My Lovely Samsoon
My Lovely Sam-Soon was the most popular TV drama of 2005, and it’s easy to see why, though the series doesn’t fully work for me. Kim Seon-A is totally convincing and likable as the title character: a brassy, unglamorous, vulgar young woman with her own mind, but who still feels the tug of social expectations. They are her expectations too.
Kim Sam-soon’s (Kim Sun-ah) main passion and skills are in baking and dreams of owning a shop of her own. She does not have much of a social life and dreams of changing her name as it is considered a very old-fashioned and embarrassing name. After she is dumped by her boyfriend, she manages to land herself a job in a big French restaurant working as a pastry chef for a rude and angsty 27-year-old man called Hyun Jin-heon (Hyun Bin). Both are on bad terms ever since they set eyes on each other.
One day, Sam-soon finds herself in need of 50 million won (approximately USD$50,000) to pay for her mother’s house. She agrees to be Jin-heon’s pretend girlfriend for that amount. During their pretend dating they slowly become more affectionate with each other. When things seem to go accordingly, Jin-heon’s ex-girlfriend Yoo Hee-jin (Jung Ryeo-won) returns from the US and life for Sam-soon starts getting much worse.
Jin-heon then realizes that he is happier with Sam-soon and can’t stop thinking about her. He confesses his love to her after she tells him that she hates people who don’t confess their feelings towards the person they like.
Hee-jin asks Jin-heon to accompany her on her return to the United States. Sam-Soon allows him to go but he does not return within the promised duration. He soon arrives and they find out that he has been sending postcards to the wrong address. Sam-soon and Jin-heon attempt to get her pregnant in order to convince Jin-heon’s mother into allowing their marriage. The plan fails, but they remain together.
Near the very end of the series, Sam-soon reads a poem from a poster on a bus stop: “Dance like no one’s watching. Sing like no one’s listening. Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt before. Live like there’s no tomorrow
source form: koreanfilm
