The Joseon version of The Chaser about a medical practitioner who struggles to save his daughter from a terminal illness while being caught up in a plot to poison the human race
Oriental doctor Choi Won (Lee Dong-Wook), who works for the royal family, becomes involved with the plot to poision King Injong and is now a fugitive. He tries to save his daughter who has an incurable disease. Choi Won has raised his daughter alone since his wife passed away.
This drama is about a fugitive of the Joseon Dynasty period 1544, Joseon Dynasty era.One night, the prince's doctor is found dead.Choi Won, a doctor is framed for murder, but he manages to avoid capture.
But he won't get away that easily. There are forces at work against the wrongfully accused doctor.An assassin is hired to track down and get rid of Choi Won.Choi Won must elude his captors.A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in the process.Also, a deadly conspiracy involving a plot to poison the prince is slowly unveiled. It is the story of a father cannot afford to die, because he must ensure the safety of his child.
Choi Won escapes imminent capture and death in dramatic fashion.He continues to run from captors and clearly he is driven by something incredible to stay alive and be free. For him, there is only one reason why he must stay alive.His daughter, suffering form leukemia, needs him.He needs to prove his innocence and go back to searching for a cure for his daughter's condition.Time is running out!A man who cares for nothing else but his daughter.He has to fight his way out of this predicament for his daughter.
For 10 years, endless rape and murder cases have left the Hwagok-ri into ruins. Recently for two years, no crimes occurred and the villagers and the police think they have finally found peace. One day, two college girls who visit the village get raped and murdered, and the village is yet again in turmoil. Soon after, Kang the ghost hunter arrives in the village. He claims that the crimes were committed not a human but by a demon. However, the police simply treat him like a mad man. Kang has constant trouble with the police and he doesn't have the power to win the battle against the demon all by himself. A daughter of an exorcist who hopes to put an end to her inherent curse comes forth to join the hunt. Using the one and only ghost detector, the two begin the journey to unravel the mystery.
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An atmospheric drama, That Winter, the Wind Blows focuses on the beautiful faces of their main leads, and not much else. Sounds harsh, but this drama was only very pretty to look at. This drama was the conventional, weepy, nearly plot-less melodrama that disappointed me, even though I kept coming back for more. In a way, I am disappointed that this is Noh Hee-kyung’s follow up to Padam Padam, but it is very much her style as well.
I won’t bother going into the details of the drama, since you can read HeadsNo2‘s amazing recaps on Dramabeans. But in summary, Oh Soo (Jo In Sung) is a con artist who learns that a rich blind heiress, Oh Young (Song Hye Gyo), is looking for her long lost brother, who is coincidentally also named Oh Soo, and coincidentally Soo’s friend. With the help of Jin Sung (Kim Bum) and Hee Sun (Jung Eun Ji), Soo manages to trick everyone – even the skeptics. But because he falls in love with Young, he finds himself unable to swindle money from her, and tries to help her get the necessary surgery to fix her blindness and brain tumor. (Yeah – two diseases in one.
I knew that I was going to get an overly dramatic, emotional, weepy drama infused with ridiculous antics that made absolutely no sense to me, so I had lowered my expectations appropriately for this drama. I’m grateful that the story for the most part was straightforward; while Soo tries to get his money and falls in love with Young, everyone else is trying to prove he’s a fraud. (Unfortunately I never fully understood the whole debt storyline between Boss Kim and Jin Sung because that never felt important to me, but I managed to get enough to follow along.) But it didn’t even meet my expectations because the characters disappointed me as the drama progressed.
I had expected more from the writer of Padam Padam. While Padam didn’t make complete sense because it never explained the whole supernatural part of it, and it never confirmed if Kim Bum was an angel or not, it made sense on the emotional level. It was a straightforward story line again, but it focused solely on Jung Woo Sung’s character and his emotional growth as he faced numerous conflicts: there was a bad guy trying to frame him for a crime he didn’t commit; he found out he was actually a father after years in prison; he had a disease that was slowly killing him; and he had to prove that love conquers all to a hesitant veterinarian. Lots of story threads, one protagonist to follow and feel all the sympathy for.
On paper, the story for That Winter sounds strong because we have a classic set up: a con man pretends to be the brother of an heiress and falls in love with her, and she likewise with him. It could have been a very strong character drama like Padam. However, the execution fell apart, and I blame it on the writing based on the characterization of the characters. The characters ended up not making sense on an emotional level because I felt we were getting two sides of every character that were so different we didn’t really understand who we were watching.
Initially I wanted an ending where they all die. My fantasy ending for this series would be that Soo gives up his eyes for Young as a last act of mercy, but she dies of her brain tumor anyways. And then he dies from depression. Yes – it would have been very Stairway to Heaven-esque, but that’s the only ending I wanted to see because I was getting so frustrated with the two of them. Young’s call for attention through suicide, and Soo’s unending selfishness was getting to my nerves because they were manipulating everyone and each other unfairly – all because they didn’t know how to deal with their own feelings.
And yet they all don’t die. And it’s not even a fracking dream. Soo saves Young from her childish attempt at suicide (and it was childish because she did it for attention). Young forgives him and opens up the possibility of getting back together. And then Soo wins his gamble, except it’s not over because Boss Kim finally reveals that he has been Jin Sung’s sister’s sugar daddy. And then we find out Boss Kim was going to kill Jin Sung’s entire family – WHY!? BECAUSE HE LOST? Case of Sore Loser if any. And so because his family died - though unconfirmed - that somehow becomes an impetus for Jin Sung to stab Soo? How is this Soo’s fault!? I thought you were going to stick with Soo no matter what!!
And then Young doesn’t regain her vision fully – it’s still blurry a bit. (I can buy that, at least it wasn’t the case that she got her vision fully restored.) But I thought Soo was left for dead; he actually lives? And I thought Hee Sun died – but she actually lived? And then Moo Chul is the only real death that occurs in this episode, and it was totally unnecessary. At that point, I didn’t care if he lived or died.
If everyone was going to end up alive, then the whole scene of Jin Sung stabbing Soo and the potential car crash were completely pointless and unnecessary – a waste of 10 minutes – because there was no pay off after those events. In the end, everything went back to normal, as if none of those ten minutes ever happened! It would have been nice if the ending were a dream, but it wasn’t.
There were some upsides to this drama. There had to be, otherwise what would be the reason I would watch this entire series? I really enjoyed how Soo outsmarted everyone around Young just enough to remain believable. I really enjoyed seeing him think, and manipulate, because that was what he was great at. I didn’t understand how he or Secretary Wang could gain memories they couldn’t have possibly had (i.e the cotton candy memory and the “Soo was in this room” memory) but it was enjoyable to see their thought process spelled out visually. I also liked the prettiness of the drama; it’s a shallow comment, but it’s easier to watch a drama if everything is so soft and nice to the eyes. The actual angles and shots of the drama aren’t anything to call home about, but the camera and the lighting were amazing in giving everyone and everything a soft glow.
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The film follows three young and highly trained North Korean agents who are sent to work undercover in the South, but their loyalties are tested when an order from the North finally comes through.
For most of the first hour, the film follows these three agents, especially the leading character, Won Ryu-hwan (played by Kim Soo-hyun) whom arrives in the South first, workingundercover through their newly assumed identities, but leaves little room for a build up of tension that director Jang so wonderfully orchestrated in Bedevilled.
Instead, the film focuses on the more comedic elements of the story that international audiences might find baffling - not least when Won Ryu-hwan suddenly switches between his cover as a young man suffering from learning difficulties to his true identity as an eliteNorth Korean spy.
In this sense, this is no spy action thriller in the same way Shiri or The Berlin File is. Rather, it’s an attempt to blend comedy with action and drama elements, but ultimately, there is nothing tying it together, except for the webcomic itself, which international audiences are mostly unaware of.
The film does finally kick into gear towards the film’s conclusion as Jang intensifies the pacing when the command from the north comes through, but for many viewers, especially those unfamiliar with the original webcomic, this is likely to be too late.
Kim Soo-hyeon meanwhile is adequate as the village idiot while the other two young spies played by Park Ki-woong as a rock musician and Lee Hyun-woo as a student give satisfactory performances, but neither is able to leave a lasting impression.
Nevertheless, despite its many flaws, Jang who is a former protégé of Kim Ki-duk remains the film’s key selling point on the international marketfollowing the critical success of Bedevilled that premiered in the International Critics’ week in Cannes in 2010. Kim Soo-hyun’s star presence meanwhile together with the increasingly popular Park Ki-woong and Lee Hyun-woo should also attract interest in Asian territories.
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Upcoming SBS TV Mon-Tue drama 'Queen of Ambition' starring Kwon Sang Woo and Soo Ae will make its debut in January of next year.
The production team recently released a movie-like teaser for the drama which sees Soo Ae and Kwon Sang Woo holding guns against each other, and generating much attention from viewers.
The teaser which was first revealed on December 24th wasn't anything like the usual drama teasers that you get, but instead resembled a long poem or grand film-like teaser instead. Viewers who saw the teaser said that it was like an ultimate mind-blowing reversal and like a music video.
The 40 second long teaser begun with a pair of black and white dices that symbolized the love between Kwon Sang Woo and Soo Ae. But the scene soon fades to shattering glass in the middle, as the two who once loved each other, faces off against each other with guns, hinting at the beginning of tragedy. Kwon Sang Woo was decked out in a black suit, while Soo Ae wore a white dress, another hint of the different paths that they were heading down. Their emotions told the whole story of their love, betrayal, hate, and pity, with tears streaming down their faces as we end with sounds of gunshots.
During the teaser, Soo Ae said in her narration, "I loved him more than when we first met, the person who I missed most than when we were in love. Kwon Sang Woo said in his narration, "Going through every night with my eyes open, with the hope of perishing together. I once loved someone who gave me much joy and destruction." The narrations were provoking and left a deep impression. The last words were actually taken from poet Lee Jung Ha's poem 'The one that I once loved', and hinted at Kwon Sang Woo and Soo Ae's relationship which will ultimately lead to destruction.
The story is just like Lee Jung Ha's representative work 'You were dazzling, I was bitter', and talks of Kwon Sang Woo who loves Soo Ae greatly, as the latter becomes the First Lady of the nation through hard work and become revered by billions. Although they once saw each as the only one in their lives, they have now becomes thorns instead.
Besides the beautiful sequences, the background music was equally beautiful in the teaser. The use of the piano and cello sounds meshed well with the fast tempo instrumentals, and brought out the dramatic sequences in the teaser perfectly, creating for a exciting teaser overall.
It was reported that the first teaser took 15 hours of filming and a month of post-production before it was released. With so much attention and effort devoted to the first teaser, the drama has to definitely be equally as good. So how can the viewers not be anticipating for the first new drama of 2013 'Queen of Ambition' to be shown on their television screens?
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The drama is about a lawyer who is appointed by the state to represent a defendant who has “not even a 1% chance of being declared innocent.”
Jang Hye Sung (Lee Bo Young) is a bold, sassy, thick-faced, comical female lawyer. She is a prickly edge, sharp tongue who doesn’t have a bit of concept or manners and finds it hard to be enthusiastic about what she does. Cha Kwan Woo (Yoon Sang Hyun) is a serious, passionate and macho former police officer who becomes a government lawyer. Meanwhile, Park Soo Ha (Lee Jong Suk) is a 19 years old boy who has the superpower to hear people’s thoughts. Together they will team up to solve the cases no one else wants, cases that only have a one percent chance of being found innocent.
Guess what, we'll be getting two more episodes filled with Lee Jong Seok’s handsome face.
With rumors swirling around the extension, SBS’ hit drama, I Hear Your Voice finally confirmed on July 17 that it will be getting a 2-episode extension.
The reasoning, according to SBS, is that there’s still a lot to tell with the love triangle between Hye Sung, Su Ha, and Kwan Woo, as well as the Min Joon Guk case, which is getting more and more mysterious.
SBS promised to work hard to deliver a well-made piece until the end, so it would be smart to stick around.
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Though she′s as unhappy as can be in the drama, Son Ye Jin still hasn′t lost her smile on set.
The KBS2 drama Shark released photos from the set of the drama showing Son Ye Jin′s smiles.
Son Ye Jin has been appearing in Shark as Jo Hae Woo, a woman who rarely gets to smile due to the mysterious events that continue to happen to her.
Despite the sad nature of her role, however, Son Ye Jin has been flashing her smile everywhere she goes, brightening the mood on set.
Producers of Shark commented, "Though she′s close to exhaustion with the extreme emotions and tears she′s had to show in the shoots that last all night, she′s still been cheering up the staff with her trademark smile and cute antics."
I love this korean series! It's so touching. It made me cry and tense but like Son Ye Jin after i watch it I have a big smile on my face.
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