![]() Oh Jan Di, don’t you know that “standing up” to that type of guy is the most surefire way to get him to pledge eternal love to you? Jan Di might have been able to handle the bullying, but there’s no way she can handle the pretty, but psychotic, oddball leader of the F4, Jun Pyo, once he falls hopelessly in love with her. It helps that she meets one boy who makes this all worth it – Ji Hoo-Sunbae, who makes going to school everyday just a little more bearable. But she’s a strong girl, maybe even a little stupid, so she perseveres and doesn’t let the extreme bullying get her down. These wealthy, pretty, but awful kids start to make her life hell for daring to stand up to them. This loudly dressed school gang is made up of 4 of the wealthiest and dreamiest boys in the school (and probably Korea): the underworld heir, Song Woo Bin (Kim Joon), the potter prince So Yi Jung (Kim Bum), the sensitive violin-playing Yoon Ji Hoo (Kim Hyun Joong), and most important of all, Gu Jun Pyo (Lee Min Ho), the chaebol heir to Shinhwa Group (as in Shinhwa High School, too). For she soon raises the ire of the infamous F4 (Flower Four – since they are all so pretty). She only managed to secure a spot at this elite school because of an act of reckless heroism, and this impulse to save people gets her into the worst trouble of her life. Geum Jan Di (Gu Hye Sun) is a kind of jaded middle-class girl who is out of her element at the tony Shinhwa High School. ![]() The basic premise of Boys over Flowers is like a Cinderella-story: you have the poor girl who meets the rich boy who can change her status, but that is where the similarity pretty much ends. But I mostly just wanted the leading man, Gu Jun Pyo, to get whatever he wanted, since he was the best thing in this really fun drama. ![]() Lee Min Jung played a potentially really unlikable character – the rich, parent-approved fiancée who gets in the way of our main couple – but I actually semi-rooted for her to get the guy since she was so brazen and shameless. Of course I watched, and enjoyed, this crazy popular drama (based on the classic manga series of the same title, but in Japanese, you know), which launched the career of Lee Min Ho, and made pretty boy quartets the It accessory in dramas. It’s so strange seeing Lee Min Jung playing such a timid girl with low self-esteem in Big, when I still remember her as the wacky, confident, 4-D second girl from the 2009 K-drama extravaganza Boys over Flowers ( Kkotboda Namja – 25 Episodes). ![]()
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