Korean Drama - Prosecutor Princess

Prosecutor Princess

Rating: 9.3/10

CAST

Kim So-yeon as Ma Hye-ri
Park Si-Hoo as Seo In-woo
Han Jung Soo as Yoon Se-joon
Choi Song Hyun as Jin Jeong-seon
Park Jung-Ah as Jenny Ahn

About the Drama

This drama revolves around the complicated murder case that happened 15 years ago. In which the father of Ma Hye-ri and Haneul is involved in. The drama is all about crimes, lawyers and prosecutors.

Ma Hye-ri
Ma Hye-ri is the Junior Prosecutor, Midland Prosecutor’s Office and the Daughter of CEO Ma of Dongbang [Eastern] Architecture.Beautiful and stylish, Ma Hye Ri, forced by her father, passed the Bar Exam and graduated from the Judicial Research and Training Institute with top grades.

Raised as the precious daughter of an influential family, she studied as her mother told her to, and got good grades without any goals or personal worries, eventually entering a law college. She was an overweight child, but with hard training overseen by her mother, she grew to have a near perfect figure. She has an IQ of 168, an excellent memory and ability to focus. Despite her talents, she is more interested in being fashionable and dislikes hard work so she is far from being an ideal prosecutor and has doubts about her suitability for her job.

Her passion is all about shopping, manicure, pedicure, skincare, and body maintenance. She is always updated on the latest fashion and products. She wanted to be transferred to Fashion Design, however, her father found out and threatened to disown her and kick her out of the house if she does that.

She seems very spoilt and would buy whatever she likes to be in fashion. However, She has a simple, direct and pure personality. She was really kind very innocent in many ways. She will usually say things that were on her mind and she never realised when she offended anyone since she say things as a matter of factly and she thought was she was saying was right.

Through her conflicts with senior colleagues and struggles with difficult cases, Hye Ri gradually matures into a brilliant prosecutor with a sense of duty and justice.

Seo In Woo, Principal Attorney, Haneul ["sky/or heaven"] Law Offices

Seo In Woo has an unusual resume, he graduated from an American university, then came to Korea to take the bar exam and became a lawyer. Runs the law firm “Haneul,” which houses outsiders who can’t deal with the realities of the legal profession in Korea.

On the outside, he is brilliant and fair. But he has a chilling dark side. He is tenacious, meticulous, and good at reading people’s minds. He stops at nothing to win his clients’ lawsuits, and is not above blackmailing people who deserve it. On the other hand, he is tender and warm toward the innocent. He acts as legal aid or pro bono attorney on behalf of the powerless.

He is the man with an agenda when he stops at nothing to get close to Ma Hye Ri. But little did he know what he is getting into when he gets too close to her. Her innocent and straight forward character makes him unable to stop looking out for her.

Determined to find out the truth and clearing his dad's name. He embarks in the road to no return?

Yoon Se-joon (Chief Prosecutor of Ma Hye-ri’s office)

This man is called “The Gregory Peck of the Prosecutor World.” He is capable, cold, cynical, harsh and has a great sense of justice.

He lost his wife to cancer 3 years ago, and has a 7-year-old daughter. He felt great regrets about his wife’s death since he was not at her deathbed due to his passion for his work.

He is grateful to Prosecutor Jin and her mother for taking care of his daughter, but he obvilous to Jin Jeong-seon’s feelings for him even though he treasures her as a trustworthy junior colleague.
He is severe and cold with Hye-ri, who looks a lot like his wife but of totally different character. He understands that Hye-ri lacks the passion for prosecution job and treats it just like another job.

When everyone gives up on Hye-ri, he gives her an opportunity. Which makes Hye-ri fall for him. He resisted her advances, but as she chases him aimlessly, he finally accepts her feelings.

However, he realised that his affection towards Hye-ri is due to the fact that she is so caring and outward in showing her feelings towards him, on top of the fact that she looks like his dead wife, he slowly realised that he actually had feelings for Jin Jeong-seon instead. He also knows that Hye-ri is actually in love with Seo In Woo.

Jin Jeong-seon

Hye-ri’s senior colleague. Hot-blooded prosecutor who lives by justice and dies by justice.

She became a prosecutor because her father, having lost all of his money to a con, died of a nervous disorder brought on by rage. Because of her work, she has never dreamed of marriage.
All she’s done is admire Yoon Se-joon from afar. She doesn’t know what to do except wait for his wounds to heal. Her mum helps to baby-sit Yoon’s daughter Bin, and she looks after Bin providently.

But when Ma Hye-ri, flaunting her feminine scent, comes into the scene and even finding fault with Jeong-seon’s dress sense and talking back, Jeong-seon could not accept Ma hye ri as a prosecutor. Especially when she thinks that Ma Hye Ri is disrespectful and totally not of prosecutor material. It is even worst when Hye-ri shamelessly makes moves on Yoon Se-joon, the subject of Jeong-seon’s secret affection, and steals him away little by little.

She’s inept at expressing emotions, as well as bumbling, timid, and naively unaware of social norms. Jin Jeong-seon was one of those characters that sometimes fades to the background if you do not look at her carefully. She finally be able to express her feelings for Se-joon.

Comments

At first, I really find that Ma Hye-ri is really not a likeable character, she is really horriblely annoying. Acting indifferent and uncaring towards suspect who has not been convicted.

Totally selfish, spoilt and very snobbish. But slowly you will really liked her as you realise that she does not have any idea of the ways of the world. I can't imagine any girl with so much accessories. Doesn't it feels heavy to carry so many things around you neck, finger and ear?

Kim So-yeon looks so different here compared to her other shows, when I went to search the different shows that she acted in like Gourmet, Athena: Goddess of War and Doctor Champ. She looks very different. Evem the picture that Chief Prosecutor, Yoon Se-Joon , keeps staring at when he misses his wife (in which is actually her picture), looks very different to her image in the drama. I think her hair makes her looks so different here. I actually mistook her as Chae Jung Ahn from Coffee Prince.

Seo In Woo is a really cool character and his smile was so cute! Even though I could not understand why he needs to get Ma Hye-ri involved in his quest to clear the name of his dad who was convicted for murder. I feel so heart broken everytime he looks at Hye-ri in that "I am so sorry" look.

Wonderful scenery, most of the out door scenes have beautiful background. Especially like when Haneul piggy back Ma Hye-ri. So romantic! Haneul has a really good chemistry with Ma Hye-ri.

Great ending, I was afraid that it is going to be another sad ending for Korean drama where the guy leave and the girl missed him a lot but got on with her life striving and working hard. So curious about Seo In Woo's adopted parents but they did not appear in the drama.

On the whole, it is a really entertaining and romantic drama.