She was pretty[2015] -KDrama review - 4 Stars
Let me start of by saying i love Hwang Jung-eum but IMO, she can do subtle humor but not full out comedy.
Kim Hye-jin(Hwang Jung-eum) was a very pretty girl from a rich family. After her family's publishing company went bankrupt, she experienced hardships then lost her beauty too. Ji Sung-joon(Park Seo-joon) was an unattractive boy with low self-esteem, but grows up as a handsome and successful editor. These two decide to meet when Sung joon returns from US. Hye Jin gets nervous about the way she looks and asks her attractive best friend, Ha-ri(Go Joon-hee ) to pretend to be her.
Ha ri has to act till Sung Joon returns to US, but as he has no plans to go back to US now, she continues to pretend while lying to Hye Jin that she never met him after the initial meet.
But, in a twist of fate, Hye Jin gets hired in the company Sung Joon works and gets tagged to his editorial department as an intern.
She meet Shin-hyuk(Siwon) who works as the editor. He constantly pranks her but somehow helps out whenever she is in trouble. he keeps calling her “Jackson”.
Sung Joon, is the deputy chief editor for the The Most magazine and is actually in Korea to bring up the sales of the magazine else the US branch wants to close it down.He criticizes Hye Jinfor often and hurts her without knowing she is his real childhood friend.
Then he keeps feeling like he knows her and she seems familiar to him while the Hye jin he meets feel like a stranger.
my thoughts - So we have two parallel story lines, one for the romance and one to keep the drama running.they could have cut short the drama to 12 episodes. 16 was a bit over the top and just dragging.
Truth be told i was never got the importance of the magazine and how it would survive and to be honest didnt really care..
But overall, it was sweet and cute.
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