Title: My Princess
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: MBC
Director: Kwon Suk Jang
Screenwriter: Kim Eun Sook, Jang Young Shil
Main Cast
Song Seung Hun as Park Hae Young
Kim Tae Hee as Lee Seol
Park Ye Jin as Oh Yoon Joo
Ryu Soo Young as Nam Jung Woo
An ordinary college student, Lee Seol, finds out she’s a princess. The grandson of Daehan Group, Park Hae Young, is put in charge of educating Seol on proper etiquette.
A romantic comedy Korean drama with Song Seung-hun and Kim Tae-hee. My Princess follows Lee Seol (Kim Tae-hee), a spunky Law student who’s in love with her professor Nam Jung-woo (Ryu Soo-young) and is money-hungry with an equally scheming personality. She runs into diplomat/chaebol heir Park Hae-young (Song Seung-hun) and uses him in a scheme to win over Jung-woo – and away from the professor’s “rumored” love, museum curator Oh Yoon-joo (Park Yejin), who is actually betrothed to Hae-young. However, while one day she’s dreaming of flying to Egypt in hopes of having a romantic rendevous with her precious professor, she finds out one day she is a princess. Her life changes in a blink of an eye and she’s set up with Hae-young to transform into a princess. Of course, her journey isn’t going to be easy, as she’s met with quite a bit of opposition – including Hae-young himself.
Kim Tae-hee played the role of a complete ditz with an overactive mind quite perfectly. I loved they way she carried Lee Seol throughout the drama, providing the much needed comic relief – and also the very reason why Park Hae-young finally breaks down his angst and just allows himself to fall in love with her character.
With that said, the undeniable chemistry between the two leads left me just want more because there wasn’t enough of it! The tension just oozed off the screen whenever they bickered, kissed, or bore into each other’s eyes. In the moment where Hae-young finally confesses to Seol (after waiting hours outside her door) and she opens the door, only to fall right into his arms and finally give the audience that kind of romance we’ve all been waiting for. This strong chemistry can carry dramas and even possibly, have a cult following.
In addition, the two supporting characters, Jung-woo and Yoon-ju, who both play ex-lovers and enemies to each other (as Jung-woo supports Seol and Yoon-ju is against her inheriting the throne and fortune), are also a nice addition to the cast. I would have loved to see Jung-woo and Hae-young bicker with each other more often, but of course, that didn’t happen. Yoon-ju’s character was very easily disliked, but it also felt like she cut slack after all her unjustifiable actions. Either way, both actors made their characters very effective.
In the end, My Princess was enjoyable from first to last episode in my opinion. Cute plot, cute dialogue, cute wardrobe, cute couple - don't need much else for this kind of kdrama. The chemistry was terrific between KTH and SSH and it was a relief to see both of them (Particularly KTH) finding a real strength in their acting chops for this 180 turn from their usual choices.
She was tailor-made for the role. Same for SSH - this role was his first romantic comedy and his subsequent interviews showed how pleased he was with his performance - rightfully so.
As for the writing/directing - sure, there were a few bumps and "u"ies along the Princess road-of-joy, but not enough to impact the pleasure of watching this bubbly and funny romancic comedy. I highly recommend this one....Kick-ass!
Genre: Romance/Comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: MBC
Director: Kwon Suk Jang
Screenwriter: Kim Eun Sook, Jang Young Shil
Main Cast
Song Seung Hun as Park Hae Young
Kim Tae Hee as Lee Seol
Park Ye Jin as Oh Yoon Joo
Ryu Soo Young as Nam Jung Woo
♥ Synopsis ♥
An ordinary college student, Lee Seol, finds out she’s a princess. The grandson of Daehan Group, Park Hae Young, is put in charge of educating Seol on proper etiquette.
A romantic comedy Korean drama with Song Seung-hun and Kim Tae-hee. My Princess follows Lee Seol (Kim Tae-hee), a spunky Law student who’s in love with her professor Nam Jung-woo (Ryu Soo-young) and is money-hungry with an equally scheming personality. She runs into diplomat/chaebol heir Park Hae-young (Song Seung-hun) and uses him in a scheme to win over Jung-woo – and away from the professor’s “rumored” love, museum curator Oh Yoon-joo (Park Yejin), who is actually betrothed to Hae-young. However, while one day she’s dreaming of flying to Egypt in hopes of having a romantic rendevous with her precious professor, she finds out one day she is a princess. Her life changes in a blink of an eye and she’s set up with Hae-young to transform into a princess. Of course, her journey isn’t going to be easy, as she’s met with quite a bit of opposition – including Hae-young himself.
Kim Tae-hee played the role of a complete ditz with an overactive mind quite perfectly. I loved they way she carried Lee Seol throughout the drama, providing the much needed comic relief – and also the very reason why Park Hae-young finally breaks down his angst and just allows himself to fall in love with her character.
With that said, the undeniable chemistry between the two leads left me just want more because there wasn’t enough of it! The tension just oozed off the screen whenever they bickered, kissed, or bore into each other’s eyes. In the moment where Hae-young finally confesses to Seol (after waiting hours outside her door) and she opens the door, only to fall right into his arms and finally give the audience that kind of romance we’ve all been waiting for. This strong chemistry can carry dramas and even possibly, have a cult following.
In addition, the two supporting characters, Jung-woo and Yoon-ju, who both play ex-lovers and enemies to each other (as Jung-woo supports Seol and Yoon-ju is against her inheriting the throne and fortune), are also a nice addition to the cast. I would have loved to see Jung-woo and Hae-young bicker with each other more often, but of course, that didn’t happen. Yoon-ju’s character was very easily disliked, but it also felt like she cut slack after all her unjustifiable actions. Either way, both actors made their characters very effective.
In the end, My Princess was enjoyable from first to last episode in my opinion. Cute plot, cute dialogue, cute wardrobe, cute couple - don't need much else for this kind of kdrama. The chemistry was terrific between KTH and SSH and it was a relief to see both of them (Particularly KTH) finding a real strength in their acting chops for this 180 turn from their usual choices.
She was tailor-made for the role. Same for SSH - this role was his first romantic comedy and his subsequent interviews showed how pleased he was with his performance - rightfully so.
As for the writing/directing - sure, there were a few bumps and "u"ies along the Princess road-of-joy, but not enough to impact the pleasure of watching this bubbly and funny romancic comedy. I highly recommend this one....Kick-ass!
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