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dangermousieI have finished ep 1 of Get Karl Oh Soo Jung and I really really like it! It's no earth-shattering masterpiece but it's a funny snappy bit of fluff with a hunky hero and a strong heroine.
So, without further ado...
Meet Oh Soo Jung, our awesome heroine.
When we first meet her, Soo Jung is 26, a former beauty queen and desired by scores of various men, from a drunk passerby trying to pick up her in an elevator to school friends proposing marriage. But that fragile beauty hides a steel will, an outspoken tongue and violent tendencies (the girl is a martial arts master and can protect herself extremely well) plus an extremely pragmatic brain. Soo Jung is not about waste her life - she will marry only someone who can provide her with financial stability and a high lifestyle. Soo Jung grew up in a feckless dysfunctional family - her mother not only cheated out of wedlock but walked out on her husband and placed them deeply in debt, with collectors beating down the doors. Soo Jung's father is sweet but spineless and silly - he keeps lending money to his ex-wife and wasting $$$ on silly gadgets. He also took in Soo Jung's mother's son from an affair. He's a sweet guy but worse than useless in a crisis. No wonder, Soo Jung's take on romance is non-existent and her requirements are deeply, coldly pragmatic.
Sooo Jung believes she has finally found her meal ticket and her way out in the very portly figure of Man Soo - Man Soo might be obese and with a personality of a carrot, but he has passed the bar. Man Soo dotes on the beautiful Soo Jung and would do anything she asks - he is completely under her heel - just how Soo Jung likes it. One problem - Man Soo fails the third stage of the bar exam (an unheard of thing - he is the first - the reason why is too funny to ruin) and informs Soo Jung of it on their wedding day.
Can we say "runaway bride?" Ditching Man Soo at the altar, Soo Jung takes an offer from another admirer to have all-expenses-paid business school/trip and when she calls Man Soo from the airport and he asks her why, she tells him it's because of his failed bar exam. She tells him to forget her and live well, but when he wails into the phone he will die without her, she impatiently tells him to die then. I cannot blame Soo Jung for running out - leaving aside the issue of looks, Man Soo was clingy and without self-respect and never asserted any personality due to his awe of Soo Jung - no woman would really want something like that. Still, Soo Jung was undoubtedly harsh in her break-up and that harshness spurs Man Soo to turn his life around - he leaves for US to become the kind of man who wouldn't be dumped like that again.
Fast-forward 8 years and Man Soo is now back. He's practiced his previous talent and became a super-star golfer, winning the PGA repeatedly and raking in money. Oh, and he also looks like this:
Soo Jung should have dumped him sooner! My God.
Man Soo now goes by the name Karl Go, is rather suspicious of fawning females, and is also back in Korea. It is here his paths cross with Soo Jung again - Soo Jung's overcaution about partners has left her still single. Soo Jung is still strong, forthright, and out-spoken. She runs a jewelry store which is not doing to well and, at 34, despite her gorgeous looks is being looked on as an old maid and rejected by prospective "good" matches she sets up through a dating agency. Karl and Soo Jung run into each other again in a hotel where he came for a business meeting and she for (yet another soon to fail) date. And we realize a few things: (a) She does not recognize him; and (b) oooooh boy, does he recognize her!
Karl overhears her date (and her single status) and deliberately lets Soo Jung's friend know his true identity, knowing the friend would tell Soo Jung who will then chase him. Is that how he is going to take revenge? We shall find out...
So, verdict after first ep: it's quite enjoyable. I think I will hold off on more because it's sort of mind-bending to watch Oh Ji Ho in this and in Chuno at the same time, but it's going on my watch list for sure. After all, I might get important tips on hygeine:
Btw, I watched ep 1 of Chuno with subs and it was even better. Miracle of miracles, Mr. Mousie wanted to watch it with me and I think he's hooked - I kept offering to turn it off but he didn't want me to! I don't think he'll become a bona fide Chuno watcher (his comment was "all these fights now but we know by the end there will be no fighting but endless angst" show he is too familiar with dramas :P) but I am still super-impressed.
Subbed ep 2 of Chuno and raws of 3-4 tomorrow. EEE!
So, without further ado...
Meet Oh Soo Jung, our awesome heroine.
When we first meet her, Soo Jung is 26, a former beauty queen and desired by scores of various men, from a drunk passerby trying to pick up her in an elevator to school friends proposing marriage. But that fragile beauty hides a steel will, an outspoken tongue and violent tendencies (the girl is a martial arts master and can protect herself extremely well) plus an extremely pragmatic brain. Soo Jung is not about waste her life - she will marry only someone who can provide her with financial stability and a high lifestyle. Soo Jung grew up in a feckless dysfunctional family - her mother not only cheated out of wedlock but walked out on her husband and placed them deeply in debt, with collectors beating down the doors. Soo Jung's father is sweet but spineless and silly - he keeps lending money to his ex-wife and wasting $$$ on silly gadgets. He also took in Soo Jung's mother's son from an affair. He's a sweet guy but worse than useless in a crisis. No wonder, Soo Jung's take on romance is non-existent and her requirements are deeply, coldly pragmatic.
Sooo Jung believes she has finally found her meal ticket and her way out in the very portly figure of Man Soo - Man Soo might be obese and with a personality of a carrot, but he has passed the bar. Man Soo dotes on the beautiful Soo Jung and would do anything she asks - he is completely under her heel - just how Soo Jung likes it. One problem - Man Soo fails the third stage of the bar exam (an unheard of thing - he is the first - the reason why is too funny to ruin) and informs Soo Jung of it on their wedding day.
Can we say "runaway bride?" Ditching Man Soo at the altar, Soo Jung takes an offer from another admirer to have all-expenses-paid business school/trip and when she calls Man Soo from the airport and he asks her why, she tells him it's because of his failed bar exam. She tells him to forget her and live well, but when he wails into the phone he will die without her, she impatiently tells him to die then. I cannot blame Soo Jung for running out - leaving aside the issue of looks, Man Soo was clingy and without self-respect and never asserted any personality due to his awe of Soo Jung - no woman would really want something like that. Still, Soo Jung was undoubtedly harsh in her break-up and that harshness spurs Man Soo to turn his life around - he leaves for US to become the kind of man who wouldn't be dumped like that again.
Fast-forward 8 years and Man Soo is now back. He's practiced his previous talent and became a super-star golfer, winning the PGA repeatedly and raking in money. Oh, and he also looks like this:
Soo Jung should have dumped him sooner! My God.
Man Soo now goes by the name Karl Go, is rather suspicious of fawning females, and is also back in Korea. It is here his paths cross with Soo Jung again - Soo Jung's overcaution about partners has left her still single. Soo Jung is still strong, forthright, and out-spoken. She runs a jewelry store which is not doing to well and, at 34, despite her gorgeous looks is being looked on as an old maid and rejected by prospective "good" matches she sets up through a dating agency. Karl and Soo Jung run into each other again in a hotel where he came for a business meeting and she for (yet another soon to fail) date. And we realize a few things: (a) She does not recognize him; and (b) oooooh boy, does he recognize her!
Karl overhears her date (and her single status) and deliberately lets Soo Jung's friend know his true identity, knowing the friend would tell Soo Jung who will then chase him. Is that how he is going to take revenge? We shall find out...
So, verdict after first ep: it's quite enjoyable. I think I will hold off on more because it's sort of mind-bending to watch Oh Ji Ho in this and in Chuno at the same time, but it's going on my watch list for sure. After all, I might get important tips on hygeine:
Btw, I watched ep 1 of Chuno with subs and it was even better. Miracle of miracles, Mr. Mousie wanted to watch it with me and I think he's hooked - I kept offering to turn it off but he didn't want me to! I don't think he'll become a bona fide Chuno watcher (his comment was "all these fights now but we know by the end there will be no fighting but endless angst" show he is too familiar with dramas :P) but I am still super-impressed.
Subbed ep 2 of Chuno and raws of 3-4 tomorrow. EEE!
