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Korean Mini Series 'Check Out The Event' has a strong start but a weak ending.

The beginning of the drama is pretty intense, starting right off with the breakup and then having the main girl being disappointed over and over as her dreams of getting back with her boyfriend, who, by the way, offered no reasonable explanation of why he was so suddenly breaking up with her. The drama played nicely the love triangle card as well, giving the girl a new love interest to support her through those hard times. However, and even though the intensity of emotions was building up smoothly to a boiling point, that explosion didn't happen. The drama opted to drag things up and stretch the big conclusion as to give a more interesting perspective, however, that resulted in destroying the whole story. A nice alternative would have been for the girl to realize that she doesn't need anyone and stay that way. Unfortunately, the drama chooses to take the clicked turn and pretty much vanish any hope the love triangle had to be interesting.

On the other hand, the performances were pretty enjoyable from everyone in the cast.

So, overall, 6.5 out of 10.

Check Out The Event is the latest quirky MBC drama to drop over the weekend and with only four episodes, this is a light, breezy show with plenty of positives. The idea of this couple's retreat is a good one, although I'm not quite sure why Song-Yi thinks it's a good idea too take her ex boyfriend.

Either way, it seems like she's going too get romantically involved with Ji-Kang, which will cause friction with Do-Gyeom, I'm sure. It's your classic love triangle arc but the humour and slick cinematography help this one to stand out.

Some of the editing is fantastic too and the use of bright, pastel colours gives this show a much more vibrant feel than one may be expecting.

The story may be simple, but it's effective in conveying the tone and themes of the show. Whether there will be a twist with this or not remains to be seen but for now, this four episode event looks to be a decent one well worth checking out.