phatman said:
Was this one very different from the previous version?
Yes Phatman, for me they were different, although as Jellyfish said the script is almost the same. The major difference with the Ken and Janie version and this version is that Ken was a very handsome Neung. He's a jerk but somehow he's so damn suave and dashing, you'd be like (to Poom), dayum girl! take a chill pilll! So basically I was rooting for Ken/Neung the whole time.
But with James Ji and Yaya, personally, as I watched them, I liked them to fight and fight some more. those scenes when James was being a biatch (bully) and Yaya was holding her ground was really the highlight of the show. James was a really spiteful Neung yet there was more vulnerability in his character as you can see that towards the end he was really immature (insane prejudice), then confused and he had a hard time expressing to Poom his true feelings (or he can't accept that he fell in love with her when he swore not to, and finally when he was in love, he can't take that she can't love him. Duh dude, you've been a jerk to her for 9 episodes!). As for Yaya, I think her Poom is more mature than Janie's Poom, in that you really root for her and feel sympathetic towards her situation. I personally found Janie's Poom to be (too) unreasonable at times. Yaya's Poom had that Pride element nailed down. (Pride and Prejudice seemed to be the theme of NNS, I think) So in the new version, I was team Poom all the way.