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Foxy Lady! |
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Synopsis |
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Men and women all have habits they can’t seem to give up until the day they die.
Men have swallows sitting in their hearts.
And women have fantasies about love.
So they continue to wander around confused in their search for love without
having the faintest idea who their true soul mate is.
Such characters meet and quibble with one another in this drama series.
Each dreaming of their own fantasies, they say cynically, “Thanks, but no thanks!”
Creating mirages without substance, they become heartbroken chasing after something
that is not real.
So they think happiness only belongs to others.
Most people probably have experienced at one time or another, searching for
a pencil all over their house, only to discover they had been holding it in
their hand all the while. This drama is about the process of realizing that
the pencil is in your hands.
This drama wants to talk about the simple truth that both love and happiness
are found right beside you, right in your heart. It wants to say that if you
discard your superficial defenses, just a little, you too can become happy.
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Ko Byeong-hee (Nameless (?)
reporter working for the magazine “C’est Si Bon” - Ko
Hyun-jung) Byeong-hee is both timid and outgoing, but there
are times when she can’t stand her own mediocracy. You don’t grow older for
nothing, so she is as mature as a 33 year-old needs to be. Being frank and
straightforward, she has no talent for hiding her thoughts, so she usually ends
up tearing her hair out as soon as she turns around from a situation. She is
the typical timid blood type A, and an Aquarian, who easily leaves everything to
fate. By nature, her heart always acts before her head, and she laughs and
cries easily. Her actions are offbeat, and she loves the old-style coffee milk.
She is still a young girl with dreams of fateful love, and a silly, outgoing
lady who enjoys Jang Deok’s songs. Then suddenly, she comes to her senses,
and realizes she is now 33 years old. It’s seems only yesterday that she was 23.
Where did all the years go? It’s not fair! Right now, she has become the
preacher of sex. She studies about sex techniques when she eats, when she
walks, and even while dozing off in the subway. The questions ringing in her
head are ‘how to satisfy my man?’ or ‘how to excite my woman?’ She imagines,
explores and writes about the heights of pleasure that the creator has only
granted to humans. Such lustful articles are carried in the magazine called
“C’est Si Bon”. At the end of each article, there is a tagline that says ‘by
the Editor’ instead of a name. So she is a reporter without a name. She does
have a name card, which clearly declares her to be reporter, but she has never
really proudly given it to anyone. That’s because “C’est Si Bon”, the
magazine she makes, has a motto that prevents
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Park Cheol-su (Mechanic at
‘Ssing Ssing’ Auto Repair Shop - Cheon Jung-myung) Although
he doesn’t have much to his name, he is a proud, self-proclaimed outsider.
Never swayed by the values of the established class, he is a guy with easy
composure and slightly slanted views, and always lives by his own principles. He
is mature for his age with a good heart but is on the wild side, and has a hot
temper. Manly, stubborn, and direct, his thinking and values are different
from other young men his age. Thanks to his bold courage, he unintentionally
became the legend of his high school. He did not go to university because he
didn’t feel the need for higher education. He doesn’t care about social views,
and he has no realistic plans for his future or marriage, for owning a house or
getting a life insurance. He is satisfied with his present life, being able
to do the things he likes such as fiddling with cars, traveling, reading and
enjoying good wine. So through the eyes of the established, his life may
seem to be that of a loser but actually he is one of those people living in
‘downshift’, advocating life on the slow lane. Because of his handsome looks,
he seems to shine even in his work clothes. Many women drivers fall for him,
regardless of age, but he is not interested. Being crazy about cars, he
studied about automobiles in the technical school, and worked at a repair shop
for a while after graduation. Then declaring that he wants to study English, he
goes abroad. But taking language courses was just a pretext, and he gave up
English studies just after a month. He spent the rest of the year traveling only
with his backpack. This drama starts with his return to Korea. Having lived
for 24 years following his own principles, he has a spirit that is mature enough
to face anyone. However, even then, the innocence and incompleteness of youth
can’t help rising to the surface from time to time. Could that be the reason? He
ends up dedicating his heart to Ko Byeong-hee, a woman who is nine years older.
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Bae Hee-myeong (Urologist.
Writes an advice column for “C’est Si Bon” - Cho
Yeon-woo) Expert (?) of love. He is not a white collar
nor a blue collar, but a black collar specialist. He is successful, sexy and
humorous. He is the type of man all women idealize about. He is intelligent,
frank (at times to the point of being sleazy), spends a significant amount of
energy caring for his appearance, confidently declares shopping to his hobby,
and is very interested in cooking, working out, fashion, and leading a cultural
life.
The only reason this attractive hunk of a man, who says
“I want to sleep with you” instead of “Let’s get something to eat” to the woman
he is interested in, has agreed to be responsible for the Urology Q&A column
for the third-rate magazine “C’est Si Bon”, is because his hometown friend and
his senior, Hwang, who also happens to be the President of the magazine (his
relationship with Hwang and Park Byeong-gak is explained later) had been
hounding him to write for the column.
Writing for an ‘adult magazine for men’ rather than
simply a ‘magazine for men’ (when the word ‘adult’ is added, the magazine
becomes off-limits to those under 18, and goes to the stands packaged in clear
wrapping) is certainly a smear on his dignity as a person and to his hospital.
But he decides to be generous and agrees to write the column for one year,
since he knows Hwang from his hometown. As it turns out, the person in charge of
the column is Ko Byeong-hee. When Miss Ko brings him the Qs on Urology, he
writes the As. He later finds out that Miss Ko writes both the questions and
answers for other advice sections but she can’t do the same for Urology because
she doesn’t know anything about the field.
What a wacky magazine, and a wacky lady! This woman, this
Miss Ko, the more you get to know her, wackier she gets. She is more than old
enough, but doesn’t really seem to know much about worldly things, and seems
quite innocent in many ways. She tries to act like an expert, but she can’t fool
him. He can tell so much about a person just by looking at his or her bottom,
and he soon finds out that she is still a virgin. To think that a 33
year-old woman is still a virgin in this day and age of the 21st Century! He
can’t decide whether she should be commended or punished. But either way, to be
quite honest, he can’t help being curious about her. So now that they have
become acquainted, he teases her. Ah, the way she reacts to his question, “Do
you wanna sleep with me, today?” Her kaleidoscopic expressions are a spectacle
in themselves.
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Ko Jun-hee (Byeong-hee’s
younger sister. Second-rate fashion model - Kim Eun-joo) A
daring new generation, brimming with passion and talent. Being ambitious she
wants to succeed as a model, and also to meet a successful guy and live in
style. Unlike her older sister Byeong-hee, she is confident, daring and
strong-spirited. She is also self-centered, always knowing what she wants.
Her sister takes after their deceased father, but she takes after their
mother. She graduated from a junior college majoring in Clothing & Textiles.
Having good tastes in fashion and make-up, she can maintain stylish and
luxurious looks even with cheap clothes she buys at East Gate Market.
Sometimes, people tell her she looks very much like the former model ‘Kang
Eun-mi’ who received the spotlight for a very short time before retiring to get
married. However, she died from a car accident some time ago. Jun-hee had
participated in ‘S’ Broadcasting’s Supermodel Contest but failed to become one
of the finalists. However, it provided her with an opportunity to join the
fashion scene, and she has been working as a model for four years. The road to
becoming a first class model seems distant, and she intermittently walks down
the runway whenever her agency calls her. Occasionally, she earns larger
sums of money modeling for print advertisements of small and medium sized
companies. She is both talented and ambitious, but reality does not always
go her way. Everyday fresh high school models are pushing their way up, and she
is not getting any younger, making her all the more anxious. Nevertheless,
dreaming of the day when she will be counted among the top models decorating the
finale of a fashion show, she never neglects taking care of herself. Unlike her
sister who never gains an ounce no matter how much she eats, Jun-hee gains
weight even if she only drinks water. So she always has to stick to a severe
diet. She works out at least two hours a day, and never skips her English
class, preparing for the day when she will stand on the world stage. Wanting
to be called an intellectual model, she reads diligently. When anyone asks
her how many books she reads in a month, she answers without hesitation, “Eight
books”. They are all magazines, of course ? magazines about fashion, women,
movies and current affairs. It’s funny, but she can’t spend more than five
minutes reading a book, but she can spend hours pouring over the magazines.
Current affair is a difficult subject to tackle, but she tries to read the
headlines at least. That helps a lot. She is very well aware of her sister’s
weakness. That she has no experience with men. So when her sister has
difficulties writing her column, she provides advice springing out from her own
experiences. But Byeong-hee seems to have changed recently. It seems that
she is playing a queer tug-of-war game with Cheol-su. Oh, she knows Cheol-su
quite well. It is a secret that no one knows, but she once asked him out in high
school but he refused her flat. They have now become good friends, good
enough to confide in each other. Hmmm… she thinks she better keep an eye on her
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