Smile, You

My second post about a Korean drama!
Actually, this drama ended a few months ago, but it's my favorite drama. There weren't many famous top stars involved in the drama, but there were many talented actors and actresses who made the drama more fun and interesting along with the well-written script. The main story line of the drama is a love story of Jung-In, a spoiled girl who got abandoned by her future husband at the wedding, and Hyun-Soo, a polite, skilled man who is timid when loving someone.
Although the two families don't like each other, the families of Jung-In and Hyun-Soo were related from a long time ago because Hyun-Soo's grandfather had worked as Jung-In's grandfather, a president of a big company's, private driver. Because Jung-In's spoiled father failed to run his father's company well, he lost all of his money, and moved into Hyun-Soo's family's house. Hyun-Soo's grandfather called him in because he wanted to turn Jung-In's father into a real person, who doesn't just go for his own interests and benefits, but knows how to take care of his family. As the story continues, Jung-In's family change from a spoiled one who only know how to spend money to a family who truly care for each other and earn money for themselves.
The love line of Jung-In and Hyun-Soo is at first distracted by Jung-In's older sister and former fianc, a spoiled successor of the company Hung-Soo works for. Jung-In's sister was Hyun-Soo's first love for eight years from the time when they were in college; Jung-In's former fianc came back to her and pleaded her to come back to him, saying that he didn't realize how much he had loved her before. Also, when Hyun-Soo and Jung-In first told their families that they love each other, there was a strong disagreement from the families.
Anyway, the story ends with a happy ending where the two families care for each other even more than what other real families do, and live happily ever after! The drama was more interesting than the others to watch because of the comical scenes and lines added on to the well-written story. Even after the drama ended, there were several commercials where the cute couple of this drama came out, and I really want them to just marry each other in real life!
I strongly recommend all of you to watch this drama!


Hyun-Soo feels sorry for Jung-In, who is sad because of Hyun-Soo's mother who doesn't want her as her daughter-in-law


Jung-In (Lee Min Jung) and her former fianc, Han-Se during their wedding


Jung-In and Hyun-Soo on a magazine!

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Korean Drama: Cinderella's Sister

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Cinderella's Sister! This is a new drama that is broadcasted on Wednesdays and Thursdays (10:00~11:00 P.M. in Korean time) that I started watching recently. Although the title of the drama includes the word, "Cinderella", the drama itself is nothing like the old, happy-ending story of Cinderella. The drama mainly focuses on Eun-Jo (acted out by Moon Gun Young), a girl who doesn't know how to start or continue good relationships with people because of the unstable environment she was raised in; her mother had married numerous men who weren't always nicely mannered or appropriate to be good fathers. I don't know what exactly the characters in the drama will experience as the story continues, but I think it will be about how Eun-Jo and her sister Hyo-Sun become more mature as they go through many conflicts.

Until now, the basic story line is that Eun-Jo and her mother moved into the wealthy house of Hyo-Sun and her father, who runs a business that produces Korean traditional drinks, after the marriage of Eun-Jo's mother and the man. At first, Hyo-Sun (the daughter of the man), who had wanted a caring mother (her mother had passed away when she was young), welcomed Eun-Jo to be her sister because she was a lonely only child. However, Eun-Jo was nothing like what she had expected from a kind, mature sister: she was cold, mean, and most importantly, started to take things away from Hy0-Sun. First, smart Eun-Jo got more attention than her from Hyo-Sun's father, and Eun-Jo's mother limited Hyo-Sun's interaction with her father. Also, a man who Hyo-Sun had liked from her early childhood, Ki-Hoon, started caring more about Eun-Jo because he felt bad for her; he thought Eun-Jo was similar to him as he also grew up in a stressful, unstable environment. Ki-Hoon was a hidden son of the president of a successful company, who was always treated unfairly and insulted by his half brothers.

In the beginning, Hyo-Sun liked her step sister even when Eun-Jo ignored her spoke meanly to her. However, I think she started to think differently of her sister and even hate her as she gets the know about the real personality of Eun-Jo.

Personally, this drama is very interesting for me because of the actors and actresses with roles that they've never tried before. For example, Moon Gun Young, an actress who is commonly recognized as an innocent younger sister of the country, is acting as a mean, cold-hearted girl in this drama. Also, this drama shows new faces as it is the first drama of Chun Jeong Myong after his return from the army, and Seo Woo (Hyo-Sun) rose as a new star. Furthermore, Taek Yun, a singer who belongs to 2PM, a famous singing group in Korea, started his new career as an actor is this drama.

I can't wait until next Wednesday to see what happens!

Chun Jeong Myong (Ki Hoon)
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Taek Yun (Jeong Woo)


Seo Woo (Hyo Sun)
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Moon Gun Young (Eun Jo) and Seo Woo (Hyo Sun)