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Choi Sooyoung and Gong Myung star in ‘Second Shot At Love.’ Viki.com K-drama characters often meet and grow closer over drinks. Soju, makkgeoli and beer loosen tongues, let secrets slip, and often result in characters doing things they would rather not remember the next day, even if they enjoyed them. Drinking might cause problems in the lives of such k-drama characters, but is less often seen as having the potential to ruin these fictional lives. That’s not the case in Second Shot At Love, in which Choi Sooyoung plays someone who drinks to excess and uses alcohol to avoid dealing with her problems. Alcohol is becoming a serious problem in her life. Her character Geum-joo chugs a beer for breakfast and has just broken up with her fiancé because he nagged her about drinking. While the reasons for the break-up might be more complicated than alcohol abuse, she refuses to give it up or even take a short hiatus. Choi is a talented comedienne, so some of her too-drunk drama scenes are entertainingly funny, but at the same time her character’s self-destructive tendencies are also heartbreaking. Gong Myung plays Seo Ui-joon, a doctor whose talks help people recognize when they might have an alcohol problem. To illustrate some common misperceptions about alcoholism he asks the audience who they might consider to be an alcoholic. It’s not necessarily the homeless person he shows them a photo of. A more likely case is a functioning adult, one who manages to hide the severity of his or her problem. An alcoholic might look and act like the talented car mechanic Han Geum-joo, played by Sooyoung. Until recently Geum-joo had a job at a top car company and managed to make it look like her alcohol consumption was under control. Sooyoung’s character is good…

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