When It's At Night

Title: Night After Night / When it’s at night
Genre: Romance and Comedy
Starring:
Kim Sun Ah as Heo Cho Hwi
Lee Dong Gun as Kim Bum Sang
Kim Jung Hwa as Wang Joo Hyun
Lee Joo Hyun as Kang Shi Wan

Episodes: 17

Broadcast network: MBC
Aired: 2008-Jun-23 to 2008-Aug-19


Synopsis :

Kim Bum Sang was a university arts lecturer who got passed over for promotion due to lack of family connection. He specialized in examining and restoring archeological treasures. All he wanted was to make a name for himself and get ahead in this world. He was an art expert who used high-tech gadgets and his extensive knowledge to detect forgeries… Heo Cho Hwi, on the other hand, worked as an inspector at the Cultural Heritage Administration Theft Division, in the hope that it would help her find her father, who was a treasure hunter-thief and had been missing for 7 years. The story evolves art thefts and how these two people clashes in their pursuit and how they find love along the way. There are other people such as the inspectors who delicate themselves to catching tomb raiders out of patriotism and tomb raiders who can tell apart a Goryeo celadon from a white celadon by just smelling the dirt surrounding them. These people are involved in cases surrounding cultural heritages and the ups and downs of their lives unfold in this drama.


My thoughts my says :

I think Lee Dong Gun acted very well as Kim Bum Sang. Right after a long break from his TV series in 2006, this is quite a come back! He acted as the suave and well dressed university arts lecturer with a flirtatious roving eyes for beautiful women. His character later matured to define him as a man who can commit to one woman when he falls in love. He also has a sense of righteousness towards the stolen archeological treasures and eventually, he stood out to fight for his friends’ lives. He realised that he was no longer the guy who just wanted to make a name for himself through all crafty ways. He also had a strong bond with Heo Cho Hwi’s brother, Heo Gyoon . I quite enjoy the part when Heo Gyoon kept calling Kim Bum Sang brother-in-law right after the first meeting with him.

Kim Sun Ah is a very good actress. She is the heroine, Heo Cho Hwi, in this drama. She has always been the righteous and sensible girl, who feels that it is better to keep a thief in the prison then to be left on the run. She gave simple reasons that the thief’s family will be able to visit him anytime in the prison and at the same time he will be fed and will have a bed to sleep. She had all these thoughts out of the concerns for her father, who was a thief and had lost contact with her for seven years. She was actually a soft-hearted person but looked cool and stern on the surface. Though she did not agree with Kim Bum Sang initially in cases of the stolen cultural heritage pieces that they have to solve together, she realized she had fallen for him when he helped her to find the missing links to testify her father’s death and her brother’s innocence. She was shy in expressing her feelings towards the man she loved and was living in the memory of her father.

Although nothing much is said about how their relationship will develop, it was subtly hinted by Chief Noh Jung Pil during his farewell speech that both of them will marry. It is thus a happy ending for sure with a rather satisfactory kiss of love and encouragement from Heo Cho Hwi (Kim Sun Ah) to Kim Bum Sang (Lee Dong Gun).