Disappointments: Bok-Hee Noona/Dear My Sister

Bok-Hee (Jang Mi In Nae) is a girl who studies very hard and works at a brewery. When she was 5-years-old, her parents' divorced and Bok-Hee then lived with her father. Her father later died in a coal mine accident.

Bok-Hee came to brewery company Dukchun with her younger stepbrother after her mother married Song Byung-Man, the owner of Dukchun. Bok-Hee addresses her mother as "aunt," to avoid getting her mother into trouble. Finally, people learn that Bok-Hee is the daughter. Her stepbrother is sent off to an orphanage and Bok-Hee leaves for Seoul.

Joon-Mo (Ryu Tae-Joon) worked as a stuntman, but due to injury had to quit his job and come to Dukchun to work as a temporary teacher. Joon-Mo meets Bok-Hee for the first time when she peers through a classroom window in which he teaches. Joon-Mo sees the passion in her eyes and becomes her mentor. 

Source: Asian Wiki
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Okay. So You would think that this synopsis was interesting and promising, right? Coupled with this and the male lead. My main reason for watching was  because Ryu Tae-Joon "seemed" like he was finally the male lead (as the poster points out)! I really anticipated his performance, and how can you not when he's so good-looking and that deep calm voice of his? I really liked him when I watched Hwang Jin-Yi, then was surprised to see him in "The Great Seer" and even more happy when I stumbled upon this drama he was starring in. However, I may have been too ahead of myself...

On to the poster now, which was the most misleading poster in k-drama history. We have the main lead Bok Hee (Jang Mi In Nae) and Joon Mo (Ryu Tae Joon) at a table sipping some tea, looking like a good lead couple. And then theres Young Pyo (Choi Woo Seok) peering in at them like a good drama 2nd wheel. This concept is the same as the main poster first posted. So why was this so misleading (to me)? 

Because the whole story didn't even play it out like that! There was no romance (from what I read) at all between any of these leads. But, hello? That was what I was anticipating the most! 

I wanted this:

Maybe what I was hoping the story would play out like, Bok Hui gets together with her mentor, marry and have hardships with the brewery but finally helps the brewery get back on it's feet 'together'. Reasonable, but did not happen.

I consider myself lucky for getting curious at how things would turn out, doing some research, reading the drama forums (till 12 at night) and getting devasted that the whole story and what the synopsis and posters were all just a lie! 

In fact, with my searching on naver the only pictures I got was of the 2nd lead and 2nd female lead (which might I say was really annoying I skipped most of her child-hood parts) and thinking to myself "where the bloody are pictures/spoilers of the leads? So I delve deeper into the soompi forum where I read 18 pages of the whole drama and come to find out that Ryu Tae Joon's character was a disappointment, he didn't even get to romance the lead because he was in love with some other unnessary side character who died in episode 80-ish and the second lead further does not romance the female lead but gets entangled with a the married step sister and mopes around a lot? 

I was flustered and my heart dropped, knowing that I had such high expections after reading the spoiler and waiting for Ryu Tae Joon to finally shine some-what. I wasted 22 episodes watching day and night (mainly the child-hood part) and a bit of the adult part to finally figure out, that if I watched the rest of the 100+ episodes, I would have wasted my time. And yes, luckily I found out sooner. 

So what does it tell me? If I'm watching dailies, expect major 'makjang' plots and maybe extreme skewness of plot from what the poster and synopsis tell you. And get disappointed if you want to see the male lead in a good role , but he ends up as a wimp or loser. 

Yes! I finally got this off my chest after a night of no-sleep. 

Other than that, I was quite pleased with the child-actors. They were fresh and pleasing to watch (although some characters wanted to make me double-slap them across the face). Hopefully they will have more chances to shine in the future.

I'm not saying this drama was bad, because I didn't even get to finish it, but it didn't meet my expectations and anticipation that had first set in. So, I guess it's better to do a bit of research on how the drama will turn out, or how good/bad it was, in case you don't want to be disappointed like I was.

goodbye , couple that never came true TT_TT