Best Love!!!My Most Awaiting K-drama! Seeing its poster below makes me crave for it more..But I've to wait until May to watch it!Huhu..
I really wanna watch Best Love!!!I've been following news about this drama before its name was changed to Best Love from Discovery of Affection.
I wasn't really interested in this drama in the first place until the main lead was replaced with Cha Seung Won and the whole story was re-created. Frankly, I never watch Cha Seung Won's drama but I know him by reading recaps about Athena.As a bad guy, he's hot!
As for the leading lady, I'm not a big fan of Gong Hyo-Jin but I couldn't stop myself from falling in love with this drama and waiting for it like crazy.Haha..
Here's the character descriptions and of the drama taken from one of my great source of K-drama; koalasplayground.com:
Gong Hyo Jin as Gu Ae Jung (31 years old)
Formerly an idol singer (part of the group Treasure Girls), she finally gets a chance to play the antagonist role. She became an entertainer purely to make a living. She unexpectedly meets Korea’s top star, the #1 most popular actor by audience sentiment, Dok Go Jin. She sees his real personality, and spends a night together suffering from his mistreatment.
She gets embroiled in scandal due to this incident. But because the other person involved is Dok Go Jin, all the censure is placed squarely on her. She thinks to herself that it’s highly unlikely Dok Go Jin will marry her, but it’s also not entirely out of the realm of possibility. A job opportunity takes her on a matchmaking television program called The Discovery of Affection. Surprisingly, a doctor of Oriental medicine (played by Yoon Kye Sang) actually picks her.
She thinks to herself – if she has more opportunities to go on this program, she can make more money. But as she spends more time with the doctor, she thinks that he may be her final lifeline left in this world. If it’s with him, perhaps she can finally quit this unpredictable show business, and settle down to live the life of an ordinary person.
They start to interact more outside of the program, but Dok Go Jin comes to flirt with Ae Jung and mess up the situation. Because Dok Go Jin is the most popular star in Korea, and Gu Ae Jung is the least popular star in Korea, he is someone she cannot have feelings for and cannot trust, but she finds herself affected.
Cha Seung Won as Dok Go Jin (35 years old)
Top Star, the #1 most beloved celebrity in Korea. A perfect man, sexy and gentle, he always comes in #1 in audience polls. He’s the most sought after spokesperson for CFs. All of this success is due to his hard work and total control over his image. But the real Dok Go Jin is nothing like the public perception of him.
He is like a swan, what appears above the surface is elegant and graceful, but if you look below the surface, you’ll see his legs working hard to keep up the façade. If you peek below the surface, you’ll likely get kicked by him, and he won’t feel sorry about it. He doesn’t even care about kicking anyone, and if you get in his way, he’ll kick you as far as you will go.
When he was young, he had open heart surgery and has a pacemaker inserted. Even though he is healthy, he can’t help but check on his pacemaker to see if it’s working. Because of this experience, he developed this mentality that he’s beaten the odds once, so he wants to make himself as perfect as possible.
To the public, he’s in the perfect celebrity relationship with Kang Se Ri (Yoo In Na’s character). They met a year earlier filming overseas, and was captured by the paparazzi. They went public, but actually broke up once they got back to Korea. To maintain their image and the illusion of a happy couple, they agreed not to let the world know they broke up.
They smile and stay silent when asked about their relationship. Because Dok Go Jin is planning a career in Hollywood, they agree to use that as an excuse to announce their break up. Dok Go Jin receives an expensive bottle of wine from a Hollywood director, but then is told that he is being cut from the production. In his disappointment, he unexpectedly meets Gu Ae Jung and is comforted. They drink the wine and inexplicably spend the night together.
The most popular star and the least popular star in Korea simply cannot be compared. Dok Go Jin is efficiently and calmly dealing with their scandal when he runs into Gu Ae Jung, who is at the studio to participate in the matchmaking variety program. He thinks she’ll embarrass herself, but instead she successfully gets paired up with a handsome doctor of Oriental medicine.
Dok Go Jin sees Gu Ae Jung happily go on dates with the doctor for the program, and his emotions start change. Gu Ae Jung tells Dok Go Jin to congratulate her – this man is not like Dok Go Jin, he is real and can change her life. Dok Go Jin thinks back to how happy Ae Jung is when discussing leaving show business and being able to go shopping like an ordinary person, and he’s further affected.
Dok Go Jin starts to keep showing up around Gu Ae Jung, causing trouble, and then pretending he has no clue what just happened. He realizes that his mind doesn’t comprehend why he is doing this, and he worries perhaps his pacemaker is malfunctioning. His entire life used to be controlled in the palm of his hand, but now little by little it is spiraling out of control.
Like a crazy person, he wants to hold on to this witch-with-a-bad-public-image Gu Ae Jung and take a leap of faith with her, when his pacemaker really does malfunction. But still he cannot let her go from his mind and heart.
So, how cool is the story?To me, it's AWESOME and really DIFFERENT from the usual K-drama..I never thought of such plot outline. Now, I'm eager to watch its trailer..Ohh...please show it to me now.
Meanwhile, let's see some stills of the drama.
