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**boaz** · 23-09-2006, 02:33 PM

"Miss Kim's Adventures in Making a Million" clapclap
(a.k.a Miss Kim's Million Dollar Quest/Trouble-Maker Miss Kim/Paranmanjang Miseu Kim 10 Eok Mandeulgi)
was an SBS drama special (2004) - 16 episodes: http://tv.sbs.co.kr/10/

My friend just introduced me to this drama after I watched Ji Jin Hee in Jewel in the Palace. Ji Jin Hee in this drama is entirely opposite of his character in Jewel!! He's so funny! Both him and Kim Hyun Joo, the female lead, is really enjoyable to watch in this sweet-n-sour comedy.

The story starts off with Miss Kim happily preparing for her wedding, however, on the day of the actual wedding, her groom leaves her for another woman --a rich executive in his company that claims that she can provide him with everything he needs. The wedding photographer, Mr. Park, bumps in on the pitiful bride reading the note her groom left her and couldn't help but pull her out of the ceremony place, acting as if he was stealing the bride. ....And that commences the adventures of Miss Kim and Mr. Park.

Has anyone else watched this drama?
I'd like to know the names of a couple of the awfully cute supporting actors:
1) the girl who plays "Lee Jin" (the girl who originally had a crush on Mr. Park/Ji Jin Hee and later dated the landlord's son)
2) the guy who plays "Jung Jae" (the loan shark's chauffer)

Here's a pic of Miss Kim (Kim Hyun Joo) and Mr. Park (Ji Jin Hee):

Synopsis:

Kim Hyun Joo and her boyfriend (Park Gun Hyung) have been going out for couple of years now and they are planning a marriage. They did photoshoots and everything that was needed for preparing a marriage. (kim hyun joo bought a house for them to live in and everything) When it was the day for them to marry, Park Gun Hyung didn't show up (this wealthy lady (Kim Sung Ryung) steals him and makes the guy fall for her telling that she can do absolutely anything he wants for him) and left a letter for Kim Hyun Joo to read. She obviously is shocked and runs out of the wedding place with Ji Jin Hee and goes off on a motorcycle. (ji jin hee was the photographer for the wedding pictures) Anyhow...so Kim Hyun Joo and Ji Jin Hee goes off somewhere and etc.
Ji Jin Hee is a wealthy guy, but his dad and his business went bad or something and now they went into bankrupcy or something like that. His dad is in jail right now and his mom is living in this big cabin/mansion not knowing what's really going on (she's alittle stupid). So Ji Jin Heeh sells his car, motorcycle...anything that is expensive so that he can get some money off of it. His reputation gets ruined when every one of his friends fines out that he has become poor. As for Kim Hyun Joo...on her wedding day, there were some people who didn't show up because they were caught up in work and kept on screwing up in directions...so those office workers who didn't show up at the wedding act as if they went to the wedding when Kim Hyun Joo shows up for work couple days later. Kim Hyun Joo was surpised...and just went with the act and pretends that she did get married. The office workers makes a agreement that they should go to Kim Hyun Joo's house and have a celebration party of her wedding...Kim Hyun Joo doesn't know what to do, but agrees to have the party at her house. She calls up Ji Jin Hee and meets with him. She tells Ji jin Hee to be her husband (as in act as a pretend husband) and come to her house for the party. Ji Jin Hee hesitates and declines her request...but agrees to do so. So when Kim Hyun Joo is preparing food for the party...all the office workers come in and looks around the house and stuff...Ji Jin Hee comes a little bit late and acts like a real husband to Kim Hyun Joo which stunned her a bit...lol. She drags him to her room and tells him to not be all mushy and touching inappriorpiate places and skrew up...he sorta agrees. When they are all gathered around the table...they have this conversation of how those two first met...and Ji Jin Hee makes up this weird story which makes Kim Hyun Joo mad and she yells really loud and makes everyone scared...so everyone stands up and leaves....

the vineyard man

Brief Summary:
The Vineyard Man is a romantic-comical drama that revolves around the life of Lee Ji-Hyun (Yoon Eun Hye), a typical average girl who wants to show the world that beneath her seemingly ordinary characteristics is an extraordinary girl who will some day achieve great things and marry a rich and handsome man. Ji-Hyun is a striving young designer working in a clothing company, hoping that one day, her works will be recognized and have her own label. Her life changes when she decided to farm her grandfather’s vineyard and met Kang Taek-Gi (Oh Man Suk), a nice and honest man working in the vineyard to help his father.

Cast:
Yoon Eun Hye as Lee Ji Hyun
Oh Man Suk as Jang Taek-Gi
Kim Ji Suk as Kim Kyung-Min

A countryside girl who grew up on a hillside village in Kangwon-do is later found out to be the daughter of a rich family in Kangnam. How lucky! Overnight she has realized every person’s fantasy. But is she really happy? Is she truthfully happy? The goal of this drama is to show how characters that seem like they would never be able to truly communicate with each other start to look at the world from inside the other person’s shoes; the process of how they face difficulties with each other but learn to understand and communicate; the process of how they heal their pain and find themselves. And finally of how they discover in a fun and touching way that everyone in the world, including themselves, can be a hero. Whether you have a lot or not, whether you had a great education or not, whether you’re old or young, whether you have found true love or not...life can still be so lonely and tiring. Becoming an adult means opening yourself to others by finding out that life’s lonely journey isn’t only about you. Those who know this are the ones that can taste the true happiness of love. In the end, everyone’s happiness comes from within their own heart. Our wish is that all people living in this desolate and gray civilization will be able to feel true warmth and happiness spreading through their hearts.

Choi Seung-hee: Kim Rae-won (Scenario writer/ Movie director)
A scenario writer and movie director; a transfer student at the Australia Film Academy who majored in film producing, his first short film wins an award at a world film festival and he becomes the new shining star, but while everything is going so well, he suddenly encounters a tragic loss: the sudden death of his lover. The accident happened in the blink of an eye. The car he was driving was involved in a collision with a truck and although he survived it, his girlfriend unfortunately wasn??t able to. After her death he stopped all his work and hid from the world for 3 years. However, when his life seems to have hit its lowest point something weird happens. A girl who looks exactly like his ex-girlfriend appears in front of him. She looks exactly like Hye-soo but is a total different person. She is not just different, but different to the extreme. Hye-soo was kind and elegant, while this girl is ignorant, fearless, and looks like a total country girl. But the funny this is that he freezes when he is around her. Her name is Kim Bok-shil. Spending time with this girl he starts to become a lamb and a spring wind starts to blow and melt his frozen heart. He realizes the real meaning of ??true courage??. He also starts to realize the he is a precious person, that he can make someone else happy and that he hasn??t lost everything in the world so he doesn??t have to be scared of anything.
And so he changed. Now he can meet other people comfortably and confront them truthfully; he has started to come out of his dark past. Now the only thing left is to tell her how he feels about her. ??Please accept my burning heart.??
But... it turns out that she is Hye-soo??s long-lost little sister. Out of all the terrible trials he has been through this one is the toughest.

Kim Bok-shil: Jeong Ryeo-won (Country girl)
She lives in the backwoods on the borders of the Taebaek Mountains in Kangwon-do, a girl who grew up on the mountain hillsides in a little village where the entire population is barely 30 people, and getting to the nearest town takes several hours on a winding road. She lives buried in the hillsides with her mom, whose mental age is stuck at 10 because of a coal gas accident, and without a father, but with her strong mind and powerful personality, she makes it through day-to-day, thanks mainly to her positive attitude toward life. In her imagination she has become a singer, a news reporter, a teacher, a man, and a foreigner. Her one dream is to go Cheju-do, despite the fact that she hasn??t even been to Seoul. To spread her dreams out a little more she would like to go to college and get a degree, and then become a stunning and smart business women. She would commute every morning and make a lot of money, then build a house where she can live with her mom forever.
But as of right now all these things are just a distant dream. Just when she starts to think that she is going to live on this hillside for rest of her life and is about to throw away all her dreams, her life takes a sudden turn when she meets Seung-hee.

Han Jeong-hoon: Park Shi-hoo (Runs a publishing company)
Seung-hee??s high school senior; the grandson of the man who set up the historic publishing company Hee Moon Gak. A year ago his grandfather died from a stroke and left him with the ownership of the company. He displays a humble and polite character due to the fact that he was brought up very well by his parents. He is a character who is very gentle in appearance but sturdy in spirit, but once you get to know him you realize that once he sets a goal he is very tenacious in achieving it and he has a strong will to win. After the people in the publishing company worked with him and got to know him, the bad rumors about him started to die down. In order to find Seung-hee, who has been shutting out the world, he finally finds his way to a little village on the hillside and there he meets a young woman. Suddenly this girl, who looks exactly like Hye-soo tells him, ??You??re so cocky!?? causing his nice looking face to harden. At first he was kind to this country girl to be polite, even though in his mind he looked down on her. She, for her part, keeps reading his mind and embarrassing him yet strangely his heart keeps beating towards her. He can??t understand his own heart and why it keeps beating towards this country girl who only graduated high school and lives with a dumb mom. Then one day, he feels that she just might be Lee??s daughter!

Yoon Mi-hyeon: Kang Jeong-hwa (Movie music director)
Lee??s granddaughter and Bok-shil??s cousin; she is currently a movie music director. She got that spot on her own, without any help from her wealthy grandfather, through her own abilities, a fact she is very proud of.
When Hye-soo came to the States to study they were like sisters. Hye-soo, Seung-hee, and she spend a lot of time together but one day she realizes that she is starting to like Seung-hee. Then one day Hye-soo dies in an accident and from that day on she was unable to get any closer to Seung-hee.
She goes with Jeong-hoon to find Seung-hoon and is surprised when she sees Seung-hee with Hye-soo, who died several years ago!

A love to kill

story:
The story was about 2 young brothers Kang Bok-ku and Kang Min-joo, that have lost in touch for almost about 10years, and finally found by the younger brother Kang Bok-ku(Rain), but things wasn’t happen as expected.

Tragedy happens once Bok-Ku met his brother Min-joo. Before meeting back Min-joo, Bok-Ku was a fighter in a black fight market and Min-joo was having a love relation with a actress Cha Eun-suk(Shin Min Ah), Min-joo and eun-suk love story wasn’t goes well, as eun-suk getting more and more famous, min-joo keep staying away from eun-suk because Min-joo was looking down on himself as well as doesn’t want to affected Eun-Suk Movie career, but Eun-Suk each and everyday, was thinking of Min-Joo.
There was one night where Min-joo and Bok-Ku reunion that day, was at night, both were having some chat on a rooftop where Min-Joo used to stay, suddenly Min-Joo saw a large TV-Screen opposite his building showing the news of his girlfriend Eun-Suk mentioning that she is having an secret affair with a very rich man’s 2nd son, and was going to engage soon. That night was a shock for Min-Joo, without his own notice while looking on the big screen, he himself step over the roof top and fall down, at that moment that was a shock to Bok-Ku, as he doesn’t know why and what really happen to Min-Joo, walking over the edge of the roof and fall down to the street.

Cast in A Love to Kill

Rain or Jung Ji Hoon Cast As Kang Bok-ku
This good-looking but hot-tempered guy hates to attract women’s attention. He lives with Han Da-jung, a tough-minded woman who is solely preoccupied with making money and whom Bok-ku follows everywhere.

Shin Min Ah (Beautiful Day) Cast As Cha Eun-suk
A top-class actress, Eun-suk has it all—wealth, fame and popularity. But on the inside she is an ordinary twenty-something woman. One day she falls in love with Bok-ku, but their love is doomed.

Kim Sa-Rang Cast As Han Da-jung
A friend of Bok-ku’s since orphanage, Da-jung burns her face while trying to rescue Bok-ku from fire. She takes care of Bok-ku while engaging in all kinds of dangerous jobs to make money.

Lee Ki-woo Cast As Kim Jun-sung
The scion of a family-owned conglomerate, Ki-woo is an athletic and well-mannered guy. He is forced to get engaged with Eun-suk after being accused of sexual harassment. Though he does not love her, he agrees to marry her to restore the reputation of his father’s company.