The Netflix drama ‘Fooled In Love’, which is receiving hot attention around the world, is adding to the fun with unique attractions.

The drama, which unfolds the lives of ‘the rebellious’ Ae-soon (IU), who was born in Jeju, and ‘the unstoppable iron’ Gwan-sik (Park Bo-gum), through the four seasons, is adding to its box office success by creating a buzz not only for the filming location, Jeju, but also for the art and background music.

As director Kim Won-seok, who was in charge of directing, explained, “I put a lot of effort into the screen and music with the thought that it has to be fun enough to justify the production cost,” the extraordinary things to see, which earned a huge production cost of 60 billion won, can be found everywhere.

The beautiful Jeju scenery, such as the blue Jeju sea and the yellow rapeseed flower field where Ae-soon and Ae-sik had their first kiss, fills the screen, and the music playing softly behind it increases the dramatic immersion.

In order to depict a time period of more than half a century from the 1960s to 2025, the production team conducted thorough research and used open sets and VFX (graphic effects) technology.

This was born from the hands of art director Ryu Sung-hee, who aesthetically perfected each and every scene in the drama. Director Ryu is a representative Korean art director, and has worked on Bong Joon-ho‘s ‘Memories of Murder’ ‘The Host’, Park Chan-wook’s ‘Oldboy’ ‘Decision to Leave’, and Choi Dong-hoon‘s ‘Assassination’.

Music also has a great power in highlighting beautiful images. In addition to the actors’ delicate acting, the music that touches the heart also played a major role.

A series of timeless hit songs are being played, including The Beatles‘ ‘Yesterday’, Nam In-soo’s ‘Inspiring Age’, Yang Hee-eun‘s ‘Me Too Secretly’, Kim Sang-hee’s ‘Bald Bachelor’, Kim Jeong-mi‘s ‘Wind’, Jeong Hyang’s ‘7 Days of Busan Port’, Kim Chu-ja‘s ‘Rumor Has It’, Jang Deok’s ‘Hey Hey’, and Seo Yu-seok‘s ‘Fairy’.

On YouTube and other sites, music that was played as background music rather than official drama OSTs is being shared together under the title ‘Life Drama Playlist’.

Director Kim Won-seok, who has always had a special interest in music, collaborated with music director Park Sung-il, who worked with him on ‘My Mister’ and ‘Signal’, to express the emotions of the time through music that contains a narrative.


Reporter Lee Jeong-yeon annjoy@donga.com

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