My Love from the Star - Love Always Runs Away - Lim Young Woong

"My Love from the Star" is a Korean drama which tells the story of an alien who has been on earth for 400 years without making an attachment but just before he must return, he falls for an actress. She doesn't want him to leave but he'll die if he stays, so she has to accept it. He leaves and works at returning for minutes at a time until, finally, he manages to stay for longer and longer times. Gives a new meaning to "long distance relationship."

This was an experiment. The song is in Korean but all the translations I've seen were jarring in trying to read words that didn't match the syllables or stress I was hearing. So using the various translations to get a notion of how much leeway was allowed in translating, I tried my hand at subtitling to get something in English which was more consistent with the Korean sounds. Felt like one of those anti-alzheimer's puzzles.

It's been almost a year since I did one of these. I was invited to my first virtual book publishing party and the academic book on fan-made music videos actually had a chapter about the Mary Van Deusen school of video making, which is narrative. Apparently that was the kick needed to go back to work on these.

The song, Love Always Runs Away, is from "Young Lady and Gentleman" which wins my vote for Worst Asian Drama EVER. The song, however, is wonderful.

The drama, "My Love from the Star," is available on viki, but in the top subscription category, which is $10/month. It has a 9.5 out of 10 rating for 21 episodes and stars Kim Soo Hyun as the alien.

https://www.viki.com/tv/20503c-my-love-from-the-star

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