‘Strong Woman Do Bong Soon’.… A sweet punch of much needed female power.

‘Strong Woman Do Bong Soon’ is maybe the sweetest response to all the male centric shows out there. Do Bong Soon (wonderfully played by Park Bo Young), is small or peanut size as often described, but powerful, in the literal sense of terms. She can move cars with a small push, punch gangsters and send them flying into the air and even carry her two drunken friends back home. She hides these powers, but when a serial kidnapping case threatens her the safety of the women in her neighbourhood, she has no choice but to step up and help.

I have complaints, but keeping them aside, I loved the show! The main reason being the chemistry between Min Hyuk (Park Hyung Sik) and Bong Soon (Park Bo Young). I just wished I had gotten more of that, than all the creepy kidnapper angle, and the unnecessary comic side tracks, both of which seemed to be forced into the story line. The show fumbles between all this for a while, unable to decide if it has a to be a romantic comedy or a thriller, or both, because the sudden transitions between scenes don't seem to suggest that either. 

Park Bo Young plays a watered down version of her character from Hot Young Bloods, with more cute and less blood, and she is excellent in scenes of anger and frustration, while Park Hyung Sik is in his full element here as the fun, sarcastic yet lovable CEO of an online gaming company, and was a delight to watch!

Do Bong Soon wouldn’t exactly be the character we needed nor wanted, but will do just fine. Giving extreme strength to a character to define her as strong is not what I am looking for in terms of female character empowerment, but will do. For now. Baby steps, of course.