Review: Delightful Girl Choon Hyang

Title: Kwae-geol Choon-hyang (Delightful Girl)
aka: Sassy Girl Choon-hyang/Chun-hyang
Genre: Korean Drama
Episodes: 17
Production: KBS2
Year: 2005
Director: Jun Ki Sang, Ji Byung Hyun
Writer: Hong Jung Eun, Hong Mi Ran

Bengalplot

Guy hates school. Guy gets kicked out of school.
Guy moves to little town. Guy meets little town Girl.
Girl loves school. Girl gets accepted into college.
Guy and Girl befriend.
Guy drinks. Guy doesn't know how to drink. So...
Guy falls... in bed with Girl.
Meanwhile... Guy gets framed.
Girl saves Guy. Girl gets framed.
Girl gets kicked out of school. Guy saves Girl. So...
Guy weds Girl.
Guy and Girl live together. Girl helps Guy get accepted into college.
Girl succeeds. Guy gets into college. Meanwhile...
Girl falls... for Guy. But...
Guy already fell for Ex.
Ex works for Boss. Boss falls... for Girl.
Ex gets jealous. Ex steals Guy.
Girl loses face. Girl leaves Guy.
Guy's parents no longer support Girl. Girl can't pay for school.
Girl sells jewelry. Guy feels bad.
Guy feels something. So...
Guy gets jealous of Girl and Boss. Guy does something stupid.
Guy gets kicked out of the house. Girl takes Guy in.
Guy falls... for Girl.
Ex and Boss feel something. So...
Ex and Boss break them apart.
Girl refuses Boss. So...
Boss frames Guy. Unless...
Girl gets with Boss.
Girl gets with Boss. Guy gets dumped.
Girl goes missing. Guy goes to law school.
Guy and Girl reunites. How...?
Watch and see.

"even in the next life we'll recognize each other at first sight" - Choon-Hyang's vow
"In trust is treason" - Dan-hee

Review

Girl: pretty
Best-Friend Award: Pang Ji-hyuk
Guy: Cute with a bat of the eyelash
missing: Girl's Mother
(ummm... what the hell happened to this actress? she quit in the middle of the drama? she wasn't even there for the wedding)
Best-Laugh Award: Guy's dad
donation: Hong Chae-rin's cosmetic surgery fund
senseless: Byun Hak-do's attraction for Girl
Most-fainting Award: Guy's Mother
bengalriot: drama-spoofs (esp. I'm Sorry I Love You)
hunchback of Notre Dame: Girl's assistant
storyline: sweet
lesson: Legend of Choon-hyang
most-looked-forward to: Legend of Choon-hyang segments

Ratings:

Review: Wonderful Life

Title: Wonderful Life
Year: 2005
Genre: Korean Drama
Episodes: 16
Director: Lee Chang Han, Jo Soo Won
Writer: Jin Soo Wan

Bengalplot

Guy goes to Sing. Girl goes to Sing. Guy meets Girl.
Guy's Ex cheats on Guy. Girl comforts Guy.
Guy falls in... bed with Girl.
Guy loves Ex. Ex loves Other Guy. Other Guy loves Girl. Girl hates Guy.
Guy and Girl part.
Girl has a girl. Girl hates Guy more. Girl's Sis hates Guy even more.
Guy and Girl's parents find out.
Guy has to marry Girl. Girl has to live with Guy.
Ex wants Guy back. Guy wants Ex.
Guy can't because of Guy's girl.
Guy and Girl raise girl. Guy fights with Girl.
Ex hates Girl. Other Guy hates Guy.
Guy falls in... love with Girl.
Guy and Girl has a somewhat Wonderful Life.
Watch and see how wonderful.


Review

couple: cute
Shin-bi: Cute w/ Capital C
Min Do-hyun: Cute exclamation mark
pitiful: Min Do-hyun
hero: Min Do-hyun
riot: Jung Il-jin (Se-jin's older sister)
annoying and gay: So Chang-myung (Seung-wan & Do-hyun's friend)
storyline: superb and meaningful
themes: men & women equal rights, traditions, organ donation, Catholicism, God & Death, the principles of love, parental love, leukemia, on death
accurate portrayal: leukemia the disease, hospital ER & treatment settings
sometimes annoying: Han Seung-wan's big mouth and Min Do-hyun's pouty lips
ugly: Lee Chae-young's bangs in the latter episodes
mean: Se-jin's monster-in-law
Se-jin: good mother-acting
grandpa: too funny

Ratings:

Wonderful Life Episode 16

hideous: Han Seung-wan's striped jacket
prediction: another baby conceived under the moonlight

Wonderful Life Episode 15

"God, isn't it a lot of work to have people die and then have to make more people?" - Shin-bi

that must've hurt: "you have blood in you?" - Min Do-hyun to Chae-young
curious: a bear double stunt man? or is that Han Seung-wan himself dancing
curious: "don't fish ever sleep?" - Shin-bi to leukemia boy
cute: leukemia boy and fish tank
funny: "but all men are wolves except me" - Han Seung-wan to Shin-bi

Wonderful Life Episode 14

"God's too busy to raise children" - Se-jin's mom
"sometimes hypocrisy is worst than malice" - Chae-young

Best Grandpa Award: Shinbi's
annoying: bratty twins