Abstract
- Doo-na and Received-jun’s relationship ends on a bittersweet be aware, with each of them combating heartbreak and conflicting wishes.
- There’s a glimmer of hope that Doo-na and Received-jun are secretly courting, regardless of the challenges and dangers that include being an idol.
- Received-jun rejects his highschool pal Jin-ju’s confession of affection, showcasing a full arc for the second lead character as a substitute of an unfinished story.
In recent times, Ok-pop idols have taken the world by storm with their attraction, elegant look, catchy dancing and singing, and lots of different issues. And together with that cultural wave, so has the Ok-drama — Korean reveals have a bigger following now greater than ever. Mix these two world phenomena, and also you get Doona! — Netflix’s authentic Ok-drama with an idol named Lee Doo-na (Bae Suzy) as its protagonist.
The present covers Doo-na’s life as a pop idol, and her expertise after she leaves the highlight and begins making an attempt to dwell a standard, quiet life. The ex-idol meets a younger man with many goals of his personal, named Received-jun (Yang Se-jong). His difficult life shortly entails Doo-na after he unknowingly adjustments the unusually cold-hearted Doo-na to her alive and flirty self due to a second of kindness within the hospital.
For some time, life appears nice — Doo-na finds the need to dwell her life once more, and Received-jun grinds to realize his goals within the large metropolis of Seoul. However the good relationship will get difficult as soon as a manipulative supervisor of Doo-na enters the image and drags her again into the highlight of being an idol. With priorities and wishes shifting, will Doo-na and Received-jun survive the cruel waves of fame, jealousy, and energy?
How Does Doo-na and Received-jun’s story finish?
It’s a bittersweet however life like ending for the couple. After breaking Doo-na’s coronary heart, Received-jun continues residing his life and learning onerous, identical to earlier than (or at the least he tries to). Doo-na, too, tries to return to her life and give attention to her rising profession as a solo artist. It’s clear that the heartbreak isn’t simple for both one — Doo-na is offended that Received-jun offers up on them whereas she’s nonetheless prepared to struggle for his or her relationship, and Received-jun decides to interrupt up primarily for her sake.
4 years go by. Doo-na’s solo profession is rising larger than ever, whereas Received-jun is ending his final moments in college. When the previous roommates within the present meet once more at their outdated home, they toast to the reminiscences they made collectively, however every thing feels empty with out the flirty and distinctive idol. Quickly, although, Doo-na and Received-jun meet once more proper there in the home, and so they attempt to resolve lingering onerous emotions.
They each admit that they miss one another deeply, however there’s this implicit painful actuality that hits them — they’ll’t get again collectively. For a profitable idol courting a non-celebrity, the stakes are too excessive for each of them. And so, they go away it at that. Not less than we get their confessions that they nonetheless cherish their reminiscences and their love for one another. In a method it’s an incredible ending, as a result of regardless that it is bittersweet, it’s life like too.
What’s in Retailer For Each of Them?
Nevertheless, there’s nonetheless a glimmer of hope for the followers. The ambiguous ending nonetheless offers hope that Doo-na and Received-jun are secretly courting. It’s a widely known incontrovertible fact that idols don’t date — in the event that they do and so they get caught, it means catastrophe. They obtain pointless hatred, loss of life threats, followers boycott — it is a profession killer.
Since we all know that Doo-na is technically not allowed thus far in Korea, there are Easter eggs all through the season that Doo-na and Received-jun secretly date in Japan. In brief scenes in episodes 7 and eight, we see Doo-na and Received-jun in Japan, watching one another from a distance. If paired with the opening of episode 9, when Doo-na and Received-jun are reunited in a subject, it’s clear that a while has handed and that, in reality, they may nonetheless be courting secretly. It’s a hopeful ending for the couple, and it’s the perfect they’re going to get, contemplating their scenario.
What About Jin-ju and Received-jun?
From the primary episode, it’s hinted that Received-jun has unresolved emotions that lead to excessive awkwardness round his highschool pal and crush, Jin-ju (Ha-Younger). After they reunite once more throughout Received-jun’s sophomore 12 months of college, their dynamic is one thing that many query — there’s a thick layer of awkwardness between them, regardless of them being shut mates in highschool.
Because the story progresses, it’s revealed that Received-jun had a crush on Jin-ju, and he even confessed his like to her. However her hesitant response on the time instructed him that she didn’t really feel the identical, so he backed off. Whereas in actuality, she preferred him at first sight, however she couldn’t be with him attributable to her strained relationship along with her mother and father, particularly her father. After a few years, Jin-ju has developed emotions for him, and decides to admit all this to him in hopes that he nonetheless feels the identical method.
However after a few years and the connection with Doo-na looming over Received-jun’s thoughts, his coronary heart has modified — and he rejects her. She takes it like a champ, although, and units her boundaries by transferring out of the shared home. Later, Jin-ju turns into nice mates with Doo-na, bonding over liking the identical man. What many love about this Ok-drama is that the story offers the second lead a full arc as a substitute of the standard unfinished story.
What Doona!’s Director Mentioned
The Easter eggs, the reminiscing voiceover, the quick subway scenes — all of it results in an ending that’s hopeful and actual. The director Lee Jung-Hyo acknowledged that he needed the ending to be each a fantasy and a actuality concerning a romantic relationship between an idol and a college scholar. As he shared in an interview, “Who is aware of how life will unfold, proper? They could or won’t cross paths once more, however they’ll all the time keep in mind one another.”
The bittersweet ending can also be lovely, contemplating the ups and downs each Doo-na and Received-jun have gone by. Whether or not they keep collectively or not, they all the time have shared reminiscences to carry on to, at the least as a lovely section of their lives. With the subway scenes set sooner or later, it provides hope that they’ll discover a solution to be collectively by the years. However both method, they’re nonetheless lovely to one another in reminiscence — whether or not as a pair or not.
