The invincible love of Hyun Bin and Son Ye

They did: they really got married. It happened what anyone who sees a love story on the screen fervently hopes: that the leading actors really love each other, that the dream, in short, becomes reality. And so it happened to Hyun Bin And Son Ye-jin, two beloved South Korean actors, who met on a set in 2018 and thought ‘we hope to work together again’. So it happened shortly after: they are the protagonists of the Korean series produced by Netflix that made many of us fall in love (closed at home for the first lockdown) and it is they who last week got married in a fairy tale within a fairy tale.

The galeotta series, released in December 2019, is Crash Landing on You, “The love that lands on you” could be translated, and the title refers to the incipit of the story. The wealthy Seoul-based entrepreneur Yoon Se-ri, head of a clothing brand, launches with a paraglider to try out her new sports line and a storm causes the unthinkable: she carries her, unscathed beyond the 38th parallel, in short, straight straight to North Korea. She is found in the woods, saved and hidden in the house, by a young soldier with a noble soul. Here are the foundations for a love story that you start to look at almost as a joke, but which is then capable of making hearts beat like never before, a desperate “Romeo and Juliet” between the two Koreas, with the reconstruction of the North Korean village that seems rather truthful, accidents, obstacles, aids and all the elements that make up the structure of the perfect fairy tale. In between and above all, the love between the two, unshakable and winning.

As a Korean series it requires, a few kisses, a lot of looks, no sex. An idealized and perfect love – after all, it seems that 95% of Korean love series are written by women (who therefore know what their most romantic audience wants), and even in this case, the screenwriter – Park Ji-eun – is one that has unleashed the most acclaimed Korean series ever. The genre, it must be said, is quite prolific, and once you get trapped in it, you can navigate for months from platform to platform to discover Korean culture through the series, or at least to discover what the series want to tell viewers. about Korean culture: family attachment, good feelings, ideals, with a certainty, great love exists. Yet, in addition to the fairy tale, other aspects of South Korean life shine through, the cult of power, the role of money and a polite expression of feelings that is also found in the two protagonists.

Hyun Bin And Son ye-jin live on the screen such a strong love, and such an intense drama, that they could not help but love each other in reality. And in fact shortly after the shooting, the two are intercepted together with News York. The fans – who are many and international, from Singapore to South America – go crazy. Then silence, it seems that one only wanted to believe in love, but that the two are just friends. Instead, finally on January 1, 2021 Son Ye-jin confirms the rumors «I don’t know what to say but I think I should say something to all of you. I am grateful to have met such a beautiful person “he writes in a post that gets almost 2 million likes and 128 thousand comments. Meanwhile their fame grows: they are on the cover of Vogue Korea, they pose for the big fashion brands. Everyone is waiting for the next steps, which happen quickly: on February 10, 2022 they announce their engagement, on March 31, 2022 they get married in a ceremony that not even a Korean love series could imagine: beautiful under a gazebo of roses, she in fairytale dresses (pre-wedding, for the wedding and after the ceremony), and they are the proven proof that love exists.