풀하우스 | Pool Ha-Woo-Seu | Full House
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast Network: KBS2
Broadcast Period: 2004-Jul-14 to 2004-Sep-02
Synopsis:
Han Ji-Eun is an innocent, naive, and aspiring writer who is an orphan and inherited a house built by her father called Full House. Her friends, Jin-Hee with her husband, Dong-Wook strapped for money has sold her house while she was away on a fake win a trip contest created by her friends that ended her stranded with almost no money in China. Accidentally, on the plane she met Lee Young-Jae, a popular Korean actor who seems to be egotistical and arrogant and secretly in love with his childhood friend Hye-Woon. In the turn of events, Lee Young-Jae ended up helping her to give her back the house she grew up in. And, in exchange they have to pretend to be a couple due Lee Young Jae’s situation and have Kang Hye Won look at him as a man. In the process, love secretly creeps in between them but, they have done their pretentions so well that Yoo Min Suk and Hye Won may now be in the way of them finding themselves to be together.
Characters:
- Rain 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
- Sun Woo Eun Sook as Ms. Kim
- 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
- Im Ye Jin as Dae Pyo
- Bae Seul-Ki in a Cameo Role in Episode 1
My Review:
This is one romcom that will truly flutter the hearts of romcom gals like me. It doesn’t only make me feel amused but laughed to my heart’s content. It doesn’t only make me feel romantic but loved. And, it doesn’t only make me sing but dance on how the beautiful the OST is. I consider this K-Drama a classic because I can literally repeat watching it and never get tired of the story and I can still feel the emotions like it is the first time I’ve seen it. Maybe there’s no level of suspense anymore but I don’t get tired of it because it simply makes me smile. I believe that’s the key ingredient of entertainment for me, when a film or a drama can make me intensely feel whether it maybe happiness, sadness, thrill or fear. The emotions have to be there and make me believe the reel to be real while I’m spending time watching it. That’s what this K-Drama gave me, a pure and simple happiness and romantic fantasy. I have so enjoyed it that I got to see the place for real in Korea which I did. Being able to see the house and sit on the bed in Lee Young Jae’s bedroom, the chair where Han Ji Eun works her manuscript and the wooden swing in the backyard of the house are all but totally a surreal experience when you are a fan like me.
So, What do I Like About this K-Drama?
(1) I love Song Hye-Kyo here. She is so beautiful and great in handling the character of Han Ji Eun. She has immersed on the character with depth and brought it into life.
(2) I really don’t find Rain handsome and actually preferred the second lead, Kim Sung Soo’s physical look. But, Rain delivered the character of Lee Young Jae to a T. He just simply nailed him from his brattiness, self-absorbed and arrogant guy who’s actually just looking for love from a girl he thought to be his one and only until Han Ji Eun proved him wrong.
(3) All the actors here have given their characters justice such as Han Ji Eun’s supposed best friends who brought her too much trouble yet in the end gave her the opportunity to meet Lee Young Jae. They made me feel all sorts of emotions which is a great sign of good acting talents for any actor playing a role.
(4) The story is funny because it can truly happen in real life. It is not forced to make me laugh because it is situational. They were able to make sense of it and thus made me forget it is actually reel and not real while I was watching it.
(5) I love the OST. It truly blends with the story and made me feel the romance when it is necessary. It simply worked with the K-Drama.
What I do Not Like About this K-Drama?
There’s truly nothing I don’t like on this K-Drama. Some may pick through the technicality of creating films and K-Dramas but all I can say to them is “humbag!”. They just want to pretend experts of films and dramas making because they don’t really know what is important to the viewers even if it bits them in their eyes. And, even if there are indeed flaws to it on how it was directed, edited, and done, my only comment is who cares.
Would I recommend this K-Drama? Super Yes 110%
My Rating to this Drama
( See My Rating System: ) 5/5 Stars
OST:
01. Full House OST (Geu Deh Ji Geum) – Lim Jung Hee
Play Me:
02. Fate (운명) – WHY
Play Me:
03. I Think I Love You – Byul
Play Me:
04. Too Late (늦게 핀 사랑) – G-Soul
05. Full House (Inst.) by 이경섭 – Lee Kyung Sup
06. The End of Being Friends (친구란 말) – Noel
07. 시 (Inst.)
08. I’m Thankful (고마워할게요) – Byul
09. The First Time in the First Place (처음 그 자리에) – Lee Boram
10. Forever (Inst.)
11. Fate (운명) Full Slow Instrument
12. I Think I Love You (Guitar Instrument)
13. Forever – Why
14. Fate (운명) Semi Slow Intrument
15. Love at the Gate (Instrumental)
16. Too Late (늦게 핀 사랑) (Violin Instrument)
17. Amazing Love (Instrumental)
18. Paradiso (Instrumental)
19. 타이틀셔플 (허밍)
20. 샤랄라 (허밍)
21. Fate (Instrumental)
22. Blue Hills (Instrumental)