“Candyrella’’ characters are again dominating the TV drama scenes. The two representative dramas of the trend are MBC’s mini-series drama “My Name is Kim Sam-soon’’, which airs at 9:55 p.m. on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and the SBS drama “Only You’’, airing at 9: 45 p.m. on the weekend.
Lead characters in “My Name is Kim Sam-soon”
The MBC drama “My Name is Kim Sam-soon” is recording viewer ratings of 37.7 percent, the highest for a drama this year, AGB Nielsen Media Research said Thursday. The program recorded the same ratings in a survey by TNS Media Korea, topping the year’s previous record of 36.2 percent set by KBS weekend drama “Letters to the Parents.”
The secret to the success of “Kim Sam-soon” is the blunt dialogue and the popularity with women, who drive ratings, of a protagonist many of them can sympathize with.
The MBC TV drama hit “My Name Is Kim Sam-soon” is giving rise to a highly contagious condition identified as Sam-soon Syndrome that can empty entire streets of all signs of life and plunge sufferers into a topsy-turvy world where plain is beautiful and assertiveness does not put a woman beyond the pale.
The show, which hit the airwaves on June 1, recorded nationwide viewer ratings of 30.5 percent (TNS Media Korea) in just four episodes.
Momo (The book is read by Kim Sam Soon in the My Lovely Sam Soon drama)
by Michael Ende
Review by Emily Mah on January 25, 2001
Michael Ende is probably best known for his book The Neverending Story and it is unfortunate that this is one of only a handful of his books available in English. In his native Germany, Ende was a well-known children’s book author with many more titles to his name. Momo was translated into English, but this translation is no longer in print in the United States. Hence, for Americans, this is most definitely a lost book.
South Korean actress Kim Suna who plays Kim Sam-soon (right) posing with actor Hyun Bin in the popular series My Name is Kim Sam-soon.
South Korea’s “Bridget Jones” finds sympathy among women.
She doesn’t let men push her around, is overweight and can’t dance well, and talks openly about constipation. That’s why South Korea is falling in love with Kim Sam-soon.
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