Jo Hyun Jae

This is how “First Love” ends — Han Young-Woo meets his first love again and resolves to take care of her and her child (by another man.)   Some viewers think this ending is positive but we don’t like it one bit.  Why does the JHJ character always have to end up with someone else’s kid?  (in “3 Dads/1 Mom” too.)  

In this video, Han Young-Woo asks the little girl to take his last name — Han XX instead of Lee XX and be his daughter.  He is very happy to be photographing the girl (and her mother) and keeps saying how beautiful she is.

When Han Young-Woo is walking along that tree-lined path (by himself), he stops under a tree and says to himself:

After taking the big roundabout, I’m back to square one.  Actually I’m not sure whether this is a beginning or an end.  No matter what, I can start all over again from here, or end here.  I have to choose………

And so Han Young-Woo chooses to accept his first love’s child.  But does she accept him?  Anyway, the last scene shows the three of them walking along that tree-lined road, walking away from the camera.  (Sigh!)  There’s a whole forest out there, kid!

P.S.  I recently saw a photo of Jo An who looks very different from her character in “First Love”.  Jo An is not bad looking, even though she is no great beauty, but she now looks Caucasian — weird!  Someone tells me cosmetic surgery is a continuous process, an obsession — once you start, you have to keep tinkering with this and that until even your mother can’t recognize you.

(Credit: MV by johyunjae.hk; photos from CarpeDiemJAPAN. Thanks!)