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Jang Hye-sung’s decision was influenced by her own recent encounter with injustice and her strained relationship with former friend turned nemesis, Seo Do-yeon. Justice is served by 19-year-old witness, Jang Hye-sung, who risks her life to testify. Rendered mute by the head injury he received at the time, he is unable to communicate properly and faces the prospect of his father’s murderer walking free. When he was a child, Park Su-ha witnessed his father’s murder in a staged car crash. Show just works, despite everything about it that shouldn’t work: the cliched childhood connection through shared trauma, the large age gap, the overuse of kdrama tropes and the somewhat preachy writing about justice.ĭespite (or maybe even because of) all this, I Hear Your Voice really is the classic kdrama I remember it being and I’m happy to recommend it as a gateway drama to people exploring Korean content for the first time. Having rewatched I Hear Your Voice for the first time in a long time, I’m happy to report that the show holds up far more than I expected. In the case of I Hear Your Voice though, the romance is an issue only for the lead themselves and this is only one of the drama’s refreshing decisions. A true Noona romance is one where the age difference is an issue – either for the characters or for the people around them – in a way that it wouldn’t be if the leads’ genders were reversed. The popularity of Noona romances therefore comes from their inherent trangressiveness. Romances between a young woman and an older man are normalised so reversing this dynamic comes with a challenge to cultural mores and social standards. older sister) – are a product of Korea’s deeply hierarchical, age-based and hyper-patriarchal culture. Noona romances – where the woman is older than the man and is therefore his ‘Noona’ (lit.
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It’s almost the same age gap as the actors themselves. I Hear Your Voice was a Noona romance with a very large 12-year age gap between Lee Jong-suk’s 19/20 year old Park Su-ha and Lee Bo-young’s 31/32 year old Jang Hye-sung. This 2013 drama starred acting heavyweight Lee Bo-young as a public defender who gets help from – and eventually has a romance with – a much-younger telepath, played by the A-list model and actor, Lee Jong-suk. I Hear Your Voice is one of the first Korean dramas I remember watching.
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For new viewers, there are some old gems hidden behind Netflix’s algorithm and I Hear Your Voice is one of them. With Netflix purchasing half of Korea’s back catalogue, this nostalgia tour has been made much easier. The Covid19 lockdown has provided a good chance to catch up on some classic dramas.