my life
part 1: korean craze
* Princess Hours

Genre: Romantic Comedy, Drama
Casting:
Yoon Eun Hye (The Legend of Seven Cutter)
Joo Ji Hoon
Kim Jeong Hoon (DMZ)
Song Ji Hyo (Wishing Stairs)
Synopsis
Princess Hours is a drama that starts with the interesting premise; 'What if modern Korea were a constitutional monarchy with a king?', and offers two types of fun; the romance arising between a noble prince and an ordinary girl, the familiarity of all this happening in modern-day Korea. A perfect boy from a noble bloodline, with good looks and a sense of unpolished beauty has to marry against his will at the age of 17. An ordinary girl from an ordinary family, with a clumsy character, average grades and average looks oversteps the prejudice and barriers surrounding her. The process how they fall in love with each other unfolds with excitement. Shin Chae-Kyeong and Lee Shin, because they don't know each other well, go through numerous incidents in which they end up fighting. Chae-Kyeong witnesses the scene where Lee Shin proposes to another woman to avoid their arranged marriage and this is how the two become fully aware of each other's feelings.
* Full House
Genre: Comedy, Drama, RomanceCasting:
Song Hye-Kyo (Autumn in My Heart, Hotelier, Rays of Sunshine)
Jeong Ji Hoon (Sang Doo! Let's Go to School)
Kim Sung-Soo (Stained Glass)
Han Eun-Jeong (Successful Story of A Bright Girl)
Synopsis
Han Ji-eun lives alone in the house that she inherits from her parents. Her parents named the property 'Full House'. She has two close friends who end up selling the house behind her back to Lee Young-jae. Through a series of incidents, the two make a contract to marry, so that Ji-eun can stay in the house that her parents built. Although not in love with each other when they marry, a love between them develops slowly over time. The feelings of love are constantly interrupted by Gang Hye-won, Young-jae's love interest for quite some time and by Yu Min-hyeok, a man that likes Han Ji-eun.
* Sang Doo! Let's Got to School
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Casting: Jeong Ji Hoon
Kong Hyo Jin (Ruler of Your Own World)
Lee Dong Geon (Ruler of Your Own World)
Synopsis
Live life to its fullest! 23 year-old Sang Doo shows us his way to live his life to the fullest even in times of adversity. Sang Doo was put in jail for fighting with a man who tried to pick on his first love, Enhwan. Having a sick daughter, he makes money to settle the medical bills by working as a toyboy and going out with rich women.
One day, when he rns into Enhwan again, he knows deep down that she is the one he has been waiting for in life. To approach Enhwan, Sang Doo beings to work as a security guard in the school she works for...
* 18 vs. 29
Genre: Romantic Comedy, Drama
Casting:
Park Seon-Yeong (Oh! Pil-seung, Bong Soon-Young, Addicted, Truth)
Ryoo Soo-Yeong (Save the Last Dance for Me, Successful Story of A Bright Girl)
Park Eun-Hye (Daddy-Long-Legs, Dae Jang Geum)
Lee Joong-Moon
Synopsis
Hye-Chan never wants to see her movie-star husband again. But on the day she goes to file her divorce papers, she's involved in a terrible car accident, and loses her memory. Specifically, she now believes she's 18 years old, and she has no clue why the "ajussi" insists on calling her his dearest wife...
* Sweet 18
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Casting:
Han Ji Hye (Summer Scent)
Lee Dong Geon (Ruler of Your Own World)
Lee Da Hae (Love of Thousand Years)
Synopsis
The drama begins with Hyuk Joo's grandfather, the patriarch of the respectable and very traditional Kwon household, agreeing to a pre-arranged marriage between his at-the-time 10 year old grandson and the new-born granddaughter of his best friend, Jung Sook's grandfather. However, the family of Jung Sook's grandfather soon runs into debt and in the middle of the night, they quietly leave the Kwon household so as not to bring shame upon them.
Fast forward 17 years and Jung Sook is all grown up now and studying her final year in high school in preparation for her university-entrance exams. Her grandfather and father have by now passed on and she was brought up in a poor environment by her mum who owns a small laundry shop. However, Jung Sook is chirpy and strong-willed despite her background and definitely very cheeky. She unfortunately does not have much of an interest in her studies and often goes shopping and to discos with her 'gang' of four close friends, known in school collectively as the 'five mirror princesses'.
It is during one of these disco outings that Jung Sook ends up meeting her future husband, Hyuk Joon, although it is not in the best of circumstances. Hyuk Joon, a prosecutor has led his team to the disco to arrest a targeted gang leader but failing to do so, end up arresting underage entrants to the disco instead. Jung Sook, not yet 18, is one of those arrested and the awkward circumstance of their meeting is used to generate a few laughs. At almost the same time, Hyuk Joon?s grandfather who has been looking for his long-lost friend over the years, finally locates Jung Sook?s family?s whereabouts and send Hyuk Joon's uncle to formalise the details of the pre-arranged marriage with Jung Sook's mum.
Upon learning of the marriage, Hyuk Joon and Jung Sook of course are very much opposed to it with Hyuk Joon thinking of Jung Sook as an immature brat while Jung Sook sees Hyuk Joon as an old boring nerd. However, the usual plot developments are thrown in to bring the two together like Jung Sook catching Hyuk Joon in the bath when going to his house to ask him something and more importantly, she learns that Hyuk Joon is her first love (the unknown guy in traditional Korean dress whom she bumped into on the street and fell in love with immediately). Thus Jung Sook begins to actively pursue the marriage to Hyuk Joon's horror, even travelling from Seoul to Andong (a rural area where the Kwon household is located) to earn points with Hyuk Joon's grandfather. Hyuk Joon's grandfather takes an immediate liking to her despite her being from a poor background and not trained in the proper use of Korean traditional etiquette and household duties. Adamant that the marriage goes through, Hyuk Joon finally agrees to the marriage so as not to aggravate his grandfather's ailing health and with the mutual agreement with Jung Sook that their marriage is only to be in name with each other not interfering in the other's personal life.
All this takes place within the first few episodes and there is much more interesting twists and turns as Ga Young, Hyuk Joon's aggressive university ex-girlfriend, is introduced and goes about trying to win back Hyuk Joon with the help of Sun Ah, Hyuk Joon's sister who utterly dislikes Jung Sook and is against the marriage. Other obstacles like Hyuk Joon's and Jung Sook's constant bickering, the problems of living under one roof and the requirement of Jung Sook to meet the expectations of the Kwon family as the 'wife of the heir' also come into play to create some humorous moments and also further the plot. It would be too long to summarise the entire plot here but to put it briefly, in the end true love blossoms between Hyuk Joon and Jung Sook and their show marriage becomes a real one in all meanings of the word.
* Wedding
Genre: Melodrama, Romance
Casting:
Jang Na-Ra (Success Story of Bright Girl, My Love Patji)
Ryu Shi-Won (Beautiful Days, Secret, Truth)
Myeong Se-Bin (The Marrying Type, Who Is My Love?, My Life's Special)
Lee Hyeon-Woo (The Marrying Type, Sad Love Story, Rooftop Cat)
Synopsis
The drama starts with Se-Na (Jang Nara) and Seung-Woo (Ryu Shi-Won) meeting through matchmaking. Even though they don't love each other, they agree to marry since they seem to be compatible, based on what they wrote on their profiles and what they discuss through their meeting. As the two families prepare for the wedding however, Se-Na begins to wonder if she will ever receive true love from her husband-to-be, while Seung-Woo would rather not think about love. Furthermore the two begin to clash when their background and personality differences begin to surface, and to complicate the situation, Seung-Woo's friend from childhood and first love, Yoon-Soo (Myeong Se-Bin) appears and Se-Na begins to feel jealousy toward their relationship. Meanwhile Seung-Woo's senior at the foreign affairs office, Jin-Hee (Lee Hyeon-Woo) runs into Se-Na and the two seem to have a past together that they're hiding from Seung-Woo. This secret, together with Se-Na's jealousy begins to tear their otherwise respectful relationship apart, and the story of these four continue, as they each sort out whom is their lover, who is their friend, and who is their destiny.
* My Name Is Kim Sam Soon
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Casting:
Kim Seon Ah (Wet Dreams, S Diary)
Hyeon Bin (Daddy-Long-Legs)
Jeong Ryeo Won (My Boyfriend is Type B)
Synopsis
For all average girls in the world...
According to a research, 73% of Korean women believe that they are fat. That's seven out of ten. The lead character Kim Sam Soon is not an exception. She just gained 7kg after having her heart broken. She is a 29 year-old single who has an average life. She didn't go to college. She doesn't have her own apartment or a car. She doesn't have a boyfriend. Although she has baker's license, she got fired last Christmas Eve. She is one of us.
Women like her dream of romance that happens only in the movies, but they also know that it won't happen to them. They believe that they'll be happy as single if they love their work. Many of them dream of traveling the world for their whole lives. Sometimes they flutter when younger men try to flirt with them. They begin to feel pressured because they are afraid of aging. They still dream of something big happening though, something that will awake their forgotten dreams.
A Romantic Comedy Full of Tastes
The drama is full of interesting and attractive characters. All characters have unique personalities and intriguing traits.
The plot of the drama is simple. But it has something fo everyone. You will be able to relate to some characters in the story. They get their heart broken, get over their unsuccessful romance and move on. They work, get stressed, laugh and cry. They seek comfort and treat their emotional wounds.