The Thorn Bird

The Thorn Bird Details
Title: 가시나무새 / Kashinamoosae
Also known as: The Thorn Bush Bird
Genre: Melodrama, romance
Episodes: 20
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2011-Mar-02 to TBA
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

The Thorn Bird Synopsis and Story :

This is the story of two women, Seo Jung Eun and Han Yoo Kyung, who walk very different paths to achieve their desires. Seo Jung Eun is a strong and courageous woman who has suffered a difficult life, having grown up in an orphanage, but continues to embrace people around her despite longing for affection herself. Jung Eun harbours the hope that she will meet her mother if she becomes a star, striving to reach her goal and overcome her suffering with her pure and innocent nature. In contrast, Han Yoo Kyung has a birth secret for which she is willing to throw away everything in order to get revenge. The "thorn birds" of the title refers to Jung Eun's character, who only brings out her best at the cost of great pain. A thorn bird is a mythical bird who searches for a thorn tree from the day it is born. When it finds it, the bird impales itself upon the sharpest thorn, and rises above the agony to sing the most beautiful song ever heard.

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Jung Eun has been searching for her biological mother who had abandoned her since birth.
Jung Eun and Young Jo become close friends because they share the pain of growing up without a mother.
Jung Eun’s friend Yoo Kyung, however, is jealous of their relationship.

At the age of 25, Jung Eun works as a part-time actress while waiting for her mother to find her.
On the other hand, Yoo Kyung struggles for her debut as a film director and meets producer Young Jo.
Yoo Kyung seduces Young Jo after discovering that he is an heir to a conglomerate and then gets pregnant.
But when Young Jo gives up his family inheritance, she coldly cuts him off from her life.
When Yoo Kyung goes into labor and is carried to the hospital due to premature birth, she registers herself as “Jung Eun”. And when Yoo Kyung finally finds her biological mother, who is old, sick, and poor, she abandons both her mother and baby.
Jung Eun, who is desperate to have a family, takes Yoo Kyung’s baby in and visits Yoo Kyung’s mother Myung-Ja. And by doing so, Jung Eun changes her fate by pretending to be Myung-Ja’s daughter.

The Thorn Bird Cast and Starring
Han Hye Jin as Seo Jung Eun
Kim Min Jung as Han Yoo Kyung
Joo Sang Wook
Seo Do Young
Cha Hwa Yun
Jung Eun Byul
Kim Ha Eun
Oh Hyun Kyung

Production Credits
Production Company: GnG Production
Producer:
Director: Kim Jong Chang
Screenwriter: Lee Sun Hee

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Royal Family

Royal Family Details
Title: 로얄 패밀리 / Royal Family
Genre: Family, romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2011-Mar-02 to 2011-TBA
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

Royal Family Synopsis, Story, and Preview :

The story of Kim In Sook's battle against all odds to rise to the top of JK Group with the help of the lawyer Han Ji Hoon, a man who has supported her since they were children.

Royal Family Cast Character

Kim In Sook , 42 years old, the second daughter-in-law of the JK Clan

For 18 years she’s been ignored and never regarded as sister-in-law by her husband’s brother and sisters.
She’s been isolated by everybody in her husband family and she lived like an invisible person.
Without taking sleeping pills, she can only sleep less than 2 hours.
The thing got worse when her husband died in a helicopter crash.

Since then, her mother-in-law tried to turn her into an interdicted person and deprived her of her guardianship of her son.

Then a procurator who has a relationship with her mysterious past appeared as the lawyer of JK clan.
The procurator decided to help her out of the situation.

Han Ji Hoon, 29 years old, procurator and lawyer

Procurator in Seoul District Public Prosecutors Office.
Top scorer in bar exam, administration exam, and diplomacy exam .
Different from his handsome appearance, he is cynical and mischievous.
When he was an orphan, he was once accused of murder because his teddy bear was found in the criminal scene.
Thanks to the help by the lawyer entrusted by In Sook, he was finally proved innocent. And thus it was her who saved him and brought the bright future back to him.
Ji Hoon found out the real murderer later and become elite Procurator.

Ji Hoon saw In Sook in the funeral of her husband who died in a helicopter crash. And he also witnessed her miserable situation.
And later he is more surprised to know that president Kou is to turn her into an interdicted person.
Then he decides to help her and resets his goal of life.
That is, to turn In Sook, a woman who has been treated as rubbish into a Queen.
Ji Hoon leads a double life in JK clan, and makes arduous effort for the goal of saving In Sook.
Accidentally he finds that his feelings toward In Sook is more than gratitude and pity.
She has become the only woman who makes his heart beating faster at her sight.
It’s just an untutored feeling. And he could abandon it just for the sake of In Sook.

Royal Family Cast and Starring :
Yum Jung Ah as Kim In Sook
Ji Sung as Han Ji Hoon
Kim Young Ae as Gong Soon Ho
Cha Ye Ryun
Ki Tae Young
Lee Da Hee
Lee Chae Young
Ahn Nae Sang
Jun Mi Sun
Jun No Min
Ryu Dam
Dok Go Young Jae
Jo Sang Ki
Ha Yun Joo

Production Credits
Producer: Han Hee
Director: Kim Do Hoon (김도훈)
Screenwriter: Kwon Eun Mi (권음미), Kim Young Hyun, Park Sang Yun (박상연)

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I Believed in Men

I Believed in Men Details
Title: 남자를 믿었네 / Namjareul Mideonne
Also known as: I Trusted Men
Genre: Melodrama, romance
Episodes: TBA
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2011-Feb-28 to TBA
Air time: Monday to Friday 20:15

I Believed in Men Synopsis, Story, and Preview :

A classic family drama about a food company manager who goes through a series of tumultuous events after breaking up with a loved one for unknown reasons.

I Believed in Men Cast and Starring :


Wang Bit Na as Oh Kyung Joo
Shim Hyung Tak as Lee Sun Woo

Kim family
Oh Seung Myung (오승명) as President Kim
Oh Mi Yeon as Ms. Im
Park Sang Min as Kim Nam Ki
Woo Hee Jin as Kim Hwa Kyung

Other people
Kim Dong Wook as Moon Hyun Soo
Lee Da In as Han Kyung Mi (Kyung Joo's sister)
Hong Soo Ah as Ha Jung Min
Kim Chung as In Hee
Park Joo Ah as Sun Woo's grandmother
Go Joo Yun as Eun Kyung
Sun Woo Jae Duk as Jin Hyun
Jung Hye Sun as Jin Hyun's mother
Lee Hwi Hyang
Kim Jung Hyun

Production Credits
Producer: Choi Yong Won
Director: Lee Eun Kyu, Choi Eun Kyung (최은경)
Screenwriter: Joo Chan Ok


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Midas

Midas Details
Title: 마이더스 / Midas
Genre: Business, romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2011-Feb-22 to TBA
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55

Midas Synopsis, Story, and Preview :

The background of the drama is about life in the mergers & acquisitions, stock market and financial world, as well as the lives of chaebols.

Midas Charachter :

Kim Do Hyun (32 years old)
A smart man without ambition. Graduated as the best of his class from Korea’s best university, he also the best when attended law school.
His father left home when he was a child, leaving him in poverty. His mother raised him in hardship and passed away when he was in law school.
He only feels warmth in his heart when he is with his long-time girlfriend Jung Yun and her family.
He wants to start a family and live happily with Jung Yun.
After graduate from law school, he joins the best law firm to make a living and maintains a stable and comfortable life.
However, his dream of peace life is shattered when he was chosen by someone and sells his soul for money.

Lee Jung Yun (27 years old)
Long time girlfriend of Do Hyun.
A quiet and unattractive student during middle and high school and was the same when she entered nursing school.
Until, she met Do Hyun and her life started to change. Her luck in life is started. She is dating Do Hyun and about to marry him but she still finds it hard to believe that she is his girlfriend.
After graduated from nursing school, she was employed by Korea’s best general hospital and not long after that she became a nurse for that hospital VIP’s wing.

However, Do Hyuk started to be a different person after he entered a law firm. Finally she finds out that Do yuk has another woman.
She plans a revenge by throws her soul away, becoming the woman of a son of chaebol named Yoo Myung Joon.
Yoo Myung Joon is the patient of the hospital VIP room where Jung Yun is assigned who suffered terminal stage of cancer.

Yoo In Hye (40 years old)
The eldest daughter of Yoo Pil Sang family.
Yoo Pil Sang seems like avarage rich family, but his real wealth is in the same size with Samsung and Hyundai.
Yoo In Hye has 2 older brothers, a younger brother (her biological brother) and a younger sister, which 5 of them came from several different mothers.
She grew up with her biological younger brother (Yoo Myung Joon) and her mother who was abandoned by her father.

In order to escape from the negative image of “the abandoned daughter of a chaebol”, Yoo In Hye left Korea to USA . During this period of time when she was away, her mother started suffering some mental disorder. Thus, the job of looking after her fell in the hands of Myung Joon.

She attended university and got MBA from USA, then gained experience as securities broker in Wall Street. Now she is the president of her own multi-billion dollar hedge fund.
Her grandfather’s loan business plus her father’s real estate business plus her hedge fund company can sway Korea’s economy.
She’s a powerful woman with no romantic experience and never been married.
She hates but also admires her father, makes her a strange monster.

Yoo Myung Joon (31 years old)
The younger brother of Yoo In Hye. Unlike his sister, he has a more softer and more delicate character.
He believes that money is the reason to the misfortune that he has suffered. Therefore, he finds that money is evil and despicable.
Due to the prejudice towards money and his own birth, Myung Joon seems cynical and waste his time by partying from dusk til dawn. He was like this till Jung Yun appeared in his life.
Myung Joon found himself down with terminal stage cancer and the nurse who was in-charge of him was Jung Yun.
As time goes by, there was some chemistry and love blossoming between the two.


Midas Cast and Starring :

Kim family
Lee Duk Hwa as Kim Tae Sung
Jang Hyuk as Kim Do Hyun
Kim Sung Oh as Kim Do Chul (Do Hyun's half-brother)

Yoo family
Kim Sung Kyum as Yoo Pil Sang
Yoon Je Moon as Yoo Sung Joon (In Hye's oldest brother)
Choi Jung Woo as Yoo Ki Joon (In Hye's second brother)
Kim Hee Ae as Yoo In Hye
No Min Woo as Yoo Myung Joon (In Hye's little brother)
Han Yoo Yi (한유이) as Yoo Mi Ran (In Hye's little sister)

Other people
Lee Min Jung as Lee Jung Yeon
Chun Ho Jin as Choi Gook Hwan
Jung Suk Won as Jae Bum
Seo Joo Ae (서주애) as Soo Ji
Yeo Ho Min

Production Credits
Producer:
Director: Kang Shin Hyo
Screenwriter: Choi Wan Kyu

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Sparkling

Sparkling Details
Title: 반짝반짝 빛나는 / Banjjak Banjjak Bitnaneun
Also known as: Twinkle Twinkle / All That Glitters / Shining
Genre: Drama
Episodes: 50
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2011-Feb-12 to TBA
Air time: Saturday & Sunday 20:40

Sparkling Synopsis, Story, and Preview

This drama tells the success story of Han Jung Won, a workaholic careerwoman who is determined to make her own way in life without the help of her family, which has garnered considerable wealth from their publishing company. Her life is turned upside down due to someone's mistake, and she faces numerous setbacks on the road to recovery.

Sparkling Cast and Starring :

Han family
Kim Hyun Joo as Han Jung Won
Kim Hyung Bum as Han Sang Won
Jang Yong as Han Ji Woong
Park Jung Soo as Jin Na Hee
Park Yoo Hwan as Lee Seo Woo

Hwang family
Lee Yoo Ri as Hwang Geum Ran
Lee Ah Hyun as Hwang Tae Ran
Han Ji Woo as Hwang Mi Ran
Kil Yong Woo as Hwang Nam Bong
Go Doo Shim as Lee Kwon Yang
Kim Sang Ho as Park Joong Hyuk (Tae Ran's husband)
Shin Soo Yun (신수연) as Park Ji Won (Tae Ran's daughter)

Other people
Kim Suk Hoon as Song Seung Joon
Kang Dong Ho (강동호) as Kang Dae Bum
Jung Tae Woo as Yoon Seung Jae
Kim Ji Young

Production Credits
Producer: Lee Dae Young
Director: Noh Do Chul
Screenwriter: Bae Yoo Mi

Sparkling Photos

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