Full House (Pool Ha-woo-seu)

This is the first and the only time I watched Rain in Korean drama (Well, I actually watched him again in his Hollywood movie, Speed Racer). I actually just watched this series sometime in 2007 and have to admit it that it is really entertaining drama (it lives up with its reputation). I watched Song Hye Gyo before from Autumn Tale and she made me want to watch this series.

Full House is a Korean series which based on a popular manhwa (Korean manga), broadcast in 2004. It seems to be a very popular throughout Asia countries.

Cast:

Bi (Rain) as Lee Young Jae

Song Hye Gyo as Han Ji Eun

Han Eun Jung as Kang Hye Won

Kim Sung Soo as Yoo Min Hyuk

Source: DramaWiki

Synopsis:

Lee Young Jae (Rain) is a big time movie star in Asian. He has a one side love with his childhood best friend: Kang Hye Won (Han Eun Jung) who is also has a one side love with his friend Yoo Min Hyuk (Kim Sung Soo), a successful entrepreneur in the entertainment industry.

Han Ji Eun (Song Hye Gyo) is an internet writer who lives in a house called “Full House”. Full House was designed and built by Ji Eun’s late father, so it means so much to her. Well, now you can probably tells that the story will develop around this house.

One day, Ji Eun is offered an all expense paid trip to go China by her best friends, who end up deceive her to go China, so they can sell her house in order to get rid off their debt. The trip to China is how she meets with Young Jae. Well, how they meet is quite funny, so you got to watch it (watch the video below). After come back to Korea, Ji Eun finds out that her house has been secretly sold to Young Jae. Ji Eun tries to get her house back and insists in every ways to hold on to with the house.

Meanwhile, at an awards presentation ceremony, Hye Won finally confesses her feeling to Min Hyuk, but he rejects her and mentions that Young Jae would be sad if he accept her feeling. This is like adding the fuel in the fire, Hye Won is very upset and immediately demands Young Jae to confess whether he likes her or not. Young Jae seems to be very confused and upset here, he suddenly grabs Ji Eun and says he loves her and kisses her in the front of many paparazzies (Ji Eun happens to sneaking into the party by stealing Young Jae’s invitation).

Basically, this is how the mess started. And it’s quite usual in many dramas that the main characters will be more likely dislike each other at first. From this tabloid circumstance, these two have come to an agreement. They sign a mutual agreement that they will be married for six months and after divorce Ji Eun will get her Full House back.

(pictures from their honeymoon)

They go on their honeymoon (even if it’s a fake marriage, they still have to do it, so on one would find out). They start the honeymoon not too well, but end up having a good time. After come back, they visit Young Jae’s family, and Ji Eun sings “Three Bears” song for his grandmother as a gift after his grandma complains that they forget to bring a gift from their honeymoon for her. This song has been used throughout the series.

Bit by bit, Ji Eun is falling for Young Jae, but she also knows that he is still in love with Hye Won. Her feelings for Young Jae extend to love his family as well (in return, his family really loves her as well, but in a comical way). As time passes by, it starts to be hard on Ji Eun to stay with Young Jae because she starts to fall for him more and more. Young Jae begins to like Ji Eun as well, but he is also confused by his feelings toward Hye Won. Young Jae seems to have a hard time express his feeling, so throughout the series he would often scold Ji Eun for no reason. He also gets jealous and does many funny things when she starts to develop a relationship with Min Hyuk.

Ji Eun ends up working as a script writer for Min Hyuk. After getting to know her, Min Hyuk starts falling for her. He once tells Young Jae that Young Jae doesn’t know how to treasure Ji Eun. He is very busy business person, but he seems to do whatever to find time to be with Ji Eun. Hye Won finally wants to let go of Min Hyuk, so she keeps clinking to Young Jae and after seeing Young Jae who always willing to be by her side starts to drift away from her, she gets so greedy. She now realizes that she wants him back. Here it goes, love triangle is every where.

At the end Young Jae finally realizes of how he loves Ji Eun, and it seems to be a little too late. His popularity makes his private life hard to maintain private. In order to protect Ji Eun’s reputation, he finally make a decision to let her go, so she doesn’t have to be suffer with all of his scandal matter. After breaking up, Young Jae disappears from everyone. In the mean time, Ji Eun’s script is about to be made into a movie. She requests Min Hyuk to get Young Jae to be the male lead in the movie. She also asks Min Hyuk not to wait for her any more because she knows how painful it must be for him since she experiences it first hand.

Young Jae returns again when he is told that Ji Eun is very bad situation because she has been abandoned by Min Hyuk (well her friend lie to him just to get him back). After come back, he tries to get her back. He’s also act in her movie and the movie becomes very popular. The movie seems to be very similar with their real life in Full House. Min Hyuk and Hye Won appear that they will end up together. At the end they have a happy ending!

Well, I don’t think I need to do any more review here because my thought has been added in my synopsis anyway. Rain and Song Hye Gyo chemistry is amazing in here. No wonder why so many people want them to hook up in real life. Song Hye Gyo proves that she is not only good at the sobbing characters like in the Autumn Tale; she can actually be quite funny as well. Rain is a good fit with his character even if his career is not really that well know as an actor at the time, he’s still a big time Asian singer, so I think it’s a good fit. The story is very light heart. You will get to laugh a lot and also get to be a little sad but not a tear jerker. After all it’s a much watch for everyone who love Korean drama or love comical dramas.

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