Love and Ambition

Title: 사랑과 야망 Sa-rangkwa Ya-mang / Love and Ambition
Chinese title : 爱情与野望
Episodes: 80
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 4/Feb/2006 to 12/Nov/2006
Air time: Saturday & Sunday at 9:45 PM

Synopsis

Park Tae-joon (Jo Min Ki) is an intelligent law student and also a filial son. His younger brother is Park Tae-soo (Lee Hoon). Kim Mi-ja (Han Go Eun) is the lady Tae-joon loves, but she is sick and tired of living in poverty in the same small town Tae-joon lives and desires to leave to live a better life. through the difficulites of being poor, Tae-joon and Tae-soo learns that their family will lose their home due to loans. This, is one of the difficulties to be overcome Tae-joon and his family must suffer during the Korean War.

Cast

Han Go Eun as Kim Mi-ja
Jo Min Ki as Park Tae-joon
Lee Hoon as Park Tae-soo
Lee Yoo Ri as Park Sun-hee
Choo Sang Mi as Jung-ja
Lee Seung Yun as Song Hye-joo
Maeng Sang Hun as Kim Mi-ja’s dad

Production Credits

Director: Kwak Young Bum
Producer: Kwak Young Bum
Scriptwriter: Kim Soo Hyun

Trivia

This production is a remake of the same popular drama done by MBC in 1987.

Lotus Flower Fairy

Title: 왕꽃 선녀님 / Wang-kkot Seon-nyeo-nim
Also known as: Lotus Fairy / King Flower Fairy / Fairy of the Flower King / Heaven’s Fate
Episodes: 174
Broadcasted by: MBC
Broadcast period: 2004-06-07 to 2005-02-11
Air time: Mondays - Fridays at 8:20 PM

Cast & Credits

Lee Da Hae as Yoon Cho-won (24)
Kim Sung Taek as Kim Moo-bin (30)
Lee Joo Hyun as Pan Jung-soo (32)
Park Tam Hee as Moon Mi-young (26)
Producer : Lee Jin Young
Original Idea : Im Sung Han
Writer : Kim Na Hyun

Synopsis

This drama talks about what ‘fate’ is, and twists and turns of life and the beauty of love and sacrifice through those who strive to overcome that ‘fate.’

Cho Won, brought up in a not so well off but lovely family, meek and amiable, is engaged after a quite short period of dating to Jung Soo, the son of Hang Ja Joo who has just returned to Korea after studying abroad, thanks to the two families’ intimate relationship, Slowly shamanic spirit approaches Cho Won, who, as a beautiful and talented graduate student, is awaiting a rosy future of marriage life with a smart bridegroom from a rich family.

One day, she goes to a nightclub with her friends, and faints when she recognizes ghosts on big speakers while dancing. Her friends assure her that she must have mistaken something else for ghosts, but from then on, she loses her appetite and gets increasingly exhausted, symptoms that even doctors don’t know the reason for. Cho Won, who has dismissed the symptoms as those caused by a mere headache or fatigue, happens to visit a shaman named Yong Hwa Boo her friends introduced out of curiosity for she has to write a paper on shamans. Cho Won’s family learn that her aggravating symptoms are due to her shamanic spirit, and they are frightened. Then, does it mean that Cho Won, a founding, is destined to be a shaman?

Without informing Cho Won of this, her family have a discussion over this issue and at last her grandfather, Baek Kwang, decides to oust her from the family. Because of the love that they gave her while raising her, her father, Moon Hak, and her mother, Shi Ae, oppose the decision, but because of the firm stance of Baek Kwang, a former legal professional who doesn’t want his family image tarnished, the couple unavoidably accepts his decision, breaking into tears. Cho Won’s parents rent a room for Cho Won with the money they have saved.

Thanks to Baek Kwang’s strict order that Cho Won leave home as soon as possible, the family of her fiance Jung Soo notifies her of its decision to break off the match. She loses her family that she loved so much, her aunt and grandmother, the perfect man, Jung Soo, and even her health. She is on the verge of giving up her life as she has lost everything overnight.

Source: MBC Global Media

Lobbyist

Title: 로비스트 / Lobbyist
Chinese title : 说客
Previously known as: 엔젤 / Angel / 天使
Genre: Action, Romance
Episodes: 24
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2007-Oct-10 to 2007-Dec-26
Air time: Wednesdays & Thursdays 21:55 (9:55 Korean time)

Synopsis

This drama is about a female lobbyist dealing with international arms traders. Han Jae Suk is a successor of a main munitions business company in Korea. He is a young businessman with perfect appearance using a refined phraseology. He has an innate ability as a lobbyist and is a master schemer. He plans to sweep over the whole of Asia.

Cast

Song Il Gook as Harry
Jang Jin Young as Maria
Han Jae Suk as Kang Tae Hyuk
Yoo Sun as Eva
Jung Yoon Jo as Jang Mi Ran

Extended Cast

Hu Joon Ho as James Lee (Maria’s teacher / trainer)
Kim Mi Sook as Madame Chae
Kim Seo Ra as Maggie (Harry’s aunt)
Lee Mi Young as Jung Soon (Maria and Eva’s mother)
Seong Ji Roo as Yoo Sung Shik (Maria and Eva’s father)
Kim Sung Kyum as Mr. Kang (Tae Hyuk’s father)
Kim Joon Sung as Michael (mafia member)
Choi Ja Hye as Karen / Kim Soo Ji (Harry’s sister)
Kim Da Hyun as Andy (Madam Chae’s son)
Lee Jae Yong as Jang Tae Sung (Mi Ran’s father)
Lee Hyun Woo as young Joo Ho
Nam Ji Hyun as young So Young
Park Eun Bin as young Moon Young

Production Credits

Scriptwriter: Choi Wan Kyu, Joo Chan Ok
Director: Lee Hyun Jik, Bu Sung Chul