Review: My Sister-in-law is 19

Title: My Sister-in-Law is 19
Also known as: She is 19 & My 19 Year Old Sister-in-Law
Genre: Korean Drama
Episodes: 16


Cast
* Jung Da Bin as Yoo-min / Jung Hae-won
* Heo Jeong-min as Kangpyo
* Seo Dong-won as F3 leader
* Yoon Kye Sang as Kang Seung-jae
* Kim Jae Won as Kang Min-jae
* Kim Min Hee as Choi Su-ji
* Seo Ji Hye as Kang Ye-lim
* Suh Ji Hee as young Choi Su-ji

Bengalplot

Dad rich
Mom sick
Dad loses memory
Mom loses her life
Girl left with $
Aunties need $ to raise family
Aunties greed $
Aunties abandon Girl
Girl grows up tough and poor
Aunties raises Guy to grow up weak and rich
Girl meets Guy
Girl also likes Guy's Brother
Brother meets Girl
Brother forced to marry so...
Brother needs Girl
Brother and Girl enter into engagement pact so...
Girl moves in w/ Aunty and...
Girl lives w/ Guy
Guy falls for Girl
Brother falls for same Girl
Dad looks for same Girl
Evil Girl knows it's the same Girl
Evil Girl knows Dad is rich
Evil Girl makes Girl leave
Evil Girl lies to Dad so...
Dad stops looking for Girl
Dad likes Evil Girl (not in that way)
Evil girl grows up strong and rich
Girl grows up still tough and poor
Brother finds Girl again
Brother falls for Girl
Guy still haven't fallen out of love with Girl
Dad starts to remember Girl
Girl ends up w/ ...
Watch and fill in the rest

late realization: Kim Jae Won as supporting role

(for some reason thought this came out post-Wonderful Life)

correct prediction: Yoo-min & Seung-jae

disappointed: Kim Jae-won's acting

commendable: Choi Su-ji's acting skills and sense of fashion

Jung Da Bin: not attractive, toothpick-like, good meanie
shocker: she's died February 10th, 2007

Bengal condolences to Jung Da-bin

"learn from the Korean dramas you make, if having a brother like Kangpyo didn't kill you, then depression shouldn't" - Bengalquote

Ratings



Episode Reviews

ep.3
wrong prediction: Su-ji lies about being the daughter

school uniform: ugly plaid skirt

ep.5
question: how'd she fix her hair after the fight so nicely?
Dr. Kang: screams like Wonderful Life
embarrassed: name on chair
music editing: sucks with capital S (song bursts in at stupid times)
- there's a word for this in VietNamese: vô duyên
- next blog quest: translate vô duyên into English

Korea's official form of transportation: piggyback
good effort: learned how to wash hands the physician way
funny: "don't ask!" at friend's gathering
melt: kiss ceremony
pitiful: "today is my birthday"
hilarious: F3
empathy: all to Kang Seung-jae

"since I don't have a home there are a lot of places I can go to"- Yoo-min

ep.6
cool: "your face is my answer" - Su-ji
album: pictures seem like they were taken just yesterday before the shooting of this episode! (try to make it look old a little)
curious: what happens to the element of her house-building hobby? (if you're going to introduce it to the audience, you better keep it in the story)
waste: teddy bear burned to crisp
dying-to-know: type of fish in aquarium
sad: "If I knew this would happen I would have called her sister-in-law" - Seung-jae
invention: digital photoframe for automobile dashboard
illogical: curl your hair nicely before going to work as a Tiger mascot


ep.7
askin-for-it: Kangpyo
Bengal's brilliant sayings: brilliant bum
hilarious: morgue
trouble-maker: Kangpyo
- there's a word for this in VietNamese: đồ phá hoại
- next blog quest: translate "đồ phá hoại" into English
brilliant: formula for love

"you love yourself for waiting for her, not her"- Yoo-min

ep.8
priceless: note-on-door expression from Sister Yoo-min
Oscar-worthy: Madam Ren interrogation of her son
hero prediction: Seung-jae
rude: opens doors even when no one answers
brilliant: love have the properties of inertia
- love also follows Newtonian rules of physics

"I hate those who claim they took a nap,
but actually studied hard for the exams" - F3

ep.9
hideous: Seung-jae's criss-cross stitching pants

ep.10

"if i were you,
i would choose the woman that I love,
even if i have a chance or not.
i am your brother forever,
but the girl that i love,
if i don't do anything,
or if i don't choose,
we'll be strangers forever"
- Seung-jae

ep.11

"poverty isn't only described by someone who has very little,
but also by someone who wants a lot"
- Yoo-min

on seungjae who is an office-worker to make money b/ he wants to be mathematician

ep.12

"compared to him my pain's insignificant"- Yoo-min

ep.13
corny & gross & unrefined: pus metaphor

ep.15
lesson: Indian summer

- is a name given to a period of sunny, warm weather in autumn, not long before winter. This time can be in late October or early November (Northern hemisphere)/late April or early May (Southern hemisphere), usually sometime after the first frost. It can persist for just a few days or weeks

ep.16
what?!: no kiss! not even a poopin hug!
why is kangpyo working at the ice-cream shop (fired at Madam Ren's?)