In "Falling For Innocence" A Heart Transplant Leads To Love

"Falling For Innocence," also known as "Falling For Soon Young," is a drama about hearts. It's about Kang Min Ho, a man who became heartless because his heart was repeatedly broken at an early age. The character, played by Jung Kyung Ho, also suffers from cardiomyopathy, a debilitating and ultimately fatal heart disease that leads him to have a heart transplant.

After the transplant he literally has a change of heart. He becomes a better and more sensitive person. That may happen because he begins to appreciate his second chance at life or because, as some people believe, the cells in a  transplanted heart can alter a personality.

Before his transplant Kang Min Ho was mean to everyone and was especially cruel to his uncle's secretary Kim Soon Jung, played by Kim So Yeon. But then he did not have room in his heart for anyone or anything other than making money.

The heart he gets belonged to Kim Soon Jung's impulsive, lovable and devoted fiancé, a police officer who is killed shortly after uncovering a corporate conspiracy.

Spoiler alert: That's how the plot "Falling For Innocence" shapes up in the first two episodes, leaving viewers to wonder if Kang Min Ho will change and how much. Will his new appreciation for life dim his desire for revenge against his uncle? Will his heart yearn for Kim Soon Jung? She was the last thing her boyfriend's heart yearned for before he died and perhaps his heart has not forgotten.

And if he does fall for her, will she accept his love for what it is, as she already has reasons to hate the man who now has her dead lover's heart.

A few dramas previously touched on the subject of heart transplants. In "Spring Days, Choi Sooyoung played a woman who fell for the husband of the woman whose transplanted heart she received. That drama also played with the notion that the transplanted heart can rule a person's emotions and change their priorities.

"Big Man" also touched on the subject but focused more on the notion that the rich and powerful rule life and death to the point of being able to harvest organs to save their own. But in that drama the transplant just helped set the plot in motion.

Although it covers some familiar melodrama territory, "Falling for Innocence" may focus more on how a heart transplant affects a romance than plans for revenge.

Have you seen the first two episodes? What do you think?