Run to You

I’d like to recommend a K-drama. “Run On” came to me at a really special time in my life. I had seen it floating around Netflix but for some reason I was never motivated enough to watch. I think this is partly because I had fallen out of love with Korean dramas. The first time a show ever moved my heart was when I finished watching “Dream High”. Korean dramas became the reason why I wanted to write movies and they became the reason why I decided to pursue this path. But just like how I had lost sight of the Korean dramas that were my inspiration, when you’re constantly running toward a goal it’s very easy to lose sight of what it is that made you run in the first place. “Run On'“ gave me purpose again. I saw in the characters flashes of who I have become and of who I wish to be. Oh Mi-Joo has a monologue toward the end of the drama that I will never forget. She says, “I really want to get along with myself. I don’t want to love myself too much, but I don’t want to be too hard on myself either.” I suddenly realized the difficulty of living a balanced life. And in this realization, I came to understand just how lucky I am in this moment. I originally set out to write scripts that comforted people, that healed their souls and touched their hearts. But I had lost my way in the search to be different. To craft fantastical stories that no one else in the world has ever come across before. Ki Seon-Gyeom and Oh Mi-Joo brought me back to that original goal. I just want to create characters that run alongside viewers. Characters that struggle, fail, and love just like we do. I want my characters to comfort those who watch them because we all need to know that we are not alone. Grasping onto this dream, I will run to you. Please wait for me.