K-Drama Review: My Only Love Song (2017 Netflix Original Series)

The historical records indicated that On Dal married the princess. But are the records telling the real true story?

“My Only Love Song” is a Netflix original series and the best way to describe it is fantasy-drama-rom-com-time-travel-sageuk. You can call it a “dramedy” for short. When I first started watching, I initially thought: ‘This is so unbelievably silly!’ Yet I could not stop watching it. LOL.

It’s one of those K-drama time-travel series. An actress who was starring in a fictional historical Korean drama, gets into a van named “Boong Boong” and the van sets the GPS destination and takes her through the time portal where she ends up in a real life historical Korean kingdom.

As an actress, BEFORE she was transported to the past by Boong Boong, the van, Song Soo-jung (played by Gong Seung-yeon) plays the role of Princess Pyunggang. When she travels back through time, she meets Princess Pyunggang (played by Jin Ye-ju), the real Princess of 6th century Goguryeo, the daughter of King Pyeongwon. According to historical records, the princess marries General On Dal.

The problem is: Song Soo-jung meets and falls in love with On Dal; and he falls in love with her. That relationship…