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- Drama: Hearts of Nineteen
- Revised romanization: Yeolaheup Sunjeong
- Hangul: 열아홉 순정
- Director: Jeong Seong-Hyo, Hwang In-Hyeok
- Writer: Koo Hyun-Sook
- Network: KBS
- Episodes: 167
- Release Date: May 22, 2006 - January 12, 2007
- Runtime: 20:25
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Plot
Kuk-hwa lost her parents in childhood, barely finished high school staying at her uncle’s house in Yon Gil (China). Her aunt requested international marriage company for Kuk-hwa due to family economic reasons. Kuk-hwa finally left her hometown for marriage. However she met Woo-kyung (her fiancé’s nephew) instead of her fiancé telling her the death of him. Kuk-hwa had to attend her fiancé’s funeral and no place to go. Woo-kyung introduced her to his company to help her. She fell in love with her boss, Yoon-who, and then two of them are getting married despite the objection of his parents.
Yoon-who is handsome and smart guy having a great family background. He did not believe in love because of his bitter first love; however he changed his attitude completely due to Kuk-hwa.
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Park Min Dec 28 2024 3:47 pm This was a meaty 167 episodes daily drama that left me with conflicting feelings. To get some positives out of the way, I much appreciate the roughness and scuffiness of older dailies over the jaded cleanliness and overly-sanitized modern dailies. It's a good thing that conflicts don't last a long time in this lengthy drama, but this also created a problem I'll talk about later. The drama took advantage of its length in regards to the main point of tension with the objecting parents of the ML, simply, let the girl hang around long enough until they get used to her. Now, let's get into the underlying problems. There was a love triangle involving the 70ish elderly father, his 50ish son, and the restaurant lady, I've never seen such an absurd, trashy and distasteful love triangle like this one before. It's shocking how much screen time they dedicated to that which was for almost the entire runtime. Due to its length, the drama was somewhat divided into 2 halves that were different enough to consider one a downgrade over the other. The exact point that split it into 2 halves was when the pseudo love triangle/square over the FL was resolved. In comparison, the most glaring difference was with the characters' writing of the duo Uk Yeong & Yun Jeong, they made them dumb, quirky, and borderline retarded, just because they were out of the circling conflicts from the first half and had no other roles to justify their existence in the drama. It's clear that its length was problematic. There was a shocking lack of material to fill the runtime. Initially, it had many small side plots that seemed promising but were completely dropped off after a handful of episodes, for example, the rouge sister Yun Ji and her ostracized family. There was only 2 main plotlines running in parallel, whatever was the FL involved in and the repulsive elderly love triangle. This could've been easily fixed since they already had enough pieces laid out. For example, give Shin Hyeong a full family background dynamic to interact with everyone rather than being a random employee with no attachments to anything, replace the elderly love triangle with another involving Wu Suk and other characters, despite the established premise but giving the female lead some familial connections would strengthen her character's existence, and lastly give the lead couples more problems to overcome rather than a couple of elongated ones. Finally, there was a huge lack of affection from the female lead while the male lead was always loud, clear and persistent about his love, she couldn't reciprocate his feeling with the same level if any at all, leaving a constant weird imbalance in their relationship. As if she was pressured to accept his love and run with it, nonetheless, this was less of a problem later on. At the end of the day and despite everything, this was just an okay vanilla daily drama.
Snuppa Oct 11 2022 6:30 am This drama is very well written and all the cast did an amazing job. The lead actor/actress they have a good chemistry hope they will make another drama together.Koo Hye sun is my fav korean actress waiting for her to come in acting as she stated she will be back on acting again.
Anranasa Apr 17 2018 7:06 pm i didnt watch this movie but is it nice.???
Pie Mar 28 2016 1:25 am This really the best korean drama ever i watched this over and over again and we can say i really missed Soejisuk and ku hyesun team up hope they got another project together again
Teling Aug 25 2015 10:18 pm I so loved it. From rags to riches. I do have to say that after watching it for the hundredth time, I did get annoyed with the older ladies YELLING! But it's really a nice romantic drama.
Paul Sep 11 2013 10:36 am totally agree with "Collibosher". it was the first long daily drama i saw and i didn't get bored at all. 167ep every ep has a different story..some make u laugh some bring tears to ur eyes some make u excited....u wont regret watching this drama i guarantee that.
Collibosher Jan 14 2013 10:16 am For my money, 'Pure in Heart' (Hearts of Ninteen) is the best long-running dramedy/romance of the dozen, or so, Korean daily dramas that I've seen. Each character is played incredibly well. The laughs, the tears, and the lessons learned are in abundance. And, both Goo Hye Sun and Lee Yoon Ji give the most spirited and lively performances of each one's career. Both main couples (and each of the supporting pairings) are well-suited, believable and fun to watch, and every episode leaves you wanting more and more.
Ebony Jul 14 2012 12:56 am why does it say this has 167 episodes when i've only seen 122 episodes.
nero Jun 19 2012 12:18 am this was the best show! Love gukhwa and chikchikgae!
iflahayamh Mar 13 2011 7:19 pm It is a long series(compared to what I'm used to), however it was one of the first Korean dramas I've seen and so I really enjoy watching it.
danielle13 Jul 13 2010 6:01 am OH WOW. the pure 19 that was amazing when i watched in channel 11 all the episodes that was beautiful OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!