Korean Drama - I am Legend

I am Legend

Rating: 8.8/10

CAST

Kim Jung-Eun as Jeon Seol-Hee (vocalist, lead singer)
Jang Shin-Young as Park Soo-In (drummer)
Hong Ji-Min as Lee Hwa-Ja (bassist)
Juni as Yang Ah-Reum (guitarist)
Lee Jun-Hyuk as Jang Tae-Hyeon (Oh Seung-Hye's ex-husband)
Kim Seung-Su as Cha Ji-Wook (Seol-Hee's ex-husband)
Jeong Seok-Yong as Kong Deok-Soo (Hwa-Ja's husband)
Kim Joon-Hyung as Ha Min-Kyu (Ah-Reum's husband)
Cha Hwa Yun as Ms. Hong (Ji Wook’s mother)
Park Young-Ji as Chief Prosecutor Cha (Ji-Wook's father)
Jang Yeong-Nam (Tae-Hyeon's ex-wife/Ji-Wook's mistress)

 

About the Drama

Back in her high school days Jeon Seol-Hee (Kim Jung-Eun) was the singer for a legendary rock group, but to support her younger sister's education she started to work as a clerk at a top Korean law firm. While working there she met a brilliant lawyer named Cha Ji-Wook (Kim Seung-Su) and eventually married him. Seol-Hee has become the daughter-in-law of a extremely wealthy family, but Seol-Hee soon learns that all that glitters isn't gold.

At social functions Seol-Hee's husband instructs her to not speak and just nod in agreement with the others. Her mother-in-law (Cha Hwa-Yeon) is incredibly insensitive to Seol-Hee as a person. What pushes Seol-Hee to the edge is when Seol-Hee's younger sister, who is now a doctor, is hospitalized with cancer and needs a bone marrow transplant from Seol-Hee. Seol-Hee's mother-in-law did not allow Seol-Hee to do the medical procedure in which can save her sister. Seol-Hee's husband offers no support to her when she seeks help from him. She is constantly being looked down upon by her mother-in-law. Realizing that she deserved to be treated better, Seol-Hee announces that she will file for divorce, during the family dinner.

Seol-Hee, determined to get her life back on track, she returns to her rock band roots, embarks on a new career as a singer for the "Madonna Band," a female group consisting of "ahjummas" (older women) who have personal problems of their own, and together they search for happiness and personal fulfillment through music.

Mean time, Jang Tae-Hyeon (Lee Jun-Hyuk), a guitarist and composer, shows great interest in Seol-Hee.

Comments

At the start of the show, the main actress transformed from a cool rocker to a classy lady. I was like wow! Cool man! But as you watched on you get extremely angry with the indifferent husband and the high handed mother-in-law who looks down on her. It is so disgusting to see that her husband and her mother in law pretending to be the best husband and mother in law in public, while they can't stand the sight of her.

Typical Korean drama....where woman fall in love get married. Husband loved her but "love her not any more". Mistress gets all the attention at first. Mother-in-law is the worst kind of mother-in-law, looks down on her. Horriblely insensitive. Feels like slapping her. LOL. She divorce him and he starts regretting his decision and now ignores the mistress?

OMG even though old fashion a very heart warming to know that such woman exist in the world. Extremely passionate towards people, when our main lead sees the middle class people at the market gets bullied by the rich family, she steps in and try to help them out. It all started out when she wanted to be her own lawyer for her divorce case. The drama is basically about a women who follows her dreams to be in a band and do something that she has always wanted to do no matter what other people think of her.

I wonder where she finds so much time to snoop around and be the lead singer of her band at the same time.

Kim Jung Eun who plays  Jun Seol Hee is really beautiful and her acting is amazing, I love her in Love in Paris, which is also a reason why I am so excited to watch I am Legent. Her character is so cool and fresh. She is awesome and the character she plays is like one of those awesome friends that everyone wishes they have.

Hong Ji-Min who plays Lee Hwa-Ja, makes the whole drama very refreshing and entertaining. Love her smile, her gestures and her cute face! She is a commical and not too commical character.

Can't say that Tae-Hyeon Seol-Hee's boyfriend, but I kinda hope that the couple will get together. Two injured person become lovey dovey to each other. They both love music, their passion for music can be a common topic for their relationship, but who says that a couple who does not have a common topic can't stay together in the first place =D

Wow, the mistress, Oh Seung Hye, annoys the hell out of me. Of cos not as much as the mother in law character, Ms Hong. Like many Korean dramas this is the kind of people you feels like jumping into the show to give them a tight slap.