Title: The Gentlemen of Wolgyesu Tailor
Shop
AKA: Laurel Tree Tailors / Bay Tree
Tailors
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Episodes: 54
Broadcast
period: 2016-Aug to
2017-Feb
Cast: Lee Dong
Gun, Jo Yoon Hee, Cha In Pyo, Choi Won Young, Hyun Woo, Shin Goo, Kim Young Ae
and Oh Hyun Kyung.
This drama follows four men, who get affiliated with
a small tailor shop called “Wolgyesu Tailor Shop”.
Lee Man Sool (Shin Goo) is the second-generation
owner of the Wolgyesu Tailor Shop. After being unable to get anyone to take
over the shop, he decides to leave his family, leaving them with a letter. His
son Lee Dong Jin (Lee Dong Gun) is wealthy manager in a clothing company owned
by his wife’s diseased father. Due to internal conflict he is outed of the
company and returns home. Here he meets Na Yeon Sil (Jo Yoon Hee), a seamstress
that was supposed to get married, but her fiancé was arrested on the wedding
day.
Due to the vacancy of a tailor in the shop, Bae Sam
Do (Cha In Pyo) a former pupil of Man Sool, finally manages to persuade his
aggressive wife Bok Sun Nyeo (Ra Mi Ran) to close down their chicken shop, to
start living in the Lee household. At the same time Lee Dong Sook (Oh Hyun
Kyung), the daughter of Man Sool and sister of Dong Jin, persuades their mother
to let her first crush and forgotten singer Sung Tae Young (Choi Won Young)
live in the house, only to create even more havoc. Kang Tae Yang (Hyun Woo) is
the youngest of four, who is the childhood friend of Yeon Sil. After getting
dumped by his longtime girlfriend for a rich CEO, Tae Yang decides to join the
company - which happens to be the company Dong Jin was fired from.
Soon enough the four create an alliance and together
they fix the issues surrounding their family and new home…
I remember reading about this drama long before it
came out, and I was more than excited to watch it because of two of the leads,
Cha In Pyo and Lee Dong Gun. Besides the fact that they are great actors, I
have never seen them act together in a movie or drama - which made it even more
exciting. Unfortunately, I felt quite confused in the beginning, because of the
huge number of plots entwined in the main plot - making me forget not only names,
but also the relationships between the characters, both kinship and other. This
made me forget about the two leads, as I tried to wrap my head around it, and
when I finally figured it out, they all kind of became less ‘famous actors’,
and more their characters. The story and screenplay were great, even though I
felt the acting could’ve been a bit better, I was satisfied with the overall.
So, all in all, it is a good family drama that made
me laugh, and happy.
☆☆☆☆ / 4 out of 5 stars
♥♥♥♥ / 4 out of 5 hearts
