Korean Drama - My Fair Lady (2009 TV series)

My Fair Lady / Lady Castle

Rating: 9.5/10

CAST:

Yoon Eun-hye as Kang Hye-na
Yoon Sang-hyun as Seo Dong-chan
Jung Il Woo as Lee Tae-yoon
Moon Chae-won as Yeo Eui-ju
Wang Suk-hyun as Kang Sumin
Kim Yeong-kwang as Jeong Woo-seong
Lee Jeong-gil as Chairman Kang
Kim Myeong-gook as Director Kang

About the Drama:

This is a 16 episodes drama "My Fair Lady" starring actress Yoon Eun Hye, from "Coffee Prince".

Kang Hye-na (Yoon Eun Hye), the only successor of Kang-san Group, is the owner of the ‘Lady Castle’ and lives a ‘princess-like’ life with her servants. Hye-na’s parents died from a plane accident and her grandfather brought her up. Hye-na is strong-headed, selfish and world revolves around her; it is because she could not experience the warmth of family when she grew up.

One day, she comes across Dong-chan. He makes Hye-na to do community service, kidnaps her, and appears in front of her as the new household manager! Hye-na makes every effort to throw him out from the castle, but this guy has tenacity in him!

Kang Hye-na (Yoon Eun-hye)

Kang Hye-na owns the 'Lady Castle' and lives a 'princess-like' life with her servants. Losing her parents in a plane crash at a young age, she had a lonely upbringing, living under the care of her stringent grandfather. So, she neither knows nor feels the emotional warmth from others. For this reason, she is overtly indifferent and oblivious to others' feelings and situations and totally self-centered. Whenever she opens her mouth, she spills out blunt remarks to no matter who the person is. She has skills leveling any national representative when it comes to horse riding, fencing, and shooting. The only reason she holds these skills is to either humiliate men unworthy of her, or to add awkwardness to conversations.

Until one day, out of pure coincidence, she came across Seo Dong Chan who turned her life upside down. He not only does he caused her do community service, he even kidnapped her and later he became her personal assistant. Even after stepping on him, crushing him and biting him, he still doesn’t run away. She may have finally met her match.

Seo Dong-Chan (Yoon Sang-Hyun)
A former gigolo, Seo Dong-Chan gave up entering university and his first love and took the road of the gigolo in order to make money for operations of his mother with acute leukemia. Dong-chan became the best of the best in the gigolo’s world with his dashing looks, eloquent speech, excellent art of living, and great skills of adapting to circumstances. But he dropped the career as soon as his mother passed away. He is in debt for five thousand dollars due to his mother's operations.

One day, Kang Hye-na showed up and stimulated his competitive spirit. To him, she is one of the most arrogant and impudent daughters in the wealthy upper class families.

Dong-Chan made up his mind to enter the Castle and becomes her butler on the purpose of changing his whole life and cheating Hye-na out of the five thousand which he owed the loan shark.

Lee Tae-yoon (Jeong Il-woo)
Tae-yoon is a human rights lawyer. He rejects the advantages he can take from wealthy life of second generation of Chaebol. He is devoting his life to legal service for the poor in a shabby lawyer’s office. At first, he has no feelings towards Hye-na. However, Tae-yoon slowly gets to know her and he understands that she has her own scar and sorrow in her mind that is not portrayed.

Yeo Eui-ju (Moon Chae-won)
She has grown up like siblings with Dong-chan. She is a kind of mentor who helps Dong-chan do right things as well as the closest person who worries about him and supports him to get his life on track. Eui-ju's special interest in him, her unrequited love is hidden.

Comments:

OMG I can't help but teared at the very last episode when she wrote the letter to Butler.

I love the interesting twist when the 2 losers (Lee Tae-yoon and Yeo Eui-ju) in love got together and slowly became good friends and at the end of the show when its hinted that Lee Tae-yoon might be interested in Yeo Eui-ju. Wasn't it obvious?

My Fair Lady (2009 TV series) English Subtitles (Completed)