Kim Hye-soo’s new Wed-Thurs drama My Happy Home
by javabeans
When Playful Kiss wraps up next week, a new 16-episode drama will take over: My Happy Home [즐거운 나의집], starring Style’s Kim Hye-soo, which is being described as a “Korean Desperate Housewives.” That means a murder mystery will play a pivotal role in the story, which features a cast of ajumma housewives.
Hwang Shin-hye (The Queen Returns) plays Kim Hye-soo’s rival, while Lee Sang-yoon (Life Is Beautiful, pictured below) and musical actor Shin Sung-woo (above) provide some male eye candy.
Co-director Oh Kyung-hoon has worked on a number of MBC drama productions (Triple, Beethoven Virus, Lawyers of Korea, Hon), although he hasn’t been the main director since 2004’s Phoenix. He teams up with another director, Lee Sung-joon, who doesn’t appear to have (m)any credits, and writer Yoo Hyun-mi of Scale of Providence.
My Happy Home is a complete 180 from its predecessor drama Playful Kiss, but since that show didn’t manage to capture much audience attention, perhaps this one will do better. It goes up against two big(ger) dramas, though: Rain’s action-comedy Runaway Plan B may not provide such heavy competition with its ratings slide, but SBS’s Daemul is pulling away from the crowd. Plus, the ajumma viewership seems like it’s already locked up with Go Hyun-jung leading that show. But hey — a murder-mystery drama sounds like a nice change of pace, even if it IS a total rip-off of the U.S. Desperate Housewives.
My Happy Home premieres on MBC on Wednesday, October 27.
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1 Bashful82
October 15, 2010 at 2:12 PM
May be a rip-off but count me in - the cast looks goods and I've become a fan of Lee Sang-yoon (tall and hot!) since his role as Ho Sub in "Life is Beautiful". It will be good to see his portray someone other than an innocent, naive scuba instructor heh.
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2 ohemgee
October 15, 2010 at 2:32 PM
looks like KHS is still trying to be "edgy" LOL. and I'm actually a little embarrassed to admit this (it ages me a bit!), but i LOVED "phoenix"!!
lee seo jin NEEDS to do another drama ASAP!
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3 Nano
October 15, 2010 at 2:59 PM
not looking forward to this....desperate housewives is one thing, but desperate ahjumma housewives is another...
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belleza
October 15, 2010 at 4:31 PM
"but desperate ahjumma housewives is another…"
Don't worry. These will be desperate housewives. . . (wait for it wait for it . . .) WITH EDGE *drink up!*
Here's my hope. MBC concedes that this will be another ratings casualty of their Wed/Thursday schedule. Then they hope for a mania show and let Yoo Hyun Mi write WITH EDGE *hit me one more* <Many of you may not have watched Scales of Providence, but YHM also write GREEN FRIGGING ROSE, her adaptation of the Count of Monty Christo.
"Rich housewives doing bad very well" are both staples of the Telemundo and Korean Telenovela formats. You have two legendary screen sirens with Hwang Shin Hye and Tazza icon Kim Hye Soo. You have Kim Gab Soo probably doing very bad things.
DUDE. This could be good!
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holey moley
October 16, 2010 at 3:35 AM
is kim gab soo here...? i might watch this...hahaha
my drama list has been very packed with pk, skks, daemul, dr. champ...currently on the works are comrades, giant, gloria...on the back burner: runaway and fod...sigh...
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4 gala
October 15, 2010 at 3:07 PM
so i guess nxt week is really PK's final week, eh. i was kinda hoping that they'll extend it two more weeks [and i'm sure some people are groaning at that thought. ha.] but it's a lost case since ratings are just bad. people say ratings arent important, but i really feel that it affected the flow of PK's storytelling. but oh well.
i wonder if this replacement drama can hold against Runaway's declining rating and Daemul's steadfast one...
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5 supah
October 15, 2010 at 3:54 PM
Defs not feenin' Kim Hye-soo's hair. Not interested by the premise but SHIN SUNG WOO?? Afraid I'm gonna have to check out the first couple of episodes for him. Though he's barely recognisable in the first snap with the facial hair.
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6 ColleenF-H
October 15, 2010 at 4:49 PM
I'm in at least to check it out because I really do like Lee Yoon Sang and Shin Sung Woo. Unfortunately, we do not see enough of SSW, he needs to act more often.
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7 maez
October 15, 2010 at 5:04 PM
I don't like her. :(
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8 Vico
October 15, 2010 at 5:21 PM
"Kim Hye-soo" -- Yay!
“Korean Desperate Housewives.” -- Boo!
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9 tildy
October 15, 2010 at 5:31 PM
LOL I saw the trailer for this after that last episode of PK. It looks absolutely ridiculous.
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10 v
October 15, 2010 at 5:39 PM
Kim Hye Soo is usually a must-watch factor for me but since i'm pretty sure i'll be drowning into PK withdrawal, i think i need time before watching that slot and not feel some sort of resentment for not getting much of the post-marriage life in PK. i'm afraid the drama had chosen the wrong time slot to lure me...
and i'm already watching giant, gloria, flames of desire, and daemul... all serious dramas and one more would literally be too much to handle.
however, i'll wait to see how people find this drama and if the reviews are good, i'll have to add it on my weekly watch-list.
sigh.. 2009 was so lacking so y on earth is 2010 so packed i feel like I spent the entire time during the year watching dramas?
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11 belleza
October 15, 2010 at 6:07 PM
"sigh.. 2009 was so lacking so y on earth is 2010 so packed i feel like I spent the entire time during the year watching dramas?"
I even put 2010 above 2007 as my favorite K-drama year.
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v
October 15, 2010 at 7:59 PM
ditto...
i mean sure, 2007 had coffee prince (among many others) as well but perhaps it's because im in the moment but i feel that 2010 had many many watch-worthy dramas... they could all have been big hits in any other year...
and i'm putting our dwts conversation here... cuz i'm lazy to go back to that post to reply.. hehe. xp
and yes... for me, it's not just saying that a show is for old people... just saying that any show are for some kind of age... and YES, it's true that each drama has a specific target audience in mind but that does not mean that the ability to like that show is limited to that particular group. me pouts.
oh... your description about mrs. brady is PERFECT. hehe... we all love her but can we keep up with her?
and glad u agree about bristol... i tried to not be prejudiced about her because of her mom or the fact that she is a young mother...unfortunately, I found out that I DID have a prejudice anyways, which was indicated by my surprise at her character... i guess if i didn't have a prejudice, i wouldnt have been surprised.. perhaps subconsciously, i expected her to be more provocative or something. glad i was proven wrong. she is quite shy
but that does not help her case here... it IS a dance show after all and awkwardness does not go well with smooth dancing.. and well, ur right, she seems to be the next one to go.
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12 jodasg
October 15, 2010 at 8:07 PM
Hmmm, not gonna watch happy home unless the ratings review are extremely good. Otherwise, it will be good for me cos I finally can get a break from "chasing" k drama from Mon - Thurs. ha ha
After PK ends, I am just left with Dr.Champ & SKK. I told myself not to start on runaway & daemul. Will stick to that & wait Athena & Mary :)
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13 dit
October 15, 2010 at 8:16 PM
Ooh, thanks for this! I saw a teaser of it and had been wondering what drama it was. I'm actually intrigued. It sounds like it's gonna be fun.
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14 Mars
October 15, 2010 at 9:18 PM
This is one reason I love the Korean drama format. It's finite. Desperate Housewives used to have a fanbase, now people say, "Desperate Housewives? That's *still* airing?"
So, if they can pack Desperate Housewives into 16 ridic episodes, I'm game.
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15 djeedjes
October 15, 2010 at 9:25 PM
Waa, so I probably an ajuhma at heart...because I definitely interested to the story and casts!
I was planning to start dl Daemul and or Runaway, but this seems more interesting!
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16 Ani
October 15, 2010 at 11:39 PM
Oh look! A full figured woman! Sweet. What? I'm full figured and it's always good to see someone with curves and pretty on screen. I say, represent sister.
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17 deannadsc
October 16, 2010 at 11:12 PM
..saw the preview...think I'll pass on this one...
sorry, but for once...don't like the leads nor the story's premise at all!!!
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18 ed
October 20, 2010 at 11:48 PM
kim gab-soo is hella impressive in long trailer. too bad guy is a flashback character~ oh nos!
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