Full House

Title: 풀하우스 / Pool Ha-woo-seu / Full House
Chinese Title : 浪漫满屋
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2004-Jul-14 to 2004-Sep-02
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:00

Full House Synopsis

Han Ji Eun is a naive writer who got swindled out of everything she owned including her house by her best friends. Stranded in China, She managed to borrow money from an actor Lee Young Jae to return to Korea. On her return, she found out that her house was bought by Lee Young Jae. In an attempt to get her possessions back, she entered in a contract marriage with Young Jae for one year. In spite of losing all, Ji Eun manages to be cheerful and takes things in strike and the business relationship between the two becomes personal as they start to rely and care for each other. Based on a popular manhwa of the same title.

Full House Cast

Bi as Lee Young Jae
Song Hye Kyo as Han Ji Eun
Han Eun Jung as Kang Hye Won
Kim Sung Soo as Yoo Min Hyuk
Jang Yong as Mr. Lee (Young-jae’s Father)
Sun Woo Eun Sook as Ms. Kim (Young-jae’s Mother)
Kim Ji Young as Young-jae’s Grandmother
Do Han as Dong Wook
Lee Young Eun as Hee Jin
Kang Do Han as Lee Dong Wook (Hee Jin boyfriend)
Im Ye Jin as Dae Pyo

Full House Production Credits

Chief Producer: Kim Jong Sik
Producer: Jung Sung Hyo
Director: Pyo Min Su
Writer: Min Hyo Jeong

Awards

2004 KBS Drama Awards : Best Couple Award for Bi and Song Hye Kyo

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Dae Jang Geum

Title: 대장금 / Dae-jang-geum / Dae Jang Geum
Chinese Title : 大長今
Also known as: Jewel in the Palace / Great Jang Geum
Episodes: 54
Broadcast network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2003-Sep-15 to 2004-Mar-23
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 21:55

Dae Jang Geum Synopsis

About 500 years ago during the time of Chosun Dynasty, Korea boasted a rigidly hierarchical and male dominated social structure. Set in this period, “Jewel in the Palace” is based on a true story about a legendary girl (Jang-Geum) who became the first woman to be the supreme royal physician of her times. Despite her poor condition as a low class girl in the male dominated society, Jang-Geum overcame a series of social discrimination and landed herself as a royal cook, later becoming the royal physician, then ultimately the physician in charge of the king. She was even given by the king the title “The Great Jang-Geum”. The story of her checkered life on her success and breakdown as well as her love story beautifully unfold. “Jewel in the Palace” is sure to touch your heart.

Dae Jang Geum Cast

Lee Young Ae as Seo Jang Geum
- Jo Jung Eun as young Seo Jang Geum
Ji Jin Hee as Min Jung Ho
Hong Ri Na as Choi Keum Young
Im Ho as King Joong Jong
Yang Mi Kyung as Han Baek Young (Jang Geum’s cooking teacher)
Yeo Woon Kye as Jeong Mal Geum
Han Ji Min as Shin Bi
Lee Se Eun as Yeol Yi
Im Hyun Sik as Kang Deok Gu
Park Jung Soo as Park Yong Shin
Jo Kyung Hwan as Oh Gyeom Ho
Park Eun Hye as Lee Yeon Saeng
Choi Ja Hye as Chang Yi
Geum Bo Ra as Na Joo Daek (35)
Lee Seung Ah as a Doctor trainee
Jun In Taek as Jung Yoon Soo
Kim Hye Sun as Ms. Park (Jang Geum’s mom/Royal lady attendant, 18-28)
Kyun Mi Ri as Ms. Choi (Keum Young’s paternal aunt, 38)
Lee Hee Do as Choi Pan Sool (45)
Ji Sang Ryul as Park Il Do (25-50)
Park Chan Hwan as Suh Cheon Su
Maeng Sang Hoon as Jung Woon Baek (45)
Kim Do Yun as Shi Yeon
Kim So Young as young Jo Bang
Na Sung Kyoon as Yoon Mak Gye
Kang Jung Hwa
Lee Ip Sae
Eom Yoo Shin
Won Duk Hyun
Lee Se Eun
Kim Yeo Jin
Jun Soo Yeon
Kim So Yi
Joo Da Young
Han Young Kwang
Seo Bum Shik
Han Young Sook
more

Princess Hours

Princess Hours (Korean: 궁, Hanja: 宫, romanized as Goong) and also known as The Imperial Household, Love in Palace, Palace Love or Palace, is a live-action comedy/drama series based on the popular soonjong manhwa (Korean girls’ comic) Goong by Park So-Hee. It had its first season run from January 11 to March 30, 2006. It was distributed by Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, which ran episodes on Wednesdays and Thursdays every week until the show’s completion. The original manhwa (which, as of January 2009, has run for 17 volumes in Korea, and by 2012 17 in America) is being published in English as Goong.

Princess Hours became one of MBC’s most popular dramas of 2006, second only to Jumong. Overall, the show was the tenth most popular drama of 2006, according to TNS Media. Due to the success of the first season, a second season was to be produced, a rare occasion in the Korean television industry. However, there was controversy over who had the rights to make the sequel, and as a result, two separate parties planned different seasons. However, the sequel, Goong 2 will no longer be produced due to the withdrawal of two main actors.  The spin-off Goong S started its run on January 10, 2007.

Princess Hours Synopsis
Set in an alternate 21st-century reality where Korea possesses a royal family, since 1945 to present, this show revolves around the lives of the Crown Prince (Hwangtaeja) Lee Shin, and his new bride, Chae-kyeong. The depicted royal family in the show is modelled after the last royal family of Korea, which in reality reigned until the start of the Japanese Occupation in 1910 and was not reinstated after Japanese surrender in Second World War, 1945.

The series starts off with the news that the King, Shin’s father, is very ill. With the grim outlook on the King’s health, the royal family scrambles to find a wife for Shin, so as to allow him to take over the royal throne if the situation requires. Despite being in love with another girl, the ambitious and talented ballerina Hyo-rin whom Shin initially proposed to (she rejects him to pursue her ballet dreams), Shin eventually marries a commoner to whom he was betrothed by his late grandfather in an old agreement with the girl’s grandfather. Shin marries the headstrong yet lovable Chae-kyeong after Hyo-rin’s rejection. Despite initially feeling nothing for Chae-kyeong, love eventually blossoms between the couple.
In the meantime, however, matters are further complicated with the return of Yi Yul and his mother Lady Hwa-Young, who was once the Crown Princess (Bingoong) before the death of her husband, the late Crown Prince, older brother of the current King. Yul and his mother were chased out of the palace some time after the death of his father, and it is later revealed that this was due to the King’s discovery of an affair between Yul’s mother and the current King who was his father’s younger brother. Yul’s mother had returned with a sinister motive in mind; to restore her son back to the throne, which would have been his eventually, if his father had not died. A series of events befall the palace with the schemes Yul’s mother carries out, and is further intensified by the various scandals involving the royal family, which are inclusive of the Shin’s continuing relationship with his old flame Hyo-rin, and the budding love Yul develops for Chae-kyeong, his cousin’s new-found bride.