My Princess

Title: My Princess/마이 프린세스
Genre: Romance, Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast Network: MBC
Broadcast period: 2011-Jan-05 to 2011-Feb-24
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My Princess is the story of an average college student, Lee Seol, who finds out she's a princess. This arises amidst the political discussion of bringing back the Imperial Family. However, If monarchy succeeds in coming back (working alongside the government) Park Hae Young, a rich man used to the luxuries of wealth, will lose his entire fortune and inheritance. Needless to say, he will do whatever it takes to make sure she does not become a princess.

Lee Seol is an outgoing eccentric person, with a lovable personality. I especially love her in the beginning of this drama. Unlike most girls, she's rather disheartened by the fact she's princess for reasons you find out later in the drama. Before the big news she was a normal college student with a completely devoted love for Professor Nam (Nam Jung Woo). She's played by Kim Tae Hee, an actress and model. She's also performed in dramas IRIS, Love Story In Harvard, Nine Tailed Fox, and Stairway to Heaven. She's won numerous awards:
2009 KBS Drama Awards: Best Couple Award with Lee Byung Hun (IRIS)
2009 KBS Drama Awards: Excellence Award, Novella Drama - Actress (IRIS)
2007 44th Grand Bell Awards: Overseas Popularity Award ("The Restless")
2007 43rd Baeksang Awards: Popularity Award ("The Restless")
2005 41st Baeksang Arts Awards: Popularity Award (Love Story in Harvard)
2004 SBS Drama Awards: Popularity Award (Love Story in Harvard)
2004 SBS Drama Awards: Top Ten Stars Award (Love Story in Harvard)
2004 KBS Drama Awards: Best New Actress Award (Nine Tailed Fox)
2003 SBS Drama Awards: Best New Actress Award (Stairway to Heaven).
She starred in various movies and multiple endorsements.

Park Hae Young is a smart, qualified, handsome, wealthy, heir, who will lose all his money if Lee Seol becomes a princess. He's partial towards Oh Yoon Joo, whom he's known all his life through his family. He's played by Song Seung Hun, an actor/model/singer. He's played in East of Eden, Summer Scent, Law Firm, Autumn in My Heart, Popcorn, and Happy Together. Among his accomplishments, besides his killer abs, are various movies and a mammoth amount of awards:
2010 Special Honor Awards: Distinguished Hallyu Entertainer Award of Merit (co-winner with Girls' Generation)
2009 17th Korean Culture Entertainment Awards: Talent Division
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Daesang (Grand Prize) (East of Eden)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Popularity Award (East of Eden)
2008 MBC Drama Awards: Best Couple Award with Lee Yeon Hee (East of Eden)
2001 SBS Drama Awards: Top Ten Stars Award (Law Firm)
2000 KBS Drama Awards: Popularity Award (Autumn Tale)
2000 KBS Drama Awards: Photogenic Award (Autumn Tale)
1999 SBS Drama Awards: Popularity Award
1998 34th Baeksang Arts Awards: Popularity Award.

Nam Jung Woo, or Professor Nam, is Lee Seol's professor. He has a love of history, and a down-to-earth sort of personality. He's very popular with female students. I really liked this character-I loved a lot of the things he said, or the way he'd respond to certain things. I love the conversations between him and Lee Seol, my two favorite characters. He and old lover/first love of Oh Yoon Joo, whom shares his interest in history. She seems to always come back to him when convenient for her. The actor/model who plays him is Ryu Soo Young who plays in the dramas The Lawyers of the Great Republic of Korea, Bad Couple, Seoul 1945, Next, 18 vs. 29, and Save the Last Dance for Me. He's been in two movies and won three great awards:
2006 KBS Drama Awards: Top Excellence Award - Actor (Seoul 1945)
2004 SBS Drama Awards: Best Supporting Actor Award (Save the Last Dance for Me)
2002 SBS Drama Awards: New Star Award (Successful Story of a Bright Girl).

Finally, there's a Oh Yoon Joo; the perfect villian. It's been a long time since I've watched a drama with a truly despicable antagonist. Usually you find people with distorted pasts doing bad deeds, but they usually have certain scenes or explanations that help you sympathize with them, but I, and I'm sure everyone who watched this, truly hated her. She's a successful, selfish woman, who you come to despise through the drama. She's played by actress/singer Park Ye Jin who also stars in dramas Hateful But Once Again, My Lady Boss My Hero, The Great Catsby, and When a Man is in Love. I didn't find her pretty in this drama at first, but I grew to appreciate her beauty. She's a pretty person, and much more attractive in other drama's with other hairstyles. She's won three awards:
2008 SBS Entertainment Awards: Netizen's Choice
1999 Critics Association: Best New Actress Award
1999 35th Baeksang Arts Awards: Best New Actress Award,
and has starred in a various movies.

I really liked the song in this drama, Falling-Lee Tzsche.
Grade:B-
Characters: 10/10
Casting: 9/10
Emotion: 8/10
Music: 9/10
Surprise Factor: 7.5/10
Availability: 10/10
Story Line: 8/10
Humor: 9.5/10
Recommendation: 8/10