drama ranking! 06: - 10:

06) It Started with a Kiss

Yuan Xiangqin (Ariel Lin) is a naive but optimistic high school girl. Ever since she met Jiang Zhi Shu (Joe Cheng) at the freshman orientation, she's fallen in love with the genius with an IQ of 200. After two years of having a crush on him, she finally musters the courage to confess to him at school. Zhi Shu is not impressed, and his cold-hearted rejection immediately turns her into the biggest joke of the school.

Misfortune comes in a pair: that evening, the new house she has just moved into with her father collapses in a minor earthquake. She and her father are instantly left homeless. Fortunately, her father's old high school friend extends a helping hand and invites both of them to live at his house. Little did Xiang Qin know that the kind Uncle Li is actually the father of Jiang Zhishu! Because of the unexpected turn of events, the two of them begin living their lives under the same roof. From then on, both families hoped that Zhi Shu will eventually marry Xiang Qin because they seemed like a good couple. Thus, Zhi Shu's mother always try to set both of them up together, though causing more trouble in the process.

Nothing has ever seemed too hard for Zhi Shu; he's overcome every obstacle in his life with a practiced ease. However, Xiang Qin's appearance is like a tornado, turning his perfectly organized life into a whirlwind of unpredictable events. Despite his initial coldness and annoyance, Xiang Qin's blind courage and determination causes him to re-evaluate and think about his own life and future. Xiang Qin always followed him as a shadow to try to win his heart. He kissed her twice without telling her that he loved her and he behaved more and more badly to her. A girl named Zi Yu became acquianted with him through college and soon after Xiang Qin moved out to another house. After Zhi Shu's family learned that he kissed Xiang Qin, they immediately invited her family back to live with Zhi Shu in hopes that they will one day marry.

note: 4* can't hardly wait for september 2007 when the sequel will air!


07) Silence & Love Letter

Silence

His life is on the verge of becoming silent after one year. And the silent she falls in love with him from another world. The hands of destiny are pulling on her and him, but what binds them closer together is the young and beautiful memories.

note: 4*, still waiting for the last episodes to be subbed...

Love Letter

As a young "orphan", Jo Hyun Jae received horrible treatment while growing up under his aunt (father's sister). When his uncle (mother's brother) comes back from Italy, his uncle takes him from his unhappy life. Growing up under a priest uncle in a cathedral, Jo Hyun Jae secretly wishes of being a priest. Years later, Soo Ae comes to live in the cathedral orphanage. Although at first Soo Ae refused to become friends with him, the two become the best of friends throughout their high school years. In college, they move out of the cathedral into a small home in the city, where they help eachother out. Although Soo Ae loves Jo, she hides her feeings from Jo because he wants to become a priest. In the midst, Jo gets to know Ji Jin Hee, a rebellious guy who fell for Soo Ae long ago. As Ji tries really hard to fit into Jo and Soo Aeh's close relationship, feelings become revealed. Through this all, Jo encounters an emotional dilemma between his dream and his feelings of love.

note: 4* i loved the plot!


08)Autumn Tale

Yoon Joon-suh (Song Seung Heon) and Yoon Eun-suh (Song Hye Gyo) are siblings. Eun-suh is in fact from a different family as she was accidentally exchanged with another baby, but no one knows about this fact until one day, when Eun-suh has an accident, her blood is tested only to discover that her blood type is completely different from her brother's. After this discovery, their parents move to the US, and leave Eun-suh behind with her biological mother. Ten years later, Joon-suh returns to Korea and he begins to search for Eun-suh. Their reunion after being apart for ten years raise their childhood memories and soon they fall in love. However, their pure love will not be so easy because Joon-suh already has a fiancee who loves him very much. And Eun-suh has a partner, Han Tae-suk (Won Bin) who has loved her for his whole life.

note: 4*, in fact the story goes deeper. eun suh is ill...


09)Summer Scent

Yoo Min-woo's (Song Seung Heon) first love was Soh Eun-hye (Shin Ae). No love was greater than the love between these two...until Eun-hye get's into a car accident. Eun-hye dies...leaving one thing left behind...her heart. Shim Hye-won (Son Yeh Jin) has suffered from a terrible heart disease ever since childhood. Miraculously she finds that she will be obtaining a heart from a donor, Soh Eun-hye.

Suffering from the pain of a heartache, Min-woo goes to Paris to study...the memories of Eun-hye still rest in his heart. When he returns to Korea, fate takes a turn and brings Hye-won and Min-woo together. When the two first meet, Hye-won's heart (Eun-hye's heart), oddly beats faster when she is around Min-woo.

Park Jung-jae (Ryu Jin) is Hye-won's boyfriend. Park Jung-ah (Han Ji Hye) is Jung-jae's sister and she meets Min-woo in Italy and falls for him...

Hye-won doesn't know why or what she feels when she's with Min-woo...and Min-woo feels guilt toward Eun-hye, because the feeling of love rises once again as he continues to see Hye-won...

note: 4*, this is the only drama i watched twice so far, first without and then with subs ^.^



10) Mars

On the race tracks, the gasoline accompanies the engine sounds and creates a special smell in the atmosphere. When the cars race past, the sounds that it gives off rumble in the air and will always bring forth some kind of desire within the deepest part of a person's heart. Fast, a fastness that requires completely no thinking and only can concentrate on the high speed ahead. It is the limit that humanity thirsts to challenge.

The start of this story begins on the race track.

The leading character of the story, Ling, originally had a twin brother that is bound to him by destiny. These two with their extreme differences in their personality but still balancing each other, became each other's sole dependents in spirit and in life. The active Ling, speeds long on his motorcycle all day, regarding racing as his life-long career; the quiet Sheng, follows by the side of Ling and records the appearance of Ling with his paint brush when he is racing. Everything was supposed to be so perfect and balanced…

However, because of heavy family and emotional disputes, Ling loses the only "other him" that understands and forgives him. His dream of racing is no longer important. His empty and unbearable self does not deserve to speed down the sacred race course.

Until he meets Qi Luo. Qi Luo's forgiveness smoothes the emptiness in Ling. And love, replaces family relationship, becoming the biggest support that Ling's spirit needs. Therefore, his dream starts to gain power once again, racing toward an endless boundary…

The story's ending, Ling stands once again on the race tracks. When the starting flag starts flapping in the wind, the war-god's blood starts boiling with a sense that can’t be restrained.

note: 4* different from what i watched before. different and good!