Korean Drama - My Girl

My Girl

Rating: 9.3/10

CAST

Lee Da Hae as Joo Yoo Rin
Lee Dong Wook as Seol Gong Chan
Lee Jun Ki as Seo Jung Woo
Park Shi Yeon as Kim Se Hyun

Extended Cast

Jo Kye Hyung as Ahn Jin Gyu
Hwang Bo Ra as Ahn Jin Shim
Lee Eon Jeong as Yoon Jin Kyung
Byun Hee Bong as Seol Woong (Gong Chan's grandfather)
Kim Yong Rim as Jang Hyung Ja (Jung Woo's mother)
Ahn Suk Hwan as Jang Il Do
Choi Ran as Bae In Sun
Jung Han Hun as Joo Tae Hyung (Yoo Rin's father)
Han Chae Young as Choi Ha Na (the real granddaughter, cameo)
Jae Hee as Lee Mong Ryong (Ha Na's husband, cameo)
Oh Ji Young as Se Hyun's assistant / traveling companion

About the Drama

Joo Yoo Rin is a tour guide in a small company in charge of running mini tours in the Jeju Island of South Korea. Her father is a gambling addict, but despite all the debts that he runs up, Yoo Rin always finds a way to help repay them. She leads a below-average life but is happy as long as she has her dad around her. Because of her father's gambling ways, she has had to move from country to country whenever her father runs from one place to another to avoid their debtors. This has in turn brought her the ability to converse fluently in Chinese and Japanese, which are of great help as a tour guide whenever she has to entertain tourists from China and Japan.

Seol Gong Chan is the only heir of the owner of L'Avenuel Hotel, which is one of the top hotels in Korea. His grandfather, Seol Woong, makes him in charge of the duty to find his granddaughter, who is also Gong Chan's cousin. Seol Woong had disowned his own daughter, Gong Chan's aunt, when she decided to marry a man who is not of his choice.

However, when Seol Woong had a change of heart and wished to accept his daughter back, an earthquake struck where his daughter lived, and since then, he has lost all contacts. He thinks that the only chance to make amends for his own stubbornness, will be to take care of his granddaughter and hopefully make things right.

Kim Se Hyun is the girlfriend of Seol Gong Chan. A rising star in the tennis world, she returns to Korea to look for Gong Chan since she cannot forget him.

Seo Jung Woo is the son of one of the main shareholders of L'Avenuel Hotel and also the best friend of Seol Gong Chan. Unlike Gong Chan who is responsible and hardworking, Jung Woo is a flirt who is known to have many girlfriends.

The story starts with Yoo Rin rushing to the airport. She is helping her friend delay a flight so that the tourists of her friend will not miss their flight. Out of ideas, she plays a damsel in distress, who is apparently mourning her impending death and her dying wish to see her boyfriend who is apparently on the flight.

After much crying and the airport crew empathize with her, she gets to get on board the plane to look for her boyfriend who never really existed. As she walks, she realize she cannot find anyone and pretends to faint. She faints beside the seat of our male lead, Seol Gong Chan, who sees through her act immediately.

Although their first encounter is weird, it doesn't leave much of an impression in each other's mind. Later, however, when Gong Chan had to entertain a bunch of Chinese visitors and realizes he has no translator, he engages the services of Yoo Rin and through Yoo Rin, his potential Chinese investors have a great time at the L'Avenuel Hotel branch in Jeju.

After a series of comical events including Yoo Rin staying at his hotel lodge without paying, and Yoo Rin selling his hotel fruityard's oranges to make a small profit (to clear her father's debts again), Gong Chan perceieve Yoo Rin as a cheat and he would want distance himself from her.

But then word from mainland Korea is that his grandfather is dying and at his bedside, Seol Woong, through his respirator, can only meekly repeat that he must not and cannot die until he sees his granddaughter again.

Driven by desperation and his love for his grandfather, Gong Chan would do anything to ease his burden. When pointed out by his secretary that Yoo Rin bears a resemblance to his aunt, Gong Chan hatches a plan to pass off Yoo Rin as his grandfather's long-lost granddaughter whilst he carries on searching for the real one.

Yoo Rin, who is desperate for money to repay her father's debt, is unwilling to do the job as it involves lying to a dying man, something that she staunchly refuses to do. But when Seol Gong Chan desperately begs her and she realizes she is somewhat indebted to him for not bringing her to the police after her little business in his hotel, she caves in and pretends to the long-lost granddaughter.

Things seems to be going well, with the search for Gong Chan's long-lost cousin making progress and perhaps more importantly, the improvement of Gong Chan's grandfather's conditions thanks to Yoo Rin. As Yoo Rin spends more time with Gong Chan's family, she gets showered with the love she never received as a child and finds herself drawn to Gong Chan. She finds herself changing from the liar that she once was to a person who tries to tell the truth when she can. But she knows all too well that her one-sided love will never materialize as the difference in social status between Gong Chan and herself is too big.

But unknown to her, Gong Chan is also slowly being drawn to her...

Comments

Nice drama, one of the chick flick that most girls will like again. Poor little girl, talented, kind and even though a liar due to circumstances mets prince charming and falls in love. Actually Lee Dong Wook not too much of a prince charming at first, but also a kind soul...

This drama has a good balance of hilarious moments and moments that make you tear and wrench your heart. Compared to other dramas, I laughed a lot more than I cried while watching this drama. 

Sadly, Lee Jun Ki is reduced to mere flower vase in "My Girl". LOL who is prettier? Lee Jun Ki or Lee Da Hae? Even though Lee Da Hae was absolutely eye-catching, I keep thinking that Jun Ki has such a pretty face, sometimes I thought he looks prettier then most girls.

Even though I pity Jung Woon since he was unable to win Yoo Rin's heart but I do not think that he deserve her more then Gong Chan.

The last scene when the real granddaughter was found, that was downright hilarious. Yoo Rin and Gong Chan ended up together though I am not sure if they were married in the end since it was not shown or explained, but Yoo Rin ended up living in the house with them again.