| Be Strong, Geum-soon! | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Lee Jung-sun |
| Starring | Han Hye-jin Kang Ji-hwan |
| Opening theme | Joh Eun Nal (좋은날) by Marry-M[1] |
| Ending theme | Sarang Hal Soon Jun Neun Guh– (사랑할 순 없는거죠)[1] |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Language(s) | Korean |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 163 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Lee Dae-young |
| Location(s) | South Korea |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | MBC |
| Picture format | SDTV |
| Original run | February 14, 2005 – September 30, 2005 |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Be Strong, Geum-soon! is a South Korean drama produced and broadcast by MBC in 2005.
Contents |
The drama starts off with Geum-soon in the midst of a hairdressing exam in a hairdressing school, but failed after suffering a high tide in her bladder. Geum-soon later married Song-hwan, who died in a car accident within days of their marriage. She later gave birth to a boy, Hwi-seong and lived with her in-laws.
Geum-soon took on various jobs to earn her keep, from a nutritional drink seller promoting her products in the Korea University Hospital but later went on to be an apprentice in a hair salon, after much pleas from her mother-in-law, who initially insisted that she should stay at home for another year to look after her son.
Geum-soon encountered an accident after her scooter crashed onto the car of a young, fastidious doctor, who reported her to the police and picked up every tiny little fault from a broken finger to a sprained ankle. Later, much to her surprise, when she signed up to be an apprentice in a hair salon, she realized that the man was the son of the salon's owner. The assistant manager of the salon, Eun-ju, initially rejected her application on grounds that the salon had more than enough staff, but a decision was made after Jae-hee and Mi-ja find it better to employ her.
Geum-soon was placed under the guidance of a colleague, Hae-mee, but found herself to be bullied by her. Around this time, Geum-soon changed her hairstyle from a "cabbage-head" hairstyle (which became her nickname for Jae-hee) to her normal straight and curly hairstyle and eventually she managed to leak out Geum-soon's secret that she was a mother shortly after she revealed her past to Miss Yoon after being late one day. When the secret was discovered by the assistant manager, she was rapidly fired.