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 Park Jung-geum, Heavenly Beauty |
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In life, you need to move on and roll with the punches!
Unlike previous detective dramas that cast a young, glamorous female detective
as the heroine supported with a flimsy story plot, “Park Jung-geum, Heavenly Beauty”
is a story about a middle-aged female detective who is pushy, strong-willed and
even shameless at times. And the main story is interwoven with the family problems
she faces at home that will resonate with female viewers and give them satisfaction
when the heroine turns the tables around on her enemies.
When women grow older, they feel that being a good wife and wise mother is
all that is expected from them. But older women want more out of life than that.
They crave for love. They wish a romantic man would whisk them off their feet.
With dreams of romance and passionate love, most desperate housewives give
up on ever finding true love from another man. But that doesn’t mean they don’t
hang on a sliver of hope for something to spark their lives.
As divorces become as common as marriages nowadays, children are the ones who
suffer the most when a married couple splits. This story has been come up in
order to give hope and encouragement to divorced parents, who, from my experience,
often get emotional whenever they talk about their children, with a message
that there will be light at the end of the long, dark tunnel as long as they
don’t stop loving their children. The working mom is the main character mom
who also happens to have the stressful, demanding job of a detective, as the
main heroine to show the enormous burden that single moms endure in their daily
lives.
The heroine Park Jung-geum holds back her tears to look brave in front of her
son who suffered immensely after her divorce from her ex-husband. She also comes
around to understanding her parents and reconciles with her dad who she always
believed to be the source of all her misery in this touching drama about a family.
This drama will center on this family to warm the hearts of viewers.
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Park Jung-geum (age: 38 /
Detective, high school education) | actress Bae
Jong-ok
Starting as a traffic cop,
she rose through the ranks to become a detective who handles gang-related crimes
Just go through the motions! Do you want to win a damn medal or
what!
I’ve got a kid so I can’t go to any dangerous places!
You should
just arrest all the pretty girls in the streets and lock ‘em up!
Park
Jung-geum is having another long day at work.
She’s not tackling gangsters to
get a good workout. She just wants to arrest the criminals who know no
boundaries as they lunge at her with a knife or swing a metal rod at her head
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But she’s not a strong, burly detective. She’s a middle-aged female
detective.
She gets beaten up and stabbed at in her line of work. Some days,
she’ll walk home with a limp after breaking a leg. When there’s a special sale
going for fish, she’ll have to run right out again with a limp to put food on
the table. Watching every penny she spends, she has to worry about paying her
monthly credit card bills without paying any late fees and come up with the
money for her son’s cram schools. Then there are the endless house chores she
has to do that include sorting recyclable cans, throwing out leftover food into
the food trash bin, doing the dishes, and ironing shirts. On top of that she has
to worry about rising housing costs. She attends the weekly apartment
cooperative meetings so that she won’t have to pay the $5 fine for missing any
of them. She’s a typical lady you’ll see every day when you leave your house in
the morning.
She’ll rub her bloodied hands on her jeans to wipe of the blood.
After catching a bad guy, she’ll knock her head back and make small talk
interspersed with spontaneous laughs. She’s a typical middle-aged woman
alright. |
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Jeon Yong-joon (age: 38 /
General Practitioner, Jung-geum’s former elementary school classmate) | actor
Son Chang-min
He is not authoritarian or takes himself
seriously like most other doctors. Armed with a jolly humor, he’s a
compassionate doctor
I’m sorry for being so cool!
When he was a kid in
elementary school, he ran around with a runny nose and gave a stench because of
his poor hygiene. But he became a doctor and later meets Jung-geum, a childhood
friend.
His mother passed away when he was still in elementary school and
then his father died when he was in middle school. His older brother Yong-doo
protected him from the mean side of the adult world and paid for his college and
medical school tuition. So he has a bright personality and grew into a man full
of confidence. But his supreme confidence has also given him delusions that all
the women in the world like him.
He has a mischievous side and a sex appeal
that oozes effortlessly. When he has no patients in the waiting room, he’ll
sneak some time looking at his reflection in the mirror and pretend to be Rhett
Butler in Gone with the Wind.
His hobby is riding motorcycles, fly fishing,
and other cool things.
His nickname is conceited loaf man, which the nurses
came up with because he acts so conceited. |
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Han Gyeong-soo (age: 36/
Lawyer, Yoo-ra’s fiancé) | actor Kim Min-jong
He has a sad past but he empathizes with the plight of other
people He was abandoned by his parents and became an adoptee. His foster parents
are respected people in society but they are not warmhearted at all. They never
hid the fact that Gyeong-soo was their adopted child and they ingrained into him
the teaching that he must watch his manners because an adoptee like him is more
apt to receive criticism from others. They urged him to become a contributing
member to society. Thanks to their influence, Gyeong-soo became a lawyer with
impeccable manners. But for some reason he never felt at home in his foster
parent’s house and that left him constantly adrift. He decides to get engaged to
Yoo-ra because that is what his foster parents want.
He was taught not to
draw scorn from anyone for behaving inappropriately so that is why he appears to
be distant and sensitive over quaint matters but in reality, he was born with a
compassionate heart. He is not used to being on the receiving end of
compassionate acts so he finds it very awkward in those times. He would never
hurt anyone intentionally. |
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Sagong Yoo-ra (age: 36 /
Graduated from a two-year college. Majored in clothes design) | actress Han
Go-eun
She ran a wedding dress
shop once but now she is unemployed I don’t know. I was in love with you then! I
love you. I love you. I love you so much! She is the daughter of Lady Sa, who
brought her with her when she married Jung-geum’s dad. She cohabitated with all
kinds of men and never cared whether they were married or not. Legally she is
single. She’ll put on a big scene if she doesn’t get what she wants. She is so
blunt to the point where it seems that she is burning bridges down so that none
of her ex-boyfriends would ever approach her. She is a lowlife who looks
glamorous. Self-centered to a fault, she always acts like she is superior. But
although she is full of these personality flaws, no man could resist her
advances once they lay their eyes on her exotic beauty. Even the girls
grudgingly admit that she is quite beautiful with a nice figure. A femme
fatale.... At first she was unwilling to get engaged to Gyeong-soo because she
thought he was eager to marry her for her money. But she gradually learns more
about him and finds out that he is different from the other men she had dated so
far. One day, she becomes desperate for love for the first time in her life.
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