There are times in life when you feel like you’re stuck running the same routine day in and day out like a hamster running on a wheel. You have no change in your day-to-day activities and there seems to be no signs of possible change happening anytime soon. What would you do to get out of that rut? What advice can one give to someone who is stuck in such a rut? The answer perhaps, is to break the habit, to break the monotonous cycle with force of might and mind. Sometimes it can happen that one’s job is going smoothly and there appears nothing to complain about or crib over, but there lacks a sense of fulfillment. What does one do in such situations? One seeks avenues to reach that sense of fulfillment. One strives to make it a habit to indulge in activities and routines that help boost one’s sense of fulfillment and living.
The drama we’re talking about today falls somewhere along these lines. The said drama is One Day Off starring Lee Na Young. She was last seen in the romance drama Romance is a Bonus Book opposite Lee Jong Suk. One Day Off also marks her comeback to the small screen after three years. The drama premiered on May 24, 2023 on the online platform wavve. First four out of total eight episodes of the show are airing and the remaining four will air on May 30, 2023, thus completing the story.
Written by Son Mi, who penned the story for the film Samjin Company: English Class, and helmed by Lee Jong Pil, One Day Off is set in the 1990s where Lee Na Young’s character Park Ha Kyung is a teacher of Korean Literature at a high school. She likes to go on one-day trips, meet new people and indulge in delicious food. She is not unhappy in her life, but her one-day trips are an escape from her life during the week and her life at school. She is eccentric and funny in her own way.
Her one-day trips are often seen by people as something out of the ordinary as she has also traveled long distances back and forth in just a day’s time. It can get very tiring to do so and usually people stick to a 2-day trip for long distances. But not Ha Kyung. She likes her one-day visits. These visits act like a rabbit hole in Ha Kyoung’s life which transports her to a new world where she learns more about things around and about herself.
Throughout the story, there is a sense of calm and stillness that transcends the barriers of the digital screens and reaches the audience who are seeking comfort and solace from their own fast paced lives. As Ha Kyung traipses around new locales and meets new people, she also grows to learn a few things about herself. One Day Off is the kind of drama that captures your attention and at the same time makes you ponder about your own life too.
The experiences that Ha Kyung has sometimes feel quite relatable as she faces questions about her love life, her personal life and of course her one-day trips. The narrative switches to past and present in Ha Kyung’s life giving enough material to understand what she is currently going through. During the course of her trips she not only finds answers to her questions but also manages to sort the problems of those who approach her with theirs. She might look aloof and standoffish upon first impression, but she is anything but that. She has her quirks and likes her own company enough to indulge a solo journey through various locations across the country.
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One Day Off’s charm lies in the nostalgia that it invokes with the 90s filter to the story. It takes the viewer’s back to the days when the internet was still in its nascent stages, social media did not exist, and people relied more on diaries, journals and photographs to document their memories. The storytelling starts on a subdued, mellow pace which remains during the entirety of the episode. Within just 30 minutes, the makers of the show and Lee Na Young manage to extricate the intricate workings of the human mind. The landscape zooms in and out suiting the narrative happening on screen. The whitewashed, olive and sepia toned landscape interspersed in the story along with the actual journey that Ha Kyoung undertakes to reach new places supplicate the viewers’ thirst to travel, to break the cycle and get out of the rut. So, when do you plan on taking one day off?
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