One Sunny Day Review

Title: One Sunny Day
AKA: A Good Day
Genre: Romance
Episodes: 10
Broadcast Period: Dec-2014 to Jan-2015
Cast: So Ji Sub, Kim Ji Won, Im Joo Eun, Lee Jung Hyuk, Lee Jong Hyun, Ha Jae Sook, Kim Mi Kyung,

Kim Ji Ho (So Ji Sub) is a broken hearted man who winds up in Jeju Island for a work project, but he keeps running into a girl (Kim Ji Won). Both of them get robbed and have to sleep in the same guest house. They depend on each other for a day as his wallet and her phone was stolen. As they stay in Jeju Island, she heals his broken heart and they fall in love.

Wow, time went sooo slow with this webdrama. It’s one of those Korean dramas where it’s just scenes glued together. I get that So Ji Subs character were supposed to be this lifeless man wandering around in Jeju Island, but c’mon… nothing happened!!! Aiguu.. this one is a waste of time. I got nothing out of it, why I watched it? Well lately I’ve been interested in webdramas, and since So Ji Sub starred in this, I thought this one was a big shot. I mean he is a top actor, so… I got slapped. Never watch something just because a top actor/actress is in it.

☆☆☆½ / 4½ out of 5 stars

♥½ / 1½ out of 5 hearts

Birth of a Beauty Review

Title: Birth of a Beauty
AKA: Minyeoui Tansaeng
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episode: 21
Broadcast Period: Nov-2014 to Jan-2015
Cast: Joo Sang Wook, Han Ye Seul, Ha Jae Sook, Jung Gyu Woon, Wang Ji Hye, Han Sang Jin, In Gyo Jin, Han Jin Hee

Sa Geum Ran (Ha Jae Sook) is an ordinary ahjumma, an overweight woman who married a handsome man Lee Kang Joon (Jung Gyu Woon). They have been married for 8 years, he studies abroad while she is supporting him and his family, one day she discovers through a program Change, that her husband is actually in Korea and became a successful businessman and most importantly, he had an affair with a beautiful woman (Wang Ji Hye). When she decides to go to press with this information, she gets into an accident which she survives. That was the turning point in her life, she then decides to go under the knife and change her whole appearance and her identity. The one person that will help her is the mysterious man with a heartbroken syndrome, Han Tae Hee (Joo Sang Wook).

Okay, an interesting story, I admit. It was really good, I liked the comedy and the easygoing plot I even started rooting for the main couple. That lasted for the first 10 episodes… then it started to go downhill. I don’t know what happened; did someone take over for the writers work? Did the production team change? The concept of the drama was okay, shallow, but fine. I personally loved 200 Pounds of Beauty, and the concept is kinda similar. But the drama was such a mess, it preached and tried to show a lot of messages, like “be yourself” and stuff like that, and in the other hand it showed plastic surgery is the cure for all your problems, lol, talk about double standards. Now for the couple, as I said I loved this couple for the first 14-ish episodes, no joke, these two carried the show with a pleasant blend of chemistry and wit. Remember when I said I loved the first 10-ish episodes. All of that was true - until the writers realized that they were dealing with 20 episodes instead of 16, and then they got an episode extension on top of it, and they just threw in the towel. I won’t spoil anything, but let’s say it was like they all got amnesia (no one got amnesia), they freakin all forgot their characters, somehow they all changed for the super typical Korean draggy characters. Thanks for nothing. I’m giving this drama 2½ stars and hearts, because it really started out good, but sadly it left the audience feeling like idiots (for watching it).

☆☆½ / 2½ out of 5 stars

♥♥ ½/ 2½ out of 5 hearts