Take Care of the Young Lady

Hello! I know it's been like two months since I've posted anything, but I've been really busy doing nothing over my Christmas break. Well, I did work on some stuff so it's not that I've completely abandoned this blog. In fact, I have been working on several topics and I plan to post a lot to try to catch up this week. Classes start back next Wednesday!! But to get to the main point, I watched a really good Korean soap opera over the break. In fact, I've been watching My Fair Lady or Take Care of the Young Lady for a long time like almost two years! First, I want to explain the two different titles. When I originally started watching this TV show it was right after Scent of a Woman and it was titled on Netflix as: My Fair Lady. I guess they thought it would be funny to give it a Pygmalion like style. However, I soon got caught up with other things and stopped watching the show altogether and actually ended up forgetting it even existed. I mean, I was only two episodes in when I stopped watching it. After I finished watching Boys over Flowers, I suddenly remembered how important it was to me that I finish that show. I can never not finish a show, it drives me crazy so I looked on Netflix and it was gone. Not surprising since they can't possibly keep every Korean soap opera ever created! The internet would explode. I found the show on YouTube after extensive searching, I mean I really looked hard and the title this time was Take Care of the Young Lady. I am not completely certain, but I assume that was the original name of the show in Korea, only in Korean of course.

Anyway, I started watching the show again here and there whenever I had some time to spare since the YouTube channel I was viewing it on was so kind to split up each episode into 15 minute periods, I literally could sit down and watch a part while cooking food or while eating breakfast and then watch it whenever I was waiting for someone. When I finally finished the show, it was a relief and an accomplishment because I had set my mind to seeing this show through to the end and I did.

Now, to actually talk about the show. Yes, it's melodramatic. Yes, there's a love triangle. Yes, there is a rich person in it that owns a very important business. All of these things are very typical now in the Korean shows that  I watch.

The main story is that there's this spoiled princess/heiress, Agasshi, who coincidentally meets a former gigolo who is having a hard time right now because of loan sharks. He soon discovers that this woman he had a run-in with is heiress to a very powerful business, Kang-san Group, and she could possibly be all that he needs to pay of his huge loans. From there the story begins with kidnapping then he ends up becoming her butler and at the beginning the two really despise each other. However as time moves forward, the two realize that they do have feelings for each other and that underneath their exteriors, they are good people.

Here's the characters:

Kang Hye-na or Agasshi 

The spoiled princess who happens to be very beautiful and very talented. I chose this picture of her shooting because it always cracks me up that she has such great aim and extraordinary talents. Anyway, Hye-na is a complicated character. You want to hate her because she's mean, rude, and used to getting her way, but at the same time she has several moments where she's weak and alone and as you learn about her life you start to understand why she's a little hateful. Then the gigolo comes along and basically puts her in her place which makes for the exciting romance.















Seo Dong-chan

The former gigolo/reformed butler who, at the beginning of the drama, is going through a serious rough patch. The funny thing is despite how bad of a character, Dong-chan appears to be, I can't help but love him. He has reasons for why he seduced women and you can understand why Hye-na and him don't get along at first, but he truly changes his life for the better as the show progresses. Dong-chan is so loyal to Hye-na that when they end up falling in love, you're sitting there going "Duh."














Lee Tae-yoon

Poor Tae-yoon, he's Hye-na's secondish/first love. Well, to clarify he is specifically her second love, but he is nearly spot on to her first love that it causes her to fall in love with him and he knows that. Luckily for Hye-na, Tae-yoon also comes from a wealthy upper class family, he just chooses to live in poverty and work as a lawyer because he legitimately cares about people which is sooo sweet. He kind of changes Hye-na's perspective, but he also ends up getting the short end of the deal when Hye-na and Dong-chan start to fall in love.



Yeo Eui-joo

Dong-chan lives with Eui-joo and her mother. Eui-joo becomes another obstacle in Hye-na and Dong-chan's way because she has some serious feelings for Dong-chan. I mean this girl has loved him for years and Dong-chan deeply cares about Eui-joo, but not in that way. The funny thing is that Eui-joo loves Dong-chan so much she's willing to do anything to make him happy so she puts up with Hye-na and she even attempts to bring them together with the help of Tae-yoon after the two realize that they are never going to be able to make them happy. The show actually ends with Tae-yoon and Eui-joo trapped on a boat and you begin to see that these two actually have great chemistry together and perhaps they can patch up their own hearts with each other.



I hope my short post inspired you to watch this amazing show and I am currently looking for another Korean drama to watch myself. Comment below if you guys know any amazing Korean dramas that I should watch because I have to fill the hole somehow!!!!