Ki Seon-gyeom is a track and field runner for the South Korean national team. Despite being a bit of a loner and quirky, he's a nice person and is particularly fond of Kim Woo-Sik, the rising star in the athletic world and newest addition to the national team. That's why Seon-gyeom doesn't think twice when he finds out a couple of team members constantly bully him and decides to teach them a lesson...ultimately jeopardizing his own career.
Oh Mi Joo is a translator, specialized in subtitling movies, and after all the hardships she had to endure in her life, is quite disenchanted and often defends herself with witty and sarcastic remarks.
The two of them meet when Mi Joo accepts a job as an interpreter for the interview Seon-gyeom and his pro golfer sister have to give for a foreign magazine.
Their lives once entangled somehow keep of intertwining and the fun begins once Seo Dan-a and Lee Young-Hwa enter the picture.
The first is the CEO of the sports agency that represents Seon-gyeom. She's a tough one, partly because of her nature and partly because she has had to undergo a lot of unfairnesses just because she's a woman.
The latter is a bright and always smile art student. These two are the most improbable match but Young-Hwa is immediately drawn to how strong and apparently unreachable Dan-a is.
My Opinion👍👎
If you're a movie lover like me then I dare you to find all the subtle but obvious cinematic references in this drama: we go from 2001: A Space Odyssey, E.T and Jerry MacGuire to having the poster of 'Psycho' hang on Mi Joo's bathroom door, I just loved it!
Run On succeeds in highlighting how difficult translations can be and no matter how good you are, languages can't be fully translated into one another.
All this premises to say that sometimes I failed in following the dialogues; they appeared nonsense and disconnected from what the other character was actually saying...
my mood for the most part of this series...
Even so, I kept on watching because the characters are so complex and the situations they found themselves in are tragicomic most of the time. I also appreciated the fact that sexism and victimizing those who seem more vulnerable because of their personal stories were put under the spotlight and the two female protagonists, along with all the other supporting characters, are more or less in control of their lives but aren't apologetic for wanting more.
This drama felt and was different in so many ways but especially when it came to the relationships: some are strengthened, some faded while others became hopelessly broken. Yes, this happens in every series, but the reasons why that happened were mindblowing, seriously...there are some wicked characters here.
I'm still not sure how I feel about this k-drama, but I can't say I disliked it...I would have appreciated knowing more about characters like Dan-a's assistant and her younger brother but it was overall an interesting series.
Rating: 3¾/5
Ph: hancinema.net & collage
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