Thirty but Seventeen
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A woman wakes from a thirteen-year coma still seventeen, in a house owned by a man who has spent those years refusing to feel anything. It is a healing drama that actually does the work, giving both leads a reason to be broken and then repairing them slowly and specifically. Shin Hye Sun is why it holds: playing seventeen at thirty without making it a gimmick is much harder than it looks. Nothing here is surprising, and that is the point rather than a flaw.
Gong Woo-Jin is a 30-year-old single man and he works as a set designer. Due to a trauma he experienced 13 years ago, he does not want to have a relationship with others. When Woo Seo-Ri was 17, she fell into a coma. 13 years later, she wakes up from her coma. Her mental age is still that of a 17-year-old, but she is now 30-years-old. Gong Woo-Jin and Woo Seo-Ri get involved with each other and fall in love.
Hooks early Episode 2, once she is in the house and the two histories start touching.
Where we recommend it
On 2 lists- Dramas like Another Miss OhStrong thread
- Dramas like Mr. QueenSame feeling
Recommended alongside
All dramas →Taken from our own list for Thirty but Seventeen, in the order we ranked it.
