Today, we’ll be discussing Episode 1 of Crash Landing On You, the hit K Drama on Netflix starring Hyun Bin as Ri Jyeong hyeok, Son Ye-jin as Yoon Se-ri, Seo Ji-hye as Seo Dan and Kim Jung-hyun as Gu Seung joon. We discuss:

• The song we feature during the recap: Give You My Heart by IU.
• The title of this K Drama in Korean is 사랑의 불시착, which translate to Love’s Emergency Landing, or Love’s Crash Landing.
• How this show was inspired by a real event involving South Korean actress Jung Yang, whose leisure boat drifted into the maritime boundary between North and South Korea and had to be rescued.
• Some familiar elements that we saw in Queen of Tears.
• We introduce our characters:
  • Captain Ri Jyeong hyeok
  • Yoon Se-ri
  • Captain Ri’s men, including Sergeant Pyo Chi Su, Soldier Kim Ju Meok, and Private Geum Eun Dong
  • Se-ri’s father, the Chairman of the Queens Group, and her mother
  • Se-ri’s competitive brothers and their conniving wives
  • Gu Seung joon
• Why there is a North Korea and a South Korea.
• A bit about the origins of the Korean War.
• Sung Hee’s visit to the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) in 2011, with her father.
• How the Chairman has just been released from prison and he names Se-ri as his successor, causing anger and angst among her brothers.
• Se-ri goes paragliding to test out a new line of extreme sportswear, and she gets caught in a freak tornado.
• How Se-ri ends up in North Korea, gets caught by Captain Ri, runs away, and ends up in a North Korean village.
• How Se-ri is almost caught by commanding officer Cho Cheol Gang but Captain Ri grabs her and tucks her away inside his gate in the nick of time.
• Why Captain Ri would save Se-ri from Cho Cheol Gang.
• The grave robbers who turn out to be hired by Cho Cheol Gang, and who orders the grave robbers killed after they disclose the locations of the artifacts.
• How we are up to 45 K Drama elements!
• What we’re watching right now, besides Crash Landing On You, of course.

References

• US Relations with North Korea
• Give You My Heart by IU on YouTube