“Let’s not be greedy today, just as long as our breath”…Shin Hye-sun and Ji Chang-wook, Last Kiss ‘Full of Happy Ending'(‘Samdali’) [SC Review]

[Sports Chosun Reporter Go Jae-wan] JTBC’s Saturday-Sunday drama ‘Welcome to Samdali’ marked the end of its eight-week journey, leaving a warm message of life and time to breathe again for out-of-breath city dwellers. The viewer ratings for the final episode were 13.1% in the metropolitan area (accounted by Nielsen Korea, based on paying households), which was its highest record, and 12.4% nationwide, making it a great success.

In the broadcast on the 21st, Samdal (Shin Hye-sun)’s exhibition was successfully held under the leadership of Yongpil (Ji Chang-wook) and with the help of all Samdalli people. While the ‘Jomnyeo (Haenyeo) unit’ and Meteorological Administration staff were keeping reporters’ attention, Yongpil and Samdal secretly moved the photos to be displayed. Meanwhile, ‘Five Eagle Brothers’ Gyeong-tae (Lee Jae-won), Eun-woo (Bae Myung-jin), Sang-do (Kang Young-seok), and Samdal’s assistants Eun-bi (Kim A-young) and Ji-eun (Lee Do-hye) rob Chung-gi (Han Eun-seong). Just ‘mugwort’ He only stabbed him, and not only did he receive kickbacks, but he also exposed the true nature of Eun-ju (Cho Yoon-seo), who had lied. Samdal is finally free from the controversy of harassing her juniors & # 39; People: My people, and the weather & # 39; By opening the exhibition, she realized her dream of “doing it as Jo Samdal” .

It wasn’t just Samdal that was extraordinary. With the encouragement and support of Samdal, Yongpil returned from a two-year deployment to the World Meteorological Organization in Switzerland, a dream he had had for a long time. Since then, he is still being kicked out of every meeting at the Seoul headquarters. He was very active as a forecaster. Of course, the romantic ‘history of pairings’ with Samdal, who is actively working as ‘photographer Cho Samdal’, continued. ‘Five Eagle Brothers’ also came to Seoul and achieved a dream they had never achieved in the past. “Boss”Gyeong-tae, who wanted to be heard, became the owner of a snack bar, and broke away from his original title as a solo artist due to his love affair with Eun-bi. Eun-woo eventually became a webtoon writer, and Sang-do opened the second Sang-do’s famous store in Gangnam, and each of them spent busy days.

Jindal (Shin Dong-mi), the eldest member of ‘3 Month Sisters’, finally succeeded in being reinstated and put on his airline uniform again. Her ex-husband and ‘current boyfriend’ Daeyoung (Yang Kyung-won) kicked out the group CEO, moved to an AS airline, and developed a sweet love with Jindal. Her youngest sea otter (Kang Mina), who was a promising swimmer who reached the threshold of Taereung, followed the advice of Ji-chan (Kim Min-cheol) and became her female diver. In this way, she protected her mother Mija (Kim Mi-kyung) and swam the open sea with her Samdali female divers, Samchun. Thanks to Samdali for teaching us about human affection, the episode of Mansu (Seuzal), an Arab prince who turned out to have disappeared after donating 1 billion won, and top actor Kim Tae-hee, who made a special appearance and even recovered “Kim Tae-hee rice cake”, is fun to the last bit. Caught them all.

In this way, the people of Samdali did not get greedy today and held out just as long as their own breath. Even if you occasionally find yourself short of breath, there is no need to worry. Because there is “our stream, Samdali” where you can go back and catch your breath at any time. ‘Welcome to Samdali’, a pure healing drama that appeared in the dopamine era, achieved both box office success and production value, concluding ‘Yongduyongmi’.

▶Not just Ji Chang-wook A colorful smoke feast that fills Samdali

In ‘Welcome to Samdali’, various characters with narratives so dense that one could write a mini-series with each character as the main character appeared, enriching the play. The love story of Yong-pil and Sam-dal, who have a 38-year long ‘history of partners’, was given added affection by the ‘story of two Mi-ja’, and the resulting love story of Sang-tae (Yoo Oh-seong) Ong and Mija’s guilt touched my heart. ‘3 Month Sisters’ Jindal developed a love for her ex-husband Daeyoung as much as a partner, and Haedal wrote her growth story with her adult daughter Ha-yul (Kim Do-eun). The ‘Five Eagle Brothers’ who protect Captain Samdal. Gyeongtae, Eunwoo, and Sangdo also worked hard to achieve their dreams. Here, the warm affection of the female divers Samchun Geum-sul (Baek Hyun-joo), Jin-seong (Jeon Hye-ja), and the father and son (Kim Mi-hwa), who gathered in groups of two or three at the bulteok and chatted loudly, the rough and tumble daily life of the immature CEO Dae-yeong and his secretary Cheol-jong (Kang Gil-woo), and the story of dolphin protection. The story of Ji-chan (Kim Min-cheol), the CEO of Dolphin Center, who devoted his youth to a worthy cause, and the twisted story of Man-su, a part-timer at Lucky Convenience Store. Viewers were deeply immersed in the stories of each of these people, who were all protagonists, and cried and laughed along with the people of Samdali.

Above all, what made each story shine even more was the excellent acting of the actors, with no flaws in their acting. Ji Chang-wook and Shin Hye-sun created a unicorn couple in the romance world with their accumulated experience. In addition, each character’s narrative was perfectly sublimated to its own by capturing every detail of emotion. Kim Mi-kyung, Seo Hyeon-cheol, and Yoo Oh-seong captivated the home theater every time they appeared with their deeply emotional acting that exuded their dignity. The reason why the threads of their tangled emotions and the process of finally unraveling them were able to be convincing was because of the actors’ exquisite acting that made you gasp. In addition, the performances of Shin Dong-mi, Yang Kyeong-won, Lee Jae-won, Bae Myung-jin, Kang Young-seok, Kang Mina, Baek Hyun-joo, Yoon Jin-seong, Kim Mi-hwa, Jo Yoon-seo, Kim A-young, Lee Do-hye, Kang Gil-woo, Seuzal, and Kim Do-eun, who filled Samdali, were ‘Welcome to Samdali Emphasis was placed on the completeness of 39;

▶The birth of a masterpiece, a pollution-free and clean story completed by director Cha Young-hoon and writer Kwon Hye-joo

The perfect synergy between director Cha Young-hoon and writer Kwon Hye-joo plays a big part in why ‘Welcome to Samdali’ is in the spotlight as a clean and harmless life drama. Director Cha Young-hoon, who has a warm perspective on people, created a gentle wave in the hearts of viewers with his delicate directing skills that focused on the detailed emotions of each character while not losing sight of the clean Jeju scenery. Writer Kwon Hye-joo, who is also full of warmth toward people, awakened the deep affection between people that we forget because it is too natural, and filled the hearts of viewers with the scent of people. The warm inner feelings of the two people who care for the people around them, which all the actors in the show unanimously praised, were fully reflected in the work, and a masterpiece was born that I wanted to visit every time I felt breathless.

▶”How relieved it makes us to have a place to return to.”The touching comfort provided by Gaecheon

Samdal, who left the stream and dreamed of being a dragon soaring high in the sky, paradoxically realized that he was able to soar only because of the stream, only after returning to Samdal-ri. The warmth of the people living there, sharing their good fortune, touched my heart that had been hurt for three months in Seoul, and through this, I was able to take a deep breath and gain the strength to get up again. In Samdali, I didn’t have to worry about who might trip me, and I didn’t have to live a busy life, splitting time by the second. Samdal, who slowly lost the strength he was giving to his body, returned to his original self, and even put down the recording on his cell phone that he had left on for fear of making a mistake while drinking. This is because there are “my people” who support you unconditionally and give you a warm embrace when you are having a hard time.

Samdal, who woke up again like that, and Yongpil, Gyeongtae, Eunwoo, and Sangdo, who came to Seoul with her with her dream, lived energetically today, relieved that there was a ‘Gaecheon’ to return to when they were out of breath. “How relieved it makes us to have a place to return to,” was the touching comfort that “Gaecheon” provided. And in ‘Welcome to Samdali’, by constantly looking into the place where I can be myself the most and the people who live there, I am saying, “I exist, and there is a way for me to live.” It was a way to protect ‘me’ without being swept away in a world where everything changes rapidly every day, and the reason why ‘Gaecheon’ embraces warmth.

Reporter Go Jae-wan star77@sportschosun.com