Splash Splash Love

Splash Splash Love
Promotional poster
Genre	Fantasy Romance Time slip
Written by	Kim Ji-hyun
Directed by	Kim Ji-hyun
Starring	Kim Seul-gi Yoon Doo-joon
Opening theme	너에게 퐁당 (Splash Into You)
Country of origin	South Korea
Original language(s)	Korean
No. of episodes	2
Distributor	Naver
Release
Original network	MBC Naver TV Cast
Picture format	2160p (UHD)
Audio format	Dolby Digital
Original release	December 13 (2015-12-13) – December 20, 2015 (2015-12-20)
External links
Website

Splash Splash Love (Hangul: 퐁당퐁당 LOVE; RR: Pongdang Pongdang LOVE) is a South Korean television series starring Kim Seul-gi and Yoon Doo-joon. It initially aired on web platform Naver TV Cast in a 10-episode format. It was then broadcast by MBC on December 13 and 20, 2015 in two 60-minute episodes.^[1][2][3][4]

The series aired two years after the popular novel Moonlight Drawn by Clouds was serialized on Naver in 2013.^[5] Like Splash, Moonlight is about the love story between a cross-dressing eunuch and a monarch. The novel is the original work from which the drama Love in the Moonlight (2016) was adapted from.^[6]

Plot

Danbi is a senior high school student taking the College Scholastic Ability Test (CSAT). However she has an irrational fear of mathematics, and in order to escape taking the test travels through a time portal to the Joseon era.

In Joseon she is mistaken for a eunuch and serving in the palace becomes a confidante of King Lee Do. Danbi finds that in the Joseon Dynasty her high school level of math and science makes her the greatest scientist in the entire Kingdom. She falls in love with the King and inspires him in his reform of the country.

However, fearing for their own privileges, Danbi becomes the target of traditionalist courtiers who seek her death. Having a hand in saving both the King and the Queen, Danbi becomes friends with the Queen who, in order to allow the King and Danbi to be together, endorses Danbi becoming a royal consort. Presented to the Queen Dowager, who is a doppelganger of her own mother, Danbi becomes very home sick and therefore decides to return to her era. Lee accepts her decision, and they leave, heading for the beach, where they share a passionate good bye of each other before Danbi disappears into the portal in the water. When she has disappeared, Lee swears that he will find her again, no matter how long it will take. Back in her own time, Danbi one day watches a singer on the screen at her work, and is stunned that the artist is a living copy of the King’s bodyguard. The singer declares a love song and sings about a "splash of love", when it suddenly starts to rain outside.

Outside on the street, Danbi notices a water pool and seriously considers stepping into it, returning to Lee, when she is suddenly approached by a man who silently holds up an umbrella over her head. She looks up and realizes he is the king, the living copy of Lee, and they stand silently looking into each other's eyes for a long while before he breaks the silence by telling her that they have met before - "a long time ago", he adds, and the viewer is shown a flashback of an earlier occasion on a bus where Danbi dropped her things on the floor and he helped her picking them up. It is heavily implied that he is the reincarnation of Lee, who has now finally found his love again just as he swore he would all those years ago.

Cast

Subtitle for each episode

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Awards and nominations

References

External links

• Official website
• Splash Splash Love at HanCinema