Jang Dong-yoon finds a bittersweet Oasis
by tccolb
The first teaser has arrived for KBS’s period romance Oasis with Jang Dong-yoon (Search), Seol In-ah (Business Proposal), and Choo Young-woo (Once Upon a Small Town) taking us through the blooms of their friendship and love, before spiraling us into the story’s angst.
Set during the turbulent 1980s in South Korea, our poor but bright country boy Lee Doo-hak (Jang Dong-yoon) is smitten from the get-go when the confident Seoulite Oh Jung-shin (Seol In-ah) moves into town.
Together with top student Choi Chul-woong (Choo Young-woo), the three become fast friends. But alas, as this is dramaland, trouble starts to brew in the form of love triangles as well as the tragic circumstances of their times.
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The video teaser begins in happy landscapes with our two boys racing off to school together as Chul-woong asks Doo-hak, “Hyung, do you think you can beat me.” The appearing text screen explains that this was, “Our brightest moments.” We then cut to Doo-hak’s first encounter with Jung-shin and we follow our trio through the sequence as their friendship grows.
Doo-hak shares that Jung-shin’s face keeps flashing before his eyes and that his heart sounds like a beating drum. But Jung-shin calls them crazy, appalled at their thinking that she would want to date when they’ve caused her so much suffering. Still, she surprises Doo-hak by kissing him in the field, leading to an angry Chul-woong stalking off.
Confronting Chul-woong in the rain, Doo-hak questions, “Is it okay if you live and I die?” But when Doo-hak is taken away by the police, Chul-woong just stands by while Jung-shin tries to protest. We then jump to our trio at Doo-hak’s court hearing and we close on his narration: “If I didn’t meet you then, would that have changed my fate?”
Directed by PD Han Hee (Goodbye Mr. Black, Empress Ki) with Jung Hyung-soo (Kye Baek, Damo) penning the scripts, Oasis premieres on March 6 in KBS’s Monday-Tuesday slot.
