Post by Ariyoung on Sept 9, 2004 23:50:28 GMT -5
Cast of Characters :
Eun Ariyoung (29): Jang Suh Hee (Her House)
Han Kyung-hye (51): Jung Young Sook
Eun Jin-jung (53): Park Geun Hyung (Her House/Secret/Delicious Proposal)
Shim Soo-jung (49): Han Hye Sook
Eun Ye-young (25) Woo Hee Jin
Lee Joo-wang (30): Kim Sung Taek
Lee Sung-soo (53): Kim Byung Gi
Keum Ok-sun (74): Sa Mi Ja (More Than Love/Loving You/Memories)
Geum Silla (54): Kim Yong Rim
Made in the year of 2002: 245 episodes
Summary:
This is a story of a daughter in revenge against her father who had abandoned her mother, brother and herself long time ago.
Her mother has gone blind due to the shock of her brother's sudden death whereas her father has remarried with a famous actress and never paid any attention to their poverty and sorrow.
Just like Hamlet moaning in remembrance of his father's bitter tragedy, our heroine, Ariyung, plots a cunning revenge against her father, father's current wife and the daughter.
Ariyung is a famous TV drama writer and she is one of the most powerful person when it comes to drama casting. She writes a TV series and intentionally invites his father's new wife to star in her drama, acting as a vicious woman who snatches another man's wife, the hidden past of the glittering actress.
At the same time, Ariyoung approches to her step sister's fiance also out of calculated purpose.
SPOILERS ALERT!!!
Joshua and Irene are expecting a child. Irene is starting to get along w/ Joshua's grandma now. so everyone in Joshua's family likes her, except that friend of grandma's. (her story is just too weird)... but Irene gives her a hard time too. she's a tough cookie and holds her own.
Dianne and Benjo are married. just got back from their honeymoon. i think Dianne and Benjo encounter trouble conceiving a child though. i think one of them is infertile but they haven't revealed who.
Maggie and director guy (sorry forgot his name) are still seeing each other despite Maggie's mom's disapproval.
i wish they would focus more on the story between Irene and her father before the series ends. i don't think that story is resolved yet, and that was the main point of the plot in the beginning...
Dianne ( Irene's half sister )...
gave up on joowang, after finding out the truth behind Irene's identity and background... Dianne feels ashamed of her father's past behavior and feels sorry towards Irene.She also comes to realize the strong love between Irene and Joshua after she mends her relationship w/ her half sister.
it's a very sweet story between unlikey siblings/ rivals.
spoiler spoiler spoiler alert...
it's a happy ending for Irene and Joshua.
they are healthy and happy in the end, w/ 2 healthy children.
and Maggie is married to the director she works for.
Benjo and Dianne --- i don't know their story well. i skipped many episodes so i don't know what happened to them in the end. they were having problems conceiving in the earlier episodes.
Irene seems to have resolved her feelings toward her father. in the final epsidoe, she travels alone w/ him, has dinner w/ him and shim soo jung, the step mom, and the two elderly babysit her daughter while she works on her drama.
We know that at the moment Joshua is currently dating half sister Dianne (and they even might be engaged). However, he will fall in love w/ Irene and she will also fall in love w/ him (not just faking it for revenge). He will break up w/ Dianne to be w/ Irene, causing Dianne to later become unstable. Joshua will later find out Irene's plot for revenge, but loves Irene nonetheless. When Irene finds out how unstable her half-sister is (she has to even go to the hospital), older half-sister will break up (even reveal her revenge plot) with Joshua so that he would return to her younger half-sister. Later both sisters will become good friends once younger half-sister finds out the truth behind what her father did to her older half-sister.
Younger sister will eventually marry the guy who was enamoured w/ Irene (this will occur sometime after Joshua marries Irene though).
Joshua will finally marry Irene, however, his grandmother and mother are against it, and there will be trouble for Irene once she starts living with them. Over time, she will win the hearts of first his mother, and towards the very end, grandmother.
But then her ex-bf's wife comes in b/w her and her husband. They even go through a divorce I think, sometime after she has given birth to a baby girl.
And much later (at the very end), in the last episodes, Irene finds out that she is pregnant again, but she doesn't tell her husband. One day she is shopping for at a mall, and sees her husband with the ex-bf's wife. He sees her (her husband has been looking for her all this time, since she mysteriously left). The two look at each other, and then she runs away (from the sadness of seeing her husband w/ her ex-bf's wife, as well as not wanting her husband to notice she is pregnant). Running out onto the streets, she will be eventually hit by a bus. She is taken into surgery, her heart stops but is revived. And in the last scene of the series we will see her in a field of flowers, and her husband and 2 children (boy and girl) run towards her.
