wallowing in a drama like this.

Toxic parents
Toxic friends
Toxic strangers

I really wanted to enjoy the series but as their issues keep on compounding, I decided to drop it to keep my sanity.

On the other hand, I do like how the writers are able to interconnect the main characters to each other.

Sure we have the "strong independent woman" who just can't seem to win in life. We also have the "independent" man (no strong tag for you, you're already a guy) who nomads his way around and finances his travels by working part time as a delivery man and making connections along the way.

Those who are young and idealistic might find this fun and exciting, but for tired souls like this samchon, the events in the series are just too tiring to watch.

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middle east would be the most stable place in the world before i see a drama with bigot characters and hope for their success and progress.and that's exactly what happened. i started this drama with high hopes and promise of a strong FL but this strong woman's first idea when thinking the ML is a cross dresser is to fire him and thinking how she shouldn't have hired him in the first place.(and happens because she saw a girly dress stuck in the door of His room(that was his house and his property) and HAD to know why there was a girly cloth there i mean talk about stupid nosy girls stucking their head where it doesn't belong)and later on she thinks better and tries to black mail him into staying quiet.
any way if she was a supporting character MAYBE i could watch itbut being the lead i had to see her stupid face every where soooo i'm out
ps :i'm never gonna watch anything fron the writer ever again

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