Me Ri, Dae Gu’s Attack and Defense Battle

 

Title:’ 메리 대구 공방전 / Me Ri, Dae Gu’s Attack and Defense Battle
Previously known as: Married Couple’s Attack and Defense Battle
Chinese title : 梅丽大邱攻防战
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2007-May-16 to 2007-July-5
Air time: Wednesdays & Thursdays 21:55

Synopsis

Lee Ha Na is Hwang Me Ri, a snack vendor who dreams of becoming a musician. She is an optismistic person like her nickname, Merry, because she was born on Christmas day. She’s the type of person always repays the ‘kindness’ that others give to her. One day, her world begins to start crumbling down when she encounters Ji Hyun Woo as Kang Dae Gu, the chivalry novelist who is younger than her by a year. Since then, both of them are always bickering whenever they meet which leaves their same neighbors in constant headaches. Seon Do Jin is Me Ri’s first love and Dae Gu’s senior. He sticks around Me Ri as he pities the situation that she is in. Wang Bit Na will portray Lee So Ran. Lee So Ran is known as the plastic beauty, or in other words the “Plastic Paris Hilton”. She’s snobby and has fixed her face with plastic surgery, although it turned out very natural. She lives her life similar to Paris Hilton. She has an unique taste in men. One day, she meets a novelist named Kang Dae Gu and falls in love with him.

Cast

Lee Ha Na as Hwang Me Ri
Ji Hyun Woo as Kang Dae Gu
Lee Min Woo as Seon Do Jin
Wang Bit Na as Lee So Ran

Match Made in Heaven

Title: 천생연분 / Cheon-saeng Yeon-boon
Also known as: Made for Man and Wife
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2004-01-01 to 2004-02-19
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday at 9:55 PM

Synopsis

The woman shouted for joy when she met him. Dashing and good looking, he was even 5 years younger than she. And he thought he made a great coup when he met her. Sexy and beautiful regardless of age, she even boasted economic power with a stable job. At the beginning, everything was that picture-perfect. But again as there always comes a close to every beginning. That once perfect woman turns into a just ordinary married woman and also, that young prince charming now seems like a bum eating the bread of idleness. One day..she wakes up and shouts out, “I also know how to get angry! And I’m not going for divorce!” It’s strange how their perilous marriage life is maintained even though they know that they are both having affairs.

Source: MBC Global Media
Cast

Hwang Shin Hye as Hwang Jong-hee
Ahn Jae Wook as Kim Suk-koo
Yoo Yul as Kang Seung-wan
Oh Seung Hyun as Go Eun-bi
Kwon Oh Joong as Hwang Jong-hyung (Jong-hee’s brother)

Extended Cast

Park Jung Soo as Jong-hee’s mother
Choi Sang Hak as Bok Je-dong
Lee Joo Hyun as Jung Sang-hyun
Jo Mi Ryung as Jo Ahn-na
Han Na Yeon as Nam Jung-ran
Kim Myung Kuk as Nam Doo-il
Kim Im Moon as Suk-koo’s father
Geum Bo Ra as Suk-koo’s step-mother
Park Shi Eun as Suk-koo’s step-sister

Production Credits

Director: Choi Yong Won, Lee Jae Won
Writer: Ye Rang

Marrying a Millionaire

Title: 백만장자와 결혼하기 / baek-man-jang-ja-wa gyeol-hon-ha-gi
Also known as: To Marry a Millionaire (KBFD-TV)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2005-11-26 to 2006-01-22
Air time: Saturday & Sunday 9:45 PM

Synopsis

Want to marry a millionaire? Add one ‘Average Joe’, be one of eight women selected, and money from the television network station and you can.

Han Eun-young works as a clerk at a bank, trying to pay off the debts her step-mother and sister have piled on her. Kim Young-hoon is your regular, ‘Average Joe’, worker. He provides for his father, his older brother and his wife, as well as his younger brother.
One day, PD Yoo Jin-ha is asked to take over the project, “Marry a Millionaire”. Reluctantly, he agrees to handle the project. His search begins for the perfect man to play the ‘millionaire’. His goal is to use a man who is an average worker, but can pull off the facade of a millionaire. Kim Young-hoon is that man. Although he works hard for a living, there are many who can easily mistake him for a rich guy.
By chance, Eun-young is selected to be a particpant in the TV show. Although the women are not supposed to know that this millionaire of their’s is just a regular worker, Eun-young knows his true identity.
How?
Simple. Young-hoon was her first love. After many years, they meet up again at a party. Although she didn’t recognize him at first, she realized it was the young boy she had fallen in love with back in middle school. Although she says she made a mistake in liking him, being in the show with him is bringing up warm feelings once again.

Marrying a Millionaire is based on the US reality television show, Joe Millionaire.

Cast

Kim Hyun Joo as Han Eun-young
Go Soo as Kim Young-hoon
Yoon Sang Hyun as Yoo Jin-ha
Son Tae Young as Jung Soo-min
Jung Jin as Jung Sung-sik
Lee Mi Young as Goo Jung-sun (Eun-young’s step-mother)
Yoo Chae Young as Lee Soo-ji (Eun-young’s step-sister)
Park Geun Hyung as Kim Jung-dae (Young-hoon’s father)
Choi Sung Min as Kim Seung-hoon (Young-hoon’s older brother)

Production Credits

Chief Producer: Kim Young Sup
Writer: Kim Yi Young
Director: Kang Shin Hyo
Asst. Director: Lee Myung Woo
Production: SBS