Young Lady and Gentleman is a 2021 rom-com K-drama, starring Ji Hyun-Woo and Lee Se-Hee in the lead roles. Shin Chang-Seok’s directorial is a family drama revolving around a widower with three kids and a home tutor. KBS2’s weekend drama has a happy ending.
Ji Hyun-Woo plays the widower, Lee Young-Kook, and Lee Se-Hee portrays the home tutor’s role, Park Dan-Dan. The storyline revolves around Young-Kook’s life with his three kids. After his wife’s death, when he starts to feel the need for somebody to take care of his kids, he hires a home tutor to live with them. Despite not being able to move on from his wife’s untimely death, he begins to feel attracted to the tutor. How their relationship develops over time makes up the rest of the narrative.
Young Lady and Gentleman: Does it have a happy or a sad ending?
In the finale episode of Young Lady and Gentleman, all the unanswered questions were answered. Park Dan-Dan (Lee Se-Hee), who gets hired by Lee Young-Kook, has a complicated past. Even though she is quite competent in her work and has a bright personality, she keeps her charm to herself because of her troubled situation. Her real-life mother left her and her husband, Soo-Chul, to pursue her dreams in America. Soon after leaving them, she faced a massive accident, leading her to undergo reconstructive surgery.
In the meantime, Soo-Chul, not knowing what to do with his newborn baby (Dan-Dan), walks towards a water body with the little one in his arms. There, he meets his neighbor, Yeon-Sil, a recently widowed woman with a young son. She tries to talk him down and to save his life, she suggests he should marry her and raise the two kids together. Since then, Park Dan-Dan has started to live with a stepfamily. However, years later, Anna Kim (Dan-Dan’s real mother after the surgery) swoops her way back into their lives. Coincidentally, Anna and Young-Kook are old friends. Meanwhile, Young-Kook and Dan-Dan’s relationship blooms into a beautiful love story.
As Anna Kim is bonding with Dan-Dan and Soo-Chul, it is slowly revealed that she has cancer. She admits that she is Dan-Dan’s mother and asks Young-Kook to take care of her. Also, Yeon-Sil promises to stay by Dan-Dan’s side. On the other hand, after a lot of chaos and creating twisted situations for his daughter, Soo-Chul finally gives his blessing to Dan-Dan to have a future with Young-Kook. After having an on-and-off relationship with Young-Kook, when he finally proposes her marriage, she says yes, and they live happily ever after.
However, many viewers were not very happy with the ending. A lot of them have commented on Naver that they felt the drama was wrapped up in a hurry. There were many loopholes in the storyline, and the backgrounds of the characters were not well-written. Thus, the drama received a mixed reaction from the audience.
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For those who haven’t watched Young Lady and Gentleman yet, KBS2‘s drama is now streaming on Netflix, Viki, and a few other OTT platforms.
