INSAENGEUN AREUMDAWO
DRAMA / ROMANTIC DRAMA / MUSICAL
SOUTH KOREA
2010-now
INSAENGEUN AREUMDAWO (Int. title: Life is Beautiful) is a 2010 South Korean television series. INSAENGEUN AREUMDAWO consists of 63 episodes.
STORY: The story of a Korean family living on Jeju Island, viewed through the eyes of its multiple generations. The drama revolves around a loving, multi-generation family led by the parents Yang Byung-tae (Kim Yeong-cheol) and Kim Min-jae (Kim Hae-sook), and their four children Tae-sub (Song Chang-eui), Ji-hye (Woo Hee-jin), Ho-sub (Lee Sang-yoon) and Cho-rong (Nam Gyu-ri), as well as assorted grandparents and uncles.
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE:. The oldest son Tae-sub's (Song Chang-eui) romantic pairing with divorced professor Kyung-soo (Lee Sang-woo), whose homosexual relationship their families react to while addressing issues of personal, social, and familial acceptance, leading to, finally, love and understanding.
Yang Tae-sub (Song Chang-eui) & Kim Kyung-soo (Lee Sang-woo)
SONG CHANG-EUI (2010-now) January 24, 1979, Seoul, South Korea
LEE SANG-WOO (2010-now) February 13, 1980, Seoul, South Korea
SPECIAL: Aside from scoring high ratings that were in the mid-twenty range during its run, the series is notable for its sensitive portrayal of a loving, openly gay couple in a Korean drama on primetime network television. Although the approach to homosexual themes is quite sympathetic, it has been argued that "major changes in the last episodes of 'Life is Beautiful' were made due to the strong opposition towards the issue," and that there are "no kissing scenes between the main actors in 'Life is Beautiful' in the midst of endless kissing scenes in other K-dramas that depict heterosexual couples
AWARDS: ‘INSAENGEUN AREUMDAWO’ 1 win and 2 nominations.
8.2 IMDB
