Im Seong-han (임성한)

Lovebirds

2006/03/16 | Source | Permalink |

Wang-mo and Ja-gyeong finally got married.

The weekend TV drama "Dear Heaven" ("Love in Heaven" - writer: Im Seong-han; producer: Lee Yeong-hee) features a dramatic storyline that includes a daughter, deserted by her mother as a child, and the mother's stepson getting married.

In the show's March 18 episode, Yeong-sun's (Han Hye-sook) daughter Ja-gyeong (Yoon Jeong-hee) and her stepson Wang-mo (Lee Tae-gon) will marry. The secret that the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law are actually mother and daughter will soon be disclosed, and the show's audience has had a keen interest in how the drama will unfold afterwards.

According to TNS Media Korea, the show's ratings for March 12 were 34.6 percent, the highest since the start of the drama.

Key reasons for the show's success are Lim's characteristic well-woven story, sophisticated descriptions, and unique episodes. Viewers say that the true love of hero Gu Wang-mo and heroine Lee Ja-gyeong eases the sometimes too-provocative...| More

Hit Drama Details Art of Seduction

2006/01/04 | Source | Permalink |

By Park Chung-a
Staff Reporter

Last year's domestic drama circle was a year of tough and head-strong women characters, a phenomenon sparked by mega-hit drama "My Lovely Sam-soon" - "My Name is Kim Sam-soon". Sam-soon's positive and independent personality drew a lot of applause from viewers.

SBS TV weekend drama "To Heaven", the first hit soap opera of this year and the talk of town among female viewers, turns out to be exactly the opposite. While "My Lovely Sam-soon" - "My Name is Kim Sam-soon" featured a realistic female character, "To Heaven" portrays dependent female characters using all the typical strategies to woo the men they want, depicting unrealistic and extreme love relationships.
"To Heaven" revolves around a fierce love rivalry between wealthy and elite television anchor Ye-ri and Cha-kyong, a poor but independent make-up artist over a man named Wang-mo, a gentle journalist-turned-anchor.

Cha-kyoung has been raised by her stepmother and knows nothing of her bio...| More

New SBS Drama Sparks Morality Controversy Even Before Its First Episode Airs

2005/09/08 | Source | Permalink |

Is it an immoral show emphasizing an inappropriate relationship, or a human drama with maternal love as its theme?

SBS's new weekend drama "Love in Heaven" (Korean title: "Haneulisiyeo"), set to debut on September 10 as the follow-up to the show "Summer Typhoon", is becoming the subject of fierce controversy with its first episode yet to air.

The problem is the plot's premise: it involves an irregular family relationship, with a woman deliberately marrying her long-abandoned daughter to her own stepson.

Ji Yeong-seon (played by Han Hye-seok) finds her lost daughter Lee Ja-gyeong (Yoon Jeong-hee), whom she had abandoned in her youth. As if guided by the hand of fate, Lee is already going out with Ji's own stepson, Gu Wang-mo (Lee Tae-gon). Ji does everything in her power to marry Lee to Gu, and eventually succeeds. The two women form a curious double relationship, as at once mother/daughter and mother-in-law/daughter-in-law.

Im Seong-han (45), who is the writer for "Love in ...| More