The Sweet Life with Lee Dong Wook
Finally, Lee Dong Wook fans can see him back on television! After rising to stardom in the romantic comedy series My Girl, he’s focused mostly on films and kept a relatively low profile; this will be his first television project in more than two years — and he appears with another My Girl co-star (although probably not the one fans most would like to see him with again), Park Shi Yeon.
The upcoming weekend drama The Sweet Life takes the place of MBC’s just-wrapped Last Scandal of My Life, and held its press conference on the 29th. In the drama, Oh Yeon Soo and Jung Bo Seok are a married couple whose lives become complicated in mystery and drama with the appearance of the Lee Dong Wook–Park Shi Yeon couple. Lee Dong Wook’s character goes to Japan on a trip and chances to meet Oh Yeon Soo’s housewife character; the two “fall in passionate love.”
While filming in the snowy mountains of Hokkaido in February, he’d experienced temporary paralysis of the limbs and had difficulty breathing. “I saw white lights and thought, ‘I’m going to die like this,’” he added. It was the result of filming for eight hours in subzero temperature — 16 degrees below zero, Celsius — at an elevation of above 3,000 meters, and sent Lee Dong Wook to the hospital.
Reuniting with his My Girl onscreen girlfriend after two years, Lee Dong Wook explained that it was comfortable having a familiar face around (ooh, holding back a face joke here), particularly at first because the other two leads were older and new acquaintances.
(A note on the title: I’ve seen this translated as “Bittersweet Life,” which may be because its Korean name shares a title with the Lee Byung Heon movie which was translated as “bittersweet,” probably in an ironic twist on the literal meaning. But it actually means “sweet,” and the promo poster bears the subtitle “La Dolce Vita,” so I think “The Sweet Life” may be more appropriate. Even though they may be using irony here too. In any case, the main website uses “sweet” over “bittersweet.”)
The Sweet Life films under the direction of PD Kim Jin Min of Shin Don and writer Jung Ha Yeon of Shin Don, Wife, Queen Myeongseong. It premieres this weekend on MBC.
Via OSEN
Official drama site: http://www.imbc.com/broad/tv/drama/sweet/index.html
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April 29th, 2008 at 11:16 am
I am SO looking forward to this show. That is an amazing PD-writer combo. It’s sure to be a fantastic drama - dark and intense and smart and wonderful. And Jung Bo Seok and Oh Yeon Soo!! What a great couple of actors.
I can’t wait until the weekend!
April 29th, 2008 at 11:16 am
I’m anticipating the drama so much (even though I’ve had enough of the cheating theme) but this one looks different from the other ones….I wonder though how they will attack it but still Oh Yeon-soo and Jeong Bo-seok are good veteran actors (they look even good now than ever…do they age???) and a new image of Lee Dong-wook will be seen in this drama…until the first episode airs…I’m curious how the story will unfold
April 29th, 2008 at 11:35 am
damn he looks good….didn’t recognize him at first thanks for the info
April 29th, 2008 at 11:39 am
I’m not a fan of adultery drama. It’s too sad because I was anticipating his comeback.
“ooh, holding back a face joke here.”
I laughed! It’s funny how her faces change every once in awhile.
April 29th, 2008 at 11:44 am
“Lee Dong Wook explained that it was comfortable having a familiar face around (ooh, holding back a face joke here)”
love what you said here lol. The weird thing with her is that her nose used to be even prettier (at least to me). It seems to me that she intentionally made it ugly.
April 29th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
HAHAHAHA.. the comment on Park Shi Yeon..
Put that aside, I’m really excited that the drama’s finally premiering.. Wookie’s comeback to the small screen after his 2 years hiatus(in dramas).. can’t wait!
April 29th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Wrong actress Dong Wook! lol…ok sorry. My Girl fanaticism aside…
Don’t hold back javabeans…it was beggggging for a face joke! haha.
April 29th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
hahah ur joke..er…non-joke….is funny!!
heheh, but i wouldnt mind if u actually say it. cuz i really thought she was pretty way long ago before the plastics and i have no idea what the heck happened to her face now. it makes me sad that korean stars are supposed to achieve the standard of her face. i mean, whats good about it? and to make up for it, which she does, cuz at least to me she doesnt seem to have a good personality. T.T
April 29th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
i hope u’re gonna recap this drama? (:
April 29th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Sarah, when I first got the initial synopsis of this drama before any casting was made, there was something about a youth that commits suicide in Japan. So either someone will die later in the drama or there will be acts of revenge because of the dead youth. But they could also have already the change the story structure to something different as well.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
lose the ‘tasche
April 29th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Yeohweping…you are right…i saw the Synopsis at MBC’s Global Media site… it is a major spoiler before the drama starts but it makes the drama more mysterious in itself…here’s the link
http://content.mbc.co.kr/english/drama/08/1681990_25450.html
April 29th, 2008 at 8:24 pm
PLEASE DONT TURN OUT DEPRESSING!!! (like Bad love)
April 30th, 2008 at 2:50 am
When K-bloggers don’t have anything interesting to say, it seems they can always fall back on speculating about an actress’s plastic surgery.
April 30th, 2008 at 5:26 am
“Lee Dong Wook explained that it was comfortable having a familiar face around (ooh, holding back a face joke here)”
Lol you crack me with this comment about Park Shi Yeon! Although she looks good in this press conference.
April 30th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Ohayo!
I’m really very HAPPY that Lee Dong Wook is finally appearing on the drama screen. It has been quite a while after MY GIRL. Has not fallen out of fascination with Wookie. Still a number 1 Korean star I really dote on.
I thought LDW looks okay with Park Shi-yeon in MY GIRL. PSY was still with Eric then so I never think of PSY and LDW being a possibility. Well………PSY has established herself as more than a pretty MISS KOREA 2000 but an upcoming Korean actress working with big timers.
Bye!
May 2nd, 2008 at 10:20 am
@AudHepFan - totally agree! don’t like the perv ’stache…
..but otherwise he’s hot.