Starline Reviews

Wonderful Life is a Korean drama starring Kim Jae Won and Kim Yoo Jin aka Eugene of the girl group S.E.S.  It aired from the beginning of March 2005 to the end of April 2005 with 16 episodes.

Main Cast:

Kim Jae Won as Han Seung Wan
Eugene as Jung Se Jin
Lee Ji Hoon as Min Do Hyun
Han Eun Jung as Lee Chae Young

Synopsis:  Han Seung Wan and Jung Se Jin bumps into each other at the airport and accidentally take each other’s passports. They meet again and Seung Wan and Se Jin end up spending the day together. Both having to deal with love complications, they end up drunk and having a one night stand. Back in Korea, Se Jin discovers she is pregnant and leaves to have the baby alone. A year later, Se Jin’s clueless sister ends up spilling the secret to Seung Wan at his engagement party, showing up with his baby daughter. Seung Wan and Se Jin are then forced to marry by their respective families. Complicated love takes place between Do Hyun, Se Jin, Chae Young and Seung Wan. The rest of the story revolves around the family’s journey in learning to take responsibility, and learning to love each other.

Review: Wonderful Life is definitely one of my favorite dramas, hands down.  It’s cute, it’s funny, it has it’s dramatic moments, but overall a wonderful drama to watch (and yes, that was a really bad pun).  Eugene is so cute and her look was great for this drama, and surprisingly she acts well.  Kim Jae Won is up there with my favorite actors.  I love his smile, it’s cute and sexy and…I fall in love every time I see it… He was great in this drama as well.

The idea for this drama was great, I think it was somewhat original for Asian drama standards.  I mean ideas like this were then used in other dramas like the Thai lakorn, Oom Rak (Chains of Love) starring Ken and Ann, but that is for another time.  But overall it was really great.  There were a lot of cute parts and other parts that were just heart wrenching.  Little baby Shinbi!!!!  She was a cute kid.

And the reason why I am kinda late on this delay is because I was re-watching this drama.  It is that good.  This is one of my favorites.  One of my favorite moments is toward the end where they start to have feelings for each other.  Their power goes out and the heater goes out and they both, Se Jin and Seung Wan, are freezing so they decided to get a big blanket and kinda huddle together.  It was such a cute scene and is definitely one of my favorites.

Overall, great drama.  Definitely a watch or re-watch, so check it out.  Well while I was re-watching it on crunchyroll, they decided to license it when I was on the last episode.  How unfair is that?  Anyway…here are the links.  Enjoy!

MySoju-http://www.mysoju.com/wonderful-life/
aznV.TV-http://aznv.tv/?p=d143