I wanted to watch this drama because I saw some of the epic scenes in this drama being re-enacted by Super Junior member on a variety show. And this sparked my interest about this drama.
To watch Super Junior members parody of Secret Garden drama, click on the following link:
Male lead actor playing the role of Kim Joo Won: Hyun Bin
I know Hyun Bin from his role in the k-drama 'My name is Kim Sam Soon'. A funny and romantic drama.
I know Hyun Bin from his role in the k-drama 'My name is Kim Sam Soon'. A funny and romantic drama.
Female lead actress playing the role of Gil Ra Im: Ha Ji Won
This is my first time watching a drama with the actress Ha Ji Won starring in it. While watching the drama I got the impression quite a few times that she ressembled the actress who played the role of Kim Sam Soon. Maybe it is because she's playing a film with the same lead actor as in Kim Sam Soon. Or maybe they do have some facial similarities...
In the drama:
Actor Hyun Bin plays the role of Kim Joo Won an extremely wealthy CEO who owns a department store, hotel and other resorts. Kim Joo Won is very arrogant and so full of himself. He looks down on people who are of lower class and treats those of the same class as him with sarcasm if he dislikes them or is not impressed by them. To be more precise Kim Joo Won is a very eccentric man. He is also funny because he likes to wear that ridiculous looking track suit that he claimed to be designer made from Italy.
Actress Ha Ji Won plays the role of Gil Ra Im a stunt woman. She is very serious about her job although it is a very risky job since she's placing her life at stake during some of the dangerous scenes she has to play. However Gil Ra Im is very dedicated to her work and always works very hard to be able to continue working in this field although she does not receive any credit for her work since all the recognition is taken by the main actress and even though she is often mistreated and unfairly scolded by the producer.
Secret Garden is the story of a rich guy who falls in love with a poor stunt woman. The funny thing is Kim Joo Won starts to like Gil Ra Im because he saw how cool and unpredictable she was and she kept appearing in his thoughts everyday. He himself did not understand why he was attracted to a poor woman since he's been used to wealth and dislikes lower class people. To understand why he likes Gil Ram Im, Kim Joo Won starts intruding Gil Ra Im's life and becomes somewhat of a trainee at the action school where she works. Gil Ra Im does not understand why Kim Joo Won, a stranger she just met keeps appearing in her life. She is irritated by him and is annoyed when Kim Joo Won claims that he is very rich, because she thought that he worked as some kind of errand boy for famous Hallyu singer Oska. Gil Ram Im is a big fan of Oska.
In fact Oska is Kim Joo Won's older cousin and they often quarrel with each other. Oska has his own love story in this drama. The good thing about this drama is that Gil Ram Im does not really have any love rival so you won't need to watch any argument or fight between two women for the same man. Moreover, the woman who is supposed to be Gil Ra Im's love rival will actually support both Kim Joo Won and Gil Ra Im to be together, because she is not really interested in marrying Joo Won, she was only using him to get revenge on Oska whom she really loves.
The fantasy part in this drama is a body swap between Kim Joo Won and Gil Ra Im. Both characters got lost in the forest and they took shelter in a small inn where they had dinner and an old woman gave them a peculiar bottle of alcohol each. After they drank this alcohol, their souls switched bodies when they woke up in the morning. That's when both of them get to know each other better.
I have seen this body swapping plot in a Canadian/UK movie called 'It's a boy girl thing'.
The mother of Kim Joo Won plays the role of the evil character in the story. She is the one who draws the dislike and hate of the audience by trying relentlesstly to separate Kim Joo Won and Gil Ra Im by any means. She plays a character who is completely blinded by the power and wealth that she possesses, sometimes so much that her hatred doesn't make sense to me, because there were a few times while I was watching the drama I got the impression that it was the perfect time for her to realise that Joo Won and Ra Im deserved to be together. Unfortunately, she remained persistent in refusing the idea that her son loved Gil Ra Im and this constant denial really make people hate this devilish character.
Actually, Kim Joo Won and Gil Ra Im are a fated couple who were brought together by some significant events from their past. I won't go in details about this, you'll have to watch the drama to know more about it. Overall Secret Garden was a good watch and the songs in the drama were nice...I guess like most k-dramas. I think one of the songs was sung by Hyun Bin himself.
Below is the link to listen to Hyun Bin's song in the drama, but you'll also catch a glimpse of some scenes in the drama if you watch this video, so it's up to you to click on this link or not...but I guess a lot of the story has already been revealed in my short overview of this drama...so some more spoilers wouldn't really matter (^_^):
To watch a trailer of this Korean drama, click on the following link:
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