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| Discovery of Love |
Also known as: Finding True Love / Discovery of Romance / Discover Love
Genre: Romance, comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2014-Aug-18 to 2014-Oct-??
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 22:00
Original Soundtrack: Discovery of Love OST
Han Yeo-reum (Jung Yoo Mi) is a furniture designer who owns a workshop space that she shares with other designers. For the past three years, she's been dating Nam Ha-jin (Sung Joon), a plastic surgeon with a sweet and gentle personality. But Yeo-reum's peaceful existence is shaken when her ex-boyfriend Kang Tae-ha (Eric Moon) suddenly reappears in her life.
The CEO of an interior design company, Tae-ha is a smart, confident man with a strong competitive edge who always gets what he wants. Meanwhile, Ha-jin's childhood friend Ahn Ah-rim has secretly been carrying a torch for him all these years.
As she begins working with Tae-ha, Yeo-reum is forced to reevaluate her romantic history as old feelings ignite again, which sets her off on a search for true love.
"Discovery Of Love" chronicles the journey of these souls stuck in a love square and begs the quest—will they be able to finally find true love?
Schedule:
# Date: Title:| 1 | 2014-08-18 | How did we end up sleeping in the same bed? |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2014-08-19 | Will you break up with him and come back to me? |
| 3 | 2014-08-25 | |
| 4 | 2014-08-26 | |
| 5 | 2014-09-01 | |
| 6 | 2014-09-02 | |
| 7 | 2014-09-08 | |
| 8 | 2014-09-09 | |
| 9 | 2014-09-15 | |
| 10 | 2014-09-16 | |
| 11 | 2014-09-22 | |
| 12 | 2014-09-23 | |
| 13 | 2014-09-29 | |
| 14 | 2014-09-30 | |
| 15 | 2014-10-06 | |
| 16 | 2014-10-07 |
Main Cast:
Jung Yoo Mi as Han Yeo Reum
Eric as Kang Tae Ha
Sung Joon as Nam Ha Jin
Yoon Jin Yi as Ahn Ah Rim
Yoon Hyun Min as Do Joon Ho
Kim Seul Gi as Yoon Sol
Extended Cast:
?? as Shin Yoon Hee
?? as Bae Min Soo
Lee Seung Joon as Yoon Jung Mok
Sung Byung Sook as Ha Jin's mom
Goo Won as Choi Eun Kyu
Jung Soo Young as Jang Ki Eun
Heo Ji Woong (허지웅)
Discovery of Romance / Finding True Love Review:
I admit, I didn’t have high hopes for this drama. But man, did that first episode deliver! Kang Tae Ha and Han Yeo Reum’s paths cross after their bitter break up five years ago. Somehow, Han Yeo Reum found herself in Kang Tae Ha’s bed. She had to lie to Nam Ha Jin about her whereabouts. It’s her birthday and from the previous episode, Ha Jin wants to propose to her already.
As Yeo-reum sings her song onstage, Ha-jin and Tae-ha stare at each other, each man sizing up his competition. The song finishes and the guys shake hands and comment on how often they see each other lately. Sol makes introductions, and Ha-jin keeps it to himself that he knows this is the man that Yeo-reum spent the night with.
He asks Tae-ha how he and Yeo-reum ended up working together, and Tae-ha gives a professional answer without revealing their personal relationship. Yeo-reum drags Sol to the bathroom to fuss at her for inviting Ha-jin, and Sol assures her that she made Tae-ha promise not to mention they used to date.
The guys exchange business cards and stand there awkwardly, and Ha-jin thinks how women can become instant friends but men need to size each other up first. Tae-ha asks if Ha-jin plays pool and suggests a game. You know, for fun.
Both men try to fool the other by saying they haven’t played in a while, but the game gets intense pretty quickly. Soon they’re talking smack and “accidentally” body-checking each other, as both of them admit to being competitive. Ha-jin gets a boost of confidence when both girls cheer for him, and he wins handily when Tae-ha flubs a few shots. Ha-jin says they should have laid a bet on the game, and Tae-ha challenges him to another game next week.
Yeo-reum’s mother arrives at her workplace to find Producer Bae there using her shower, and she throws out his nasty shoes. She tells Gi-eun to buy him a new pair, which is kind of sweet despite her grumpiness about it.
At the bar, Yeo-reum offers herself and Ha-jin to wait until Tae-ha’s designated driver arrives, and he glowers when he notices the couple ring she wears. Haha, I love the western-shootout background music as the guys send each other bland I’m totally not jealous of you at all glares.
Ha-jin drives Yeo-reum and a drunk Sol home, and demands to know how Yeo-reum ended up in a business partnership with Tae-ha. She’s reluctant to explain and he says he’ll let it go if she doesn’t, but warns her against letting him come up with explanations on his own.
She still won’t talk, so Ha-jin angrily pulls over and reminds her that she slept over at Tae-ha’s house. She hotly denies that anything happened, and Ha-jin says he can accept all the coincidences of them meeting at the hotel, switching phones, and her falling asleep at his place – but asking him to accept that their working together is another coincidence is too much. Yeo-reum apologizes for not telling him, but says that she’s innocent, and her proof is that they invited Ha-jin out with them tonight. If she were guilty, wouldn’t she try to hide?
Tae-ha takes care of his bunny and complains to her that Yeo-reum hasn’t changed, falling head over heels whenever she meets someone new. He asks the bunny (whom he’s named Han Yeo-reum, cute) if all girls are like that. If Bunny Yeo-reum knows, she’s not talking.
Ha-jin is still complaining about Tae-ha when he drops Yeo-reum at home, saying he was much too intense for a friendly game of billiards. Yeo-reum assures him that Tae-ha is just like that – he’s arrogant and hates losing. Ha-jin grumpily asks for a kiss, but Yeo-reum says he should kiss her since he suspected her for nothing, and he adorably sulks that he always loses.
Ha-jin starts to drive off but Sol pops up out of the backseat, scaring him (and me!) half to death. She assures him that everything Yeo-reum said was true and goes inside, and he leaves feeling a bit more reassured. Tae-ha texts Yeo-reum to complain that she spoke to him formally in front of her boyfriend, and she asks him to speak formally too next time, since Ha-jin is feeling insecure.
Producer Bae is upset about his missing shoes, because they were the last thing his deceased wife bought for him. Awww. Mom asks if he liked his wife that much when she was always accusing him of cheating, and he says earnestly that she’s the only woman he’s ever loved. WHAP, script to the face. Mom reminds Producer Bae that he did cheat on his wife… ten years ago, with her. Oh, interesting.
Sol tells Joon-ho that Ha-jin knows more about Tae-ha than they hoped, but he still doesn’t know that he and Yeo-reum dated for five years. Joon-ho warns the girls not to let him know since men can’t be cool about their girls’ exes, and can be really childish when confronted with a girl’s romantic past.
The girls do some “research” by watching movies (of course) and even foreign ones, and they conclude that all over the world, men are nuts. Sol asks if Yeo-reum thinks Ha-jin is different, and Yeo-reum imagines him freaking out and throwing a hissy fit when he finds out that she dated Tae-ha for five long years and slept with him.
At the clinic, Ha-jin brings Joon-ho to the roof to apologize to him for kicking him in the shin, then kicks him in the shin. HA. He throws out the name Kang Tae-ha and notes that Joon-ho knows it well. He demands the info on Tae-ha, but he knows Joon-ho is lying when he says Tae-ha is just working with the ladies and there’s nothing more to it.
Sol hasn’t given up on Eun-kyu and drunk-texts him to hang out as friends, but she’s not happy when he agrees to her suggestion. Joon-ho grabs her phone and, like the good oppa he is, calls the jerk to ream him for playing with Sol’s feelings. He hands the phone back to Sol and says, “That’s what you should tell him.” Haha, why am I not surprised he didn’t actually call him?
Tae-ha and Yoon inspect a construction site, and Tae-ha asks if Yoon plays billiards and whether he knows an instructor. He wants to take lessons for a week… oh, that’s cute. And hilarious.
The ladies arrive at Tae-ha’s workplace for their presentation, and Sol is impressed with the size and success of the company. Tae-ha tries to throw wrenches into their design plans, but they manage to field his questions deftly, impressing everyone but Tae-ha who says they need to work on the plans some more. They plan a marathon work session, and Sol voluntells Yeo-reum to work it while she mans the shop.
Unused to the long hours, Yeo-reum keeps nodding off during the work marathon and Tae-ha is ruthless about keeping her awake. She finally falls asleep for good on the work table, and he covers her with his jacket and smiles at her ability to fall asleep anywhere.
Sol gets drunk (again) at their restaurant hangout, and a friend of the owner (the cab driver who caught his daughter outside a motel) objects to Joon-ho trying to take her home, assuming he’s going to take advantage of her. He hits Joon-ho over the head repeatedly, telling him to treat her right if he wants to date her. Joon-ho finally wrangles Sol home and into bed, and it seems to hit him right in the feelings when she whispers, “Oppa, thank you. There’s no one but you.”
Joon-ho wanders into another of Ah-rim’s jobs and thinks back to their childhood after her accident, when he’d held her hand as she got her stitches out. The nice doctor comments on how brave she is, and she says that when she’s with her brother she never cries (as pointed out in the previous recap comments, it’s still unclear whether they’re blood-siblings or not, but for now I’m going with the relationship they claim which is brother and sister).
The doctor says she’ll have a big scar, but Ha-jin declares that he’ll become a doctor and fix it for her. Adult Ha-jin trails after Ah-rim, and she certainly seems to be a happy person as she skips and sings her way home that night.
Producer Bae attends a support meeting for people who have been hurt by their partners (haha, his nametag says “ghost husband”) and tells them all how his dead wife follows him around nagging so much that he can’t sleep. A woman whose tag identifies her as part of a “silent couple” says she envies him because at least his wife talks to him.
The morning after the marathon work session Tae-ha brings in PPL smoothies, and a rumpled Yeo-reum demands to know how he can work long hours and still be awake. He says he sleeps when he sees his girlfriend (remembering sleeping on the train with her). She says that’s why he got dumped, but he says he’s never been dumped. He reminds her how she begged him to come back after breaking up with him.
Ha-jin visits Ah-rim at work again, and this time she sees and recognizes him. He claims to be there to buy a bike but just buys the first thing she shows him. He asks her if she plans to get her scar fixed but she says that she can’t, since there’s someone who might recognize her by it. He wouldn’t know her face, but he would know that scar. Ha-jin looks shocked for a moment, then gives her his card and offers to fix it for free whenever she’s ready.
Yeo-reum rides the weird bike around Ha-jin’s apartment and falls, causing him to cluck over her like a mother hen. She takes advantage and claims that eeeeverything hurts, but her lips are fine… Ha-jin obliges but tells her she can’t stay the night, since he’s playing hard to get.
Tae-ha shows up for his billiards lesson and whines to Yoon that it’s a woman instructor (cameo by billiards player Cha Yoo-ram), but she makes some great shots and impresses him. She gives him some good pointers but when he goes in for a high-five, she totally leaves him hanging. LOL.
Yeo-reum brings Tae-ha the final plans, but he says nothing is final, causing her to complain about his controlling work habits. They sign the contract and she invites him to eat, and they head to the mall where Tae-ha holds Yeo-reum’s hand to avoid losing her in the crowd (though he accuses her of getting split up from him on purpose to have an excuse to hold hands).
Ha-jin and his mother are shopping at the same mall, and Ha-jin spots Tae-ha and Yeo-reum on the escalator still holding hands. He sends his mother home and chases after them.
When they get to the restaurant, Yeo-reum asks for her hand back, but Tae-ha holds it up like he did on the island and says they’re like that two-in-one tree again. Ha-jin watches them eat and calls Yeo-reum to ask where she is, but her honest answer that she’s eating with Tae-ha seems to reassure him somewhat that she’s not hiding anything. He still seems jealous but he can’t exactly do anything about it now.
Tae-ha asks Yeo-reum if her boyfriend has any faults like cheating, gambling, or bad breath, but she says he’s pretty much perfect. She asks why he’s curious and he states that he has to know his enemy if he wants to win. At pool… or whatever.
Tae-ha and Yeo-reum shop for wood, and they argue over whether to get the domestic wood or reclaimed. Yeo-reum says the customer won’t know the difference, but Tae-ha insists it’s still important to provide the best. Yeo-reum asks for a ride to Ha-jin’s office and to stop for ice cream on the way.
Later as he leaves work, Ha-jin is surprised when Ah-rim finds him to show him a picture of a boy with a cleft lip, and ask him to treat the boy for free instead of her. He easily agrees, and she runs with it by asking him to treat another boy. He keeps agreeing and she keeps thinking of more people who need free plastic surgery to correct injuries and birth defects. She’s so sweetly earnest, and he laughs as he tells her to bring everyone and he’ll fix them all for free.
Overcome, Ah-rim grabs Ha-jin in a big hug, which is right when Tae-ha drives up with Yeo-reum. He guns the motor so she doesn’t see her boyfriend hugging another girl, but just drives around the block since he has no explanation for his behavior. When they get back, Ha-jin and Ah-rim are gone and Yeo-reum gets out to go find Ha-jin.
Ha-jin takes Ah-rim for ice cream and buys some for each of her friends who need surgery. Tae-ha passes and sees Ha-jin now having ice cream with the girl he was hugging, and jumps to the wrong conclusion. Later, at home, Ah-rim looks at a photo of herself as a child with her orphanage friends, and makes a call to one of the nuns. Aw, were all of her “friends” in need of surgery from the orphanage?
Ha-jin’s nurse tells Yeo-reum he went home, which confuses her since his car is still downstairs and he’s not answering his phone. She leaves to find Tae-ha waiting for her again, and they sit in the park and eat the ice cream she bought (and now I’m jonesing for ice cream, thanks Show).
Yeo-reum asks Tae-ha how he knew Ha-jin had gone home, and he deliberately gives her vague answers. He asks why she’s dating that jerk since she should be sick of bad guys after dating him, but she insists Ha-jin is a good man. She gets mad when he brings up Ha-jin’s blind date and confiscates Tae-ha’s ice cream spoon, and he predicts that later she’ll be crying since the innocent-looking guys are the worst ones.
Tae-ha says at least he didn’t cheat on her, but Yeo-reum says that she knows he used to go clubbing when he claimed to be asleep. She gives his spoon back but warns him not to speak badly of her boyfriend again, and Tae-ha throws a hilarious ice-cream tantrum and refuses to eat any more.
The next day he goes for a last-minute billiards lesson and makes plans to meet Ha-jin that night for their challenge game. Ha-jin tells Yeo-reum that tonight is the night, promising to win, and she says she’ll be there to cheer him on.
When the guys meet, Tae-ha goes first, and Ha-jin clocks that he seems to have improved. When it’s Ha-jin’s turn, Tae-ha rattles him by commenting on the size of his practice, saying that he saw it when he dropped Yeo-reum off. Ha-jin grouchily mutters that they’re just full of coincidences.
Tae-ha says that was work, not a coincidence – the coincidence was that he saw Ha-jin with a girl. He tells Ha-jin that he should end things with that girl… or even better, end things with Yeo-reum. Ha-jin flatly asks if Tae-ha likes Yeo-reum, and we switch to interview style where Tae-ha insists he doesn’t like her and has no intention of getting back with her; he just doesn’t like that Ha-jin is seeing other women. But back at the billiards game, Tae-ha says to Ha-jin, “Why? I’m not allowed to like her?”
Now Ha-jin tells us from his interview that he doesn’t mind losing, but he won’t tolerate being provoked. He stares at Tae-ha from across the billiards table, then drops his cue and leaps over the table to kick Tae-ha square in the chest. Whoa, I did not see that coming.
Ha-jin stands on the billiards table and Tae-ha sweeps the leg, then jumps on him and starts pummeling him. They roll off the table and throw punches, and Yeo-reum arrives in time to see Tae-ha get Ha-jin on the floor and kick him in the stomach. He gets ready to punch Ha-jin one more time but Yeo-reum cracks a cue across his back, and the three of them freeze.