Kim Bok Joo, I’m rooting for you!ĭid you watch the first two episodes of “Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo?” What were some of your thoughts? What are you looking forward to from this drama? Let us know in the comments below! It seems like the actors had to prepare a lot for their roles too so I’m rooting for this one! Hopefully that won’t happen with “Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo” because it’s about time that a sports drama finishes as evenly as it started. The last drama I watched involving athletics like this was “Sassy Go Go” which thoroughly disappointed me in the end and fell flat in my opinion. I hate to sing praises for a drama this early in the game though. Kim Bok Joo’s character is also based off a real Korean gold medalist, so I would feel a little awkward watching her character throw everything away for love with that sort of background. So far they all add a lot of flavor and I have a great sense of who everyone is, so the production team is doing a great job with the story and all these characters so far. Even when I’m bored or frustrated with the main characters, there will be plenty of side-characters to enjoy. Oh, and may I just mention one very important cameo by our favorite Olympic gold medalist? That’s right, Lee Jong Suk, who previously played an Olympic shooter in “W,” makes an appearance too.ĭo I plan on staying tuned into this drama? Considering it’s off to a great start and “Oh My Ghostess” is one of my favorite Korean dramas, YES. Three dimensional side characters are a great way to my heart. In the second episode, we even got an entire storyline dedicated to two of the side characters. The story moves at a great speed with a great fluidity between scenes of the main four characters and the budding romances we expect, and also the sports aspect of the drama. There’s no foreshadowing necessary to see that our main characters are going to run into some pretty interesting complications in their relationships. Jung Joon Hyung’s ex-girlfriend, the second female lead played by Kyung Soo Jin, shows up to attend the school and becomes Kim Bok Joo’s roommate. Things are already looking complicated for our leads when Kim Bok Joo meets Jung Joon Hyung’s doctor relative, Jung Jae Yi (Lee Jae Yoon), and it’s basically love at first sight. Their first meeting involves a tragic end to Kim Bok Joo’s sausage, soon followed by a second meeting during which she accuses Jung Joon Hyung of being a panty thief.
Whether they’re teasing each other, confronting each other, or arguing, the relationship between the two of them is very real. Overall, it’s pretty easy to root for these two main characters, and the chemistry so far is great between them, especially once it’s revealed that they knew each other in elementary school. He appears to be flaky and shirks off his training as an athlete, but there are already hints in the first two episodes that there is much more to Jung Joon Hyung’s story.
The lead male, Jung Joon Hyung, played by Nam Joo Hyuk, is a swimmer who has been unable to compete successfully since experiencing some trauma after a false start during a competition. Kim Bok Joo’s character has a “pulls no punches” attitude toward life and is extremely loyal and quirky, so I’m already a fan. I found this quite admirable, especially for a female role in a Korean drama, and definitely refreshing.
One of the things that interested me about this series was that the main actress, Lee Sung Kyung, was required to go through special training for the role on top of gaining weight to look the part.