Hate at first sight.
This is what Cha Yang Soon (Jang Nara) and Han Gi Tae (Jang Hyuk) initially felt for each other during their first encounter, after Gi Tae suddenly barged at a bath session Yang Soon was having outside her house. Triggering their fates to forever become intertwined, Yang Soon and Gi Tae meet again when the former went to work as a maid to the latter's house in order to pay for her family's immense debt. Hilarity then ensues, with Yang Soon teaching Gi Tae a thing or two about manners and heart. But hilarity isn't everything for these two as their encounter take a serious turn when Gi Tae lost control of his father's company after being betrayed by his uncle and cousin. Not having anyone else in his life, Yang Soon had to deal with Gi Tae in his distraught state, and at the same time teach him more than just manners and heart. Will they be able to succeed and get back everything that Gi Tae has lost in time?
The Successful Story of a Bright Girl, or just Bright Girl as known to us, is a 16-episode romcom drama aired by SBS around 2002. It was the first K-Drama I ever laid my eyes on and the show that typically started it all — be it my love for korean dramas or korean dramas being shown in the Philippines as a whole. Though Endless Love was the first K-Drama to catch attention thus subsequently setting a trend for korean dramas in the country, it was actually Bright Girl that was first to be shown here, having been aired by GMA on July 2003.
Bright Girl wasn't really much of a story plot wise, in that it involves your typical chaebol, a poor girl, love, and struggle over family business. It's simple and sometimes childish, but then again is also evidently cute and fluffy fluffy fluffy! 😍 And yes, it was the fluffy that eventually got me hooked to the drama. I loved the main leads — Jang Hyuk and Jang Nara. I love their chemistry, and their push and pull at love made me feel really really giddy back then. It was fun to watch Gi Tae fall for Yang Soon yet deny it as much as he can, only to fall for her over and over again.
And, even after years has passed, Bright Girl is still one of those "classic" romcom dramas that will forever have a special place in my heart. Not just because it made me appreciate romcom dramas more, but because it was the very first show to ever introduce me to the wonderful world of K-Dramas. And yes, it was what introduced me to Jang Nara too, whom I've been a fan of for like five years... though that was rather short-lived.
Edit 04/03/14: My first loved pairing is reuniting! Yay! Twelve years after Bright Girl, Jang Hyuk and Jang Nara is teaming up again in the small screen for the korean remake of the popular taiwanese drama "Fated To Love You". It's slated for a June/July broadcast following MBC's Wed-Thurs drama, A New Leaf. That's two new dramas (the other being Lee Jun Ki's Joseon Gunman courtesy of KBS) to follow come June. I'm excited!
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