Why do these dramas capture the hearts of millions upon millions of rice farmers, small shop owners, coconut harvesters, nannies, bankers, doctors, and business persons alike? Especially when they follow a predictable storyline in just about every drama?

The storyline goes like this: There is a wealthy, young, and good looking protagonist as the hero. 6’2″, good looking, 24 years old, an heir to a conglomerate. Who wouldn’t like that? Enter the average, poor, unpopular girl. 5′ nothing. bow cut hair, a daughter of a poor widow. Somehow, the protagonist is enticed by this poor girl even though he has plethora of prettier, wealthier, smarter girls to choose from. The story usually reaches the crisis when the protagonist has to choose between the girl and his family/asset. This, egged on by the antagonist in the form of his greedy mother, who is furious how foolish the protagonist is being, blinded by this wretch of a girl, willing to throw away his money, assets, and position. But our hero chooses the girl over everything else, and even though he may have lost everything else, he is happy. And they live happily ever after.

Why do millions of fall for this kind of high school drama every time? Over and over and over?

It’s because the “divine story” is written in all of us and the Korean Dramas (or any good love story) happen to strike a chord with that divine story. What is the divine story?

There was the most beautiful prince who owned the universe. Enter a poor, wretched sinner. The hero, beyond any rationale, loves this sinner. A crisis comes when the prince has to choose between keeping His wealth and position, and keeping the sinner. He chooses the sinner, forsaking all, even His life…. But He comes back and He lives happily ever after with the sinner in heaven.

 Do you know you are in God’s story? Jesus loves you! More than you know.

PH