This has become a bit of an obsession because of what she went through. She is still looking around for girls who are prettier than her, she is still rating other girls’ faces to see if they are naturally pretty or not.
However, her new face has not cured her insecurity about herself. We see that her mother supports her the whole way and we see her go to college with her new face and the support of her best friend and roommate Oh Hyun Jung (played by Min Do Hee). We get to know her in essence within the first episode. Because of this, Mi Rae became incredibly insecure and self-conscious about how other people looked at her and at one point she even made up her mind to jump off a bridge (but fortunately she was stopped). We see that she was always severely bullied because of her looks, first for being large in size, after losing weight for her face (her classmates even called her an ‘orc’). During the process of this journey and Mi Rae’s surgery, we see flashes of her childhood. The series starts with Kang Mi Rae (played by Im Soo Hyang) and her mother, on their way to a plastic surgery clinic. I decided to put it on my list after the one I was supposed to watch next (Love’s Lies). I watched the first episode on my phone while waiting at my Gate, and my interest was piqued after that. However, right after my trip to Korea last January (at the airport waiting to board, actually), I was suddenly taken by a curiosity and decided that I’d still give it a chance. People who may have read my reviews in chronological order may remember I once wrote that I was not planning on watching this series because I’m really sceptical about the Korean society’s perspective about beauty standards and that women are encouraged to undergo plastic surgery if they’re not ‘pretty enough’. Until then, you’ll have to bear with me as I plunge once more into my favorite drama genre (after all) – romantic comedies.įirst of all, I need to make a rectification. This drama refuelled my love for Asian dramas after it stagnated a bit ever since I started watching Love’s Lies – again, I will probably finish it one day, but I’ll really have to get back in the mood for it. You can see how eager I was to watch this – it’s only been a week since my last review. (내 아이디는 강남미인 / Nae Aidineun Gangnam Miin)
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