Friday, August 1, 2014

My Name Is Kim Sam Soon Episode 1 Summary

I've seen My Name Is Kim Sam Soon for at least five times, and still I find it funny and could really relate to Sam Soon's challenges and difficulties in life. Having said that, I will be summarizing/reviewing this drama as a throw back together with the new drama's I'll be watching.

EPISODE 1: Life is like a box filled with Bonbon Au Chocolat

It's Christmas Eve, Kim Sam Soon enters the hotel looking for her cheating boyfriend Hyun Woo. She’s been suspicious about his behavior and she sees him going up to the room with a beautiful woman. She pictures herself beating up her boyfriend with an umbrella and him cowardly asking for her forgiveness and love. However, when she runs into him, she clings to him and begs him to come back - a very opposite reality. At the same hotel, Jin Heon is on a blind date arranged by his mother who insists that he get married before his niece Mi Ju goes to school. On the hotel's restaurant, he heard Sam Soon begging Hyun Woo and even asking if he loved her once when they were together. Jin Heon finds it very amusing, even smirking and commenting with what type of woman who would beg like that. Since he isn’t interested in the date, he decides to finish it as quickly as possible. Offended by his rudeness, the woman throws a cup of water in his face. He goes to the restroom to dry his wet clothes and heard someone (Sam Soon) crying in the men’s restroom, which she thought was women’s, leading to a funny confrontation of Jin Heon telling Sam Soon that it's the men's restroom after all.


 After breaking up with Hyun Woo, Sam Soon got even chubbier as she tend to eat and sleep when she is stressed. She lost her job because she chose to stalk her boyfriend on Christmas Eve rather than turn up for work. However, she doesn’t have time to sit around and feel bad about the breakup. She has done all kinds of part-time work to make money to study at ‘Le Cordon Bleu’ in France. She has a job interview in a Hotel restaurant and she goes there with the cake she made herself. However, she didn't expect to see Jin Heon there. To make things even worse, her hair gets stuck in his tie pin. Without hesitating, Jin Heon cuts off Sam-soon’s hair. Furious with her hair being cut like that, Sam-soon throws the cake in his face. Initially he is angry, but then he tastes a bit of the cake and chases after her. She is frightened and tries to run away, but he catches up to her and forces her to see his credentials. Turns out he is the owner of a restaurant called 'Bon Apetit', and he would like to offer a job interview for the position of Pastry Chef. Sam Soon performs marvelously in the job interview and is offered the job. She has a weird request though. She wants to be introduced to the other workers as 'Kim Hee Jin'. Jin Heon seems reluctant, for some reason. After a bit of comic wrangling, in which Sam Soon concocts a new nickname for Jin Heon as 'Sam Sik', he capitulates and agrees to introduce the others as Kim Hee Jin.

Thank you to Drama Fever for the second picture.



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