My Name is Kim Sam Soon

Cast:

Kim Sam-soon (29): Kim Sun Ah  

Hyun Jin-hyun (27): Hyun Bin 

Yoo Hee-jin (27): Jung Ryu Won  

Dr. Henry Kim (30): Daniel Henney  

Park Bong-sook (Sam-soon's mom, 53): Kim Ja Ok  
Kim Yi-young (Sam-soon's sister, 31): Lee Ah Hyun  
Na Hyun-sook (Jin-heon's mom, 50): Na Moon Hee  
Hyun Mi-joo (Jin-heon's niece, 7): Suh Ji Hee  
Yoon Hyun-sook (40): Yoon Ye Hee  
Min Hyun-woo (33): Lee Kyu Han  
Jang Chae-ri (26): Lee Yoon Mi  
Ms. Oh (60): Yeo Woon Kye  
Hyun Moo (chef, 30): Kwon Hae Hyo  
Lee In-hye (22): Han Yeo Woon  
Jang Young-ja (27): Kim Hyun Jung

Official Site: www.imbc.com/broad/tv/drama/samsoon/index.html (Korean)

content.mbc.co.kr/e_mbc/drama.asp?idx=144 (English)

Other Titles: My Lovely Sam Soon

Summary:

Kim Sam Soon (SS) is a 29 years old, fat, pastry chef, who has just lost her job and her boyfriend on Christmas Eve. She has all the insecurities of a woman grazing 30. With yet another failed relationship, SS scrambles desperately to rebuild her career and her love life.

SS manages to find a job at "Bon Appetite" restaurant when she gets acquainted with the owner of the restaurant, Hyun Jin Heon (JH). JH is young, handsome but aloof and cold.

JH is the only son of a hotel chain owner. Although born with a silver spoon, fate had dealt JH with a hard hand. Three years ago, a fatal car accident, where JH was the driver, resulted in the death of his elder brother and sister-in-law; and at the very same time his girlfriend of 5 years left him for her studies in the US. JH had to endure both physical and mental pain to overcome his problems and rebuild his life. The death defying experience left JH scarred as he stops believing in love and happiness.

Due to a moment of convenience, both SS and JH ended up signing a dating contract, where SS will receive KRW 50 mio (which she needed to redeem her family house) and in turn she will pretend to be JH's girlfriend to fend off his mother's endless efforts to get him match made and married.

When JH's ex-girlfriend returns to seek reconciliation; SS realizes that she has fallen for JH, and their contractual relationship gets complicated.

What I Think:

This drama is produced by MBC, I think as to what I can recall, I have only seen 1 MBC series before this and that is "Attic Cat." I usually watch KBS and SBS series but I actually like this MBC one, after a long drought for MBC, they nailed it with this series.

I was still in the first cd and I cannot help but laugh like a crazy person. I started watching this series at round 10pm and I went on watching it till I dropped at 2am. Twas that good!

The story of the series is just simple and wonderful. There were also lots of interesting sub plots. There were lots of funny moments and these wacky scenes just strike up when you least expect it it's just so crazily funny!

The lead characters where absolutely perfect with their roles. It is amazing how Hyun Bin and Kim Sun-ah have such great chemistry with him so young and her older than him by a mile! ☺ Daniel Henny and Hyun-Bin are such drool-worthy oppas aren't they??!! ☺ Ryu-won----omg I am absolutely amazed at how pretty this girl is! No wonder Daniel Ahn of GOD said, he likes her (makes me wanna bawl out and cry like a baby!!! Wahhhhhh!!! *sniff * ) Ryu-won looks like Heart Evangelista! So pretty! She looks good with Hyun-bin and looks equally good with Daniel too! She's one lucky agashi!!

And the best thing of all The English conversations here are mind-blowing good! I just cannot stand another Love Story in Harvard-kind of English! Save for Kim Min, all their English lines in LSIH were horrendous I just love those 2 oppas so much (KRW and LJJ) to screw them. ☺

My fave scenes:

1.Jin-hyun following Kim Sam Soon wherever she goes after fighting at a hotel blind date.

2. When Hee-jin cried and just hugged Henry outside her place. He just hugged her back, asking her what's the matter. (They absolutely look good together!)

3. KSS kissed Jin-hyun on a rainy night at the café after they played the piano and drank wine together. So nice that scene was!

4. All of Henry and Hee-jin's all-english dialogues! They speak impeccable English! My god I absolutely dig k-actors who can speak perfect English! ☺

5. Hyun Bin singing the now-famous Tadpole song to her niece on the phone! I ABSOLUTELY like that tadpole song!!! I need lyrics guys help me find the lyrics. And him playing the 3 Bear Song on the piano was cute too. ☺

6. When President Na told Hee-jin to stay away from Jin-hyun because she doesn't want to have a weak daughter-in-law, Jin-hyun was already kneeling on her knees asking her to reconsider and was in tears. (I was crying a river here.)

7. Hee-jin cleaning Jin-Hyun's ear! Omg I have never imagined ear wax cleaning would be that romantic Hahahaha! They just look cute together! Aish!! Ryu-won is so pretty!

8. My Fave funny scene: Jin-hyung was desperate to get rid of the piggy stuff toy KSS left him, so he tried giving it away (forcefully!!) to such an adorable schoool kid!!

Jin-hyung: Hello Little friend!

Kid: What Little friend?

Jin-hyung: Hello school kid….(JH said something more here, I just laughed like crazy over their strange conversation)

JH just stuffed the piggy stuff toy (more like begging the kid to take it) to the

kid.

Kid: I don't want soft toys. Aish…such a strange ajushi!!!

(My god the little kid here was so adorable when she said "such a strange ajushi!" I almost fell from my chair laughing!!)

9. The last episode. ☺

Other Stuff:

These Tidbits will amaze you I promise!

**Daniel and Ryu-won both can speak perfect English because Daniel Henney is a Korea-American and Ryu-won was raised in Australia since she was 10yo. Kim Sun Ah studied in Ball University in US and can speak fluent English too.

** Kim Sam Soon mentioned JO IN SUNG here!! Omg I swear I did a double take when I heard her calling out to one of her blind dates " Who do you think you are, Jo In Sung!!" I know JIS is super hot!

** President Na's secretary mentioned OAK JOO HYUN too!! Isn't that funny! She said OJH is fat (yeah she really was when she was with finkl) but then she looks slim and fantastic now, check out her "Catch" mv then you will know how Lee Jung Jin ended up dating her.

Secretary: She' fat like Oak Joo Hyun

President Na: Who's Oak Joo Hyun?

Secretary you don't know Oak Joo Hyun? You don't know Finkl?

President Na: What's finkl? The latest ice cream flavor?

** Kim Sun Ah put on 7 kg for her role.

** That I am now so hooked on Daniel Henney and Hyun Bin! When I searched Naver and yahoo Korea like last May or June, Atche Cher and I were wondering who the blazing baboon is this Hyun Bin and why the bloody mary is he in #2 topping even Bae Yong Jun in search hits! Then we saw the polls on arirangtv and Hyun Bin is like #1 in the most beautiful faces list! What the smokes! Now I know why, Hyun Bin is a drool-worthy oppa!! Daniel Henny too I saw in arirangtv, I like Eurasian-looking chinky-eyed guys (read: jo in sung, jerry huang, etc.) 

** Ironically, Kim Sun Ah is the one who is better on the piano, as she studied music and majored Piano in Ball University in the States, while as Hyun Bin had a 2-month crash course before the production of the kdrama started. Also, having studied in the States, Kim Sun Ah is proficient in English and actually helped as a translator for Daniel Henney during production. It's amazing how Kim Sun Ah was able to mask all that and gave us Kim Sam Soon, the Bridget Jones of South Korea, with a figure to match the character. – credits:spcnet

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Rating: 10 Korean Kimchis out of 10

Credits: koreanwiz, spcnet

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