Love story in Harvard
Suffice it to say, I haven’t been reading anything new in the last week. Been watching a Koreanovella, ‘Lovestory in Harvard’, and so far I’m hooked. My husband hates me to say anything, but the fact is, he’s the one who’s crazy about it and we’ve both been letting the dishes pile up in the kitchen sink and the dust accumulate around us because we’ve been both too engrossed watching the drama unfold.
Since we started watching the series (just one DVD, 16 chapters that’s equal to 16 hours!), we’ve covered nine chapters so far. We’ve agreed to leave the DVD at my mom’s because, well, we’ve neglected so many other things because of it and we’ve become such pigs.
Take this afternoon, for instance, we ate cake, ice cream, crispy pork rinds and Jelly Belly while watching. We barely left the front of the tv. Horrrrible.
Anyways, the series is interesting because the main characters are activist in their approach to their respective professions. One is a lawyer who advocates for foreign workers in Korea; and the other is a doctor who has herself deployed in poor hospitals and does research in disease-ridden countries so she can help find cures.
They both went to Harvard, but opted to go back to Korea and work there — particularly the lawyer. His main goal when he entered the halls of Harvard was to bring pride to his country and return home with honors. he immediately eschewed working for profit, and thinking of law in terms of a profession that would earn him big bucks.
Will finish the series next weekend. I already know that it’s going to be happy ending (pile up of tragedies and problems, but not all of them are personal — the big case is between the residents of a small village and a chemical company that’s owned by an American firm), and the protagonists will end up married, etc; but am mostly interested in how the story developed; how the characters developed their sense of justice and service to the people.
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Bought a Murakami the other day for P140 at Powerbooks. "Underground." It was originally P740.
