Joen's Corner

Synopsis:

Lee So Young (Jang Nara) life dream is to be a fashion designer but because of family circumstances, she never has chance to attend any class or course in this field. She was blessed with youthful appearances and mistakenly accepted to join a famous design company called The Style as junior designer using her sister's identity. She needs to overcome obstacles from her seniors and rivals to stay in this company.

Choi Jin Wook (Choi Daniel) is a one managing director in The Style and responsible to manage the promotions and sales of all new products. He is the heir of famous restaurant chains business but not interested to work with his father. He always in disagreement term with his father and choose to be independent without his father influences.

His first meeting with Lee So Young was at bar and due to some misunderstanding they are fighting with each other. Then they meet again, this time at The Style and become colleague and later as lover. But their love story is not going smoothly because of big age gap and interference of another man.

Ji Seong Il (Ryu Jin) is the president of The Style. He is a cold man and also a single father.

Kang Yoon Seo (Kim Min Seo) is one of the head team designers in The Style. She graduated from overseas in fashion designing and her name already well-known in fashion industry. She has crushed on Seong Il since a long time and after a few years her feelings to him still the same. However her childhood dream to be his bride might not happen when Seong Il's starts showing interest to Le So Young. Due to jealousy, she tried to do anything to destroy So Young's dreams.

Synopsis:

This drama is about the life of people in the mergers & acquisition, stock price manipulation and financial world.

Our hero is Kim Do Hyun (Jang Hyuk) graduated with the best result from Korea's best university. He grew up with his mother in poverty after his father left home when he was child. His mother passed away when he still in law school. After graduated from law school he was selected to be a partner in one organization own by Yoo's family. He believes that by joining this organization he can have a stable and comfortable life. However his dreams were shattered when he chose to sells his soul for money.

Lee Jung Yun (Lee Min Jung) is Do Hyun long time lover. She is a beautiful girl with a warm heart. She graduated from nursing school and work in Korea's best general hospital. She always gave her best in attending her patients, because of her outstanding performance she was selected to work in VIP's wing.

Yoo In Hye is the eldest daughter of Yoo Pil Sang family, one of chaebols family in Korea. She always feels that she was abandoned by her father because she is the daughter of second wife. She went to USA to further study and got MBA from one of top university there. Then gained experience as securities broker in Wall Street and now she is the president of her own multi-billion dollar hedge fund. She comes back to Korea to show to her family that she also can succeed even without any help from family. Her greed for money and power makes her a coldhearted woman with no romantic experience.

Yoo Myung Joon is Yoo In Hye younger brother. He is a playboy but unlike his sister, he has a delicate character and soft heart. He does not interested in family's wealth and always believes that money is the reason of his misfortune. One day he found out that he has terminal stage cancer and the nurse who was in-charge of him was Jung Yun. As time goes by, they have created a special relationship between them.

Joen's said:

This drama is so exciting and makes me hooked on every episode. Looking at how Do Hyun transform from a warm person to cold hearted man really makes me goosebumps. Jung Yun character is so warm and sweet, her decision to stand by Do Hyun until the end, to support him during hard time makes my heart feel at ease. I have mixed feeling at In Hye character, sometimes I feel sorry for her but most of the times she makes me grinding my teeth. She will do anything to achieve her greed ambitions. And Myung Jun is so unfortunate man that can make me cry. All the actors have done a good job. This drama makes me realizes that we will lose everything if our eyes was blinded by Power, Greed & Money.

Synopsis:

The drama took place in the Joseon Dynasty. This is the story of Chae Ok who was separated from her brother when she was child. They were children of a nobleman that was accused of treason. Her father was killed and she was forced to live as a slave.

She grew up with a young boy, a son of an honourable man and a mistress, because of his mother status this young boy always being cast away by other nobleman's kids. It makes them closer and has special feelings for each other. This young boy grew up to become a police commander and very loyal to his job and country.

Despite all the hardships in her life, Chae Ok managed to become a Damo (low ranked woman detective). She has an excellent swordplay skills and a very good investigator, because of that she was loved and respected by her collegue. But, being a damo is not an easy job, she not only fighting crimes but also have to face the inequalities for her status in society because she is a woman and also a slave.

On the other hand, her brother grew up as a rebel leader fighting against society injustice. He was admired by a lot people and has many followers. Both brother and sister fighting against each other without realize that they were siblings.

Joen's said:

Ha Ji Won is one of my favourite actresses and I have high expectation for this drama. This is the first Sageuk drama that she played before Hwang Jini (2006). She did a good job in portraying Chae Ok a female detective. I can feel the pained feeling of Chae Ok in her love life that cannot fall on love with Hwangbo Yoon because of her social status and also for her forbidden love with Jang Sungbaek. She did most of the stunt actions by herself. This drama full of actions and all the actors played their roles well. This is a good drama and heart breaking at the same time. I will suggest this drama if this is the first time you want to watch Saeguk drama because typical Korean Sageuk drama will have more than 50th episodes.

Synopsis

What if you could never forget that one person? The person you shared that spring with? In order to escape debts, Jaeha and his father runaway to the family’s home town, a small island isolated from the rest of the world. While Jaeha’s father goes on a short trip, he leaves his son under a friend’s care. Scared his father would not come back, Jaeha begins collecting money to buy his own boat ticket. However, his plans change after befriending Eunyoung, the father’s friend’s daughter. Eunyoung 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 Jaeha. However, after a tragic accident, the two are split…only to meet again after 15 years.

Cast

Suh Do Young as Yoon Jae-ha
Han Hyo Joo as Park Eun-young
Daniel Henney as Phillip
Lee So Yeon as Song Yi-na

Synopsis

Kang Gun Woo is an orchestra conductor in his 40’s. He is an elite workaholic conductor who has a very bad reputation. He is known as someone who will do absolutely anything in order to create the very best music. However, due to his self-righteous and stubborn personality he thinks that only his thoughts are correct which makes him unable to form good relationships with those around him. He meets Du Ru Mi, a violinist, and a trumpet player who has the same name as him, and together they form a love triangle.

Cast

Kim Myung Min as Kang Gun Woo (Conductor)
Lee Ji Ah as Du Ru Mi (Violin)
Jang Geun Suk as Kang Gun Woo (Trumpet)

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