I've already talked the summary of Cain and Abel, right? Well, now, I'll talk about the characters, the ones I loved and the ones I despised, and the actors and actresses who had portrayed these characters.
First, of course, there was So Ji-sub as Lee Cho-in, the main protagonist and the "Abel" of the story. What I love about Cho-in was his smile, above anything else. He was a good doctor, well, excluding the fact that he goes to hospital a "little" drunk with a beggar, a little boy, who has stomach pain and who doesn't want to go to the hospital at all. He also was a good son and younger brother. He had thought of his brother, Sun-woo, as an idol, as his god, always trying to be the best so that he can be called worthy as his brother's younger sibling. He had always longed to be regarded as his mother's, well, in reality step-mother but nevertheless, son even though his mother doesn't even want to be called "Omma." by him. And he was a good boyfriend and friend. Even though the time span that he and Seo-yeon had really become and be called as a couple was really short because of his China-abduction. He had stayed with Seo-yeon for the seven years that Sun-woo had left her in agony. That's why... Well, I believe he doesn't deserved what happened to him. Oh well, it did happen and we can't do anything about it. I guess, probably, God just used him as an instrument to portray a thing which most of us forget nowadays, forgiveness.
Next is Lee Sun-woo played by Shin Hyun-joon. I really, really commend this actor because even though I know for a fact that Cain and Abel was just a drama, he made me hate him like I'd want to kill him especially when he had teamed up with Choi Chi-soo, yes, another evil man whom I really hate when I was watching this drama, especially his freaking eyes, to kill Cho-in. I mean, oh yeah, Cho-in had gotten everything and he was only left with his mother but it wasn't never right to try to kill your own brother! Oh right, there wouldn't be a plot if he wasn't so jealous enough to kill Cho-in but I wasn't talking about the drama. I was talking about the acts. I also pitied him when his illness was beginning to take over him. It was so sad the moment he was with Seo-yeon, trying to look for the missing Cho-in all over China, when he collapsed, not wanting to shout for help to Seo-yeon because he doesn't want her to see him in that state and Seo-yeon just walking away from him. It was sad, really, but whenever the thought of his plan of getting Cho-in killed popped into my mind, I began thinking that it was his fate, much like what we call "karma."
Here is Kim Seo-yeon, the girl who had been friends with both Sun-woo and Cho-in since childhood but aparently has a heart ailment which was the reason why they all grew up at Bosung Hospital, was played by Chae Jung-ahn. I'll admit, at first I really love Seo-yeon, especially the moments when at her very first concert, she had acknowledge Cho-in first, above anything else and said to the whole world, I can say, because you see, her concert could be broadcast, that she loves Cho-in. I really love that moment. But as the story progresses, as Cho-in went missing at China and soon was proclaimed dead, she wasn't being the best girlfriend-who's-boyfriend-had-just-died. I know I wasn't supposed to compare because Sun-woo and Cho-in were two different persons but for Pete's sake. She went in complete agony state and had her life almost be proclaimed in hiatus when Sun-woo had left her for seven years. And it took her seven whole years to move on and finally give Cho-in her heart. But when Cho-in went missing, it wasn't even a year, it wasn't even half a year, she had already replaced Cho-in. Yeah, it was Sun-woo and don't tell me that he was sick that's why she gave him a chance because Cho-in was already dead. She never loved Cho-in as a boyfriend and a potential life-time partner. She never did. Don't tell me she did because it never happen. She may had loved Cho-in but it was like he was a good friend and like a brother to him. She admitted it all along the drama, I think. It was like reading, or hearing, between the line spoken. She said as quoted, Cho-in had helped her endure the seven years but it was still Sun-woo who made her live. And she has the nerve to even face Cho-in and say sorry? Even more, asked him to save Sun-woo? She was so selfish. Couldn't she even think that Cho-in also has feelings? That's why I kind of liked it when Cho-in said no to her request and when she asked him if he could bear to see Sun-woo, his own brother die, he had answered with a question, too. "Why? You think I could not do that?" Yes, I know. It wasn't right, too. But I understand him. There were too much that's happening and at the same time, he was hurting.
The last but absolutely not the least among the four lead characters of Cain and Abel was Oh Young-ji, the North defector girl who first appeared as Cho-in's tour guide at China, portrayed by Han Ji-min. She was poor, yes, that's why she agreed to the goons, who were asked to kill Cho-in, to tag along and follow him everywhere so that it would be easy for them to kidnap him knowing where he goes and where he'll go next. The only thing I don't like about Young-ji was the fact that she hid the truth to Cho-in although it was also because of that that Cho-in wasn't deported back at China and was able to live as Gang-ho. But if she really wanted to tell him the truth, she could have told him about it the moment they were already alone. Well, she was lonely and felt like she was already alone in the whole world knowing that his brother, Gang-chul, the person she looks up to and sees as her hope, was already dead, but it just isn't right to take him away from all the memories he lost, right? Well, she had made it all up. The time when they had rushed a man to the hospital which happened to be Cheondeong, the hospital which Dr. Kim Hyun Joo, Cho-in's chief, friend, fellow doctor at Bosung Hospital and a supported of the Emergency Center, was transferred to by the Vice President, Sun-woo and Cho-in's mother because they wanted to get rid of her so that it will be more easy for them to build the Neurology Center, she admitted everything. At first, I thought it was over when Hyun-joo just glanced at him and he already left the man with the hospital and went out of the building but Hyun-joo followed him and asked if he was by any chance Dr. Lee Cho-in. It was a lovely, lovely moment because all my favorite characters were on it. Cho-in, noticing that Young-ji was just along the corner, denied it saying that he was Oh Gang-ho though the truth is he already know that maybe he was indeed Lee Cho-in since before Hyun-joo showed and asked him that, the hospital scenario was able to trigger his old memories back and Sun-woo's number popped into his head out of nowhere. He called the number and asked if by any chance he knew him claiming that he was Lee Cho-in. It showed how important Sun-woo is to him that of all the number who may popped into his mind, it was Sun-woo's number. Sun-woo, however, denied and hang up which made him lose hope about finding his identity more. That's when Hyun-joo showed. After he denied being Cho-in for Young-ji's sake, Young-ji herself confirmed it to Hyun-joo, that he was Dr. Lee Cho-in who was working at Bosung Hospital, the President's younger son and the one who was kidnapped and almost killed at China, the reason he lost his memory. It was commendable, really, Young-ji's action. She knew that Cho-in may hate him forever after what she'd done but she still found courage to tell him the truth after all knowing how much he likes Cho-in even back at China. She even set up an agreement for Cho-in and Seo-yeon to meet though Seo-yeon and Sun-woo were already together that time. It was the thought, at least. She loves Cho-in that much.
L-R: Shin Hyun-joon, Chae Jung-ahn, Han Ji-min, So Ji-sub
So Ji-sub and Ha Ji-min. I really love their loveteam. I think they have great chemistry.
