At a Distance, Spring Is Green

A story of young university students, including Yeo Joon (Park Ji-Hoon), Kim So-Bin (Kang Min-Ah) and Nam Soo-Hyun (Bae In-Hyuk).

Yeo Joon is a first year university student. He has a cute appearance and a bright personality. He tries to show people only a good image. He has wealthy parents, but he didn’t receive enough affection from his parents.

Kim So-Bin is a 3rd grade university student. She is sincere and honest. After her parents divorced, she has lived with her father.

Nam Soo-Hyun is a smart, perfectionist university student. He has a good looking appearance and receives excellent academic grades. But he is financially in difficult situation. he does do various part time works to support himself and also his family mother and younger sibling. due to his situation, he is cynical to people. (AsianWiki)

Korean Name: 멀리서 보면 푸른 봄
Episodes: 12

Does this drama have a Happy Ending?

Notes

This drama was a difficult watch for me. Not that it was bad, on the contrary. But domestic violence was a big part of this drama and as someone who’s been through that it was triggery and really difficult to watch. Since it is a vital part of the story of one of the main characters it is shown a few times. You can skip these scenes though. Just be ready to press forward at any time. We have full on scenes between him and his parents but also sudden flashbacks. Despite how hard it was, I didn’t skip because I thought I might miss something that would make later scenes hard to understand, and there may be one or two things in the character’s story that would be without the prior knowledge, but if those kind of scenes are bad for you, rather skip them.

We also got some bullying, rage drunk sunbae that triggers these flashbacks and do other questionable stuff.

Also for some time I wasn’t sure if the pairing was the main pair or if there is second lead syndrome happening or a triangle that would happen but turns out it didn’t and the pair was the pair. Usually it’s pretty clear, but for a little while this one had me guessing.