My Golden Life

This is a good watch. At first, I didn't get what the writer was trying to say in the story, but later, I found it so worthwhile and I.learned so much it.made me think better because the arguments that was presented here were pretty much challenging. The actors were great, they are all deserving of praise for a well-justified presentation of their characters. Park Si Hoo became a favorite of mine after this because I liked how he expresses the emotions of the character here. I am looking forward to his future projects.

Shin Hye-sun is already a favorite since Wok with Love and Thirty at Seventeen. Now I have started Angel's Last Mission.

Please rate fairly. Look first into the whole plot before judging.

This series is a very sensible one.

Finished this drama just last year and it is a very great drama for me. It's about social status, poverty, dreams, social pressure and depression. Overall, it's about life.

"A woman has a chance for success, but falls into a bottomless pit of her life. She looks for ways to find happiness through her circumstance." -- asianwiki

"A mother's misguided love has caused her daughters to get swapped in status, and so the heroine Seo Ji-an enters the chaebol household to have a better life without knowing she is actually not their long-lost daughter, but her "former twin" sister instead. What will happen to her once the secret get revealed, and what will happen to her relationship with the son of chaebol family Choi Do-kyung, whom she has gotten closer to as siblings?" -- wikipedia

What I mostly compliment this drama about is, you just see every character evolving as the drama goes on, you see them move forward in life not conforming to what their society dictates about what success truly is. You also see how from being selfish, characters become selfless. From running responsibility, they became responsible and they accept things and be happy with how those things turned out (although you may hate those people in the drama but if you only tried to still go on, you will be touched by their change of hearts). This is also the show when you can just pinpoint family love from the characters and to be honest, everytime I see those things -- I was very emotional last year and this drama has helped me -- you will just smile and be amazed on how we as humans are able to have the gift to love others and love our families. This drama is not cliche in anyway, one thing I can assure you, so there are things you'll not be expecting that can also be the reason why you might be disappointed in some parts, but don't worry those things does not overshadowed how heartfelt this drama is.

After watching this, I can confirmed to you that it wasn't overrated. It was truly good and every acting especially from the father of the poor family will tug your hearts, I cheered his character all the way until the end. :)

Binge watched 52 episodes. Lots of insights into Korean way of life and charming characters No one in the world does soap better than korea

This is a long series of 52 episodes and has more then it's fair share of crazy plots and coincidences that are common in most K dramas. Having said that the acting from all the cast, storyline and direction hold your attention and the excellent pacing means you look forward to where the story is going. The main drama is about a hard done by contract worker from a poor family becoming embroiled with the son of a chaebol, but there are plenty of other sub plots with the other characters that will have cheering, booing or being sad.

I'm surprised to see the relatively weak ratings of this series. The emotional intensity, the acting, the subtleties, the twists in the script etc. are absolutely brilliant. Yes it's not a 'quick fix' pleaser of the receptive senses, but that's exactly what makes it special. The casting is perfect, a stunning production in so many aspects.