My Girl (TV series)

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My Girl is a South Korean television drama produced by SBS in 2005.

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[edit] Details

  • Title: 마이걸 / Mai geol / My Girl
  • Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
  • Episodes: 16
  • Broadcast network: SBS
  • Broadcast period: 2005-12-14 to 2006-02-02
  • Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 9:55 PM

[edit] Synopsis

The story starts out with a girl named Joo Yoo Rin, a Jeju Island tour guide who is very skilled in lying and loves money. She can speak Japanese, Korean and Chinese fluently. On her way to the airport to save her clients from missing their plane, she meets the young and handsome Seol Gong Chan, the manager and the heir to the Avenuel Hotel, a very big and successful hotel owned by his grandfather. Gong Chan knows a liar when he sees one and saw through Yoo Rin's lie to stall for the clients. After trying to find Gong Chan's long-lost younger cousin, he soon finds out his grandfather is in a dangerous state due to an illness and he needs a person who can pretend to be his cousin to fulfill the old man's last wish. When things get desperate, Gong Chan asks Yoo Rin (the last person he expects to ask help from) to be his younger cousin and pays her to do so. Yoo Rin expected only to meet his grandfather once, but then his grandfather recovers and Yoo Rin and Gong Chan are caught in a lie that no one knows about.

Yoo Rin also meets Seo Jeong Woo, a player who is Gong Chan's friend. Things turn for the worse when Gong Chan's ex-girlfriend, Kim Sae Hyun, returns to Korea after competing in a tennis tournament and expects Gong Chan to rekindlle their relationship. Gong Chan resists and turns away from the feelings that he still has for her. Yoo Rin starts to have feelings for Gong Chan, but knowing that Gong Chan still loves Sae Hyun, she also turns away from them and brings the two together again, even though it means her own unhappiness.

Very slowly, Jeong Woo falls for Yoo Rin and finds out Yoo Rin isn't the real cousin and gets into a neck-to-neck competition with Gong Chan. Sae Hyun also finds out soon after, and gets jealous of Yoo Rin. Gong Chan slowly falls in love with Yoo Rin and breaks up with Sae Hyun. Doing the same thing he did with Sae Hyun, he tries to get rid of his feelings for her by going to Jeju Island to manage the Jeju Island hotel, which is on the same day that Yoo Rin is introduced to the company, meaning that everybody will know that she was the long-lost cousin, which makes things even more complicated for the two. When the day of Yoo Rin's introduction to the company arrives, Gong Chan and Yoo Rin confess their feelings to each other and finally get together.

Soon after, Sae Hyun and Jeong Woo find out that they are together and the two are even more determined to try to bring them apart. The two lovers don't last very long until Sae Hyun gets very jealous and at the peak of her jealousy, she tells the truth to Gong Chan's grandfather, who also banishes Yoo Rin out of the house and sends her to a foreign country, separating the two lovers.

Two years later, Gong-chan, in a random chat with Jeong-woo, raised the topic of not having seen Yoo-rin for a long time. Jeong-woo tried to make a deal between the two that if either of them sees Yoo-rin first, the winner would take Yoo-rin. Gong-chan expressed his point that the main concern was that all of them should hope to revive contact with Yoo-rin as soon as possible. At this point of time, a tourist bus containing Yoo-rin passed by their car, but neither of them managed to notice that Yoo-rin was inside, but only the name of the tourist agency, Mukgu. When they arrived at the airport, Jeong-woo, after seeing Gong-chan off, sighted Yoo-rin in the airport carpark, but could not find her after that.

On the plane, Gong-chan discovered that Yoo-rin was working as a tour guide for Mukgu, after a tourist on the plane dropped a name card bearing Yoo-rin's occupational details onto the floor, which Gong-chan picked up to see. Gong-chan subsequently took a flight back from Narita under the identity of Kim Chul-su, joining Yoo-rin's tour upon arriving in Seoul. Yoo-rin tried to hide her face in the advertisement board, but was being discovered by Gong-chan, who declared that he was Kim. Yoo-rin refused to take Gong-chan, claiming to her colleague that she will handle Gong-chan personally. When Yoo-rin refused to take Gong-chan in her card, saying that he has a lot of money, he destroyed his credit card, but that did not appease her and she promptly drove off, throwing his belongings away. Gong-chan gave chase and eventually caught him, but she shook him off at an acupuncture clinic after Gong-chan complained of rheumatism in order to restrict her tactics to shake him off. He took a taxi, and tried to find and follow Yoo-rin's car, but gave up the pursue when he realised that the meter on the taxi was approaching the amount of his only 10,000 won bill. He took a bus to Mukgu, whereby he complained to the manager that he, being a tourist group member led by Yoo-rin, for she as a tour guide abandoning a tourist.

Gong-chan was taken back to Yoo-rin, who had taken her tourist members for a fireworks display at a funfair. Gong-chan tried to reconcile with her, but she nonetheless avoided him whenever he approached her. Gong-chan, having run out of money, needed water, and approached Yoo-rin, pleading her to buy him a cup of water. Yoo-rin gulped her cup of water down, without even reserving a drop of water, and ignoring him. Gong-chan emptied the cup, but managed to drink only a few drops of water.

Gong-chan eventually gave up Yoo-rin, even after his cousin was found. As he left the metrological station one day, Yoo-rin went about to find him, and met Gong-chan just as the lift door in which he was in was closing. Both of them starred at each other, before Gong-chan dragged her in. They hugged each other as the lift descended down the building.

The story ends with Gong-chan's family, including his newfound cousin and her boyfriend. After which, Gong-chan and Yoo-rin talked about their relations, before a pink heart was being "blown" out.

[edit] Cast

The names in parenthesis were names used in the Philippines.

  • Lee Dong Wook (이동욱) as Seol Gong Chan (설공찬) (Julian Seol)
  • Lee Da Hae (이다해) as Joo Yoo Rin (주유린) (Jasmine Joo)
  • Lee Jun Ki (이준기) as Seo Jeong Woo (서정우) (Nico Seo)
  • Park Si Yeon (박시연) as Kim Sae Hyun (김세현) (Anika Kim)

Extended Cast

  • Jo Kye Hyung (조계형) as Ahn Jin Kyu (안진규) (Jeffrey Ahn)
  • Hwang Bo Ra (황보라) as Ahn Jin Shim (안진심) (Christine Ahn)
  • Lee Eon Jeong (이언정) as Yoon Jin Kyung (윤진귱) (Miss Yoon) - Seol Gong-chan's secretary
  • Byun Hee Bong (변희봉) as Seol Woong (설 웅) - Gong-chan's grandfather
  • Kim Yong Rim (김용림) as Jang Hyung Ja (장흉자) - Jung-woo's mother
  • Ahn Suk Hwan (안석환) as Jang Il Do (장일도) (Robert Jang)
  • Choi Ran (최 란) as Bae In Sun (배인순) (Anabelle Bae)
  • Jung Han Hun (정한헌) as Joo Tae Hyung (주태형) (Chito Joo) - Jasmine's father
  • Han Chae Young (한채영) as real granddaughter
    • Hana Shuichi (하나 슈이치) (real name)
    • Hana Choi/Choi Hana (최 하나) (Choi is her adopter's family)
  • Jae Hee (재 희) as granddaughter's husband

[edit] Production Credits

  • Chief Producer: Kim Young Sup (김영섭)
  • Producer: Bae Tae Sup (배태섭)
  • Screenwriter: Hong Jung Eun / Hong Mi Ran
  • Director: Jun Ki Sang
  • Asst. Director: Park Soo Chul (박수철)
  • Cinematography: Bae Hong Soo (배홍수)
  • Production Company: DSP Entertainment / 칼리스타
  • Line Producer: Yang Kwang Shin (양광신)
  • Marketing Producer: Moon Jin Ki (문진기)

[edit] Episode Ratings

  • Viewership ratings and ranking among the daily Top20 TV shows
  • SBS aired two episodes on Wednesday December 28th because they were airing their annual award show on December 29th.
date episode nationwide seoul area
2005-12-14 ep. 1 14.6% (8th) 15.8% (6th)
2005-12-15 ep. 2 15.7% (8th) 17.0% (5th)
2005-12-21 ep. 3 16.5% (5th) 17.5% (4th)
2005-12-22 ep. 4 18.8% (4th) 19.9% (4th)
2005-12-28 ep. 5&6 20.3% (3rd) 21.7% (3rd)
2006-01-04 ep. 7 22.8% (2nd) 24.2% (2nd)
2006-01-05 ep. 8 23.3% (2nd) 25.0% (2nd)
2006-01-11 ep. 9 21.3% (3rd) 22.1% (2nd)
2006-01-12 ep. 10 24.1% (2nd) 24.7% (2nd)
2006-01-18 ep. 11 21.0% (5th) 22.1% (4th)
2006-01-19 ep. 12 24.3% (2nd) 26.0% (2nd)
2006-01-25 ep. 13 21.1% (3rd) 23.1% (3rd)
2006-01-26 ep. 14 23.5% (3rd) 22.8% (3rd)
2006-02-01 ep. 15 23.2% (3rd) 23.7% (3rd)
2006-02-02 ep. 16 24.9% (3rd) 26.0% (3rd)
average 21.0% 22.1%

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