So, Kdramas attract us for a variety of reasons: There are gorgeous and talented actors, beautiful
cinematography, and most important of them all, the writing.
Still, even the best Kdramas can’t be perfect, and they will inevitably have inconsistencies,
leading to plot holes.
Most of these are minor and can be ignored, but for today’s topic, let’s discuss some
pretty glaring Kdrama plot holes that are never resolved.
Disclaimer: While obvious, the plot holes mentioned don’t necessarily make a Kdrama
bad - they just leave unanswered questions.
It’s Ok To Not Be Okay - The mother Starring super talented actors and actresses
like Seo Ye Ji, Kim Soo Hyun, and Oh Jung Se - It’s Ok To Not Be Okay is a hardship-filled
story, which follows a selfless psych ward caretaker, his austitic brother, and an antisocial
children’s book writer.
All of our main characters have their share of traumas, and throughout the series, have
learned to overcome those and embrace love.
However, in such a decent series, we can still snuff out a pretty huge plot hole regarding
the female lead Go Moon Young.
It was revealed that her relationship with her parents had been pretty rocky, and that
Moon Young’s mom was this psychotic evil being that made her own daughter think she
has no emotions.
We also get to know that this very same mother is the one that murdered the male lead’s
mom, and that she was accidentally pushed to death by her own husband, who panicked
upon learning this bloody truth.
Or so we think.
Apparently, the mother, who was supposedly pronounced dead, mind you not, had been alive
this entire time.
And, apparently, she’s now the head nurse at the male lead’s hospital!
Yes, I literally went WTF when that plot point was revealed.
Like, how is she not dead?
How did she get a new ID?
How come she can get through all that medical school and nurse training and went up to a
head nurse already?
Whose identity did this woman steal?
Well, the series certainly did not answer any of those, but she’s a pretty scary villain,
so I guess bringing her back to life isn’t an overwhelmingly terrible decision.
Hwarang - The fainting spell i If you feel up to a visual party in a Kdrama
and enjoy the historical genre, Hwarang might just be an enjoyable watch - with a cast full
of big names like Park Seo Joon, Park Hyung Sik, Go Ara, Shinee’s Minho, BTS’s V,
the list goes on..
Following a group of soldiers called Hwarang, the series is all about bromances, boyhood,
and like all historical dramas - is filled with political scheming.
It was not a perfect fit but nevertheless an enjoyable watch.
Still, there was a quite glaring plot hole.
In particular, the male lead of Hwarang, aka Moo Myung, was shown to suffer from fainting
spells throughout the entire series.
He always gets dizzy, loses focus in the eyes, and just loses consciousness out of the blue.
This was apparently a very dire and serious condition, seeing that the female lead’s
father, who’s a doctor, had mentioned that he needs to get the fainting treated as soon
as possible, or else he’d be beyond medical help.
Up to episode 16, our dashing male lead still got himself knocked out at the most inopportune
times - which means the ailment is something very, very critical plot line, right?
Well, apparently not, because very soon we reach the series’ finale, and… absolutely
nothing is mentioned about this supposedly deadly condition.
Did the male lead get cured?
Did he just grow out of it?
What even caused the fainting?
Well, the answer is, none of us know.
To this day, it remains a mystery - perhaps it’s there just for the dramatics?
Flower of Evil - Do Min Seok’s death Flower of Evil had been a plenty great series.There’s
a lot of action, investigation, mind games, and yet, the main leads, played by talented
actors Lee Jun Ki and Moon Chae Won, spotted a chemistry so great, it was on par with the
most heart-fluttering romance.
The series, for the most part, had been extremely gloomy, as our male lead Do Hyun Soo took
up the identity of the comatose man Baek Hee Sung, and were on the run after being suspected
for murder.
For more context, Hyun Soo was ostracized in his village because his father Do Min Seok
was a serial killer, and had committed suicide before he paid his due.
People believed him to be a psychopath without emotions, and that he had assisted his father
in the killing.
Well, turns out, the real Hee Sung had been the true murderer, and was also behind Min
Seok’s death - bashing his head to pulps with a giant stone.
But… wasn’t Min Seok’s death declared as suicide for like… the entire series?
Personally, I don’t think anyone can look at a dead man with a bloody head and a skull
completely bashed in and rule that as a suicide.
If Do Min Seok were revealed to have been killed, then perhaps the course of the entire
series would have changed, so I’d say this plot point seems pretty important.
Perhaps Hee Sung had made the dead body seemed like a suicide?
How?
Well, we’d never know.
Crash Landing on You - Seri going back to South Korea
Ok, real quick summary: Crash Landing on You started as billionaire slash major businesswoman
Yoon Seri found herself all the way in North Korea after a paragliding incident went wrong.
And for over half of the series, she struggled to find her way back home with the help of
handsome military man Ri Jeong Hyeok - and of course, developed feelings for him along
the way.
Long story short, they tried basically every method out there, and had to dodge several
bullets and mishaps before Seri finally escaped in episode 9, taking a literal step across
the border and leaving behind the happiest place she had ever been.
It had been an extremely emotional moment, as she was back to a rigid Seri, without all
her new friends as well as her budding love.
Fortunately, the tears hadn’t lasted all that long, and she was soon reunited with
the entire gang just a couple of episodes later.
They apparently had crossed the borders super simply with the help of the male lead’s
father who’s politically big, and had gone out of North Korea, completely undetected.
Which begs the question, why hadn’t the male lead just asked for his father’s help
to send Seri home?
If they keep her in North Korea, Jeong Hyeok woulđ inevitably get into trouble, so his
father might be very willing to help, right?
Literally everything will be solved in just a blink of the eye.
But then, the series would end way too quickly if such were the case, so I guess this plot
hole is actually important to the plot?
Now, before we reach the end of this list filled with plot holes, let’s recount some
honorable mentions: Memories of Alhambra - the entire function
of “the game”: just what caused the glitches?
And what kind of glitch can erase an entire human out of existence?
A Korean Odyssey - the entire premise regarding the female lead’s blood: In the series,
the blood of the female leads can attract supernatural beings…
so… why hadn’t her not realized any of this despite being a girl in her twenties?
Missing Nine - the entire ending: Despite my habit of rooting for the villains, Missing
Nine ending where a murderer gets chummy with his victims’ family just… doesn’t make
sense And, finally, we have plot hole number 5.
Now We Are Breaking Up - The misunderstanding.
We already discussed this in a previous video, but here it goes.
In Now We Are Breaking Up, our gorgeous and independent female lead, played by actress
Song Hye Kyo, had grown a bit jaded about love, due to her previous relationship that
ended on a sour note.
It was intriguing, before the grand reveal, and I was curious to see what exactly caused
her to be that way, but it turns out to be a major plot hole.
To sum up, our female lead was in a long term relationship with the male lead’s older
brother, and was deeply in love.
However, on a day where they were supposed to have a date, the lover died in a car accident,
and thus the female lead ended up waiting for him for hours on end.
She felt betrayed, and not knowing of his death, believed that she had been abandoned
and that her feelings of years had all gone to waste.
It was heart-breaking to watch when our character finally learned the truth, and Song Hye Kyo’s
acting of grief pulled very strongly on my heartstrings.
However, in retrospect - this entire plot line doesn’t make any sense!
Like, how do one not know their lover is dead?
It’s the era of technology where news covers literally every inch of the earth.
And even if there’s no news about the death, shouldn’t the lover’s family at least
contact our female lead?
I’d call this quite the major plot hole…
And that’s the list!
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