My Girl is a romantic comedy series which broadcasted in 2005. I love this Korean Series so much and I actually watched it more than one time. It got me laugh no matter how many time I watched.
Cast:
Lee Dong Wook as Seol Gong Chan
Lee Da Hae as Joo Yoo Rin
Lee Joon Ki as Seo Jung Woo
Park Si Yeon as Kim Seo Hyun
Source: DramaWiki
Part I
Seol Gong Chan (Lee Dong Wook) is the only grandson of one the owner of Avenue's Hotel which is the one of the top hotels in
Seo Jung Woo (Lee Joon Ki) is Seol Gong Chan's best friend and also an heir of another owner of Avenue's Hotel. You can probably tell by now that he will be Yoo Rin one side love. Kim Seo Hyun (Park Si Yeon) is Gong Chan's ex-girlfriend who left him for pursuing her professional tennis career.
Yoo Rin and Gong Chan first meet on the plane from
Gong Chan has been working on finding his long-lost cousin in order to fulfill his dying grandfather’s wish. This is how the mess is actually started. After failing so many time, and his grandfather seems to get worst, he decides to persuade Yoo Rin, who is an expert in lying and also resemble with his late aunt (his secretary points this out), to work for him by pretending to be his younger cousin once, so his grandfather can die peacefully. With her bad circumstances, Yoo Rin accepts the offer.
Things don’t go as a plan; Yoo Rin’s appearance seems to help Gong Chan’s grandfather’s condition to improve significantly. Yoo Rin ends up has to move in with Gong Chan’s family and they have to act as cousin. I forgot to mention that Yoo Rin and Jung Woo accidentally met in Jeju and he is very interested in her.
The first night she moves in (see above video), Yoo Rin has an accident in the bathroom (super funny). You can watch the below clip.
What make this series even funnier is the flashing thoughts. Especially from the leading charactors.
They're so many funny moments in this series. Lee Da Hae is super cute and funny, I saw her a little bit before in Green Rose (I couldn't get to finish watching this series, it was way too draggy for me to finish it) and really surprise to see her being this funny in My Girl. This is also the first time I watched Lee Dong Wook, and he is super cute in here, and the chemistry between them is so great. I will try to write more about My Girl and hope to finish it soon.
Daddy-Long-Legs (Kidari ajeossi) - Trailer
Sweet Relationship - OST - Let's Start From Here
I just started watching this Taiwan series, Wayward Kenting, leading by Eddie Peng (also in Honey and Clover), Janine Chang (also in Honey and Clover), Ethan Ruan (from Fated to Love You), Lee Kang Yee, and Lee Shiau Shiang (from It Started with a Kiss). I've heard a little bit about this series for quite sometime, but never thinking about watching it until recently while watching Joanna Wang's mv and this saw this video. So far I'm very impressed with Ethan Ruan's acting, Eddie's cuteness, and the chemistry as best friends between Eddie and Lee Kang Yee.Come a Little Closer ( Kao jing yi dian dian)
I wait quietly behind you
"mo mo zai ni de shen hou shou hu de wo"
Next day, F class students and Zhi Shu's mom plan to give him a surprise Zhi Shu. His mom's so funny. Soon he opens his bedroom door, F class students start to sing the song for him (seems to be written specially for him too). Chun Mei gives him Xiang Qin doll. Xiang Qin gives him a gift. Zhi Shu's mom asks her of how she gets that much money from. Now Zhi Shu reallizes why Xiang Qin has to work part-time. Zhi Shu's mom tell Zhi Shu to take a pictures with everyone. Zhi Shu then wraps his arm around Xiang Qin. Here is so funny, I think Zhi Shu's mom only focus at the two of them, but not the rest of the students. Zhi Shu wispers to Xiang Qin that he heard her greeting customers.
Song: Never Say Goodbye
Being left alone with in the house during school break, Xiang Qin spent most of her time trying the do her homework, but she doesn’t manage to get any done at all. Xiang Qin suddenly comes up with the idea to steal Zhi Shu’s homework book. She goes in Zhi Shu’s room in middle of the night, but her clumsiness, silliness, plus night blind doesn’t cooperate with her real well. She gets caught. (The screen is very funny of how dumb she can be). He also teasing her that she might come in for other reason (since they are alone), and adds that he might not be able to control himself. Xiang Qin is freaking out and says that this is too fast, they should date healthily first. Zhi Shu just bursts in laughing and says that he has no intention of dating her any way. Here we go another mad and screaming screen. Later that night, when Xiang Qin comes down stair for more coffee, she sees the homework’s book in the middle of dinning table and think to herself that she is as lucky as Nobita (has Doramon). It turns to be Zhi Shu who does this for her. They end up spend the last night of their holiday working on homework together.
In the F class, Xiang Qin ends up being the only person in class who actually finished the holiday’s homework. The teachers from both F and A class give their students the survey on their future’s goal. Both class teachers talk to their students about their future after graduate from high school (the same topic, but totally different feeling since the quality of both class are so much difference). Zhi Shu seems to be very worried.
Now students seem to talk about their goal, Xiang Qin tells her friends that she wants to attend at university department of their school which she will be more like to be apart from Zhi Shu (people assume that he will have to go to better university). Ah Jin is also has a goal in mind too which is getting married to Xiang Qin. He seems to be the only person who has a very determine goal set in mind and he keeps telling people about his goal as well which quite funny.
While walking back to their house, Xiang Qin asks Zhi Shu which university that he wants to go and assumes that he will go to Tai Da U. (top U. in
Back at home, Xiang Qin can’t stop thinking about what Zhi Shu said earlier about not wanting to attend Tai Da U. She thinks that it is so strange and he looks troublesome. She again tries to study and end up sleeping. Middle of the night, Xiang Qin goes get coffee and finds Zhi Shu there. They then sit down, sharing coffee, and talking. However, Xiang Qin seems to fall sleep in the couch. Zhi Shu is trying to listen to their parents’conversation. They’re discussing about what their new house should be after Xiang Qin and Zhi Shu marry. Zhi Shu then walks in to break off the party and tells his parents not to decide on his future. Ah Cai gets upset and says that Xiang Qin might be the one who says no to this marriage as well. Zhi Shu tells Xiang Qin that even if he likes her, he will never accept this arrangement.
Next morning, F class teacher seems to have a hard time from his superior regarding the low performance of F class students. He is threatening to loss his job if the F class students’ performance still low. He tells his students that this final exam will be the most important exam for them because it will determine their future as well as his. He also tells students about the second button story which male students will give their second button to the girl they like on the graduation’s day.
Back at home, Chun Mei and Ya Non come to study with Xiang Qin. They purpose to do homework together, but no one is better than another.
Cast:
Won Bin as Kim Ji Hoon
Fukada Kyoko as Asai Tomoko
Lee Dong Gun as Park Kyung Joo
Han Hye Jin as Park Hye Jin
Source: DramaWiki
Synopsis:
Left alone on a trip to Hong Kong by her friend, Asai Tomoko (Fukada) has become the victim of a purse robbery and mistaken that Kim Ji Hoon (Won Bin) is the one who took her bag while he is trying to film his independent movie project. Since Tomoko lost her money, Ji Hoon ends up has to take Tomoko for a dinner at his aunt’s Korean restaurant and in return she agree to model for his film. Despite language barrier (Tomoko basically only speak Japanese), they have spent a good couple of days together in
After return back to their normal life, they begin e-mailing each other. Tomoko sends e-mails to Ji Hoon in Japanese and his roommate, Park Kyung Joo (Lee Dong Gun), who had been study in
She finally finds a chance to visit
Ji Hoon goes along with his colleagues to
Two years go by, Tomoko has never given up on learning Korean language, and because of her Ji Hoon has not given up on his dream of becoming a movie director either. They meet again in Soul while Tomoko is working as a Japanese tour guild. They start dating each other again. Until on Ji Hoon’s birthday, his parents find out that he is still pursuing career in movie business and on the top of that he’s dating Japanese girl. Tomoko finds out that in order to be with her Ji Hoon is about to give up his dream of becoming a director, she tells him that she wouldn’t be happy if he has to give up his dream for her. She goes back to
At the end Ji Hoon doesn’t give up his dream and a year later he goes to
This is such a perfect short series. A second time I see Won Bin (Autumn Tale) and Lee Dong Gun (Sweet18). They’re sure eyes’ candies. I totally fall for Won Bin in this series! Fukada is really pretty, but I can see if some one wouldn’t like her acting in here. It’s a little skeptical, but I like it. Anyway, I’m so glad I watched this series. I just couldn’t stop smiling when it is over; it’s just too cute!
It Started with a Kiss - OST
This is the first and the only time I watched Rain in Korean drama (Well, I actually watched him again in his
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
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.
Silence vs. Autumn Tale
Back at home, Zhi Shu goes to Xiang Qin’s room to try to get his photos. After knocking, she doesn’t answer, so he just goes in. Xiang Qin is sleeping at the study desk. Zhi Shu peeks at her (he seems to have some confused feeling here. He sees the letter that she wrote him, and the letter says,
“Classmate Jiang, nice to meet you. I’m Yuan Xiang Qin from class F. I don’t think you know me, but I know a lot about you. From the first time, I met you at freshman orientation. From that day on, I couldn’t take my eyes off you. It didn’t matter if you were making a speech, you were talking to a person next to you, or you were by yourself, I could always from the crowd identify where you are. It seemed as if wherever you are, there would be light. Sorry, I’m so straightforward, but I kept thinking if I didn’t say it now I don’t know when is the next time that I would have the courage. If I don’t say it now, the next time when we meet there could be more changes. There have been many times that I gave up an opportunity to confess to you. This time I told myself no matter what, I’m not letting you go. I’m being bold again. My crush for you has gone for two years. In order to not let this feeling be regret forever, so I’ve decided to bravely write this letter confess to my feelings. Jiang Zhi Shu, I like you (wǒ xǐhuān nǐ)!”
Zhi Shu looks at Xiang Qin and says, “For people like you, what do you have in your head? Where do all the energy and enthusiasm come from for you to do obviously stupid things?” And he looks at the photo of them sleeping together and says “To like a person, how does it felel?” (I feel some love now).
Next day in the bus (here it goes again), Xiang Qin encounters with two perverts. Ah Jin sees it and tries to rescue her, but he is accident bumping into the older lady, so he can’t do it. Then Zhi Shu comes to help her. Zhi Shu lets Xiang Qin stand by him on the bus. This is pretty funny screen and the old lady who Ah Jin bumping into is actually the director.
Ah Jin, his friends, Ya Non, and Chun Mei goes to Zhi Shu’s house because Ah Jin is too worry about Xiang Qin living in the same household with Zhi Shu. At Zhi Shu’s house, Ah Cai is making everyone dinner, and he realizes that he forgets to buy beers. He asks Xiang Qin to go buy them. Zhi Shu’s mom asks Zhi Shu to go with her. After they left, Zhi Shu’s mom tells everyone that Zhi Shu and Xiang Qin look good together. Ah Li and Ah Cai have this speechless facial expression and “They do?” Then they start talking about how good it would be for the two of them to get married because they all can live together like this forever. Zhi Shu and Xiang Qin overheard about it and tell them not to arrange anything on their own. Yu Shu says he agrees because he doesn’t want this kind of sister-in-law who stupid like her. Zhi Shu’s mom tells Zhi Shu that she thinks that Xiang Qin is very suitable for him. Xiang Qin gets a little happy, but Zhi Shu says that he does not deserve her. Xiang Qin gets mad and says she doesn’t like him either. He asks if she is confident about what she said. Xiang Qin says yes; Zhi Shu then recites the contents from the letter that she wrote him. Xiang Qin gets embarrass and hit him. She tells him that he shouldn’t have memorized it; Zhi Shu says he can’t help it because he remembers everything he read after read once.
Zhi Shu’s mom is very excited to know that Xiang Qin likes Zhi Shu. Ah Jin jumps in and tells everyone that he is the one who is the most suitable man for Xiang Qin. Zhi Shu teases Ah Jin by saying that his feeling can be changed from dislike to like and tells Ah Jin to remember that he is the one who Xiang Qin likes more. He then turns to Xiang Qin and tell her that he will be waiting outside (they purpose to go store to buy beers). Xiang Qin gets a little dreamy and follows him outside. Ah Jin is getting loss once again.
Ah Cai and Ah Li get an invitation from their high school re-union. Zhi Shu’s mom encourages them to go, and after them leave she lies to Zhi Shu and Xiang Qin that she needs to leave as well, so she can create an opportunity for Xiang Qin to be with Zhi Shu alone. I really love Yu Shu, he is so funny throughout the show. While he is dragging a long with his mom and while he finds out that his mom is lying.
After Zhi Shu’s mom and Yu Shu left, Zhi Shu tells Xiang Qin that she is the one who’ll do the cooking. In the kitchen, Xiang Qin is looking at the cook book and day dreaming about how touch Zhi Shu will be after seeing the food that she make. She is so good to make it look like she’s such a crappy cook. Zhi Shu comes down stair and notices that something is wrong in the kitchen. This is funny! When he opens the kitchen, it’s all disaster, smoke is everywhere and everything that Xiang Qin makes doesn’t look eatable. So he has to take over the cooking. After all he is a genius, he can do thing after reading. They end up working together in the kitchen. At the dinning table, Xiang Qin is happily eating dinner. Everything turns out so good. She starts to day dreaming of how they’re together alone in the house. Xiang Qin tries to find something to talk to Zhi Shu, so she asks if he already finish his homework. He says he did, and asks if she already start. She says no because she thinks that she still has couple more days to finish. He tells her to forget about it because for her it would be impossible. Xiang Qin begs him to help her with the homework, but he refuses to do so. At night, Xiang Qin tries to do her homework, but she can’t do any of them.
Next morning, Zhi Shu is shock of how Xiang Qin look (from sleepless night). Xiang Qin tells him that she couldn’t manage to get any problem done and complaint of how screw up she is. Zhi Shu says, “It looks like you are really screwed”. Xiang Qin jumps on the table and begs him to help her again (Such a funny screen). Zhi Shu rejects her again and leaves.
This episode goes really fast; all main characters have been introduced. The heroine, Riiko is a very naive about love. Because she likes her co-worker, she is willing to take the blame for him and really typical she keeps being happy with a little kindness that he gave her. Because getting rejected, Riiko goes to the bar and tells her best friend, Mika, about it. After her friend left, a man in the black suite comes to her and tells her that he can change her life (in term of love life). He's Namikiri Gaku, a scientist from Kronos Heaven. I guess being a little drunk, dumb, and naive, she ends up signing a contract of purchasing a lover robot, Tenjo Night.
Night is so hot, and his acting is convincing that he's not really human. Because being program to be Riiko’s ideal boyfriend (according to her ideal boyfriend questionaires). He is following her around and keeps suggesting that they should have sex (that's so funny). After he appears in the series, you will keep hearing he's calling Riiko and it is so funny. Even if he looks exactly like human, but he doesn't completely understand all of human emotion as well as many things that human does. Night' mission is to make Riiko happy, but she doesn't seem to be happy to have him around after all he's a hugh debt to her and she doesn't want to be with a robot. And now everyone around her are so curious to see her being follow around with this hot guy who keeps saying that he is her ideal boyfriend. So she has to lie to everyone that he's her cousin. 
Let's talk about another main character, Asamoto Soshi. I wasn't really that impress with him in this episode, he didn't really stand out in this episode, just ok. He's a younger son of the Asamoto Company and the chief of the department that Riiko is working as a temp worker. Soshi is a careless man who seems to be a playboy. What get him to interest in Riiko is Riiko's Choux Cream. It's all happen at the company even that Riiko takes a blame for her co-worker, the one who she has a crush on. That guy made a mistake about giving the direction to the shipping company; here Nighto starts to come into Riiko's heart. He overheard a problem and risks himself to rescue her. His will to be by her side is really touched by Riiko. On the other hand, in stead of being touched by what Riiko does for him, that co-worker is talking behind her back (basically how dumb she is). Riiko and Soshi overheard everything. Soshi wants to punch that guy, but before he gets to that guy Nighto already gives him a punch. Here is where that guy left Riito's choux cream and Soshi tries it and it reminds him of his grandfather' choux cream. 