Nevertheless (2021) came out on Netflix during the height of the COVID crisis, and so I was more likely to watch dramas then that I wouldn't ordinarily watch, just out of boredom! This drama was a bit rough for me, with multiple simulated sex scenes, so much so that I thought I was watching an American television show. Like many K-drama fans I like to escape to Korean dramas to avoid that steamy stuff. I was glad this one was only ten episodes long and I was relieved when it was over. The ratings for this one in Korea were poor, too, only about 1 to 2 percent.

The main actors included Song Kang from the Love Alarm double series, and Han So Hee from the far superior Soundtrack 1, 100 Days My Prince, and My Name. They were solid actors, it was just the script that annoyed me. It was based on a web-toon by Jung Seo, and directed by Kim Ga Ram. People who read the web-toon first said they preferred the toon over the TV version.

The Story:

University student Park Jae Eon (Song Kang) is a talented art major. He appears affable on the outside but deep down he has trouble sincerely caring about people, especially the women he dates. He has no interest in a true romantic relationship, only one night stands.

Then he meets an especially talented female art student majoring in sculpture named Yoo Na Bi (nabi is the word for butterfly in Korean) and surprisingly he finds himself starting to care for her, but is slow to admit to himself that he does. She in turn is slow to warm to him since she recently broke up with a boyfriend because he was cheating on her.

They do have one thing in common though: they love Art. With such a shared passion they slowly get past their romantic avoidance syndromes and begin to get serious with one another, although it escalates physically before it starts to deepen romantically.

Family and friends are wary about their growing relationship but ultimately it will be up to both of them as individuals to decide if what they feel for one another is just a passing fancy or something truly meaningful and real. As graduation time approaches those decisions become even more critical to both of them.

Check it out on Netflix to see what you think about it. For some reason I only saw an English dub available for this drama, which was another reason I had trouble warming to it. Long time Korean drama fans want to hear the original actors' voices, not poor English dubs.

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