So, here's the catch! Who is currently watching this beautiful k-drama series?!
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Who among you here is torn between the Dosan-Dalmi and Jipyeong-Dalmi couple?
I think, maybe a lot right? Well, some of you wanted the real Do San to be with Dal Mi but I think many of you are getting this second lead syndrome wishing Ji Pyeong to be with Dal Mi in the end.
So here is a personal non-biased opinion.
A little background about the drama. Start Up is about young entrepreneurs who challenge themselves to start up their own business. It is a world created for aspiring entrepreneurs to enhance their skills and put their wild ideas into the realm of business world.
Dal Mi who lived with her grandmother aspires to become like his late father, a man with great ideas in business innovation. Because of her major heartbreak when her mother and older sister left Dal Mi and her father alone, her grandmother make Ji Pyeong to write love letters towards young Dal Mi to ease her aching heart and to comfort her. Not wanting to reveal his name as it was just a fake stunt, young Ji pyeong used a pen name he saw on the newspaper the day he wrote the first letter, Nam Do San.
Fifteen years later, Dal Mi wanted to meet Do San. Ji Pyeong, on the other hand, finds the real Do San to pose as the person who wrote those letters from fifteen years ago. Without knowing anything and because of the great offer in exchange to posing as Do San, he accepted it.
As the drama proceed to the next episodes, a lot of fans are getting torn between the male leads to whoever is much better for Dal Mi. A lot are getting feel sorry for Ji Pyeong as he deserves to be with Dal Mi since he was the real person behind those letters. Meanwhile, some wanted Do San to be with Dal Mi because he is the real Do San.
So here is the catch.
Both men deserves to be with the woman they love.
Ji Pyeong wrote those letters out of pity but after seeing Dal Mi with Do San, he realized he fell in love with Dal Mi and regretting not using his name on those letters because he could be happy now with the woman he have known for so long. Meanwhile, Do San fell in love with Dal Mi while playing a role he did not know and keeping a lie while spending time with woman he started to love.
So, if you will ask me, both men are pitying. If Ji Pyeong only uses his real name on those letters, he could have already been happy with Dal Mi. On the other hand, Do San may be happy being with Dal Mi all the time and that Dal Mi really likes him, he is walking with her with a deep lie that could hurt Dal Mi.
Ji Pyeong cannot be with the woman he loves because of his action from the past while Do San maybe with the woman he loves but he doesn't really know if she loves him back for real or she loves him because of those letters.
In the end, it will be Dal Mi to decide who she loves more, the man who wrote those letters from 15 years ago, or the real man who bore the name on those letters.
Everyone has their own opinions. So if you pity Ji Pyeong more because he deserve to be with Dal Mi in the first place, I understand you because I also pity him. But whatever the circumstances are, I pity Do San more. If his name was not used on those letters without his consent, he could have love Dal Mi the other way and that he would not feel insecure if who Dal Mi really loves. His name was the root of all the confusions. I understand his suffering because he knows he cannot love her because everything is a lie most specially those letters.
So everyone, we have our opinions but never disregard the feelings of a person. Enjoy the whole dram guys! 😊
