Park Eun Wook (Lee Dong Wook) worked as a doctor in a clinic in Hanoi where he fell in love with a Vietnamese girl Ly Thi Vu( Kim Ok Bin). Due to the sudden death of his father, he had to return to Korea in a hurry but the message wasn't related to LTV. His elder brother Park Sok Woo(Lee Won Jong) who worked as a farmer in the field was hard pressed by his mother to go to Vietnam to find a wife and he ended up bringing LTV to Korea with the intention to marry her. Song Il Lan (Yoo Hye Jung) was PSW's childhood friend and she realized that she was in love with him and PSW had similar feeling for her too. When the misunderstanding between PEW and LTV got clarified and all truth were out in the open, his mother who thought LTV was going to be her first son's wife and liked her didn't think she was good enough for her second son as he was a doctor. LTV was hurt and returned to Hanoi. Later the mother came to realize her folly and relented. PEW didn't want to give up LTV and so he went back to work in Hanoi and search for LTV.
This is a story involving vampires. It goes back to 350 years + when Baek Jung Won(Lee Seo Jin) saved the vampire I-wha (Son Tae Yeong) from being burned at the stake in his village. He fell off the cliff while they escaped and IW had to give him her blood in order to save him from dying and thus BJW was transformed into an vampire also.
In the modern day Seoul, they opened a bar. One day BJW received a letter from his former love who was dying and entrusted him to look after her daughter Jang Ji Yun (Park Han Byul). BJW fell in love with this woman some 20 yrs ago but broke up without telling her the truth about himself. After her mother's funeral, JJY found a picture that her mother treasured a lot with someone looking like BJW in it and she set out to look for him. When she finally found him, she thought he was the son of her mother's long lost lover as BJW's appearance didn't change as a vampire. They start to fall in love and I-wha (Son Tae Yeong) has difficulty dealing with that. At the same time a serial killer who sucks blood from the victims is on the loose....
Focuses mainly on the tragic forbidden love story between Chae Ok (the main character played by Ha Ji Won) & Hwang Bo (one of the main male leads played by Lee Suh Jin). Their station in life does not allow these two childhood friends and lovers to be together.
About 500 years ago during the time of Chosun Dynasty, Korea boasted a rigidly hierarchical and male dominated social structure. Set in this period, "Jewel in the Palace" is based on a true story about a legendary girl (Jang-Geum) who became the first woman to be the supreme royal physician of her times. Despite her poor condition as a low class girl in the male dominated society, Jang-Geum overcame a series of social discrimination and landed herself as a royal cook, later becoming the royal physician, then ultimately the physician in charge of the king. She was even given by the king the title "The Great Jang-Geum". The story of her checkered life on her success and breakdown as well as her love story beautifully unfold. "Jewel in the Palace" is sure to touch your heart. Source: MBC Global Media
Crazy For You
Genre: Romance/ Drama Episodes: 16 Broadcast Network: SBS Broadcast Year: 2007
Suh Jin Young is an aviation maintenance technician and her husband passed away due to a traffic accident. Kim Chae Joon dreams to become an aviation pilot but he encounters an unfortunate accident. Chae Joon goes to prison for accidently killing a man in a car accident. The man happens to be Jin Young's husband. Jin Young and Chae Joon develop a love relationship.
Jang Nara plays a cute and innocent country girl who often daydreams of rescuing her prince. One day, she meets Jang Hyuk who accidentally falls into her bath tub while she was taking her bath. Not off to a good start they started arguing over the matter. However, the story goes on to tell how Jang Nara arrives in the big city due to her plan to settle her irresponsible parents' debts. She moves into Jang Hyuk's house as a hired servant hence begins to teach the rich spoiled brat (Jang Hyuk) some manners through her down to earth scoldings and no-nonsense attitude. This drama gets totally hilarious in many scenes where Jang Nara and Jang Hyuk's combination comes out as refreshingly cute. Jang Hyuk plays a rich and proud man who inherits his father's business but is later betrayed by his own cousin and uncle leading to his downfall. On the other hand, Jang Nara plays a girl that he meets who help him pick up the pieces in his life, from defeat to success. A very well written drama with a story many will enjoy!
Kyoichi Suzuki is an average college student in his junior year. Although he's not in one of the top universities, he's satisfied with his college life studying architecture. Kyoichi left home and is finally on his own, living in a beat-up apartment in Tokyo. However, this apartment building is home to some out-of-the-ordinary residents, who are always bugging Kyoichi. His next-door neighbor hits Kyoichi up for a loan when he finds out that Kyoichi just got paid. His other next- door neighbor who works at a nightclub, always calls Kyoichi, demanding him to come pick her up, because she's so drunk. Other than that, Kyoichi is satisfied with his normal life, until he meets a girl one day...
Kyoichi comes home from his part-time job as a night-time security guard. He returns to his room to find a girl sleeping on his bed-a girl he has never seen before. She looks a bit older than Kyoichi, and is quite beautiful. Kyoichi can't believe his eyes.
Kyoichi closes the door, and goes outside to the entrance of the apartment, to make sure he's in the right apartment and room. There's no mistake. He returns inside...but the girl is gone.There's nobody in his room. Was it just his imagination? Was he hallucinating? Kyoichi can't understand what just happened.
Later, he discovers that something is missing from his grocery bag-the Chinese noodles he was looking forward to eating are gone...
This is how Kyoichi first meets Surumi Kataoka. After they meet, Surumi continues living in Kyoichi's room.
She points to an apartment visible from Kyoichi's room, and says that the guy living there dumped her for another girl. Surumi says that she's waiting to check out the girl she was dumped for. Kyoichi doesn't know if he ought to believe her or not.
All Kyoichi knows is that while Surumi is such a charming girl, the expression on her face is sad at times.
Kyoichi is not that disappointed about sharing his room with a cute girl. He starts to think that this lifestyle may go on forever, until one day, Surumi suddenly disappears-just like the day she suddenly appeared. All she leaves for Kyoichi are unanswered questions.
Losing her mother at a young age, Misaki Yoko (Ueto Aya) was raised amongst three brothers. Yoko is a slightly boyish girl who is bullheaded and hates dishonesty. Ever since she was young, she enjoyed the company of boys over girls. She starts a band with four of her boy friends and becomes the lead singer. Then one day, one of the members of the band, Tsukasa, gets a job at a bank in Tokyo. Due to Tsukasa leaving town, the band breaks up and though Yoko finds herself lonely, she puts on a strong act in front of Tsukasa. She can't tell Tsukasa how she truly feels for him. On the day Tsukasa leaves for Tokyo, Yoko goes along with the band members to the airport to see him off. The guys get excited when they see some cabin crew ladies and Yoko has no idea why. She reminds them that even she can wear a uniform, but the guys only make fun of her. That's when Tsukasa tells Yoko he wonders what she'd look like dressed in uniform. This is when Yoko decides she wants to work as a Cabin Attendant.
Because of one dollar, Xia Ya (Cai Yi Zhen) befallen many unfortunate events. When she fells like all hope has lost, an angel comes and gives her one dollar which saves her life. She falls in love with that angel, who is a model dressed in an angel outfit. But he is no angel - he is the devil in disguise, Ouyang Lei (Joe Cheng), the younger brother of her best friend, Ouyang Yu Yan.
Being the youngest of the family as well as a famous model, Lei is very spoiled and everyone let him have his way, until Xia Ya came along. Xia Ya did what nobody else would do, and Lei starts to develop an interest in her, but he seems very devilish in his ways. What will become of them?
Ma Yoo Hee has an independent personality and is the only daughter of the owner of an advertisement company. She works as an advertisement planner. After she is introduced to Chae Mo Ryong, who is a student learning how to cook, she falls in love with him. Dennis Oh will play a famous French Chef from America. He is perfect guy named Johnny Kruger from New York. He plays a big part in hooking up Yoo Hee and Mo Ryong. Jang Sung Mi is the ex-girlfriend of Mo Ryong who always puts marriage first unlike Yoo Hee. Yoo Joon Ha is Yoo Hee's ex-lover. He is a surgeon who puts his ambitions before love and is capable of betraying his most precious love for success.
Hwa Ahn Dang owner, Soo Ha, is trying to save the place from being bankrupt. She meets Dong Gyu and Chang Min, the grandsons of a wealthy man, who had worked for a long time at Hwa Ahn Dang before. Together with a crazy woman's daughter 'Hwa Ran', they get involve in a dangerous love story... This drama is adapted from the novel, "Kimchi Mandu."
The story begins with a man named Kang Bok Goo (Bi), a tough fighter. His girl is Han Da Jung (Kim Sa Rang), much like Bok Goo, she's tough and she spends her day collecting money from people that owe her. Bok Goo's older brother, Kang Min Goo (Kim Young Jae), left Bok Goo ten years ago when they got into a fight. He had never seen him in ten years.
One day, he meets his brother for the first time in ten years. They chat on a tall building, talking about how their lives had been for the past ten years. On a giant t.v. screen, it announces the wedding of the famous superstar, Cha Eun Suk (Shin Min Ah) and Kim Joon Sung (Lee Ki Woo), the youngest son of a powerful company. Min Goo, in delusion that the Eun Suk he sees on the t.v. is the real Eun Suk, walks to the t.v. and falls of the building. Bok Goo sends his hyung [older brother] to the hospital and finds out that the damage done to his brother was so great, most of his brain is ruined and his brother is now a human vegetable. Bok Goo also finds out that the only reason his hyung did this was because Cha Eun Suk is his ex-girlfriend, though they broke up, he still loves her as she still loves him.
This marriage was only made because Eun Suk was drunk and she slept on stairs, Joon Sung only tried to wake her up, but he fell over her making it look like he was raping her. Someone caught footage of this and revealed it to the public. Joon Sung's father was ashamed of his son and got angry at him, and the only way to clear things up with his father was to marry Eun Suk though she strongly disagreed, she had to anyway to avoid shame to her family.
Bok Goo gets angry with Eun Suk because he believes she is the reason her brother is a human vegetable. To get her back for it, he applies to be her bodyguard and finds a way to make her fall in love with him by doing all the things his hyung (brother) had done for her in the past to help her remind herself of Min Goo. Bok Goo, in the act of making her fall in love with him, falls in love with Eun Suk and from time to time, forgets what she had done to his hyung. Eun Suk falls for it though, although she resisted. Little does she know that Bok Goo only plans to break up with her so she can feel the pain his hyung felt when she broke up with him...
And then there's Han Da Jung. What about her? She who loves Kang Bok Goo so much, and is scarred because of him. In truth, it seems to be a bit like Bok Goo is with her because he feels like he owes it to her. She saved him in a fire, and because of it, she has scars. What about this girl who would do anything for Bok Goo, and loves him to death. What about her?
90 Days, The Time for Love describes the love of a man, Hyun Ji-seok (Kang Ji Hwan), whose life will be ending in 90 days. Although he's already married to Park Jung-ran (Jung Hye Young), he wishes to find his true love and spend the rest of his days with her. Through an unexpected turn of events, this woman turns out to be his first cousin, Go Mi-yeon (Kim Ha Neul). Will their love be able to overcome the harsh realities of society?
This drama portrays the story of a man and a woman who only have 90 days together and who are tied together by destined love.
A love triangle will be occurring between the two men and a girl where a gift of psychometry and a tragic event of their childhood entwined their fates. The tragic event of their childhood entwined the fates between two men who are bonded by it and a woman who has an ability in psychometry into a love triangle. Oh Seung Ha is a lawyer, who is destined to meet a police detective, Kang Oh Soo. Seo Hae In is a 25 year old mysterious librarian with an ability in psychometry. She is at the level of being diagnosed with amnesia/sleeping disorder and she tends to be in full concentration when she becomes too absorbed/focus into something. Kang Oh Soo is from a rich family and accidentally caused Seung Ha to lose his brother and mom when they were young. Seung Ha studied hard to be a lawyer but he becomes a serial killer in order to seek revenge on Kang Oh Soo. Oh Seung Ha and Seo Hae In will have feelings for each other while Kang Oh Soo has a one sided love for Hae In.
Psychometry is a form of extra-sensory perception wherein a psychic holds an object in his or her hands in order to obtain information about the object or its owner.
Monday, January 22, 2007
What's Up Fox?!
Genre: Romance/ Comedy Episodes:16 Broadcast Network: MBC Broadcast Year: 2006
Synopsis
The story is about a not-so-bright older girl of 33 years old with a heart of a 24-year-old called Go Byeong Hee, who works as a reporter in a third-rate magazine company and dreams with a "platonic love and relationship" with her friend's brother who is nine years younger than her. She frequently finds it hard to cope with the blandness of her life. What she dreams of, is working for a company that she can be proud of and finding a man who can provide warm support when she needs it. In addition, she wants to go on a world tour in a camping car with her new love. Suddenly, she gets into an accident with her friend Seung Hye's brother, Park Chul Su . He is a 24-year-old male working as a mechanic at a car repair shop. Although Chul Su does not have much in life, he is filled with ambition and enjoys life by doing the things he loves, working as a mechanic and traveling. How many people actually find the love they dream of? Until they realize that true love is just around the corner, this couple continues to pursue this unique romantic relationship of "dating a friend's brother" and "dating my sister's friend".
MORE SYNOPSIS ( FROM MBC GLOBAL)
Men and women all have habits they can’t seem to give up until the day they die. Men have swallows sitting in their hearts. And women have fantasies about love.
So they continue to wander around confused in their search for love without having the faintest idea who their true soul mate is. Such characters meet and quibble with one another in this drama series. Each dreaming of their own fantasies, they say cynically, “Thanks, but no thanks!” Creating mirages without substance, they become heartbroken chasing after something that is not real. So they think happiness only belongs to others.
Most people probably have experienced at one time or another, searching for a pencil all over their house, only to discover they had been holding it in their hand all the while. This drama is about the process of realizing that the pencil is in your hands. This drama wants to talk about the simple truth that both love and happiness are found right beside you, right in your heart. It wants to say that if you discard your superficial defenses, just a little, you too can become happy.
Spring Waltz is the fourth and final installment of Yoon Suk Ho's season drama series. The first drama was Autumn Tale, followed by Winter Sonata and Summer Scent.
In order to escape debts, Lee Su-ho and his father run away to the family's home town, a small island isolated from the rest of the world. While Su-ho's father goes on a short trip, he leaves his son under a friend's care. Afraid his father would not come back, Su-ho begins collecting money to buy his own boat ticket. However, his plans change after befriending Suh Eun-young, the father's friend's daughter. Eun-young was born with a sickness and spent most of her childhood at home. She constantly prays to make a friend, and she finds this friendship in Su-ho. It is at this time that Su-ho's father returns from his trip. It is then revealed that surgery is needed to cure Eun-young's sickness. The money saved by Eun-young and her mother, however, is stolen by Su-ho's dad as he, once again, runs away to Seoul, casting a blanket of doubt and mistrust over Su-ho's character. Still, Eun-young believes in her friend and "oppa" and they continue to care for each other. However, after a tragic accident, Su-ho takes up an offer with two wealthy people, who agree to pay for Eun-young's surgery, under the condition that they get to take him in as their son. Eun-young and Su-ho then separate without goodbyes... and see nothing of each other until fifteen years later, when they are known as Park Eun-young and Yoon Jae-ha. The plot is then thickened, with the added prescence of Phillip, the half-Korean who's popular with the ladies, and Song Lee-na, who is Jae-ha's childhood friend. In the midst of a complex love triangle and Jae-ha's stubborn parents, is it possible for the two to fall in love once more?
This second season of Hana Yori Dango picks up right after Domyouji leaves for New York. After confessing to Domyouji, Makino has not spoken to him for a year. Rui and the other members of F4 try and help Makino meet Domyouji again by going to New York for the christmas holidays. Though F4 and Makino meet Domyouji again, he has become a completely different person, and so they leave for Japan.
Some time later, Domyouji's mother annouces that they will be returning to Japan. There, they hold a giant super-rich and classy birthday party for Domyouji and annouce something very important. Domyouji, like in the first season, is engaged to a rich girl and heir. The only difference is that they are to be wed soon. What will Makino do?
On the side, Rui begins to fall in love with Makino... will this become a love... square?
Rui --> Makino --> Domyouji --> Shigeru (fiancee of Domyouji)
The Empress (Myung Se Bin) is in her early 30s, but she is still not married. Since, the 1st successor to the throne died, the royal family is in search for a new successor. Incidentally, they come to know of a young man who was in fact a son of the prince to a woman who left the Palace for her to be able to keep her pregnancy a secret. The young man's name was Lee Hoo (Se7en), more commonly known to his friends as Kang Hoo. Lee Hoo worked as a delivery boy at a Chinese restaurant, and was known for his 7-minute maximum delivery time. Lee Hoo had been brought up as more of a punk than a prince so his habits and his way of conversing were very different from the people of royal blood. Although he had never dreamt of living in the Palace, he one day finds himself immersing himself in its grandeur and improving himself to prove that he indeed deserves to be called the Successor to the throne.
He soon finds out that not only will he be facing lessons to the path of royalty, and dilemmas of love and of stature, but he will also learn to compete for the position he had been, first and foremostly, called for.
Rui Xi (Ella) has just returned from America, having fallen "head over heels" for a boy named Zuo Yi Quan (Wu Chun) after seeing his high jump performance on television; she was very much inspired by him to lose weight. Later, she decides to find out all about him and get to be friends with the one she highly respects. The only problem is Quan goes to an ALL BOYS SCHOOL! After much persuasion of her family and gaining the help of her good friend, Rui Xi then disguises herself as a boy and goes to the high school Quan attends. Coincidently and perheps by fate, she is the same class and is also Quan's roommate! On her first day of school, she was late and bumped into someone on the way to class. In a hurry, she rushed off without apologizing. Much to her dismay, that guy was Quan. She wanted to be friends with Quan and was very straightforward about it but was "rejected" (he thought she was gay, so maybe too straightforward). Liking that Rui Xi is rather straightforward, Jin Xiu Yi (Jiro Wang), the school soccer star, befriends Rui Xi.
During a P.E. lesson, everyone was shocked to discover that Rui Xi was a very fast runner, even breaking the school's record held by Xiu Yi. A jealous Xiu Yi challenges her to a soccer match. During the match, she faints after getting hit at the head by Xiu Yi's elbow when he finally snatched the ball from her. Quan comes to her rescue (and finds out that she is REALLY A GIRL but keeps it to himself) and he brings her to the school's doctor, Mei Tian, who is gay. He too, finds out about Rui Xi's identity but promises to keep it a secret. He soon became her counselor when she needed someone to talk to. Xiu Yi soon falls in love with Rui Xi, but doesn't know that Rui Xi is a girl and believes that he, himself, is gay.
Quan and Rui Xi soon become friends and begin to develop a very close friendship. Many mishaps and challenges await Rui Xi. Will she be able to get through high school perfectly, without anyone discovering that she's a girl, but at the same time stay close to Quan?
JJ Lin as Lu Jing Xi 盧静希 (manga: Ashiya Shizuki C. - Mizuki's older brother)
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Crying Out Love, In The Center Of The World
Genre: Romance/ Human Drama Episodes: 11 Broadcast Network: TBS Broadcast Year: 2004
Synopsis
"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was that beautiful." A young boy stands on the red earth of Australia under its blue sky. It is 17-year-old Sakutaro Matsumoto. His time with the girl comes back to him. The colored sand runs through his hands and a tear appears on his cheek. He wakes up. It's 2004 and he is 34 years old and in Japan. He thinks "I have been in a world without her for 17 years." Returning home to see his old high school for the last time before it is demolished, Saku confronts anew the loss of the love of his life, Aki, to leukemia 17 years ago. Now a medical researcher at graduate school, he has been living as if half of him died with her since then. Based on the bestselling novel that sold over 3 million copies, the past and present come together in this love story that is both pure and sad.
Genre: Romance Episodes: 22 Broadcast Network: CTS Broadcast Year: NOv 2005- Jan 2006
Synopsis
Ren Jie, Zhou Xin-Lei, and Shen Xiao-Ro are three girls who are born on the same day but led vastly different lives. On their 22nd birthday, fate brought them together.
In an upscale restaurant, president of Zhou enterprise celebrated his step-daughter, Lei's, 22nd birthday. To Lei, nothing in the world worried her. Because no matter what happen her step-father would be there to take care of it. But, in the course of the dinner, her step-father suffered a heart-attack and died.
Unbeknown to all was that he secretly established a will to leave all his company stocks to his missing birth daughter, and only a mansion and $50,000,000 to his wife and step-daughter. Upon hearing this news, the ambitious executive vice president hired Ren Jie to assumed the role of the missing daughter, therefore, giving him the control of the company.
Meanwhile, policewoman Shen Xiao-Ro got mighty upset that the pervert she caught was released on bail. She went out to search for him and beat the crap out of him. Her action was reprimanded by her superior. In the heat of anger, she quited her job. In turn, she went to Zhou enterprised to apply for security position as Ren Jie's body-guard.
Fat Tin is an overweight daughter to a wealthy man in the Philippines. Worried for her daughter's future that she won't get married because she's overweight, Fat Tin's father searches for and finds what he believes to be an ideal life partner for her daughter. However, unable to feel anything for her husband-to-be, the idealistic Fat Tin runs off to Hong Kong. Life in Hong Kong is totally different from the life she left. People are more materialistic, and appearances are everything. Fat Tin's weight makes her the object of ridicule from Tai Sz Hei especially, the owner of the store she will eventually work in in her time in Hong Kong.
Tai Sz Hei is a successful designer and the owner of several chain stores selling his own design brand. A perfectionist, he feels that appearances are everything and anyone unable to take care of their own appearance cannot be trusted to take care of anything important.
Quarrels and misunderstandings are the norm between the two polar opposites, and Tai Sz Hei made life a living hell for Fat Tin who could only shoulder them to keep the job she needs to pay for her living expenses in Hong Kong.
A strange turn of events brings the two together in the Philippines. An accident leaves Tai Sz Hei with memory loss and Fat Tin, who has since returned to her father, turns out to be the one to shelter him. Still sore about her treatment at his hands in Hong Kong, she plays a prank on Tai Sz Hei by convincing him that he is her boyfriend.
The memory-less Tai Sz Hei however, stripped of the defensive shell he placed to protect himself, begins to show another side of him that is not all too different from Fat tin. What started as a simple prank turns into real romance and Fat Tin begins to worry about how things will turn out when Tai sz Hei eventually regains his memory and found out who he really is...
Choi Jung Soo (Shin Don Wook) was left in an orphnage by his father who could no longer take care of him after his wife left him for another man. He had a bright future in medicine but could ill afford the tuition fee. In despair, he took off to the remote island where his father grew up in the hope that he would find him there. He ended up spending 7 years there working under the guidance of the island's only doctor and became very good at it. But when he saved Yoon Jung Won (Han Ji Hye) who suffered from an acute appendicitis, he became mistaken as a skillful doctor and his life became complicated. YJW was the daughter of the owner of an elite hospital in Seoul and the two began to develope feelings for each other even though she was engaged to be married. He couldn't help falling in love with YJW and began to lie to himself and others about his medical credentials. The higher he rose, the harder he fell. The love that he thought would give him everything turned into poison. He lost his world … except the love of his woman who stood by him no matter what.
For once, something a little fresh, at least by K-Drama standards. We're talking body exchange, which has been done many times on the big screen, but rarely on Korean TV. The idea of Park Jin-Hee playing an Ajumma and Shim Hye-Jin going into sexy mode sounds just about right (the initial setup is the opposite, obviously), and if the script builds on the interesting outline, this could be fun.
90 Days, the Time for Love describes the love of a man, Hyun Ji Seok (Kang Ji Hwan), whose life will be ending in 90 days. Although he's already married to Park Jung Ran (Jung Hye Young), he wishes to find his true love and spend the rest of his days with her. Through an unexpected turn of events, this woman turns out to be his first cousin, Go Mi Yeon (Kim Ha Neul). Will their love be able to overcome the harsh realities of society?
This drama portrays the story of a man and a woman who only have 90 days together and who are tied together by destined love.
