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[ S U C C E S S F U L S T O R Y O F A
B RI G H T G I R L ]
Myeongrangsonyeo Seonggonggi

NETWORK : SBS
RELEASE: 2002
EPISODES: 16
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STORYLINE

Yang-soon has to tolerate Ki-tae's bad temper and unreasonable demands to pay back what her parents owe for swindling. Although he makes her life miserable, she was able to continue with her studies while working as a live-in housemaid. Her persistence paid off when her obligation to Ki-tae finally ended after paying him with the cash prize she got from an art contest. But Ki-tae learned to love Yang-soon in a short period of time. Instead of being true to himself, he denied his feelings knowing that she is eager and more than happy to leave him.

Witnessing how successful Ki-tae has become as a director of Snowy Cosmetics, Jun-tae became more envious of him. Ki-tae even has the woman Jun-tae secretly loves, Na-hee. With all his insecurities, Jun-tae meticulously planned to put Ki-tae in bankruptcy and take over the business.

After Ki-tae and Na-hee were announced to be engaged, Jun-tae became more determined to put Ki-tae down. He blackmailed Na-hee and forced her to go abroad so he could go on with his scheme easily. He even made the investors believe that the company is losing money due to the new product line Ki-tae is managing.

A year passed and a lot of unexpected things happened. Jun-tae's plan of sabotaging Ki-tae succeeded. He used Ki-tae's colleagues, including Na-hee, to get a hold of a manuscript that could possibly save Ki-tae from financial problems. But, at Ki-tae's most down moments, he found comfort from Yang-soon who hasn't lost hope in bringing out the best in him.

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Reviving the Emperor product line is the only way Ki-tae could think of to get his revenge but he is not the only one who has the same intention. When Yang-soon, along with her friends, was assigned to take care of the disposal of the Emperor, they secretly continue the production to compete against Snowy Cosmetic's new release, Naissance. Unfortunately, Jun-tae is ahead of their game. He assigned Ki-tae to be the director of the Emperor's disposal. The team initially thought he would be a hindrance but when they learned what he is really up to, he regained their trust.

Just before everything is settled, Jun-tae found out about their connivance. He abruptly sold the rights of the Emperor to restrict them from releasing it to the market. But Naissance didn't do well either. The product rot so they have to secretly put preservatives. When Ki-tae's team heard about it, they used it against Jun-tae. He was caught for fraud and Na-hee turned herself too out of guilt.

When Ki-tae found out that Yang-soon voluntarily enlisted, he got devastated. Even though he was able to regain his place, he knows that without her, his life is incomplete. But, instead of being the Ki-tae he used to be, he supported her dream to become a servicewoman. And having to see how he has changed for love, Yang-soon's other dream of saving a pathetic prince also came true.

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CAST
Jang Nara
as Cha Yang-soon
Jang Hyeok
as Han Ki-tae
Ryoo Soo-yeong
as Han Jun-tae
Han Eun-jeong
as Yoon Na-hee
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REVIEWS

I've seen a couple of Jang Nara's but none could be comparable to this series. Her personality as Yang-soon suits her better. She looks so naturally innocent and sweet. And her comedic side innately came out in her acting. For some weird reasons, I find her funnier when she is serious. Even her squeaky voice makes me laugh. And what makes her more interesting to watch is her chemistry with Jang Hyeok who carried out his act without a doubt. The good thing about him is how he portrayed unpredictable. He was able to do his character transitions without being transparent. Its like you wouldn't know what he is up to and what he is thinking. But even though they got different roles to fill in, when they are together, every scenes was such a blast. When they talk, it's very casual. There is no acting involved but they are just being natural.

It was a cute series. Fun and entertaining. What I like about the story was how the characters were properly established and how they were given enough screen time. Ryoo Soo-yeong and Han Eun-jeong might be secondary but they didn't look like one. They both have significant roles to the story. Even the supporting casts were given a just time, too.

I liked the scenes when they are trying to bring back the Emperor. It's so cute how they plan their schemes and when they are about to get caught, the alibis and the way they get away with it are hilarious.

What I didn't like about it is the annoying flashbacks. Half of it seems like the reminder of the half. Just when I am starting to enjoy what I'm watching, here come the scenes I barely seen. And some are even in slow motion. It made the show looks dragging. Even the ending wasn't that powerful. I was expecting more twist or at least a surprising ending but I was disappointed. After all the developments, it came to something that didn't even leave a mark.

Trivia: Ki-tae said that his parents died when he was 9 years old. Then from that day on, he's been living in his house by himself. When Na-hee was talking to Ki-tae, she said that he saw him first when he was 10. He lived with them and decided to leave their house when he turned 14.

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ARTICLES

FYI: The Successful Story of the Bright Girl, starring Jang Nara and Jang Hyeok, was the very first Koreanovela aired in one of the Philippines' finest TV network, GMA. It was shown in 2004 and because of the remarkable response from the televiewers, the series was reshown a year after. The tandem of Jang Hyeok and Jang Nara, known as Keith and Yasmin respectively, has, once again, captured the hearts of the Filipinos.

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OST

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01. Love Song - Jo Jang Hyuk [ lyrics | music video posted by: koreanaddiction ]
02. Gi Da Ri Neun Ee Yoo
03. It's You - Youme, Lee Hyun Seung [ lyrics ]
04. Hon Ja Shi Kin Sarang - True Bird [ lyrics ]
05. Love Theme [ lyrics ]
06. Bi Sang
07. Nae Ge Do Sun Mool
08. Myung Rang So Nyuh Sung Go Gi [ lyrics ]
09. Sarang Ee On Guh Ya
10. Night Sky
11. Choo Uk
12. Waltz
13. Run Run Run
14. Woo Woo
15. Gi Da Ri Neun Ee Yoo (Instrumental)
16. Love Song (Instrumental)

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SCREENCAPS [ click on the thumbnail to enlarge ]
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TRANSCRIPTS warning: may contain spoilers

NA-HEE: Why are you coming here whenever I call you then?
JUN-TAE: I am coming here thinking that you will call me someday because you really do need me.
NA-HEE: I wish Ki-tae would be like you, Jun-tae.
JUN-TAE: Then, why do you like Ki-tae so much?
NA-HEE: I don't know. I forgot why since it has been so long that I liked him.

YANG-SOON: Mom! Dad! Honest to God, why are you like this. If you were act like this, just vanish from my sight forever. Let's break off relations of parents and a child. Are both of you still my parents? I am working as a housemaid in Seoul so that four of us can live together. But now I had enough. I am going to lead a good life with Granny. Only the two of us. Whatever you do and wherever you go, never show up before me.
MRS. CHA: Don't you know how much your dad loves you. How can you say things like that?

[ JUN-TAE TO NA-HEE, AFTER THE ACCIDENT ]
After you boasted that much saying that you could do it well, you are only here? Why are you shivering like that? Is driving that scary for you? It's very hard. You are not acting like Na-hee. It's good to see you confident. Just let me take care of your troubles and live like Na-hee. I will make it that way for you. What I mean is marry me. What's wrong? I was just kidding. Na-hee, just let me drive for you from now on instead of driving yourself.

KI-TAE: Hey! Since people say that you are beautiful when they see this picture, do you think you are actually beautiful?
YANG-SOON: I don't think that kind of sort. So, just say what you want to say.
KI-TAE: When a painting is pretty, it's not pretty because the canvas is pretty? Its' pretty because the colors on the canvas are pretty. What I mean is that, your face was a canvas and the make-up artists painted your face with the cosmetics very well. That's why you look pretty. Do you know what I mean? You are not pretty so wake up from an illusion.
YANG-SOON: You are right. My face is a canvas.

YANG-SOON: What kind of nightmare gives you that much suffering?
KI-TAE: You don't need to know.
YANG-SOON: How come you have so many secrets? I have a strange dream everyday too. In my dream, a prince on a white horse comes looking for me. The prince gets into a trouble every time, and I save the prince. Why is the prince in my dream so pathetic? Nevertheless, I like my dream. I wouldn't like it if the prince were to save me. Even if the prince in my dream is little bit dull, it's better that I save the prince.

KI-TAE: You asked me why I slept with the light on? I can't sleep if there's no light on. You saw me suffering from a nightmare? It happens all the time. My mother and father, they passed away when I was 9 years old. I was drowning in the sea. My parents jumped into the sea to save me but both of them passed away. I have lived in that house alone after that. Because I have lived alone by myself, I don't know anything about housework.
YANG-SOON: When I see you Mister, you look like a boy who doesn't listen to the elders. Do you know that? What do you want to be after you grow up? Do you have anything that you want to do in the future?
KI-TAE: A baseball match. I want to make a formal baseball team with 9 players. What about you?
YANG-SOON: I have to find that dull prince soon and save him.

KI-TAE: What the hell happened? The house of Ms. CEO and my house, can you see red tags everywhere?
JUN-TAE: I will make it simple. You let me be in charge of your life. Can't you remember it? What you said when you gave your whole possession to me? You are having your fall. Don't feel mortified too much. It's the payment I get for my sacrifice for you so far. I will say it in a simple word. You became a penniless bum.

NA-HEE: How come you are here, Yang-soon? What are your qualifications to come in this house when you are not even a housemaid?
YANG-SOON: I am here to make him eat something since he's about to die because he's so much distressed.
NA-HEE: Make him eat? You, none of your characteristics have changed from one year ago and now? Running wild not knowing your own place.
YANG-SOON: You are the same when I see you talk anything that you can pronounce. How could you choose such perfect words that hurt others' feeling so well? I reckon that that's a talent as well. How dare you this. As far as I know, you are a helper in reducing Mister Ki-tae to a penniless. You will be punished for your wrong. The justice will certainly triumph the victory!

JUN-TAE: Why do you hate Cha Yang-soon so much?
NA-HEE: Then, why did you hate Ki-tae so much?
JUN-TAE: Because that unqualified jerk was enjoying every happiness in the world. In that happiness, Na-hee, you are included, too.
NA-HEE: It's the same for me. An unqualified kid is enjoying every happiness in the world.
JUN-TAE: By any chance, there isn't Han Ki-tae's love in what you call every happiness in the world. If you become happy by doing so, I will get rid of Cha Yang-soon for you.

YANG-SOON: Since you told me that you prefer high places than low places, so I thought that a penthouse is better than a basement suite. That's why I chose this.
KI-TAE: What are you to decide a place to live for me? Ah! Since I don't have anything, now you are disregarding me, too? What are you? Have I asked you to find a place for me to live?
YANG-SOON: Don't be in an illusion. I paid the rent with your own money. I found out that my parents defrauded you when they sold your stuff. So I paid with it.
KI-TAE: Yeah, right. I am a moron who lost his position to his younger brother and I am an idiot who was betrayed by a friend. The world has discarded me. I said discarded me. I am an orphan with no parents, and I am a beggar with not even a penny. So, do you feel sympathy for me too? You feel pity for me too? I am stunned and so dumbfound. I truly am. Don't pity me and get lost right now.
YANG-SOON: Do you think I do this because I want to? I am one of your victims. If you sold me my hometown house when I asked you, then, I wouldn't be seeing your great face and I would be living in my hometown house. I would be working as well and all that. However, I thought that it would be better to arrange a place where you can sleep with your legs stretched out rather than to feed you a meal.
KI-TAE: Right, Cha Yang-soon. You are so great. You are so smart. Nevertheless, you may forget, but you were my housemaid. Get that?
YANG-SOON: Keep it. Lead your life thinking about your past as you are doing now. I think you will be very happy. Now, I don't care about you, mister. You do whatever you want, mister.

YANG-SOON: What did you do by shutting yourself up in a corner of your room for a week? Didn't you get calluses on your buttocks?
KI-TAE: I checked out whether the world was going around without me.
YANG-SOON: Then, did you think the world was going to stop? But it does. It goes around.
KI-TAE: That's why I am nothing. I thought that I was something but I am nothing.
YANG-SOON: I guess you are matured now.

YANG-SOON: What is mom and dad's secret?
MRS. CHA: The secret is the it's the same for your father and I, we are both the second love. The first love never works out. So, you are going to throw your first love away after you just taste how it is. And one more, a girl should never say that she loves a boy first. If she does, 100 out of 100 relationships break up. If a girl says that she loves a boy first, that boy gets bored and runs away.

YANG-SOON: Take your hands off. I don't have anything to talk to you, man.
KI-TAE: Yang-soon.
YANG-SOON: Don't even utter my name! I don't want to be with a person like you even for a second. I am telling you to make it certain. Take your hands off.
KI-TAE: Can't you believe me? Can't you trust me? You can trust me. Yang-soon, Please listen to me.
YANG-SOON: There's nothing that I want to hear from you. How can you be changed so sudden!
KI-TAE: Can you just believe me? I am asking you to believe me. The reason I did that... You can trust me.
YANG-SOON: Don't make me laugh. I never believe a person like you, mister. You can't differentiate between the front and the rear so as to sell the company products after you took them. You are so dangerous as to threaten a person with a knife. You threw away your pride and loyalty as to seek a comfortable life only for you. A human like you, who's going to believe you?

[ SEOK-GOO TO YANG-SOON ]
Yang-soon, I have a favor to ask of you. I wish that you wouldn't be so accurate in calculations such as paying me back. When you are having some hard time or difficulties, I hope you can just come and talk to me. After your hardship passed and then I found out that you had a hard time, I don't feel good about it so if you want something from me or want to ask a favor, then, tell me anything.

BO-BAE: The reason that you don't want to work for Snowy Cosmetics is because of Mister Ki-tae?
YANG-SOON: Yes, you are right. I don't want to see that mister again anymore.
BO-BAE: From now on, you are not going to see Mister Ki-tae? Are you saying that you don't want to see him again until the day you die?
YANG-SOON: Truly, I am not going to see him.
BO-BAE: You are lying now. It's written all over your face. Girl, it's a lie.
YANG-SOON: I dislike him to death. I am sad to death because of him and he's like a foe to me. Nevertheless, I can't help but to think of Mister Ki-tae. However, I am telling you, I am going to do my best. Until the day I don't think of him. He everyday disappoints me so I don't want to get disappointed by him anymore.

KI-TAE: I have no idea of what you want. You were angry with me and you said that you were my neighbor-cousin as if nothing happened and then you say you don't care whatever I do. What's that? I am really confused.
YANG-SOON: The thing that you can't figure out where I am going, no matter how hard you try, all of it I learned from you.
KI-TAE: Is it true that you won't care about me any more?
YANG-SOON: Didn't I tell you that you were only my neighbor?
KI-TAE: Then, did you really write that letter to give it to me? That letter saying that you won't care?
YANG-SOON: Didn't I read it for you myself?

KI-TAE: For 29 years of my life, this was the second time that I went to the public bathhouse. What I mean is that it was my first time to realize how tasty this banana milk is after taking a bath.
YANG-SOON: Right. You just realize that now.
KI-TAE: In the world, there was lots of happiness that I didn't know.
YANG-SOON: There are a lot of sufferings that you don't know, too.

YANG-SOON: Mister, you love me, right? Why do you love me? I don't have anything, I am not highly educated and the standing of my family is not good either. Why do you love me?
KI-TAE: I don't have parents. I am older than you by 9 years. I have bad temperament and I am not kind to you and why do you love me?
YANG-SOON: Mister, you taught me how to make tuna sandwich. You taught me how to pitch a baseball. You taught me how to trust people and because of you, mister, I came to know better about the world.
KI-TAE: For me, you taught me that an early bird catches a worm. You taught me how to raise fish and you taught me how to pick lettuce. Nevertheless, the one thing that I want to say to you is you make me to want to be a better man.

KI-TAE: Seok-goo, what's wrong with you! There's a stockholders' meeting in an hour. Don't you know that I got to go in to the meeting? Are you insane?
SEOK-GOO: Right, I am insane. Everybody is insane. And, you will go insane soon. Yang-soon, who's waiting for the bus to leave Seoul is insane, and I who is taking you to Yang-soon, when in fact I love Yang-soon, is insane too. Yun Na-hee had a deal with Yang-soon. Yang-soon is leaving Seoul to protect her parents and the Emperor. Yun Na-hee knows where our hiding place is.

KI-TAE: Why didn't you tell me earlier?
YANG-SOON: Even if I told you, nothing could have changed anyway. I am the one who has to leave and you are the one who has to say, mister.
KI-TAE: Don't go.
YANG-SOON: I have to. I am a person who keeps her promise. How many times I have told you that? I am feeling stuffy to death. If I don't leave, my mom and dad will get threatened and you will be in a danger too.
KI-TAE: (the necklace) Whenever I lost this, it was you who always found this for me. You, keep this one for me Then, one day, we can meet again.

YANG-SOON: Mister, are you feeling hurt? Would you be happy if you were I? I am sorry. Since you said such thing in front of other people, I was very shocked.
KI-TAE: Enough. You don't need to console me.
YANG-SOON: How come you are like that? How can you say "marry me" like that?
KI-TAE: I don't know it either. I spat out "marry me" as if I was sneezing violently.
YANG-SOON: Are you saying your propose came out like a sneeze? It's not like you sneeze because you want to? Anyway, I am sorry. And this (necklace), I should give this back to you.
KI-TAE: I took if off because of you so you put it back to me.

[ NA-HEE TO KI-TAE ]
I can remember when you came to my house when your parents passed away. I was 5 years old and you were 10. You were crying and fell asleep with your head on my knees. The memory is still fresh in my mind that my legs hurt a lot but I didn't move. I can stand it. When you were 14 years old, you moved out my house saying that you wanted to live by yourself. I cried all day. And, I made a promise to myself that I would certainly marry you and live together. You know that you are my first love, don't you? I have missed so many things because of you. I didn't even have a blind date for whole my life only because of you. Ki-tae, how come we came to be on such terms as it is now with each other?

KI-TAE: Yang-soon, anyway, due to your effort, I accomplished one of my dreams.
YANG-SOON: Aren't you thankful? If your dream were to be like a becoming a president or becoming a scientist winning the Nobel Prize, such big things, then, I wouldn't have been able to help you. But your dream was small such as playing a baseball game, so it was good. It is good to have a great big dream, but I think it's good to have small dreams that you can actually make them come true one by one in your everyday life, don't you agree?
KI-TAE: Yang-soon, your dream didn't come true?
YANG-SOON: My wish about living with mom, dad, Granny and I, all of us living together? If my Granny didn't have that accident, that dream would have come true by now. It's okay. I have 3 dreams all together. One of them, I can't make it come true, but even if I were to accomplish the rest two dreams, won't it be great? Becoming a servicewoman and saving a pathetic prince. Mister, you help me my dream come true now.

YANG-SOON: I cannot talk to you on behalf of my Granny and I can't make the tough criminal law go away by forgiving you. You have to pay for your guilt for sure. However, if you were to pay for your guilt and we were to meet each other again, I will greet you happily. What I am saying is have a hope. When we meet again, let's be on good terms.
NA-HEE: Thank you, Yang-soon.

KI-TAE: Yang-soon, you know that if you are not here, I don't need this house?
YANG-SOON: What are you saying now? Why am I not here? I am here right now.
KI-TAE: Ah, what I mean is, it would be great if you and I were to live together.
YANG-SOON: Do you want to serve the army with me?
KI-TAE: Hey! How come you are not getting what I am saying this bad? Huh? You and I, let's get married. How many times I have proposed to you? Please, marry me, ma'am.
YANG-SOON: I am going to be in the army tomorrow. I will be in a training school tomorrow.
KI-TAE: Are you rejecting me again?
YANG-SOON: I am going to be discharged in 3 years, let's have a serious talk after that.

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