You Are My Destiny

A romantic comedy full of heartrending drama. A story hinting at predestined love. A young woman wins a trip and invites a young man from work she has a crush on. Meanwhile a man is planning a grand proposal for his work obsessed longtime girlfriend.

If my review was only on the acting this would have a much higher score, unfortunately there were several scenes where even I had a difficult time suspending my belief. I also felt that if they had taken the time on a couple of the subplot lines it would have felt less frustrated with the plot holes.

Over all I enjoyed the major story arch, two people who under normal circumstance would never have met are brought together by fate.

Initially, I was put off by Lee Gun's manic personality as played by Jang Hyuk. However, as the story developed and reasons for some of his behavior were revealed, I was amazed at how right his acting choices were. Steadily as the serial became more drama and less romcom, I fell in love with his character.

Kim Mi-young played by Jang Na-ra, started out as a very nice door mat. While her character did not go through major changes in my opinion, her ability to show and evoke various emotions as the character goes through difficulty after difficulty was good.

Unfortunately, the writers did not give all the characters as much room to evolve beyond the caricature they started as. Choi Jin-Hyuk as Daniel, was beautiful to watch, but they did not allow the character to develop beyond the unrequited love guy. He was too nice and patient with everyone and everything.

Yet while I some times became frustrated with some of the choices the characters made, over all I enjoyed the story telling.

I would also like to mention I loved Song Wok-suk as Kim Mi-young's mother and her story line. I loved how she was able to be that mother that scolded her daughter one minute and then grabbed and protected her from anyone else that would dare insult her daughter.

If you are able to suspend your belief on a couple of really impossible scenes, I recommend watching this heartwarming and at times tear flowing love story.

This is my first review on IMDB. I have only started watching K-drama just 1-2 months ago and I could really understand now why the world just go crazy over K-drama series. Anyways, I really love this K-drama series. It is a different kind of love story where 2 unexpected people from 2 different worlds and with totally opposite types and temperament from each other, yet they were fated to end up together, no matter what life, people and obstacles were put in from of them. It is full of bitter sweet moments, many funny and hilarious events, and yet some painful and heart wrenching times too. After hours and hours of roller-coaster feelings and boxes of tissues wiping off tears later, I really can say this is one of the best K-drama or any life/love-story dramas I have ever seen in my lifetime. Plus the songs are so good too.

This Korean version is much better than the Taiwanese version of "Fated to Love You". The Korean version is more realistic (the main Korean guy is more older and more believable as the head of a big corporation than the Taiwanese guy - who looked too young and cute); there are so funny, passionate and painful moments too. All their cast acting are very believable, and they put their full effort in their roles.

This K-drama is highly recommended.

Fated to love you was the first kdrama i watched and only because i saw somewhere the scene in the rain where Gun tells Sa-ra he married another woman. Jang Hyuk is phenomenal, but watching his other performances, i am not really surprised. This guy can act! Yes, as Gun he is a little over the top, and maybe there are times when you will cringe, but weirdly enough, you will get used to it! Worth mentioning is all the hairstyles he goes through the episodes! Nevertheless, he still looks million dollars ;) Jang Nara is beautiful. So innocent and pure. They both did an amazing job. Now to the plot. I must say it left me with mixed feelings. Especially because of Sa-ra. I felt terribly sorry for her. She was a victim to a big misunderstanding where she was suddenly left with a broken heart. In the 'original' taiwanese' version of fated to love you (with ethan juan), the feelings between Ji Cun Xi and Anna were much stronger, his emotional struggle between his feelings for Anna and moral obligations toward Xin Ji was much more apparent. In the korean version, Sa-ra's feelings were neglected and i felt sad for her. Of course, they gave her long lost brother at the end, but that's a different kind of love and for me it did not compensate the heartache. Overall i enjoyed the show very much, i laughed, i cried, i cringed, i hoped.. it was a rollercoaster of feelings and emotions and all actors did an amazing job to make me feel that way!

If your first impression of the male lead is that he's too extreme and dramatic, please please stick with it. What I found really interesting was that his environment clearly responds to all the strange behavior he exhibits, but gradually come to accept it once they get to know his character, often in unison with the watcher. It shows the male lead is athletically skilled as his clumsy dives and tumbles are masterfully controlled. The acting is downright phenomenal. Downside: the intimate scenes weren't amazing. All in all I definitely recommend this one.

Do yourself a favor - stop what you're doing and watch. this. show. Binged all 20 episodes in one week's time and laughed so much and shed so many tears. Jang Hyuk completely blew my mind and pretty sure I just became a lifelong fan. His range is incredible. Amazing chemistry between the leads, beautiful story, gorgeous OST, perfect ending. Just go watch it! :)