My Name is Kim Sam-Soon (내 이름은 김삼순 / Nae I-reum-eun Kim Sam-soon -2005)

Starring:
Kim Sun Ah as Kim Sam-soon
Hyun Bin as Hyun Jin-heon
Jung Ryu Won as Yoo Hee-jin
Daniel Henney as Dr. Henry Kim
Extended Cast
Kim Ja Ok as Park Bong-sook (Sam-soon's mom)
Lee Ah Hyun as Kim Yi-young (Sam-soon's sister)
Na Moon Hee as Na Hyun-sook (Jin-heon's mom)
Suh Ji Hee as Hyun Mi-joo (Jin-heon's niece)
Yoon Ye Hee as Yoon Hyun-sook
Lee Kyu Han as Min Hyun-woo
Lee Yoon Mi as Jang Chae-ri
Yeo Woon Kye as Ms. Oh
Kwon Hae Hyo as Lee Hyun Moo (chef)
Han Yeo Woon as Lee In-hye
Kim Hyun Jung as Jang Young-ja


Kim Sam Soon (Kim Sun Ah) is a baker who has a talent in making pastries and cakes. On Christmas Eve, she caught her boyfriend, Min Hyun Woo (Lee Kyu Han), cheating on her and breaks up on the same night. On that same night, she accidentally went into the men's restroom and met Hyun Jin Hun (Hyun Bin), a somewhat callous fellow but sometimes considerate guy. By sheer coincidence, Jin Hun needs a baker for his restaurant Bon Appetit and Sam Soon is unemployed. Sam Soon is hired as the restaurant's chief baker and the two fights like cat and dog. Nevertheless, they started to have feeling for each other and Sam Soon agreed to post as Jin Hun's girlfriend so his mother would leave him alone. Things got complicated when Jin Hun's ex-girlfriend Yoo Hee Jin came back from the States intending to win him back.


Episode-by-episode synopses can be found here.

This is an all time favorite of mine. So insanely funny. Kim Sun-ah is the master of comedy. This is my upteenth time to watch this. And for some reason this last time I watched it......Hyun Bin was more attractive than ever. And I will say this......I think he is now on my most favorite list. Why? Maybe I missed something. Or maybe after seeing my "who knows how many" dramas, I've matured in that aspect. Dunno. *shrugs*



If there is any Korean drama to start with, next to Full House, this is the one. You can't go wrong with this one at all. So much hilarity, sense, originality (one of the few that started the gourmet/cooking genre) and real love.



Ohhhh, those kissable Hyun Bin lips. Yep, definitely on my favorite list.



Another reason I really liked this one. The love triangle/quadrangle wasn't intense. The relationships were respectable and real like. A few twists but that was okay.



The best part out of the whole series........watching Kim Sun-ah have English conversations with Daniel Henney. OMG! The most hilarious sh** that I have ever watched. Insane funny.



Hyun Bin





Daniel Henney

Wet Dreams (몽정기/Mongjunggi-2002)

Starring:

Beom-su Lee - Byung-chul
Seon-a Kim - Yoo-ri
Jae-hong Ahn - Young-jae
Neul Ha - Girl student in classroom doorway
Dae-Hoon Jeong - Sang-min
Jae-hyeong Jeon - Seok-goo
Ae-kyeong Kim - English Teacher
Jong-min Kim - PE Teacher
Ki-yeon Kim - So-jung
Hyeong-jin Kong - Min-soo
Hyung-ok Noh - Dong-hyun
Yeong-im Kim

Dong-hyun, Seok-gu, Sang-min and Young-je are typical adolescent high school boys deeply curious about sexual matters. When a female apprentice teacher, Ms. Kim Yoo-ri (Kim Seon-ah) begins teaching at their all boys’ school, she captures the lust and imagination of four of her students, who cannot stop fantasizing about her.

Dong-hyun’s secret 'love' for his teacher is shattered by news of her affections for another teacher Mr Gong (Lee Beom-soo). Yoo-ri has already fallen for the homeroom teacher, Mr Gong, and has her own daydreams about what it would be like with him.

Unfortunately, Mr Gong has forsaken love in his life, and is immune to her come-ons. Yoo-ri must get him to accept her advances, while rejecting the rapid-fire advance of her four students.

LOL! Okay, this wasn't the best Kim Seon-a movie ever but then again this was probably one of her first. She is definitely young in this movie. So this wasn't her typical "I love Lucy" comedy she usually pulls out of her hat. In actuality, the funny stuff wasn't even from her but from the four male students in her class.

This could be considered the Korean version of the American Pie fame. Boys, adolescence, sexuality, and porn. LOL! The boys themselves had me laughing so hard from fingering melons, rubbing their "units" on poles at the playground, to "rooting" bowls of instant ramen. OMG! What a riot.

I even have to say the ending was awesome but a little farfetched. Let's just say I thought the question the male teacher asked the student teacher was too much since they really never dated. But hey.....it was a romance and you have to admit that most of us would have sighed and said "aaahhhhh".

Thumbs up on a Korean classic for all countries, makes, and models. You don't have to be Korean to understand and remember youth...................

S Diary (에스 다이어리 -2004)

Starring:
Seon-a Kim ... Jinny
Su-ro Kim ... Jeong-seok
Hyeon-woo Lee ... Gu-hyeon
Yu Kong ... Yu In
Mun-hee Na ... Jinny's mother
Kwang-il Kim ... Ho-woo
Sun-yeong Ahn
Hyuk Jang ... Lim Chan
Jae-hyeong Jeon
Yeong-im Kim
Mi-kyeong Kim
Shin-yeong Han
Hyo-eun Hwang
Ju-eun Oh
Yun-min Jeong

On a dreary day Jini gets laid off by her boyfriend with the final note that he was only interested in making love to her but not in a lasting relationship.

This triggers the girl's curiosity about whether her past three lovers were also only after her favors. As a result Jini checks back on her previous boyfriends including Ku-hyeon, an advocate of strong religious beliefs, macho college lover Jeong-seok and inexperienced Yoo-in who makes a living as wandering artist. Will Jini's emotional journey be rewarded with sincere answers from her old admirers ? Find out as S-Diary unveils its top secret material.



LOL! This was a riot. And why wouldn't it be? Kim Seon-ah is a comedic genius!!!

Revenge is sweet! Oh yeah. You go girl!

How I wish I could get back my love that I shelled out to all my ex's. I'd be rich. For all those girl's who gave what they thought was love, this movie is for you. We girl's shouldn't have to sell ourselves (not meaning prostitution) to win our guy's love. I really think this was the moral to this story. Be true! AH-JAH! FIGHTING!

Ah, and for eye-candy factors....we have Gong Yoo and Jang Hyuk! Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

Gong Yoo


Jang Hyuk

She's On Duty (Jambok-geunmu/잠복근무-2005)

Starring:

Seon-a Kim ... Chun Jae-in
Yu Kong ... No-young
Sang-mi Nam ... Seung-hee
Jung-woo Ha ... Detective Cho
Sang-Myeon Park ... Class teacher
Ju-hyeon No ... Detective Chun
Kap-su Kim ... Cha Young-jae
Bul-am Choi
Su-ah Hong
Ji-woo Kim
Sang-ho Kim ... Detective Kang
Beom-su Lee ... Detective working on maths exam
Sa-Pi Lee
Ya-mi Lee
Kwang-rok Oh ... Bae Doo-sang
Hyo-eun Hwang
Yeo-eun Son

Detective Chun Jae In thinks that she is about to break a huge child prostitution ring, but when she finds that she has really ruined a much higher-level undercover operation, she is embarrassed and humiliated. Despite this, an important new mission arises that requires her unique talents – i.e. her ability to dress up and convince as a school-girl. She must go undercover once again, this time in a school, under the pretence of being a new student so that she can ensure the safety of the daughter of an important Mafia witness that the police want to locate. Before long she finds her maths skills challenged, her fighting skills honed on the school bullies and her heart melted by a fellow student. But will she be able to stay focussed on the mission, capture the bad guys and save the day?


Aye-yi-yi! That was pretty good. Gotta love Kim Seon-ah! That woman'll make you laugh until you pee yourself. She is a natural. I think I've loved all of her movies. Not a one have I not liked. How can we forget the Lovely Sam-Soon! HEHE!

I will say this though. I was going for her with Detective Joh at the beginning before I realized he was the "bad" guy. Ugh! You know that hate-love relationship....they can't stand each other then realize they like each other? That was what I was hoping for. But hey, No-young, wasn't a bad choice either. How can we not love Gong Yoo? The man has a bod that won't quit! Whew! As a matter of fact, if I haven't already said this, the Coffee Prince was my very first Kdrama...ever! That is the one that started it all. So in all....I thank you Gong Yoo for being such a hottie to keep me coming for more!! LOL!

Gong Yoo

Happy Ero Christmas (Haepi ero keurisemaseu-2003)

Starring:
Cha Tae-hyeon~Byong-ki
Kim Seon-ah~Min-kyong
Park Yeong-gyu~Bang Seok-do
Baek Bong-gi~Hae-chul Noh
Hong Kyoung-In~Dong-chul Noh
Kim Ji-yeong~Hyang-suk Park
Kim Jung-ki
Lee Cheong-a~Hae-min Lee
Oh Tae-kyung~Dong-kwan Cho
Park Won-sang

The main story revolves around Byong-ki (Cha Tae-hyeon), a shy and bumbling police officer who has a crush on Min-kyong (Kim Seon-a), an employee of the neighborhood bowling alley.Byong-ki's quiet and almost unnoticeable attempts to woo Min-kyong are met with a problem when the boss of a local gang (Park Yeong-gyu) also falls in love with Min-kyong. The two bachelors end up competing for Min-kyong's attention while at the same time fighting each other.Besides the fact that there are holiday songs in the background of almost every scene, and that Min-kyong's birthday falls on Christmas, there is very little reason why the story has to take place during the holidays. As the story wears on, the artificial Christmas context gets to feel more and more like decorations placed around a fairly run-of-the-mill gangster comedy.



I love Kim Seon-ah! Damn that woman makes me laugh. I loved, loved, loved her in My Name is Kim Sam-Soon. Hilarious. Then she is here teamed up with Cha Tae-hyun, a funny guy in his own right. You'd think this movie should have rocked my world right? Right? Wrong. It had it's funny moments but it was more boring to me than funny. It couldn't keep my attention. It was an average movie, I guess I should say. I was really hoping for more out of this. The Christmas music annoyed the hell out of me. Maybe I just set my standards tooooooo high. Don't know. It was good but not great. If you're bored, go with it. If you have something better to do, then do that instead. I was really hoping for more to say or maybe better to add. But damn if I didn't just waste a better part of my day.

No hottie pics to add. Other than Cha Tae-hyun, there wasn't anyone else that was extraordinary.