Commonalities in Park Hye-Ryun Stories

mostly "I Hear Your Voice" and "While You Were Sleeping"

but she also wrote Pinocchio, and all of those have the same male lead

I took these notes for myself, but figured they might be of interest to others.


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DON'T READ BELOW if you haven't watched both shows, because there will be spoilers.

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  • A policeman became a lawyer
  • Female lead is bright but appears not to be
  • Female lead is huge slob at home
  • Male lead knows things those around him don't
  • Crucial character from childhood not recognized
  • Someone lives longer specifically to assist another person
  • case of a woman accused of having killed her husband, but who has been threatened/harrassed continuously (central to one show, in passing in another)
  • young man whose father has died, taken in by a rural grandfather, who identifies him as a family member
  • romantic kiss, thwarted (by a seatbelt in "...Sleeping" and by a sun visor in "...Voice")
  • car accident wasn't really the cause of death
  • organ transplant ethics / disappointment (availability lost)
  • interplay involving lawyers, police, reporters

  • kdrama page with the list of things I've seen, and other links and notes * similarities in Song Ji-Na stories (Faith, Healer, Sandglass, Story of a Man, What's Up?)