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SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Yonhap) -- The last wish of a terminally ill patient, an aspiring actor who wants to be on musical stage and the cry of the dead who wants to see her lost son at least for once.
According to a broadcasting industry on Wednesday, a heart-warming drama that carrys out the wishes of a terminally ill patient preparing for end of his life and a deceased is gaining sympathy from the viewers.
MBC TV Wednesday-Thursday drama "May I Help You" revolves around funeral director who can to the deceased grants wishes of the dead. Singer-actress Lee Hye-ri plays Baek Dong-ju, a funeral director with special abilities and join the last path of the deceased.
The heartbreaking stories of the dead, from a husband asking to find one billion won which he had been saving up for his wife as a surprise gift to pregnant wife who asks to stop her husband from committing suicide after her death, bring tears to the eyes
Butler Kim (Lee Joon-young), an employee of an errand company Ildangbaek, joins Baek Dong-ju's secret project. While Kim, a good-hearted butler, is suspicious of Baek Dong-ju, he helps those with heartbreaking stories,
Viewers expressed their sympathies saying, "Stories are all desperate", "It's a drama that makes you feel like you can do anything", "It makes my eyes water thinking about how good it would have been if I had such time to talk with father, who suddenly passed away 10 years ago."
KBS 2TV also recently aired a healing drama "If You Wish Upon Me," which makes wishes of terminally ill patients come true in the background of a hospice hospital.
Girls' Generation member and actor Choi Soo-young and Ji Chang-wook, who each played a hospice hospital nurse Seo Yeon-joo and Yoon Gyeo0rye,a young man at the brink of his life, form "Genie team" who grants wishes of the patients.
What these two dramas have in common is they solve cases that can actually happen in real lives by granting the wishes of the dead.
Guy who has been living his whole life hating his father sobs when he realizes that his father has actually been looking for him, and terminally ill patient happily closes his eyes after his wish, which he bleieved impossible due to his health, comes true.
The efforts characters put in to grant the wishes of other people makes the drama more heart-warming. It distinguishes from intensive dramas in which people prioritize their benefits and easily betrays people.
Ha Jae-geun, a popular culture critic, said, "Atmosphere of dramas that solve a case or problem is difficult, but the wish-granting dramas add warm and touching humanism while also solving the case," adding, "More viewers want heart-warming stories as the world is becoming hard-hearted. These kinds of dramas are becoming another new genre."
Although it does not tell different stories in each episode, KBS 2TV drama "Curtain Call," which kicked off with the setting of granting the last wish of an elderly who was separated from her family during the Korean War, aired this week.
Go Doo-shim, who plays an elderly grandmother Ja Geum-soon who misses her family she left behind in the North, conveys the pain of national history with a heavy yet touching acting, and Kang Ha-neul, who plays as a young man who pretends to be a her grandson, will be presenting heart-warming stories.
Ha critic said, "Dramas often use social issues like separated families to get sympathy from many viewers," adding, "The strength of drama is to resolve one's resentment through the drama."
(This article is translated from Korean to English by Jiwon Woo.)
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