Monday, October 30, 2006

Which Star are You From - Kim Rae Won and Jeong Ryeo Won

Kim Rae Won - Choi Seung Hui

Jeong Ryeo Won - Kim Bok Sil/Lee Hye Su/Lee Hye Rim

Three different girls with the same fate in love. One guy fallen apart by a tragedy but rebounded by love.

This is a story of a director who after three years still mourned for the death of his girlfriend. Lee Hye Rim died on a car accident in Australia with Choi Seung Hui. After the incident, Seung Hui blamed himself for her death and didn't seem to forget her even after three years.

Trying to pull himself up, he revived his job and went to a small village to gather information for a location of a music video he will be directing. There he saw the exact resemblance of her girlfriend who was long dead.

Kim Bok Sil was an ordinary village girl who was happy to just stay in the village with her mom and teacher, selling wild ginseng. but everything changed when she met Director Choi Seung Hui as well as Hye Su's cousin.

Sonn truth was revealed. They found out that Kim Bok Sil's real identity was Lee Hye Su's younger sister, Lee Hye Rim. Finding about the truth, Seung Hui who was despised by Hye Su's mother kept his feelings for Bok Sil, fearing that she might get hurt later on just like what happened to her sister.

But love is really strong and impatient. After further thinking, and after Bok Sil admitted that she's in love with the director, he finally confessed his feelings for her.

Although they are full of love for each other, they still can't show off their relationship freely because Bok Sil's real mom disagreed of their relationship because she also blamed Seung Hui for Hye Su's death.

A lot of things and tragedies happened to their relationship. They even decided to break up just to make Bok Sil's mother happy. But Bok Sil was very weak. Every single day that she was apart from Seung Hui, she became more weak. Until one time when she broke down and cried, telling her mom how much she missed the director.

This incident made her mom think and finally deciding to let her and Seung Hui continue their relationship.

This is a typical forbidden love story but the destiny of seeing each other is what made this story wonderful. "Which Star are You From" refers to Bok Sil who was almost the same girl Seung Hui loved. Despite all the hardships and pain and despite all the arguments and arrogance, they both coped and stood up together declaring their love for each other.

Undying love indeed. it doens't really require time or fate, just FAITH.

Five stars for this series! :D

Saturday, October 28, 2006

Arang - Lee Dong Wook and Song Yoon Ah


Lee Dong Wook - Lee Hyun Ki

Song Yoon Ah - Soo Young

Who says horror movies are only for scares? Nah, not this one! This looks like a typical scary Korean horror but as you watch the film through the end, you will realize something else matters more than a scare.

This is a story of a veteran investigator and a rookie forensic scientist working together to solve a mystery of a group of friends dying with only one evidence left at the crime scene; a website to the salthouse where a very pretty young girl lived.

Lee Hyun Ki teamed up with Soo young to investigate this killing mystery. And as they worked together to find more evidences and to solve the puzzling deaths, more and more revelations came out about the mystery girl on the website and also about Hyun Ki.

Soon, soo Young found out the connection between the girl and Hyun Ki. She found out that he was the boyfriend of the girl who lived near the salthouse where she was raped and killed by a group of guys from Seoul. Hyun Ki, finally letting out his hatred longed for revenge and so did some things that made those guys hallucinate as ifseeing the girl they killed kill them too.

The story ended with Hyun Ki killing himself after finally seeing his girlfriend's body under the salt mound in the salt house and the last member of those guys die after seeing her, proving that they didn't hallucinate at all when they saw her.

This movie isn't only about seeing ghosts and being killed by them. This movie also showed how much someone can do for love even in the afterlife. Being a photographer and a devoted boyfriend, Hyun Ki proved that even after the death of his girlfriend, he's still ready to declare his love for her.

Five stars for this movie! :D

Sunday, October 22, 2006

Hanoi Bride - Lee Dong Wook and Kim Ok Bin

Lee Dong Wook - Park Eun Woo

Kim Ok Bin - Ly Thi Vu

A story of love and hatred, Hanoi Bride will surely capture the hearts of men and women alike.

Park Eun Woo was a doctor who was assigned in Vietnam. There, he met a pretty half Korean named Ly Thi Vu. They both fell in love with each other and had this typical lovers' relationship.

But there was a catch. Thi Vu's sister who was left by her Korean boyfriend before forbid Thi vu to have a relationship with a Korean man fearing that her sister might experience what she has experienced before.

Another thing, Eun Woo found out that his father has died and was forced to go back to Korea. Before leaving, he asked Thi Vu's sister to tell Thi Vu to meet him at the airport before departure. Trusting her promise, he waited for his girlfriend at the airport but unfortunately, no Thi Vu showed up.

6 moths after, Eun Woo's brother finally returned home from Vietnam with a fiancee. He met Eun Woo and introduced her to him. To his shock, he found out that the fiancee was Thi Vu, the girl whom he loved and left 6 months ago.

Planning for a revenge for abandoning her, Thi Vu agreed to go home and marry Eun Woo's brother. Neither of them knew the real reason why both have separated without words.

Things became complicated as both of them discovered the reason for their fate. Thi Vu found out that Eun woo left because his father died and Eun Woo found out that Thi Vu's sister never informed her about the meeting at the airport that was why she never showed up.

Upon discovering these reasons, Eun Woo and Thi Vu's love brought up another spark to their relationship and returning to Vietnam, again they started a relationship which will now end without misunderstandings.

Hanoi Bride is just a typical love story of two people meeting up, separating and meeting again. But as the story twists, you will appreciate how love can make both terrible and wonderful things.

Five star for this series! :D

MISA: I'm Sorry I Love You - Im So Jung and So Ji Sub

So Ji Sub - Cha Moo Hyuk (Mico Cha)

Im So Jung - Song Eun Chae (Celine Song)

This is a tragic love story that shows what love can do.

It all started in Australia where Moo Hyuk and Eun Chae met through a tragic incident.

Moo Hyuk was a gangster who was abandoned by his adoptive parents in australia. He longed to see his real mother so he worked hard to earn money to be able to fly to Korea.

Eun Chae was a coordinator to a popular singer Choi Yoon whom she has loved secretly for years, suffering while she watched him fall in love with another actress.

Neither did they know, fate will make them fall in love with each other. Even if both of them already spent a night together when Moo Hyuk's friends robbed Eun Chae, they didn't know that they will see each other again because of some circumstances.

Moo Hyuk was shot on the head twice on his girlfriend's wedding. His life became critical because one bullet cannot be removed or it would be fatal.

Having only a few months to live, he went back to Korea to look for his real mother. As unbelievable as it could be, he found out that he has an abnormal twin sister and his real mother was also the mother of Choi Yune.

That's the time when he met Eun Chae again whom he barely remembered. But she remembered him so well. Thinking that Moo Hyuk likes her, Eun Chae tried her best to send him away.

But as they spent good times together, Moo Hyuk started to fall for Eun Chae, wishing her to stay with him and to take care of his sister and nephew when he is gone.

No one knew about Moo Hyuk's identity except Eun Chae's dad who was responsible for throwing the twins away when they were born and the man who took care of Moo Hyuk's sister after they were left outside the orphanage.

As months passed and Moo Hyuk's health deteriorated, his love for Eun Chae grew stronger and Eun Chae also started falling for him, wishing Yoon to let her go and hold Moo Hyuk's hand. But because Yoon has a weak heart, she was forced to leave Moo Hyuk whom she thought was healthy and went with Yoon.

Until such time that Eun Chae found out that Moo Hyuk was sick and dying. She promised to be with him until the day he dies and promised to take care of herself when she was gone. But Eun Chae was so weak. Althought she showed Moo Hyuk that she was strong, Moo Hyuk saw right through her and decided to get away from her before he died.

Indeed, before his death, he gave his heart to Yoon and called Eun Chae on her mobile saying, "Rockhead, I'm Sorry, I Love You"

Moo Hyuk's death was a huge blow to Eun Chae that she went back to Australia to reminisce the times when they first met, until she lied down beside his grave, drinking poison, with a promise to fulfill the things that she hasn't done while Moo Hyuk was still alive. There, she died beside the man she loved the most.

This is indeed a very sad and tragic series but you can't help but be satisfied with how it ended because aside from the death, the truth is also revealed about Moo Hyuk's mother and Yoon's real relationship with him.

I'm Sorry I Love You will really make you cry and smile at the same time. This is like the typical Romeo and Juliet story where the phrase, "Till Death Do Us Part" really works. It shows how strong love is and how it satisfies every person even in death.

Five stars for this series! :D