|  Full House
Starring: Bi(Rain) as Lee Young Jae, Song Hye Gyo as Han Ji Eun, Kang Hae Won as Han Eun Jung and Kim Sung Soo as Yu Min Hyuk
This romantic drama was all based on a Korean fav comic called.... Well..... Full House^^
In many ways people who had read this comic, including me, feel that the drama did not give the comic all the justice it deserves! Despite this, overall this was a very fun and joyful drama to watch. On the screen, Bi and Song Hye Gyo made a very fun-loving couple that couldn't stop getting at each other's throats. Every time they wanted to say something nice to each other they ended up saying things completely opposite to what they really meant! Throughout this drama, they continually quarrel with each other because of their stubborn selves.
Well before I tell you the details in the middle, I should tell you some of the follow up story to these events...
Han Ji Eun had lost her parents at a young age and was living in the house that her father had built and that she had been living in all her life. Because of her "friends" she is given the opportunity to go to China. This seemed innocent enough, but really, her friends had gotten themselves in a financial crisis, so they felt that after they got her out of the country they could sell her house and pay them off. Not knowing this, Ji Eun goes to China and ends up not having a place to stay. She goes to the hotel - her friends claimed to have gotten her a room - and finds that they had not gotten a room for her. Fortunately she runs into Yu Min Hyuk and is given a room.
Meanwhile... Lee Young Jea is a famous rising star in Korea that has a real attitude problem. He is given a film role that is located in China and goes there to fulfill this task. While in the airplane he is put in the seat next to Ji Eun. There they get acquainted... I guess you can call it that^^
After Ji Eun gets home she finds that all her stuff has been taken out and that someone new was moving in. In rage she goes to find her friends, but is unsuccessful. After this she goes back to the house to find that the person who had moved in was none other than Lee Young Jea. Because Ji Eun did not have a place to go Young Jea lets her stay on one condition... She had to be his housemaid.
This is what brings me to the other details. While they live together they begin to develop feelings towards each other but to try to avoid them they begin to fight and find ways of insulting each other.
There are many, many more details that I have not told you yet... *cough* Young Jea and Ji Eun get married *cough* so you have to watch it to find out.
Overall this was a very interesting drama on its own and if I hadn't read the comic I would have given it 5 stars because it truly is very well made but because the casting was all wrong and the comic was more interesting, I'll give this 4 stars^^
DAE JANG KEUM    
DAE JANG KEUM: THE GRAND JANG KEUM
Starring: LEE YOUNG AE, JI JIN HEE
This epic drama is based on a true story of the palace medicine woman DAE JANG KEUM during King JUNGJONG (1506-1544) of CHOSUN Dynasty. At an era when women were second citizens, the achievement of a woman who tended the king as a doctor is certainly historical. The personal title "DAE" bestowed on Jang Keum by the king demonstrates the level of respect as well as the mastery of medicine.
Jang Keum (JK) was born to a mother who had been a palace woman working in the royal kitchen. The mother notices another palace woman (Miss Choi) mixing a foreign substance into some food she was preparing. JK's mother reports this to her superior who, unbeknownst to her, was the instigator of this conspiracy. She also tells her best friend (Miss Han) that she has reported this incident to the head of the royal kitchen, however, did not mention that she had told anyone. Soon, JK's mother was taken by the order of the superior and was forced poison on the grounds that she cultivated a man's feelings, which was a punishable and criminal act. Miss Han, who was told to prepare for the nighttime killing, couldn't bring herself to defend her friend and also took a role in the event. Miss Cho's false statement that she witnessed it sealed JK's mother's fate. While others were pouring poison, she laced in concoction that will lesson the effects of the poison. This saved JK's mother's life. Her supposed dead body was left in the bushes. JK's father was a palace policeman who delivered poison ordered by the king to the previous Queen. The Queen who has become a commoner again had to be killed because her son will become the next king, and no one wanted her wrath to be known to the new king. The result would cause many heads to roll. JK's father was so affected by the death of the Queen that he quits his position and "roams" the countryside. Once, he fell from a cliff and he wakes up with an old man attending him. The old man tells him of his future: he will meet three women, one- who he will cause to die, two- who will die because of him, three- who will cause him death but will save millions of people. JK's father asked him how to not meet the third woman, he was told to don't meet the second woman and the man vanishes. The next day, he finds JK's mother, takes her to a temple and revives her. He tries to not get involved with this woman but it is impossible: she has no skills to survive in the world outside the palace and what's more, her good-looks keep getting her into trouble (her good looks caught his eyes, too : P). Despite the warning that she would die because of him, they start the life together and soon there is a little girl- Jang Keum.
Jang Keum was a very special girl. She was curious about everything, wanted to learn to read (only boys were taught to read at this time) and played with boys in the woods. Because of this she would get her legs beaten sharply with a stripped tree branch (standard punishment) by her mother who would rather keep her daughter ingorant and therefore, a true commoner. It happens that JK and her father on one of the outings to the village chance upon a wrestling game. JK boasts that her father used to be a palace policeman and was very strong and could easily beat the village champion. The village champion not only prove to be a strong man but also cunning. He stabs himself and makes it look like JK's father did it to win the prize. Well, the government had just put out a wanted ad on JK's father on the basis that he took part in a punishable by death crime. By now the new king had found out how and why his mother was killed and was bent on revenge. He started to kill anyone who was involved in it. KJ's father was recognized to be one on the wanted ad and was taken away. JK runs to her mother who packes up whatever she could and now they are on the run. After they arrive at Hanyang (Capital of CHOSUN DYNASTY) JK's mother gets in contact with Miss Han and they tries to find out what happened to JK's father. Miss Choi's spies find out about what's going on with Miss Han. JK's mother was recognized as the palace woman who had witnessed the conspiracy and becomes a target to kill. After much running and confused imprisonment, etc., she dies in the deep of the hills asking JK's promise that she will live and become a palace woman to vindicate her mother. The vengeful king had been removed and the new king JUNG JONG had been replaced. In the JK's journey to become the palace cooking woman, she gets expelled many times but always able to come back. Eventually JK gets vanished to JEJOO island ( although modern tourist place, during JK's time it was barren and isolated place, only the worst of the criminals were sent there.)for the last time. It was the direct result of the conspiracy to remove Miss Han as the head of the royal kitchen and place Miss Choi as the head. Miss Han dies on the way to JEJOO and JK's left to live the life of an exiled criminal. Yet again, JK reinvents herself- she discovers that she can go back to palace if she becomes a medicine woman. So she starts to learn the ways of medicine and ultimately becomes DAE JANG KEUM. All through the story she meets caring friends and overcomes many difficulties (you know, the drama!!). Definitely sweet and heavy romance with Min Jung Ho (actor: Ji Jin Hee) is worth staying up to see just one more episode (many of those I had).
This drama is great, worth saving it for your posterity (nieces, cousins, daughters, granddaughters : P ) and friends!
 Lover in Paris
Starring: Kim Jeong Eun Eun as Tae Young, Park Shin Yang as Gi Ju, Lee Dong Gun as Soo Hyuk.
This romantic drama is set in the romantic city of Paris, France. A wierd twist of fate connects three people from completely different worlds to one place where they begin to develop feelings towards each other. At first none of them realize what they are getting themselves into, but as they get to know each other more and more their feelings toward each other begin to deepen.....
This drama begins when Tae Young decides to go to Paris to work on writing a scenario that would truly capture the essence of this romanic and beautiful city of Paris. There she meets Gi Ju while working at a friend's stall and Soo Hyuk when her bicycle breaks down. Gi Ju asks her to act as his fianc¨¦ so he could get the interest of a client he was meeting in Paris. While at a party hosted by this client something goes wrong to reveal the truth about their relationship. There they decide to call the whole thing quits and break up. They both go to Korea where fate pulls them back together.
Tae Young, Gi Ju and Soo Hyuk begin to develop friendships with Tae Young and end up feeling more feelings towards her than they initially thought. The thing about both of them having feelings towards one girl was that Gi Ju was Soo Hyuk's uncle and they had grown up like best friends since they were only about 7 years apart. Their feelings towards her slowly begin to be revealed causing heartache for all the people around them.
In this drama many hearts are broken and mended. People that had never experienced real love and had never really known what dating was really about begin to learn and express what they learned towards the person they truly love. At times this drama is really funny because these expressions of love get carried away.
This drama will make you cry, laugh and make you say "what the hell^^" I was initially going to give this drama five stars but after seeing the last two episodes I have decided that I was going to give it four stars because I feel they messed it up, but overall this was my all time favourite drama!
 Stairways to Heaven
Jung Suh is a child from a rich family with a warm heart. She had never believed life could be hard, when she had all she needed. A boyfriend, a dad, and money. The only pain that she had ever witnessed was her mother dying, but it happened when she was young, therefore, it only brought her faded memories. She never realized that the thing she needed and her father wanted, would make her lose everything. Her father married a famous actress, Tae Min Ah. But Tae Min Ah hid a secret that no one ever knew that even existed. She had two other children. When Jung Suh¡¯s father found out, he wanted the two children to come and live with them. Jung Suh was happy because her father was happy. But when Tae Min Ah brought the two kids that had lived with their father, everything in the world changed for Jung Suh.The family moved forcing Jung Suh to leave her boyfriend, Cha Seong Joo, and all her friends, as well as her school.The two children that belonged to Tae Min Ah was the worst anyone could of seen. The girl was the same age as Jung Suh, thirteen and her name is called Han Yoo Ri. The brother was older than Jung Suh, about fifteen, and his name was Han Tae Hwa.The two siblings act the worst to Jung Suh and while Jung Suh has to endure the pain from, not only the kids, Min Ah as well. When Min Ah¡¯s children comes to live with her, the lady that was so nice to Jung Suh, turns her back on her. When Yoo Ri ruins the time at their new school, Seong Joo comes and takes her to his parent¡¯s theme park, Global World. The two talk and even though Jung Suh id having a bad time, she endures it to the day that she goes to America with Seong Joo. Unfortunately, that never happens. When Yoo Ri goes running to her mom and tells her about Seong Joo. Min Ah acts and asks her husband, Jung Suh¡¯s dad, asking him if Jung Suh can stay in Korea more before she leaves. Her father agrees and Jung Suh stays. On the day that Seong Joo was leaving, Yoo Ri locks her up in a closet. When Jung Suh finds a tape that Seong Joo recorded when he was secretly in her room when she was supposed to be called sick. But she was in the closet the whole time because her step-mom, Tae Min Ah, had slapped her four times across the face and Jung Suh didn¡¯t want to show Seong Joo her face when it was red. In the tape, Seong Joo confessed his love. And Jung Suh ran to the airport, with the help of Tae Hwa, and met Seong Joo and the two shared necklaces and Jung Suh confessed her love to Seong Joo and gave him the tape. After Seong Joo leaves to America, Tae Hwa¡¯s birthday comes. When Jung Suh cooks Tae Hwa mi yuk gook, Tae Hwa starts crying and falls in love with Jung Suh. Then Jung Suh can now endure the pain about living in one house with Yoo Ri. And about ten years pass. When Seong Joo comes back, Yoo Ri tries to stop Jung Suh from seeing Seong Joo. After running after Jung Suh with her father¡¯s car, she wasn¡¯t in and she was acting weird and she ends up hitting Jung Suh. Yoo Ri tries to take Jung Suh to the hospital after realizing what she had done. When she over hears the doctors in the hospital talking about a fire in a building, and they couldn¡¯t find out who a dead girl was because her face was burned. Yoo Ri decided to say that Jung Suh was dead. After she dealt with everything in the hospital, she goes to her dad trying to seek help. Her father says that he will help her and Yoo Ri runs away back home and tells her mother. Yoo Ri tells her family that Jung Suh is dead and instead of Jung Suh going to America with Seong Joo, it became Yoo Ri going to America with Seong Joo. When Jung Suh stays at Yoo Ri¡¯s dad¡¯s house, she has lost her memory. Tae Hwa decides to take her and run away with his dad. The three of them stay together and Jung Suh and Tae Hwa work in a clothes store. Five years pass and Seong Joo and Yoo Ri come back from America. Yoo Ri¡¯s parents and Seong Joo¡¯s parents decide that Yoo Ri and Seong Joo need to get engaged. The two set up a time and a schedule. Jung Suh keeps seeing Seong Joo, but since she doesn¡¯t know it¡¯s him, she keeps ignoring him. But when Seong Joo sees her and realizes that it¡¯s her, he runs after him. After many days of arguing that she is Jung Suh or Kim Ji Soo (her new name that Tae Hwa made for her), Jung Suh¡¯s memory returns and she returns as Jung Suh. When the two try to forget the love that they shared, Yoo Ri presses the two into a more difficult situation. In the end, Seong Joo, tired of Yoo Ri¡¯s impressments, he tells everyone that he loves and Jung Suh and that he wants to marry her. As a result, Seong Joo gets kicked out. After he gets kicked out, Jung Suh finds out that she has eye cancer. After Seong Joo returns, after all the complaints that Jung Suh made Jung Suh runs away and Seong Joo is on the run to find her again. Jung Suh does not wish Seong Joo to be hurt because of her. After Jung Suh does become blind, and Tae Hwa finds out about it, Tae Hwa tries to do anything to allow Jung Suh to see again. He brings Jung Suh back home and Tae Hwa comes back also. Tae Hwa makes sure that Jung Suh gets married to Seong Joo and so at Yoo Ri and Seong Joo's wedding, Seong Joo tells the audience that he loves Jung Suh and must marry her. So the two get married and when Tae Min Ah goes up a wall, the police take her. Tae Min Ah becomes crazy and is sent to the mental hospital and Yoo Ri is sent to jail. Even after Jung Suh and Seong Joo are married, he is unsatisfied. He tells her that he will make her the happiest person and he does. When he remembers what Jung Suh had once said that she would like to see Seong Joo one last time. He goes to the doctor asking for help and all he hears is that the eye change must be from someone who is dead, Tae Hwa comitts suicide in a car accident and dies. When Jung can see again, all seems well, until the cancer reaches her brain and exploded. Seong Joo puts one of Tae Hwa's painting of a stairway going up to heaven in a gllery and all of Jung Suh's dreams are reached. Jung Suh tells Seong Joo that she wants to go to the beach and he takes her. At the beach, Jung Suh closes her eyes. Now, Kwon Sang Woo stands at the same beach playing Jung Suh's favorite piano song that the two of them always played. And the last tears of Kwon Seong Joo is how it ends.
CAST: Kwon Sang Woo(Cha Seong Joo), Choi Ji Woo (Han Jung Suh), Kim Tae Hee (Han Yuri), Shin Hyun Joon (Han Tae Hwa)
All In
 AS a kid all Kim In-Ha (Lee Byung Hun) did was follow his gambler uncle around and cheat for him. As a high school student he hung with his friends at the basement of a theater.
During high school he gets to know Chae Jung-Won (Ji Sung), a perfect student, and the son of a very rich family. Min Soo-Yun (Song Hye Gyo) is the daughter of a theater worker who becomes orphaned when her father dies.
In part of revenge of their friend's injury and her father's death In-Ha and Jung-Won set fire on the person. As a consequence they are put in jail and Jung-Won comes out of the crime while In-Ha serves for ten years and gambles to bail his way out.
Jung-Won works at a casino and Soo-Yun is studying to become a nun but fails becomes a card dealer at the same casino instead. In-Ha starts to work at the casino too and becomes a security guard. The three meet again and In-Ha and Soo-Yun fall in love but people are chasing after In-Ha so he runs away to the US not telling Soo-Yun.
They meet again but Soo-Yun has married Jung-Won.
Great drama. Shows alot of gambling but it's really exciting too...
A Joyful Girl's Success Story
 This story starts when Han Gi-Tae (Jang Hyuk) became the general manager of a well-known make-up company and Cha Yang-Soon (Jang Nara) was 'sold' to be a maid in order to return the money that her parents had conned. When in the countryside taking a photo for a newspaper, his parachute somehow had some problems and fell straight in the bathtub which Yang-Soon was taking a bath in!
After Gi-Tae went back, he realised that his necklace was lost and so went to find Yang-Soon to get the necklace back. Instead of getting the necklace back, Gi-Tae found himself chasing after Yang-Soon around because of complications and when he went to the branch office to try to get people to help, he was accused of lying to the security guards that he was the general manager of the main company as he did not have his identification with him as it was stolen by Yang-Soon's parents. Yang-Soon was made to go to the house of the president of the make-up company that Gi-Tae was in to be a maid and was then asked to do all the chores in Gi-Tae's house. Gi-Tae finally gets back his necklace and tries all means to throw Yang-Soon out of the house.
Yang-soon attends school in Seoul and meets Hwang Bo-Bae (Chu Ja Hyun) and Ruby and became great friends. Soon after, her grandmother went to Seoul to visit her but was knocked down by Yoon Na-Hee (Han Eun Jung), the daughter of the president of the make-up company and the fiancé of Gi-Tae. To get away from the life of being a maid and to return the people who were conned of their money back, Yang-Soon decided to join the contest by the make-up company which Gi-Tae was working in and got the first in that contest. After getting the award, she decided to go back to her old home in the countryside but found out that her parents had already sold the house. Gi-Tae and Na-Hee was about to get engaged when Na-Hee was told that Han Joon-Tae (Ryu Su Young) witnessed the accident of Yang-soon's grandmother and threatened to tell the police if she got engaged with Gi-tae as Joon-tae loved her. Na-hee then decided to further her studies after hearing what Joon-Tae told her.
One year later, Yang-Soon met all her friends including Gi-Tae and Song Su Koo (Yoon Tae Young), who had a crush on Yang-Soon since they first met when Yang-Soon was a maid, in a baseball match by the make-up company. As the company met with problems, Gi-Tae and the president of the company had to use all their property assets in order to save the company but never had he thought that his right-hand man, Joon-Tae, had betrayed him and caused he and the president to become bankrupt just when Gi-Tae wanted to propose to Yang-soon. But the president got away with it as her daughter, Na-Hee, had pleaded against Joon-Tae. After becoming poor, Gi-Tae started to plan and thought of ways to get back all his property assets and pretended to be helping Joon-Tae and he succeeded in the end. Yang-Soon then pursued her dream to join the army for 3 years.
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